WOMEN FOR CHRIST

    When you study the women of the New Testament, you will meet some of the bravest and boldest women in human history, and you will learn that their faith in God was unchanging.
   The mother of Jesus believed that her son could turn water into wine at a wedding supper, and Jesus did.
   One woman believed that Jesus would heal her sickness, even if she merely touched the hem of His garment, and Jesus did.
   Another woman met Jesus at a well in Samaria, then ran to town to tell everybody about this man named Jesus.
   Two women of Bethany believed that Jesus could raise their brother from death, and Jesus did.
   A woman anointed the head of Jesus before His crucifixion.
   Many women gathered when Jesus was on the cross, and there they watched and wept as Jesus died.
   The first witness for the resurrection of Christ was a woman.
   It was also women who ran to tell the disciples that Jesus was alive.
   Claudia Procula, the wife of Pontius Pilate, became a disciple of Christ.
   On the day of Pentecost, many women were also there with the disciples in the upper room.
   The apostle Paul salutes many women in his writings of the New Testament and he records their names:  Phebe, Priscilla, Junia, Tabitha, Euodia, Syntyche, and others.
   Philip the evangelist had four daughters who were prophetesses. 
   Women for Christ were not popular.  They were supposed to kneel to Caesar, but they did not.
   Women for Christ suffered for their faith.  They were killed and wounded, then left to die on the side of the road.  They were buried in unmarked graves.  History has mostly forgotten them.
   But God remembers them!---and writes their stories in His Book that we may learn from them.
      Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain:  but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.  (Proverbs 31: 30)

SPIRITUAL DRUNKS

   The events we are watching around us in the world today is a prelude for the return of Christ.  That's it.  That's everything.  That's what it is all about.  Nations are against nations, kingdoms are against kingdoms, and people are against people.
   The antichrist movement is not something new.  It has been in the world ever since Christ arose from death.  Had Christ remained dead, the world would have never heard about Him.  But because Christ arose from death His name is the most recognized name in the history of the world.  Even today, the name of Jesus gets attention. 
   Ever since Christ arose from death, government and religion have been SECRETLY working together.  While these appear to be separate and independent institutions, they are not:  for they are two branches from the same tree of evil.  Each desires to control and dominate people.  Government wants people to believe in government and religion wants people to believe in religion.
   For this reason, the separation of state and religion is impossible:  for people of religion want to change civil law to be compatible with religious law while people of government want to change religious law to be compatible with civil law so that the two will become one.  This desire of both institutions creates contention among people because people want it both ways.  For this reason, laws of both houses keep changing for neither will never be content with the other until the two become one. 
   Therefore, the events we are watching around the world today is a spiritual drunk:  for people are intoxicated with religion and they are intoxicated with government.  They are reeling to and fro, staggering through life, and living in a state of confusion.  As a result, the whole world is mad.  The whole world has gone crazy.  People have lost their minds and they are as insane people.  If people do not get their own way, or, if people disagree with them. they go into a fit of rage, foam at the mouth, raise the sword and commit murder. 
   Where is Christ in this world of chaos, in this world of spiritual drunks?
   Christ is not there.  He is risen.  The Lord is not walking among mad and insane people.
   Thus the evidence of Christ's resurrection is believed among people.  For people of government do not blame their civil laws for their drunkenness:  they blame Christ!  And people of religion do not blame their religious laws for their drunkenness:  they blame Christ!
   To people of government and religion, Christ is the bad boy.  He is the reason for their problems.
To them, Christ is the evil one.  To them, Christ is therefore preventing them from having their own way, from living their own lives without interference. 
   Because the whole world blames Jesus for everything that is wrong, people of the world know that Christ is alive!  For would people blame a dead man for being against them for two thousand years?
   In conclusion, it should be clear to see and understand that people are intoxicated with religion and they are intoxicated with government. 
  Until Christ returns, people will continue to live as spiritual drunks unless they turn to Him for their salvation:  for Christ is still the light of the world.  And Christ is still the love they need.
        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)
  

