A DREAM WORLD

   For many people in the United States, as well as for many people in nations around the world, they live in a dream world:  a world of fantasy and make-believe.  These are the people with jobs, with money, with homes, and with the necessities of life at their fingertips.  For them, not much has changed in this ever-changing world.  These are the people who are, for the most part, isolated and insulated from the harsh reality of this ever-changing world. 
   If we will simply look at the facts, however, we can see that the golden age of the United States is in our nation's history; and the golden age of all nations around the world is also in those nations' history.  To make matters worse, the United States will not have a golden age in its future, and neither will any other nation upon the earth.
   This writing today is not a doomsday report, but rather an offering about reality.
   In reality, people of the earth continue to believe that people can solve all of the problems of people.  Yet problems for people only get worse and worse---day by day and year after year!  We created the mess we are in, but we want to believe that we can fix the mess all by ourselves---with absolutely no help from Almighty God!
   And because people have axed Almighty God out of their lives, as well as out of their nations, evil is overtaking the world:  and evil is gaining more ground, day by day and year after year. 
   Before Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, the Lord warned us about false prophets, He warned us about hypocrites and vipers, and He warned us about a secret conspiracy. 
   Today, the world is full of false prophets:   messengers of false doctrines that give people false hope.
   The world is also full of hypocrites and vipers:  people who appear to be just and honest people, but they are snakes:  dressed in the appropriate apparel that makes them appear to be just and honest.
   And the world is under the leadership of evil people in secret societies, and these people control all of the people of the world!  Such people abide in man's governments as well as in man's religions, and they are leading us toward the false doctrine of globalization, which is a simple world that actually means the New World Order--when people all over the world will be under the domination and control of a religious-political system, which is global slavery.
   Such people have created a dream world in the minds of people all over the earth:  that we are presently in a world of little hope, but they will lead us to a new frontier:  a world of new hope, new adventures, new prosperity, and a world in which people will be at total peace with one another; a world without guns and killing, and a world filled with love.
   And this is a lie!  For the leaders in governments and in religions are lying to us!  They are lying to us because of their power to deceive.  They are as spiders spinning a web over us:  to capture us because we are their prey.
   Don't worry:  be happy. 
   Don't worry:  your government will take care of you. 
   Don't worry:  your religious leaders know best what is best for you. 
   The leaders of the world today are exactly like Judas Iscariot:  they are in love with money, with power, and with prestige.  To them, it is their hearts to deceive nations and to control and dominate others by producing a dream world in the minds of people all over the earth.  They are greedy, they are evil, and times of trouble are in the future for us.
   Almighty God, however, can help us in this hour of need.  But we must turn to Him for help; and without Him, there will be no help. 

A SIMPLE STORY

   The story of Jesus is truly a simple story, and this story is told in the Holy Bible.
   The Holy Bible is written in simple words, in simple sentences, and even a child can read and understand the Bible.  People do not need to be Rhoades scholars to understand the Bible; neither do people need college degrees, PhDs, nor to be graduates of Bible colleges and theological seminaries.  All people need is to do is read the words and exercise simple, child-like faith. 
   The story of Jesus is not a tale of mystery and intrigue; neither is His story complicated, difficult, nor written in code:  for Jesus wants us to know Him, rather than just know about Him.  Many people know about Jesus, but few there be that know Him. 
   For you see, Jesus is for us and He wants to be your friend.  Even now you are His friend; but are you a friend of Jesus?  If you cannot tell a a story about Jesus, is He your friend?  For even friends know stories about their friends. 
   The simple story I like to tell about Jesus is the day He came to me on April 27, 1995.  In the memory of mind, there is no day in all of my life that I remember as clearly as that day, for that day is remembered as the brightness of the sun in cloudless skies.  I can tell you about my early morning rising, I can tell you of the time I accepted Jesus as my Saviour, and I can tell you of all other events up until the time when I went to sleep that night.  For it was on that day that Jesus became my friend.  Other days since then are blurred by memory, and many are long forgotten. 
   Is Jesus your friend?
   If so, then tell me a simple story about Jesus.  I would love to hear it. 

HOW GREAT THOU ART!

      And there all also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.  (John 21: 25)
   The life of Jesus Christ is a history book of itself, standing above and apart from any and all of the history books of mankind.
   The life of Jesus Christ is known by more people than any person of human history:  for there is none greater than Jesus Christ.
   For example:
   Outside of Islam, what do people worldwide know about the life of Mohammad the prophet?
   Outside of Buddhism, what do people worldwide know about the life of the Dalia Lama?
   Outside of Hinduism, what do people worldwide know about Hinduism and that it has no single founder?
   Outside of Roman Catholicism, what do people worldwide know about the life of the Pope?
   Outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, what do people worldwide know about the life of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism?
   Yet people in all of these religions of man know about Jesus Christ, the Son of God!
   Do you know where and when Mohammad was born?  Do you know one childhood story about the Dalia Lama?  Do you know the nation in which Pope Benedict was born?  Do you know how many wives Joseph Smith had?
   The list of religions and religious leaders can go on and on.  A list of the gods and goddesses of the world's religions could take a week to compile.  The doctrines and philosophies of all the religions of the world could take years to study as well as to interpret and debate all the various meanings and applications. 
   Yet, within all of the religions of the world, not one person died for the sins of all people!  Not one person in the world's religions was born for this purpose, and not one person in the world's religions arose from death!
    Mohammad did not die for the sins of all people, and neither did the Dalia Lama, the Pope, nor Joseph Smith.  Yet people of these religions believe in the words of these leaders as if they are speaking holy words!  All of these men will also die, and neither will arise from death! 
   But Jesus Christ is different.  He was conceived in His mother's womb by the Holy Spirit---not Mohammad, not the Dalia Lama, not the Pope, and not Joseph Smith. 
   Jesus Christ is different in another way:
      He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:  and we hid as it were out faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  (Isaiah 53: 2, 3)
   Isaiah the prophet wrote more about Jesus Christ:
      For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:  and the government shall be upon his shoulder:  and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.  (Isaiah 9: 6)
   In the history book of Jesus Christ, what can we say or write of Him that has not been said nor written?  The apostle John said it best when he wrote:
      I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
   There is a song about Jesus Christ that Christians love to sing, written by Stuart K. Hine in 1953:
      Then sings my soul,
         my Savior God to thee;
      how great thou art,
          how great thou art!
        
   
     

WHOM DO YOU FEAR?

