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The "new birth" described

One's understanding of the "new birth" or "birth from above" can be enhanced by making three brief analogies between it and the physical birth with which we are all familiar.

First, it takes a birth to live upon earth, temporarily. Likewise, it takes a second birth to live with Christ, eternally.

Second, one does nothing to be born physically. An act of love between man and wife produces life. Similarly, an act of love upon Calvary made eternal life a possibility for all who receive Christ.

Third, one's life upon earth begins as he is born. Likewise, eternal life begins immediately as one is "born again."

This reception of the Son of God into one's heart and life automatically and instantaneously makes one a child of God because John 1:12 states, But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the SONS OF GOD. Spiritually speaking, then, sons are born to God as the Lord Jesus Christ is received.

This is possible only because of Christ's death and Resurrection. That's what the gospel message, meaning "good news," is all about. Paul declares in I Corinthians 15:1-4, Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the GOSPEL which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

This is the message that must be accepted if one is to be "born again," "born from above," " born by the Spirit," and "born into eternal life." This gospel must include the proclamation of Christ's shed blood for the remission of one's sins. To bypass the blood is to destroy the message! The "good news" becomes "bad news" when the blood is omitted. One could not get to heaven by the death of Christ if Christ's decease were bloodless.

Had Christ expired via suffocation or heart attack, His death would have been in vain as far as salvation is concerned. It had to be death by the shedding of blood, for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul (Leviticus 17:11). That's why the Church was purchased with his own blood (Acts 20:28), and why we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace (Ephesians 1:7). This "good news" also tells us that the blood of Jesus Christ [God's] Son cleanseth us from all [ALL] sin (1 John 1:7). Small wonder that 1 Peter 1:19 calls Christ's blood precious...as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

This gospel message, however, is not complete without Christ's bodily Resurrection. Permanent death would have rendered the sacrifice valueless. Therefore, Romans 4:25 states, [Christ] was delivered [at Calvary] for our offences, and was raised again for [or because of] our justification. In simpler technology, the text declares that Jehovah raised His Son from the dead to prove that the saved sinner's righteous standing before God was settled forever because of Christ's shed blood. When one accepts this gospel message as the only way of salvation and receives Christ who made it all possible, he immediately becomes a SON OF GOD. The recipient instantaneously is "born" by the Holy Spirit into the family of God and commences to celebrate his new birthday for time and eternity.

Life in a look

Millions upon millions will be in heaven because they followed God's instructions for eternal life given in John 3:1-7. In verse seven, one is told that he must be born again and verses 14 through 16 explain God's process in performing the miracle. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The background for this precious portion of Scripture is found in Numbers 21. The Children of Israel, because of disobedience to God, had been trampling in the wilderness needlessly. Meanwhile, their constant griping got to Jehovah God, and He gave them a good spiritual spanking.

And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people... [and many died]. Therefore [they] came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee [Moses]; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived (Numbers 21:6-9).

What an experience! Think of it, there was life in a look! The infected victims did nothing but obey God's message. They came, looked, and were healed. Now John states, [Just as] Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man [Christ] be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life (John 3:14-15). As there was physical life by looking at the uplifted serpent, so there is eternal life by looking at Calvary's uplifted sacrifice.

Since brass in Scripture depicts judgment, the brass serpent uplifted on a pole pictured judgment accomplished in behalf of the people. They only had to look and believe to live. Christ, lifted high on the cross nearly 2,000 years ago, also symbolized judgment accomplished on the part of sinners.

No doubt about it! Christ died for our sins (I Corinthians 15:3). [God] hath made [Christ] to be sin for US, who knew no sin; that WE might be made the righteousness of God in him (2 Corinthians 5:21). Therefore, one need do nothing. Christ has already been judged for the sin of all sinners. Just look and live, believe and be saved! As life was imparted to the Israelites by looking, so eternal life is bestowed upon all who look and believe. It is logical, then, to conclude and theologically accurate to say that one's reception of Christ becomes the "born-again" experience, because it is this reception of the Savior and His shed blood that makes one a "son" (see John 1:12).

 

                                                        (  THE NEW BIRTH )

John 3:1-7 states, There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

The "new birth" defined

Now what is this "born-again" experience? Nicodemus, a master or teacher of Israel, figured that it might have something to do with reincarnation. So he asked, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Christ instantaneously refuted this reasoning by saying, That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

The Greek word anothen, translated again means "from above." Thus, Christ actually said, "Nicodemus, reentrance into and rebirth from the womb of one's mother only produces a second fleshly manifestation, not a spiritual birth. For that which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Therefore, marvel not (don't be shocked) that I said you must be born from above, or born spiritually."

This plain, simple, logical statement from God should "put to bed" once, for all, and forever the nonsense taught by reincarnationists. They believe that after death one is "reborn" as a human, cow, dog, or ant. (Don't step on an ant because it might be your Aunt!) Wow! If one wants to believe fairy tales, that's his business. But please do not use the Bible to propagate such heresy.

That's why John 1:13, speaking about "twice-born" men, says, Which were born, not of blood [fleshly reproduction], nor of the will of the flesh [works], nor of the will of man, BUT OF GOD. Titus 3:5 agrees by stating, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

This makes it plain that baptism, confirmation, the communion service, the Golden Rule, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Ten Commandments cannot save a soul. Salvation is of the LORD (Jonah 2:9). That's why Romans 4:5 declares, To him that worketh not, but believeth on [Christ] that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

The new birth, then, is a birth into God's family, produced by the Holy Spirit the moment one receives Christ as his or her personal Savior. Let me prove this. Humans become sons or daughters by birth. Since one can only become a son or daughter by birth, it is evident that God's SONS and DAUGHTERS are also born into the heavenly family. This occurs as Christ is received. John 1:12 states, But as many as received [Christ], to them gave he power to become the sons of God. Christ-rejecters cannot, therefore, be sons of God. Call me bigoted and prejudiced if you will, but I simply believe the Bible. Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar (Romans 3:4).

Jesus said in John 14:6, I am the way, the truth, and the life: NO MAN cometh unto the Father, but by me. Acts 4:12 also states, Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Therefore, ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:26).

How different are the teachings of God's Holy Word from the speculative guesses of men -- even clergymen! Ordained apostates hate the teachings of the Bible. They, loaded with degrees (enough to give their parishioners a fever), know more than God who wrote the Book. At least it seems this way as they attempt to gain the sinner's favor by parroting the ecumenical message of the "Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man." This pleases the lost, but it is not the message found upon the pages of Holy Writ. God is not one's Father until a birth has occurred. Blind leaders of the blind ignore this fact and distort the truth by quoting misquoted texts.

Now taking a text out of context produces a pretext. This is the case as "reverends" quote the first half of Galatians 3:26, Ye are all the children of God. It sounds wonderful to the average pew warmer, but is so untrue. The entire verse tells the story accurately. I quote, Ye are all the children of God BY FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS. Christ must be received if one is to become a son or daughter. Until then, one is a child of the devil. Don't blame me for that statement. Jesus made it in John 8:44. He said, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do.

The Holy Spirit also declares in 1 John 3:8, He that committeth sin is of the devil. We see then that one is either a child of God or a child of the devil. To become a child of God one must trust in the shed blood of Christ for the remission of his sins. The moment one makes this decision, the birth "from above" takes place and son ship begins. Then, and only then, can one honestly pray, [My] Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name (Matthew 6:9). No man may call God "Father" without this spiritual birthday.

The Grace of God

Salvation is a gift of God, apart from works. Anyone who rejects this statement rejects the Almighty's plan of redemption for the entire human race. There is no other way.

Is this the teaching of the Word of God? You be the judge!

Scriptural assertations pointing to salvation as a gift fill the pages of God's Word. Ephesians 2:8,9: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. In Romans 5:15, we discover that the gift is by grace. Since the gift is by the grace of God, we had better define the term. Grace means "unmerited favor" or "favor from God that one does not deserve."

As one looks at his own sinful portrait, painted by the Holy Spirit in Romans 3, he hangs his head in shame saying, "It's true. It's true, every word of it. I deserve God's judgment because of my terrible iniquity. I do not merit His love and grace. If justice prevailed, I would be eternally separated from God, but God loved me and sent His Son to offer His blood for me at Calvary that I might have the gift of eternal life. This is truly unmerited favor, yes, favor from God that I do not deserve. Thank You, Lord."

Grace greater than our sin

This grace that is greater than all our sin is best comprehended when one studies the Holy Spirit's graphic description of every member of the human race in Romans 3:10-18. God says, There is none righteous, no, not one...there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher [or grave] ...the poison of asps [snakes] is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

This horrible indictment of the human race includes you, for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). If salvation depended upon any of us, heaven would he empty. But God's grace says, "Here is a gift you do not deserve. Take it...it's yours!" This is grace, grace, marvelous grace.

When one takes the gift, receiving Christ as his personal Savior, he immediately exchanges his rags of unrighteousness (see Isaiah 64:6) for robes of righteousness (see Isaiah 61:10). This is so because God's offer is called the gift of righteousness (Romans 5:17) and is in and through Christ -- not human effort. Yes, He [God] hath made him [Christ] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him (2 Corinthians 5:21). Included as a result of the gift is eternal life. What a gloriously wrapped package! Why not open it today and see the beauty of the crucified Son of God shedding His blood to save you. Then call upon His name and be saved eternally.

Does all this sound too simplistic? It shouldn't, for Romans 6:23 emphatically states that the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Since salvation is a gift, it is wrong for any clergyman or church to preach a system of man-made works as a means of obtaining the gift. A gift ceases to be a gift if the strings of human labor are attached to it. This is what Paul had in mind in Romans 11:6 when he declared, If [salvation is] by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more [a gift by] grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Salvation is God's gift

Grace and works diametrically oppose one another. It is impossible to combine them for salvation. You must choose one or the other. It is God's Word or man's. The suave-tongued oratorical genius who talks about working one's way into the Kingdom or who preaches that the Sermon on the Mount, the Golden Rule, the Ten Commandments, or obedience to the rules of the church help one in his quest for eternal life knows absolutely nothing about the gift of God through grace.

When one works, God becomes man's debtor, owing man spiritual wages for meritorious service rendered. Is this God's method of operation? Never! Romans 4:4,5: Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace [or as a gift], but of debt. But to him that worketh not...his faith is counted for righteousness. Again: Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost (Titus 3:5).

Dear friend, you have nothing to do with salvation. The "good news" is that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again (see 1 Corinthians 15:1-4). This "good news" is what Christ did -- not what man does. Our salvation is not in the word do but in the word done.

Salvation is God's gift to wayward, hopeless, and helpless sinners. Your part is to receive the gift: as many as received him [Christ], to them gave he power to become the sons of God (John 1:12). The moment one receives the gift, eternal life begins and one can jubilantly shout with Paul in 2 Corinthians 9:15, Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

Now that God's plan has been unfolded as salvation apart from works, let's reverse the coin and consider briefly "works, a part of salvation." Does this sound contradictory? It need not. Why? Though one is saved freely, apart from any human merit, one immediately begins to work when salvation has occurred as an evidence that Christ within is in control. Hence, Ephesians 2:10 states, We are his [God's] workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works.

