Are You Hearing from God or Just Fooling Yourself?

I want to read to you what it says about hearing from God in James chapter 1; My brethren count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience but let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing if any of you lacks wisdom let him ask God who gives to all liberally without reproach and it will be given to him.  But let him ask in faith with no doubting for He who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind, for let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord, he is a double-minded man unstable in all his ways."

 So how do we hear from God and why are so many men unstable in all of their ways?

Men are unstable when they are not hearing from the Holy Spirit and instead of letting patience have its perfect work in them, they put words in God's mouth they read the select Bible verses that they want and they think that's God speaking. They hear from a certain prophet, a certain man or certain woman and they believe that word instead of the word that comes from patience from the Holy Spirit.

So they don't learn from God through patience and trials. They're not hearing God in the very core of their being through wisdom they're hearing God supposedly through signs and blunders, their imagination they're hearing God and too many Christians are not waiting upon the Lord in righteousness through patience through trials tribulations through the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

 I see Christians who are specifically in the Pentecostal group you know these people are in the Bethl church, they're in these sorts of churches that believe that they are speaking in tongues believe that they have visions and understanding from God yet they have no true patience from God and because of that they think that they are hearing God in their mind. We don't hear God in our ears we don't hear God in our mind we have to hear God in the very core of our being. The Holy Spirit speaks to our spirits not to our ears, you know who will speak to your ear is the devil,  men speak into your physical ears but God speaks into the very core of your soul and so if you want truth you need to be listening for Him to speak into your soul with wisdom that is why men and women even in the church are not hearing from God they're led along by their own lusts by their own misguided understanding by their own misinterpretations of the Bible.

 We need to be smart and wise longsuffering we need to wait on the Lord for His guidance and He will give liberally to you if you wait upon Him and

 listen in your spirit with your spiritual ears. Don't be deceived by Christians and by the blunders and signs in the world that come from Satan. Don't be misguided by false spiritual guides/spirit guides. Make sure that you're truly led by the Holy Spirit because God knows how to lead you in your spirit. It's not about these outward signs, remember that the kingdom of God does not come with signs that are observable by men but the kingdom of God is inside you, the kingdom of God should be in your soul and there you should be understanding it, there God is working, but if you're like the people who think that God is just working outwardly these magical signs and He's like a spirit guide, you're going to be extremely deceived. 

AI is one of these sorts of demons or at least what demons take on and because people want a quick microwave kind of a food from God, they go directly to AI they go straight to technology for a word from God and they totally turn their back on the truth the Living God. Jesus is the truth, He is the way He is the life not technology, not this quick microwave food from the internet.  Yet how many are going to the world thinking they're going to find Knowledge from God? It takes patience like we read in James it takes long suffering it takes dedication it takes complete control over your flesh. You need to put down your flesh and in righteousness be led by the Holy Spirit. 

It's easy to say "I'm being led by the Holy Spirit, I'm being led by God I listen to God..." it's easy to say that and not do it but if you are dedicated then like James says you need to be patient, you patiently wait upon the Lord and He will give you wisdom if you are serious to listen for the wisdom that comes from God. 

That doesn't mean that you just do nothing, it doesn't mean that you just pray on your knees in your room all day, but it also means that you get up in obedience DO the things that the Spirit of God put on your conscience to do that you know that you know is right to do. Many Christians know what they should do and they don't do it and then the things they know they shouldn't do they do those things. We need to make sure that we cast out the Devil by doing what is good and rejecting what is wrong, as simple as that. So I hope this encourages someone to receive the wisdom that comes from the Lord.  Jesus Christ is alive, He is the Truth He is the Life and He is the Way. May the grace of Jesus be with you. 

Do You Have What it Takes to Endure to the End?

 Do You Have What it Takes to Endure to the End

Praise Jesus this morning everyone. The other day I was remembering back on my life when I was younger and I remember a few times where I was very encouraged to spread the gospel to people. Not because my church told me that I should or my parents told me that I should tell people about Jesus, but simply because I wanted to. And I remember a few of the first times that I shared Jesus with people. A couple times that come to my mind is one time when I was really young, praise Jesus everyone, I shared with my brother before Y2K. Do any of you remember that? I'm sure if you're older than 40 you'll remember the whole Y2K scare. And a lot of people went into a panic during this time of Y2K, which was year 2000. And there was this whole scare that people thought it was the computers were going to all be shut down because it was going to reset, remember that? People were panicking thinking that it was going to go back to the year zero and that maybe the whole economy would be disrupted due to Y2K. But if you can remember what happened, nothing happened.

