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 New World In My View: King Britt [5:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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A: A person of great faith. B: A person who has a fearless spirit (regarding humans.) C: A person who is deeply compassionate. D: Someone who isn’t financially well off. E: He will not be taken seriously or listened to. F: Someone with an overwhelming amount of spiritual gifts. G: He will have a pure heart. H: Someone who has made monumental sacrifices. J: Someone who has an uncompromising spirit. K: Someone who is very humble yet deeply frustrated at this world. L: Someone who doesn’t indulge heavily in vices, however the purer he remains in this department-the better his radio receiver will be for listening. K: Someone who probably doesn’t have much support or friends, especially from his own Christian brothers and sisters. L: Someone who is extremely spiritually, emotionally and mentally independant. M: Someone who is greatly feared and/or hated but greatly admired. N: This person will have enormous insight into humans and regarding the “Spirit of the Bible.”

This person will be completely devoted to Christ. He will have an incredible servant’s heart. You will know his true faith by his remarkable deeds, through the power of his words and from the power of his life.

To all the future false prophets-this is how I see it.

However, in short, whomever God declares righteous in his eyes and whomever God desires is the person he will choose. God will use whatever or whomever God will use.

Remember a prophet is never honored/appreciated in his own country. What does this mean? If prophet X lives in “country A” but has no honor in “country A” but has honor in “countries B, C and D” than moves to “countries B, C than D,” he will not have honor in those countries as well. Where ever he goes or lives he has no honor.

In short, a prophet is never truly honored when he is speaking or writing to any individuals anywhere. Most people really don’t want to hear that their way is the path leading away from God and will go to great lengths to hide from it and from the person doing the speaking or writing. Why? Because, most people are content living their lives the way they see fit. To change is a frightening experience for most. They would rather walk perfectly in darkness than to stumble around and be noticed by the light.

Dear friends everything I say is in my humble opinion and from what I believe that Jesus and the Holy Spirit has taught me. Now, when you look in the mirror and you can honestly say to yourself that this is you, then you need a new approach in your walk with Christ. Like a bodybuilder who needs to shock their muscles into growing, you my friends, need to shock your souls into growing. Are you not seeing the results from your efforts? Are you jealous of those that are making rapid progression? Are you pretty lukewarm and stagnant with your “faith, love, passion, courage, grit and determination?” If so, then friends, you are in a spiritual slump. I believe with all my spiritual, mental and physical fiber,  you will see results from within your heart, your actions and your speech. Accept Jesus as the “Son Of Man”, who came to earth and died for our sins! Love God with your whole heart, mind and soul while loving your neighbors including your enemies. This means helping them, trying to get to know them. Do this more and more and watch how your spiritual muscles will grow.  Friends, put God first, above your wives, your husbands, your family, your children, your jobs, your finances and yes even your health. Love Your enemies. How can you love your enemies when you are killing others, let alone killing those that you believe are trying to kill you? Come one, what’s up with that? Your logic has become twisted and your faith needs a jumpstart. You can hate many things about how man has ruined this planet, ruined each other and how they are ruining themselves, but never hate an individual. Remember, hate the sin-love the sinner.  Now many of you might fool yourselves into thinking you’ve done that, but I assure you many of you are only fooling yourselves. If that were not the case, why would many Christians leave people with a sick feeling in their stomach? In addition, we would have many more Christians helping and befriending the sick, the elderly, orphans and in general the needy. What I have seen about many Christians is this, many say they want to be near God, but simply can’t take the servant’s approach to servitude, to take the low end of the stick, to do what is necessary to make a difference in at least one person’s life, let alone many people’s lives. Many want positions of power in this world only to look holy and righteous from an external perspective, or many want to sit on the sidelines judging others thinking their “you know what doesn’t stink.” This is wrong!