So when one takes all of God's Word into account concerning "good works," he concludes that salvation is "faith plus nothing." It is all of God, and nothing man does saves or keeps him saved. Salvation is by "grace," offered freely through Christ's sacrifice, and is received by faith, apart from works. However, the bottom line demands that the received gift become effectual through a manifestation of good works.

Salvation is manifested through works

James discusses this in chapter 2:14-18. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can [this kind of] faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works [or does not produce works], is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.

Why? Because the outflow of works is a sign that an inward faith is operative. You say, "I believe. I believe and that settles it!" It does if this belief produces love, holiness, and good works. However, a faith that is void of works is phony, for James tells us in verse 19 that the demons who eventually fill hell believe but never produce righteous acts or good works.

Friend, if all you do is quote Christianity's creeds but never display the fruit of Christianity's cross, you, too, will be lost. If one lives like the devil, acts like the devil, talks like the devil, and runs with the devil, he will eternally live with the devil. [So] examine yourselves [to see if you] ...be in the faith (2 Corinthians 13:5).

One may know all the dogma of the faith and be able to quote great portions of the Bible, but his absence of works is indicative of a meaningless experience. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate (Titus 1:16). God's desire is that we be fruitful in every good work (Colossians 1:10). He also wants to stablish [us] in every good word and work (2 Thessalonians 2:17). It will happen when one is saved.

There it is. Salvation is by grace, offered freely because of Christ's blood sacrifice. It is to be received as a gift by faith in order to have eternal life. When the "faith" transaction is made, the nature of God is imparted at "regeneration" or salvation, and this "God within" produces love, holiness, and good works.

 

                                                    ( TIME TO MOVE ON )                  03- 22 - 06

                                                 ( 2 TIMOTHY CH 4 V 1 - 8 )

THIS IS THE LAST TIME WE HEAR OF PAUL’S WRITING’S. PAUL IS IMPRISONED HERE IN ROME AND HE KNOWS HIS TIME IS OVER AND DONE WITH. HERE HE IS INSTRUCTING YOUNG TIMOTHY TO CARRY ON THE WORK OF THE LORD IN WHICH HE HAD STARTED. PAUL HAS ASKED TIMOTHY TO BRING HIM HIS CLOAK OR JACKET AND TO BRING HIS BOOKS AND NOW HE ADDRESS TIMOTHY ON CARRY ON GOD WORK.

V1.PAUL CHARGE TIMOTHY HERE IN V1. CHRIST APPEARANCE AND HIS KINGDOM ARE NOT THE SAME THING, HIS APPEARING IS REFERRING TO THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH AND THE KINGDOM REFERS TO THE REVELATION OF CHRIST WHEN HE RETURNS TO EARTH TO ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM..

V2.PREACH THE WORD MEANS TO PROCLAIM THE WORD OR TO GIVE IT OUT.

BE INSTANT MEANS WE SHOULD PREACH AT ANY TIME, NO MATTER WHAT THE TIME OR THE DAY. PAUL SAYS TO PREACH THE WORD, NOT JUST TALK ABOUT IT.

WE ARE NOT ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD, OR FROM THE WORD OF GOD, BUT PREACH THE WORD OF GOD ITSELF.

THE WORD INSTANT MEANS ( DILIGENT OR EVEN BETTER URGENT ) , AND YOU AND I SHOULD TAKE EVERY CHANGE  WE CAN TO TELL THE LOST ABOUT GOD.

REBUKE ACTUALLY MEANS TO THREATEN- IN THE SINCE TO STAND UP AND UPON GOD WORD WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE RIGHT.

EXHORT MEANS COMFORT, WE NEED TO COMFORT OTHER BELIEVERS.

WITH ALL LONGSUFFERING MEANS THAT ALL OF US WHO GIVE OUT THE WORD OF GOD NEED TO EXERCISE A GREAT DEAL OF PATIENCE.

DOCTRINE MEANS AS WE HAVE SAID PREVIOUSLY, TO TEACHING. WE MUST TEACH GODS WORD.

V3.YOU WILL FIND THERE ARE VERY FEW CHURCH MEMBERS WHO WILL ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE, THEY DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT. INTO TODAY CHURCHES PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD, THEY WANT A SUBSTITUTE. THEY WANT RELIGIOUS ENTERTAINMENT, THEY WANT THE EMOTIONAL MOVIES, THE PAGEANTS, FOOT TAPPING MUSIC, COLORED LIGHTS. THE MAN WHO WOULD OPEN GOD’S WORD UP AND TRY TO READ IT IS SOON ASK TO SIT DOWN BECAUSE HE IS OUT OF ORDER, HOW SAD WE HAVE BECOME.

V4.THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS WITH ITCHING EARS, THEY LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THESE STRANGE, WEIRD, AND UNUSUAL THINGS. THEY WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED, BUT THEY DON’T WANT TO BE GIVEN THE WORD OF GOD.

V5.IN PAUL DAY AN EVANGELIST WAS A TRAVELING TEACHER, A MISSIONARY. PAUL WAS A EVANGELIST IN THAT SENSE. NOW HE SAYS TO TIMOTHY, YOU DO THE WORK WHICH I HAVE BEEN DOING, IT MUST GO ON ESPECIALLY IN THESE THE LAST DAYS.

V6 - 8.PAUL SUMS UP HIS LIFE IN THREE DIFFERENT WAYS.

#1.I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT. PAUL WAS A SOLDIER, THERE WAS A BATTLE THAT HAD TO BE FOUGHT AND A VICTORY TO BE WON AND PAUL WAS A GREAT SOLDIER. PAUL TURNED IT OVER TO TIMOTHY FOR HIM TO CONTINUE JUST AS THE ONE BEFORE YOU HAS GIVEN IT YOU TO CARE ON FOR THE LORD.

#2.I HAVE FINISHED MY COURSE. PAUL STRIVED TO FINISH THE COURSE GOD GAVE HIM TO RUN BECAUSE HE KNEW IT WAS OF MOST IMPORTANCE. PAUL KEEP HIS BODY UNDER SUBJECTION. PAUL HAD COMPLETED ALL THAT GOD HAD GIVEN HIM TO DO, HOW ABOUT YOU ????????????????

#3.I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH. PAUL KEEP THE FAITH , HE HAD NEVER VEERED FROM THE GREAT TRUTHS AND DOCTRINE IN THE WORD OF GOD. CAN YOU AND I SAY THAT ABOUT OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE. PAUL KNEW HE WAS DYING AND GOD’S WORK HAD TO GO ON, SO HE HAD BROUGHT YOUNG TIMOTHY UP AS HIS REPLACEMENT, WHAT ABOUT YOU AND I HAVE WE TOOK THE TIME AS PAUL DID TO HELP OTHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS LEARN ABOUT GODS WORD, SO WHEN IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO TAKE OVER THEY ARE READY????

IN CLOSING PAUL SAID IN V 18 WITH ASSURANCE HE KNEW GOD WAS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF HIM AND HE GAVE ALL GLORY TO GOD THRU ALL THE SUFFERING AND EVERYTHING HE WENT THRU, CAN YOU AND I LET GOD USE OUR LIFE THE WAY PAUL DID???

PAUL WAS EXECUTED IN ROME IN LATE A.D. 66, HE WAS BEHEADED ON THE OSTIAN WAY. THIS WAS THE ROAD THAT RAN BETWEEN ROME AND OSTIAN AND PAUL WAS EXECUTED ABOUT A MILE OR SO FROM ROME.

 

                                        JUSTIFICATION AND IMPUTATION        1-30-06
 
JUSTIFICATION IS A JUDICIAL ACT OF GOD WHEREBY THOSE WHO PUT THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST ARE DECLARED RIGHTEOUS IN HIS EYES, AND FREE FROM GUILT AND PUNISHMENT. IT DEALS PRIMARILY WITH A CHANGE IN THE BELIEVER RELATIONSHIP OR STANDING WITH GOD, AND IS AN ENTIRELY DIVINE ACT OF GOD. THIS IS WHAT ISAIAH IS SAYING IN ( ISAIAH CH 43 V 25 - 26 )I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. 26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. FURTHER MORE JUSTIFICATION IS THE OPPOSITE OF CONDEMNATION , LOOK AT THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TWO IN THESE SCRIPTURES. ( DEUT CH 25 V 1 )If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked , AND THEN IN   (PROVERBS CH 17 V 15 )He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination to the LORD. SINCE THE BELIEVER IS JUSTIFIED, ALL HIS SINS ARE FORGIVEN, AND ALL HIS GUILT AND PUNISHMENT ARE TAKEN AWAY.
THIS IS WHAT JESUS MEANT WHEN HE SAID IN ( JOHN CH 3 V 18 )He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. AND AGAIN IN ( JOHN CH 5 V 24 )Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. BECAUSE GOD JUSTIFIED US THE MOMENT WE GOT SAVED, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE CONDEMNATION AND WRATH OF GOD ( JOHN CH 3 V 36 )36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. JOHN NOT ONLY SAYS THAT WE HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE, BUT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH INTO LIFE. HAVING BLOTTED OUT ALL OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, GOD NO LONGER REMEMBERS OUR SIN, AND AT THE SAME TIME JESUS OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS WAS IMPUTED TO US.
IMPUTATION SIMPLY MEANS “ TO GIVE CREDIT FOR “ LOOK AT ( ROMANS CH 4 V 3 - 8 )For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, 7 [Saying], Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, and Whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. NOTICE THE FOLLOWING THREE WORDS THAT PAUL USED ( COUNT IN V 3 & 5 ) AND RECKON IN V 4 AND IMPUTE IN V 6 & 8 ), BEING TRANSLATED FROM THE SAME GREEK WORD, ALL THREE OF THESE WORDS HAVE THE SAME MEANING. THEY SIMPLY MEAN TO CONSIDER SOMETHING AS BEING SO, EVEN TOUGH IT IS NOT. ROMANS CH 4 v 8 IS TALKING ABOUT YOU AND I, OUR INWARD MAN IS IN JESUS CHRIST– SINLESS. THE LORD NO LONGER IMPUTES SIN TO OUR INWARD MAN, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN JUSTIFIED AND DECLARED RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD. LOOK IN ( ROMANS CH 4 V 22 -25 )And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. WE FIND BOTH JUSTIFICATION AND IMPUTATION MENTIONED IN THESE VERSES, IMPUTATION IN V 22 - 24 AND JUSTIFICATION AT THE END OF V 25.
 
