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Are You a Time Redeemer?

How many of you, have ever said “I wish I had the time to do this or have done that?” Maybe you’ve said, “If I could only get back that time I wasted.” What is so ironic about that internal conversation is that taking the time to think about how you wish you would have taken time to accomplish something is in itself a waste of time, if you don’t reconcile a way of redeeming the waste. When I received Christ as my Saviour, got baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, as a young person I was still youthful, and began to do things that weren’t conducive to my spiritual walk. Then as I matured in Christ, I began to say in reflection back, “Oh if I could have those youthful days over again, I would serve the Lord in my youth and have the time to do this or that.” Some things you can’t recover. If you did things that lead to this or that decision, due to the environment and mind set you had, if you had the life to live over in the same environment, you’d make the exact same decision, because its due to certain constraints in your life, thereby repeating that episode all over again. That is why its so important that in order to bring our lives into some type of control and stop dwelling on the events and situations of our past understand this: there are things you can’t recover.

A. Virginity. Can’t be recovered.

B. A word that has been said. Whatever intent behind the word whether kind or evil cannot be taken back, and has no strings attached to them. The Word of God says that we will be given account of every idle word that comes out of our mouths.

C. An event after its over. Once its over its over. You can’t recover that.

D. Youth after you have grown older. Can anyone recover their youth? No, its gone. Oh if you’re 20. “I wish I was 15.” If you’re 30. “I wish I was in my 20s.” If you’re 40, you wish you could go back to your 30s. Oh how sweet to go back to those moments. But when you were living them, you did so frivolously. You can’t recover that.

E. Time after it has passed. Do you remember those things? We need to maintain that in our heart that if its already done, its done. It has been racked up in a list in Heaven, giving an account of everything you’ve done in your life. Summation is either everlating life or not, heaven or hell. You are going to give an account. If he knows the number of hairs on our head, then the very idle work or act you do is being registered to your name. Are you a time redeemer? Can you redeem your time?

If you remember these sayings, it might help you move past the past. But you can redeem time, but not in the state that time is viewed as, as in passing of occurrences, thoughts, movements, moments in existence. You can’t recover that form of time, but in the true sense of the word redeem. Redeem means to compensate for faults or a bad aspects of something; to save, rescue, vindicate, reclaim, regain, repossess or rescue. Simply trying to get back where you started. To reunite yourself with you. To reunite yourself with you. If we use the words I just mentioned in a sentence, it would sound something like this: Save means from me. You are your own worst enemy. That is redeeming. I need to be vindicated from my past. Sometimes your past becomes your future, it haunts you because you never forget the things in your past. Not forgiving you for what you’ve done has been a problem for the Saints and the world. I will reclaim my life. Whose life is it? Its yours. Do you want someone to keep your life from you? Regain. I must regain who I am. A lot of us are walking around today and they don’t know where they’re going or how to get to where they don’t know they’re going. Repossess. I need God or Jesus in my life so that I can repossess my soul. Some of us have given our souls to Satan, doing his work everyday. But I need to have the knowledge of the Kingdom to repossess my soul. Sometimes we do things unconsciously not realizing we’re giving ourselves to something evil, then afterward we try to build ourselves back up to regain who we are. You’re soul is who you are. Not your name. The name is the expression of someone’s outward expression of who you are. The Word of God tells us not to be afraid of someone who can destroy the body, but body and soul, then cast it into hell.

13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;


Ephesians 5:13-20

Add the words I just spoke into verse 16.