YOU MUST GET INVOLVED WITH HELPING AND BEFRIENDING THOSE THAT SOCIETY HAS DISCARDED, PUSHED TO THE SIDE AND GENERALLY KICKED IN THE FACE (SO TO SPEAK.) THERE ARE MANY A WAYS THIS CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED. GET TO KNOW AND HELP SOMEONE WITH AIDS, CANCER, FOR PETE SAKE-PICK A DISEASE, THERE ARE MANY FLAVORS TO CHOOSE  FROM. GET TO KNOW A WIDOW, A WIDOWER, AN ORPHAN, A FELLOW CHRISTIAN WHO HAS NO CHRISTIAN FRIENDS, AN ATHEIST. HOW ABOUT HELPING  GANG MEMBERS OR KIDS THAT ARE IN JEOPARDY OF JOINING A GANG BY SHOWING THEM THEY LOVE OF CHRIST IS REAL.  WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? WHAT YOU HAVE NO TIME? COME ONE-TRY HARDER THAN THAT!

When you study the Bible, you have two primary approaches. The first approach is the Pharisee approach. You can try to master the “letter of the law” and you may or may not follow it closely, but I assure you no one follows everything perfectly. Or you can try to master the “spirit of the law” which is faith in Jesus and loving God and loving one another, read up above to see if you believe you are in fact living a life of love. Needless to say, however,  no one masters this either.

IF YOU WANT TO DRAW NEAR TO GOD FAST, WORK ON THE SPIRIT AND NOT THE LETTER OF THE BIBLE.  TO START WITH, LOSE YOUR ADDICTIONS, ANGER, ARROGANCE, FEAR,  GREED, JEALOUSY, LUST, PREJUDICES (MEANING ALL JUDGMENTAL CONDITIONS OF THE  HEART), PRIDE AND SELFISHNESS. ARE YOU ABLE TO ASK CHRIST TO REMOVE THESE FROM YOUR HEART? ARE YOU ABLE TO CONSTANTLY WORK THROUGH THE PAIN OF ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS AND TRYING HARDER AND HARDER EACH TIME YOU MESS UP? CAN YOU KEEP IT UP? REMEMBER, THE SPIRIT IS WILLING BUT HOW ABOUT YOUR FLESH? NOW MOVE ON TO LOVE-ESPECIALLY YOUR ENEMIES AND THOSE THAT SOCIETY HAS KICKED ASIDE.

The letter is not only about the rules, for the rules (in general) can be covered by loving God and your fellow man in your hearts, minds and souls (this is also the spirit.) The letter, from my point of view, is all about the details of the bible. Who did what to whom, where did whom do it, what were the dates that whom did it to? This is fine and dandy if you feel you want to know it, but I assure you, you will not draw any nearer to God, let alone in a rapid progression by taking this approach. If this were so, wouldn’t the Pharisees have been as close to God as a human could be? There are many classes on bible study, on sermons, and trying to out due each other like it’s a jeopardy game This is for show and this is ridiculous. You want results, but your not getting any. Ask yourselves why? What are you doing wrong? Why have you been a Christian your whole life, but some people have advanced beyond your comprehension in such a short amount of time? Come on, ask yourselves? In my humble opinion,  I’m giving you the most valuable information about how to draw near to God in as short amount of time has possible. Take it or leave it, it is your choice, but don’t be jealous of those that are making the progress that you only dream. Instead of spending so much time studying God’s word, spend a good portion of that time looking for ways to put God’s word into action by loving and helping others. Why isn’t there “loving study classes.” Why aren’t there sermons about how to put things in action? Generally speaking, sermons seem to be based on the same thing over and over and over again, like a broken record that can’t get passed the scratch. It becomes very dull-very quick. Try a new approach. Shock your muscles into growing. Get out of your shell. You say you’ve trusted Jesus, then prove it, where are your good deeds? Is your cup filling over or is it barely full? Many like to talk the talk, perhaps you ought to let your actions speak instead of your tongues. The Pharisees thought they were masters of the “letter of the law” but in their hearts and their actions, they were just about has far away from Christ as on can get.  Since they didn’t truly love one another, they had broken Law Number 2: and because they had seriously violated this law, they had broken Law Number 1: which according to Christ is equally as important. Law number one basically states to put God above all is, to love him with your whole heart, mind and soul. The moral of this story is other than the most important commandments, the Pharisees were followers of the “letter of the law.” However, they had fallen way short even at the ”letter’s level.” Regarding the “spirit of the law,” come on, they killed Christ out of fear, jealousy and ignorance.  How much more of a broken spirit need I chant about? Now for the bad news!  If you take my advise and help and befriend those that really need it out of human appraisal and false motives, than God will undoubtedly know it, and that will probably be the only reward you will receive. My friends, don’t kid yourselves into taking this approach, help others, and befriend others because it is simply the right thing to do. Do it to bring a smile to that person’s face and I believe God will shine his divine countenance upon your souls. This doesn’t mean to start working so hard that you burn yourselves out, but start small and see if what I tell you come to fruition.

