Sunday Service Assembly Preach the Gospel and Show the Real Truth by the Scriptures, Praise God! He is a Good God, He Needs Our Love Too!
March 21st, 2010
The Church Ministries
Bible Truth Christian Church
Good Morning, Welcome to the truth, The Church Ministries, I am getting old now and I am still preaching the Truth of the Gospel to a few lost people out there- and plus to many congregations that use this exact sermon or parts of it for themselves throughout the world. Hopefully they share it with the homes of the congregation, notes or copies or just verbal information of what they learned- as they walk back miles deep into villages where they live and they share with some that may not even heard about Jesus Christ. There still are about 3,000 languages that don’t have any scripture of the bible. I hope that number is reducing. As a sick man I can not go into all the world and Preach the Gospel, this is all I can do, and let God do the rest. This is our 299th sermon in 6-1/2 years and I have been sick for 7 years with an unknown infection, eating up my strength and probably my immune system. The attacks are intense; the devil does not want me to communicate to the people of the world. But I get by each week I stay sick till Monday or Tuesday, to where I can’t do anything, because of the added inflictions that God will soon heal me off, and then I will come to you all and see you in person. God will provide that too, I hope this is his calling for me, I hope this is not of my flesh writing this; hopefully it is from my spirit with the aid of the Holy Spirit and the full Godhead. The joy of the Lord is my strength, and there must be something wrong with me, that I don’t have the peace writing these sermons. It could be many things, I could be self-centered, selfish, in sin, not care more for others, or not loving them the way I should, I have the mind of Christ within me, I am in the word and being taught special things, plus read, 12 hours a day, there is not much more I can do. God told me just like Joshua what to do- to fill the shoes of Moses. “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” [Josh.1:8] My bible now after I have lined and colored over 6-7 translations one I had to do 3 times because the bibles they make today are just glued together in the binding, so after you read and color them they fall apart, but I found a used one a King James, with a few words modified and footnoted, and it is still together, praise the Lord! My bible I have since 86 I still have mostly intact, a few pages came out of the binding but that is when the pages were sown into the binding, that same bible was the bible I crossed country with and used as a pillow, I had a red one that when hitch-hiking and covered 35,000 miles, 68 galaxy for about 15,000 into B.C and Alberta, and the parks there were unreal. I drove a friend’s VW Van on a 6,000 mile tour of the U.S. and the Park system and picked up every hitch-hiker I saw. Then I had a Ford pick-up an old 71, and took that forever, I was working in a mission making 17.50 every two weeks and had to more or less give the truck away, could not afford the tags or insurance that is probably how I was able to buy the bible in 86. I was happy then, I didn’t need money, didn’t want money, and cooked for all the staff and all the street people. I almost started preaching then, and soon my life was destroyed, they wanted us to sign a waver if we got hurt that they didn’t have to do or pay for anything, Of course I left and ruined my life from then on, for a good 10 years or so, I lived in the world, I was the best Chef in the area, then Got railroaded I don’t know how many times, all I could do was go back to ministry school and volunteer for churches. God took my life back over and I was back in the word, bible studies, tutoring, even played music in one church which was like an orchestra, during Christmas and Easter, I had to wear a tux, and play with 30-40 other fine musicians. God gave me the gift of playing the guitar which I started at 9, 7 -violin, 8-piano, But they asked me to play bass, and I taught myself how to play and I learned all the scales and all the keys so you can play any note in that key and it would sound good. Then the last show the Music Minister did a Latin type Christmas show, and I had an electric bass, and I moved the orchestra and he new it. My bass lines music were empty at many parts, so it didn’t matter what I played, he new I would blend right in. I followed the orchestra, but also moved them too, that is why he picked this type of show. So I moved to Hawaii to open a mission, I had money credit, my truck, and 4 bibles, my bass and my guitar, and was getting connections for help for books clothes etc. Plus all my talents and degrees, there was no problem but On November 13th, 2003 I came down with an infection, pain and swelling, burning, and stinging, and then they found so many other things wrong with me. So why don’t we end this here. The website was going to introduce the mission but now the website is a Public Charity with a non-profit 501(c) (3) corporation. It is still The Church Ministries, when I started and still teach Bible Truth Christian Church sermons, so it is basically the same but people don’t worship in my office, they worship all over the world at different times zones and days. That is why the IRS made it a Public Charity. In my eyes it is still The Church at -.