   On the day when Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, the Lord was led to Pontius Pilate for a second round of interrogation.  And Pilate said unto Jesus, What is truth?
   Jesus, however, remained silent, not answering this question. 
   Could it be that Jesus knew that Pilate knew the answer to the question? 
   Pilate rejected Christ because Pilate feared Caesar.  Pilate was more concerned with his position, his seat of power, and even more concerned about his own life than he was concerned about his salvation.  Therefore fear grabbed the mind of Pilate and Pilate turned his back on Christ. 
   On the morning just before my salvation in 1995, fear grabbed my mind.  I knew I needed Christ for my salvation, but the fear of what others would think of me tossed me to and fro as a ship being tossed about with violent winds.  My Caesar became my wife, my children, people I work with, and even my pastor and the people where I attended church.  What would all of these people think of me if I accept Christ and become a Christian?  My experience was an engagement in spiritual warfare:  the devil injected my mind with fearful questions because the devil did not want to lose me to Christ.  But when I fell on my knees, confessed to God that I was a sinner, and invited Christ to save me, fear departed.  No longer was I fearful to tell others about this wonderful experience, and others were thrilled for me!
   Whom, then, is the Caesar of your life?  Is Caesar your wife, your children, the people you work with?  Is Caesar your friends, or even your religion and you fear what your minister or priest will say to you if you accept Christ as your Saviour? 
   Knowing Christ is not an easy transition; for when you are faced with the Truth, who is Christ, you will experience fear:  the fear of the unknown.  If you are like Pilate, you will fear Caesar and reject Christ.  And, just like Pilate, you will wash your hands and justify your decision.  If you reject Christ, you will turn to your family as if nothing happened.  You will turn to your friends as if nothing happened.  You will turn to your religion as if nothing happened.  Then, like Pilate, you will die with Christ.
   But if your turn to Christ, fear will leave you and you will be free from the shackles that bind you.  You will walk in newness of life.  You will see with new eyes.  You will want others to come to Jesus just as you come to Jesus.  And you will wish that you had made this decision a long, long time ago. 
   If there is a Caesar in your life, please remember the words to the shepherds in Bethlehem just over two thousand years ago:
      And the angel said unto them, Fear not:  for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.  For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.  (Luke 2: 10, 11)

IMMINENT DANGER

   Saul was King of Israel and Saul disobeyed the word of the Lord.  For this cause, God sent Samuel the prophet to deliver a message to King Saul:
      And Samuel said, Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.  Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.  (I Samuel 15: 22, 23)
   Saul died, and God delivered his kingdom to David, who became the King of Israel.
   As shared with you previously, Witchcraft is the fastest-growing religion in the United States, and Witchcraft is gaining ground in people all ages:   from the elderly to people in their 40s, 30s, 20s, teenagers, and even among young children across America. 
   Consider the evidence:
   Go to a book store, or to the book section of a department store, and look at all the shelf space that is devoted to Witchcraft, to witches, wizards, warlocks, demons, demonology, vampires, and zombies.  Do you suppose these books are the works of the imaginations of people simply for fun and games and entertainment?  No, they are real.  And the reality of these books is disguised in colorful characters, or of people with star power from Hollywood's abyss. 
   Next, take a look at the shelf space that is devoted to CDs, DVDs, movies, and video games about this same subject of Witchcraft.  Do you suppose these works are simply for fun and games and entertainment?  No, they are real. 
   Furthermore, look at the television programs that are coming into your home that are about witches and wizards, warlocks and demons, in animated childrens' movies and programs, and the actors are colorful and innocent-looking characters. 
   The growth and expansion of Witchcraft and idolatry in America is because millions of people do not know the difference between God and Satan.  And because people do not know God, neither do they know evil.
   Americans are spending millions and millions of dollars to learn about Witchcraft and to teach children this evil religion from the mind of Satan. 
   Witchcraft has increased in the United States and God has decreased.  As Witchcraft continues to enlarge itself and take control of the minds of people, this nation will continually be visited by evil---in various ways and in various places.  And there is nothing that we can do to prevent this tidalwave of evil from flooding across the land, from sea to shining sea.
   God can help us, however.  But do we really want God's help?  If we do, then we should turn to II Chronicles 7: 14 and obey the word of the Lord.  But if we as a nation do not want God's help, then we are just like King Saul, which means that our nation is in disobedience to the word of God.  And if we remain in disobedience to God, we are just like King Saul, and this nation will die.  God will take the kingdom of our nation and give it to a king that does not know God.  As this king arises, this nation will fall, and the United States will no longer be a sovereign nation, we will no longer be a global power, and we will have a ruthless and evil dictator to rule over us.  We will no longer be free.  Our flag and our Constitution will come tumbling down. 
   As a nation, the United States has two choices:  we can either return to God, or we can continue to reject God; and by rejecting God, the Lord will also reject us. 
   At present, we are in imminent danger.  We are being invaded by evil from within, not from an enemy at the gates.  We are in a state of self-destruction, and our wounds are self-inflicted.
   As adults, we have spiritual responsibility for our children and grand-children across our nation.  Are we teaching them about God, or are they feasting at the feet of evil?  If we desire to change our hearts for God, we must act quickly.  We cannot wait, nor linger. 
   Today's topic will not go away; neither will it disappear.
   Please remember:  God will fight our battle for us, and He will intervene on our behalf:  if we will simply invite Him.

A HAND IN A GLOVE

   As for Jesus Christ, the Son of God, it is written:
      Neither is there salvation in any other:  for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.  (Acts 4: 12)

   Religion is a classical example of Psychology 101:  conditioned learning and behaviour modification.
   For as a person accepts all of the teachings of a religion, his mind has been conditioned to embrace those teachings as truth, and his mind is now under the control of his religion, for he and his religion have become one.
   Because his mind is now conditioned to his religion, his behaviour has been modified to live according to the teachings---and to the teachers---of his religion.
   As such, and because the person is now a religious person, he represents a hand, and his religion represents a glove.  Now that he is in the glove, he feels warm and cozy as well as protected; and he will always feel this way because he believes this way.  And because his religion controls his mind, his religion also controls his behaviour.  His mind and behaviour are now one, just as he and his religion are now one. 
   For if you can control a person's mind, you can also control his behaviour.  This is why religion is likened unto an intoxicating beverage, or an addictive drug, and his religion has become his salvation.
   If Christ is not in his religion, his mind been conditioned (or trained) to fight against Christ because Christ is considered to be the enemy:  that Christ will take away his religion, which is the same as taking away his salvation:  or the removing of the glove from his hand. 
      Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:  old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  (II Corinthians 5: 17)
   Not so in religion!  There is nothing new in religion, for it is the same old stuff. 
   Neither is there any excitement in religion, for there is no life in religion; and there is no life in religion, for it is a system of death.  As long as the hand of the person is in the glove of religion, the hand is dead because religion is dead:  and the two are one.  And religion, being dead, can not give life, nor eternal life after death.
   Therefore, it does not matter which religion a person chooses in life because all religions are dead; for they are inventions out of man's imaginations:   and they are death chambers for people.
   The ministers and priests of man's religions know that they are not ministers of Christ.  They are as spiritual doctors, dispensers of false teaching and false doctrines in order to keep the minds of their subjects medicated until the day they die:  at which time Satan gets their souls. 
   This, then, is the danger of religion.  It is a death chamber, a dead-end zone, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel, but only darkness. 
   Beloved, to know Christ for your salvation, you must come out of religion.  Remove your hand from the glove and let go.  Trust Him by faith and the Lord will save you.
      Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  (Hebrews 11: 1)
 