But for a month before or a few months before Y2K happened, everyone was going into that panic. And I took the opportunity to tell people about Jesus, that possibly the Lord's return was happening imminently, that it could happen right at year 2000. And I told people this. And I remember one night, late at night, staying up and talking to my brother about Y2K and the return of Jesus and how it could be right on New Year's. And I remember my brother being panicked and wanting to give his life to Jesus right then. And as I recall of some of these experiences, telling people about Jesus and his return in end times, what I recall is people for a moment being genuine, wanting to repent, people for a moment wanting to get right with the Lord. But the only reason, guys, that they wanted to get right with the Lord was out of fear. Now, clearly we have to fear God and love him. We have to have both of those elements to our faith. If you have one without the other, you'll be in great trouble. And as I recall, okay, there was another instance where I knew someone from high school, and this guy came over to my house. And again, I told him about end times, and we stayed up late into the night talking, doing a sleepover. And through the night, I talked to him about Jesus's return and the uprising of the antichrist. And I just spoke about end times and the things that I knew were true from the Bible. And this guy listened. And like my brother, he also went into a panic. He was panicked and he wanted to repent. But these guys' repentance only lasted for an evening. And then by the next day, when the Lord hadn't returned, or by New Year's, when the Lord hadn't returned at Y2K, they went straight back to their way of worldly living. It wasn't enough to carry them through life. If we want what it takes to carry us through life, we need Jesus's true love. 

And sadly, most Christians don't have what it takes to endure to the end. They either have love or they have fear. They fear God while it looks like His judgments are coming. While the fires come down in LA, they say, the judgment of God is coming, we better shape up. But as soon as the rains come, they say, the fires have died down, we can go back to worldly living. And those who only have love and no fear, they say, God's grace is with me. And look, there's no judgment of God, so His grace is with me. I have love, I have what it takes to endure to the end. But they don't have fear of God, so they don't respect Him. And they also begin to live ungodly because they don't see the judgment that will happen if they don't live righteously. I want to read to you what Jesus said about end times, and I encourage you to read the whole chapter of Matthew chapter 24, but about this servant who fell away once the fear of God was no longer with him. Jesus says, then who is then faithful? And the wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household to give them food in due season. That means, which one of us is living on the food of life and also feeding that food to others when Jesus returns? Who of us will be doing that when Jesus returns? Who will be spreading the true gospel out of fear and love? Then Jesus says, blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing. Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. But if that evil servant says in his heart, my master is delaying his coming and begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and an hour when he is not aware of and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. That is pretty severe guys. That is not the grace gospel that we traditionally hear in church. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

So we know about these parables that Jesus taught. We know that he taught about hell. So the question is, do we have what it takes to endure to the very end, the end of the age, the end of our life? And I propose to you, it takes much more than just the grace gospel kind of love. And it takes much more than just a moment of fear of God, because many men fear God, the devil fears God, and the devil's not making it into the kingdom. And you will not make it into the kingdom of God if you just fear him in a moment in time. And too many Christians, they turn to God out of fear. You know, there's a tent revival. And so they hear the preacher speaking about hellfire and brimstone and they go, my goodness, hell is real and demons are going to take me to hell if I don't repent of my sins. So they go down to the altar and they confess their sins and they say, Lord Jesus, I repent, come into my heart. 

And the pastor prays over them and he prays over all of these people with this altar call. And then they leave that tent and maybe for a month or maybe for six months, they're on fire for God. But as soon as that experience starts to dwindle down and the things of the world start to arise, those weeds start to choke them out. And their foundation was never on solid rock. It was based just on a moment of fear from a preacher speaking about end times. So you can't endure with Jesus to the end just on a moment of fear. 

You have to get past this until you have a genuine love for God. How do you obtain a love for God when you don't have that? A lot of Christians, they're just fearful. They want to escape hell, but they don't have a genuine love for God. They don't have genuine love for their neighbor. And you see this kind of shallow love from Christians when they receive the fear gospel, because then they go on the street and they're preaching, repent, the kingdom of God has come. You all are going to hell. Homosexuals are going to hell. Wicked churches are going to hell. And they love to tell how others are going to hell and how they have escaped hell because of fear. But these sorts of Christians don't have what it takes to endure to the end because they haven't received the spirit of love from the Lord. We know that love is what separates us from the rest. Love separates us from the world. And when they see we have something different, then the world also desires to repent and come into this true love that can carry us along. This love has to be bought from the one who sells, but not from the ones who sell it in the world, but from the one who gives without cost. Jesus laid down his life for you and for me on Calvary. 

He died on the cross. We know he resurrected on the third day. He overcame death and he gave us the new covenant, the new testament, which is if we eat his flesh and drink his blood and partake in his new testament, then we will have life.If we have read the gospels and we know the stories about Jesus, but we don't have that love and understanding of who he really is, we need to pray and to ask him to revive us. How can a dead heart beat? How can a heart that has grown cold become hot again? How can you revive that fire? It starts when you pray and ask the Lord to revive that fire in you. Say, Lord Jesus, give me what it takes to overcome. 