                               SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS VS HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS
READ THIS SCRIPTURE ( ROMANS CH 10 V 1 - 4 )Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. MAN WILL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN BY TRYING HIS OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE MUST SUBMIT UNTO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD THAT IS FREELY GIVEN TO ALL WHO BELIEVE IN THE LORD BY FAITH. WE RECEIVE THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IN OUR INWARD MAN. WHAT IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD???? IT IS GOD’S OWN PERFECTION AS MANIFESTED IN HIS SON, JESUS. THE REASON THE LAW CANNOT JUSTIFY IS FOUND IN ( ROMANS CH 3 V 20 )Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin. THE LAW CAN OPEN A SINNER’S EYES TO HIS SIN, BUT IT CANNOT REMOVE IT. IT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO REMOVE SIN, BUT TO INTENSIFY ITS AWFULNESS. THE LAW SIMPLY DEFINES SIN AND MAKES IT EXCEEDINGLY SINFUL, BUT IT CAN NOT EMANCIPATE US FROM IT. BY ONE MAN’S SIN, THE PERFECT RELATIONSHIP THAT EXISTED BETWEEN ADAM AND GOD IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN WAS BROKEN. BECAUSE OF THIS EVERY MAN BORN SINCE THAT HAS BEEN BORN IN SIN, AND JUSTIFICATION IS ABOUT GOD RESTORING THAT LOST RELATIONSHIP BY GIVING BELIEVERS A NEW POSITION OF FELLOWSHIP AND COMMUNION WITH HIMSELF. IT IS A CHANGE FROM GUILT AND CONDEMNATION, TO PERFECT ACCEPTANCE BEFORE GOD. READ ( 2 COR CH 5 V 21 )For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. THE BELIEVER PUTS ON RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE CHRIST JESUS AND GOD SEES HIM PERFECT THERIN, JUSTIFIED AND HIDDEN IN CHRIST.( 1 JOHN CH 3 V 5- 6 )5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. AND ( 1 JOHN CH 4 V 17 )Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. A GOOD ILLUSTRATION OF THIS CAN BE FOUND IN THE BOOK OF PHILEMON, WHEN PHILEMON’S SLAVE RUN AWAY WITH SOME OF HIS MASTER’S POSSESSION’S AND WENT TO ROME AND MET PAUL AND PAUL LEAD HIM TO KNOW THE LORD AND THEN PAUL SENT HIM BACK TO PHILEMONWITH THIS MESSAGE ( PHILEMON V 17- 18 )If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. 18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth [thee] ought, put that on mine account; THIS IS IMPUTATION, EXACTLY WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE FOR US. HE PUT ALL OUR SIN ON HIS ACCOUNT. LOOK AT ( ISAIAH CH 53 V 4- 6 )Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
IF YOU WANT TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THESE VERSES WHERE IT SAY’S ( WE , US , OUR ) PUT YOUR NAME IN THEIR AND THEN YOU HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THESE VERSE’S. SUDDENLY THE WORK OF CHRIST BECOMES SOBERING AS WE SEE THAT HE DID IT ALL FOR ME. IT WAS MY SIN THAT SENT HIM TO THAT CROSS. ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION OF IMPUTATION CAN BE MADE USING TWO BOOKS , ONE RECORDING CHRIST LIFE AND THE OTHER ONE RECORDING YOUR LIFE. WHEN YOU ACCEPTED CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOUR , GOD SWITCHED THE COVERS AND PUT YOUR NAME ON CHRIST BOOK AND CHRIST NAME ON YOUR BOOK. NOW WHEN GOD LOOKS AT YOUR BOOK HE ONLY SEES A PERFECT SINLESS LIFE IN HIS SON. LOOK AT ( 1 PETER CH 3 V 18 )For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: AND ( 1 PETER CH 2 V 24 )Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. WHO IS THE JUST???  IT IS CHRIST. WHO IS THE UNJUST??? YOU AND I, CHRIST SUFFERED FOR OUR SINS AND BORE THEM IN HIS OWN BODY SO HE COULD BRING US TO GOD.
 
                                                                THE GIFT OF GOD
FINALLY IN ROMANS CH 5 , WE SEE A GREAT EMPHASIS ON GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS BEING A FREE GIFT. TO MAKE IT EASIER TO REMEMBER THESE IMPORTANT VERSE, TAKE A MARKER AND HIGHLIGHT EVERY OCCURRENCE OF THE WORD ( GIFT ) IN THESE SCRIPTURES ( ROMANS CH 5 V 15 -18 )But not as the offence, so also [is] the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 16 And not as [it was] by one that sinned, [so is] the gift: for the judgment [was] by one to condemnation, but the free gift [is] of many offences unto justification. 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one [judgment came] upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one [the free gift came] upon all men unto justification of life. THE  WORD GIFT IS MENTIONED AT LEAST ONCE IN EVERY ONE OF THESE VERSE, SOMETIMES TWICE. NOTICE ESPECIALLY IN VERSE 17 IT SAYS THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT IS AS PLAIN AS IT GET’S , THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS BECOME OUR OWN, ENTIRELY THE GIFT OF GOD. ALSO NOTICE ONCE AGAIN THAT JUSTIFICATION IN VERSE 18 MEANS, NO CODEMNATION.

 

                                          ( STANDING AGAINST SATAN )      1-31-06
 
 ( EPHESIANS CH 6 V 11- 13 ) Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. OUR RESPONSIBILITY IS TO RESIST AND STAND FIRM BY TAKING ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD. I WANT TO LOOK AT HOW SATAN ATTACK’S THE CHRISTIAN IN THIS WALK OF LIFE.
 
#1.SATAN WILL ATTEMPT TO ATTACK GOD’S CHARACTER AND CREDIBILITY. MAN’S GREATEST  STRENGTH IS TO TRUST GOD, SO SATAN TRY’S TO MAKE YOU AND I TO DISTRUST GOD. THE DEVIL’S SUPREME DESIRE IS TO CONVINCE MEN THAT GOD IS UNTRUSTWORTHY, TO CAUSE THEM TO DENY GOD’S WORD AND TO MAKE HIM A LIAR ( 1 JOHN CH 5 V 10 )He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. SATAN PAINTS THE FATHER OF TRUTH IN HIS OWN PERVERSE IMAGE AS “ THE FATHER OF LIES” ( JOHN CH 8 V 44 )Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. WHEN A BELIEVER DOUBTS GOD’S GOODNESS, LOVE , POWER, GRACE, MERCY, HE JOINS SATAN IN ATTACKING GOD’S TRUTHFULNESS. HE ENTICES SOME BELIEVERS EVEN TO COMMIT MURDER AGAINST THEMSELVES THRU SUICIDE, BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT RECOGNIZE OR ACCEPT THE FORGIVENESS THEIR HEAVENLY FATHER CONTINUALLY AND FREELY OFFERS ( 1 JOHN CH 1 V 9 )If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. SATAN ATTACKS YOU AND I THRU OUR MIND, THAT IS WHERE THE BATTLE FIELD IS AND THAT IS WHERE YOU MUST FIGHT THE BATTLES, IN YOUR MIND.
 
#2.SATAN TRIES TO UNDERMINE PRESENT VICTORY BY GENERATING TROUBLE THAT MAKES LIFE DIFFICULT, THEREBY TEMPTING US TO FORSAKE OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S STANDARDS AND CALLING. HIS MOST EXTREME TACTIC IS PERSECUTION. HE ATTACKS US THRU OUR FREEDOM, OUR JOBS, OUR FAMILY’S, AND THEIR LIFE’S. BUT SOMETIMES HE SEEMS TO MAKE OUR LIFE EASY, AND WITHOUT HARDSHIP THERE IS THE INCLINATION TO LOSE THE SENSE OF OUR DEPENDENCE ON THE LORD. MANY CHRISTIANS WHOSE FAITH IS STRENGTHENED BY HARD TIMES FIND IT IS WEAKENED WHEN THE BATTLEFIELD IS QUIET. ( 1 PETER CH 5 V 8 )Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
 
#3.SATAN ATTACKS BELIEVERS THRU DOCTRINAL CONFUSION AND FALSEHOOD. CHRISTIANS WHO ARE UNTAUGHT IN GOD’S WORD FALL EASY PREY TO WRONG IDEAS ABOUT THE THINGS OF GOD. THE BELIEVER WHO IS CONFUSED ABOUT GOD’S WORD CANNOT BE EFFECTIVE IN GOD’S WORK. HE IS TOSSED HERE AND THERE BY WAVES, AND CARRIED ABOUT BY EVER WIND OF DOCTRINE ( EPH CH 4 V 14 )That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; THE DEVIL TRY’S TO CONVINCE CHRISTIANS THAT SCRIPTURES IS DIFFICULT AND THEREFORE THE AVERAGE PERSON CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT. THAT IS WHY SATAN USES MANY DOCTRINE PREACHERS IN TODAY WORLD TO CONFUSE AND MISLEAD PEOPLE AWAY FROM GOD PRECIOUS WORD. THAT IS WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU AND I LET THE SPIRIT OF GOD TEACH US AND NOT LEAN TO MAN UNDERSTANDING BUT TO WHAT SAYETH THE WORD OF GOD.( 1 JOHN CH 2 V 27 )But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
 
#4.SATAN ATTACKS GOD’S PEOPLE BY HINDERING THEIR SERVICE TO HIM. HE OPPOSED EVERY FAITHFUL LIFE AND EVERY EFFECTIVE MINISTRY. HE OPPOSED PAUL’S WORK IN EPHESUS THRU MANY ADVERSARIES ( 1 COR 16 V 9 )For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and [there are] many adversaries, AND EVEN GAVE THE APOSTLE A THORN IN THE FLESH, A MESSENGER OF SATAN TO BUFFET HIM
( 2 COR 12 V 7 )And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure, AND HINDERED HIS PLANS FOR THESSALONICA ( 1 THESS CH 2 V 18 )Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. SATAN TRYED TO UNDERMINE PAUL WORK AND THEREFORE WEAKEN THE WORK PAUL WAS DOING FOR GOD, JUST AS HE DOES YOU AND I.
 
