A man must admit that he may be deceived before preparing against its attempts and advances. Clearly we reside in the era of revelation and those same three letters rearranged give context and clarity to the importance of our “EAR” in that preparation. Knowing the Holy Spirit is the EARnest of our Salvation lends listening as essential to defense against the wiley darts of God’s enemy assaults. Faith comes by hEARing and hEARing by the Word of the Lord. Faith being our shield against those enemy darts solidifies the importance of our listening to the Holy Spirit’s guidance as primary defense expectation.

First, we must heed Biblical command against “Quenching” The Holy Spirit’s voice in our Ear. Basic and simple definition of the quench gives its own guidance. To quench one’s thirst through the Everlasting Water of Life, the Gospel or to quench the flames of a fire. This asserts that quenching is refreshing of our Faith in slaking thirst while sealing us with the baptismal protection of the Fire Rebirth. Therefore quenching the Holy Spirit is any practice that “extinguishes” the voice of God’s Holy Word and Spirit in our guidance to and through truth. Therefore to defend and stop the enemy we must remain open to and attentive to God. Seeking first to understand and then be understood.

God is neither complacent nor asleep. Jesus Lives. His Spirit, guides, protects, leads, councils, educates, convicts and comforts believers. An indication that ACTS are the essential component of a Christians prosperity. To act a person must receive good direction and then ACT upon that direction to an expected end. Thus, Christianity is a process never fully completed while remaining one’s backside. This understanding demands that we receive by listening direction to complete those benchmarks of God’s Will for our purpose. It rings essential to me that the first four books of the New Testament are that direction, thus it is rational to expect the next book to be that of “ACTS” which it is.

Maturity in any system or organization occurs following practice of those essential elements of successful deployment of tactics based on strategic planning. Thus the New Testament Letters of Paul mature us as a body of believers to put into practice and submit to rational analysis, accountability, correct, agreement, fellowship and prayerful combined worship to become and maintain a “Healthy Body” of Christians. However, maturity is not the end, for we are called to apply this collective maturity in seeding, watering, encouraging, mending, sharpening and preparing the individuals to become impervious to the wiles of false doctrine or deceptive assaults upon the Temple of God’s Holy Spirit, the Christian Body. We then are turned to the word of specific teachers and Apostles to prepare us for the time of God’s Wrath, Israel’s covenant and grace all eager for the Joy of Jesus’ Glorious Appearing.

In an appreciation of History’s importance in seeing the weak spots and moments for strength within the body we begin to see how these thousands of years have been effective deployed for our ambition to be Ready as Jesus taught. To that end we must also look to the pages of these data to demonstrate the unfortunately, daunting deceptive tactics of an enemy determined to devour us whole by dividing and conquering each of us individually. As we face the continuing Roman Empire in these last days as vehicle of Satan’s agents against the Church. It is imperative and essential that we fully comprehend the cleverness of our enemies in asking God’s Rebuke upon them. Just as our primary recognition in the potential danger of deception we must now in maturity reflect upon when those strategies and tactics were used in development in our current era of danger.

Today, I will go through some of those periods that were especially effective in setting the Body of Christ up for future assault. I am not asserting opinion but rather reviewing dates, data and revealing moves of obvious planning and strategy that we as body may take it to prayer, meditation and humble request before God’s Throne for further transformation and quickening of our defenses. We are blessed and armored in these moments of our testing and frustration. The opportunity is the catalyst to our victory in overcoming this world as Jesus did before our arrival. Remember, this enemy has time but also knows that time is limited by God’s Plan for return, rule and reign for eternity. Knowing that mortal limitation we may perhaps delight that though we must hold out for as long as it takes that the Almighty God we; Love, Worship and serve knows exactly how long we are capable of enduring.

A lasting embrace of Truth for in its review all is corrected immediately. What commitment my heart craves yet my mind twists in its thinking, filthy fingers will relieve pressures, open coffers and grease the skids of my escape from reason, wisdom and repercussion?

What is hope if based upon the vain attempts of my own psyche to write plausible and comforting end to my own sordid tale of transgression and fame pursuit? What framework this folly? What certainly in lies told and revised to create a version of wiggle room history?