16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

16 Save the time, because the days are evil.

16 Rescue the time, because the days are evil.

16 Vindicate the time, because the days are evil.

16  Reclaim the time, because the days are evil.

16  Regain the time, because the days are evil.

16 Repossess the time, because the days are evil.

16 Rescue the time, because the days are evil.

All these words are telling you to grab a hold of the time you have, to utilize for your walk in Salvation, and bring others along with you, so they can be inspired to follow Christ. This is the time that we’ve spent doing frivolous things, so we can regain, hold and repossess our own souls for the work of the Kingdom. God is not just saying that, He is not mocked, whatever a man sows that shall he reap. Reclaiming the time. I need to reclaim that time, reclaim my life, regain who I am, vindicate my past, and I need to save me from me. The days are evil. Its getting harder and harder to maintain who you are. If you get caught up in society, they’ll possess your soul and you’ll try your best to be running after your own soul. If you do the things of the world, then the world dictates to you how you should live. Without God in our lives we can’t repossess what was stolen from us. He will restore the years that the canker worm has stolen from you. Worms take little bites here and there that weaken the structure. Its the seeds that people place in your lives that slowly eat at you, and you don’t realize until it confronts you and you can’t combat it because you’re broken down inside, eating at your self-will for a period of time. Then you don’t have the strength to say no. You can’t always allow people to conduct your life. The Word of God gives you advice on how to live holy before God. Your soul is not like a car where when you get done, you go and give it to the junk yard and get a new one. A name doesn’t dictate who you are, but a name is what people see you as. That name isn’t who I am. Who I am is what God says I am. He is the possessor of my soul and He should be of your soul. Whatever He says to do you should do, not what you want to do because it was you who got yourself in the mess in the first place.

People try to bring up excesses for how their life is going in the wrong direction. We blame everyone except ourselves. We don’t want to face who we really are. Redeeming who and what you really are is to ask the Lord to save you from you. I need to reclaim who I am and what I am because the world has told me I was “this,” but they don’t know the real you because they aren’t directors of souls like God, they only direct the outward person. They hope that directing the outward person will cause the inward person to follow along. You look at people who are recovering from drugs or alcohol. They profess they are not alcoholics or drug addicts. The act doesn’t justify who you are. You allow the possessor to control who you are. We allow the wrong thing to take control of us, guiding us doing things that we shouldn’t do. Its appealing to your flesh, not to your soul, common sense, or who you are. People adjust their life to the things they like; To possess or gain what that thing brings to their emotional standpoint in their walk. Some in the Church will say “I like going out to hear prophetic sayings from other pastors.” Why? “Because I need someone to tell me what I should be and where I should go.” Satan will tell you anything your flesh desires, to cause your heart to waver. We need to get a grip on who we are, redeem who we are, because these days are evil. There are little things catching you up easily. The normal superficial things we see; arguments, anger, places we like to go, things we like to watch, books we like to read…these are superficial things, but it goes deeper. The superficial things are keeping what is really going on with you camouflaged. We need to redeem ourselves from ourselves, be vindicated of our past, reclaim our lives, regain who we are, and we need God in our lives so we can repossess our souls. Satan knows how to work you externally, but not via your soul. He doesn’t know how to get to your soul because its off limits to him, but he can get you by the things you are influenced by. If he jacks you up externally, your soul will suffer. The Lord said “cast your cares on Me because I care for you.” He says there is no need to worry. But when Satan gets us to worry or get angry, it disturbs our soul, and we can’t get righteousness to flow in us because we’re upset. Satan knows what button to push in our lives to get us to come out of Christ.

12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 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.


Philippians 3:12 -14

They are things that are called baggage. We don’t forget the baggage, but we carry it forward in our lives, and wonder why we keep suffering from the same things in the past. Anything that you tie to yourself that is behind you will always hold you back. Past sins, desires, lifestyles or people. You can’t keep living in the past because everything there smells. David said, I was young but now I’m old. But one thing I do remember is that never have I seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. When you were young leave what you did in the past there, and don’t bring it to your future. Many are caught living in their past. Wondering why they never got over that old relationship, constantly bringing it to the front in the new relationship. Forgetting those things behind me. This is the process of redeeming the time. You are a redeemer because you forget those things behind you, thus reclaiming you. How many want to reclaim who you are? I need to be vindicated of my past, because its holding me back like an anchor on a ship, and I can’t move forward. A person who continues to allow the anchor of their past to hold them down, will never have a bright future. If you are in a place today you’re hard pressed to get out of, just look at your past.

