Oh, the terrible plight of Jealousy in the sin cursed self! Proverbs 27:4

Oh, the terrible plight of Jealousy in the sin cursed self!
Proverbs 27:4
    4 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Jealousy arises as another principle to the sin cursed self. The ultimate expression of jealousy is to see that God's hand of favor is no longer resting and abiding on you, but that His hand of favor is resting on those who rest in His beloved Son, whom His favor exclusively rests. A persons jealousy arises when they see their efforts, riches and merits of their own good works is not acceptable in God's eyes and never enough to please God, but always fall short of pleasing God. Jealousy, like Cain's, who killed his brother Abel, arose in Cain, because God accepted Abel's sacrifice over Cain's, and Cain saw God's favor rest upon Abel, so Cain killed his brother. The Jealousy factor arises in us when we see that our trust and confidence in our sin cursed self does not merit God's favor, but rather is a great cause for God's disfavor and judgment and rejection. Jealousy arises when God's favor rests on those who places confidence in Jesus Christ for whom God the Father's favor rests. Hence, You become jealous because God has rejected you in the confidence of your flesh, and points you to believe on His son for whom His favor rests, and you refuse to do so, because of your self-righteous pride; hence, like the self-righteous scribes and Pharisees you reject Jesus Christ and crucify the Lord of glory for whom God the Father's favor subsides and rests.

Hinder not the "Lo, I am with you always."by complacent indifference! Matthew 28:20

Hinder not the "Lo, I am with you always."by complacent indifference!
Matthew 28:20
The Lord delights to be with us every day while we are going about our day. However, do we earnestly desire to be with Jesus every day! Does our complacent indifference to His presence draw him away from us and out the door? Do we hinder Him from coming to us, because we are ever so steeped in our present concerns? Once your will set free, by His quickening Saving Grace, always open the door to His knocking Grace, hinder not His entrance and fellowshipping with you and feast with Him in His broken body and shed Blood! As He first welcomed you into His presence through His Blood, Now! Welcome, Him in your afflictions, sufferings, concerns, needs and chase away careless indifference to your need for Him to be with you, but earnestly desire to be in His presence everyday, by means of prayer and meditation, for there is no better place to be, but to be with Him where He is seated in the Heavenly Realm, by His throne of Grace, for there is no other place incomparable and exclusively, but to be there where He is, "Lo, with you always," is a far better cry to be with Him as He is with you, rather than being with the dwellers of darkness, corruption and death, rather than having the dominion of sin's control ruling your heart away from Him, there is no other place to be but be with Him, rather than complacent indifference of sluggardly resting in front of the light of the mesmerizing and hypnotizing TV, media, and darkness of social gatherings that have no place for Jesus to be, no place in the Inn for Jesus, but go to that great place of Jesus with you always; where He once laid in the Manger, where He once spread His Arms on the Cross, where He once Laid in that Empty tomb, where He is seated now at the right Hand of God the Father, making intercession, indeed, for His Church, His precious Bride, and all His members therein, even me and you if you have believed on the Rock of your Salvation. As in the words of Charles Hadden Spurgeon, Evening:
"Remember his presence may be had. His promise is as true as ever. He delights to be with us. If he doth not come, it is because we hinder him by our indifference. He will reveal himself to our earnest prayers, and graciously suffer himself to be detained by our entreaties, and by our tears, for these are the golden chains which bind Jesus to his people."

There is never a darkness too dark or too thick that can ever prevent the Light of God's Love in His beloved Son, to break through and dispel the thick darkness! Isaiah 9:2-3:

There is never a darkness too dark or too thick that can ever prevent the Light of God's Love in His beloved Son, to break through and dispel the thick darkness!
Isaiah 9:2-3:
2The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them. 3You shall multiply the nation, You shall increase their gladness; They will be glad in Your presence As with the gladness of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.…

Bethlehem was cold and full of thick darkness and sin. The Manger was cold and full of darkness, until the beloved Son of God, in His incarnation pitched His trough like bassinet in it, and was laid in the that cold dark place by His mother, Mary, at His Birth; and how bright the light of His glorious presence that dispelled the darkness! And how warm His glorious presence that melted the coldness of the manger taking out of it the chill of the darkness of that place by His glory!

Bethlehem full of darkness, the Manger cold and dark; notwithstanding, that did not stop or prevent, or hinder the Light of God's Love in His Beloved Son, to enter in to invade and break through the darkness with the light of His presence in His Beloved Son, to dispel the darkness and warm that place with His glory!

There is no darkness or power in heaven and on earth that can ever prevent or hinder the light of God' s presence and glory to break through the darkness of sin, corruption and death, for it is powerless to His invasion, for in the fullness of time God broke through the darkness in His beloved Son. And in the fullness of time of your calling, God will break through the darkness of sin, corruption, coldness and death of your heart and quicken you to new life in Christ through Regeneration of the Holy Spirit, and there is no power, no darkness too dark, thick or cold, or corruption of death too dead that can prevent His break through of the light of His glorious presence and Resurrect your dead soul from the dead!

He still rend the heavens and invaded earth in His incarnastion in the fullness of times, despite no welcoming Fanfare on earth, but received the Fanfare of Angels at His Birth! Luke 2:13-15

He still rend the heavens and invaded earth in His incarnastion in the fullness of times, despite no welcoming Fanfare on earth, but received the Fanfare of Angels at His Birth!
Luke 2:13-15
13And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, 14"Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased." 15When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, "Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us."…

Even at His Birth, no welcoming fanfare of the multitudes, but was excluded from vacancy in an Inn, while His mother was sent to a manger to give birth, outside of, and away from the people in the Inn.

No Fanfare of Nations, Kings, Country's, or of the multitudes, but He had no need for fanfare for a permenant welcome, He came to those in darkness, blind to their own need from deliverance, hence, they were blind to their need to offer Him a welcoming fanfare. But the multitudes of the heavenly hosts and of Angels knew from whence He came, but appeared with great fanfare welcoming and announcing His birth, of Him, who rend the heavens and left His heavenly glory while He laid in the Manger at His birth.

He came to those in need, in darkness, in the grips of bondage to sin and death, not to seek need from them for a welcoming fanfare. For God in His infinite mercy and Grace gave His only Begotten Son, while we were yet sinners and we did not care to be saved. For that was the work God the Father gave His Son to accomplish, Redemption in His Blood!

No welcoming reception, because of deep darkness and blindness to a great need for deliverance from sin and separation from God, ever so preoccupied and complacent by their present life distracted them from their need for deliverance from eternal perdition.
He came in disregard to no welcoming fanfare, He came as a light in the midst of great thick darkness of sin, death and corruption! He came because He saw our need for de!iverence, when we were blind to our own need. He came in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for the ungodly!

Synergism ignores the person and work of the Holy Spirit, because it is a dead belief system! Once dead, always dead, how can you boast in death! Titus 3:4-7

Synergism ignores the person and work of the Holy Spirit, because it is a dead belief system! Once dead, always dead, how can you boast in death!