This is still our staff meeting place for all!
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.” [Isa.63:1-3] This is the two advents combined, many people even all the Jews thought that Jesus was going to do two different things, this is where the confusion lies. “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, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” [Luke 4:18-19] “And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” [Luke 4:21] “And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.” [Luke 4:24] “And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went his way, And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out. And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about. And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them. Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ. And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them. And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent. And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.” [Luke 4:28-44] Here Jesus was preaching that our God is a God of salvation and of mercy and grace, and He came this time to save the sinner and to take back what the devil stole from Aden and Eve and all of mankind. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” [Gen1:26] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. [Gen.1: 27-28] “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?” [Isa.14:12-17] “Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.” [Eze. 28:11-16] You see Satan was sent to Eden to help Adam and Eve, but when he heard of being able to have the power and dominion if only Adam and Eve submitted to Satan as he changed into a talking snake a subtle creature to trick Eve, to yield to him and to sin against God this way He would take over and it would take then 4,000 years for God to bring Jesus to the earth and as [½ flesh ½ God] so he could destroy the works of the devil and bring back to mankind control over the earth. 16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? [Rom. 6:16] God still loved Adam and Eve, he sent them out of the garden and he still talked in an audible voice how else did he communicate with Cain and Abel and who told them about sacrifices, How did he ask Cain where is your brother? With the blood still on his hands so for the first murderer of time on earth God blessed Cain with a mark if anyone touched him he would be tormented 7 fold. “And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.” [Gen. 4:13-16]
We have to understand the works of Jesus, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” [John 1:1-17] All the prophets of old times even David new the race that would be molded when Jesus came the confusion people had that is why so many thought he failed because he didn’t come to take over Rome and to be in Jugdement of men, it is the time of grace that Jesus came and hung on that cross and took the shame and he had nothing of sin within Him he converted what he did on the cross to help us, and to give us salvation if we believed in him, and to continue on with the church. “Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. [Mark 16:14-20]
The thing is we are made up of three things, spirit ,soul, and body- not two like physiology today thinks, they think your always in denial if something bad has happened to you and you cannot  be changed and we can become more spiritual and we have to loose the hardness of heart that will destroy any communication we will ever have with the Lord. “Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.” [John 2:23-25] Jesus knew what was in mankind and he had to change it somehow 4,000 years have passed since the fall of Adam and Eve. For the first 2,000 years God did not impute sin upon man but there were a few exceptions, “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” [Gen.6:5-9] After the flood things were different, God figured he would try with man once again. Back then Jesus didn’t die on the cross for our sins, so people could not be changed or saved and this day and age we all have a chance to make Jesus Christ our Lord and to loose ourselves and to not care about ourselves to care about others before yourself is hard to find in these days, and so many people even today don’t realize there sins are forgiven. “Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,{ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:} According as he hath chosen {us} {in him} {before the foundation of the world}, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: {Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself}, {according to the good pleasure of his will,} To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us {accepted} in the beloved.” [Eph. 1:2-6] The book of Ephesians is written for us coming from victory not going to, we are not knowledgeable to the fact that Jesus did 4 things in the atonement at the cross, basically we have everything we already need, Once we were saved the old man or the old spirit is gone and dead and God placed in us a new spirit which I have been trying to tell you all what you already have in Christ, we have to understand that there are parts that we are to do, and parts that God is already doing or has done, the same with Jesus he only had to die once and your sins past present and future are forgiven, so if you sin tomorrow it is already forgiven, and you will here people say- that that is not possible well you got saved and your sins were forgiven and Jesus died 2,000 years ago, we had better be forgiven then none of us are saved. We also have to consider the fact that when we got saved we didn’t have the true bible faith- our own faith was not matured enough to be saved, it was Gods supernatural faith that saved us. What were we doing when we got saved, were we studying the word, going to church, loving others more then ourselves, not sinning, not using bad language or not messing with women or even drinking and going to wild parties, we had to have had God’s supernatural grace and faith in order to be saved. Here these scriptures tell us we are already accepted in the beloved of God, and that word {accepted} is the same word used twice in the N.T. the Greek word meaning the same thing  when Gabriel came to Mary and told her she was highly favored. So we are not just accepted into the beloved of God, we are highly favored just like Mary was chosen to have God speak through the Holy Spirit that is why Jesus is called the Word, God spoke the seed into Mary into existence. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art {highly favoured,} the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. [Luke 1:28] You all don’t realize what we have in Christ, none of us should be afraid to die, and I know most of the general public, are scared of dieing. Why wasn’t the Apostle Paul afraid to die? “According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; [Phil.1:20-25] Paul wanted the Glory of Christ magnified in his body whether he lived or died, He wanted to die and that would be a great gain. But he cared for us even more rather just to go off into heaven he would rather help us with his thoughts and writings the same I am trying to do to give you all that supernatural faith that can stand against anything, think of it this way a man that is not afraid to die- can not be defeated. So his choice was that he wanted to stay and to give us the knowledge to open the doors of our hearts to supernatural faith. For by grace are ye saved through faith; {and that not of yourselves}: {it is the gift of God}: Not of works, lest any man should boast. [Eph.2:8-9] each man is saved by grace through faith and these are points not of yourselves, they are gifts of God. Everything is a gift. “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” [1Cor.6:17] 17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. This is the spirit the same power that raised Jesus from the  dead is in us all ready, if we are saved, there are so many points so many gifts and so many powers we have contained in this spirit, the truth is 1/3rd of you is Full Holy Spirit, and if we stay in the word and renew our minds we can bring over gradually the spiritual power we have to our soul and mind, if we can get to renew our minds to our soul and mind there is nothing that we could not do. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; {and greater works than these shall he do}; because I go unto my Father. In other words if we can get our mind and soul not thinking of the five senses we can walk by faith not by sight, we will achieve the super supernatural, but we always give the Lord or the full Godhead the Glory, we can’t have any selfishness within our lives, we have to tune our hearts to God and nothing else if we cherish anything before God we will be worthless, and I have been praying for the gift of miracles for the longest time ever since I lived in a ministry house probably in 85 more likely, I saw a man pray on people and he was dropping people like flies all over the Berkley campus in California, and he tried to pray for me outside and then inside when everyone was ready to leave Shiloh Church- Oakland he pointed at me and said I want to pray for this guy, this is when I got 7 demons taken out of me like Mary Magdalene, believing is receiving first I went down and felt the presence of God like no other feeling you can have, you just fall back and people catch you, and lay you down, and then he reached into my stomach and yelled rebuke, I coughed at the same time I arched my back and came up off the floor about a foot and a half, he did it again and about 15 pastors were all praying in tongues, all around me it was like he was reaching into my stomach and yelling rebuke, I would cough and my back arched and came off the floor about a foot and a half and when I landed I felt no pain hitting the wood floor of the stage, this happened 7 times, I had no idea I needed to be delivered, I was going to church and enjoyed bible studies and my friend across the street  would help me he was a Christian too, because my whole world came apart even my dog died. I had a broken heart. And he suggested me moving into the ministry house. So I went to this seminar with a bunch of the guys from the ministry house. I sat down after all of that, and never felt more at peace before, and it was the best I have ever felt I really felt born again, like a newborn baby with no fears no worries no anything, warm and with the presence of God, tears rolling down my face and it was the greatest thing I ever experienced, and all my gifts rose from that day on. I had a prayer partner and we walked anywhere into hospitals and prayed on people. Then I caught pneumonia and laid in that bed for weeks then I got up and drove myself to the hospital and they gave me some antibiotics, then I was OK, I remembered the head guy there was something evil about him, and I could not pick it up, I new something when he prayed on me but then he was sincere, but when he put his hands on me I saw pictures that I don’t remember but they were bad. I was at a prophetic conference for 3 days and I didn’t know what was happening I would stand in the middle and touch each person and I would get all these pictures in my mind and I would prophecy their lives, and then later I would tell them what I saw. People were going bananas- they new exactly what I was talking about and what I was seeing and they told me about all the pictures I saw. That was another amazing day. That was about the year 2000- 10years ago, and have not done it since- again. I should have gone into prophecy, but another head guy kept it quiet and never talked about it again. I am just saying that if you believe you will receive if you don’t you won’t. It was like I am trying to explain that everything that we are supposed to do like heal the sick and raise the dead these were all orders by Jesus himself and to preach the Good News the To Good to be true News, not bad news we are to help people understand what they have in Christ. “Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” [Matt.28:16-20] “And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. [Mark 11:20-24] “And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people. And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and throughout all the region round about. And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things. And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached. And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.” ”Still that was the first advent and I think John new that but something made him doubt, he is dedicating his life for God to open the doors for the Messiah, he started to worry if he made a mistake and when Jesus just told his disciples the root and let them stand there an hour to watch the healings and miracles and even added a raising from the dead, why didn’t they hear the rest john would have  liked that but after a time it would have been pride Jesus new John new scripture so he sent back scripture something he would know like a secret message in a message to know Jesus was he.”  [Luke 7:16-23] “And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” [Luke 7:24-28]