How long halt you between 2 opinions. Some of us get saved, and baptized in the name of Jesus, and we tell ourselves that we’re now going to walk in the light; in whatever God brings our way and use it for our walk. As soon as we start walking, Satan brings all the people up from our past. That is why the first word for the definition of redeem is “save.” We are our own worst enemy and need to saved from ourselves.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Ephesians 6:13-16

Even though the days are evil, we have the whole armor that we may be able to withstand in those evil days, having done all we can do, stand! Hold your ground, you are a Child of God, and have been made the head and not the tail. These are the evil days. Stand for what you believe. The armor needed is already with you. Guard your loins with truth, a breastplate of righteousness to guard your heart, and have peace on your feet. The little darts of Satan are those who belittle and put you down that cause you to question who you are. But if you have faith, which is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen, then you will stand, unmovable, always abounding in the love of God.

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Tick, Tock, You’re Time is Running Out

In this day of so many choices, people tend to want to do their own thing. It seem as though there is no sense of morality in their decision making process nor in their lifestyle, and that also includes the Church. It is as though this generation has slipped back into the 1960’s adopting the mindset of “do what you want to do and with whom you want to do it to.” People always say that the times always repeat themselves. I understand that but what I really believe is this: the Bible sort of has that same frame of thought but in a more detailed understanding.

But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark…


Matthew 24:37-38

Lets take a look at a list of things that man is doing today and compare them with what the Word of God says.

The World

In the world hate has spread so much and there has been no remorse for the hate that people have for one another in society today.

Love

There is a false understanding of love, and what it means to be loved. People have taken “in love” to be “love.” For many people “love” means to do for me and me along. Love carries a type of attitude where it has become very selfish. People have allowed love to become a tool to be used as a selfish nature; to hurt people to get over on them. Whereas in the Word of God, love “beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth:” 1 Corinthians 13:7-8

Faith

How about faith in the world today or should I say a lack of? The Church is known as people of faith and our whole walk in life and ministry is to be a walk by faith and not by sight, because the Word of God says we can do all things through Him. We need to represent what a walk of faith is. However, we don’t. Not realizing that faith is a principle of counting on what Jesus’ Word says, and believing in that Word. The world teaches to believe in oneself. The mindset is you can do anything yourself; just believe you. You can do it. Not believing what God say, to believe in Him and with Him, all things are possible through Him. We don’t believe this. They take up the motto that “you can do it.” You can’t do anything without Christ because you will fail. Its not by might nor by power, but by His spirit. You can’t do it because you don’t have it. You don’t even know what will happen to you in the next 2 seconds. So you have to put your faith and hope in Christ and it won’t fail.

Humility

The world feels you need to get over on your fellowman. Its not about helping them out but their thought process is “what can I get or gain from them?” In other words, I’ll teach other people to be humble so when I come to them I can get something out of them. The Bible says that we need to be humble. Don’t always want to hear your name mentioned in something that is going great; don’t always want to be on top. You can’t have this type of mind. You must be humble. The Lord will exalt you in due season. Don’t always want to be the one on top. If you see someone who needs to be encouraged, be humble enough to sit back and encourage them. Don’t compare yourself with someone else who is getting praise. Why do you feel that you need to be praised? When you feel this, you need to reexamine yourself; your purpose in the Lord. The Bible never said that this walk would be joyous and you’ll have all the praise of people around you. Its a hard walk that requires faith, where you put all your trust in God. We who are the people of God must be mindful of our humility. Because its about helping others, and looking upon others, to help encourage them, whether you receive praise or not.

Intimacy

What about Intimacy between a man and a woman these days? In the world these days they don’t have it like that. They talk about short term relationships. The world uses the slang “hit and run” or “one night stand” or “short term relationship.” They encourage young people to “try it before you buy it.” In other words, live with a person first without marrying them. That makes no sense. That is just like a car dealer. You ask the dealer to try the car for a while, before consider buying it. He’ll look at you crazily and say “no you must buy it and then use it.” The Church is adopting the same mentality. People want to live with one another before they commit to one another. People say “the Lord knows our heart and knows I want to be with her.” But if He knows that, why do you want to try out the product before you commit to it? The worldly type of mentality concerning that has slipped into the House of God. Men sometimes say, in a relationship like this that if the girl gets pregnant, then he’ll marry her. Is that usually the case? You’ve just given him an option. If you get pregnant I’m gone, and if you don’t I’ll stay there and play in the field for a while. There is no commitment to anything in the world today. Some women are upset with how men have taken advantage of them in this way, that they seek inordinate affections of the same sex, and take advantage of the woman, just as the man took advantage of them. That mindset has become rampant in the world, in so much as our government has passed laws for same sex marriage. All this produces is self-gratification and has nothing to do with a healthy relationship, as a man cannot produce life with another man, nor a woman with a woman.