CHRISTMAS

   Jesus Christ is known more than any person in all of human history.
   Each year on His birthday, Christmas trees and lights throughout the world are turned on, and no other person, in all of human history, receives this much attention on his or her birthday. 
   Nativity scenes are displayed in communities and cities in nations around the world in December, and no other person's birth is displayed as the birth of Jesus Christ. 
   Christmas songs are songs about Jesus Christ, and no other person in all of human history has songs that are played and sung on his or her birthday. 
   What is there about this man named Jesus that is so special? 
   Even His birth was an event of silence---not only in all of Israel, but nations around the world did not know of His arrival.  The heir to the throne of King David was born and the son of a king was not acknowledged except by a few people. 
   For the first two years after His birth, Jesus lived with His parents in virtual obscurity, just miles away from King Herod.  Why did Herod not know this?  The kings of the east knew, and they traveled hundreds miles to worship the Lord and to lay presents at His feet. 
   The only book that tells us about the birth and the life of Christ is the Holy Bible, and though there are people who have never read the Bible, they believe, however, that Christ was born just over two thousand years ago in the city of Bethlehem. 
   But how did this man named Jesus become world-famous?  What is there about this man that has gained worldwide attention for more than two thousand years?
   Jesus was crucified, yes, but the Romans also crucified thousands of people.  But can you name another person who was crucified by the Romans?  Probably not.  Guilty or not, they were still people; but their names were not recorded, not considered to be important.  To the Romans, the only name of importance was Caesar. 
   Knowing this, Pontius Pilate made sure that people would know the name of Jesus because he had a signed nailed at the top of the Lord's cross---in three languages:
                            JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. 
   No other execution was noted by Pontius Pilate, nor of the Jews who wanted Christ to die.  But there was something special about this execution that Pilate wanted people to remember. 
   So then, who is this Jesus of Christmas? 
   Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords, the root and the offspring of David, the Son of God.
   Christ died on a cross, but the cross could not keep Him dead.
   Christ was buried in a tomb, but the tomb could not keep Him hidden.
   Christ arose from death because death was not His prison.
   Christmas is special in three ways:  without the birth of Christ, there would have been no crucifixion; without His crucifixion, there would have been no death; without His death, there would have been no resurrection; and without His birth, death, and resurrection, there would be no salvation.  And without these three, there would be no Christmas.
   Christmas, therefore, is all about Jesus Christ, the Son of God:  born to die, but born to live again.
  

PLAYING god

   Religion is simply a system of laws, rules, and regulations, rites and rituals, and all religions of the world are systems of laws, rules, and regulations, and rites and rituals.
   To accept a religion simply means that you have agreed to accept the laws, rules, and regulations that govern your religion---which is not the same as the laws of Almighty God, Creator of the universe.
   Each religion has a god---which is not the same as Almighty God, Creator of the universe.  Therefore, if you say you believe in god, you are saying that you believe in the god of your religion---which is not the same as Almighty God, Creator of the universe. 
   Because each religion of the world is an invention out of the imaginations of men, Almighty God is not part of these religions, for these religions were not created for the worship of Almighty God, but rather as a place of worship for the god of their own invention.  Neither does Almighty God mix Himself with man's religions because God is holy, whereas man's religions are unholy. 
   But people can believe that they are believing in God because of the deception that reigns in their religion:  which is precisely the desire of the ministers and priests of a religion want people to believe.  Or do they?
   For example, the Catholic Church of Rome was created out of the imaginations of men to be a fake Christian church; and people were told that to be a true Christian, then they must accept the Catholic way of laws, rules and regulations, rites and rituals; and because of fear, or ignorance (or both) people converted to the Catholic way.
   At the same time, the Catholic Church taught that people are infidels if they do not convert to the Catholic way. 
   The religion of Islam is just like the Catholic Church in two ways:  One:  Islam teaches that all people should worship Allah; and two:  Islam teaches that people are infidels if they do not convert to the Islamist way. 
   Is this saying that Catholics should not be Catholic, nor that Islamists should not be Islamists?  Of course not!  Because Almighty God gives us free will:  the freedom to choose.  Therefore, Catholics have the free will to be Catholics, just as Islamists have the free will to be Islamist. 
   But is it right for the Catholic Church to say that only true Christians are Catholic?  According to the Catholic Church's law, yes.  But there are Christians who do not accept the Catholic Church's law. So then, are Christian who do not accept the Catholic Church's view that (only true Christians are Catholic) considered to be infidels?  Yes. 
   Therefore, if you do not accept Catholicism or Islamism, you are considered to be an infidel according to the laws that govern these two institutions.  But these laws are not according to the law of Almighty God, Creator of the universe. 
   The religions of the world are nothing more than religious dictatorships, and the leaders of all the religions of the world are playing god with the souls of men, women, and children.  They have convinced people to believe in their laws, rules, and regulations, and rites and rituals, and the people of religions look to their leaders as gods:  trusting in them to know what is best for themselves and for their children.  These religious gods are preventing people from believing in Almighty God, Creator of the Universe, and they know exactly what they are doing because they are false prophets, which means they are representing Satan:  and they know it.  To them, believing in Jesus as the baby of Christmas, or as a prophet, is permitted, but they do not want their people to believe in Christ for their salvation.  Neither do they want their people to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. 
   Therefore, Almighty God will judge false prophets and false teachers:
      WOE be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.  behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings saith the LORD.  (Jeremiah 23: 1, 3)
     

AN UNREAL WORLD

   Religion is a fancy system of make-believe and fantasy, capturing the minds of people by ministers and priests, adorned in colorful garments, and speaking words that sound like truth.  By capturing the minds of people, they also control their behaviour; and by capturing adults, then they want the children; and by taking the children, they can control the behaviour of families for perpetual generations.
   Because religion is deeply embedded in their minds, people can actually believe that they are born as a Buddhist, or born as a Hindu, born as a Catholic, or born as a certain Protestant denomination.  And from being born this way, they can believe that they can be no other:  for to convert to another religion would be an act of blasphemy or treason:  against their god, and even against their family. 
   Religions are creations out of the imaginations of men, and all of religions' dogmas and doctrines are also out of the imaginations of men; and because of these creations out of the imaginations of men, and not from Almighty God, they are make-believe and fantasy.  Religions' victims, therefore, are puppets on strings, and the ministers and priests are puppet masters, pulling the strings.  And because the religions of man are created by men and not by Almighty God, there is no love of God in all of man's religions. 
   The purpose of man's religions (though it is not stated) is to direct the attention of people away from Almighty Go---not toward Him---by focusing the minds of people on a god that the people believe is God, all of which is a masterful work of deception by make-believe and fantasy.
  The ministers and priests of man's religions could also function quite well as Hollywood movie producers of make-believe and fantasy.  Obviously, religion is an unreal world, but only appears to be real in the imaginations of people:  which is precisely what Satan wants. 
   Please remember:  it was the religious sect of scribes and Pharisees that wanted Christ dead; for absolutely none of the people of Israel, nor the people of Jerusalem, wanted Christ to die.  But these scribes and Pharsiees---whom Jesus called hypocrites and vipers---wanted to kill Jesus.  They were not satisfied with a court injunction, such as a "gag order", and neither did they attempt to run Jesus out of town.  In their wicked minds and evil hearts, they had murder on their minds. 
   Today, any Christian church or any Christian religion that professes not that Jesus is the Son of God; that professes not that Jesus is the Saviour; that professes not that Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords; and that professes not the second coming of Christ:  that church or that religion are houses of hypocrites and vipers, just like the scribes and Pharisees.  And for the members of such Christian churches or Christian religions, who are followers of their ministers and priests, they also are hypocrites and vipers. 
   This subject of Jesus is the most important issue people will face in their lifetimes. Therefore, the most important quesion people will ever answer is the same question of Pontius Pilate: 
      What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?  (Matthew 27: 22)

POMPOUS, PIOUS, AND PROUD

   Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravning wolves.  (Matthew 7: 15)