Titus 3:4-7
4But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
How can you surrender to Jesus if you are dead to Christ and your will is in bondage to sin and death! You need to be made alive to Christ in order to surrender to Jesus Christ!
Synergistic belief system is an excuse for self boasting and confidence in the dead bound will of the sin cursed self.
Once dead, always Dead! The will cannot choose to Believe!
Once Made Alive, always Alive! The will is set free and given faith to believe by the Regenerating power of the Holy Spirit; God is then Glorified and magnified in Salvation as confidence in self-sufficiency is put to death, to be always dead, indeed!
Synergistic belief system nicely sets aside and ignores the Person, power and work of the Holy Spirit; synergism suppresses the truth of the Holy Spirit's power and work of Regeneration, who alone makes alive and He gives faith to Believe on Jesus. Synergism places confidence in a sadly mistaken belief, that it is up to your choice and free will to choose to believe and receive Jesus for Salvation. Synergism excludes the person and work of the Holy Spirit in salvation who alone makes Alive to believe for Salvation. Synergism does not give credit to the Holy Spirit, it credits the deluded will of man in bondage to sin. Such a will in that status and condition is not set free to believe of its own--for a will in bondage, remains in bondage and will never choose to believe on Jesus, let alone surrender to self-centered boasting to seek hard after God. It is Dead!
But God! ...who is rich in Mercy makes Alive, by His miraculous power of the Holy Spirit even when being dead in trespasses and sins!
Ephesians 2:4-9
4Butc God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Once made Alive by the Holy Spirit, there is no more cause for boasting in self, for no one can choose to believe of their own free will in exclusion to the person, work, will and power of the Holy Spirit, who alone regenerates and makes alive to believe. How can you magnify a deluded teaching that misleads many into thinking you have free will, when in truth, the will is in bondage and cannot believe on Christ of its own volition. You need to be Born-Again of the new nature of Christ Jesus by regeneration of the Holy Spirit! Such a condition of change is a Miraculous work of the Holy Spirit to make alive, when once fully dead! Hence, the Sovereign Grace of God is solely magnified and glorified in Salvation! Sola-Dei-Gloria!

The Trinity must have preeminence in All things, if not, then you are believing and teaching Heresy! I Peter 1:1-2

The Trinity must have preeminence in All things, if not, then you are believing and teaching Heresy!
I Peter 1:1-2
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen 2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.

The Doctrine of the Trinity must be taught and adhered to in all teachings of Scripture, lest you believe and teach Heresy! For the Doctrine of the Trinity is found on all pages of Holy Scriptures!

The Doctrine of Trinity is the fiber to the teaching of the Doctrine of the Sovereignty of God; if you fail to include the person of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit in all Doctrines of Scripture, and leave out any persons of the Trinity, then your teaching and preaching will be full of holes, falsehood, teaching empty doctrines of man made religion of Heresy!

The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity is clearly seen in all Doctrines of Scripture, from God the Father foreloving His Elect and His chosen before the foundation of the World, to predestination, to calling, to Justifying to glorifying!
Romans 8: 29-30:
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

The Bible never teaches man's quest and attempts to reach God and find meaning in life, or to seek after rules and principles to live by; it is All about God's plan of Redemption in His Son and His Activity in reaching down to sinful man in the second Adam, the LORD Jesus Christ!

Its about the Activity of the Eternal Son of God leaving His Throne in glory--the glory He shared with God the Father before the foundation of the World in eternity past. It is about the Activity of The Son, Redeeming in His Blood, all those whom God the Father has given to God the Son before the foundation of the World. It is about Jesus and the Holy Spirit making intercession to God the Father for His precious Bride the Church!

Its all about the Activity of the Holy Spirit quickening, Regenerating and making alive all those whom God the Father gave to God the Son before the foundation of the World, and all those whom God the Son gave to God the Holy Spirit in His Ascended glory, when He sat down at the right hand of God the Father; that The Holy Spirit will apply the Saving benefits of the Redemptive work of His Jesus' shed Blood to the Redeemed, given to The Holy Spirit by God the Father and God the Son.

Its about the activity of the Holy Spirit gathering the Church, the Bride of Jesus Christ, Sanctifying her without spot or wrinkle preparing her for her Husband, the Lord Jesus Christ at His Second Return according to the Sovereign plan of God the Father and God the Son preparing His people for His glory.

The greatest gift of all time wrapped with a bow ribbon of the crimson Red Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, given by God the Father! John 3:16-21

The greatest gift of all time wrapped with a bow ribbon of the crimson Red Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, given by God the Father!
John 3:16-21
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

You know a package is a gift, for it is distinguished with wrapping and a ribbon tied into a bow. The greatest gift of all was given by God the Father, the precious gift of the Life of the Son of God in His flesh, in His incarnation, with the final wrapping of the crimson Red Blood of Jesus at His bloody cross, the ribbon wrapped in a bow over the package of the vicarious righteous Life of Jesus Christ and in His shed blood on the cross that was offered up to God the Father as a propitiation for the sins of His people, to appease the great and immense wrath of God for the penalty of my sin, in His vicarious Death; the ribbon of His shed Blood covered me for my forgiveness and Redemption of my Soul and new Life in the gift of everlasting life in His Resurrection the redemption of my Body! For the gift is twofold in double imputation: my sin for His righteousness, His shed blood for my forgiveness! His Resurrection for by resurrection from the dead unto eternal Life in knowing God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit!

Have you appropriated Faith and received this precious gift wrapped in the ribbon of the bow of Jesus' precious and holy Blood? Plead the mercy seat of God, pray that the Holy Spirit make you alive to Him and gives you Faith to believe on this Gift of the precious LORD Jesus Christ in His Shed Blood, Death and Resurrection, unto everlasting Life indeed!

A borrowed Manger At His Birth...A borrowed Tomb 3 days before He Resurrected

A Borrowed Manager at His Birth...A borrowed Tomb 3 Days before His Resurrection!
Luke 2:7
7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

Jesus came into this dark unwelcoming world, not to set up permenant residence in the place where He was born. Indeed, for the Place where Mary laid Him after she gave birth to Him, was in a Manger, where animals and sheep eat in the trough and lap up water with their tongues to drink, in troughs in a Manger. For there was no room in the Inn, and the Manger was borrowed for Jesus, after being born and wrapped in swaddling cloths and laid in that place--Jesus was not going to take up permenancy in that dark, cold unwelcoming place for an infant being born, nor in the dark unwelcoming world where there was no room for Him, for He came in an unwelcoming place not to take residence, a place where the Son of God and His presence was rejected, But He violently invaded this cold dark world, only to take, quicken and make our dead, cold unwelcoming heart alive by the Holy Spirit to take permenant residence in us; unto God the Father Eternally Welcoming us in His Kingdom, as He Transfers us from this dark, cold, unwelcoming world and brings us into the Joy of His welcoming presence of the Kingdom of His Son whom He Loves!
For He was passing through the borrowed Manger at His Birth, for His infant Body was full of Eternal Life at His Birth, for He was passing through that place of the Manger only to travel the way of the Via Della Rosa, the way of Suffering at the cross, for the infant Body of His was at full maturity and perfect obedience to be broken at the Cross to give the Bread of His Righteousness, the Bread of Eternal life, That filled His infant Body at Birth.

And at His Death, Jesus had no need to procure a Tomb for His Body!

The only unoccupied Tomb from all the greats gone by, is Jesus' borrowed tomb, for it was borrowed by Joseph of Armethia, for after Jesus breathed His last dieing Breath after His battle cry of Victory, " It is Finished"  they took Jesus down from the cross and wrapped Him in grave cloths and laid Him in the Tomb. Jesus did not need to take ownership of a permenant Tomb, in a purchase, for His Body was not going to take up permanent residence in that Tomb, for the Tomb was going to be empty on the Third day of His Resurrection, never to Die ever again! He was passing through the borrowed tomb in His Resurrection!

Hence, my grave, coffin and Death will be emptied by The grave Robber, Even Jesus Christ, for Like a thief in the night He will steal my body out of the grave, indeed!

Matthew 27:57-61
57When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. 58He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 59And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud 60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. 61Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.
Isaiah 53:9
9His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death,

The Tree Decorated with the Blood of Jesus is our only Access to the Tree of Life Access to the Tree of Life is only obtained by way of The Cross of Jesus Christ

Preached Today:
The Tree Decorated with the Blood of Jesus is our only Access to the Tree of Life
Access to the Tree of Life is only obtained by way of The Cross of Jesus Christ

There is no Peace in this World by Constantly Eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Without the Tree Decorated with the Royal Blood of Jesus Christ we will never have peace with God or Peace on Earth!

