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Don’t Be Cow Or Chicken

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. ~ Matthew 6:33

I started watching Cow and Chicken the other day, because when I was a kid, my Daddy said we couldn’t watch it because it was too stupid. While I do definitely see that, it is an extremely stupid show, the more I watch, the more I realize humanity is just as stupid as these characters. See, they have a devil character in the show that constantly tricks Cow and Chicken into a mess for his own benefit and profit. At one point, he turns Cow into a slave for her milk and forces her to be a singer. In another, he tricks chicken into playing a virtual reality video game that’s damage in the game causes real damage to him in real life. The crazy part is he really isn’t even disguising himself. He’s just changing his name, yet the two (Cow and Chicken) never catch on that it’s the same guy. We as humans are exactly the same.

We don’t pay attention to who’s speaking to us. Who’s inviting us to do something. We simply focus on the “Do I want to do that thing?” “Is it something that interests me?” part. That’s why we’re constantly falling into the enemy’s trap, just like Cow and Chicken. We don’t pay attention to who’s trying to hurt us; we’re just focused on whether or not our flesh is satisfied. That’s the danger of the human nature. It’s selfish and self-serving. Its desire is what drives us to action.

This is why we are called to crucify the flesh. This is why we are called to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. This is why we are to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, so that we won’t be deceived. So that we won’t be distracted. So that we will be able to see past the flesh and into the spirit.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Don’t Be Cow Or Chicken.

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Always Remember Them

John 15:13

13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Memorial Day is a somber day that we often overlook as just another day off work. When in reality, it should be the day we take a moment to remember our fallen soldiers. The men and women who gave their lives for our freedom. For our comforts and our safety. For our rights. What a somber thought. Freedom isn’t free. It never was and never will be. Someone always has to pay the price.

So, today, don’t forget or overlook our fallen soldiers. Remember them as you enjoy your day. Remember their sacrifice. And be thankful that they gave it all for your freedoms.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Always Remember Them.

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Be Changed By The Spirit

John 16:7-11 ESV

[7] Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. [8] And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: [9] concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; [10] concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; [11] concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Today is Pentecost Sunday. 2,000 years ago the entire world changed. For the first time in history, we had hope of salvation. The entire world. The Church was born and the Holy Spirit was poured out on all flesh.

No longer was it just about following laws about food, clothing, circumcision of the flesh, etc., now it’s about the changing of yourself. The transformation of your mind, the circumcision of your heart, and the molding into the Image of God. A return to the Garden of Eden.

Pentecost is our hope of that. It is our chance to get things right and undo the past and break the chains of the generational curse of sin. Now, because the Spirit has come our children are born holy. They are born unstained. No longer are the sins of Adam a plague none can escape, for we now have the blood of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit changing us from the inside out. We have hope.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be Changed By The Spirit.

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Strive To Be A Worthy Temple

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Tomorrow is Pentecost Sunday. The anniversary, celebration, and commemoration of the Holy Spirit being poured out on all flesh. Something that never happened before. Before Pentecost, the Holy Spirit would only dwell on certain people, during certain times, and for certain occasions. But now, now He dwells in any person willing to accept Him. Willing to claim the Son of God as their LORD and Savior. What great hope we have.

Pentecost is hope. Not just for Israel, but for the entire world. Pentecost is the hope of salvation and reconciliation to the Creator of the entire world. Your past sins no longer matter. How far you’ve fallen, now irrelevant. Nothing but your decision to follow or not keeps you from God. What a great hope we now have. Therefore, today, make the decision to follow Christ. Make the decision to do better. Make the decision to strive to be worthy of the Almighty dwelling in you. You are now the Temple of the Living God.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Strive To Be A Worthy Temple.

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Have Patience For The Harvest

Exodus 9:31-32

31 (The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. 32 But the wheat and the emmer were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.)

Today is the Feast of Shavuot. As we’ve talked about all week, Shavuot is the Wheat Harvest, unlike Passover which is the Barley Harvest. See, Jesus was here fulfilling the Barley Harvest because He was sent to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, the Barley. Barley matured faster, and therefore ripened first, though they (Barley and Wheat) were planted at the same time.

See, all the world came from one man and one woman. Adam. And Eve. We all descended from the same two ancestors. The world was planted at the creation of Adam and Eve, but only the descendants/offspring of Abraham would ripen in time for the Messiah’s coming.