#5.SATAN ATTACKS BELIEVERS BY CAUSING DIVISIONS IN THE CHURCH. THAT IS WHY JESUS PRAYED SO EARNESTLY AND REPEATEDLY FOR THE UNITY OF HIS FOLLOWER ( JOHN CH 17 V 11 & 21- 23 )And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we [are]. V 21-23 ,That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. AND THEN HE COMMANDS THEM TO BE QUICKLY AND WILLINGLY RECONCILED TO EACH OTHER ( MATT CH 5 V 24 ) Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. WE HAVE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS IN THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH IN PAUL’S WRITINGS AND ALSO ONE OF PAUL GREATEST CONCERNS WAS FOR THE BELIEVERS TO PRESERVE THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BOND OF PEACE. ( EPH CH 4 V 3- 6 )Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all. SATAN KNOWS GOD CANNOT WORK EFFECTIVELY IN OR THRU A BODY OF BELIEVERS WHO WILL NOT WORK LOVINGLY WITH EACH OTHER.
#6.SATAN ATTACKS THE BELIEVERS BY PERSUADING THEM TO TRUST THEIR OWN RESOURCES. TO ATTEMPT TO DO GOD WORK IN OUR OWN POWER IS NOT TO DO HIS WORK AT ALL. LOOK AT WHAT DAVID DID, AFTER MANY YEARS OF RULING OVER ISRAEL AND DEFEATING HER ENEMIES BECAUSE HE OBEYED GOD , LET SATAN COME IN AND MOVE HIM TO NUMBER ISRAEL INSTEAD OF RELYING ON GOD AS HE HAD DONE IN THE PAST, AND GOD WAS DISPLEASED WITH THIS AND JUDGMENT FELL ON ISRAEL AND THEN DAVID KNEW HE HAD MESSED UP.
READ ( 1 CHRON CH 21 V 1 - 8 ) And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. 2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it]. 3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? 4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. 5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword. 6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab. 7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 8 And David said
 
#7.SATAN ATTACKS BELIEVERS BY LEADING THEM INTO HYPOCRISY. ONE OF HIS GREATEST SUCCESSES THRU THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IS THAT OF POPULATING THE CHURCH WITH RELIGIOUS UNBELIEVERS AND WITH REAL BELIEVERS WHO LIVE DISOBEDIENT LIVES. THE BELIEVER WHO IS MORE CONCERNED ABOUT HIS OUTWARD REPUTATION THAN HIS INNER SPIRITUALITY DOES THE DEVIL’S WORK, NOT THE LORD’S. ( 1 JOHN CH 2 V 18- 19 ) Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
 
#8.SATAN ATTACKS BELIEVERS BY LEADING THEM INTO WORLDLINESS, BY ENTICING THEM TO LET THE WORLD SQUEEZE THEM INTO ITS OWN MOLD ( ROMANS CH 12 V 2 ) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. AGAIN JOHN REMINDS YOU AND I OF THIS IS ( 1 JOHN CH 2 V 15- 16 )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.
 
#9.SATAN ATTACKS BELIEVERS BY LEADING THEM TO DISOBEY GOD’S WORD. WHAT EVER GOD’S WORD INSTRUCTS US TO DO , SATAN IS TELLING US IT IS A LIE, YOU AND I SHOULD BE AWARE OF THESE DEVICES THAT SATAN USES, AND OUR DEFENSE IS FOUND IN ( EPH CH 6 V 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. PARTIAL ARMOR IS NOT ENOUGH TO FIGHT THE DEVIL, THE REASON THE DEVIL DEFEATS US SO MANY TIMES IS BECAUSE WE GO INTO BATTLE HAVE DRESSED WITH OUR ARMOR. LOOK AT ( LUKE 14 V 31 )Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WITH OUR FULL ARMOR OF GOD AND HIM LEADING THE FIGHT WE DO NOT STAND A CHANCE AGAINST THE DEVIL. PAUL SAYS WE HAVE 7 PIECES OF ARMOR AND THE FIRST 3 ARE TO BE PERMANENT AND WE SHOULD NEVER BE WITHOUT THEM AT ALL TIMES. SO STAND UP AGAINST THE DEVIL AND AS LONG AS YOU HAVE JESUS WITH YOU, YOU CAN AND WILL DEFEAT THE DEVIL

                                   ( MATTHEW CH 20 V 1- 16 )          1-29-06

                       ( ALL WILL BE EQUAL IN GOD’S EYE’S )

THIS PARABLE GOES ALONG WITH JESUS ANSWER TO PETER’S QUESTION BACK IN THE LAST CHAPTER. ALSO NOTE THAT THIS IS REFERRING TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AND NOT THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WILL LAST FOR 1000 YRS AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD WILL LAST FOR ETERNITY AND THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WILL BE DELIVERED UP TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD ( READ 1 COR CH15 V 24 - 28 )Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy [that] shall be destroyed [is] death. 27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under [him, it is] manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

V-1.A VINEYARD IS OFTEN USED IN SCRIPTURE TO ILLUSTRATE SPIRITUAL MATTERS.

V-2.A PENNY HERE IS MISLEADING BECAUSE WE THINK THAT IS NOTHING COMPARED TO TODAY, BUT IN JESUS DAY A PENNY WAS A DENARIUS AND ACCORDING TO HISTORY IT WAS THE COMMON WAGE FOR A DAY ‘S WORK. IT IS UNSURE HOW MANY LABORERS HE HIRED BUT I THINK IT WAS A GOOD MANY, AND SO THE VINEYARD WAS OF A GOOD SIZE.( NOTICE THAT THE LABORERS AGREED WITH HIM FOR THE AMOUNT HE WAS PAYING ). THESE HE HIRED WHERE HIRED AT 6AM OR THE 1ST HOUR.

V-3. THE HOURS FOR WORK WHERE FROM 6AM TO 6 PM AS WE KNOW TIME TODAY. BUT BACK THEN THEIR WORK DAY WAS FROM SUNRISE TO SUNSET AND THEN WENT FROM SUNSET TO SUNRISE TO MAKE 24 HOURS BUT OUR DAY STARTS 12 TO 12 TO MAKE 24 HOURS, SO THAT WHAT IT MEANT WHEN HE SAID IN V 3 HE WENT OUT AT THE 3RD HOURS OR 9AM OUR TIME. BACK THEN WHEN YOU WANTED TO FIND WORK YOU WOULD GO I\TO THE MARKET PLACE AND STAND AROUND AND THOSE WHO NEEDED LABORERS WOULD COME AND HIRE FROM THE MARKET PLACE.

V-4.NOTICE HE NEVER SAID TO THESE MEM WHAT HE WAS PAYING BUT WHATEVER WAS RIGHT HE WOULD GIVE THEM AND THEY TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD.

V-5.AGAIN HE WENT BACK TO THE MARKETPLACE AT THE SIXTH AND NINTH HOURS OR 12 NOON AND AT 3PM AND HIRED MORE WORKERS FOR THE VINEYARD AND AGAIN NEVER MENTION TO THEM WHAT THEIR PAY WAS.

V-6.AND AGAIN HE WENT TO THE MARKETPLACE ONE LAST TIME AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR OR 5 PM, JUST ONE HOUR BEFORE THE WORK DAY WAS OVER.

V-7.IT SAYS HE FOUND THEM STANDING IDLE AS HE DID EACH AND EVERY TIME HE CAME TO THE MARKETPLACE BUT HE TOLD THEM TO GO TO WORK, SOUND’S A LOT LIKE US CHRISTIANS.

V-8.NOW LET’S LOOK AT THIS VERY CLOSELY. WHEN THE EVEN WAS COME IS A REPRESENTATION’S OF THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST IN ( 2 COR CH 5 V 10 )For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad. THE LORD OF THE VINEYARD IS A REPRESENTATION OF GOD TELLING JESUS TO GO AND GET HIS CHILDREN( MATTHEW CH 24 V 36 )But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. THE STEWARD IS A REPRESENTATION OF CHRIST COMING FOR THE CHURCH OR THE RAPTURE.( 1 THES CH 4 V 14 - 17 )For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. GIVING THEM THEIR HIRE IS A REPRESENTATION OF THE CHRISTIAN RECEIVING THEIR REWARD’S AT THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST. ( 1 COR CH 3 V 14 )If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

V-9.HE TOLD THEM TO PAY THE LAST FIRST AND THE FIRST LAST.

V-10.OH BUT THE FIRST DIDN’T LIKE THAT THEY THOUGH THEY SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED MORE THAN THE LAST, EVEN THOU THEY AGREED WITH HIM FOR THERE WAGES FOR THE DAY BACK IN V 2.

V-11.THEY MURMURED AGAINST HIM AND THIS IS A REPRESENTATION OF A BACK SLID CHRISTIAN WHO DOESN’T LIKE IT WHEN A YOUNG CHRISTIAN’S COMES INTO THE CHURCH ON FIRE FOR THE LORD , THEY ARE SET IN THEIR WAY’S AND IT’S THERE WAY OR THE HIGHWAY, COME ON NOW YOU NOW I AM TELLING YOU THE TRUTH.

V-12.LISTEN TO THEM HOW THEY WHERE GOING ON, THEY WHERE MADE BECAUSE THE LAST WHERE TREATED JUST LIKE THE FIRST, THEY THOUGH THEY SHOULD BE HELD HIGHER THAN THEM BECAUSE THEY HAD BORE THE BURDEN IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY.

V-13.AGAIN HE TAKES THEM BACK TO V 2 WHERE THEY HAD AGREED WITH HIM FOR THERE PAY.

V-14.WHAT DOES THIS VERSE REALLY MEAN???? WE WILL ANSWER THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.

V-15.HE SAID IT IS MY MONEY AND I HAVE PAID YOU FAIRLY AND YOU HAVE NO REASON TO BE MAD.

V-16.HERE IS THE ANSWER TO THE WHAT IS MEANT IN THIS VERSE AND ALSO CAN BE FOUND IN V 30 OF CH 19 WHEN HE SAID THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST AND THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST.( THIS STATEMENT MEANS THAT EVERYONE ENDS UP THE SAME, A TRUTH THAT IS EXPLAINED BY THIS PARABLE

IN OTHER WORDS EVERYONE FINISHES IN A DEAD HEAT. NO MATTER HOW LONG EACH OF THE WORKERS WORKED, THEY EACH RECEIVED A FULL DAY’S WAGE. SIMILARLY, THE THIEF ON THE CROSS WILL ENJOY THE FULL BLESSINGS OF HEAVEN ALONGSIDE THOSE WHO HAVE LABORED THEIR WHOLE LIVES FOR CHRIST, SUCH IS THE GRACE OF GOD ).

GOD SAY IN ( ROMANS CH 2 V 11 )For there is no respect of persons with God. THERE IS NO BIG I’S OR LITTLE U’S IN HEAVEN, WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WE ARE THINKING FLESHLY DOWN HERE BUT UP THERE IT WILL BE ALL SPIRITUALLY. WE WILL ALL BE EQUAL IN THE EYE’S OF GOD AND WE WILL THEN DO WHAT WE WHERE CREATED TO DO AND THAT IS TO WORSHIP AND PRAISE GOD THRU OUT ETERNITY.( REV CH 4 V 3- 5 & 10 & 11 ).And round about the throne [were] four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. 5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and [there were] seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. V’S 10 & 11,The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

 

                         GOD’S CHOSEN MAN     1-22-06

                     ( 1 SAMUEL CH 16 V 1- 13 )

WE START WITH A REMARKABLE MAN CALLED SAMUEL. THE LORD CALLED HIM AND PREPARED HIM TO BE A PROPHET DURING ONE OF THE MOST TRAGIC TIMES IN THE HISTORY OF GOD’S PEOPLE. DURING THE REIGN OF KING SAUL, THE PROPHET SAMUEL BECAME EXTREMELY HEAVY HEARTED OVER THE CONDITION OF THE KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR , OVER WHAT HE KNEW TO BE TRUE CONCERNING ISRAEL’S REBELLION. GOD HAD REJECTED SAUL AS KING, ISRAEL DESPERATELY NEEDED LEADERSHIP AND SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE. SAUL WAS THE PEOPLE CHOICE FOR KING BUT NOT GOD’S. THE LORD HAD REVEALED TO SAMUEL THAT HE HAD FOUND A HIS MAN TO BE KING. READ ( 1 SAMUEL CH 16 V 1:And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. : ).