A THIEF IN THE NIGHT

         The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:  I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  (John 10: 10)
   Governments worldwide operate as a thief in the night.
   One by one, nations fall down.  People lose their freedom and they have no other choice but to follow the leaders.
   One by one, the leaders of nations steal from people, kill people, and destroy the evidence of human civilization.  They destroy books and buildings, ancient texts, and precious works of art.
   The goal of worldwide governments is to create a New World Order:  out with the old and in with the new:  a new way of walking, a new way of talking, and a new way of believing.
   The leaders of governments want us to believe that they will take care of us.  That we should trust in them.  That we should believe and follow them.  Even to believe that they will feed us, care for us, and be a mother unto us.
   They lie.  They lie to our faces.  They are deceivers and hypocrites, and the truth is not in them.
         Beloved, let us love one another:  for God is love; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.  (1st John 4: 7-8)
   Knowing this, then we should also know and believe that the leaders of governments have no love for people because they have not the love of God abiding in their hearts.  If they did, they would stop stealing from us, killing us, and destroying us.  Instead, the stealing and killing and destruction continues throughout all nations under heaven.
   The leaders of the world are, indeed, thieves in the night.  They like the darkness instead of the light.  They meet behind doors and in secret meetings because they do not want us to know the plans they have for us.  Darkness is their natural habitat, for they are like their father, the devil, who is the Prince of Darkness and the Prince of Thieves.  It is to him they kneel in their secret places of worship out of the light.
   As it is written, He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.
   Know, too, that these thieves in the night are not done yet, for their desire is the conquer the whole world, to bring every nation under the authority of a supreme commander,
         whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon,
         but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. (Revelation 9: 11) 
   We also know him by the name Antichrist. 
         Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?  He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.  (1st John 2: 22)
   Therefore we should be able to understand that the leaders of the world are thieves in the night because they are antichrist, for they are against Christ and not for Christ.  And they have not the love of God abiding in their hearts. 
   For if they did, they would not be thieves in the night.


  

OUT OF THE TOMB

   Until the minds of people are educated in the knowledge of God, they will not see, neither will they understand, the times of the seasons.
   For even people against Christ know that the Lord is alive because people have never engaged in warfare against a dead man before.  Have they?
   Not only do these people against Christ know that the Lord is alive, but they also know that Christ will be returning. 
   How do they know these things? 
   Because the devil told them.  And they believe in the words of the devil because they are servants of Satan.  It is his voice they hear and not the voice of Christ. 
   These people against Christ are the disciples of Satan.  They gather in darkness.  They meet behind closed doors and conduct secret meetings.  They are the leaders of governments and they are also the leaders of religions.  They live in a worldwide web of deception, dressed in fancy suits and priestly garments. 
   Ever since the first century, the leaders of the people against Christ have been operating covertly while remaining virtually invisible. 
   They control governments:  but we trust the leaders of governments, right?
   They control religions:  but we trust the leaders of religions, right?
   They control the world's money:  but we trust the leaders of banks, right?
   The leaders of the people against Christ are like Judas Iscariot:  they have sold their souls to the devil for a pocketful of money.  They live rich and lavish lifestyles while people all over the world suffer for lack of food, shelter, and clothing, sickness and disease. 
   The leaders of the people against Christ treat people as their slaves. 
   In looking to the future, the leaders of the people against Christ are preparing their own messiah to arise in Jerusalem and to rule the world with an iron fist.  This messiah they are preparing is Antichrist.  He is against Christ and he wants the whole world to be against Christ.
   My friends, come out of the tomb, stand up with Christ, and live again.  This is what resurrection is all about:  A new life.  A new beginning.  And walk in the light of Christ and not in darkness.  Knowing, too, that Christ will fight our battles for us. 
      This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  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 cleanses us from all sin.  (1st John 1: 6-7)
  