During this Season of Advent and Celebration of Jesus’ Birth, let us take a look at the significance of the Three Trees in the Bible and focus on the Third Tree Decorated with the Blood of Jesus and Partake of the Fruit of His Tree to Eat and be Filled with the Fruit of His Ways unto Eternal Life!

Christmas Season brings Joy and Celebration of Peace on Earth and Good Will to men, Right? Well when you look at the news you see there is a far Cry from peace on earth and good will to men, Why I Ask? I will tell you, it is because of the first Tree in the Garden, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; we constantly take of the fruit of that tree and eat of it everyday, being filled with the consequence of it's ways and bearing the fruit of it everyday, of God’s Wrath Constantly abiding, sin, evil, death, destruction, cursing, Race wars, civil wars, National wars, political wars....

We have No Right to the Tree of Life without the Tree of the Bloody Cross of Jesus Christ!
No Right to the Tree of the knowledge of Good And Evil, according to God’s Holy Commands; Yet we disobeyed God, Ate its Fruit, and are filled with the fruit of the Way of the Tree of Knowledge of Good And Evil and are cursed!

The only Tree that matters in this life, is the Tree that Jesus was Cursed for our Sins; for while we hang on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil everyday, we bear in our Body and in our LIfe, the marks and the fruit of the Sin Cursed self.

Yet, on the Third Tree, that Curse was nailed on the Cross in Jesus' Shed Blood; For He Became a Curse for us that we might become righteous and accepted in God's Eyes in His Righteousness

For As it is spoken by Moses, in Deuteronomy 21:22-23, Regarding being Cursed who hangs on the Tree:
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, 23his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance

And The Apostle Paul Teaches that Jesus Redeemed us by Becoming a Curse for us:
Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."

But it does not end there, Jesus does not hang perpetually on that Tree, for He Hung there once, 2000 years ago, and the Third Day Resurrected Bodily, that we will have hope of our Bodies being Resurrected unto Everlasting LIfe, by Being Made Alive by the Holy SPirit and given Faith to Believe on THE LORD JESUS Christ!

Hence, Let us enjoy the fruit of Jesus Redemptive work on the Cross by enjoying the Outcomes of Partaking and eating of His Tree

1. Peace with God-Colossians 1:20
2. Access and Right into the Presence of God Romans 5
3. Access and Right to eat of The Tree of Life unto Everlasting Life
The Apostle John in the Book of Revelation 22:14, teaches us through, Jesus Christ, our robes are washed by the Shed Blood of Jesus that decorated the Tree of the Cross, the outcome gives us access to Partake of the Second Tree, the Tree of Life!
Revelation 22:14
"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.

Conclusion:
There is no Peace in this World by Constantly Eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; without the Tree Decorated with the Royal Blood of Jesus Christ we will never have peace with God or Peace on Earth.

During this Season of Advent and Celebration of Jesus’ Birth, let us take a look into the significance of the Three Trees in the Bible and focus on the Third Tree Decorated with the Blood of Jesus and Partake of the Fruit of His Tree to Eat and be Filled with the Fruit of His Ways unto Eternal Life!

Irresistible Grace is not dependent on the Flesh, nor is it Helped by the will of man, nor does the volition of a person assist Divine Grace in Salvation, Irresistible Grace is Not Synergistic Grace! John 6: 63-65

Irresistible Grace is not dependent on the Flesh, nor is it Helped by the will of man, nor does the volition of a person assist Divine Grace in Salvation, Irresistible Grace is Not Synergistic Grace!

John 6: 63-65

63It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) 65And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

Irresistible Grace cannot be resisted by the will and choice of a person, once quickened by the Holy Spirit! 

Only God the Father can Grant and Draw all people to God the Son; a person cannot of their own volition and will, in bondage to sin, choose to go to Jesus, unless they are the Object of God The Father’s Love before the foundation of the world, and made alive by God the Holy Spirit.

Hence, The Consequence to God the Father’s Foreloving, Electing Love, before the foundation of  the World and the Holy Spirit’s power of Regeneration to the Bread of Life—even Jesus Christ, a person is given Faith to appropriate the benefits of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection in their life, and go to Jesus they will! And seek after Jesus they will! For their will has been set free by the Holy Spirit, being made alive to believe and accept the benefits of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection unto Eternal Life, throughout every age, in time and History from generation to generation, through the seed of the Living WORD of God implanted by The Holy Spirit!  

Salvation is appropriated by Faith in the Shed Blood of Jesus, in His Death and Resurrection, as a passive consequence to Regeneration of the Holy Spirit; indeed, as a result of God The Father’s Electing Love, given to God the Son before the foundation of the World, and Made alive by the Holy Spirit through the seed of the Living WORD of God, at the appointed time in providence, according to God’s Plan and purpose and Mercy to Whomever He chooses and Draws to Jesus His only Begotten Son!

It is appropriated by the gift of Faith through Monergistic Grace of The Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit does not sit around and wait for you to come to your senses to make a choice and volition for you to believe in Jesus Christ for Salvation; He Does not Wait for you to assist Him and work with Him in your Salvation; you can’t!...You are Spiritually Dead! He Solely, Exclusively and Singularly works His reviving and quickening and Makes you Spiritually Alive and Born-Again in the Righteous Resurrected Life of Jesus Christ without anything in you: no efforts, tinge of conscience or guilt, no talents, no Skills, no looks, no Size, Stature and Strength, no emotions in you, nothing in you and your circumstances can work with the Holy Spirit, His Divine work of Grace is not Synergism at all! 

A Dead man cannot jump! A Dead Man cannot jump out of His Grave…out of His Coffin… indeed, out of His tomb! Until He has encountered the Monergistic--Sole, exclusive and singular work of the Person of the Holy Spirit and His power of Regeneration on His Dead Soul to Make Spiritually Alive!

John 6: 63-65

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) 65And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

Synergistic teaching and preaching does not Honor or Glorify God in the person of the Father, Son And Holy Spirit! 1 Peter 1: 1-2

Synergistic teaching and preaching does not Honor or Glorify God in the person of the Father, Son And Holy Spirit!
1 Peter 1: 1-2
"Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you."

If you are teaching and preaching synergism with respect to Salvation, that man has a free will to choose or reject God, then your teaching is not to the Glory of God's Sovereignty and His Sovereign Grace, it is to the end of the glory of man and man's boasting and it is doctrinally flawed and does not understand the glory of God in the Person of God the Father, God The Son and God the Holy Spirit!

Monergistic teaching and preaching proclaims the Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace, that man is dead in trespasses and sins and His will is bound to choose to reject and hate God, because he is dead to God. And it is the Holy Spirit who makes a person alive to believe on Jesus for Salvation, and His quickening work toward the dead soul is based on God the Father's choice in Electing love before the foundation of the world; according to His Mercy through the Redemptive work of Jesus on the Cross in His Shed Blood, Death and Resurrection!

When you teach and preach synergism to the freedom of man's will to choose and believe, you undercut the Authority of God's Holy Word , the Bible, and take apart, spring by spring, like a clocksmith does out of a watch, the truth of God's Sovereign Grace in the Salvation and His free will, Electing Love before the foundation of the world, according to His mercy for, whomever He wills and chooses to give faith to believe in His Son for Salvation, throughout every age and generation, for faith and belief in the Gospel of God's Grace and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Hence, synergism will result in the outcome of Diminishing the glory of God in the person of the Trinity for the glory of man's boasting to choose to believe in God of his free will--which, really, is a misled doctrine; for man's will is not free but it is bound by sin and death and he needs to be Born-Again according to the Quickening and Regeneration of the Holy Spirit, inorder for a person to believe in Jesus Christ. Synergism is such a deceptive heretical doctrine that excludes the work of the Holy Spirit upon the dead soul, it excludes the Choice and Calling of God the Father before the foundation of the World and it diminishes the glory of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, to Redeem in His Blood, all those whom God the Father gave to Him before the foundation of the world.