Now if this message offends any of you, ask yourself this all important question. Are you one of the “modern day pharisees?” If so, what are you going to do to redirect the path you are on? Dear friends, as time marches on, your approval of me both favorable and otherwise means less and less. I have one force in the universe that I serve and that I am frightened of. Seek out the lord with fear and trembling before it is too late.

Peace and love in Christ Jesus, who always has been the “Good and Faithful Shepherd.”

 

 Wide Awake [5:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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MAY PEACEFULNESS FALL UPON THY BODY AND TELL OUR EYES AND EARS WHAT’S WRONG FROM RIGHT. MAY OUR SPEECHES BE SPOKEN FROM DEEP WITHIN. MAY ALL OUR INTUITIONS MATURE AND STRENGTHEN AS WISDOM ENTERS IN. DIRECT US AS WERE LOST, SHOWING THE PATH THAT PAVES OUR WAY. I’LL FOLLOW MY FOOTSTEPS THROUGHOUT NIGHT-THROUGHOUT DAY. WHEN TIME STARTS CALLING AND DEATH APPEARING TO APPEAR, FEAR BECOMES THE FEARED FOR WE SHALL KNOW YOUR NAME, WE SHALL CALL YOUR NAME. NEW LIFE STARTS AS DAWN DRAWS NEAR, OUR TRANSFORMATION SHOULD BE EFFORTLESS LIKE A BREATH REQUIRING NO AIR. THOSE WHISPERS BECOME SHOUTS AS OLD FRIENDS APPEAR. AS LIGHT SHADOWS THE DARK ONLY GOOD MUST COME FROM PAIN. MAY OUR SOULS SOAR HIGH AS MY LORD JESUS GIVES WAY. THIS PASSAGE NOW ENDING, I’LL LEAVE ONE FINAL PRAYER, LET MAN FIND THAT

 GENTLE BEING THAT’S BEEN…

TRAPPED INSIDE.

Explanation: Does our transformation mean we will never sin again while living on this earth? Of course not. We are all permanent/ongoing sinners while living on this planet. This simply means that once Christ takes over our heart, we should have an instant amount of knowledge of how to live our lives. The closer we become to God, the more aware we become when we are sinning-which is generally all the time. It’s certainly a bitter sweet truth, nevertheless, it is what it is!

Does this mean Christians sin less than non-Christians? There are some pretty mean spirited Christians in the world, but than again, are they really Christian? I’ve met some good hearted atheists, agnostics and people of faith who don’t believe in Christ Jesus.

“Remember to Keep the Sabbath Day Holy” is the fourth out of eleven commandments. Biblically speaking the Sabbath is Saturday not Sunday. Due to our normal patterned work week and church services, many Christians find it  more convenient to worship on Sunday.  Moreover, many churches aren’t offering any worship service on any other day other than Sunday. This is fine!
Remember when God rested on the seventh day, his time frame was, is, and always will be different from ours. Whatever day you choose, try your best to stick to it, unless your work week constantly changes.  I would recommend any day of the week where you aren’t bound by financial work. Set one day aside that is seperate from the rest of the week and make it holy.
I would recommend using that day to serve Christ Jesus by worshipping and serving others.