THIS PERSON WAS TO BE DAVID, THE SON OF JESSE. DAVID IS MENTION 1127 TIMES IN THE BIBLE, INCLUDING 54 CHAPTERS DEALING WITH JUST HIM AND THAT IS NOT INCLUDING THE PSALMS. GOD TOLD SAMUEL HE HAD PROVIDED HIMSELF A KING AND IN V 3 HE TELLS HIM TO ANOINT UNTO ME WHOM I NAME UNTO THEE. GOD DID NOT TELL SAMUEL WHO HE HAD IN MINE. ( SEE GOD SEARCHES FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A HEART FOR HIM, HE SEE’S WANT MEN CANNOT SEE, HE KNOWS ABOUT THEIR SPIRITUAL LIFE’S AND SEE’S WHAT IS IN THEIR HEART’S ). READ WHAT HE TOLD SAMUEL IN ( CH 16 V 7:) But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. ), GOD START’S SOMETHING IN DAVID LONG BEFORE MEN CAN SEE EVIDENCE OF IT. SAUL HAD BEEN REJECTED LONG BEFORE THE PEOPLE SAW IT BECAUSE GOD SAW IN THE HEART OF SAUL SOMETHING THAT HE COULD NOT BLESS. GOD RAISES UP PEOPLE TO DO MIGHTY THING’ FOR HIM, ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHOM GOD IS LOOKING FOR?

ALL OF US ARE DOING AS MUCH FOR GOD AS WE HAVE A DESIRE TO DO FOR HIM, AND WE GET TO A POINT IN OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE WHERE WE BECOME CONTENT TO BE WHERE WE ARE, AND WE HAVE NO DESIRE TO GO ANY FARTHER FOR THE LORD AND GOD CANNOT USE US IN THAT KIND OF SHAPE.

IT APPEARED TO SAMUEL THAT THE KINGDOM WAS OUT OF CONTROL AND SAUL’S LIFE WAS CERTAINLY OUT OF CONTROL BUT GOD WAS STILL IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING. READ ( PHIL CH 4 V 5-7) Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand. 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. ), ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT THE LORD IS NEAR AND HE IS ALWAYS IN CONTROL. ALSO THE NEXT 2 VERSES OF V 6 & 7 READ ALSO, IF WE REMEMBER THAT THE LORD ID AT HAND THEN WE CAN BE CAREFUL FOR NOTHING.

SAMUEL CARRIED A CRUSHING BURDEN BECAUSE HIS MOTHER HAD PROMISED HIM TO THE SERVICE OF THE LORD AND HE DEDICATED HIS WHOLE LIFE TO SERVING THE LORD AND HE THOUGH HE SHOULD HAVE BECAME KING BECAUSE HE WAS THEIR SPIRITUAL LEADER BUT THE PEOPLE WANTED SAUL. EVERYTHING THE OLD PROPHET HAD GIVEN HIS LIFE TO ACCOMPLISHED SEEMED TO BE IN FAIN. HE WAS GREATLY TROUBLED BUT GOD LOVING REBUKED HIM BACK IN V 1 OF THIS CHAPTER. IN OTHER WORDS HE SAID HOW LONG ARE YOU GOING TO BE UPSET ABOUT THIS, HOW LONG WILL YOU LIVE WITHOUT TRUSTING GOD IN THIS MATTER. GOD WAS SAYING HOW LONG WILL YOU THINK THAT THIS IS YOUR NATION AND YOUR PEOPLE AND NOT MY NATION AND MY PEOPLE. SO AFTER TAKING CARE OF SAMUEL HE TOLD HIM TO TRAVEL TO BETHLEHEM TO ANOINT A KING THAT HE HAD CHOSE AND TO GO TO JESSE’S HOUSE. SAMUEL HAD TO LEARN THAT GOD WAS IN CONTROL.

AT FIRST SAMUEL DIDN’T WANT TO GO, HE SAID SAUL WOULD KILL HIM, BUT GOD TOLD HIM TO TELL HIM HE WAS GOING TO OFFER A SACRIFICE.

SAMUEL WENT TO JESSE HOUSE AND GOD TOLD HIM THAT ONE OF JESSE’S SONS WOULD BECOME KING OVER ISRAEL. JESSE BROUGHT HIS 7 SON’S BEFORE SAMUEL AND TOLD JESSE THAT IS NOT THE ONE, THEN HE ASK HIM IF HE HAD ANOTHER SON AND HE TOLD HIM YES HE WAS OUT IN THE FIELDS LOOKING OVER THE SHEEP. DAVID’S OWN FATHER DIDN’T THING HE WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE LORD, BUT HIS EYES WHERE OPEN VERY QUICKLY. CAN YOU IMAGE HOW SAMUEL MUST HAVE FELT KNOWING THAT THE OTHER’S HAD NOT BEEN CHOSEN AND NOW HE KNEW THAT IS WAS GOING TO BE DAVID WHOM GOD HAD CHOSEN. WHEN DAVID ARRIVED , SAMUEL HEARD GOD SPEAK THIS IS THE ONE I HAVE CHOSEN AND REACHED INSIDE HIS GARMENT FOR THE ANOINTING OIL AND THEN ANOINTED DAVID TO BE KING OVER ISRAEL AND THE OIL RAN FROM DAVID’S BODY AND DRIPPED TO THE GROUND. DAVID WAS BUT IN HIS TEEN’S PROBABLY AROUND 13 TO 15 YRS OLD AND IT WOULD YEARS BEFORE HE ACTUALLY REIGN AS KING OF ISRAEL. YOU SEE GOD USES PEOPLE WHO OTHER’S OVERLOOK. READ ( 1 COR CH 1 V 26 - 29:For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: ). GOD WORKS IN SUCH A WAY THAT HE GETS THE GLORY, THE GLORY BELONGS TO GOD , NOT MEN.

IN CLOSING, MY FRIEND THINK WHAT GOD DID WITH A LITTLE SHEPHERD BOY NAMED DAVID AND HE TO CAN AND WILL DO THAT WITH YOU AN I IF WE WILL JUST LET HIM AS DAVID DID. GOD SAID THIS IN CLOSING: 2 SAM CH 7 V 8 :Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel, WHAT ABOUT YOU ARE YOU READY TO LET GOD USE YOU FOR THE BUILDING OF HIS KINGDOM.

                                                                              ( HELL )   1-15-06
WHAT IS HELL? HELL IS A PLACE MADE FOR THE ANGEL'S THAT SINNED NOT MAN.
READ ( 2 PETER CH V 4 ).For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment. THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT THE WICKED SHALL BE TURNED INTO HELL WHO REJECT CHRIST. ( PSALMS CJ 9 V 17 )The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God. IN THE . N.T THERE ARE 162 TEXTS REFERRING TO HELL AND JESUS SPOKE OVER 70 OF THESE SCRIPTURES.
 
HELL IS BANISHMENT FROM THE PRESENCE of GOD..( 2 THESS CH 1 V 9 )Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. HELL IS A PLACE OF OF TORMENT AND PUNISHMENT ( LUKE 16 V 23 )And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
WHERE IS HELL? ( ISA CH 14 V 9 & EZEK CH 32 V 27 ) SAY THAT IT IS DOWN. HELL WAS PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS ( MATT CH 25 V 41 )Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels .HOW BIG IS HELL?( ISA CH 5 V 14 )Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.( PROV CH 27 V 20 )Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
 
DESCRIPTION OF HELL:
1.A PLACE OF PUNISHMENT ( MATT CH 25 V 46 )And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
2.A PLACE OF TORMENT ( LUKE 16 V 23 )And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments,
3.A PLACE OF FIRE ( MATT CH 13 V 42 & 50 )And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. & V 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
4.IT IS A PLACE OF WORM ( MARK CH 9 V 44,46,48 )Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. /Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. /48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
5.WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE ( LUKE 16 V 23 )And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
6.THE ABILITY TO PRAY ( LUKE CH 16 V 27 )Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
7.STILL HAD DESIRES ( LUKE CH 16 V 24 - 27 )For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
 
HELL IS ETERNAL JUST AS HEAVEN WILL BE ( MATT CH 25 V 46 )And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
 
THEY WILL BE DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT IN HELL. ( DEUT CH 32 V 23 )For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. ALSO ( MARk CH 6 V 11 )And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. THE JUSTICE OF GOD DEMANDS DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT. PERHAPS THOSE WHO WILL SUFFER THE HOTTEST FLAMES OF HELL ARE THOSE WHO REJECTED HIM THE MOST TIMES.
 
HOW DOES ON GET TO HELL ? BY NEGLECTING THE REDEEMING WORK OF CHRIST JESUS ( HEBREWS CH 2 V 3 )How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard [him
HOW DOES ONE AVOID HELL ? BY RECEIVING ( PROVErBS CH 15 V 24 )The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
 
WHY IS THERE A NEED FOR HELL? ROMANS CH 6 V 23 )For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
 
SO IF YOU NEED SALVATION TO KEEP YOU FROM GOING TO THIS AWFUL PLACE CALLED HELL THEN READ THESE SCRIPTURES I GIVE BELOW AND ACCEPT CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR AND YOU WANT HAVE TO GO TO THAT PLACE.
( ROMANS CH 10 V 9 - 11 )That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

 

                            SUNDAY JANUARY 8TH, 2006

THE ISSUE OF ETERNAL SECURITY, OR ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED HAS BEEN A DEBATE GOING ON FOR ALONG TIME, SO I WANT TO ADDRESS THIS USING WHAT GOD’S WORD HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT THRU PAUL’S WRITING’S IN ROMANS CH 5.THERE ARE 6 LINKS IN A UNBREAKABLE CHAIN THAT ETERNALLY BINDS BELIEVER’S TO CHRIST.

1. THERE PEACE WITH GOD ETERNALLY BINDS BELIEVERS TO GOD. IN CH 3 &4 PAUL ESTABLISHED THAT AS BELIEVERS WE HAVE BEEN JUSTIFIED BY FAITH AND BY FAITH WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THRU CHRIST JESUS. APART FROM SALVATION THRU CHRIST EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AT ENMITY WITH GOD, SPIRITUALLY AT WAR WITH HIM, JUST AS EVERY PERSON WHO IS SAVED BY FAITH IS AT PEACE WITH HIM .THRU CHRIST, A SINNERS WAR WITH GOD IS ENDED FOR ALL ETERNITY. THE MIND OF EVERY UNSAVED PERSON IS AT PEACE WITH ONLY THE THINGS OF THE FLESH AND THEREFORE IS HOSTILE TOWARD GOD AND CANNOT BE OTHERWISE. ( ROMANS CH 8 V 7 ).