Before God none of this is possible for in His Presence there are no lies, no attempts to revise and extend my remarks until I conjure sufficient argument, no will to serve my evil self in the bright white healing stripping from me all desire, dare and disclaim bathed in Truth.

Yearning to be stripped clean, knowing fully that it must be done in surrender and voluntary humility before the Grace of God’s remaking of my life, soul and eternity. Hating the garments of my counsel before man, in laughing breach of my fealty and love for God.

Replace in me Lord the quest for gain of all the world offers, infuses and taints. Ingestion, digestion and incorporation be stopped and frustrated until the dawn of Your new age comes. Let none of me remain reserved for that evil day when mask again demands the dark.

May I admit and find forgiveness only found in repentance and emptying the cistern of my own omission and co-mission. Let all that is hidden as gas within the tires of my campaigns be emptied. Leaving me cleansed, freed prepared to do nothing other than speak no more lies.

It is not your fault. It had to be this way, no other path accessible to the summit. You must go whether by choice or agreed wisdom, His Will calls for shared understanding.

Making progress requires the difficult pain of growth. Things must be removed and replaced to transform all living things, no new skin without molting no wings without chrysalis.

Even the fallen angels made the choice to remove their habitation, the Divine recognition of inclusion in the Lord. We must put off the incorruptible to be born of everlasting.

What is my love but the act in progress of a temporary man being conformed to heavenly image? Please hear my one request and that is forgiveness for not being the man God demands.

How leveraged are my heart and ability to discern wisdom from foolishness? What investments require I be selective in the teachings and demands of God?

These are not the days to follow men. Perhaps they never were? In all our years of reviewable history has any but God stood this test in transfiguration?

If we can through process become like Him, then He can easily become one of us. My process takes a lifetime, therefore He showed me the way by living His and ascending.

It is not as hard as we appear intended on making it. I do not need to argue with truth, or wisdom or the benefit and loss of living outside of the parameters of God’s Image.

It is easy to see righteousness. What was Eve doing speaking with Satan? What was her objective of standing in secrecy from her man? Where was Adam anyway?

If you go looking for sin fulfillment don’t blame God or man for that quest in departure. And if you cannot teach and stand in good courage defending God’s command, do not blame God or Woman when you have so done.

Oh, the miles we go to free ourselves from accountability for actions taken on our own. For when I acted whether deceived, foolish or brash there may have been accomplice but the reasons and actions were my own.

What then is the end of this beginning? If act in progress which direction and guide do I choose? Is it God or man that is the wrestling match within the head of each man.

I pray God wins in your house and mine. In Jesus’ name.

They desperately want to outsmart God. Mocking Him, not comprehending they are challenging the God who made them. Blindly following some whim to overcome the only being who loves them enough to be long suffering that they would take seriously His command against Sin.

Though I feel for them, God is more than capable of dealing with all within His creation. My job is to be an example of that which God is offering every human, the opportunity to be forgiven and have relationship with the Sovereign Creator of the universe and through this gift spend eternity in His presence.

Saddening that they cannot find value in this gift. Maddening that they would consider comedic chastisement of those that have found relationship with God as somehow a win. This is the contortion of man’s mind locating and placing investment as value or even well thought idea that victory may be found in wrestling with God.

How many centuries have they sought to prove this tactic? As millennia pass every person that challenges God loses, yet oddly we fail to reckon history. It is laughable the repetitive calamity that is man. Worse then whack a mole we seem determined to spend eternity separated from our making, simply to prove ourselves worthy of a rye laugh at the expense of our Father.

This is when we must admit that we are no longer of the same family, that their Father by choice, practice and proclamation is the enemy of God. They have no reverent Fear of God. It will always be their undoing and worse yet they feel compelled to take their madness out on those who enjoy obedience to somehow sweeten their insanity. I invite them to prayer and the fact that they avoid or decline compels us to see the awful truth in their predicament.

Father God, I rejoice in the fulfillment of Your perfect Will and long for Your presence, saying farewell to the many and welcome to the few. Our human taffy is stretching to understand and cooperate with Your Love for all as they selectively choose other broad paths of travel for themselves. Though this sorrows our heart, we acknowledge and make way for their free will in so doing.