Sola--Dei--Gloria!

The Sovereign Rule of Jesus Christ is Addressed to the Church in Laodicea, purely monergistically, for synergism, in the Church, was what Jesus rebuked and threatened to spew out of His mouth! Revelations 3:14-22

The Sovereign Rule of Jesus Christ is Addressed to the Church in Laodicea, purely monergistically, for synergism, in the Church, was what Jesus rebuked and threatened to spew out of His mouth!

Revelations 3:14-22
14[†]“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the   Amen,   the faithful and true witness,   the beginning of God’s creation. 15[†]“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot.   Would that you were either cold or hot! 16So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. 17[†] For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor,  blind, and naked. 18I counsel you  to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and  w white garments so that you may clothe yourself and  the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes,  so that you may see. 19[†] Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. 20Behold, I stand at the door and  knock.   If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,  I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. 21[†]  The one who conquers,  I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as  e I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

In this passage, the Church of Laodicea was steeped in their surrounding culture, instead of reaching the people in their culture, they became like their surrounding culture, in their self sufficiency, like the city of Laodicea. In fact the city of Laodicea was reliant upon their own riches that the city refused help from Rome after the earthquake in AD60:

REVELATION—NOTE ON 3:14–22 To Laodicea. Damaged by an earthquake in A.D. 60, self-sufficient Laodicea, a commercial center and site of thriving medical and textile industries, declined imperial disaster relief. The city did not see itself as “poor, blind, and naked” (v. 17), nor did the complacent church within it. In this last church alone Jesus finds nothing to commend. Laodicea was famous for its worship of Zeus, who appears on some of the city’s coinage. Today one can still view unexcavated remnants of the city wall, two theaters, a stadium from the time of Vespasian (c. A.D. 79), and a second-century bath and/or gymnasium with adjacent water tower. An aqueduct came from the south toward Laodicea, bringing water rich in minerals. There is evidence of Jewish presence in Laodicea. Twenty pounds of gold were confiscated in the first century B.C. from Jews who intended to send it as a temple tax to Jerusalem (Cicero, For Flaccus 28). Paul was in contact with the church there (Col. 2:1; 4:13–16)." The waters of the nearby Lycus River were muddy and undrinkable, and the waters flowing by aqueduct from hot springs 5 miles (8 km) away were lukewarm when they reached Laodicea. Likewise, Jesus found his church’s tepid indifference repugnant. Cold and hot water represent something positive, for cold water refreshes in the heat, and hot water is a tonic when one is chilly." ESV Notes.

The Churches Lukewarmness sickened Jesus to the point of wanting to throw them up. For their detachment from dependence on Jesus seemingly shut Jesus out of the Church, but in fact, such tepid indifference caused The Sovereignty of Jesus to rule the Church to warn them of impeding judgment of discipline to spew them out of His mouth in disfavor and utter sickened rupugnancy out of Jesus' stomach.

Jesus cannot have fellowship with darkness! He will not share His glory on equaled terms with temples of idols. He will throw you up and spit you out before He will ever have fellowship with darkness, sin, unholiness of the sin of pride, self sufficiency and self righteousness apart from the dependence on Jesus' righteousness. After all, Jesus gave His very own Blood with great anguish and pain, He will not allow the power of His Blood to be mingled with sin, for His shed blood eradicates sin, wickeness, unholiness and death. Treat it not with contempt by refusing to see your need for His cleansing flood in His blood! Stiffen your neck not against its cleansing power, by rejecting the sufficiency in His Blood to cleanse, lest Jesus spew you out of His mouth!

The Church taught doctrines of external rituals that caused the believers to place confidence in their works and efforts, and failed to place full and total confidence in the sufficiency of Jesus' Redemptive work on the cross and His Sovereign Grace in their Sanctification.

Hence, they were content in their own lukewarmness and self made love, independent from reliance on God; the pride of self aggrandizement of boasting in their self sufficiency and good works, they became short sighted to the sufficiency of God's grace to save and sanctify and sought to please themselves rather than God, by failure to trust in the sufficiency and favor of God, in the life of the Church of Laodecia, found only in the sufficiency of Jesus' shed blood and righteousness.

They were ever so steeped in their culture that they became like their culture in their seeker sensitive philosophy and teaching that the Churches effectiveness was diminished to lukewarmness and ineffectiveness; Where there was no Gospel witness to magnify the need for the Cross of Jesus to Save and Sanctify.

Jesus Reminds His Church in Laodicea that He is the Sovereign all sufficient ruler that they need to repent and turn to the Sufficiency of Jesus to rule their hearts for effective Church out reach, steeped only in the Person of Jesus Christ, Alone! For Jesus is the head of the Church, His Bride!

The church of Laodicea became an enemy of the cross of Jesus by their teaching and practices--the worst form of Idolatry and blasphemy is to stare square in the face of Jesus and declare you do not need Him, and have no need for Him to deliver you from sin, just like Judas kiss! Because your blind to your nakededness, poverty, wretchedness to your own sin and need for Christ Jesus to Save and sanctify you from your sin and depravity.

This was the consequence of the church being steeped in its own efforts, programs, and measures of of selfsufficiency acting independent of Jesus Christ, to reach the surrounding culture of its day! Hence, Jesus reminds the Church, His Bride of Laodecia, that He is the only Sovereign that the Church needed to depend on Christ and His teaching of Grace; the Church needed to submit and receive His provisions of Grace for growth, sanctification and pure outreach steeped in the shed Blood of Jesus.

There is no synergism in "Behold, I stand at the door and knock" Jesus is not a poor beggar, knocking on the door of your heart waiting for you to use your will and volition to choose to open the door of your heart to let Him in. For you won't hear his voice, indeed, you will keep the door locked and shut tight to keep Jesus out of your life.

If you are unregenerate and dead to God, you won't hear Him knocking on the door of your heart, for you are spiritually dead to God! Your will is bound by sin and will only choose to keep Jesus out of your life. You need to be made alive to God, in order to hear His voice. You need to be Born-Again by the Holy Spirit; and once quickened and made Spiritually alive to God, then your will and volition will be set free to choose to hear Jesus' voice; your will and volition will be set free to hear His voice; your will and volition will be set free to reach your hand to the door knob and open the door and let Jesus into the fellowship of your new self already quickened and made Alive to God. You can only hear Jesus knocking and hear His voice if you are of His sheep and He is your Shepherd, and if you are chosen and foreloved by God the Father before the foundation of the World, given to the Son out of this world.

The Knocking on the door and the opening of the door is the eager readiness and expectation and anticipation of the church and the Bride of Christ, to the long anticpated and unexpectant arrival of the Husbandmen, Bridegroom-even Jesus Christ, to enter the Chamber of His house with His Bride awaiting Him, or like the servants awaiting the Master of the house to Return.  I like the ESV study notes on this:

"Like a loving father, Christ will reprove those whom he loves (cf. Prov. 3:12), calling them to repent before he intervenes in judgment. I stand at the door and knock, not as a homeless transient seeking shelter but as the master of the house, expecting alert servants to respond immediately to his signal and welcome his entrance (Luke 12:35–36; James 5:9). To the one who opens the door, Christ will come in and will eat with him, a picture of close personal fellowship."

Synergism is not seen in this passage, in fact synergism and the pride of self boasting was the prompted cause that was the reason for Jesus to spew them out of His mouth! The Sovereign Grace of Jesus ruling in His Church executing discipline is clearly taught, in a Monergistic means of Grace in the Churches life of Sanctification.

