Allegiance, fidelity, loyalty and fealty are similar in that they adhere to a certain dedication to an individual, group or faith and that they are voluntary. Love is not capable as a forced discipline, except through extreme means to deception, pressure or conditioning, which makes this impossible because this was never love.

Some, most in fact have chosen not to remain faithful to this ministry. For whatever reason, most likely found in my idiosyncratic life style, most choose to move on, keeping tabs or avenue to scan, ingest and utilize this Pastor as resource without lineage. That is okay, acknowledging the Holy Spirit as the only Power in my life demands this make sense.

Both of us consider the level of investment or distance adequate or commensurate with personal need, however I know that given some understanding of real love in Christ Jesus this level of participation with promise, cost or accountability is a misunderstanding of the Body of Christ as we find our forte/force in the combined study, fellowship and love through the abundance of knowledge in Christ Jesus.

So few stay in touch, for whatever reasons and again though I acknowledge the plethora of my inadequacies as potential cause, it is not appreciated but understood. Some have received a request for distance from this Pastor, when the Holy Spirit indicated existence of alternative agenda in approaching this Christ centered mission. Infrequently, the Lord tells me that I am not the appropriate vessel needed to bring this person to the next level in their walk with Jesus and am to step away relinquishing any expectations, council or authority as the person must follow a different path to reach God’s Will.

I am not the end all and be all of humanity. I have a specific anointing, talent and gifts given by the Holy Spirit to spread the seeds of His Gospel not to determine the worthy ground for its planting. The outcomes are God’s not mine and in fact experience demonstrates that problems occur, of my doing when I exchange my own expectations, wishes and wants for the direction/conviction given in the Spirit.

All of this being said. Don’t back bite this Pastor. If you don’t want to be loyal, you don’t love me as Christ told you to or have an alternative outcome in projection, then feel free to walk away without trespassing against God or me. I don’t deserve your contempt or disregard. Neither will I involve myself in a worldly display in explanation of why it is necessary to preform character assassination against someone with whom we each choose voluntary loyalty.

Many of the things the Holy Spirit gave me to say to you turned out to be correct and though I would have preferred you listen at the time, I also exceed that only God’s timing matters. My expectations are driven by my own pride and flesh and thus are obstacles to my obedience to the Will of God. I prefer to jettison them before they create division in relationships that are priceless before God and should be justly administered.

If you have alternative cause for knowing this Pastor or this ministry please refrain. It will be revealed, especially when the origins are in covetousness, pride, disdain or envy of the relationship each of us have with God through Christ in the filling of His Holy Spirit. I see no value in argument. There are many out there who will do this until the cow’s return. I am not meant for that purpose.

You do you, you find your council in the Lord, His Perfect Word and His Guiding Spirit if you find any cause for inconsistency in my walk. If the loyalty and love between is established I assure you that a short discussion with me will produce repentance and prayerful change on both our parts. I am called to preach, council, rebuke and train in and out of season giving no regard to itchy ears. Please respect God’s Direction with regard to this ministry.

If for any reason you are dissatisfied with this Pastor and have inquired in love to find consistent understanding and regard for slights, offenses or mistakes then please do not continue to seek from me something you may better find elsewhere. As I have said I am not the best vessel for you if you do not view me as such. Your perspective and contempt will drive a wedge between us and I not allowing that will step back to give you the power, freedom and peace God would want me to offer.

His objectives for your life are my objectives for your life. Nothing excluded or added. One final thing loving people does not allow for using their gifts without relationship for that is lukewarm Christianity. As we are in the era where those aspects of false faith will cost the body and the individual, please express your contempt in powerful action, the action of seeking elsewhere what you could not find here. Don’t use me. I certainly would not do the same to you. In Jesus’ name.

Looking, this life never gives up on the hunt. We weary and posture instead of swinging we bunt hoping upon hope to find our footing on first. Fast, scampering weasels, our minds painted easels, waiting exasperating for a listening ear and new clues. Hunt and peck the news with sharpened claws and new shoes, paying the daily dues and nightly reviews. Come morning’s silent call to hush in mad sweaty rush we plant, pant and recant yesterday’s dreams with new purple schemes praying this time is the season.

Finding a lot, begged, borrowed and bought none of it for naught. For as we are taught to overcome as we should the evil by good, with steal, flesh and wood. In spirit we plan not for causes of man but dreams provided by God though awesome or odd we prance and we prod toward and ending known not. Caught in the middle of a rhyme and a riddle, from end to the middle we back trace our steps experts and adepts left with no understanding yet somehow urges demanding. To bulwark we schlep with each cautious step testing each slip til we’re standing.

Seeking and you’ll find rings true in each mind, knock fully knowing He’ll answer. No cancer finds home in a joyous heart that follows the chart doing their part then leaving the rest unto fate, then wait for the powers beyond luck for a dime and buck to pull us from the mire that threatens to suck the life from our gills and burdened with bills we are suddenly released from the muck. Wings don’t ask for flight they demand it, nothing held back and nothing saved to be robbed by vixen or bandit. Nose to the wind forgot where we’ve sinned mouth watering for the supper at close.

No time to waste the haste is the paste that binds the sense that the clock always runs out. Twisting about with acclaim and bright shout leveraged clout and reduction of doubt we wander about to check every room, every cupboard, closet and broom for whispers and scrap memories, snips, tugs and the snaps. We struggle to recall the meaning of it all as if somehow we once knew and forgot what to do. So me, him and you scurry about in the rain, sun and night a desperate plight, to whine, win or fight. When in a moment of grand peace it we suddenly cease, the rush and the race and the lines on our face simply blend into space as we discover we’re home.

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?