Revive that fire in my soul so that I will become alive. And if you can pray and ask that prayer out of faith that the Lord would deliver his spirit, deliver on his promise that he would come to you and make his abode in you, then he will speak into your heart and he will start to lead you. But you have to walk by faith in him, not out of just this primitive fear of death. Of course, we have to fear God. Of course, all of us know that we're going to die. All of us are men who have breath in our nostrils. And we know that one day that we will be laid in the earth. And then comes the judgment of God, the final judgment, where we will spend our eternity, heaven or hell. And we have to fear that God has the power and authority to send us to hell or to allow us into heaven. We have to respect that and also fear that, of course. But that is not enough to lead us forward into everlasting life, because the devil is very good at making you feel like you're safe and secure. You're good enough how you are. 

You don't really need to fear God anymore because everything is now at peace. Even when the world isn't at turmoil, even before COVID happened, people were thinking everything is fine. And then as soon as COVID struck, then people went into a panic. We need to remember how this cycle of life works, how we become fearful and then we go back to complacency. And remember that that fear does not carry us along. And remember how in the end times, how it says in Revelation that all these judgments of God, all these terrible things will happen on the earth, and still the people do not repent and turn from their evil ways. They don't come to the light of the truth. So we need the love of Jesus. We need to pray and say, “Lord, mold us to your image. Give us a new heart. Renew our mind. Let our conscience be right before you. Speak to us so that we can hear your voice and be led along by your love, your righteousness, and your purity.” And if we receive the true things, the true food from God, then we will have the nourishment and the strength it takes to endure to the very end of our life. And I want to read to you now about this parable of the wise and the foolish virgins, because the foolish did not have what it took to get to the end. They had some form of spirituality because they had some form of a candle or a flashlight, so to speak, but they didn't have what it took to endure to the very end. Jesus said, then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, see, this is a big thing. A lot of Christians believe Jesus is going to come right back and rapture them. 

But after there is no rapture, after the return of the Lord is delayed, they all slumber and slept. And at midnight, a cry was heard. Behold, the bridegroom is coming.Go out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil for our lamps are going out. But the wise answered, saying, No, least there should not be enough for us and you, but go rather to those who sell and buy for yourselves. This parable is a bit of a mystery, guys, because you can't buy salvation like Simon the sorcerer. But in the scriptures, it does say about the gospel, go to the one who sells without cost. So the true gospel you get from you get from Jesus Christ without buying it from some pastor. You can't buy salvation like that sorcerer, but you can go to Jesus on your knees and pray to him for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and oil in your lamp. But also this parable could be interpreted to go to those who sell like Simon the sorcerer. It could be Christians telling you, go to your church. If you think your church is going to save you and the pastor is going to save you, go back to those ministries. Go back to those that you've went to all along. All along, you haven't come to the one who gives without cost. You haven't come to Jesus all along. All along, you have went to your church. You've went to your Bible. You've went to your Bible studies. You've went to your elders and your leadership. Why don't you go back to them now if that's what saves you? And I think a lot of people are going to wake up when more of these pestilences like COVID-19 hit the earth. When more of these disasters hit the earth, they're going to realize, man, my church can't offer the hope of salvation. My Bible can't save me. My pastor can't give me life. And they're going to go and they're going to try to trim their candles and they're going to find that they have no oil in their lamp. The oil that they thought was in their lamp ran totally dry because it wasn't genuine faith. It was only faith in their Bible study, only faith in their church, in their groups, but they never had true oil to sustain them from the Holy Spirit. And they will be terrified because they will know they don't have the truth. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding and the door was shut. 

Afterward, the other virgins came also saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you. Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. These guys were too late. They didn't have fear and love. Maybe they feared God. But as soon as the Lord delayed his coming, that fear diminished. Their hearts became black. They began to eat and drink with drunkards. They began to look at pornography. They began to cheat on their wives. They didn't stand for the truth. They weren't preaching the gospel. They weren't separate from the world. They let evil creep into their life and they became just like the rest of the world. And then when the Lord's return was imminent, right around the corner, they had no more opportunity to get right with God. They couldn't get their candles back to light. They had no more opportunity to find their way to the door. The door was shut in their face. I hope that this will not be you, but this will be many Christians, not 50% of Christians. Most Christians will be too late. They will not be able to enter into the household of faith because they trusted in the things of the world. They trusted in things that were created. They trusted in the creation of the church, the creation of the Bible, the creations of their own mind that thought saved them. And Jesus said regarding the scriptures, these are they which testify of me, yet you're unwilling to come to me to have life. And way too many people have a false kind of faith or only faith that leads them as long as they see fearful things happening in the earth. But what you need to sustain you to the very end is the love of the Lord Jesus. You need his love in your heart. If you have not received his love today, you need to receive his love. You need to pray and say, “Lord Jesus, please baptize me in your Holy Spirit.Let me receive your love with joy. Restore my heart that my heart may not be full of sin and blackness, full of greed and the temptations of the world, but purge me and purify me and let your love come into my heart. Consume me with your love. Let me have that oil that fills me that I may have light to endure to the very end.” 