Pride

What of Pride in the world? In the Church, people take pride of what they own, and also their status in the world. Whether they have money or not own a business or not, or are seen as a leader in society, they take pride in all of that. That is just in the Church alone. In the world, money and riches are their pride. It use to be that people wanted to be a millionaire, but now people want to be billionaires. They want to have things they desire and go where they desire. They want to live as kings in palaces so they can walk about with pride. They live in a state of perpetual self-gratification to make them feel good about themselves, because “I am somebody.” They want power to control others lives. This is what pride has brought them.

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. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.


2 Timothy 3:1-7

There are a lot of people in the Church and the world who are ever learning about the Bible, but never understanding the truth of what the Bible says. Their heart doesn’t want to live concerning what the Bible says, rather live to do what they want to do, yet they want to use the Bible to condemn someone else! People in the world today know about the Word of God, and if they don’t, they know the 10 commandments. If you understand the 10 commandments, then you’re already guilty of what the Bible says if you aren’t living by it.

Its imperative that we do what the Word of God says. Women are going after woman, men after men, and even children after children for the purpose of lust of the flesh. Let us not forget what God has brought us to. All of the things that God has said are going to happen in the last days. The clock is tick, tocking away, and God is waiting for you to make the decision to live totally for Christ or live in the world. He said He’d rather us to be hot or cold but not lukewarm. Lukewarm Christians are trying to live in the Church and the world. Having a form of godliness but denying the power they are suppose to be serving. The world is looking to the Church for an answer, yet they can’t get it because the Church is standing beside the world, doing the same things as the world! So we need to be very careful of how we are perceived of the world and others. The Bible says don’t let your good be evil spoken of. If you want to live in the world, live totally in the world. Don’t try to put one foot in the world and the other in the Church. If you are doing sin in the world, then you’re in the world in the first place, whether you are in the House of God or not.

How long halt you between two opinions? Do you serve God or the world? He won’t look at you as being in the middle, He will put you to one side or the other. If He doesn’t see the move of God and Holy Ghost in you you’ll be in the world anyhow. If you aren’t living concerning the Word, then you are in the world. There is no commonality. You’re either in the world or you’re in the Church. Christ will not die on the cross again for your confusion. You need to make a decision, here and now. Will you live for Christ or the world? The world may include your lifestyle; what you do to satisfy yourself. Is that satisfying God or you alone? It makes you feel good because you can’t see God, and because you can’t see Him, you think its alright. You see the situation better and you like doing it. The Bible says blessed is he who has not seen and believed.

Bear in mind only what you do for Christ will last. What you do for the world will last as long as the world looks at you and places pride and joy on you. When that is gone, you’re gone. You can see leaders in history, who started out in greatness. When they fell once, their name through the annals of history was marked with shame from the same people who gave them fame! You have to realize that you have to give an account of all that you say, promise and do in this world. Every word uttered from our mouths is being recorded. Since you know and understand, why not walk upright before God, doing what is right, not listening to fables of men and their uneducated knowledge concerning the Word of God? Sure people read the Bible, but not with an understanding that only comes from God. So we ask you to bear in mind of what the Word of God has said. Today is the day of change. The moment you hear His voice, obey, and harden not your heart as in the day of evil.

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Its Time to Come Clean

Come clean with your life and walk.

I believe that this idea of keeping secret has lead us to a time where men have enslaved other men. Keeping secret has lead to an indifference between mankind and womankind, in so much that today’s generation is having gender identity problems. Whereas some men are confused of what gender they are, and women are in the same quandary of what sex they are. Society isn’t any better, teaching that it is alright to choose either sex, because its all about one thing: you. That is serious. Because its all about loving the one you want to be with and have a family with. This is a secret that a lot keep in the proverbial closet. Others may say swept under the carpet, out of the sight of normal thinking.