GOD IS ALSO AT WAR WITH THOSE THAT DON’T BELIEVE AND HIS ANGRY IS TOWARD THEM ALL THE TIME ( PSALMS CH 7 V 11 ).THAT ENMITY CANNOT END UNLESS THRU AND BY CHRIST JESUS, EVERY PERSON WHO IS NOT A CHILD OF GOD IS A CHILD OF SATAN ( JOHN CH 8 V 44 ).GOD WRATH IS AGAINST THEM THAT ARE UNGODLY AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS ( ROMANS CH 1 V 18 & EPHESIANS CH 5 V 6 ). BUT ON THE CROSS CHRIST TOOK GODS WRATH TOWARD A SINFUL WORLD AND PLACED IT UPON HIMSELF. ( COLOSSIANS CH 1 V 19 - 22 ).RECONCILIATION WITH GOD BRINGS PEACE AND BECAUSE JESUS LIVES AND MAKES INTERCESSION FOR US WE HAVE JUSTIFICATION. ( HEBREWS CH 7 V 25 & HEBREWS CH 8 V 12 ).WHEN A PERSON EMBRACES CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOUR , HE MAKES THAT PERSON ETERNALLY AT PEACE WITH GOD. CHRIST NOT ONLY BRINGS PEACE BUT HE IS OUR PEACE ( EPHESIANS CH 2 V 14 ). WHEN A PERSON IS SECURE WITH HIS SALVATION THEN HE CAN FOCUS ON SERVING GOD AND CAN SAY AS PAUL DID IN ( ROMANS CH 8 V 38 - 39 ).

2.THE STANDING IN GOD GRACE ETERNALLY BINDS THE BELIEVER TO CHRIST ETERNALLY. BECAUSE OF OUR RECONCILIATION TO GOD THRU CHRIST WE HAVE OBTAINED OUR INTRODUCTION BY FAITH INTO GRACE ( EPHESIANS CH 2 V 18 & CH 3 V 12 ). CHRIST DEATH ENDED ALL THE SCARIFIES OF THE O.T AND IT MADE ACCESS TO GOD THRU CHRIST ( HEBREWS CH 4 V 16 ). ALTHOUGH FAITH IS NECESSARY FOR SALVATION, IT IS GOD’S GRACE THAT HAD THE POWER TO SAVE YOU AND TO KEEP YOU SAVED ( PHILIPPIANS CH 1 V 6 & JUDE V 24 & GALATIANS CH 3 V 3 ). BELIEVERS WILL OFTEN FALL INTO SIN BUT THEIR SIN IS NOT MORE POWERFUL THAN GOD’S GRACE ( ROMANS CH 5 V 10 ). IF A DYING SAVIOR COULD BRING US TO GOD’S GRACE, SURELY A LIVING SAVIOR CAN KEEP US IN HIS GRACE ( ROMANS CH 5 V 20 ). I LIKE WHAT PAUL TOLD TIMOTHY IN ( 1 TIMOTHY CH 1 V 12 ), GOD GRACE WILL KEEP US SAVED UNTIL THE DAY OF THE RAPTURE. GOD SAID THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIS SON HAVE EVER LASTING LIFE ( ROMANS CH 8 V 31- 34 ), AND IF GOD SAID IT I BELIEVE IT. THE VERY PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF SALVATION IS TO FREE MEN FROM SIN, NOT TO FREE THEM TO DO IT ( ROMANS CH 6 V 18 ). A CHRISTIANS WHOM CONSISTENTLY SINS PROVES HE DOES NOT BELONG TO THE LORD ( 1 JOHN CH 2 V 19 & 1 JOHN CH 3 V 9 - 10 ). FOR A BELIEVER TO DOUBT HIS SECURITY IS TO BRING INTO QUESTION GOD’S INTEGRITY AND HIS POWER.

3.THE THIRD LINK IN THIS UNBREAKABLE CHAIN THAT ETERNALLY BINDS BELIEVERS TO CHRIST IS THEIR HOPE OF THE GLORY OF GOD. SINCE EVERY ASPECT OF IT IS SOLELY THE WORK OF GOD, SALVATION CANNOT POSSIBLY BE LOST. AND THE END OF THAT MARVELOUS DIVINE WORK IS THE ULTIMATE GLORIFICATION OF EVERY BELIEVER IN JESUS CHRIST ( ROMANS CH 8 V 29 - 30 ). THE CHRISTIAN HAS NO REASON TO FEAR THE FUTURE AND EVERY REASON TO REJOICE IN IT, BECAUSE HE HAS THE DIVINELY-SECURED HOPE THAT HIS ULTIMATE DESTINY IS TO SHARE IN THE VERY GLORY OF GOD. CHRIST GUARANTEES THE BELIEVERS HOPE BECAUSE HE HIMSELF IS OUR HOPE ( 1 TIMOTHY CH1 V 1 ). A BELIEVERS DOES NOT EARN HIS FUTURE GLORY IN HEAVEN BUT WILL RECEIVE IT FROM GOD’S GRACIOUS HAND, JUST AS HE RECEIVED REDEMPTION WHEN HE FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST ( 1 PETER CH 1 V 18 - 21 ).THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ALSO HIMSELF A GUARANTEE OF THE BELIEVERS SECURITY ( EPHESIANS CH 1 V 13 - 14 ). OUR GLORIFICATION BEGINS IN PART EVEN IN OUR PRESENT EARTHLY LIFE ( EPHESIANS CH 1 V 13 - 14 ). BECAUSE OUR HUMAN UNDERSTANDING IS SO IMPERFECT, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO COMPREHEND THE WONDER AND MAGNITUDE OF THE GLORY OF GOD. WE WILL SHARE GOD’S OWN GLORY BECAUSE WE ARE PREDESTINED TO BECOME CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON ( ROMANS CH 8 V 29 & ROMANS CH 9 V 23 ).

4.THE FOURTH LINK THAT ETERNALLY BINDS THE BELIEVER TO CHRIST ID THEIR POSSESSION OF THE DIVINE LOVE OF GOD, WHICH HAS BEEN POURED OUT WITHIN OUR HEARTS THRU THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO WAS GIVEN TO US.

WHEN A PERSON RECEIVES SALVATION THRU CHRIST, HE ENTERS A SPIRITUAL LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THAT LASTS THRU OUT ETERNITY.

IN CHRIST WE ARE GIVEN EVIDENCE OF PERMANENT SALVATION, EVIDENCE THAT GOD HIMSELF IMPLANTS WITHIN OUR DEEPEST BEING, IN THAT WE LOVE THE ONE WHO FIRST LOVED US ( 1 JOHN CH 4 V 7 - 10 ). IT IS ONLY BECAUSE OF THE INDWELLING SPIRIT THAT WE ARE ABLE TO TRULY LOVE HIM. OUR SPIRITUAL SECURITY IS NOT IN OUR ABILITY TO LIVE GODLY BUT IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO MAKE US GODLY ( ROMANS CH 8 v 14 ).

IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT MAKES OUR SALVATION REAL TO US ( ROMANS CH 8 V 16 - 17 ).WHEN WE LIVE IN DISOBEDIENCE, WE NOT ONLY WILL NOT FEEL LOVING TOWARD GOD BUT WILL NOT FEEL HIS LOVE FOR US ( EPHESIANS CH 4 V 30 ).THE HOLY SPIRIT STRENGHTENS THE INNER MAN AND ENABLES HIM TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH SURPASSES KNOWLEDGE. GOD IMMENSE LOVE IS SUPREMELY DEMONSTRATED BY CHRIST DYING FOR THE UNGODLY.

5.THE FIFTH LINK THAT ETERNALLY BINDS THEM TO GOD IS THEIR CERTAINTY OF DELIVERANCE FROM GOD’S JUDGMENT ( EPHESIANS CH 2 V 3 ).BECAUSE WE ARE NOW IDENTIFIED WITH CHRIST AND ARE ADOPTED AS GOD’S CHILDREN THRU HIM, WE ARE NO LONGER CHILDREN OF WRATH. THRU HIS ATONING WORK, JESUS DELIVERED US FROM THE WRATH TO COME ( 1 THESS CH 1 V 10 ).IF GOD HAD THE POWER AND THE WILL TO REDEEM US IN THE FIRST PLACE, HOW MUCH MORE DOES HE HAVE THE POWER AND THE WILL TO KEEP US REDEEMED. IT IS A GREATER WORK OF GOD TO BRING SINNERS TO GRACE THAN TO BRING SAINTS TO GLORY, BECAUSE SIN IS FURTHER FROM GRACE THAN GRACE IS FROM GLORY. IF THE DYING SAVIOR RECONCILED US TO GOD, SURELY THE LIVING SAVIOR CAN AND WILL KEEP US RECONCILED.

6.THE SIXTH LINK THAT ETERNALLY BINDS THE BELIEVER TO GOD IS THEIR JOY. THE ABUNDANT JOY THAT GOD GIVES HIS CHILDREN THRU CHRIST JESUS INCLUDES GRATEFUL JOY IN THEIR SALVATION AND SIMPLY IN WHO GOD IS. LISTEN TO DAVID OVER IN ( PSALMS CH 34 V 3 ), HE WAS REJOICING IN THE LORD, ALSO LOOK AT ( PSALMS CH 33 V 21 & PSALMS CH 43 V 4 ).

IN CLOSING, WHERE THESE SIX LINKS BIND THE BELIEVER TO THE LORD, THERE IS TRUE ETERNAL SALVATION AND EVERY REASON FOR FULL ASSURANCE OF IT. IF THE DEVIL CAN TALK YOU OUT OF YOUR SALVATION, THEN YOU NEVER HAD IT TO START WITH, THINK ABOUT THAT. GOD BLESS BRO TIM.

 

HERE IS SOME HELPFUL SCRIPTURE’S FOR YOU AND I TO READ WHEN CERTAIN PROBLEM’S COME UP IT OUR LIFE’S. GOD BLESS AND I HOPE YOU ARE BLESSED BY THESE SCRIPTURE’S.

WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU NEED CONFIDENCE.

1.( PHIL CH 4 V 13 ). I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

2.( HEBREWS CH 13 V 6 ).So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

3.( HEBREWS CH 10 V 35 - 36 ).Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

4.( PHIL CH 1 V 6 ).Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ:

5.( HABAKKUK CH 3 V 19 ).The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

6.( ROMANS CH 8 V 37 ).Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

7.( 1 JOHN CH 5 V 14 - 15 ).And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

8.( JOHN CH 14 V 12 ).Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

9.( ZECH CH 4 V 6 ).Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This [is] the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

10.( ISAIAH CH 43 V 2 ).When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

11.(PROVERBS CH 3 V 26 ).For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

12.( 2 COR CH 7 V 16 ).I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all [things].

13.( EPH CH 3 V 12 ).In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

14.( 1 JOHN CH 3 V 21 ).Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God.

15.( ISAIAH CH 40 V 31 ).But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.

WHAT TO READ WHEN TROUBLE’S HIT YOUR LIFE.

1.( NAHUM CH 1 V 7 ).The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

2.( PSALMS CH 138 V 7 ).Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

3.( ISAIAH CH 43 V 2 ).When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

4.( 2 COR CH 4 V 8 - 9 ).[We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

5.( JOHN 14 V 1 ).Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

6.( ROMANS CH 8 V 28 ).And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.