Technically, worshipping and “keeping it holy” are not necessary synonymous. If you wish, keep the Sabbath (Saturday) Holy but worship on Sunday or visa verse. Do it because of your life pattern dictates this, not because of a soon to be mandated law. Keeping the Sabbath holy could mean a variety of things to a variety of people. Holy for me, in regard to counseling to you, means no financial work if possible, limited or better yet no stress and the avoidance of many things that through the week one may not follow as intensely. Lastly, worshipping  in and/or outside of a structured building (church.)

My advise to you all is this, the best way to keep it holy is to help and serve others.
Remember the pharisees were against helping others out on the Sabbath but Jesus was not only for it but rubbed the pharisee’s noses in it.  Are you a pharisee? What does this tell you? Doesn’t that inform you that breaking the Sabbath for things like helping your fellow man actually pleases God.

Remember Christ died because none of us can keep the commandments perfectly. Have you forgotten brothers? We have all fallen short. If you try to base your salvation on keeping those commandments, doesn’t that take
away from Christ’s cruel death on the cross? In addition, you are doomed to failure because none of us are that good. Let me repeat this, none of us are that great. Am I saying why bother trying to keep any of the commandments? Absolutely not! It may require blood, sweat and tears, but that is the bitter sweet truth of following Christ by walking with your cross. What I’m saying is this, when you break any commandment as we all do and will do, repent from it and grow from it and try your best not to repeat the same mistakes. If you fail again, try again, but never give up trying, never lose hope and always keep your eyes on the prize-which is the gift of everlasting life with Christ Jesus.

Christ had told me to go back to my Presbyterian Church and I have. We worship on Sunday.I don’t have any guilt or fear of it one bit.  If the time comes that Christ tells me to inform my Pastor we need to switch our day of worship to Saturday-I will do what I can and I will post this immediately with an apology. However, I seriously doubt Christ will inform me of this  and I seriously doubt that our church would be willing to meet on Saturday. I believe Christ has already spoken to me to write this much needed article on “The Sabbath.”

I won’t tell you in any detail regarding how I keep the Sabbath holy because what I expect of myself is far greater than what I will preach to you all.

If a Sunday Holy Day Observance Rule is mandated and you follow it out, this could very well be the “Mark Of The Beast.” This means if any individual enforces and/or strictly monitors a new Sabbath Law, don’t buy in to it.
I believe a rule will be set forth that prohibits any buying and selling on Sunday, and all people will be advised to go to church on Sunday.
Keep the Sabbath Holy because of your love for Christ, not out of love for the pope, his church or any type of earthly reprisals.

Remember the lawless one will change the times and the laws. Saturday is the true Sabbath and the law doesn’t necessary state one must not buy or sell. If you choose to not partake in buying or selling, do it because of your personal believes and not because a new rule which may enforce this.

Peace and love in Christ Jesus.

John
 

Jesus Is The Door: God Is The Room: The Holy Spirit Guides Us To The Door, Hinting To Us It\’s Right-While Helping Us Distinguish The Light From The Night. In addition, He Will Comfort Us (remember: his time-not ours

Christ Jesus is the Magnet and we the true Christians, are pieces of iron that will undoubtedly be pulled into his glorious gravitational pull.

Our Father sheds his leaves for life! God, our Father, is our foundation. His roots should become our tree. Life is the branch that determines our strengths and our weaknesses. If people were like fruit, then our thoughts, our words and our actions would determine whether or not our bodies would be edible!

Now is the time to evaluate whether or not your temple has begun the process of being in a holy purification state. The time has drawn near and time generally shows no favorites. Why not start your time altering transformational journey?

Time is simply a ladder to grow!

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Christ Of St. John Of The Cross:
Artist: Salvador Dali

Love God with your whole heart, mind and body. 
Love your neighbor as Christ Jesus as loved us.