So I want to pray for those of you that want to have this love, not just fear, but fear working with love that you can also follow the Lord to the very end of the age, because we don't know when he's going to come. None of us know if he's coming in the morning or at night, but we have to stay awake. We have to continue to watch and pray. “Lord Jesus, I pray for my fellow brothers and sisters that they will be filled with the love of the Lord and they would be vigilant to eat your flesh and drink your blood and be in communion with you, partaking in the new covenant. We pray that you would be filling our hearts and our minds, that our minds would be renewed in you, that we would have renewed strength, not that comes from people, but that comes from heaven, that we would have the wings as the eagle to fly with you.So I pray for people to come out of dead religion, to come out of lust, to come out of all the desires of the flesh, all the parasites of sin, that they would be made clean and that they would be able to follow you in purity, that you would fill them with the love of your Holy Spirit and that they would love you with all of their heart, soul, mind, and strength and love their neighbor as themselves, such as that it would lead them to testify of your goodness, that more people would repent and come into the true body of Christ. In your name I pray, Lord Jesus, Amen.”

Fear or Love?

 If the main reason you come to God is out of fear of end times and His judgment, then you are likely to fall Away. As  the Lord's return is delayed, you will begin to say to yourself, "Why did I fear God?" And you will go back to living a sinful life, not fearful of the Lord's return and His judgment any longer.  But if at the core of what compels you is true LOVE for Him, then you will have what it takes to endure to the VERY end.

Get Alone With Jesus

 Get Alone With Jesus

We’ll praise Jesus today. One important thing in our Christian walk with the Lord Jesus is to make sure that we get alone with Jesus, that we have a prayer life with Him, and that we are separate from the world. This is one concept that the American church at large does not preach because they're always too busy with their church congregation, preaching connectedness. They want you to get plugged into ministry. They want you to be connected to their Bible studies, to their mission trips, to their giving. They want you to give and to tithe to their church. They want you completely connected to their form of Christianity.

But Jesus calls us to come out and to be separate. We are called to touch nothing unclean, and unless we get alone with Jesus, we are bound to the world, and we're bound to end up where the world is going—thinking like the world, not having a changed mind or a changed heart, but thinking exactly like how everyone else thinks. Haven't you noticed that you start to sound like the people you're around? I sound like my mother tongue, the area that I was born in, and the people that I were around. And the people you're around—you'll start to sound like them, for better or for worse.

And so, if you're around people who are sinning and doing things that are evil or living out dead religion and principles of the Bible but without the power of the Holy Spirit, you will start to speak Christianese. You'll start to try to appease the people at church. You'll try to look just like them, have the same lingo. You'll be reading from the same places in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and wherever they're reading in the Bible, you'll be following along with that, and you won't be guided by the Holy Spirit, and that's a big problem.

To follow Jesus for real, to be His disciples, we have to have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us, and we have to be separate from world people. See, the closer you are to people and their sin, the more you will be accepting it. So, for example, if you don't have anyone that is a homosexual in your family, chances are you have no problem as a Christian speaking against homosexuality. But if someone in your close peers or in your close ring of people is homosexual, you'll be a lot more timid to speak out against homosexuality because there's someone keeping you in check and saying, "You can't speak out against homosexuality because it's not really a sin. Think on this side," and they will share all the arguments for homosexuality or the transgender thing.

So, the closer you are to these people, the harder it will be to see from the perspective of God and then to speak out for the things that are true. The more you'll be hushed, the more you will be quiet on the things of the truth. The devil loves it when we are connected with others and think that we're having fellowship with others because it's a way for him to manipulate, control us, and to shut us up. The devil doesn't want anyone speaking out about the truths of Jesus Christ. He would rather everyone be quiet to the truth and just believe in worldly love, acceptance, a sense of morality without receiving the power of the Holy Spirit, and just believe in whatever you want to believe—believe in the god of self.

And the more you're around these sorts of people, the more you will find that you're hushed. You have no power to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus. You won't have any rock to stand on. But likewise, if you're spending time with Jesus, if you're alone with Him, and you are disconnected from the religious crowd, you're disconnected from sinners, then you're able to hear the Holy Spirit. He is able to dwell in you as the temple of God, speak into your mind and into your heart, and then, when you leave and you go out, you're able to proclaim the good news to the world. You're able to preach the gospel from your life, and this is what the Lord Jesus desires.

He desires us to be on fire for Him—not that we would be hiding our light under a bushel, or that our light would be going out, but that we would be letting our light shine for all to see, that people would see the light and that they would come to the light. So, I want to read to you first what it says in Ephesians.

This is Ephesians chapter 5:

"Therefore be imitators of God, dear children, and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

But fornicators and all uncleanness or covetous, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talk, nor coarse jesting, (which are not fitting), but rather giving of thanks.

