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Seek To Find Truth

Hebrews 13:8-9a

[8] Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. [9] Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings …

I read a comment on a video where someone said that their Christian pastor explained one Sunday that everyone’s trying to reach God, but we all have different ways of getting to Him. I always think it’s weird when someone says their “Christian pastor said x, y, and z” as an excuse for something. Though pastors are necessary for the building of the Church, they are not the final say for God’s Word. God’s Word is the final say for God’s Word.

Jesus said:

[6] Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

He also said:

[1]  Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. (John 10:1)

Jesus didn’t say, “there are many ways.” No, He said He is the only way. He didn’t say “some come through me.” He said, there is no other way to God the Father than through me. We cannot override Christ, no matter our opinion or position. And those who don’t follow this teaching of Jesus, but teach a different Gospel, is a thief and a robber. They aren’t Christian pastors, but liars who rob and thieve.

We can try to twist Scripture, take it out of context, and manipulate it to what we want it to be, but at the end of the day, we cannot change it. The Truth will remain the same. And those who desire Truth, will seek it and find it.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Seek To Find Truth.

 

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Be An Alien

1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” ~ Revelation 21:1-4

I was listening to a song the other day that said, “Maybe I’m an alien, Earth is hard.” I’ve just been thinking about that lyric since. We aren’t of this world; we’ve now been called out of this world and set apart. This life isn’t easy. It’s hard and difficult. It has ups and downs. Obstacles and victories. Hills and Valleys. You have to work for everything. This earth is not our home. One day, we will live with Christ on a new and better earth where there will be no more pain, tears, suffering, fear, etc., where all things will be made new.

So, don’t grow attached to this earth, it won’t last forever. Neither grow weary, so that you might last forever on the new earth with your Creator and God. He has good things in store for you that we could never even imagine or dream of.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be An Alien.

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Learn Self-Love

Matthew 22:36-40

[36] “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” [37] And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. [38] This is the great and first commandment. [39] And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. [40] On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

We recently got a comment on a Sunday Morning Message from about three years ago, which usually never happens, so I go to read the comment and it’s just another person spewing hatred among the races. These kind of comments usually don’t find their way to the Sunday Morning Messages, usually they’re all on our Bible Studies, pertaining to certain videos. This one, however, found its way to a Message sharing the importance, necessity, and call by the LORD Jesus Himself to evangelize. To go into the world and share the good news that LORD Jesus has come, died, and rose again on the third day to save the entire world.

The comment pushed the narrative that the white race are going into the fields in eternity to be the slaves of black people. Imagine typing out two random verses, take both out of context in order to condemn an entire, race to damnation because of hatred. To me, this kind of hatred is one of the most impossible to correct because of how deep the hatred goes. It consumes every ounce of your being so that everything about you has been corrupted. Your eyes, ears, mouth, hands, and feet all no longer strive for Truth, but instead strive to validate your own hatred. Your own wicked desires.

I personally know people who believe this way. One thing I’ve noticed is that the hatred of the other race comes from a hatred of themselves. They hate themselves, their ashamed of their past, and they don’t understand the love or grace of God. See, they have to make those whom they want to blame for their own poor decisions unredeemable and hated by God, so that they can Justify their own hatred. Then they have to make themselves the only ones redeemable by God because of bloodline and because of humbling yourself before Him. It becomes a no choice, no free will type of scenario so that they can feel some kind of superiority over others as they hope to quiet the conviction they feel about their past mistakes.

When we allow self-hatred to consume us, that’s when we allow the enemy to completely control us. We need to learn to forgive ourselves and love ourselves, so we can love others. And that we can learn to be Christlike to the world.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Learn Self-Love.

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Be Linked

24 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. ~ John 4:24

All people are very connected to their own body. Here’s what I mean. We know when our body is hungry, tired, in pain, weak, thirsty, etc. It’s easy and natural to us. It’s not something we have to learn. When it comes to our spirit man, it’s not so easy or natural.

So, many of us, including those of us in the Church, are spiritually starving and dying of dehydration without even realizing it. Our spirit man often goes neglected and struggles to survive. We don’t neglect our physical body, but our spiritual one is more times than not abused. Why?

Because denying your flesh and building your spirit man isn’t natural. It goes against everything you are, that’s why you need Christ. It’s through Him that we are redeemed and through His Holy Spirit that we are transformed, so that we might be in tune with our spirit man. So that when our spirit is hungry for spiritual food, we can feed it. When it’s thirsty for living water, we can fill its cup. The Holy Spirit helps link us to our spirit man so that we might be linked to our God.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be Linked.