When most kids at a younger age go through an identity crisis, and ask their parents whether they are a girl or boy, no one corrects that issue right then and there in their lives. You don’t let that thing go unchecked and unanswered. Instead of sitting the child down and talking to them, you overlook it, and say things like “they’ll grow out of it,” or “they’ll get over it.” An unattended wound will become seriously infected causing trauma to the body. If you don’t give the individual a good truthful and sound understanding of what their concerns are, they will seek advice from an unwarranted source such as friends, family, peer groups—-and if that doesn’t work, they seek the advice of society. If society is already skewed, then they will cater to what you love. A skewed society will tell you that is according to Biblical principles, but they don’t live by the Bible. Or it may be by the latest fad, clothing, shoes, or what is presented on social media. Why are so many people on Facebook? They want to be seen, heard, and pull out information for their lives that may pertain to them. Facebook is a good and bad thing. It can bring all the bad people together, and they will cause a movement and cause other people to listen to what they’re saying.

If you have certain sexual desires after the same gender you are, and you know that is not productive, why do you seek advice from the same people? People will heap to themselves teachers after their flesh. I’ll go around people who talk about the mess that I want to stay in. But the Lord came to set the captives free, but they don’t even know what freedom is. You cannot go about as a Child of God thinking you’re one thing, and living the life of another, because you’re living a lie. The Lord sees what is going on in your walk. Its time to come clean.

Another secret people tend to keep undercover are diseases and sickness in their family. Another secret is traditionalism. The is on such tradition that allows the father of the groom to consummate his son’s marriage before the son does. Another secret is ritualism in taking the lives of other people to become a part of a family. The Bible says don’t be unequally yoked.

In this year of 2019, the Lord has given me a concern and warning to the people of God.

2For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.


Luke 12:2-5

The leaders and followers of Jesus Christ are leading a double life. This is the time of revealing of your Christian life, if you’re not laid before His feet. We are Christians, and as such, followers of Christ. If we don’t take the time to get the mess in our lives worked out, it will be revealed in public, and those who look for the validation of people will be devastated. If you are 60, 70 years old, you’ve had enough time to get mess right in your life. Many Pastors and leadership have mess in their lives, and have been keeping it hid, and the Lord has given them every opportunity to clear it up. Since they did not, the Lord is going to put their junk on front street, and they will be ran over. He’s said so in His word. Its really scary because people like hiding mess—–keeping secrets. You have the little groups in the Church that whisper, and the Lord is saying all that mess that is in your groups, it will be known out publicly before everyone, and you’ll reap the fruits of your labour of that. The Lord says enough is enough, and He is tired of it. He has leaders who are braggadocios about getting money from offerings, elevating themselves and not giving glory to Christ. The Lord is tired of that! Its those hidden things that we say are ok, and we walk around and say we are Christian; adulterers against our own lovers. Some are holding onto secrets because they fear for their lives. The Lord says don’t fear the one who can kill our body, but at the end not only our bodies will die, but our souls will burn in hell. Not for 4 days, not for 2 years, but for an eternity. Don’t fear people because of what they may say about you because you’re not keeping up with them and going under their auspices.

8 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.


Luke 8:1-21

Your brother is not just anyone in the world, but those who hear the Word of God are. This is how some people in the Church are. They talk a good game of Christianity, but they don’t belong to Jesus. If you are talking about Jesus and salvation, and not walking it, then it will be uncovered. Everyone talks about Jesus this or Jesus that…but are they real. Everyone wants to be a Christian when its the thing to do. This year, revealing is going to happen big time. As the Lord said, everyone is not your brother and sister in Christ. In the last days, many will come to Him and say they’ve done wonderful works for Him; fed the poor, fought the wicked, healed the sick. But it was all for their own glory, none of it went to Him. He will say depart from Me.

32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.


Luke 11:32-39

If the fire of God is in your life, do you not go about to show it because you’re afraid of what people will think of you? A lot of people talk a good game, but they can’t play it. By their fruits you shall know them. You try to clean yourself up on the outside, but on the inside, you’re jacked up. The Pharisees hearts were cold as ice, but they were willing to sacrifice. Ones hands can be washed, but can your soul be washed—– from the bitterness and evil you’re in? We all need to clean up all the loose ends in our life and walk upright. Even those things we keep secret around others before its too late, and God exposes them all.