Who are the guardians against deception if not each flock member? A non paid or tracked membership as part of a heavenly habitation, appendages, organs, circulation, lymph and nervous system connection to the Head of This Body seated at Your Right Hand. What shall we know that was heretofore beyond Spiritual or Godly recognition? Why are we given such blessed opportunity?

Gone, the drive to be part of those traveling broad construct, ideal or boulevard as we seek the hard path with a light yoke. Our burden is the weight of the world and its hand upon each of our spirits. May I understand that in forgiving its trespass I am relieving myself of the same in Your Presence. Free our minds of narrow philosophy that we may entertain and investigate infinity.

These are not the days for the fearful or ashamed but those who actively pursue departure from the men they once had been instead focused on becoming that which was beyond previous possibility and now resides within. Ignite the fire of baptism for those simply traveling in context of suggestion, imaginary promise or expectation. Make of us something living, alive in resurrection with You.

What days confront us? Are they to be the well paved, comforting descending stairs to Hades or the glorious ardor of winding paths of trouble and travail ascending to the heaven’s? What have You struck on the anvil of Your wisdom, what shape is forming from the mastery of Your craft? Are we to suddenly be shaken in remaking or amazed at Your sanctifying recreation?

Saints, I must be frank, honest and avoid any self justified tendency to conceal the potentially caustic parts of this day. The judgment always begins with me, kneeling before God’s Throne, In Humility and Supplication(surrender). If I am compartmentalizing aspects of my own propensity to sin, mess up or harbor unforgiveness, how then can I assert any evidence that I am willing, able and trustworthy to provide Pastoral Council to those seeking wisdom?

To that end; Though the temporary man born of the water of material birth died on the Cross with Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that day in Calvary of Golgotha, we have been born again of God’s Holy Spirit that we may be convicted of those aspects of our mortal penchant. This life is the proving ground of our eternal readiness and thus the experiences we share and confront allow us to choose to either be set aside for God or remain in our own lusts for worldly gain.

When I have confronted that man in me that continues to sin out of habit seeking death, damnation and hell, I then emerge into transformed thinking consistent with eternal understanding and spiritual sight only found in God’s indwelling Spirit of the Baptism by Fire for which the Apostles obediently waited in Jerusalem nearing the day of Pentecost. What they saw was the Power of Rebirth in Christ Jesus a Power that men who do not know HIM will seek to purchase, borrow or steal from believers to empower themselves in wickedness.

We of the Church cannot and must not remain adolescents pulled by the whispers or potency of false doctrine leading us back into sinful man. We must grow into faith, not needing evidence, that seeks to stand upon God’s Promises for which we received the earnest of our Salvation the Seal of God’s Holy Spirit to protect, guide and empower to boldness in speaking the Gospel to a world that desperately needs listen. We must also recognize and acknowledge that Mammon would have us view this power as ours when it is clearly understood as the Power of God residing within our HOLY HABITATION as His Temple.

Then the Body Graduates to a corporate pursuit of serving God through Christ in the Power of the Holy Spirit’s guidance, protection and promise. As a Body, as a nation or community of men we must eschew evil, even when it represents some acceptable form of worldly gain to pursue and achieve the Glory for which God made us and then remade us in heavenly rebirth. We are being gathered together unto Him that in the end we would be the first fruits of that Glory to God Almighty only found through the sacrifice and sovereign demonstration of Christ Jesus for all men.

We who once viewed ourselves as islands among men, using them or viewing them as stepping stools to our own dreams of glory. Must now view them through the Lens of God’s Love for which HE DIED to save All. Not just the people I like, forgive or may find some realized investment prosper my planning, but ALL MEN especially those who hate me or for whom I may exhibit ungodly judgment/contempt. Like it or not, admit it or not we are all on this journey together and the moment we realize that and commit to achieving Godly objectives then the old man truly begins to fade.