   Jesus called the scribes and Pharisees hypocrites and vipers. 
   Hypocrites:  because they were pretending to be Jewish priests, but were not.
   Vipers:  because they were snakes.
   The scribes and Pharisees were members of an occultic, secret society.  As such, they were members of a Satanic organization where Satan is their lord and their god.  And because Satan is characterized as a serpent, the scribes and Pharsiees---according to Jesus---were also vipers:  or snakes. 
   Today, we live in a world that has an abundance of false prophets, who are teachers of false doctrines:  doctrines that sound true, but these doctrines are lies.
   False prophets are religious people, but there are also false prophets in government and in entertainment:  to distract the minds of people from God.  Their souls have been corrupted with evil, and they are therefore of the same mind as the scribes and Pharisees.
   False prophets hide in the religions of the world, but they also hide in Christian churches. 
   To false prophets, religion and churches is their cover:  their dome of protection in which to hide.   
   As good soldiers, they know which uniform to wear in order to conceal their true identity. 
   Just as the scribes and Pharisees, false prophets are fakes:  they are masters of illusion, but they are also masters of hypocrisy.  They are professional pretenders.
   Obviously, these agents of Satan can be fake Catholics, fake Baptists, fake Mormons, fake Buddhists, and fake of any other religion or Christian church.  They take on the characteristic of a particular religion or Christian church in order to hide their allegience to Satan---just as the scribes and Pharisees. They can appear to be Catholic, but they are not Catholic.  They can appear to be Baptist, or Mormon, and any other religion or Christian denomination, but they are not.  They are on a mission from Satan to distort and to distract people from believing in God. 
   False prophets hate God and hate Christ.  They are children of darkness and they hate the light of Christ because their father is Satan.
   False prophets are pompous, pious, and proud.  They can be members of the clergy, such as ministers, preachers, and priests, and they wear the uniform of their assigned habitat.  Some wear suits, ties, and cuff links, and others adorn themselves in priestly garments.  Because of their personalities, they are the kind of people you will invite to your home for Sunday dinner after church.
   False prophets can also be members of the laity, such as a congregation or parish.  They have a role that is under the ministers, preachers, and priests.  They also wear uniforms that are compatible with their assigned habitat.  Because of their pleasing personalities, they are the kind of people you will invite to your home for Sunday dinner after church. 
   When we consider the growth of Witchcraft in the United States and Great Britain, witches also hide in religions and Christian denominations.  They also wear uniforms of their assigned habitat.  They are in religions and denominations to hide, but also to cast spells;  but they are also there to recruit new members.  Because of their pleasing personalities, they are the kind of people you will invite to your home for Sunday dinner after church. 
   These evil workers of Satan infiltrate religions and churches, but they also infiltrate their communities, operating as spies in order to gather intelligence for their command post.  What are Christians doing?  What are Christians saying?  Who are they and where do they live?  What are they thinking?  As secret agents, they collect data in order for their leaders to plan a continuing assault against Christians.  Just as the scribes and Pharisees stalked Jesus in order to find sufficient evidence  to kill Him, Satan's spies today stalk Christians for the same reason:  to destroy the message and messengers of Jesus!
   For all of these false prophets and witches, the devil owns their tongues, he owns their minds, and he owns their will.  They have sold their souls to Satan.  They are dangerous, and they are evil.  And, if necessary, they will kill to protect their identity.
   How can you know them?  You can know them by the words they speak, and you can also know them by the words they will not speak.  They do not like to talk about Christ because they hate Christ.  Neither do they like to talk about their religion.  They do not engage in spiritual conversations for the fear that they will expose their identity. 
   As pompous, pious, and proud, these people do all that is within their power to keep their inner and outer image cleaned and well polished:  for they are masters of hypocrisy.
   As snakes, they are highly secretive.
   Like Jesus said, they are wolves in sheep's clothing; for underneath their wool they are wolves:  if provoked, they will bite off your head with vicious anger. 
  

MY TEXTBOOK

     Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  But made himself of no reputation, and took on the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.  (Philippines 5-8)
  Understanding a religious mind is the evidence of a mind without Christ. 
  As a Christian, I understand the meaning of a religious mind, for I was a religious Christian before I accepted Christ as my Lord and Saviour.  As such, I was bonded with my Christian denomination at that time, but I was not bonded with Christ:   my mind was merged with my denomination and I and my denomination were one.   When I came to Christ, I surrendered my religious mind.
   Knowing Christ is all about knowing Christ.  It is the surrendering of my will and my mind so that my will and my mind will be more like the mind of Christ and not the mind of myself.  As I read and study God's Holy Bible, and as I memorize Bible scriptures, my mind takes on the Word of God; and, in so doing, I will think more like Christ than I think as myself, I will act more like Christ than I will act like myself, and I will do more like Christ than I will do like myself.  In total, I become a walking-talking textbook of Christ and not a textbook of me. 
  None of this means, however, that I am Christ; neither does it mean that I am perfect in all of my ways:  for I am not.  Following Christ is a learning process, and I have made many mistakes in my walk with Christ as I continue to make many mistakes:  for I am human and fully capable of not being all I can be in the Lord.  And every day I have to learn how to walk again with Him, which is not easy to do, and neither will it ever be easy; for as Christians we continue to face an internal battle:  not my will, but the will of Christ. 
   Wherefore, a person can not accept Christ unless he is willing to abandon his religion.  For Christ is not about laws, rules, and regulations, nor is He about rites and rituals.  For Christ is not a religion, neither is He part of a religious system.  As such, a person can not bond with Christ and also bond with religion:  for the two do not mix; and neither can we serve two masters.   But if I desire to cling to my religion, this means that I have rejected Christ; for we can not have it both ways:  either I choose to be religious, or I will choose Christ.  And if I cling to my religion, I will continue to be a walking-talking textbook of my religion.
   To do the will God, Christ humbled Himself to His heavenly Father; and for us to believe in Christ, then we must humble ourselves before Him.  In so doing, then Christ becomes Lord of my life; but if I cling to religion, then religion is the lord of my life. 
   To whom are you bonded?  The evidence of this question is in your mind and in your heart.  If your heart is in your religion, there will your mind be also.  But if your heart is in Christ, your mind will also be in Christ. 
   Read your textbook:  what is your textbook saying?
   If my heart and my mind are in my religion, then my textbook is all about me, and not about Christ.