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Be Their Safe Space

8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. ~ 1 Timothy 5:8

One of my favorite childhood cartoons was “Code Name: Kids Next Door.” Throughout the show, a group of kids who are a part of a greater operation battle adult tyranny. The villains were all teenagers or adults who tried to harm children in one way or another. The Boss who kept parents at longer hours so they couldn’t go home to their kids. The scary cat lady down the street, whose cats are vicious like her. The grandma who tries to make you eat gross food like liver, mystery meat, etc. The spanking vampire, who spanks all naughty Children who break the rules. But the scariest villain of all was Father. I never really thought much of it as a kid, just that he was scary, but the other day, while watching the movie, it made sense.

Father was the scariest villain, not because all dads in the show are evil; in fact, all the dads in the show are loving and caring for their children. I believe Father was the scariest villain because if your Own father is against you, you truly have no safe place. It’s one thing to be afraid of Strangers, it’s another thing to be afraid of your own father, or for him to be against you. See, the Boss had children, and even he was a good dad to them, but Father was another story.

As a kid, it doesn’t matter who’s against you. It only matters if your parents are for you. If you’re scared, it’s Dad you go to to protect you, to defend you, to keep you safe. If your Dad is against you, then you no longer have a safe place.

Fathers, you have an obligation to your children to be their safe place. A place they can go to when they’re scared, nervous, or unsure. So many people struggle with the love of God because of their relationship with their fathers. You are a representation of our relationship with God, so don’t take your role lightly.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be Their Safe Space.

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Befriend Your Neighbor

Matthew 12:25 ESV

25 Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.”

There’s currently an amazing shift happening right now on the world. Why? One word. Football (Soccer). The World Cup is currently being hosted in Canada, USA, and Mexico. People who were afraid of the USA, thought badly of the USA, or even hated the USA have come to love it. They’ve come to realize that all of the negative stories, statistics, etc., were all just propaganda. Lies fed to them by those who want us all divided.

A simple game about putting a ball in a net without using your hands, has opened the eyes of many people and brought unity between countries. Imagine that. A sport brought unity between countries, even though the countries are competing against each other. It brought pride to Americans who were ashamed of being American. It has opened the eyes of many people to the propaganda pushed by those who want to see us divided and therefore, conquered.

It’s easy to hate someone or something or somewhere that you know nothing about, and only go based on everything negative you see about them. It’s much harder to stop and have an actual conversation. Jesus warned that the end would come with wars and rumors of wars. That’s what the world wants. It wants us fighting each other, divided and at war, so that we are too busy hating each other to see or pay attention to what it is they are doing. Don’t let them distract you with blind hate. Seek the LORD for wisdom and discernment to see through the deception.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Befriend Your Neighbor.

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Don’t Give Into Grief

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 NIV

[1] There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: [2] a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, [3] a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, [4] a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, [5] a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, [6] a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, [7] a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, [8] a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

One of the shows I’ve always liked to watch is Hoarders. The more I watch the more I see a pattern of the source of the hoarding. It’s almost always because of the loss of a loved one. Unchecked grief is a dangerous slave master. It consumes you, but instead of making you feel full or even satisfied, it makes you feel empty and alone. It puts you into a state of inability to move forward. Feeling nothing but hopelessness as you either try to fill that emptiness with things or just give up on life entirely allowing mess and garbage to pile up until you’ve found that you’re trapped inside your own. A prisoner to now shame as well as depression, anxiety, anger, pain, and emptiness.

When God set up His Law, He allotted time for grieving. Time to mourn the loss of loved ones so that grief couldn’t consume you. So that you could find peace after loss. So that we could learn to let go.

No one is promised this life to last forever. In fact, that’s the one thing we have been promised we will all see regardless of our choices on this earth, each one of us will one day die and enter eternity. Death is certain, but it is not permanent.

In Christ, to live is Christ and to die is gain. This body will perish but our soul and our spirit will not. And one day, when the Good LORD returns, we will have a new body. An incorruptible body. An immortal one that will never feel pain, sorrow, hurt, loss, or grief again. And on that day we will be reunited with not only our God, but with our loved ones who have gone on before us who have believed. It will be a great day of rejoicing for all believers. Those who have gone on and those who are still here.