For example; There is now clear evidence that we as a body of Christ continue to participate and condone UN-Godly acts, that are clearly forbidden in God’s Word just to live in tolerant harmony with man. May I remind that friendship with the World is enmity with God. You do understand that enmity means; war with God, hate for God, contempt of His Word and His Will. This being your choice and pursuit how may this be reckoned with conforming to the Image of Christ Jesus which is HIS Godly Will for mankind after Rebirth in Spirit. The Temple must reflect and absolutely conform to God’s indwelling Spirit. We have been graced by the TORN Veil of Christ Jesus that allows us to live in the presence of God’s Essence without being destroyed for sin as we are COVERED, CLEANSED, IMPUTED HIS Righteousness to remove our own.

We as a Church/Body all those who claim His name must stand without camouflage consistent with the Image of Christ Revealed in our collective Walk for God. Many tell me that their church is the shining example of that understanding, fully knowing or perhaps in denial of the horrific violations that the Holy Spirit out to each of us weekly. It has been revealed that the Largest Congregation of Christians in the World is in fact historically verified as the origin of the most heinous and wicked actions known to humanity. The death of Saints for mammon, the death of men for profit, the acquisition of lands for immoral leaders, the destruction of women and children for lustful fulfillment and now the purposeful insurgency of the children of disobedience to drown out Christian believers around the world.

This is only possible when those so calling themselves by God’s name are falsely doing. Let us face the truth of God’s Word, Matthew 7 shows us that there will be at the end people who believing themselves righteous will be denied by Christ. You know its true yet most churches especially in America tell themselves non biblical lies about “once saved always saved”. How can both these conditions co exist? They cannot either one is true and the other false or two realities must exist, One of Gospel and one of VAIN IMAGINATION warning of Roman’s 1. Whatever you believe there will be people who view themselves as Christian and yet are denied entry to God’s Presence for their “doings of iniquity” for which Christ will deny them. Reckon that.

Now let us look to our communities and nation as members fully understanding that if we, the followers of Christ do not demonstrate in our Book of Acts, God’s Image upon us then how do we expect they will ever see it, chase it and become like Christ Jesus if we are the Holy Habitation of the Spirit calling them to Grace? If not but for a time such as this, what did that mean in Esther’s Time and why was she warned by her Uncle to step forward in God’s Purpose or someone else would be empowered to achieve it in her disobedience? We were made to fulfill His Will. If we choose to chase our own will then the two will never match unless God as with Jonah forces us into that Holy Action. Are you like me often baiting God to force you? Not a realistic strategy for someone Born of Holy Spirit? Is that even possible? YES, why else would Christ warn us that HE COULD blot out our names from the Book of Life. He would not mention the possibility if it were not “possible”.

We as a Nation have as with Israel of Old Walked away from God and fulfilling His Will for each of us and as a nation called by His Name. You don’t like it, you don’t believe that this speaks to each of us, but let me tell you that He means ME. That’s right, He spoke to me in 2004 with the title, doer of iniquity, when I was serving four services a weekend at the richest, most prestigious, night clubish Church in Mammonville. It broke me praise God. I realized that my faith which I viewed through my self-justification lens of Piety was fake, that I didn’t know Him Worse Yet He didn’t know me. That I was indeed one of those people believing themselves pent for Heaven’s delight only to be truly the most tragic of men, believing themselves righteous of their own regard. A Horrifying Moment of choice.

Our nation or the elected leaders; steal money, created terrorist groups to pressure nations into giving them land, power and more money. Those terrorist nations are supported, trained and maintained by the tax dollars of the chattel we have always been and yet we applaud and continue to employ them in their wickedness before God. How long before their sins are our sins by complicity and cooperation in that wickedness. We were once Great as a nation having been made Great by the Goodness of God’s Image pursued by a nation daring to be different that this world. WE cannot become GREAT AGAIN without dedicating ourselves in pursuit of God’s Goodness Once again by writing His HOLY WORD UPON OUR HEARTS and following His indwelling Spirit through the skinny path of Conviction and Transformation to Heavenly Men and Women.

Finger painting on the sky, mural imagination. Light shades, water hues and stains of magenta or walnut. Building, dreaming, dwelling a place that has yet to manifest. Crazy as it feels mooring taught I reach beyond horizons.

Complex flavors of raisin and basted butter. Caramel and toffee sparkling stretched then pulled apart. Wishes thought out for seasons upon end only to change with a rapid pounding heart. What sits upon the swings beside you?