GRACE

   In the occult world, the sun is god and people worship the sun god.
   In the occult world, planets are also gods, and they also have names, but neither is as big or as important as the sun god.
   In the occult world, people also worship trees, rocks, animals, fish, birds, eggs, and all of them have names.
   In various religions around the world, the sun god has various names, the planet gods have various names, and there are also various names for the dieties of trees, rocks, animals, fish, eggs, and birds. 
   In various religions around the world, they also have the belief of the mother of god and the queen of heaven, by various names in the various religions. 
   Moreover, various religions have the belief of a son of god, who is the son of the sun god.  And when they speak of the mother of god, they are speaking about the mother of the son of the sun god.
   Therefore, people around the world, in all of their various religions, are of the same mind:  they are worshippers of the same system even though they call their gods by various names, and their religions are also known by various names.
   If you study these various religions, you will also discover that all of the sons of god of  sun gods were born on the exact day, which is December 25th. 
   Now each of the sons of the sun gods were born of a virgin, each had twelve disciples, each died, and each arose from death after three days. 
   When this concept was transported to a Christian religion, what do you suppose happened?  In the minds of the people within this Christian religion, the sun god becomes God, the son of the sun god becomes Jesus, and the mother of god or queen of heaven becomes Mary, and Mary becomes the mother of the son of the sun god.    Then they add the idea that Jesus was born on December 25th, that Jesus was born of a virgin, that Jesus had twelve disciples, and that Jesus died and arose from death after three days. 
   Part of this concept is true:  Jesus was born of a virgin, He had twelve disciples, He died and arose from the tomb after three days. 
   Now comes the deception that is interwoven in this story. 
   The founders of this Christian religion were not believers in Christ for their salvation.  They were, in fact, pagan priests:   believers in the sun god, the son of god of the sun god, and also believers in the mother of god and queen of heaven, and other deities---all by their various names---and this information is not revealed to the worshippers:  it is their secret, which is their secret way to convince people that they are Christians if they will accept the beliefs in the religion, including all of its rites and rituals. 
  The priests of this religion are, in fact, false prophets:  they are teaching a way of salvation that is false, and a way to heaven that is also false:  which is a way not approved by Almighty God.  Even today, these priests are still dispensing the same doctrine, but the people, because they are being deceived, believe that their words are true.  They do not know they are being deceived.
   This is the evidence of spiritual mind control.  The people believe they are worshipping God, but god to the priests is the sun god.  The son of god to them is the son of the sun god, but not Christ the Lord.  They are teaching the way to the sun god, and the people are being duped. 
   This religion, therefore, is a spiritual prison.  It was designed to be a trap in which to trap people from believing in Christ, and to hold them in captivity until the day they die:  at which time the people will go to hell to be with Satan. 
   The religion is based on laws, rules, and regulations, rites and rituals, and as long as the people do their best to obey all of the laws, rules, and regulations, as well as participate in the rites and rituals, the people believe that their sin has been removed and that they are now clean and spotless:  even though they have by-passed Christ. 
   In a system such as this, there is no grace, and there is no love.  It is a system based on works and merits, such as an employee in his or her performance of duties in a place of employment.  If they do well, they get a reward; but if they do poorly, they will face harsh judgment---even to the point of excommunication and become an outcast: and the door to heaven will be closed behind them.  Now they will suffer eternal damnation because they will not be allowed to return to their religion.
   The Holy Bible, however, tells us:   For by grace are you saved through faith:  and not of yourselves:  it is the gift of God:  Not of works, lest any man should boast.  (Ephesians 2: 8, 9)
   Jesus also said, My grace is sufficient for thee:  for my strength is made perfect in weakness. (II Corinthians 12: 9)
   In conclusion, the sun god, the son of god of the sun god, the queen of heaven and mother of god, and all other gods and deities are all productions out of the imaginations of men:  they are not real, they have never lived, and they have no life.  They can not give salvation, nor eternal life.  They have no more value than Santa Claus or Peter Cottontail. 
  

STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD

      Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mind house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.  (Malachi 3: 10)

   Seek God, and He will open the windows of heaven just for you.
      But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  (Matthew 6: 33)
     
   Try God, and He will prove this to be true just for you.
      For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.  Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.  And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.  (Jeremiah 29: 11-13)

   Trust God, and He will deliver you in the time of trouble.
      For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:  in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.  (Psalm 27: 5)

   Turn to God, and He will thrill you.
      BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.  But his delight is the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.  And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.   (Psalm 1: 1-3)

   What are your dreams?  What do you want to accomplish in your lifetime? 
   Dreams with boundaries will die within you, but God will remove your boudaries and allow your dream to prosper if you will only seek Him, try Him, trust Him, and turn to Him.
   Your life is not an accident; therefore, what did God make you to become? 
   Take your question to God and He will answer thee.  He will show you the talent He placed in you, and He will help you in your endeavor. 
   Therefore, surrender to God and He will lead you on the path on which shall stand, and your accomplishments will astound you!
   Remember, it is impossible for God to break His promises, and His promises will be the foundation underneath your feet, and those promises will never change.  And you have God's Word on it.
   Jesus said, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.  (Matthew 24:35)
  

  

PUBLIC OPINION

   And it came to pass in those days, when Jesus was brought before Pontius Pilate for a second meeting, Pilate had rendered his decision earlier and had found no fault with Jesus.  No less than three times had Pilate made his judgment very clear to the Jews after his initial interrogation of the Lord.
   Knowing that the Jews were not satisfied, Pilate had an escape clause in his pocket and offered a prisoner on death row to be crucified instead of Jesus.  But the Jews said no, crucify Jesus, at which time Pilate caved and issued his decree that Jesus should be crucified. 
   In like manner, the Holy Spirit reveals the truth of Christ to people today, and people therefore know that Jesus is the Son of God.  But what will many people do?  They will do exactly as Pilate did:  they will listen to the voices of others, who have also rejected Christ, and therefore accept the decisions of others as their own decision. 
   "My religion was good enough for my fathers, and it is good enough for me."
   "If you believe in Christ, you will not have any friends."
   "Those born again Christians are a strange bunch of people.  You don't want to be like them, do you?" 
   "If you believe in Christ, then you will start reading the Bible and people will call you a Bible thumper." 
   But what did Pilate do after turning his back on Jesus?  He washed his hands:  believing that the water would wash away all of his guilt, shame, and even his sin.
   In truth, Pilate baptized his hands.
   Does that sound familiar?
   For over a thousand years, there are people who believe that by having their heads or bodies baptized by water that that is sufficient unto salvation.  Like Pilate, they believe that water has the power to wash away their guilt, their shame, and even their sin.  That, because of water, they are now pure and sinless and ready for heaven. 
   So again, the opinion of others becomes their own opinion, and their future is based on the opinion of others:  and they place their faith in the words of people instead of placing their faith in Christ.    
  And, just like Pilate, they are saying, crucify Him---or---keep Him on the cross, because we have water.
   If you believe that water is sufficient for salvation, then it doesn't really matter if Christ is still on the cross or still in the grave.  And it doesn't matter if Christ is dead or living because your faith is not in Him.  Neither will you believe that Christ is coming back to the earth:  for if you believe this, then you will be admitting that He is alive. 
   For in truth, dead religions keep Christ dead.
   The second appearance of Jesus Christ before Pilate was not an accident:  the Lord had this planned in order to give Pilate a second chance for salvation.
   In like manner, reading this blog today could be a work of the Lord to offer you a second chance for salvation:  to know Him for the first time.
   Will you accept Christ today, or will you wash your hands?
  

JESUS CHRIST

   Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords.
   Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
   Christ is above all principalities and powers of the universe.  By His word the world was created, and by His word the world will come to an end.
   Christ created the beginning of human history, and He will bring an end to human history.
   Christ is above all of the religions of man as well as above all of man's dogmas, doctrines, disciplines, philosophies, and theories.
   Christ is above all presidents, prime ministers, popes, kings, queens, princes, and gurus.
   Christ is above all men of the earth, and He is above all women.
   Christ is the Light of the world, and He is also the Light that shines in darkness.
   There is nothing known not known of Christ, and He also knows all secret things people do in secret chambers and hiding places.
   Christ will expose all of the evil people upon the earth, and He will expose all of the evil that evil people do.
   Christ is the conquering King and the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
   Christ loves us with a love that is beyond our own understanding, which we can begin to understand if we accept Him and His righteousness as we accept Him to be our personal Lord and Saviour.
   Without Christ, there is no salvation for the souls of people.
   Christ is a person:  He is a man.  He is not a religion, a religious system, nor is He contained and controlled by any person or principality upon the earth.
   Christ is the past, He is the present, and He is the future. 
   Christ will give eternal life to those who seek Him.
   Christ is beyond the grave:  and He will meet you on the other side of death if you trust Him now.
  