God could’ve left it there. Just save the faithful of His chosen people. He would’ve honored His Word to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but Je didn’t. He didn’t stop there. He waited for the Wheat to mature. He waited for the Wheat to ripen and be ready for harvest.

Shavuot isn’t about harvesting physical grain, but the grain of the world. It’s about souls. The fields are white onto harvest. Finally, the rest of the world was ready. Finally, our hearts had turned from our own desires and sought something more. Finally the Holy Spirit could be poured out on ALL flesh so that the separation between peoples might no longer exist. The barrier destroyed and a harvest of anyone willing, regardless of bloodline, could be achieved.

The patience of the LORD isn’t because He forgot or just didn’t feel like it. His patience is what has given each of us the opportunity to be saved. For salvation would be impossible without Christ ascending and sending His Spirit upon us all.

This Shavuot, think about those around you that are late bloomers. They aren’t Barley, but Wheat. They take longer to mature, grow, and ripen. They’re more easily destroyed by pestilence, weather, soil, etc. They are a hard harvest to reap. The kind that you could just give up on, but if we just have the patience, the harvest is greater than we could have imagined. It just takes a little more patience. The patience of someone who loves that harvest.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Have Patience For The Harvest.

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Illuminate His Light

Acts 2:22-24, 36-37

[22] “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— [23] this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. [24] God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

[36] Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.” [37] Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

All week we’ve talked about Pentecost being the fulfillment of the promise of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.  And when the Spirit, other promises or declarations became a reality, as well. For instance, Jesus declared over His followers that they are the Light of the world (Matthew 5:4), but He also declared He is the Light of the World (John 8:12). How do we reconcile this? Jesus stated He was the Light of the World as long as He was in the world. Jesus is no longer physically in the world, instead He is spiritually here through us. How? Pentecost.

That day when the Holy spirit came down and filled those in the Upper Room, the Church was filled with the Spirit of the living God. The Spirit that dwelt in Christ. Therefore, it was at that time Jesus’ declaration truly became a reality for us, because it was at that time that we began to be molded and transformed into the Image of God, which is Christ Jesus. The Light of the World. That is why He is the Light of the World, as long as He’s in the world. He’s now passed that torch, that mantle onto us to carry in and through His name.

It’s now up to us to teach, preach, and evangelize. It’s now up to us to reach the masses and spread the Gospel to the ends of the Earth. Jesus did His job. He made a way where there was no way. He died, rose again, ascended, and then sent The Holy Spirit to us. He did the hard part. Now, it’s time for us to step up and take up the torch and be Christ to the World.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Illuminate His Light.

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Earnestly Pray For Your Promise

[1] When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. [2] And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. ~ Acts 2:1-2

After the Resurrection, Jesus appeared to the apostles for forty days. Then He told them to wait for the Holy Spirit to come, and ascended into Heaven. So, the next ten days they spent devoted in prayer. See, the Holy Spirit didn’t come down as soon as Jesus ascended. No. It took them earnestly praying in one accord for ten days for the Holy Spirit to come down.

We are each given promises, but just because we’re given promises, doesn’t mean we no longer have any responsibility in the matter. We have to fight for our promises. They don’t always happen overnight, in fact, the majority of times it takes many days or even years.

If they had not prayed earnestly, I’m not so sure that the Spirit would have been poured out on all flesh. It takes someone to stand in the gap. It takes someone to pray, come LORD come. They spent ten days devoted in prayer, today we struggle to pray for ten minutes, and then wonder why we don’t see the same power they did. We even make excuses saying it just wasn’t for us, but for them alone.

The Church today has become lazy. We will stay up all night working for money, but not to see the glory of God. Not to be filled with His Holy Spirit. I’m not against money, I’m against putting everything into making it but putting nothing into the Kingdom of God. That is the difference between today’s Church and the first century Church. That is why we don’t see the same miracles, signs, and wonders. Because we’ve become lazy to point of death. Spiritual death.

There is only a few days left until Pentecost. Don’t let another Pentecost Sunday pass you by without seeking the LORD. Earnestly seeking Him.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Earnestly Pray For Your Promise.