The Great Commandment: Colony 5

Some people suppress you
they partch you
and reap a disaster
Reeducation for the infants
who demanded for an innocent instance

The great commandment
shows the contempt
between the world and their embarrassing pavement
Believe the scholars
read the readings
realize the man who says anything

The great commandment

The needies believe you
they treat you
like survivors of a disaster
Reeducation for the infants
who demanded for an innocent instance

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Judge Not From Your Heart, But Rather
Make Opinions Based From Your Mind While Keeping Your Heart Pure.

Walking In My Shoes: Depeche Mode

I would tell you about the things
They put me through
The pain Ive been subjected to
But the lord himself would blush
The countless feasts laid at my feet
Forbidden fruits for me to eat
But I think your pulse would start to rush

Now Im not looking for absolution
Forgiveness for the things I do
But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes

Youll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I kept
If you try walking in my shoes
If you try walking in my shoes

Morality would frown upon
Decency look down upon
The scapegoat fates made of me
But I promise you, my judge and jurors
My intentions couldnt have been purer
My case is easy to see

Im not looking for a clearer conscience
Peace of mind after what Ive been through
And before we talk of repentance
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes

Youll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I kept
If you try walking in my shoes
If you try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes

Now Im not looking for absolution
Forgiveness for the things I do
But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes

Youll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I kept
If you try walking in my shoes

Now Im not looking for absolution
Forgiveness for the things I do
But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes

Youll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I kept
If you try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
If you try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes

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For the overly judgmental-no I don’t agree with all of these lyrics, however, do grasp the message of the titles. Don’t judge-Do Love!
Love the sinner, but hate the sin, love everyone but don’t like how everyone behaves.

Dear friends, acquaintances, enemies and unknowns:

Get it! Grab it! Got it? Great, now keep it and grow.

 

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True faith is like a light rock who doesn’t sway by the winds of change. Nothing that anybody says would cause them to have any doubt or any sort of hatred in their hearts. True faith is a beautiful and rare commodity. Why do you think so many people who claim to be religious have such a very hard time getting alone with one another-let alone loving each other and respecting each other’s point of view?

Old Testament:

• An Eye For An Eye:most of the world would be blind!
• To Follow An Impossible Amount Of Rules: who can ever achieve this?

New Testament:

• Believe That Christ Died On The Cross For Our Sins. He Is The Only One In Partnership With God. In Fact, He Was God’s Living Mirror Image On Earth. Never Put Faith In Anything Other Than Christ Jesus! Salvation lies through him and him alone.
• Love Your Neighbor As Jesus Christ Has Loved Us And As We Love Ourselves: still impossible like Christ did,  but, loving one another is certainly much more possible than impossibly trying to keep all the old testament rules. Need I say what would happen if we all did this? I think God would have a heart attack from an over abundant amount of joy Not to mention, there would be no nuclear spending, no wars, no starvation and  no senseless homelessness-just to name just a few things.

Now, I could go on to say, believe that Christ was born from a virgin, and he rose on the third day, however I won’t. Do you know why? Not that I don’t believe it! I believe Christ’s divinity has nothing to do with how he came in to this world or how he miraculously rose himself on the third day. His divinity was, is and always will be the same. The former two merely point to this conceptual fact but they do not depend on his divinity. They were there to mainly help humans (from their lack of faith), see more clearly.

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• Type A: Old Testament Christians
• Type B: New Testament Christians
• Type C: Christians that fall somewhere in between

Explanation of each:

Type A: Christians that generally don’t have much compassion for anyone who doesn’t share their believe system, and often times not even amongst themselves. This type hasn’t grasped the true meaning of being a following of Christ.

Type B: Christians that try to bend over backwards to love one another as Christ so plainly commanded us to. This type generally has strong morals but possesses a very compassionate heart. A perfect balance. Now what type of morals am I talking about? There are religious and humanitarian morals! The true followers of Christ should have a strong sense of both.