  

A NEW AMERICA

   God's first commandment is this:
      Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
      Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
      Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:  for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
      And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.  (Exodus 20: 3-6)

   Unless we receive a miracle from Almighty God, the United States will become a New America by the year 2016, if not earlier.  This New America will be a Satanic Empire.
   As stated yesterday, Witchcraft is the fastest-growing religion in the United States and in Great Britain.  These two nations have received more blessings from God, over the past two hundred years, than any two nations in all of human history.  And now the United States and Great Britain are turning their heads to Lucifer. 
   Over the past fifty years, Witchcraft has grown in slow and in subtle ways, presented as innocent and harmless, decked out in Hollywood's finest apparel by a cast of performers that appear to be just the kind of people we would invite to our homes for Sunday dinner after church.
   In television shows, movies, books, magazines, and rock music, these entertainers and writers have spun an evil web around the minds of children and young people, and trapped them in the harness of Witchcraft.  Because it has their minds, it has their future, and it has their will. 
   This story today is about the powers of darkness that Christ spoke of in the early morning hours when He was captured and led away to be crucified.  For even as Jesus walked to Golgotha to be crucifed, He said:  Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 
   Today in the United States, are people weeping for themselves?  Are adults anywhere across the land weeping for children?
    No! 
   As a nation, we have surrendered without a fight---even without the mental knowledge of knowing that we are in, as we are presently engaged, in a great battle.  Not only did we never lift our arms to fight, but we never had any gunpowder because we never saw the enemy at the gates.  The enemy was never at the gates:  the enemy slipped in as spies, under the cover of darkness, and destroyed us from the inside.  And now the soul of the United States is under the authority of the powers of darkness. 
   My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:  because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:  seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.  (Hosea 4: 6)
   The people of the United States have violated God's first commandment, and now the Lord has removed the priesthood of this once great nation.  By removing the priesthood, God is also removing His protective shield because our actions have said to Him:  God, you are not welcome here. 
   Now look at our children and young people across America.  Where have they gone?  And where are they going?
   Anger is the evidence of pride, and tears is the evidence of humility.
   Is anybody weeping?

 

REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY

   If you do not believe that Satan is real, then he is not your enemy:  at which time he is in your back pocket, without you knowing he is there, because you do not believe that he is real.  He whispers, and you are convinced that you are right in your own eyes, and therefore you will not believe that you are a sinner in need of salvation.  For if you do not believe that Satan is your enemy, then you will not have an enemy to fight.  In reality, however, it is God who is your enemy, and it is against Him that you will engage a war. 
   By not believing that Satan is real, your justification for salvation will be according to your own prescription, but, more than this, it is most likely to be the prescription of your religious doctors in small doses:  get baptized; join a church; teach a class; participate in all church rites and rituals; join the choir; and attend church regularly and on time:  all of which will cleanse you from all impurities, and you will feel so much better inside, as if you just had a bubble bath and dried with a warm towel.   
   Now you are all cleaned up and ready to go and ready to show:  with the belief that your friends and neighbors will see how wonderful you look because, after all, appearance is everything, right?   
   Next, watch your mouth, keep your clothes cleaned and pressed, do not get upset easily, do not express anger or strong disagreement with others, be a good-deed-doer as much as possible, smile for the camera, try to like people as much as possible, and trot along home.  You're doing fine.  Just don't let anybody know your little secrets, your dirty mind, your repressed anger, or that you really do not care much about your brother-in-law.  Keep smiling, look happy, then go home and take off your face.
   Isn't this what your father did?  And your mother?  It worked for them, did it not?  Same plan, same program, same station.  Don't touch that dial!
   But all of this is simply psychological:  it's all in your head:  which is brainwashing techniques by religious physicians, the same ones who treated your mother and father.  It worked for them, and it will also work for you.  Right? 
   Satan wants you to keep that thinking in the forefront of your mind.  You do not need the Bible because that book is for that other crowd.  Do not listen to the Jesus freaks because they are just trying to trick you.  You have taken care of your sin problem and you do not need God to do that.
   Will you go to heaven when you die?  Of course you will go to heaven because your doctors have given you their eternal prescription plan.   Jesus may have died for others, but you have been covered by a better plan:  or so you have been convinced.  But when others ask if you have been saved by Christ, you get angry!  Now why would you get angry about Christ and not angry at Satan?
  
  

ONE WAY OUT

   By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.  We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst therof.  For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.  How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?  (Psalm 137: 1-4)

   Wherever you live in the world today, you are sitting along the rivers of Babylon; for the religion of ancient Babylon is now in every nation, town, province, and community throughout the world.
   The United States and Great Britain have produced more Bibles, more Christian churches, more Christian ministers and preachers, more Bible colleges and seminaries, and sent more Christian missionaires to more countries than any two nations in the history of Christianity.
   Today, however, the fastest growing religion in the United States and Great Britain is the religion of Witchcraft.  And now the United States and Great Britain have united with the people of Witchcraft throughout the world as the world is speeding toward a New World Order, a dictatorship of people all over the world, which will be a global prison cell. 
   We are therefore surrounded by a worldwide web of evil people and the only way out of this grip is through Jesus Christ our Lord, for He is the only one who can save us from the doomsday era that is coming upon the world. 
   So as we address the problem we are facing in the United States, this is the same problem that the world is now engulfed:  evil. 
   For more than two thousand years, the Bible has warned us that this time would come upon the earth, and that time is now here. 
   In the near future, a New America will arise, so then how will we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?  How will people throughout the world sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?  Everything will be new to us; everything will be different.  And everything will produce pain and great sorrow when we remember the old ways as from the old country.  For the flags, the freedoms, and the constitutions of all nations will be gone. 
   Please know that we are going to suffer.  Our children and grandchildren will also suffer.  All of us will suffer, and many of us will die.  For it was evil people who crucified Christ, and it will be evil people who will inflict pain, torment, and suffering on us who are in this world. 
   Our only hope, however, is in Christ, and without Him, there will be no hope. 
   Therefore Christ remains the one and the only one way out. 

STAY TUNED

   Television is one of the greatest tools man ever invented as a vehicle of behaviour modification.
   Over the past sixty years, television has reached into homes and fashioned the minds of people to believe in what they are seeing as valuable information or entertainment.
   Television is a world of fantasy and make-believe, yet presented in such a way that people do not think that it is either fantasy or make-believe.  In fact, most people do not think when watching television:   they simply watch and receive information and images. 
   And television became an addiction.  The more we watch, the more we want to watch.  The more we see, the more we want to see.  One TV is not enough.  A large screen needs to be larger.  High definition is not only needed, but is a requirement to feed our addiction with more potent injections.
   If television news says so, then it must be true.
   If politicians say so on television, then it must be true.
   If a minister, preacher, or priest has a television program, then his words must be true.
   If a movie star endorces a product, then you need that product.
   If television says the world will end on 12-21-12, then you had better get busy!  Build a shelter.  Store food and water, flashlights and batteries.  Make sure your cell phone is charged.  And oh!  Don't forget to purchase a survival mask.
   Fear.  Fun.  Fantasy.  Make-believe.  Truth without question.
   Lions, and tigers, and bears.  Oh, my!
   Lions, and tigers, and bears.  Oh, my!
   Haven't we seen this before?
   No, this is a new production, never-before-seen on television.  This is reality TV. 
   On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles produced a live radio program, The War of the Worlds, which was about a Martian invasion of the earth, designed as an emergency news broadcast, and millions of people across the United States were scared to death!   They had been deceived by a well-known star and they believed his words were true.  The radio program produced confusion.
   How much more are people deceived by the power of the images of television than by radio?
   In the future, the Antichrist will be viewed on televisions around the world and people will believe that he is the messiah returning to earth. 
   This, then, is the evidence that people of the earth do not know the difference between truth and lies.  They are confused.  Mass hysteria will be produced and people will fall on their knees and worship the image of Antichrist on television because they do not know the truth. 
   This event will also be the evidence of the behaviour modification of people by the power of television.  The minds of people have been programmed to believe the message of the programmers.
   Therefore, if you desire to know truth, go to the Holy Bible.  But if you desire make-believe and fantasy, stay tuned.  Your program will be shown, in its entirety, after a brief commercial message from one of our sponsers. 
  