For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, or covetous man who is an idolator has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore, do not be partakers with them."

See, the wrath of God is coming on the American church because they continue to sit themselves in the seat of mockers. They refuse to come out and to be separate from dead religion and things that are sinful. They accept all these things, and they say that God loves those things.

“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.”

We are not to be the children of the darkness, nor are we to be coming more and more dark. We're to be coming into the light of the truth.

“For the fruit of the Spirit is all goodness, righteousness, and truth, finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore, He says, 'Awake, you who sleep! Arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.'”

And we want that light of the world to be in us. If you have no light, then your whole body is full of darkness. You have no testimony. And the closer you are to people who are living a sinful life, the more your light will diminish. The more your light will turn black. The more your salt will become saltless. And then how can you flavor that salt again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out onto the dung pile.

“See then that you walk not as fools, but as wise, circumspectly, redeeming the time because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not be drunk with wine, which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit.”

I also want you to look with me at what it says in 2 Corinthians chapter 6:

“Oh, Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you; our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. Now in return for the same, I speak as to children—you also be open. Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God.”

The temple of the living God is not brick and mortar. It's not the church that sits on the corner downtown. But the true temple of God is you, if you are willing to receive the Holy Spirit and come out and be separate from worldliness.

“As God has said, ‘I will dwell in them and will walk in them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.’ Therefore, come out from among them(—which is false believers—)and be separate,’ says the Lord.

‘Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. and I will be a father to you and you shall be my sons and daughters’, says the Lord Almighty.”

We need to make sure that we truly come out from dead religion, that we come out from worldliness, so that we don't become like these people who have no relationship with God but who go around playing the Pharisee, preaching the Bible as if the Bible and being biblical will save anyone. These Christians do read the Bible; they get everyone on a reading plan. They can read through the Bible in a year or a few years, but what does it matter that you're like a Pharisee when you don't have the love of Jesus in you and you have the love of the world in you? And you think just like the world and just like all your fellow sinners who know the Bible, who know the scripture, but don't have any genuine relationship with Jesus Christ.

We need to come out and to be separate so we can get alone with Jesus and have a word from God. So I want to encourage you today to come out and to be separate from the world. Come out and be separate from church. Be separate so that you can get alone with Jesus and have revelation from God.

When you die, it's not going to matter that you tithed to a church or that you had a good pastor or that you read the Bible once every year. What's going to matter is if Jesus knew you and if you were pleasing to Him. So the question is: Are you pleasing God because you're separate from ungodliness and that you've made yourself a temple for the Living God? Are you separate, and are you pure before Him?

So I want to pray for those of you that want to be connected to God, that want to receive the Holy Spirit, that want to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, and those of you that want to touch nothing unclean.

“Lord Jesus, I pray for Your church, Your true church, that they would truly come out from religion and become the body of Christ. I pray for those who are listening today that want to see the light, that want to know the truth, and who don't want to be deceived by the things of this world. We know the devil is a liar; it is his native language. So we pray that we are not deceived by Satan, but that we truly come out and are separate, that we touch nothing unclean, and that You will receive us, and that You, Lord Jesus, will become a father to us, and that we will become Your sons and Your daughters, and that You will dwell in us and be walking in us, and that Your Spirit will be breathing life into us. I pray that we will be connected to You, eating Your flesh and drinking Your blood and walking in communion with You. In Your name, I pray, Lord Jesus. Amen.”

We need to have communion with Jesus. This is what Jesus initiated with the Last Supper. He broke bread, He broke that bread, and He said, "This is my body, which is broken for you." It's the bread of the New Covenant. And He broke it and gave that bread to His disciples to eat, which was His body. And then He poured the cup for His disciples, which is the wine of the New Covenant, which represents Jesus's blood. And they all drank from it. And Jesus told them that every time they ate and drank, to do it in remembrance of Him, and that we should always be remembering that Jesus paid the price for us. He atoned for our sins. He died on the cross. He resurrected that we would also partake in the bread and in the wine, that we would drink of His cup and also take up our cross, that we would be broken and then established on the rock of Jesus Christ, that we would be in communion with Him and not in communion with the world.

We need to hear as Jesus hears. We need to see as Jesus sees—not as the world sees, not as the world loves or eats or drinks—but we need our communion with the Living God.

Well, praise Jesus today, everyone. I hope this encourages someone to truly come out and to be separate, not to fall to loneliness. You need to know that Jesus is always with us. He will never leave us. He will never forsake us, even when all the religions become apostate, even when all the falling away happens, which is happening right now. The Christian churches have fallen away from the truth of God. They've gone apostate. They've gone dark. They have no more light of Jesus.

The world is steering more and more away from the truth and into the Antichrist governments. But we, as the children of God, need to be strong in the Lord, shining our light for Him, that all may see and that more people in these end times that we live may come out and be separate and touch nothing that is unclean so that the Lord will receive us.