Enemies of the cross of Christ Jesus! Philippians 3:18-21

Enemies of the cross of Christ Jesus!
Philippians 3:18-21
18 For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Self-righteous pride and boasting will never see the need for Jesus' Shed blood on the cross to save you, because it is blind to sin, hence, is an enemy of the crops of Christ. Self-sufficiency and self Love, will not see the need for Jesus' sufficiency, hence is an enemy of the cross of Christ. Self-Autonomy of the self made man will never see the need for dependence upon God in life, for it seeks dependence on self and rages upon dependence of their Creator, Hence, is an enemy of the cross of Jesus Christ. The delusion of self as to wanting to be self existence hating the truth and fact of being a creature created by God called into existence by God, hating the nature of its own creaturelyness, wanting to be the supreme divine creator; hence, is an enemy of the Cross of Jesus, for it hates the fact of having been made by God's hand.

When you ignore your sin and sinful condition before God, you are showing that you hate the cross of Jesus, and You Hate God and His remedy to deliver you from your sinful condition in His only begotten Son! You respond in rejection to God the Father's chosen deliverer in His Son, Jesus Christ, and spurn contempt toward the Blood of Jesus to cleanse you and redeem you from your utter depravity, hate and rage against God and from God's eternal wrath abiding on you.

When you live like you have no need for the cross and blood of Jesus, that pride of self-sufficiency shows that you Hate the cross of Jesus and hate His blood to redeem your life from sin, death and eternal destruction and shame!

You act as an enemy of the cross of Jesus, when you trust in the confidence of your sinful nature to please God. Do you not realize that your good works in the flesh are like filthy rags before Almighty God!

Your deceptive arrogant pride to be blind to your sin will be the death of you, for you insist on walking in blindness to the Holiness of God, and continue in deceit of self effort, works and external rituals that will never save you, hence an enemy of the cross of Jesus!


However, when you see your utter depravity and helplessness to your sinful condition then the deep seated need to cry out to God will make you a lover of the cross of Christ and embrace the cross of Jesus in your life to drink from the everlasting fountain Of His blood to receive cleansing and forgiveness, resulting in a right standing and reconciled relationship of peace and Harmony with God; then you will have peace with God through the blood of Jesus, hence, will embrace the cross of Jesus and live for Him!

Evidence of being dead to God and Evidence of having been made Alive to God by the Holy Spirit:
The suppression of the Truth of God and enslavement to the fleshly lusts are characteristic's of the Old Self and Sinful Nature.
The suppression of the sinful nature in the old self not to obey its wicked lusts, to embrace the truth of God are characteristics of the New person quickened and made alive by the Holy Spirit!

The unregenerate person in the control of the sinful nature, suppresses the truth of God to obey it wicked lusts
.Romans 1:18
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

But the Person quickened and made alive by the Holy Spirit, suppresses the old nature and the manifestation of its wicked lusts in the old self and embraces the Truth of God as children of obedience in the new Reurrected self in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:6
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Ephesians 2: 4-5:
4[†]But God, being  rich in mercy,  because of the great love with which he loved us, 5[†]even  when we were dead in our trespasses,  made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

It is Impossible for God to Lie and take back what He Covenanted promised! Hebrews 6: 17-19

It is Impossible for God to Lie and take back what He Covenanted promised!
There is one impossibility for Almighty God which He cannot do and will not choose to do, and that is to take back His only begotten Son and take Him away from His children to leave them forsakened!

Nonetheless, with great reverence, such impossibility for God still preserves the nature of God's omnipotence, for God can never deny Himself and go against His nature of truth, justice, Holiness and faithfulness, who alone keeps His covenant and His promise to His Son and Holy Spirit on behalf of His Church!

For Moses in Numbers 23:19 says, "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

And the Apostle Paul in Titus 1:2-3 also declares the impossible nature of God to lie, when he says, "in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago, 3but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,…"

And in Hebrews, the Apostle declares the two unchangeable facts concerning the nature of God that His purpose to the Heir of His promise is unchangeable and it is impossible for God to lie when he writes in Hebrews 6:17-19, " In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, 18so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. 19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,…"

And again, the Apostle Paul encourages Timothy on grace and perserverence by exhorting Timothy of God's faithfulness to His nature that God cannot deny Himself, when He says to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:13, "If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He also will deny us; 13If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself."

While it is true we live in a sin cursed world, and for the most part, being born in this world does not come without infirmities, sickness and even death, for the last enemy is death and it still has its power over our frail human bodies. There are times in life that the body is healthy and without sickness, times of enjoying abundance of the things in this world, times of having every need met(but we must hold on to those things loosely), for they just do not last and in a moments notice they can be all gone by some unforeseen occurrence of natural disaster, violence and accidents beyond our limited finite ability and control. When such unforeseen occurrences knock on the door step, may the Lord grant the Grace to worship God, like Job did, when he said in Job 1:21:
"Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD." 22Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God."
In such circumstances, the Lord is Sovereign and determines and allows all occurrences to accomplish His will and purpose; therefore, if the Lord plans and wills to give or take away, according to the good pleasure of His determined will and plan, then He can and will allow afflictions to occur, for the expressed purpose to declare the Blessed nature of Almighty God, that naked a person is born in this world and nakedness is required to fall helpless before the Lord of glory in order to be clothed by Him in the righteousness of the blood of His Son. And until that final day, when the last enemy of death is dealt with, naked shall we go to the grave unable to carry bank accounts, cars, houses, wealth, prestige and status with us to the grave, for death is a sure thing in this sin cursed world and claims us all!

Notwithstanding, the truth of deaths claim, there is also another blessed true and a sure thing in life, and that is the blessing's of the Lord to give life, not only physical life but Spiritual life; for it is the Lord who makes alive, it is the blessing of the Lord that quickens and regenerates a spiritually dead soul back to life, in the washing of regeneration of new birth of the Holy Spirit in His only Begotten Son through Jesus' Death and Resurrection, this is a sure gift of God and He will never add any sorrow to such a blessing nor will He ever make dead again that which He has resurrected and made alive in new Birth of regeneration of the Holy Spirit, as in Proverbs 10:22 says,
"It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich, And He adds no sorrow to it."
And in Roman's, the Apostle Paul's declares that God the Father did not spare His only begotten Son, but delivered Him up for us all, what? Will He turn around and spare His Son and not deliver Him up for us all? May it never be, for God will never take back His Son once He gave Him up for us all, He will never give Him and then take Him away!
Romans 8:31-32:
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
According to Isaiah the Prophet, Since God has inscribed His people on the palm of His Hands, will He uninscribe them? May it never be! for He cannot deny Himself and uninscribe His people off the palms of His hands, as if God made a mistake and needed to erase that which He inscribed in His very being, He will not undo that which He has done and accomplished according to His will and plan, as if there was an altered paralleled will, plan and purpose, if the original plan and purpose did not work out;for it is Impossible for God's predetermined plan and purpose according to the eternal counsel of the good pleasure of His will to fail to establish another, for God is all powerful and Almighty to fulfill His eternal covenant plan and purpose in His Son on behalf of His people. Isaiah 49:16"Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; "

When Jesus appeared to Thomas and He said to Thomas, in John 20:27-28, "Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing." 28 Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"…
Jesus cannot unscar His hands, feet and side, after He made payment in His own blood for the Redemption of my soul and Body once for all on the cross, He did not stop Himself from going to the cross but gave His body on the cross! He did not call 10000 legions of Angle's to come down and deliver Him from going to the cross and fight for Him, but He willingly and voluntarily gave Himself up as a ransom for many to obey the God the Father's will, He did not say, Ok, I will do your will, oh, no, I change my mind, I will not do your will, by He cried in fervent prayer, Father, not my will but thine be done!