  
  



 

MORE THAN A NAME

   And she shall bring for a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS:  for he shall save his people from their sins.  (Matthew 1: 21)
   That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.  (Philippines 2: 10, 11)

   As stated before, Jesus is a person.  He is not to be confused as a religion, nor is He contained or controlled by any religious system.  He is not dead:  but alive and breathing, and He is sitting at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven.
   Jesus is not an idol:  as people make idols with their hands, or idols fashioned in their minds. 
   Jesus is not a trinket or a relic:  such as a ceramic baby Jesus, taken out of a shoebox and placed under a Christmas tree at Christmastime. 
   Jesus is not a baby:  not wrapped in his mother's arms to care and to protect Him from danger; but rather His mother is wrapped in His arms:  as He also wraps His arms around all people who place their faith in Him.
   For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:  and the government shall be upon his shoulder:  and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.  (Isaiah 9: 6)
 
  
  

THE PASSOVER LAMB

   And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
   And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water:  follow him.
   And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guest chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
   And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared:  there make ready for us.
   And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said utno them:  and they made ready the passover.
   And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
   And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
   And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them:  and they all drank of it.
   And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.  (Mark 14:  12-24)

   This passover feast was unlike any previous passover, and that night was the beginning of all things new in the lives of the disciples, which would also become a memorial service unto Christ in the lives of millions of people from that day, even until now. 
   For the disciples did not know that, before noon the next day, Christ, the Passover Lamb, would be dying on a cross for the sins of the world.  That Christ would become the perfect and sinless Lamb of God to be slaughtered and thus end all other forms of sacrificial offerings to Almighty God; for as soon as Christ died, the veil in the temple was rent from top to bottom, and the feast of the passover would never be the same again:  for Christ, the Lamb of God, arose from death three days later---as Christ passed over from life, to death, and back to life.
  Therefore, when we observe this memorial in churches today, let us be reminded that the communion service, or Lord's Supper, is not about us, but about Him.  It is not to remind us of what we do for others or for Him, but it is about what He did for us. 
   For if Christ had not been able to pass over from life, to death, and back to life, neither will we.  And if Christ had not been able to return to Heaven, neither will we.
   For Christ is:  our Passover Lamb.

  

CAST YOUR BALLOT

   And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell:  but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.  (Joshua 24: 15)

   God created us.  And in our creation, Almighty God created in us a free will:  the will to choose, the will to make decisions:  whether to believe and follow God, or the freedom to go another way.
   God is not a dictator, and the Almighty did not create us to be slaves unto Him. 
   God loves us with a love that is truly beyond our own comprehension.  Though we can know and understand part of His marvelous love, we certainly can not know, nor understand, all of His love because we live in a world that knows not the love of God; for we are surrounded and governed by people who are haters of God. 
   Either we love God, or we hate Him.  Either we are for God, or we are against Him.  We can not love God and also love the world; for this world is at war against Almighty God.  For if we say we love God but also love the world, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
   Even in sports, you can not be a member of two teams.  You must choose which team to serve.  And by choosing a team on which to serve, the other team is your enemy, and your goal is to defeat the other team, your enemy; but if you do not compete to defeat the other team, you are a hypocrite:  and your teammates will know this about you. 
   If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.   If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, he is faitherful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.  (I John 1: 6-10)
   So then, by this free will that Almighty God has given to us in our creation, we must either choose Him, or reject Him.  We must follow Him, or go another way.  We must choose to believe that Christ was crucified for our sins, or we must choose not to believe it.  We must choose Christ for our salvation, or reject Him
   As you cast your ballot, you must vote yea or nay.  There can be no waiting, nor no delay.  You must vote and get in the line of your choice.  For you know in your heart the honesty of your vote, now you must drop your ballot in the box; and your future is now in the box. 
   As you cast your ballot, please remember:  you have influence.  Others are watching you.  Others will do as you do because of your influence.  So then, what about your children and grandchildren?  There are two doors ahead:  one door leads to heaven and the other door leads to hell.  Which door will you lead for others who are following you because of your influence? 
   The decision of your ballot is for eternity:  now cast your ballot.  And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve. 
  

PERFECTLY PROUD

   Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.  (James 4: 6, 10)

   Anger is the prevailing characteristic of proud people.  Tell a proud person he just make a mistake and he will get angry at you.  (Who are you to correct a perfectionist?)
   Proud people do not like to be corrected, for in their own minds, they are perfect in all of their ways. 
   Proud people will not admit their own mistakes, for in their own minds, they do not make mistakes; for they are perfect in all of their ways. 
   Proud people abide in a social class unto themselves and all other people are beneath them. 
   Proud people keep their outer shells polished and well-groomed, for they want others to see how wonderful they are. 
   Proud people are above the Word of God, for they do not need or want any words from the Holy Bible. 
   Proud people of religions that do not worship Almighty God, Creator of the universe, are double proud.  Because they have learned to obey all of their religious laws, rules, and regulations, they see themselves as perfectly fit to go to God's heaven when they die.  And because they participate in all of their religious rites and rituals, they keep themselves scrubbed and cleaned of all their ungodly sin; after which, they exit their institutions with an air of pompous pride that says:  "Look at me!"
   Proud people of religions without Almighty God see no need to submit themselves to God because, in their own minds, their religion is sufficient for the cleansing of sin. 
   Proud people of religions without Almighty God see "born again Christians" and "Bible thumpers" as in a class beneath them, or even as infidels; and, as infidels, we need what they have from their religions:  for we are not true Christians (as they are) because we do not subscribe to their religions.
   Jesus called a certain group of people, the scribes and Pharisees, as hypocrites and vipers. 
   Religiously proud people are also hypocrites and vipers because they resist Almighty God.  They resist the fact that they are sinners in need of salvation.  And because of their resistance to confess to God that they are sinners, they are hypocrites, or pretenders of righteousness.  And because they are too proud to admit they are sinners, they are also vipers:  they will spew their poisonous venom on others. 
   Religiously proud people also raise their children to be just as proud as they are because their children never see their parents confessing to God that they are sinners.  They never hear their parents confessing any of their mistakes in life.  Thus, their children learn to never admit mistakes, nor even to admit that they are capable of making mistakes:  like father, like son; like mother, like daughter.  Therefore, religiously proud families can produce generations of perfectly proud people.  And generation after generation these perfectly proud people die---without Christ for the salvation of their souls. 
   Hypocrites and vipers are perfectly proud, and they cover themselves with anger.  They are the children of Satan, doing as Satan does:  because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:  (I Peter 5: 8)
   Perfectly proud people are as roaring lions, walking about, and seeking whom they may devour.  Because they resist Christ for their salvation, they are consumed by evil and evil will come out of them. 