Look at what happened here is John the Baptist never with a woman, probably trained with the Essences, in the desert all his life, the only boy still in the womb and jumped and got baptized by the Holy Spirit not even born yet, because of the contact with Mary and Mary had barely being time for Jesus to be formed in her womb, when she saw Elizabeth, she was also too old to have children and barren but she was pregnant with John. Gift of God! Remember John the Baptist he was stuck in prison I would say about 6 months or more he began to doubt that he might have spent his whole life training for a ministry that only lasted 6 months, and then the kings daughter enticed by her mother of King Herod asked her to dance and the king offered her anything to dance, and the mother hated John, and the king liked to talk to John the Baptist, So Salome danced and after she wanted Johns head on a platter the king had all his friends around and had to do what she asked, the young girl could have had anything gold jewels but her mother talked her into it. Jesus was deeply hurt at his death.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. [Isa. 35:3-6] This scriptures in Isaiah- John new very well so Jesus sent back the facts- what John would know and all that mushy stuff he didn’t need to hear he already new that. But this was the message in a message that John knew and could tell himself not to doubt, he had the right man.
Picture this a King of Jerusalem was going to fight 3 armies at the same time and they were all threatened by this they didn’t have a chance- 3 armies lay await to attack and the King just prayed and instead of worry he put out the singers first praising God, and the battle was already over the three armies went against themselves, they were all dead and all their riches and spoils were sitting there to be picked up amongst the dead bodies, God said He would protect them and the King was faithful to God with praise and prayer so to make a long story short if you love God and count on Him alone and praise and worship Him and give glory to Him He will take care of all your battles for the rest of your life. God first with praise and thanksgiving with prayer and singing and He will be there for you always but if you put anything before or in front of God he might not be there to help you. “O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.” [2Chron. 20:12-13]  “And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.” [2Chron. 20:15, 17,]  And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD. [2Chron. 20:18]
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten. 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. And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped. And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much. [2Chron. 20:20-25]
“And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day. Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies. And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD. And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.” [2Chron.20:26-29] Good story!

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. [2Pet.1-21]
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. [Rom.12:3] “That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.” [Phile. 1:6] “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” [2Cor.5:21] “Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: [Heb3:8] “By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.” [Heb.10:10-14] For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; [Tit. 2:11-12]
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. [2Tim.3:1-5] I can’t give you all scripture, it may mean something to me but not to everyone or maybe to a few people. We see what is happening, we understand that the bible is still good for teaching, for understanding and for most of our knowledge, I have walked many a mile, up a hill that once you get to a certain point you become so wet, full of sweat, to where you have to take off your clothes, my prayers and study have changed, I have been getting rides everyday now, from all kinds of people even women by themselves, and that has been a first over and over, I have hitch-hiked all over this country for a long time but my truck needs to be fixed, I have been patiently waiting for a neighbor to help me get the part, and put it in. It has been a long time, since I asked if he could do it, I guess when God wants me to drive he will, as we know the world is completely falling apart and I am still trying to explain why would anyone want to spend eternity in hell? Why don’t they even want to listen? Well Satan has had 6,000 years of practice, to brainwash people, and he has many demons that climb right into people without their knowledge, it happened to me. I had 7 of them in there why I have no idea, how they got there not a clue, but when you try to live for God you do bump into Satan, if you didn’t your on the same road going the same way, and that is scary, so I do thank God that I can boast in my infirmities, The spirit God gave me with all the good things I need  to help others like healing and ministering and helping someone go through a crisis, is welcome, and I thank God he has given me the ability to command things to function, of course it is not my power it is God and I want Him to receive the Glory, God and the atonement that Jesus has given us at the cross many people just don’t know about, they just think he hung there for our sins, he actually became sin for us, that is why the Father had to look away from His own Son, for that split second when he asked why have you forsaken me, and then He gave up his spirit, but he also carried to the cross every disease all kinds of tumors and sicknesses he took all our sicknesses that is why we can say we are already healed, so if someone is sick Jesus already nailed that sickness to the cross or paid for it while he was being whipped or spit upon or his hair pulled out, As many were astonied at thee; his visage ={face} was so marred more than any man, and {his form} more than the sons of men: [Isa.52:14] in other words he did not look human and you can’t make a true film like that no one would want to watch it.  “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes {ye were} healed. [1Pet 2:24] prophecy written and fulfilled. “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes {we are} healed.” [Isa. 53:5] and prophecy fulfilled: “That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and {bare our sicknesses.}” [Matt. 8:17] So between three places in the bible we have already been healed if you have already been healed it does not take much faith to get healed when you already are. We have to understand it is not God’s job to heal anymore He is not standing up there with His arms crossed and listening to you and then evaluating you, or thinking if you are worthy or not or you have this sin hanging over you, our sins are forgiven- all sin, and we are living in the age of grace, or the Church age or even mercy so there is no if He will or not. That is not at all happening today.  It is all up to us, I have invited people to come over to get healed of anything but they don’t call or just don’t read, mostly poor people that live in poor countries want you to come there which I wish I could I bet I could cure many people that is why my sickness has to be demonic because no one knows what it is and I have had all kinds of tests, it is harder to heal yourself then someone else, It is kind of like all the demons and the devil tried to stop the stone of Jesus’ tomb from being opened, it wasn’t to let Jesus get out; it was for people to see or get in, but the bolder landed on all the demons and Jesus stood upon them and then he spent about 6 hours in hell turning that upside down. What I need to do is to put God first at everything, I can’t think of pain or worry, about walking, and how sore I will be, and if I am going to get a ride or not, the thing is if I worry about anything I am not trusting in God. I am under attack before I even wake up, I have to pray myself back to sleep. I have noticed I can’t watch anymore T.V. even when I go to sleep I turn it on just to help me fall asleep, and in the morning I should not turn it on at all just to shake off a nightmare, because all that sewage gets into my spirit and how can I meditate on the word or God when I am watching trash on T.V. even happy shows create problems, even Christian T.V. causes problems but Jesus films help me so on Sunday and Monday that is about all I can take. I can pray but I have to get my mind off my infirmities, so it is hard because of pain and attacks that mornings to me are terrible especially with nightmares, and coming out of them I used to be soaked from sweat sometimes three times a night, but that does not happen anymore. Thank God! Just imagine what that was like getting up and tearing off wet clothes and putting dry ones on and then try and go back to sleep. I need to just pray and read the word or write the word and then I will sleep I have realized my sensitivity to being spiritual is getting better day by day. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. [Rom.8:6] God has given us all we ever would need and Jesus has paid the price with His suffering and His life, we are already dead in the flesh and our carnal mind should go with it- to see and hear with our hearts- that is spiritually minded- to walk by faith not by sight- is spiritually minded. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he = {Jesus} is, (so are we) (in this world). For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For {our light affliction}, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 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. [2Cor.4:16-18] Paul says light affliction and you have must have read what he went through just to preach the word, in Chap 11 same book. We have the power God has given us everything all the tools to help anyone with anything it is like having a garage full of those black Craftsman tool boxes. But everything we need is right in us and God gets the glory because he is also in our spirits and they are all sealed by the Holy Spirit nothing can get in that is bad. “Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.” [Eph. 1:16-23] So we have all the same power to raise the dead, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead here are the scriptures. Believe and receive or don’t and do without, well day by day I am renewing my mind and I am going to have the same power to turn a bug rapped in a cocoon and turn into a flying butterfly {metamorphosis} “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. 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. [Rom.12:1-2] I already have given my body over as {a living sacrifice}, I am trying with all I have within me to be acceptable to God, I am being transformed which in the Greek is where we get {metamorphosis} and I am renewing my mind day by day, I have been getting rides every time I command with God, what I pray now is to open up those hardened hearts of the people and to show some love or compassion as they drive by and then I meditate on trust and love and caring and help and God.  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. [Matt 6:33] “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” [Matt.11:28-30] We have all the proof; we can do anything with God behind us- even fight 3 armies. Seek God always, and you seem to get stronger.

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