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Become Fine Flour

Leviticus 23:15-22

[15]  “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. [16] You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord. [17] You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord. [18] And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. [19] And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. [20] And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. [21] And you shall make a proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations. [22] And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”

Pentecost is the fulfillment of Shavuot or the Feast of Weeks. The Feast of Weeks was during the Wheat Harvest. They were to not just bring a blood sacrifice from lambs and goats, but a bread offering. Two loaves of bread made from fine flour. It wasn’t just any old flour they used. The flour took more work to produce.

It had to be carefully ground and sifted. Wheat was, apparently, more prestigious. It wasn’t the common grain. Barley was. Pentecost fulfilled this by taking two groups of people: the Israelites and the Gentiles. These two groups of people were brought before the LORD as one body in Christ.

No longer did it matter whether of not you were a Jew, but it is now about your heart. That’s why it’s not just common grain. It’s grain that’s harder to grow and take care of. And that’s not enough. It has to be ground. Sifted. And made fine. It’s not enough to just say you follow Christ or you believe in God. You have to do more than that. You have to deny your flesh. You have to go through the fire. You have to be ground and sifted. Not just anyone can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Many are called, but few are chosen.

Pentecost is the day the Church was born by the power of the Holy Spirit and the Blood of Christ. It is the day two people’s were waved before the LORD as one. The day the Holy Spirit was poured out on all flesh and the grinding and sifting process of our soul could truly begin. That is Pentecost. It is hope. Hope of changing for the better. Hope of becoming one people in Christ. Hope of becoming a wave offering to the LORD.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Become Fine Flour.

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Know How To Defend Pentecost

Acts 2:1-4 ESV

[1] When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. [2] And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. [3] And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. [4] And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

There are seven feasts given to the people of Israel, by the LORD Himself. The fourth feast is the Feast of Weeks, Shavuot. It was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came down like a mighty rushing wind. Today, however, the Jewish people believe the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) is about the giving of the Law of Moses on Mt. Sinai.

So, let’s just say, for arguments sake that that’s true. Okay. It looks back at the giving of The Law and forward to the fulfillment of the giving of the Holy Spirit. The seal of our salvation or our new and better covenant.

When the LORD came down and gave the Ten Commandments, He first spoke it to the people of Israel. He came down as fire on the mountain (Exodus 19:18). When the Holy Spirit came down on those in the Upper Room, He came as fire tongues resting on their heads. As Daddy always points out, when Moses came down and saw the golden calf, three thousand Israelite men were slain that day (Exodus 32:28). On the day of Pentecost, Peter preached his first message, and three thousand souls were saved (Acts 2:41).

If the Jews want to believe it looks back to the giving of the Law of Moses, by all means. What better fitting foreshadowing of the giving of the Holy Spirit than that? For no matter what you say it looked back at, it can never change what fulfilled it. You can try to twist Scripture, but you can never change it. You can never rewrite it, for the Word of God will never return to Him void.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Know How To Defend Pentecost.

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Choose The She-Bear

Proverbs 17:12,

12 Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.

King Solomon, the wisest fully human who ever lived, wrote that it was better to meet a she-bear whose cubs had been taken than a fool in his folly. Why? I believe there could be multiple reasons. Solomon often wrote about the anger of the fool and how unhinged it was, so that could be a reason. But I think it might be more so that the fool in his folly is deceptive, as he also wrote.

See, when you don’t know the Truth or why you believe it, you can easily be less astray. You can easily be deceived. You can easily become Eve in the Garden of Eden. Ignorance is probably the biggest killer of souls in the Church today. We have the most and the easiest access to the Bible than any other generation before us, yet we read it the least. Our Bibles on our phones, tablets, computers, etc. even read to us, yet for some reason we still refuse to read it.

This makes us a perfect victim for the fool in his folly. The she-bear might take our life, but the fool in his folly might just take our soul. I know people who, though they were raised in a Christian household, have easily been led astray by foolishness that makes no sense. Why? Because they never read their Bibles. They still refuse to read it in its entirety. Instead, they chose to listen to the fool who cherry picks and half quotes Scripture.

Now, in they have become a fool in their folly. Consumed. Drenched in deception that can only be removed by the Holy Spirit. That can only be removed by the reading of the ENTIRE Scripture, and not just picking and choosing random verses out context.

The Scripture builds a shield around you, lest you be deceived. Lest you be spiritually killed by the fool in his folly. Therefore, read and study to show yourself approved. To show yourself righteous. To be safe from the deception that has destroyed so many in the Church.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Choose The She-Bear.

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