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Live Each Day as the Last

There was a song by The Costers called “Life Can be a Dream.” We tend to make our lives, not allowing God to make our lives. By doing so, we run into a lot of problems; problems with us, not with what God says.

Do you remember when you got out of High School, and began to look for your first job? Then you started making plans for your future. You started imagining, seriously, what your life would be like. You’re out of school now, and you have nothing left but to ponder what you’ll do for the rest of your life. Some would say, I’m going to fall in love, get married, have a family and have 1.5 kids. The future is not always what we perceive it to be. As we go on, as young adults, we always have a tendency to set up things in our minds ahead of time. You’re taught throughout school to have money so you can live you life, have the nice, car, clothing, home and significant other, then your life can move forward. You try to make the right decision, whether or not to complete you schooling, or get a better job. You’ve already calculated how your life will be. In your life you try to reach a certain thing at a certain time, so at the time frame you’ll have what your goal was. You have a goal that at the age of 27, you have your career, money in your pocket, and eventually have someone by your side.

Then life happens.

The chain of random or unpredictable and unforeseen events that throw you off balance. When you are going along in your life, you’ve got your savings, you set ways of what you’ll do, then all of a sudden life hits you. Life hurts doesn’t it? When it hits, it seems like life doesn’t care about you. You have a whole plan, and now its been ruined. As a man, these are the type of tings you run into in life: you get laid off, you don’t get accepted into the college you wanted, you start hanging around the wrong influences, you get in a car accident, or your girlfriend gets pregnant. Now your life stops, for a moment. How many unwanted kids are out there who are fatherless, and in some ways motherless, due to the mother trying to get her own life together? Here are the things a woman goes through: getting stuck in a dead end job, getting a lot of debt, under pressure to live according to a peer group; you get pregnant by the wrong guy due to overwhelming emotions, with not enough finances to take care of yourself or the baby.

You need to face the fact that your life has taken another change. Its too late in your life to go back and try to correct a decision, because once its done, its done. How many have every looked back over their lives and said “I wish…I should have…I could have?” Isn’t it amazing how God rearranges our lives, though we make mistakes—He changes our whole scheme of things about our selves and our walk–so we still will do what He wants us to do. We made the wrong step, we should have gone left, but we went right. He’s already planned that if they go left, then they’ll run into this person that will jack then up, but I’ll help them through it. You have a purpose in your life to do what God says. If it will take you going through Egypt instead of going through Ohio, then guess what, you’re going through Egypt, because you don’t listen to what He says. How many have heard the term “put it on the back burner?” When you put off to do something for another day, doesn’t mean you aren’t suppose to do it. Our biggest problem is we try to go ahead of ourselves and make plans and goals. I’m not speaking negatively about planning. Planning is good, but you need to handle the things of today, for today. The Bible says tomorrow is not promised to you. So live everyday as though it were your last. Would have, should have, and could have makes matters even worse. What do you do now? You handle the things of today, sufficient for today. Get your mind right, get your heart right, get you right. Then you can build from that point on.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Matthew 6:30-34

No one knows what the future holds–no one. The steps of a righteous man or woman are ordered by God. What leads and guides you? The Holy Ghost, into all truth. You shouldn’t be trying to figure out what to do because God has already worked it out. A lot of time, we don’t need to see what God has planned, because we’ll try to alter what He has planned. You try to situate yourself in a better way, but the trials and test you go through now are for this now. Handle them, deal with them, work them out, get it in you, and learn from the lessons. You’re establishing your foundation for your future.

Life is like a huge puzzle. There is a big board, and there are only 2 puzzle pieces on the board. You have one puzzle piece in your hand. So you try to fit the one in your hand with the 2 on the board, and they don’t go together. Sufficient for the day is the work thereof. Every time you go through life and trials, another puzzle piece is placed in your hands, and you can slowly piece together the pieces on the board. The pieces that go on the board of life, come from experiencing and going through different aspects of life. You can’t take puzzle pieces and with a pair of scissors try to shape them on your own. You don’t know what the shape of the next pieces will be. This is where we make the mistake of trying to out think God. Trials teach you how to appreciate things, how to be satisfied, how to have love, to be strong, to which you acquire the puzzle pieces of life. But if you go out of the realms of trials and try to control what you go through in your own life, then you won’t get the pieces that will form the life for you.