Therefore, find great comfort and peace based on the unchangeable nature of God to fulfill His covenant promise to His Son and the Church in the Holy Spirit to the heirs of His promise; and based on the impossibility of God to lie, that God cannot lie or deny Himself or go against His nature, rest secure in His only Begotten Son, for He gave His Son for eternal life to all those who believe in Him, for their is true eternal security in God's covenant promise in His Son to save all those whom He chose to believe in His Son before the foundation of the World, and Jesus will loose none of them, neither can anyone snatch them out of His hands! For the Lord gives rich blessing of everlasting Life in His Son and He will never take His Son away, once given, before the foundation of the world, to those whom He quickened and made alive to believe on Him by the Holy Spirit!

The Ultimate Acceptance in Life, is found in God the Father Accepting you in the Beloved, in the glorious LORD Jesus Christ Accepting you in His blood Romans 15: 7,

The Ultimate Acceptance in Life, is found in God the Father Accepting you in the Beloved, in the glorious LORD Jesus Christ Accepting you in His blood!
Romans 15: 7, "Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God."
Ephesians 1: 3-10, "3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5he predestined usb for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9making knownc to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

When we have a horizontal view of seeking acceptance, within the "in crowd" and popular inner circles, and find nothing but rejection, there is a tendency to loose faith and have a sense of insecurity, worthlessness and despair of dejection. How do you deal with seeing yourself always being in the outer circles and never in with the in crowd? Sometimes it is very easy to project rejection onto God, and think that God rejects you because you are treated with contempt, hatred, rejection by the in crowd, and think that because the popular People in harmony with each other, reject you, that God is rubbing shoulder's with them and is rejecting you also!
Maybe you are overlooked in a position and rejected to fill a job opening dejection will come hard and it is easy to think that because you are rejected to fill a job or a post, or an opening, that God rejects you too! So loosing faith in such circumstances, can tempt you to distant your relationship with God, because you do not feel that God accepts you because the majority rejects you. In such circumstances, it is to believe a lie about God and your standing before Him in His Son.

Here is the truth and bottom line, God's acceptance of you in His Son is not based on any circumstances of rejection or acceptance by others toward you. Regardless of what you go through in life, His ways are not man's ways, He is so much higher than our ways, His thoughts are not our thoughts, and His plan of acceptance toward us is not based on anything in any circumstances or criterion based on our efforts, merits or standards, but is based on this eternal constancy that always remains, it is based on His grand plan and purpose according to the good pleasure of His will before the foundation of the World, to choose His people in adoption as son's and daughters in the Blood of His Son! This standing never changes or fades away according to the whims and discontent of man. This standing is established in the heavens for you to receive His grace in your heart that such a blessed standing be real and established in your heart for all eternity. Remember, this one blessed truth, being a believer in Christ Jesus, being in Christ Jesus and having full confidence upon the Rock of your Salvation will never loose such footing that such standing will never fall into rejection by God. For God the Father's favor upon you is never viewed by man's disfavor and rejection of you, for His favor rests upon you always in His Son, and this can never be overturned or changed by the will or purpose of man's intent and by the in crowd's rejecting of you or their disfavor on you, for God's favor will never change to disfavor in His Son, when you are in Christ Jesus, God's favor will always abide on you, He always accepts you in His Beloved, in His Son and nothing can change that fact of His Love and acceptance of you in His Son, and nothing can change God's opinion of you in His Son and nothing can turn His acceptance of you in His Son into rejection and disfavor.
Since God's Favor always abides on you in His Son, since God always accepts you in His Son, how much more should you run to His embrace of Love and acceptance, when circumstances of rejection try to offset your balance and standing of Acceptance in Jesus Christ before God? Do not let the disfavor, discontent and rejection of man and the In Crowd throw you off your standing and rip you from God's hold and loving embrace and acceptance of you, for nothing can rip you a way from God embrace and acceptance of you in His Son!

This is why the Marines make me proud--They glorify Almighty God! Jeremiah 10:6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtdyRDy4fU

Jeremiah 10:6 "There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might!"
This is why the Marines make me proud--They glorify Almighty God! There is no one like YHWH, indeed, No one like Jehovah, mighty to Save! And if there would be any factor that would lift up the spirits and morale of our military, it is not the President greeting the Marines out of the helicopter with a cup of coffee salute, but that they give praise to God and worship God and not the President!

I also find it odd that I posted and shared this video on September 19 and Facebook removed it from my status and made it unavailable, so I am reposting this link on the Marines singing, These are Days of Elijah, if you want to be encouraged by our Marines singing to God in praise and rejoicing in Adoration, not singing to ALLAH Acbar, but to YHWH Jehovah, singing at camp Pendleton, give a listen and a watch and praise God with them as you do:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/18/hurrah-the-viral-video-of-marines-singing-a-popular-christian-worship-song-you-just-have-to-see/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtdyRDy4fU

God did not abandoned His created order of all things, even in this corruption of the present world order of darkness! Romans 8:19-20

God did not abandoned His created order of all things, even in this corruption of the present world order of darkness! Romans 8:19-20
Even in this sin cursed world of deterioration, decay, corruption, destruction and death, He reaches and touches me according to His mercy and Grace in His only Begotten Son!
God has not abandoned His creation, once set in Holy Perfection, but tore apart and opened the heavens and reached down in His mercy through His only begotten Son!
Romans 8: 18-25:
18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience."
Time and Eternity were set and fixed in the heavens, and God was in no rush, according to man's time table, to restore all things, hurriedly, at the fall, when Adam sinned; or, even, when Satan rebelled against God in the Heavens and was thrown down with a third of the rebellious angels (now known as demons), Apart from the revealing of His Son in the fullness of times; God was not in a hurry to restore all things, to reset all things in perfection, apart from Jesus Christ; for God allowed, in His purpose and predetermined plan, to curse the ground to death, decay, deterioration and erosion of perfection, in His handiwork of creation, to run its course, yet without abandonment of His creation; for He was, still is and now, working out all things, down from ancients days and generations, and ages of time to restore all things and make new in His only begotten Son. And included in making all things new are His chosen and elect children, …29For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. 31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?…(Romans 8:29-31), that the outcome of the glorification of His Church, the Body of Christ, and in making all things new in Jesus Christ would be fulfilled!
But now, and until the fulfillment of the ages is brought to completion; we live in this world; eroded to, and subjected to, decay, corruption, deterioration from that which once was set in perfection, now found in imperfection, sin and death. But God, in His mercy, chooses to reveal His grace in His Son, to meet us in our helpless estate of our sin cursed nature using the cursed creation now eroded to imperfection, decay and corruption to, accomplish His purpose and eternal plan and will revealed in His Son!
The creation is God's handiwork, which was once, set in perfection by the fiat of His spoken WORD, creating out of nothing, all things. However, due to the outcome of the fall, God cursed the created order and punished Adam's sin by cursing us with death of Adam's sin cursed nature. Hence, the ground that was created in perfection of God's spoken Word, in which we now walk, is tainted in imperfection, corruption, erosion, deterioration, and decay of perfection. Notwithstanding, God reaches down in His mercy, through His only begotten Son, to meet us in the corruption of decay, deterioration, erosion to imperfection, of the created order and our sin cursed nature, to deliver us to bring us up to the heights of Holiness and perfection where He is seated in the heavenly place, at the right hand of God the Father. God, according to His predetermined plan and purpose, uses the corruption of the created order, eroded in imperfection, that once was set in perfection, by the fiat of His spoken Word, in Creation, that was once declared good in God's eyes, now viewed in degradation to decay, deterioration, sin and death to meet us where we are, in our helpless estate of our own sin cursed nature of decay, deterioration, corruption, and death; living in imperfect situations, circumstances and places to accomplish His great and mighty Will set in the Heavens for the glory of His only begotten Son and the glorification of the Church! God will make all things right, new and reset in perfection once again; only, in, and through our LORD Jesus Christ, never to make all things right and new, apart from His only Begotten Son--even Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior according to His time table and the revealing of the fullness of times in His Son, unto the awakening of regeneration of His children by the Holy Spirit through out every age and generation.