The Bible isn't the Gospel Message

Well, praise Jesus today, everyone. I want to speak about this topic because in the Christian church, many Christians have started to elevate the Bible as if the Bible itself was the gospel or is the message itself. And they make it as though knowing the Bible is the very pinnacle of the Christian faith. So you have to get into a Bible study. You have to listen to their leaders and their teachers who have went to seminary who are worthy to teach the Bible. You need to educate yourself in the Bible and learn, you know, Hebrew roots of words. And they make it seem as though the Bible itself is the message, that the Bible itself is the gospel. And that is absolutely not the truth. In fact, if you read the gospels that are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, you will realize even from the very beginning of the gospel of John that Jesus is the Word, not the Bible. I want to read it to you. This is John chapter 1. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” This is the gospel, guys. Why this is so important to distinguish between the Bible being the gospel itself or the message itself and Jesus is because it defines where you are placing your faith. The Christian church places their faith in the Bible itself. They treat the Bible as if it's the basic instructions before leaving earth, the B-I-B-L-E. They say that the Bible is infallible, meaning it's perfect, although they don't know which version. They treat the Bible as if it can predict all the future, that it's everything God ever wanted to say. It is the Holy Spirit. It is Jesus. Yet then you have Jesus claiming to be the Word of God. Now, what in the world does it mean to be the Word of God? Well, it's very simple, actually. When you think about a message or a messenger, what does that mean? The Word, like what's the Word on the street? It means the message or the news. So, God had a message or He had news for humans, for people, for us, and throughout time He spread this news to His people. For example, in the Old Testament, He spreads the news through the Old Testament, and He gives the law through Moses, which is the Ten Commandments, the Torah, those 613 commandments to lead His people. He calls His people out of Egypt, out of the bondage that they were in Egypt and into the wilderness to the promised land, and He leads them. So, this Word, this Word of God is the message to them, or you could say the rules to them, or the law, whatever humans should understand that God wants humans to understand. So, the really profound thing about this, guys, is this message or this news didn't just stay in heaven, but this message became a messenger, and that messenger took on that prophetic role of becoming flesh, and not just a prophet, but more than a prophet, our Savior, our Redeemer. He became Emmanuel, which is God with us. A lot of people don't even believe that Jesus is God. They say He's God's son,  but they don't believe the Son of God to be one with His Father. They don't believe Him to be God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, like the prophets said about Him, that He would be Emmanuel, God with us, and that the government would rest upon His shoulders, that He'd be wonderful, counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. So, this is what it means, the Word of God simply means the news of God, the information God wants to send you, and the information that God wants to send you isn't just that the Bible is a good book, or that you should get your nose in the Bible. That is not the message. The message is that Jesus Christ became flesh, He died, He resurrected from the dead, all power and all authority is given to Him in heaven and on earth, and He has the power to deliver you from your sins, and then to come into you with the power of the Holy Spirit, make His abode in you, that you would be the temple of God, and that you would be in communion with Him. This is the new covenant, and this is the gospel message. That is why Jesus is the Word of God. That's why Jesus is the message. Jesus is the news. Now, I turned on the radio today, and the preacher on the radio was speaking all about how the Bible is the Word of God, you know, the Bible's infallible, that we should only be looking at the Bible. These Christians think that the Bible itself is the gospel. They think the Bible is Jesus. The Bible is the news. That is not what God wanted to relay. God did not come to just send us a book. He came to send His Son, that His Son would die and be the perfect sacrifice for us, that then we could also bear our cross, take up our cross, and follow Jesus, and live in the newness of life with Him. He didn't come just to send a book and to tell you, go educate yourself. In fact, three-quarters of all of Christians have never had the Bible. Think about before the printing press. They didn't have the Bible. They didn't have the ability to understand English, but they came to know God's faith the same way as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and, you know, all of the people of old that believed in God but that weren't educated or have the privilege of having the recorded scripture. So don't be deceived by the Christians who are worshiping the Bible, calling the Bible itself the message, because that is not true. The Bible didn't come to proclaim itself as God, but all of those that wrote the Bible are proclaiming the message, which is the gospel of the New Testament, that Jesus is the message. He is the news. He is the word. This is what the rest of it says in John chapter one. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all through him might be saved. He was not that light, meaning John, but was sent to bear witness of that light, not the Bible. John wasn't sent to bear witness that the Bible was the light, but that the word was the light. That was the true light, which gives light to every man coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. This is another thing that many Christians reject, or they deny, or they look over. They say, well, the Father made the world. Well, the Bible, over and over again, bears witness that Jesus made the world. Jesus created all things. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory. The other gospels speak about this as well. They speak about how His name is Emmanuel, God with us, that God became flesh. The Bible didn't become flesh.The word is not the Bible. And over and over and over again, we hear about how the name of Jesus, how He is the word, because He is the gospel, guys. The Bible is not the gospel. The Bible is not the word. Jesus is the gospel. Jesus is the one who came to save us and give us the new covenant, not the Bible itself. And this is where Christians in the church are extremely deceived and deceiving others, because they make it seem as though the Bible were the gospel, and if you get into the Bible, you'll be saved. They always say it has to be biblical. We get into a biblical church, and they're deceiving others because they're not coming to the word of life. Even though they read the words of Jesus in the Bible, they don't come to the words of life. And ironically, Jesus speaks about the same thing at the very beginning of the gospel of John. If you look at John chapter 5, starting in verse 38, Jesus says, but you do not have His word abiding in you, speaking to Jews that didn't believe in Jesus and the Pharisees who knew the scripture, He says, you don't have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, meaning God, Him you do not believe. You search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life. And how many Christians are searching the scriptures, thinking that they're becoming like the Bereans of Acts, that they're getting closer to God, that they are understanding more, and so they're getting better at their Christian walk, because they're reading the Bible. But Jesus says clearly at the beginning of this gospel of John, you search the scriptures, for in them you think that you have eternal life. And these are they which testify of me. But you are not willing to come to me, that you may have life. This is a huge problem in the Christian church today. They go around teaching the Bible, saying this is the B-I-B-L-E, basic instructions before leaving earth. The Bible is what you need to get into, yet they are ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth, that Jesus is the word. They're teaching the Bible as if it's the gospel, and that is simply a lie. The Bible didn't come to save anyone. The Bible can't save you. The Bible can't lead you into everlasting life. You have to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. You need to receive the truth of Jesus. Read the gospel of John for yourself. Read the whole book. Pay attention to what Jesus really said, and don't believe the lying pastors that make the Bible into an idol. Receive the Holy Spirit as Jesus spoke about in John chapter 14 through 16. Jesus Christ Himself is the word of God. He is the one who will lead you and guide you and manifest Himself to you, but the Bible is not worthy to lead you. Three quarters of all of Christians since the time Jesus resurrected from the dead did not have access to the Bible, yet they are not lesser brothers in the Lord because they didn't have the Bible. You can't say, "well, they're not real Christians because they weren't reading the book. They were uneducated, so God doesn't love them", but the Christians of today act as though they are better than others if they know the Bible, but what Jesus said is they're ever searching the scriptures but never coming to the truth. These biblical preachers who have went to seminary and they know all of the roots of words, they know how to teach all this. They're educated, but they don't know the truth of Jesus. They don't have His truth in their heart. So, I encourage you to read this gospel, but come to Jesus, receive His Holy Spirit, repent of your sin, allow His Holy Spirit to come into you, and then be led by the guidance of the Holy Spirit and not just by the arm of the flesh and knowledge and all of this stuff that you can glean from people of this world. So, I want to pray for those of you that want to receive the Holy Spirit, that want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, and receive the Word of Life, which is Jesus. "Lord Jesus, I pray for people to come into your truth, that they would not be deceived by the wolves in sheep's clothing, by lying pastors, by paid ministers who are paid to preach lies day after day after day. I pray that people would really repent of their sins, that they would come to be led by your Holy Spirit, that they wouldn't be deceived or have deceiving dreams or deceiving visions, or that they would not be deceived by their own understanding of the Scriptures, but that they would truly come to the knowledge of the truth, that they would have faith in you, that they would partake in your new covenant and be filled with your Holy Spirit. I pray this in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen."