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Psalm 37:23-25

Why is my life like this? I’m tired! Because you created that for yourself because you stepped out of the trial and test that would have given you the perfect structure. If you don’t appreciate something, what will you do with it? You’ll abuse it. What do you mean? Picture the proverbial guy who couldn’t afford to buy a car, spent years working hard, to get himself a car. Now when he gets his car, he misses every bump in the road, cleans it often; but if you give a car to someone who never had the opportunity to work hard to get it, how would they treat it? They would drive it erratically, and not take care of it. You have to be taught the principles in order to move on. The only way to do that is to live in the now, experience the tests and life of now in order to be what you should be, not what you want to be. If you don’t allow God to mold you, you can’t be whom you should be. He who began a good work in you, won’t stop until He’s completed it in you. If you don’t have a certain quality in you that a Child of God needs, you’ll go through many trials. He needs to work out in you a trial to get you to understand what caring, loving, and understanding are. If God needs you to understand what love is, He will take you through something like that.

The title of the puzzle is Christian Behaviour, and you’ve been given 3 puzzle pieces. The first puzzle peace you’ve been given is God, the second is His son. Now you have to walk out your Christian walk to see what it means to be a Child of God. But in the process, the world is interjecting what it is to love or care; people have many options about things; about you, where you should live, when not to talk, when to listen; People have that all broken down for you, and if their message is incomplete, then your message is incomplete.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.5 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.


Psalm 37:23-25

God knows what you have need of.

4 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

James 4:1-6

If you’re a Child of God, why ask the world for help? You’ll never get that puzzle piece up there on the board of life if you’re constantly comparing God with world. You can’t serve 2 masters—you’ll love the one and hate the other. Can you say yes and no at the same time? No! Neither can you serve two different masters. Either you serve God or serve Satan. You can’t have one foot in the Church and one in the World. The scriptures says the Lord wants us to be either hot or cold, because if we’re lukewarm, He’ll spew us out of His mouth. That is why sometimes people go to ministries that endorse wordily things, or don’t care to point out their wrongs.

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

James 4:7-13

You can’t get to 100 unless you start with 1, then progress to 2, then three and so forth. Lets care about the number one thing in our lives today. This is where we start, then we can move onto the second thing, until we can reach our goal in Him, doing what He says to do, and not what we want.

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On the Scale of Right and Wrong, Where do You Weigh in?

When we look at a scale, its a way to measure weight of things. If it is good it will be Good or Right: suitable, fit, sound, whole, truth, well-founded. If its evil or wrong, it will cause wickedness, causing harm,  distress, threatening,iniquity;

The quest is on, to be the most beautiful, the moist intelligent, the one with the most Savoir-faire as the French would put it, or having a polished sureness in social behavior. In other words, knowing what to do in any situation. Are you that type of person? People want to be the one, that no matter what circumstance or situation they are in, they know how to avail themselves in that situation.

People today have taken the wrong road in human development. They’ve moved from wanting to connect to the creator Jesus, Yahweh, God, the creator with the real intelligence, and they are choosing, instead, to be connected to an artificial intelligence that is compiled programming man made language to simulate. It does what man tells it to do. They tell machines what they want them to do. People would rather be controlled by a computer program, than by the intellectual intelligent program of God which is KJV language. Look at the society we live in. Its changed so much that man wants to be in a machine, that they are implanting themselves with machines. There are millions of people around the world who have decided to implant a chip in their bodies. Trans-humanism. The chip makes everything “convenient” in everyday life. They are allowing chips to communicate with other computers to tell them how to live; what is best for them. People want to be trans-humanists so badly that they are allowing machines to coordinate their day. The world is pulling toward that so much, that its trying to teach our men to be accpetant of them. Our young men don’t know if they are men, and some girls don’t know if their girls. They want to confuse you of your identity so that you’ll be acceptant of what they want to place on you. Our President and society tells people that its ok to be that way, as to prepare them for what they will do to them. This is something God gave us common sense to know; nature even gives us common sense to know. Animals procreate with the opposite sex; they know better. What would happen if all the men went to men, and all the women went to women? We all would die out. Why does our government make laws that accept such a lifestyle? To fulfill a fleshly need. Our government made laws and ordinances to make the rest of society conform to this philosophy. To them that don’t comply will be prosecuted under law. In other words to force you to accept this way of thinking even when it goes against common sense of a species that God had ordained, to maintain life of its kind on this plant.