These three Attributes are set in motion in constancy and Harmony in the Manifestation of God's infinite Wrath, Infinite Patience And Eternal infinite AGAPE LOVE!

These three communicated Attributes of God are set in motion and constantly abiding in complete harmony and constancy before the foundation of the world to accomplish God's abiding will according to the eternal council of His predetermined plan and purpose revealed in His only Begotten Son.

These three communicated attributes are manifestations of God's infinite Wrath, God's infinite Patience and Eternal everlasting Agape Love Revealed in His Son.

God is not waiting around for you to accept Jesus, for His wrath is constantly abiding on you compelling you to flee to Jesus for Deliverance from God's wrath,  which is constantly Abiding on you until you find deliverance through The glorious Lord Jesus Christ found in His Love for us, indeed, in His shed Blood on the cross!

These three communicated Attributes of God are set in motion and constantly abiding in complete harmony and constancy before the foundation of the world to accomplish God's abiding will according to the eternal council of His predetermined plan and purpose revealed in His only Begotten Son, and these three communicated attributes of God are like well oiled gears in motion found in a  transmission, or like the succinct precision of the movement of fine jewels and  gears in a high end watch, with every movement clicking into place for precision and accuracy of movement for the hands of time. These three communicated  attributes are moving in constancy and complete harmony to accomplish The Divine purpose of the fiat of God's Word fixed in the heavens before the foundation of the world and revealed in time like the constancy of the days, months, seasons, years and ages of time, like the rising of the sun to its setting all set in motion fixed in the heavens to accomplish the eternal purpose of God's everlasting will in His beloved Son-- even Jesus Christ! For the wheels in the Sky are turning, not waiting for you to make a decision, for you need to be found rolling with the wheels in tthe palms of Jesus' Hands!

These three communicated attributes are manifestations of God's infinite Wrath, God's infinite Patience and Eternal everlasting Agape Love Revealed in His Son.

Infinite wrath because Romans 3:23, Romans 1:18 suppression of Truth and ignorance of God's presence compelling us to flee to the cross until the Love of God is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit 5:5.  Wrath revealed and abiding unto eternity for those who will never come to believe on Jesus Christ, but will cry out for the rocks to fall on them to hide them from the great and mighty wrath of the mighty King of glory His infinite patience Romans 5:6 seen in While and in 2Peter 3:9

God is not waiting around for you to Accept His Son on your terms and when you are good and ready! You got it wrong if you think that God is waiting around for you to accept His Son, while you sow your wild oats, under the guise that you have all the time in the world to turn to Christ, as you say, "let me sin, here and there, and then when I am good and ready I will turn to Jesus for Salvation on my own terms"--you, indeed, got it very wrong and have not heard the very words of Jesus Christ, when He says," 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God"

Do you really think that God is waiting around for you to choose Him and accept His Son, while you indulge in sin and gratify the thoughts of the flesh and of the mind, being spiritually dead to God! Flash! News alert!...God is not waiting for you to turn to Him, while you carry out your wicked lifestyle ignoring God being dead to God! For while each day goes by that you live in darkness and wickedness of the sin cursed self, God is not waiting, but His wrath is constantly abiding on you as you daily carry out your wicked hearts desires and live in spiritual deadness of your soul, constantly suppressing the Living Truth of God's WORD and the Gospel of the LORD Jesus Christ in your life, living in darkness carrying out all your wicked thoughts, words and actions of darkness in opposition and rebellion against the Living God of the Universe!

Be warned, such thinking that God is waiting for you to turn to Him, while you live in sin, as sin erodes your very being unto death and destruction are only lies of the devil, stemming from man centered Arminian thinking; it is an ancient lie to think that your choice is free to choose God anytime of day that you want to, for the truth is told time and time again: your will is bound by sin and death and you won't choose God of your own volition, you can't, you are unable to, how can that which is spiritual dead choose life, you are dead! You need to be made alive by the true fountain of Life and giver of Life, God the Holy Spirit, and your will needs to be set free from your sin cursed self in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ in His shed Blood, death and Resurrection. And until you are Born-again, Born from above, born of Jesus Holy nature through the Holy Spirit, you won't believe with your heart and God's wrath constantly abides on you unto all eternity.

Check yourself to see if God's wrath is abiding on you, are you living by the rule and principal of deception, that you have all the time in the world to accept Jesus? However,in the meantime, I will live for me, myself and I, eating and drinking and indulging in the lust of the flesh in sexual immorality, even in images of the flesh in pornography and the list goes on...then God's wrath is abiding on you as Sure as today is called today! You need to humble yourself and wait on God to accept you in His only Begotten Son, that you may be delivered from His wrath through the Blood of our LORD Jesus Christ!
John 3:17-21
17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

Nothing to show for in light of Eternity! Stop buying stuff, the Love of Jesus is the Answer!Matthew 6:19-24

Nothing to show for in light of Eternity! Stop buying stuff, the Love of Jesus is the Answer!

People full of themselves who live outside of the Blessings of Jesus Christ in their life are only living for the here and the now without having Eternity in view! What an Eternal Tragedy, loss and Disaster!

What good is it all when you live the whole term of your life through and based all your goals and priorities on the here and now of each stage in your life! Always ignoring the eternal priority of laying up for yourself Treasures in heaven with each stage of life you live in the here and now!

What good is it in your quest for billions to own an Island, yachts and all things rich and lavish when the measure of your goods are only based in this Temporal time of the here and now!

The glories of Heaven won’t be impressed, nor can you think that you have earned your place in Heaven with your earthly riches!

What good is it if you have your Islands, Yachts, all things rich and lavish in this life, and you do not have your health or your eternal soul?

But Your life will be required of you in death and there will be nothing to show for your future glory in heaven, because you squandered all your opportunities in living for treasures on this earth and in storing treasures on this earth, and living for the here and now to dwell in places on this earth to only risk it all for Eternal Dwellings in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ!

Remember, these truths: Cloths shrink, rot and get old full of moth eaten holes; Gold and Sliver melt away and precious metals rust; cars loose their value as soon as you drive it off the lot brand new, tires get flat and the paint fades away to chips, rust and weather torn by elements; Yachts and Islands both Sink into the ocean! Houses and all that furnishes it, gets thrown away when new people  move in, once occupied by a former family!

What does it all mean? Except that when the priority of Eternity are the final words spoken with great shouts of loudest voices over the fading priorities of this temporal time of earths dying treasures and The Heavenly Kingdom of Almighty God and His Son, Jesus Christ, is at hand, what will you do when you are unable to stand in view of eternity’s Majestic glory when you lived the full measure of your life for fading treasures in this life that won’t uphold you up or grant you entrance into God’s Eternal Kingdom!

Matthew 6:19-24
19“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and ruste destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.22“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.!

No longer to suffer the wrath of God abiding! But to suffer, in afflictions, to see the Love Of God the Father constantly embracing! Romans 8:1

No longer to suffer the wrath of God abiding! But to suffer, in afflictions, to see the Love Of God the Father constantly embracing!

Romans 8:1"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death."

Believers, in Christ Jesus, will suffer afflictions, but not by the hand of God' s wrath! For such abiding eternal wrath was vindicated and satisfied by the mouth of Jesus, who fully drank of the cup of Divine wrath, to subside and appease God's wrath in His shed blood!

The sufferings and afflictions we endure now, this side of Heaven, are set in motion for us to seek and find the Love of God's discipline of Love constantly embracing us in our sufferings that we may with Joy see  the heavy weight of His love smashing our light and momentary afflictions and sufferings to His mighty presence to be with the believer that I may see His intimate union and abiding fellowship with me in the flames of afflictions eating with Jesus and supping with Him in the furnace of sufferings for the Joy of enduring unto Everlasting life in the realm of the light His heavenly Kingdom! For my soul will never be famished and suffer want of His presence, as King Solomon in Proverbs 10: 3 prophesized,  "The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked."