Type C: A little rough around the edges but their sense of compassion appears to be greater than the Type A category. However, this type should work a little harder to love and not judge like Christ so plainly commanded us to.

The bottom line, a lot of Christians living in the world today profess their faith as following of Christ, but in their words and certainly in their actions they are speaking lies. This type,  generally more of the type A, gives real followers of Christ a bad name. I am sickened by their actions and by the lack of love that is being displayed. Remember not every one claims to be Christian is! Yeah, I knew you already knew that, but it needs to be said from a Christian. This type of person is really disturbing and makes my heart sick. I have no doubt a day of reckoning will come. If this type is you, please soften your heart and ask God to show you how to love one another. 

Original Composite and special FX by Jad many years ago. Christ on cross and angels were from a variety of stock art, from which I certainly don’t remember.

I respect everyone’s opinion in the right to have faith or not to have faith. I as you know, believe that my Lord Christ Jesus died on the cross, so that we may have life ETERNAL to the fullest. I believe Christ was the living mirror image of God. I give honor to God by giving honor to Jesus. I honor Jesus-therefore, I’m honoring God. I have no spiritual teacher except Christ Jesus. I will not, under any circumstance, refer to anyone other than God has my spiritual “Father.”

 

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“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world but lose his own soul?-Mark 8:36.”

Out of all the questions that have ever come to mind, the one that I simply can’t grasp is, how did God ever not come into existence? Noone gave birth to him. Nobody is his parent-he simply existed without a beginning and without an end.

I don’t understand this concept! He is the first and the last.

The Alpha And The Omega.

Types and shadows, that lead to Christ…the Levitical rules and regulations when laid out show the process of “death, burial, and resurrection.”

Death at the altar of sacrifice, Christ’s Death at Calvary, our “death” at repentance.

Burial (washing at the brazen laver), Christ’s burial in the tomb, our “burial” in baptism.
Resurrection (the priest was to take the blood from the sacrifice behind the vail (Holiest of Holies”) sprinkle it on the mercy seat, he had to do everything completely as instructed and had a rope tied around his ankle, and bells on his garment, he had to constantly be moving so the bells would ring, and if God didn’t accept the sacrifice, due to non-conformance to the process, he would be struck dead, the bells would stop ringing and they would use the rope to pull his body out of the Holiest of Holies!) When the priest accomplished the task, it would “roll ahead” the sins of man…this was done annually, and it was completed at the death of Christ( the ultimate sacrifice)

So, Resurrection-Christ’s resurrection from the dead, our “resurrection” at the infilling of the Holy Ghost into our lives, “rising to walk in newness of life.”

To be continued…
Author: Terry Tosh

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[1]. As sinners on the outside, we must first ENTER and STOP at the ALTAR (the cross).
[2]. Next comes SEPARATION and DAILY CLEANSING at the LAVER.
[3]. We enter into FELLOWSHIP of the Lord at the TABLE.
[4]. We learn to WALK in the LIGHT of the Golden CANDLESTICK.
[5]. Then, and only then, comes POWER in PRAYER at the TABLE OF INCENSE.
[6]. We are then ready to enter the HOLY OF HOLIES of HIGHEST SERVICE (the personal power and communion of the Holy Spirit).
[7]. Thus, we reach PERFECT REST and PEACE at the blood-sprinkled MERCY SEAT under the shadow of the cherubim.

More details regarding types and shadows:

[1]. Brazen Altar – a picture of the cross (conversion).
[2]. Laver – Cleansing from sin (Separation, Daily Cleansing).
[3]. Table of Showbread – The place of fellowship, to be fed on Christ and the Word (Bible Reading).
[4]. Candlestick (or Lampstand) Lampstand) – The testimony of believers is nourished by the oil of the Holy Spirit testimony).
[5]. Altar of Incense – Prayer and Intercession of believers.
[6]. Ark – Full surrender of the believer (Surrender, Prayer).

[7]. Mercy Seat – Completer victory, rest and peace (Victory).

this is an overview of the offerings that were required:

Author: Terry Tosh

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