In this world, Christ has warned us in health, disasters around the world, famines, pestilence, earthquakes, and
an incredible increase in man’s inhumanity to man. As in kids violence to other kids in this country. God has been warning folks. When kids walk into their high schools displeased and kill their classmates. You can only protect yourself so far, because Satan doesn’t care if you are a king, chancellor; he will attack you. If Satan took Christ to the pinnacle to try to swindle Him, what and who are we?

This country, the United States, is now known as the new Babylon. When you change the moral fabric of a society to suite the minority and not the majority, then you have a problem. We have people who say its ok to seek revenge on people who dislike you. Its ok because you’re the underdog in society. If anyone comes after you and attacks you, we will make a law to protect you. There will come a time when those of the Church who are preaching the truth will be attacked. Everything done in Sodom and Gomorrah, they are doing in the United States today. Homosexuality, bestiality, genetic experimentation, cloning… If they are cloning animals, you think they’re cloning humans? But President Clinton made a law against such things. You know how many rules against humanity the government has broken? Do you want to live in a society that you don’t know whether you’re male or female, teaching our kids to dumb them down? Is there any creativity in schools today? This country has been warned by the hand of God, even as Belshazzar in the Bible was warned by the handwriting on the wall.

Daniel 5

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.6 Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.8 Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.

They have disrespected God and His temple. We have to wonder if we do the same things in our lives. Do we take the things of God in our lives and make them for our own? They were having a party and all of a sudden there is a hand, writing on the wall.

10 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;

Belshazzar is doing the exact same things his dad did. This great man of pride who looked down on evey one else, now everyone was looking down on him! Your pride comes before a great fall. Daniel first had to get this straight before he interpreted the writing on the wall.

23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.25 And this is the writing that was written, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.26 This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.27 Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.28 Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

You who knows better, talking about you walking in the things of God, but in the world taking His things and using them for your personal use, you’re not far from being disciplined. Your arms are too short to box with God. Belshazzar knew better. Has your life been weighed on this scale? Has there been a hand writing occasion in your life. Its big to talk about Christ, but have you been living Christ? Talk is cheap? Why? Because there are no returns. You have to be able to walk the walk before you can tell someone else about the goodness of Jesus. Belshazzar got so big in his shoes, that he allowed himself to escape into mess. Are you doing what you should do in Christ as you should, or do you only just have good game? People who get rich and get money, they praise God, driving around in their BMW, but can’t help their brothers and sisters in need. They don’t share because they don’t want people to take advantage of you. You don’t hear this talk in Church, because these pay tithes. So those who have money aren’t preached to, but those who don’t are. Those who have money are allowed to sit in the respected places in the Church, while others without money are spoken to disrespectfully and told to sit in the back. Respect of persons.

In my conclusion: The word tell us “ were a man’s heart is there lies his treasure” Matthew 6:21. If you desire so much of this life of this earth and the people of this world plus the thoughts and hopes it brings, then your mind is weighed on the wrong evil side of this life!

Matthew 5:20
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Where is your heart? Where is your heart? Where is your heart? What are your desires? Some of us talk God, but the world is beating us doing it. We can’t go out into the world and minister to the needy, because they might hurt us, and because we complain…they need something. Meanwhile, we have others who don’t give honor to God about doing things, but they are out there shoveling out all they have to the needy. I don’t want to share the Word of God with anyone, you know why? Because they might ask me a question that I don’t know. Can you do good to someone who does good to you? Easily. But can you do good to some one who uses you? Its hard. But in-spite of you, you must do good.

Proverbs 17:1-7

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts. A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers. Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

A lie needs support, but the truth need only be spoken only once.