 

The Fate of Your Christmas Tree

 Well, praise Jesus today, everyone. What I wanted to speak about shortly is the fate of Christmas trees. You've probably seen what happens to Christmas trees. I remember when I was a little kid, I would notice the day after Christmas or so that the Christmas trees would be thrown out into the backyards around the town, and it surprised me how quickly those Christmas trees would be turning brown. There was a lake not far out of my town that people used to throw Christmas trees into, and right after Christmas, they would go out there and throw the Christmas tree into the lake, and the Christmas tree wouldn't be discovered until late summer when the lake's waters recessed, and then you would see the Christmas trees in the lake. But Christmas trees are like the Christians who have the Christmas trees. They're spiritually dead. Christmas trees are not alive. You go into the forest, you cut them down, so they're already dead by the time they make it inside your house. And then there's false fruit. There's false decorations and ornaments all over the tree that appear to look very beautiful. Christmas trees are like spiritually dead Christians. Spiritually dead Christians, they look like they have fruit. On the outside, they look good. They maybe wear nice clothes. Their family looks nice on the outside. They go to church. They keep the Sabbath. They keep Sunday. Whatever it is they do outwardly, it appears good before men. But inwardly, they are spiritually dead and dying, and we all know what happens at the end of the age. We all know what happens at the end of the year. The Christmas trees are taken out of the house and they are burned, and the same happens at the end of the age. God gathers with His angels all of those who are alive, and He brings them into His barn, and all of the chaff, all of the weeds, and all of the dead trees, He gathers them and He throws them into the fire to be burned. So this is like a huge spiritual manifestation that happens every single Christmas, guys. Let it remind you that the Christmas tree represents dead Christians. The Christmas tree looks really good. Everyone wants a nice Christmas tree. Everyone wants to look beautiful on the outside. But remember, the Christmas tree is dead. Its fruit is all fake. It's all plastic. And the people that don't have real dead Christmas trees in their house are going out to Walmart and they're buying completely plastic and fake Christmas trees, and they're putting that in their house. So either way, those trees are fake, they're phony, they're dead, and at the end of the season, they'll be thrown out onto the fire or into the bottom of the lake, and they will be completely burned up and destroyed. So remember this, because the important thing is not about looking good on the outside. It's not about having this plastic fruit, but it's about having genuine fruit, being a tree in God's garden, having fruit and having life because we are connected to the life source. A real tree should be somewhere out in the mountains and it should be reaching up to the heavens and the gardener should be pruning it. The gardener is God. And we are as the branches. God is the vine. Jesus is the vine. And if we're connected to Him, we are alive. And sadly, so many Christians are worshiping what they don't know. They're bringing a dead tree into their house because they are spiritually dead. And they're not worshiping the true living God. I have no need for Christmas because I worship the one true living King. And Jesus hasn't called us to just remember Him year after year as a baby. What Jesus has called us to remember is that last supper where He broke the bread and He said, do this in remembrance of Me. And He gave them the grape juice or the wine. And He said, this is the blood that I'm going to shed for you of the new covenant. So He said, do this in remembrance of Me. Every time that you break bread, do this in remembrance of Me. It's important to our eternal destiny. Keeping Christmas will benefit you absolutely nothing. And at the end of Christmas, all of that joy goes away. But if you keep Jesus's commandments, if you eat His flesh and if you drink His blood, there will be those rivers of living water that spring up in you, that well of living water. You will eat His flesh and you'll be alive because His words, His truth are in you. His blood is cleansing you from all your past sins. You'll be made new and you'll be able to partake in Jesus's suffering, new life. You have to partake in Jesus's suffering in the cross. And we have to bear our own cross, daily denying ourselves, taking up our cross to follow Him as Jesus said. And we have to remember what Jesus actually taught, which was the new covenant. We have to eat Jesus's flesh and drink His blood. That is what is important to remember. But keeping Christmas, that's not helping anyone live holy. That's not helping anyone repent. That's not what Jesus commanded. But what He did institute is the Lord's supper, eating His flesh, drinking His blood, taking communion so that we could be in communion with God. So the question is, what are you keeping? Are you keeping a dead tree in your house? Are you keeping Santa Claus? Are you keeping a tradition of men? Are you keeping something that's pagan? Are you keeping something that just church people are lifting up as if it's holy, a candlelight service? Or are you keeping the words of Jesus close to you? Are you obeying what Jesus actually taught? Are you eating His flesh? Are you drinking His blood? Because if you aren't keeping His words, then you have no life in you. I'm telling you guys, this world has no life. Even though they go to church, they hold their candlelights, they worship under the Christmas tree, at the end of the season, that Christmas tree is thrown out and burned. And the people that don't know God are also gonna be thrown out and burned. That's what Jesus said. At the end, the angels go out and they gather the good from the bad. The good are brought into the barns and the bad are bundled and they're thrown into the fire. We need to remember the words of Jesus. We need to practice the words of Jesus and remember what He has called us to do. He hasn't called us to participate in rituals of the world and the holidays of the world, but He has called us to communion with Himself. Are you in communion with Jesus? Are you eating His flesh? And are you drinking His blood? So I wanna pray for those of you that want the truth in you, that wanna receive Jesus's flesh, that you wanna eat His flesh and drink His blood. “So Lord Jesus, I pray for those who are serious to eat Your flesh and to drink Your blood, not to just take some ornamental thing in the Catholic church or the Baptist church or just do a candlelight service or do presence under a tree. I pray that we can be separate from all of the traditions of the world and that we could be connected to You in the newness of life and that we would truly be eating Your flesh, living on Your words, drinking Your cup, living in the newness of life and that You would purge us and purify us and keep us holy and unstained, that we may enter into Your presence with joy and thanksgiving and purity of heart and with our new robes. I pray this in Your name, Lord Jesus, amen.”

False Fear

 Many Christians only follow God for a short time out of a false sort of fear. It is the fear that He will return imminently. These Christians hustle to get their life in order thinking that He will return in a matter of months. When they see no sign of Jesus's imminent return, they immediately go back to the world, supposing they have more time. How sad it is for these people who have founded their entire religion upon a false fear of God and not the truth. The end of these Christians will be complete ruin and destruction.