And John Gill in his commentary, states whatever we suffer does not arise from the wrath of God,

"they that fear the Lord shall not want any good thing; at least whatever they may suffer this way does not arise from the wrath of God, nor does it nor can it separate from the love of God and Christ, Job 5:20. Moreover, the souls of such shall not be famished for want of spiritual food; shall not have a famine of the word and ordinances; their souls shall be fed, as with marrow and fatness, with the finest of the wheat, and with honey out of the rock: the church, though in the wilderness, is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, Revelation 12:14;"

However, the wicked, will always be in want, no matter the abundance of what they swallow down by their greed, never satisfied by the goods of this life, always a restless wanderer never at rest for their soul  does not find rest in God, nor have they placed full confidence and trust in the efficacy of Jesus' shed blood, for the wrath of God constantly abides on them!

John Gill, words it very graphically, that The Lord will make them throw up whatever they swallow down by their greed that they suffer constant want and hunger that will never be satisfied!

"but he casteth away the substance of the wicked; that which is got in a wicked way; as sometimes he causes it to diminish by little and little; at other times he forcibly and suddenly drives it away, and causes it to take wings and fly away; though it has been swallowed down with great greediness and in great" abundance, he makes them throw it up again, and casts it out of their belly, whether they will or not, so that it does not profit them, Job 20:15.

No Garments Tailored on this Earth can Cloth you in Jesus’ Nature of Light! Matthew 17:2

No Garments Tailored on this Earth can Cloth you in Jesus’ Nature of Light!

Matthew 17:2 “And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light”

You are deluding yourself into thinking that you can dress yourself in suits and garments tailored on this earth, thinking that this is what God wears! There is nothing in the carnal nature of the flesh that could ever cloth you in garments of fabric that is of the nature of Jesus’ pure light, shinning brighter than the Sun, in His iridescent nature of pure light, shinning brighter than the sun and strikes and flashes of pure Lighting and light.

Whatever garments that we seek to cloth our self with are nothing but pure and utter darkness, insufficient to be clothed with the glory of Heaven, insufficient to last and be worn for all eternity!

You need to be clothed with the Nature of Jesus’ pure Holy garments of Light. You need to be Born-again, Born from above in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven John 3:3 “Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God!”

Your Filthy rags and garments that you wear, no matter how expensive they maybe will never be acceptable for The Everlasting Kingdom of God. You need to be clothed in the Robe of Righteousness in the Shed Blood of Jesus Christ, That every fiber and nature of Jesus’ Nature of pure light becomes the very nature in you that you become like Him in pure iridescent light, sufficient to last for all eternity, never to wear out or get a spot or wrinkle, never to  become corrupt and rotten. For the garment of righteousness is the Blood of Jesus and the broken Body of Jesus is the Broken life of His righteousness and boundless perfection of Holy pure light that that is offered in His death and Resurrection that by believing in Him you may have pure and Holy Life of His nature of purity and Light, shining brighter than the Sun! The new Birth of being born from above--born again, by the Regeneration and quickening power of the Holy Spirit!

Be warned and understand, do not delude yourself into thinking that your garments of good works, good deeds, merits, efforts of fine tailoring can ever be sufficient to cloth you in Everlasting life of pure and Eternal Light—for your garments are but filthy rags of utter darkness that will rip off your back as you fall in the pit of utter darkness for all eternity where there will be gnashing and wailing of your teeth where the smoke of your torment will rise forever and ever!

It is not that I was delivered, it is that, He came down to deliver me! Psalm 40:1-2:

It is not that I was delivered, it is that, He came down to deliver me!
Psalm 40:1-2:
1I waited patiently for the LORD, he inclined to me and heard my cry.
2He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure 3He put a new song in my mouth a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD."
Very rarely, will someone get into a smelly pit of dung, full of muddy, smelly corruption to reach out and deliver someone who is trapped and unable to be set free from such corruption; lest they, also, fall into it, and become marred and with the same stench of corruption and bondage. Rolling around in a smelly pigs pen will only cause the onlookers who are clean, dressed in fine cloths, smelling fresh with the sweetness of perfumes to avoid and condemn the one trapped in a smelly muddy pit of corruption-in order to avoid getting stained themselves. The hypocrisy of self-righteous people is such, that, they would only associate with those who are clean like them, dressed in fine cloths, smelling fresh with fine perfumes to cover up their own corruption and bondage to their own sin cursed nature. "7For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. 8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.…Romans 5:7-9.
From the smelly pit of corruption I was delivered! I know someone who was willing to get stained and jump in the smelly pit of corruption to deliver me! I know someone who was willing to become bloody naked on the cursed cross, that I might become clothed in His blood and perfumed with the glory of Heaven! Yeah, I know someone like that, His name is Jesus, and He who knew no sin became sin for me that I would be made righteous in God's sight and be delivered from God's wrath! 2 Corinthians 5:20 "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
I know someone who was willing to let go of the glory of His eternal Throne and come down to the greatest depths, to not only reach down, but leave His throne and go to the greatest and farthest depth of the miry pit of sin, corruption and death, where I was lying helpless to its great hold on me to the bondage of my will.
"5Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,b being born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Philippians 2:5-11
It was not that I was delivered from the jaws of sin, death and corruption and the eternal grip of God's wrath abiding constantly upon me; but it was that, He found me where I was lying helpless and joined me without any selfish concerns for Himself that my condition would stain Him--indeed, He was stained for me and fully drank of the cup of God's wrath, He was stained with His crimson red blood for me! He was willing to be scarred in His nail scarred hands and feet for all eternity for me! Notwithstanding, His selfless concerns for His own glorified body, notwithstanding, His willingness to empty Himself of all but Love for me--He was not doomed for me, that He would not come back, and there would be no hopes of ever seeing Him again--No! But the miry pit could not hold Him for all eternity, But He came into the pit to deliver me, and He broke me free from the jaws of sin, death and destruction and ripped through the jaws of death, never to die again in His Resurrection! He, the mighty conqueror, was literally Hell bent on delivering me from the eternal throws of eternal torment of the wrath of God upon me! A mighty conqueror bent on victorious conquest and mighty deliverance from my helpless estate! A victorious King--indeed, the Lion of Judah, conquering eternal Hell and punishment for me!
It is not that I was delivered from the wrath of God and the pit of destruction, but it is that He delivered me! He sought me, found me, came to be there with me in my bondage and imprisoned soul and His mighty Hand swooped me in His mighty embrace and delivered me setting me free, carrying me up out of the smelly jaws of sin, death and corruption! Yes, indeed, He delivered me!

A pair of White Doves sent my way Matthew 3:16

A pair of White Doves sent my way what a wonderful reminder of God's Sovereignty, Holiness and Peace upon me
June 20, 2012 at 2:02am

A pair of White Doves, while I was driving along the way! What a wonderful reminder of God's Sovereignty, Holiness and Peace to guide me on my journeys end. I was driving down the GSP, and to my driver’s side, I saw a Pair of white Doves were flying alongside of my car with me southbound on the Highway.
What a wonderful sign of God's Grace and Sovereignty to send the pair of white doves alongside my way to remind me that His peace is with me through His Son and the Holy Spirit!

To him who has ears to hear and eyes to see… if you take the time to observe, you can see the LORD using His created. Order of the world and His created animals, creatures, fish and birds like a pair of doves to speak to you and point you to the Promises of His Word found in Scripture to make your day full of joy and peace in knowing of His presence abiding on you in His Beloved Son!

Symbolism of Two Doves
Doves are a rare breed. they choose 1 mate to be with for their lifetime. If the other dies the one left will not find another mate. They will spend the rest of their lives alone. Therefore the symbol of two dove mean an everlasting love.
God's Blessing and Everlasting Love upon me!

Matthew 3:16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.

Matthew 10:16 I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.