7.( PSALMS CH 31 V 7 ).I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

8.( PSALMS CH 121 V 1- 2 ).I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

9.( HEBREWS CH 4 V 15 - 16 ).For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

10.( 1 PETER CH 5 V 7 ).Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

11.( MATT CH 6 V 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.

12.( 2 COR CH 1 V 3- 4 ).Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

13.( PHIL CH 4 V 6- 7 ).Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

14.( ISAIAH CH 51 V 11 ).Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

WHAT TO READ IF YOU HAVE PHYSICAL SICKNESS.

1.( ISAIAH CH 53 V 5 ).But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

2.( 3 JOHN V 2 ).Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

3.( MATT CH 9 V 35 ).And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

4.( LUKE CH 6 V 19 ).And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed [them] all.

5.( HEBREWS CH 13 V 8 ).Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

6.( 1 PETER CH 2 V 24 ).Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

7.( PSALMS CH 103 V 3 ).Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

8.( JEREMIAH CH 17 V 14 ).Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.

9.( JEREMIAH CH 30 V 17A ).For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD;

10.( EXODUS CH 15 V 26 ).And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] the LORD that healeth thee.

11.( PROVERBS CH 4 V 20- 22 ).My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

12.( PSALMS CH 107 V 20 ).He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered [them] from their destructions.

13.( MATT CH 8 V 8 ).The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.

14.( JAMES CH 5 V 14 -15 ).Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

15.( MARK CH 16 V 17- 18 ).And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE.

1.( PSALMS CH 37 V 25 ).I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

2.( PSALMS CH 23 V 1 ).The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.

3.( DEUTERONOMY CH 28 V 2- 8 ).And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. 4 Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store. 6 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out. 7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

4.( 3 JOHN V 2 ).Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

5.( PSALMS CH 34 V 10 ).The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].

6.( DEUTERONOMY CH 28 V 11 - 13 ).And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them]:

7.( LUKE CH 6 V 38 ).Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

8.( 1 COR CH 16 V 2 ).Upon the first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as [God] hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

9.( MATT CH 10 V 8 ).Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

10.( MALACHI CH 3 V 10 -12 ).Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it]. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. 12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

11.( 2 COR CH 9 V 6- 8 ).But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 8 And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work:

12.( MATT CH 19 V 29 ).And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

13.( JOSHUA CH 1 V 8 ).This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

14.( ECCLESIASTES CH 2 V 26 ).For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

15.( PROVERBS CH 13 V 22 ).A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.

16.( MATT CH 6 V 31- 33 ).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.

17.( PHIL CH 4 V 19 ).But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU ARE HAVING MARITAL PROBLEMS.

1.( GENESIS CH 2 V 18 ) .And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

2.( GENESIS CH 2 V 24 ).Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

3.( EPH CH 4 V 31 - 32 ).Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

4.( EPH CH 5 V 21 - 33 ).Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.

5.( 1 PETER CH 3 V 1- 7 ).Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation [coupled] with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. 5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: 6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

6.( JOSHUA CH 24 V 15 ).And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

7.( LEVITICUS CH 19 V 18 ).Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.

8.( ROMANS CH 13 V 10 ).Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.

9.( PSALMS CH 101 V 2 ).I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

10.( 1 PETER CH 3 V 8 -11 ).Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous: 9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

11.( PROVERBS CH 3 V 5 - 6 ).Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

12.( PROVERBS CH 10 V 12 ).Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

13.( 1 PETER CH 1 V 22 ).Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:

WHAT TO READ IF YOU ARE DESERTED BY LOVED ONES.

1.(PSALM CH 9 V 10 ).And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

2.( PSALM CH 94 V 14 ). For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

3.( PSALM CH 27 V 10 ).When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

4.( MATTHEW CH 28 V 20 ).Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.

5.( ISAIAH CH 62 V 4 ).Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

6.( 2 COR CH 4 V 9 ).Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

7.( 1 PETER CH 5 V 7 ).Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

8.( PSALM CH 37 V 25 ).I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

9.( DEUTERONOMY CH 4 V 31 ).For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God; he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

10.( ISAIAH CH 41 V 17 ). [When] the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

11.( PSALM CH 91 V 14-15 ).Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

12.( ISAIAH CH 49 V 15-16 ).Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me.

13.( PSALM CH 43 V 5 ).Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

14.( DEUTERONOMY CH 31 V 6 ).Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

15.( 1 SAMUEL CH 12 V 22 ).For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND GODS WAYS.

1.( ISAIAH CH 55 V 8-9 ).For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

2.( JEREMIAH CH 33 V 3 ).3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

3.( ROMANS CH 8 V 31 ).What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?

4.( ROMANS CH 8 V 35-37 ).Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

5.( 1 COR CH 10 V 13 ).There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].

6.( PSALM CH 34 V 19 ).Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

7.( PSALM CH 55 V 22 ).Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

8.( ISAIAH CH 41 V 10 ).Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

9.( ROMANS CH 8 V 28 ).And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.

10.( HOSEA CH 6 V 3 ).Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.

11.( PSALM CH 18 V 30 ).[As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.

12.( HEBREWS CH 10 V 23 ).23 Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;)

13.( JEREMIAH CH 32 V 40 ).And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

14.( PSALM CH 138 V 8 ).The LORD will perfect [that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, [endureth] for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

15.( 1 PETER CH 4 V 12-13 ).Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU ARE WAITING ON GOD.

1.( PSALM CH 27 V 14 ).Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

2.( PSALM CH 62 V 5 ).My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from him.

3.( PSALM CH 33 V 20 ). Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he [is] our help and our shield.

4.( ISAIAH CH 40 V 31 ). But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.

5.( HABAKKUK CH 2 V 3 ).For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

6.( HEBREWS CH 10 V 23 ).Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;)

7.( PSALM CH 145 V 15-16 ).The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. 16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

8.( PSALM CH 130 V 5 ).I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

9.( HEBREWS CH 3 V 14 ).For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

10.( ISAIAH CH 25 V 9 ).And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
 
 
                                              THE BOOK OF REVELATION
                                     LOOKING AT THE GREAT TRIBULATION

 
A FEW COMMENT’S ON GOD’S WRATH. GOD HAS 3 TYPES OF WRATH–       (REDEMPTIVE ) ( DESTRUCTIVE ) ( ANNIHILATIVE ),
GOD WILL USE REDEMPTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WRATH ON EARTH BEFORE JESUS APPEARS AT THE SECOND COMING. THE SEVEN FIRST JUDGMENTS ( SEVEN TRUMPETS ) ARE REDEMPTIVE IN NATURE .GOD MIXES MERCY WITH HIS JUDGMENTS SO MANY PEOPLE WILL CHOOSE SALVATION AND BE REDEEMED, GOD WILL USE REDEMPTIVE JUDGMENTS TO OPEN THE MINDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE TO CONSIDER A GOSPEL THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING THEY HAVE EVER HEARD. HE WILL USE THE 144,000 JEWS ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT POWER TO PREACH THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL RECEIVE JESUS AS THEIR SAVIOR. AFTER 1260 DAYS GOD WILL TERMINATE HIS OFFER OF SALVATION AND HE WILL IMPLEMENT A SECOND TYPE OF WRATH.
THIS WRATH IS CALLED DESTRUCTIVE WRATH ( GEN CH 6 V 5- 7& REV CH 15 V 1 & 16 V 1 - 21 ).WHEN SINFUL BEHAVIOR GOES BEYOND THE POINT OF REDEMPTION, GOD STARTS OVER AS HE DID IN NOAH’S DAY WITH THE GREAT FLOOD. IT DEMONSTRATED THIS TYPE OF WRATH. GOD WILL USE THIS TYPE OF WRATH DURING THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES OR THE SEVEN BOWLS ( REV CH 15 V 1 ).
THE THIRD TYPE OF GOD’S WRATH IS ETERNAL ANNIHILATION.
GOD HAS NEVER USED THIS TYPE OF WRATH ON THE EARTH BEFORE. THIS WILL TAKE PLACE AFTER THE 1000 YRS MILLENNIUM AND AFTER THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT ( REV CH 20 V 11 - 15 ).
 
( THE SEVEN FIRST PLAGUES ARE CALLED ( SEVEN TRUMPETS ).
 
THEY SERVE THE PURPOSE OF WARNING OR AWAKENING THE PEOPLE OF EARTH TO THE GLORIOUS ARRIVAL OF JESUS. THE GREAT TRIBULATION WILL BEGIN AS SOON AS THE CHURCH IS RAPTURED OUT AND IT WILL BEGIN WITH A GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE THAT EFFECTIVELY DISRUPTS THE ACTIVITIES OF THE WHOLE WORLD.( REV CH 8 V 5 ). GOD HAS A FEW THINGS TO SAY TO THE HUMAN  RACE AND HE WILL GET THEIR ATTENTION WITH A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE.
 
( TRUMPET # 1 )- ( REV CH 8 V 7 )SHORTLY ( 30 DAYS ) AFTER THE FIRST GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE, SHOWER OF WHITE- HOT HAILSTONES WILL RAIN DOWN FROM THE SKY .METEORIC FIRESTORMS WILL IGNITE UNQUENCHABLE FIRES ALL OVER THE WORLD AND WINDSTORMS WILL DESTROY BILLIONS OF ACRES OF TREES, FOOD CROPS, AND VEGETATION WITHIN A FEW DAYS. MANY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL BE LEFT HOMELESS AND MANY MORE WILL SUFFER AND DIE DURING THIS RAIN OF TERROR ( REV CH 8 V 7 ). SKYSCRAPERS WILL TOPPLE, VITAL BRIDGES WILL VANISH, HIGHWAYS WILL BE BROKEN UP, POWER GRIDS WILL BE RIPPED APART, WATER LINES AND SEPTIC SYSTEMS WILL BE BROKEN, THE OCEANS WILL CHURN VIOLENTLY. THE RICHTER SCALE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CALCULATE THE QUAKE. THESE FIRES WILL BURN UP 1/3 OF THE TREES AND ALL THE GREEN GRASS.
 
( THE SECOND TRUMPET ) ( REV CH 8 V 8 & 9 ).THEN A LARGE ASTEROID, THE SIZE OF A MOUNTAIN WILL HIT THE SEA .THIS WOULD CAUSE A TIDAL WAVE THAT WOULD DESTROY EVER THING HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY IN EVERY DIRECTION. THIS ASTEROID WOULD BE SO HOT BY THE TIME IT HIT THE OCEAN THAT IT WOULD MAKE MOST OF THE OCEAN WATER ANOXIC
( oxygen deficient ) BY SIMPLE BOILING THE OXYGEN OUT OF A LARGE AREA OF THE SEA. THE TEMPERATURE WOULD RISE DRAMATICALLY AND HOT WATER WOULD KILL BILLIONS OF SEA CREATURES IN A VERY LARGE RADIUS AND THEREFOR TURNING THE WATER INTO BLOOD.
 