STINGER MISSLES

   For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  (Ephesians 6: 12)

   Your greatest enemy today is Satan and not people, for Satan is the instigator of all evil upon the earth. 
   Your greatest threat to dying an early death is at the hands of a fellow human, who is consumed with the evil of Satan. 
   Your greatest threat to freedom today is the result of fellow humans, who are consumed with the evil of Satan.
   Your greatest threat to peace and happiness today is the result of fellow humans, who are consumed with the evil of Satan:  to disrupt your day, to get upset or mad at you, or to turn your television channel.
   Your freedom of religion, or to exercise your personal faith in God, will be challenged by another human, who is consumed with the evil of Satan.
   Jesus was crucified by people who were consumed with the evil of Satan. 
   The global government that is rising upon the earth, which is the New World Order, is the work of people who are consumed with the evil of Satan:  to control, to dominate, and to enslave the people of the world.  And they will kill people who will not agree with them, just as they killed Jesus 2000 years ago. 
   For you see, hypocrites and vipers abide in egg shells; and they keep their outward appearance polished and in the proper apparel in order to deceive others from knowing the evil of Satan that abides within them. 
   Humility will take the stinger out of people.  But without humility, people will always be stingers in the lives of others. 
   Because of my pride, I resisted knowing Christ for a long time.  But when I humbled myself and confessed to God that I am a sinner, I was able to accept Christ as my Lord and Savior, and then I became a student.  And because of this humility, I surrendered my stinger.
   As people, our war is not against other people, but we are engaged in a great warfare against Satan, the god of all evil.  As long as people resist Christ, they are accepting Satan's evil:  but people are unable to see this in the physical because Satan operates in the spiritual.  And only Christ can enable us to know the difference.
   Jesus knew His enemies because of their pride.  We also can recognize our enemies because of their pride.  For it is the prideful who disrupt peace on earth, create problems, instigate wars, and kill people:  just as it was the prideful who crucified the Son of God. 
   Humilty before God is the only way to remove our stinger missles. 
  

SNAKES AMONG US

  When Jesus called the scribes and Pharisees hypocrites and vipers, the Lord knew what He was saying, for He knew them; He knew who they were and who they represented.
   From this lesson, we should be able to see and know that there are hypocrites and vipers among us now:  in our own world, in our own communities and neighborhoods, within our own churches and religious institutions, and oftentimes within our own families.
   People are hypocrites when they live a double life.  Internally, their souls are darkness; but their external appearance appears to be light. 
   Hypocrites live in a world unto themselves:  they are self-centered, envious, jealous, and full of anger.  They like having their own way.  They enjoy being right all of the time and everybody else is wrong.  They spend time thinking about how good they are.  They live in a social class by themselves, which is above all other social classes, and therefore they look down their noses at other people, even people within their own families.  They live lonely lives, created by their own visions of themselves.  Instead of drawing people toward them, they push people away because of their pomp and pride.
   Hypocrites do no wrong, they make no errors, and they are encapable of making mistakes.  They have no need for other people because of their self-sufficiency.  They have no fears and they have no tears because of their pride.  And because of their pride, they will never admit to being wrong, they will never admit to making mistakes, and, of course, they will never admit to God that they are sinners because they believe they are above sin and are in no need of repentance.  Unto themselves, hypocrites are perfect in all of their ways.
   Hypocrites want and need to be in control of others as well as to control situations when with others.  If they can not control certain people, they do not participate in activities.  So they choose their target audience with calculations for success.  They do not have many friends because they do not want others to know their true identity.  So they cling to the people they have tricked.
   Like Jesus said, hypocrites are vipers:  they are as snakes and their venom is poison.  They contaminate others with their presence.  They draw others away from God because they are not friends of God:  but rather they are professional pretenders.  They know the language of church people or religious people, and therefore they know the proper responses that will lead others to believe that they are are just and righteous before God. 
   Hypocrites are deceivers.  They are usually religiously devout.  They seek control and domination of others.  And they seek to create division in other families.  They are against God, against Christ, but they are very much in favor of religion; and because they are religiously devout, others tend to think well of them as nice people, based on their outward appearance and by their personalities. 
   Hypocrites are not open and totally honest with others; neither can they be.  When they speak, they do not like being challenged nor corrected; for in their own minds, they are never wrong about anyting. 
   Hypocrites and vipers desire to control and dominate others, which is the same characteristic model of people who want to control the world, such as the New World Order that is presently rising upon the earth.
   The unseen danger of hypocrites and vipers is the fact that their conscience has been seared and they are no longer responsive to the call of God for their salvation; for they are incapable of believing that they are sinners and in need of Christ.  They are cold and heartless individuals, for underneath their do-good image is selfishness and self-exaltation; and their outward appearance is merely pretense.  They are very good actors.  Remember, a snake is still a snake, and snakes bite when least expected.
   As Christians, recognize them:  then avoid them as much as possible. 
   Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:  Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord....  (II Corinthians 6: 14, 17)

THE GREATEST

   But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  (II Corinthians 4: 3,4)

   The greatest trick Satan has ever pulled over the minds of people is the illusion that he does not exist.  That is pretty slick, isn't it? 
   Could you convince people that you do not exist?  If you could, then you could walk in a room and no one would see you.  
   Next, Satan has convinced people that even Almighty God does not exist, and people believe it.
   Satan has convinced people to convince people that the theory of evolution is fact and not theory.
   Satan has convinced people to convince people that the big bang theory is fact and not theory.
   Satan has convinced people to convince people that there is no place called hell, and people believe it.
   At the same time, Satan has convinced people to believe that there is a place called heaven.  This does not mean, however, that this heaven is God's heaven, but rather the illusion that this heaven is God's heaven.  And since there is no hell, then all people will go to this heaven when they die because no person is bad enough to go to a place called hell for eternal damnation, right?
   On top of this, Satan has convinced people that there are many ways to this heaven, and it doesn't matter which way you choose, just choose a way and you will go there.  You can believe that you have a little bit of sin in yourself---which everybody does, you are told---but certainly your little sin is not sufficient for eternal damnation, is it? 
   Satan has people believing in the song about Santa Claus coming to town and you will not get Christmas presents if you have been naughty.  Oh, my.  It's time to straighten up and do right.  And once Christmas is over, then you can resume your world of careless living:  doing whatever you want to do for another year, or when Santa Claus returns again.
   Santa Claus is an illusion, which we plant in the minds of children and children believe it because we have the power of persuasion.
   Religion is also an illusion, planted in the minds of people and people believe it because of the power of persuasion.  Therefore, Satan has also convinced people to create religions, and, if you are to get this heaven, then you must join a religion and participate in all of its doctrines and disciplines, rites and rituals.  And in so doing you can bypass Almighty God.  See how it works?  Religion is like a cake with icing and candles, and Satan is the party host:  he's slicing the cake.  And just as people believe that Santa brings Christmas, people also believe that religion brings salvation. 
   As for our Scriptural text for today, the gospel of Christ, which is the good news that Jesus saves sinners, who are lost people---people who do not know God---this gospel is hidden from them and they do not see it.  But when people confess to Almighty God that they are sinners and invite Jesus into their hearts to save them from their sin, then the gospel is no longer hidden.  At this time, a believer in Christ will see with new eyes, which enables us to see the lies of religion---which, before, we believed to be true. 
   Satan is the god of illusion and his messengers are as gods of this great deception.  They are just like their daddy, Satan, doing exactly as they see their daddy doing; for they, too, are deceived by the great illusionist. 
   But have no fear, for God is greater, and He will deliever you out of your bondage if you will give Him the opportunity to do so.  But if you deny Christ this opportunity to save you from your sin, then the Lord will leave you alone; and when you die, the devil will get your soul.
   But what about your children and grand-children?  They will follow you because you are the example to them.  So before you deny Christ, think about them.  Think about others, who are watching you and doing as you do.
   For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world ; but that the world through him might be saved.  (John 3: 16, 17)
  So then, who is the greatest? 
  The greatest is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, King of kings and Lord of lords.