One day, we will all die, but thanks be to Christ that’s not the end of the story. So, don’t grieve as if there is no hope. Instead, mourn, yes, mourn. There is a time for mourning, but don’t forget to stop mourning and rejoice.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Don’t Give Into Grief.

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Don’t Be A Fool

14 But how can they call on Him to save them unless they believe in Him? And how can they believe in Him if they have never heard about Him? And how can they hear about Him unless someone tells them? ~ Romans 10:14NLT

There’s a Sumerian Proverb that says:

He who knows but does not speak, is a fool.

The vast majority of Christians keep their faith to themselves. They don’t share it with others. They don’t want to offend anyone with their beliefs, so they keep it quiet. They keep it tucked away in themselves. And if another Christian says, no I have to share my faith. I have to witness to others. I have to spread the Gospel. I have to warn them of what happens in eternity without Christ, they are upset at that Christian. They are angry and annoyed that they would dare share the Word of God with an unbeliever. They do this completely ignoring that that is what we are called to do.

Paul asks a simple question to the Church in Rome. How will they know unless someone tells them? Knowledge and understanding doesn’t come just by opening our eyes. We have to be taught. We have to be guided. Discipled. Trained up in the faith. We have to be told. Yet, Christians will keep their faith to themselves. They’ll keep their faith quiet. They’ll keep it subdued, refusing to let others see or hear about it because they don’t want to offend anyone or make anyone uncomfortable.

To me, this is a prime example of one of two things:

Either they don’t fully believe that Jesus is the only way to an eternity with Him or they don’t love their neighbor enough to care about their eternal soul.

We are called to love others. To love our neighbor as ourselves. Not a single one of us would send ourselves to Hell. Would remove our choice of hearing the Gospel so we could receive salvation and escape the wrath of God, yet we have no problem doing that to others while acting as if we are so much better than those who do.

Jesus warns against keeping anything He has given to you to yourself in The Parable of The Talents. The one who buried his talent and kept it secret, and refused to grow it, multiply it, etc., his talent was taken away from him and he was thrown into Hell with the unbelievers. Our faith is to be the salt of the earth and light of the world. You can’t do either of those things by keeping it to yourself.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Don’t Be A Fool.

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Keep Standing

Revelation 3:15-16 NKJV

[15] I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. [16] So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

I watched a video the other day of men who had been standing for over a decade straight. They refused to sit down. One man’s feet had gone black and were swollen large. Others would come and clean them for him and put ointment and treatment on them. The reason for refusing to sit? The believed they will see their god Shiva, and that is their hearts’ desire.

They’re willing to give up everything, including their very limbs for the sake of possibly seeing their god. Our God dwells in us, gave up His life for us, yet we won’t even sacrifice a little “me time” to meet with Him. He doesn’t even demand such extremes to see Him; all we have to do is call on His name and He will come to us.

As Christians, we’re lazy. We refuse to do what we need to do in order to see our God. The Living God. The Almighty God. The God of all gods. He doesn’t even ask that much of us. Spend time with Him. Read and study His Word. Pray and worship. Come together in fellowship with other believers. Give up this world. There’s people who refuse to sit. Refuse to put their arm down. Refuse to eat in hopes of seeing their god. They truly believe. They are true seekers. True believers. They are filled with passion. Why?

Because they don’t have the same grace we do. And we, as Christians, take advantage of it. We use it up and act as if it’s our get out of jail free card. As if we have no standard to measure up to. We act like the Nicolatians who sinned all the more because of grace. This is not the way. We have to become passionate for God, lest we fall deeper into lukewarmness and be spewed out of His mouth.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Keep Standing.

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What Are You Obsessed With?

20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. ~ Galatians 2:20NKJV

Paul was completely obsessed with the things of God. His every purpose, his every move, his every decision was based on…: “What would Jesus have me do?” We have to understand that obsession shapes our thoughts, dreams, hopes, and vision. Obsession consumes us in every way; in fact, it’s what gives life to our ambitions in life! They are what define us.

What are you obsessed with? What drives you? If Scripture puts you to sleep every time you read it, you’re not obsessed. If Church bores you, you’re not obsessed. What we are obsessed with will tell us our spiritual temperature. It’ll let us know whether we are hot, cold, or lukewarm. Christ was obsessed with us. It’s what kept Him on the cross when He could have gotten off. When He could have saved Himself. When He could have called twelve legions of angels to His rescue. Christ was obsessed with His creation. What are you obsessed with?

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