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Sin Needs a Friend to Operate Their in, and What About Your Faith?

We have heard it said that “sin is holding me down, sin is holding me back.” You might have even heard someone say that, “Satan is on my track trying to turn me back.” News flash; this is just in: Satan is not on your track or your back, neither is sin holding you back. It’s your love of the attributes of sin that are causing you to re-evaluate your stand on faith and salvation.

While in the process of evaluating that very deep contemplation, one begins to call up all their emotional tags and ties, thereby causing them to lie to themselves and to the Most High. The only conclusion one can draw is that it’s better to live as long as one can in sin before Christ comes again, hoping that the Christ will understand your heart so that you came be a part. But you best believe and know this, He’ll say, “Who are you?”

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Time, Time, We Have So Little, So Stop Idle Wasting It!

Most people in the world today are too busy chasing down time trying to find out where it lives. Only having to find out, that they had been wasting time. We all are guilty of this by using some of these catchy phases for example you may have heard of some of them:

A. Well if you don’t know, then your wasting my Time
B. Can you tell me the Time
C. Quit sitting around wasting your Time
D. Why are taking your Time
E. Just don’t just keep lagging behind dragging your foot

These are but a few statements that we say throughout our lives to one another and sometimes in a good light or in a bad light. In any case, we need to stop wasting time looking for time. One thing that all of you should take note of is that while trying to find some, or as others might say “make time,” time will play a loop on you. In other words, while trying to find time or make time for a thing is that “time” has a few friends who love to tag along. Time’s friends are:

  1. Side track
  2. Lost track
  3. off track
  4. Idle track

Now when time’s three little friend show up, each one of them wants to take you for a ride. Well enough of us wasting time talking about time, let’s see what the Word of God has to say about time and being idle

Ecclesiastes 11:3-10 (KJV)
3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. 6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. 7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for
they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

As human being we don’t have that long of time up on this earth.

Psalms 90:7-11
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

So just don’t stand around going through emotional pit falls doing nothing or just doing things that suit you because only what you do for Christ will last.

Ecclesiastes 9:9-12
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 11. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his
time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

1 John 2:14-17
14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

In my Conclusion, I’m leaving you with these from the Lord:

Ephesians 5:1-33, Ephesians 4:27-28 but all of the 4th chapter. You should also read 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12.

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When Looking Back on Things in Your Life and What You Did, Where Are You Now?

There have been many songs that were written that related to looking back to your past. For example, the song “The Way We Where” by Memory, Stevie Wonder’s “I wish,” Earth, Wind, & Fire’s “September.” There is a fixation with our past. I’ve even written a song called “As I Look Back Over.” Yes, even I have looked back over the memory of my past, some moments favorable and others not so much. I really believe that spending to much time dwelling on your past can and will bind your future.

Philippians 3:13-15
13 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.

There are many things that can keep you bound to your past, but there are 7 major things that can make your past your future:

  1. Sexual Emotional Attachments
  2. Pain of Unforgiveness
  3. Broken Heart
  4. Unfinished business (Good or bad) /Closure
  5. Pridefulness
  6. Jealousy/hatred of other achievements
  7. Unforgiven Hidden or secret sins of the past

One must understand that these 7 things can and will defeat your hopes, dreams, passions, and your growth in anything you desire to do in your future. Some of us tend to wonder why our lives seem like they’re stuck in neutral and in some cases in reverse. If you would just check to see if you are bound by any of these 7 major thing in your life, this just might be the cause. Sometimes we need to press pause on our life and begin to reevaluate ourselves and check life before we wreck it or our futures.

2 Corinthians 13:4-7
4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

Even when taking communion, I tell everyone to examine themselves before they take it to clear up any miss givings that may be in their hearts or minds so that they want take it unworthily.

1 Corinthians 11:28-32
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are
judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

In conclusion, read Psalms 103:1-13
A PSALM OF DAVID.
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul:
and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;
who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things;
so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD executeth righteousness
and judgment for all that are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways unto Moses,
his acts unto the children of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9 He will not always chide:
neither will he keep his anger for ever.
10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins;
nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth,
so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west,
so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth his children,
so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

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Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say Oh or Is It Say So

How many of you know without a shadow of doubt that Jesus, “Yahshua” has healed, delivered, or even set you free when you knew you where bound? Have any of you faked any part of your deliverance from sin?
When was the last time you felt the Lord’s presence? How many of you are still searching for Yahshua’s presence in your heart, mind and soul? Do you feel like your life is a merry go round and you can’t find a way off? Are you causing an effect on life or is life affecting your life? Is this world getting you down or are you getting down in this world?

Psalms 107:2 says, “Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy…”

The word Redeemed means:

  1. To obtain the release or restoration of, as from captivity, by paying a ransom.
  2. Theology. to deliver from sin and its consequences by means of a sacrifice offered for the sinner.
    —Related forms pre·re·deem, verb (used with object) un·re·deemed, adjective

I believe that one of the first things we should commit to memory after being baptized is what is found in 1 Peter 1:3-9:

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious
than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

The Bible also says in Mark 8:34-38:

34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. 36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Are there any in the house today who have been redeem? Well let the redeem of the Lord So!

In My Conclusion, I’ll leave you with this closeting thought from Romans 14:10-17:

10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way. 14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. 16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of: 17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the
Holy Ghost.

It is rewritten and it is so.

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Where Are You on the Road of Salvation Now, Cause Yahshua Is Near!

In many ways, people tend to take the easy road or the shortest route to get to their destination or to get to their goal in life. People are always trying to get to somewhere or gain something in this life the quickest way possible; even though it might not be the smartest way. For others to them it’s seems like the only choice they have. Remember the word reads in Ecclesiastes 9:11-12, “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are
the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.”

Read also Matthew 24:8-15, “All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false
prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand…”

Read Hebrews 10:22-27:
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 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. 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

In my Conclusion, I’ll leave you with 1 Peter 5:7-10:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about,
seeking whom he may devour: 9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

If your life is caught up so much in the cares of your hopes, loves, and desires of this life read Matthew 6:21-25:

21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for
your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

May the love of God, which passes all understanding be with in you until His return. And it is so.