( THE THIRD TRUMPET ) ( REV CH 8 V 10-11 ).THEN ANOTHER GREAT ASTEROID OR COMET WILL IMPACT ONE OF THE CONTINENTS. THE CONSEQUENCES WOULD BE THE SHOCK WAVES WOULD SHEER WATER WELLS AND SEWER LINES WOULD BREAK FOR HUNDREDS OF MILES IN ALL DIRECTION. EARTHQUAKES AND TREMORS WOULD CONTINUE FOR MANY DAYS AS ENORMOUS TECTONIC FORCE BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH ADJUST TO THE IMPACT. EVERYTHING WITHIN 200 MILES OF GROUND ZERO WOULD BE VAPORIZED. IT WOULD RELEASE THE ENERGY OF 1000,S OF NUCLEAR BOMBS. THE FIRST CASUALTIES WOULD BE DRINKING WATER, THEN SEPTIC SYSTEM AND TOXIC WASTE BURIED IN LANDFILLS WOULD GET INTO THE UNDERGROUND RIVERS AND POISON THE DRINKING WATER OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. V 10 & 11 PREDICTS THAT MANY PEOPLE WILL DIE FROM DRINKING BITTER WATER THAT HAS BECOME UNSAFE. THIS STAR IS CALLED WORMWOOD READ ( JER CH 9 V 13 - 15 ).WORMWOOD MEANS POISONOUS AND THAT IS WAY IT IS CALLED WORMWOOD.
 
( FOURTH TRUMPET ) ( REV CH 8 V 12 - 13 ).IT RESULTS IN THE SUN, MOON, STARS GOING DARK. WE HAVE A GOOD IDEAL OF WHAT HAPPENS HERE AS IT DID IN 1980 WITH THE  MOUNT ST.HELENS ERUPTION WHEN AT MIDDAY IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS MIDNIGHT BECAUSE OF ALL THE MAGMA AND ASH AFTER THE EXPLOSIONS. THIS WAS JUST ONE ERUPTION BUT THE FIRST 3 TRUMPETS HAVE CAUSE HUNDREDS OF ERUPTION AND REMEMBER OF ALL THE MILLIONS OF ACRES THAT ARE ON FIRE.
IN 2002 THE EXPERTS CALCULATED THE WORLD’S STOCKPILE OF FOOD WOULD LAST ABOUT 45 DAYS, WITHOUT LIGHT THE WORLD WILL BE DOOMED. ANY RAIN THAT FALLS WILL BE SO ACIDIC THAT IT WOULD BE LETHAL TO ALL PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE, FAMINE WOULD TAKE PLACE, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD DECLARE MARTIAL LAW, THIS IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER FOLKS.( READ MATT CH 24 V 21 - 22 )
NOTICE THE QUANTITY OF ONE - THIRD IS USED 12 TIMES THRU THE SEVEN TRUMPETS.
1/3 OF EARTH WILL BE BURNED UP
1/3 OF THE TREES WILL BE BURNED UP
1/3 OF THE SEA WILL TURN INTO BLOOD
1/3 OF THE SEA CREATURES WILL DIE
1/3 OF THE SHIPS ON THE SEA WILL SINK
1/3 OF THE RIVER AND SPRINGS WILL BECOME CONTAMINATED
1/3 OF THE LIGHT FROM THE SUN WILL BE TAKEN AWAY
1/3 OF THE LIGHT FROM THE MOON WILL BE TAKEN AWAY
1/3 OF THE LIGHT FROM THE STARS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY
1/3 OF THE DAY WILL BE WITHOUT LIGHT
1/3 OF THE NIGHT WILL BE WITHOUT LIGHT
1/3 OF MANKIND WILL BE KILLED IN THE 6TH TRUMPET WAR.
TO UNDERSTAND THIS LOOK BACK AT ( DEUT 2 V 34 , CH 3 V 6 &
2 SAM CH 8 V 2 &EZK CH 5 V 12 &ZECH CH 13 V 8- 9 ).
 
 ( NOTE HERE BEFORE WE GO ON ) .WHILE THESE 4 TRUMPET JUDGMENTS ARE TAKING PLACE THEIR WILL BE A COALITION OF ALL RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF THE WORLD COMING TOGETHER AND THEY WILL BE CALLED ACCORDING TO REVELATION
 ( BABYLON ) ( REV CH 13 V 6 - 8 )THEY WILL URGE ITS RESPECTIVE LAW MAKERS INTO SPONSORING LAWS THAT WILL APPEASE GOD SO AS TO TRY TO GET GOD TO STOP THIS
 DESTRUCTION. THE 144,000 WILL SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE VIEWS AND DOCTRINES OF THE RELIGIOUS COALITION ( BABYLON ).THEIR MISSION IS THREE FOLD, 1ST THEY WILL EXPLAIN WHY GOD IS DOING WHAT HE IS DOING, 2ND, THEY WILL EXPLAIN HOW PEOPLE ARE TO WORSHIP GOD, 3RD , THEY WILL ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO STAND ON GOD’S SIDE AND REBEL AGAINST THE MAN- MADE LAWS THAT ARE CONTRARY TO THE LAWS OF GOD.
 
GOD USES THE TRUMPET JUDGMENT TO WARN THE WORLD THAT HE IS TERMINATING THIS AGE OF SIN. THE 144,000 WILL CALL ON EVERYONE TO WORSHIP GOD AND REJECT THE CLAIMS OF BABYLON. THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WILL COMPROMISE ON MINOR RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE. THE LEADERS WILL STRUGGLE TO FIND A GLOBAL SOLUTION TO APPEASE GOD, BUT WILL BE ABLE TO FIND ANY. EVENTUALLY THE DEVIL HIMSELF WILL APPEAR ON THE EARTH DURING THE FIFTH TRUMPET, MASQUERADING AS GOD , AND WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF ALL THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS.
 
( FIFTH TRUMPET ) ( REV CH 9 V 1- 12 ). AFTER A PERIOD OF ABOUT TWO AND HALF YEARS THE FIFTH TRUMPET JUDGMENT WILL OCCUR. THE FIRST 4 TRUMPETS ARE CURSE THAT ARE DIRECTED AT THE PHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH AND THE 3 REMAINING TRUMPETS ARE CURSES ( OR WOES ) THAT ARE DIRECTED TOWARD DEFIANT PEOPLE. ( REV CH 9 V 12 ). THE FIFTH TRUMPET MARKS THE APPEARING OF THE ANTI-CHRIST WHICH IS A FALLEN ANGEL AND HE WILL PHYSICALLY APPEAR BEFORE THE INHABITANTS OF EARTH. ( DANIEL CH 11 V 45 ) INDICATES HE WILL ESTABLISH A THRONE IN JERUSALEM. THE DEVIL WILL SAY MANY BLASPHEMOUS THINGS AND MAKE OUTRAGEOUS CLAIMS IN ORDER TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH. TO MAKE HIS DECEPTION BELIEVABLE HE WILL PERFORM GREAT SIGNS, SUCH AS HEALING THE SICK AND FEEDING THE HUNGRY. READ ( 1 THESS CH 2 V 9 ).MANY PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE HE IS GOD. HE COMES FROM THE BOTTOMLESS PIT  WHICH GOD ALLOW TO BE UNLOCKED, GOD ILLUSTRATED THE APPEARING OF THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS TO JOHN AS A GREAT SWARM OF LOCUSTS COMING UP OUT OF THE EARTH. FROM A DISTANCE SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION ANGELS WOULD LOOK LIKE A GREAT SWARM OF LOCUSTS, IT WAS SO GREAT IT DARKENED THE SUN. JOHN SAID THE LOCUSTS LOOKED LIKE RIDERS ON HORSES AND LEADING THE SWARM WAS THE ANGEL KING FROM THE ABYSS IN HEBREW WAS CALLED ABADDON AND IN GREEK , APOLLYON, BOTH NAMES MEAN THE SAME THING
( DESTROYER ). ALSO READ ( JOEL CH 2 V 1 - 11 ) WHERE IT IS DESCRIBE  GOD AND HIS ANGELS AS LOOKING LIKE LOCUSTS.
GOD PERMITS THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS TO APPEAR ON EARTH AFTER A MAJORITY OF THE WORLD HAS HEARD AND REJECTED THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WORSHIP GOD REQUIRES. READ ( 2 THESS 2 V 10 - 12 & ROMANS CH 8 V 7 - 8 ). WHEN THEY HAVE REJECTED GOD’S LAST OFFER FOR SALVATION HE SENDS THEM A POWERFUL DECEPTION AND EMPOWER THE DEVIL TO RULE OVER THE PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE HIS OFFER OF SALVATION. IN A FINALE EFFORT TO BRING REBELLIOUS HUMAN TO THEIR SENSES , GOD WILL EMPOWER THE 144,000 TO PROCLAIM A SPECIAL MESSAGE THRU OUT THE EARTH. THIS MESSAGE IS SO INFLAMMATORY THAT ALL OF THE 144,000 WILL BECOME MARTYRS FOR PREACHING IT. THIS MESSAGE IS ( REV CH 14 V 9- 10 ).  THE ISSUE OF WORSHIP WILL BE COMPLETELY RESOLVED AFTER THE DEVIL ARRIVES. THE DEVIL WILL DEMAND WORSHIP AND WILL CLEARLY EXPLAIN WHAT MEN AND WOMEN MUST DO. GOD WILL DO THE SAME THRU HIS 144,000, THE SAINTS WILL SUBMIT TO GOD’S LAW AND THE WICKED WILL SUBMIT TO THE LAW OF THE DEVIL.
 
AFTER SATAN AND HIS EVIL ANGELS APPEAR THEY WILL HAVE 5 MONTHS TO TORMENT THE WICKED.  BE THEY CANNOT HURT THE SAINTS WITH THE STING OF A SCORPION’S TAIL. HE WILL NOT HURT THE ONES WHO BELIEVE HE IS GOD BUT THOSE WHO HAVE NOT MADE A DECISION TO JOIN WITH HIS FORCES OR WITH GOD’S SAINTS. GOD’S ALLOWS THIS BECAUSE HIS OFFER FOR SALVATION IS STILL OPEN. REVELATION SAYS THE WICKED WILL BE AWESTRUCK WHEN THEY ACTUALLY SEE THE DEVIL ( REV CH 17 V 8 ). SATAN WILL CONVINCE THE WORLD HE IS GOD , READ ( 2 THESS CH 2 V 3, 4,9, 10 ). SATAN WILL CALL DOWN FIRE FROM HEAVEN AND WILL SECURE HIS DECEPTION, BECAUSE THE 144,000 CANNOT DO THIS. READ ( REV CH 113 V 13 - 14 ). JOHN DESCRIBES THE APPEARING OF THE DEVIL AS A LAMB-LIKE BEAST ( REV CH 13 V 11 ), HE TRYS AND MASQUERAD HIMSELF AS JESUS. AFTER HE GAINS CONTROL OF THE EARTHS NATION, HE WILL COMMAND THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD TO WORSHIP THE IMAGE OR DIE. ( REV CH 13 V 15 ).
 
WHAT IS THE IMAGE OF ( REV CH 13 V 1- 8 ). IT REPRESENTS BABYLON. THE SEVEN HEADS REPRESENTS THE SEVEN RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE TEN HORNS REPRESENT TEN KINGS WHO WILL P