As perfect as apple’s crisp. Tart lemon sour. Trees and brooks and four winged bugs turning to race the curved edges of space. Scraping Skies with feathers born of mass, pressure and loft. Never near the sun so bright making the moon jealous.

Fires of dawn and molten cloud. Spectrum peeled asunder, eyes once captive freed. To learn the touch of whipped cremes, burnished brass and rawhide scent. Never meant to paint a picture yet the world within my head alive.

Beyond is not a place but a memory. Remembering from whence we came and where we’ve yet to go. I blow bubbles, shapes and emotion fury with blues and white of snow’s envy. Crystal clear and deep honed silver sharpened to slice worlds.

Words have no failure only patience in defining, face and pleasure. Nor Emotions sweet recalled as trophy for each challenge. In modicum of fancy, palm print with lines of love and life, stuck to the summer greens and amber miles before me.

Do not flippantly ponder the questions of this mind. For to so do you must question the justifications of that mind, the judgments the self-accountability that it sponsors in quest for absolution. Man wants so desperately to be forgiven that he forgives himself before making repentance, payment or some measure of apology for the wrongs caused God and man.

By God we are told to work out our salvation in fear and trembling. Fear of Whom? Trembling over what, “Self absolution”? These are not trivial things that Paul himself made us venture through the Holy Spirit. We are left with WHY, a man who would believe in once saved always save would consider himself still committing sins in obvious frustration from it.

We change our faith, veering from the WRITTEN, untranscribed Word that God has given through Spirit, to our own version, that we may provide our own accounting for holiness. None of us reach perfection by and of ourselves why then do we go to all ends to justify things that are not so justified in Christ Jesus? I mean after all He is the ONLY WAY, Right?

Picking up my cross daily means I must look at the actions of “this day” that the Lord has given, not reside upon my good and holy works of yesterday, especially in so doing I see the same or similar sins for which Jesus was put on the Cross that I am supposed to be carrying. I am no longer condemned but still convicted. To escape, why else would we quench the Holy Spirit? This thing makes no sense if yesterday was the most important.

Certainly I may find forgiveness in Repentance and turn from my sin because that is what Jesus bought me, a cleansing for acknowledgement of His Power to Forgive, cleanse, repair and transform and a daily reckoning in RELATIONSHIP through Holy Spirit via the Twain Man of Christ in the Throne Room of God the Father with His Son seated on His Right Hand.

With all snakes and vipers we carefully rewrite the script to include terms that are not in the Gospel with false support and quotes by Jesus removed that even mention “Blotting our names from the Book of Life”. Educated men and women contort themselves and the minds of would be believers to narrowly reflect upon Church Doctrine that keeps us tithing, obedient to church Mission and vision while neglecting that Christ made this about TODAY, Everyday.

If I hurt someone Today, then I need to seek forgiveness today or carry with me the burden of that trespass. Why else would we be told to leave our gift at the alter and go makes things right with our Brother before giving unto God? Come on folks they want this to be rocket science because in that complexity of rhetoric we find self-absolution in repeating to ourselves that there is no more accounting or responsibility for me in my sins of this life.

We struggle so much with the world as they hear us say one Gospel message and then they look to the living evidence to the opposite in my life. Which will they follow? Which do kids follow when their parents hypocritically smoke when telling them not to? What did Christ say about Hypocrisy if anything? Jesus made us focus on hypocrisy as one of those things HE HATES. Why then would we ponder the self absolution of something that HE HATES?

The Joy of my life through the LORD JESUS CHRIST is not that my old sins are simply washed clean, set free from sin and death, but that I in being reborn, have the miraculous opportunity to become like Him. Didn’t He live a sinless Life? Is that our aspiration? Certainly, yet we run from the idea of remaining holy and pure before the throne of God or a Pastor’s Responsibility for delivering each of us there blameless, Holy, Righteous and True.

Yes, I have been redeemed through Faith. Not in my own goodness but my affinity to Christ in God, redeemed to HIS THRONE ROOM, His GRACE, His ring and robe, Home to my Fathers living, joyously in His Kindness and Mercy. I have not been set free to go and redo my network of lasciviousness, my quest for mammon, My lies, My slights, My ugliness and hate.

However comma there are parsecs between being set free and believing that I cannot lose that God Given Gift if I carelessly utilize or view it, especially since He says in His epistle to the Churches that it can happen. Being removed from the Book of Life is the Trembling that shakes my Body daily when I look upon my Sin. Fear of God the One being capable of so doing is the Fear that sponsors my daily work. Why else would He say these things. And why else would we desperately try to rewrite them to conform to our lack of Faith and Obedience?

Pinnacle reached, letting my eyes collect the wilted slope of boulders and trees above the fray. Bluebells and goldenrod reaching for the last few licks of sunlight. What gasp brings fear as night approaches, one where the work is finished. What mourn or tears are found in waking without cross to bare or road to march?

To eyes of fire I kneel in wait. Clarity, purpose now. The holy right of dream and dance to lift up hearts to heaven. Perfunctory pleasures given ripe to sow the seeds of fruits beyond description. Into days without counting our thoughts are conformed to motivators yet whispered. A day without a consuming night.

No urgency, no quizzical wrinkles on forehead breached. Bathed in light. Brought up on the gold of ages old, foretold by children admonished for their foolish tales of heroes and bygone worlds. This is not dream, but the concrete of mind melded in the purposes and powers of laws beyond my own reckoning.

We flourish in the falling sands of time. Turning heads meet the day that rose to save all from the shadows of a slanderous mouth and cankered heart. Scooping handfuls of the stars to carry close to breast knowing fully the cards are played. Winning what? A thought, a vision captured in the imagination of dreaming child?

This is not strategic grip upon the chaotic gravel underfoot. Oh waves of intention and mastery be forgotten by the simple drip of water upon the bricks of converging idea. What governs the quest to be found verdant even when their is no air, light or hope of rising from ashes or sealed beneath the streets of man?

Names, written to be read in smile at days to come. Tears rendered into the precipice of no return dried before they find ground. What glory comes from bad decisions pondered or righteous deed left a thought? What ground planted, war won or duty pleasured? We who will see the stars fall, awaiting Judgement.

Romans and the fallen are legion. Is this a hint or are we to exclude anything that narrative dictates we must ignore anything synonymous? What day do we esteem above another?

Is hope the product of a doom centered psychology? Those who pursue apocalypse share no hope in the return of Christ the King. They instead pray for mercy in the coming Wrath against all wickedness.

This is not a time where Hate becomes the most popular option for Christians. Such a time as this means that each of us determines to walk forward in the creation, gifts and purposes of God to see His Will completed?

That is instructed by the first premise, LOVE. Love does not mean that a prophet, priest or elder is found weak in misunderstood meakness. Don’t go into the desert looking for reeds that bend and weep on command.

However, the beginning of wisdom begins with fear of the Lord God. The victory begins when we realize that Christ won on Calvary’s Cross and nothing the enemies of God will do shall prosper.

That also means we cannot win a war that has already been won by God Himself. As well, we never should enter into a heavenly battle with arch angels using carnal intention or weaponry. That is not what God directs and definitely outside the treasure of discernment.

I am in this to shout, promote and show faith in the Promises of God’s Gospel Truth, the only truth that men so ignobly repeat with gusto, “Sets you free”, is the singularity of Christ Jesus being Lord, the only way to the Father and to a redemption in salvation.

My patience is wearing thin even while residing in the Holy Spirit. I cannot imagine that God is going to withhold HIS patience much longer as even I, this simple servant am totally disgusted at the tolerance, rituals and acceptable actions of man.

However, my place is not in the back of the line but standing out front sounding the trumpet that the enemy is visible approaching from yonder horizon. Now is the time to make ready, now is the time to recognize the call to “such a time as this”, now is the time for testing your lamp’s light.

I seek to be here at the end of the time, times and half a time, behind Christ as He pleads for His People Israel. I mourn for humanity that they will collectively come to Jehoshaphat Valley to do battle with the King.

My tears are for those who know and yet will not acknowledge Him as God. What a gift, greater than any imagination but His. To squander this moment or that opportunity are both regrets that will linger until He either wipes them clean or eternity arrives.

Let us pray to be on this side of Heaven and not the other. In Jesus’ name.