I, THE LORD

   God is not difficult to know, but rather easy to understand.
   God does not burden our shoulders with hard labor, nor place a yoke across our necks.
   With God, we are not slaves.  We are free to believe, and we are also free to leave.
   God's ways are simple ways, not complex problems.
   God does not desire to punish us, but rather to free us from the prison of sin.
   God is merciful, and He desires to shower us with love, mercy, and grace.
   God wants to cradle us in His arms and to carry us across the rivers of life and through the raging storms. 
   God is God, and God is not clothed in religion.  When people are able to separate God from religion, then and only then will people begin a journey in knowing God.  For God is not contained, and neither is He controlled, by the men of religion:  in fancy suits and priestly garments.
   As Christians, Christ does not desire that we be performers, or stars of the show:  to dazzle crowds, to raise the roof, or to bring the house down.
   For if all people see is me, they will not see Christ; and if all they hear is me, they will not hear Christ.
   If people praise me, they will not praise Him. 
   If I desire the praises and the offerings, then I am the show:  all about me and not about Him. 
   In truth, it is Christ who died for people, and not me.  But more than this, it is Christ who is alive for people, and not me.
   Everything that we see in this world today is a preparation for the return of the Great King, Christ the Lord. 
   Who am I, then, in this sea of constant change?  I am no more than a grain of sand shifting from shore to shore.  But in Christ, I am all that He is. 
   When people come to know Christ, they will shed their skin from the cloak of religion.
  

   Written by Dan Schutte in 1981, this song is in more than 20 languages.

IN SEARCH OF TRUTH

   Just over three years ago, I began a journey in search of truth. 
   To accomplish this task:
      1.  I went to the Bible.
      2.  I went to the internet.
   In so doing, I have made many interesting discoveries, two of which are these:
      1.  most of the history we have learned from schools is mostly wrong;
      2.  most of the beliefs we have been taught to believe as truth are mostly lies.
   So then, to ascertain truth, what must we do?
   Follow this simple outline and you will know truth:
      1.  Educate yourself.
      2.  Teach yourself.
      3.  Learn for yourself.
      4.  Study for yourself.
      5.  Conduct your own research and analysis to arrive at your own answers and your own  
            conclusions.
      6.  Do not expect to hear truth from rich and powerful people, for most of these accumulated
           their wealth and power by lies and deception.
      7.  Beware of people in fancy suits and priestly garments, knowing that people are not
           necessarily as they appear to be.
      8.  Get alone with Christ, asking Him for help, and He will give you revelation in the
           knowledge of Him.

PUPPETS ON STRINGS

   In general, people all over the world have never been to school for Bible lessons; consequently, people all over the world have little to no education in the knowledge of God.
   As a result for this lack of the knowledge of God, they are as puppets of religion, or puppets on strings.
   As such, they are unable to think for themselves, for they rely on puppet masters to tell them what to do, how to sit, when to stand, when to kneel and bow their heads, and when to arise and leave the building.
   Unable to feed themselves from the Word of the Lord, they rely on puppet masters to read to them, to tell them simple stories that will either delight their emotions, or imprison them with guilt.
   As a result for this lack of the knowledge of God, going to church or religious services is not much different than going to a theater to watch a show.  From week to week their behavior is about the same, and, from week to week, the show is about the same:  for they watch a repeat performance, time after time, and throughout their lives.
   As a matter of fact, people will never learn any more from a religion than they know today, and they will never know any more from a religion than they could have learned thirty, three hundred, or three thousand years ago; for all religion contains is the knowledge of men, which is no more than a production from the imaginations of men.
   For the only purpose of religion, created by evil men, is to deceive people from knowing God.
   Jesus of Nazareth is a real person. 
   Jesus of Nazareth is not an idol, a statue chiseled from stone, nor an image such as a painting or a photograph.
   Jesus is alive, living and breathing.  He is not a religion, and a religion does not contain Him, nor own Him, nor control Him.
   Jesus is not a puppet on a string.  And we who believe in Him are not puppets. 
   Therefore knowing Christ enables us to know the knowledge of God:  things past, things present, and things future.
   Religion can only be imagined to be real from within the imaginations of men.
   So what are you going to do today?  What are you going to believe?
   Do you really want to be a puppet on a string? 
   Give Christ a chance and you will be free from the slavery of religion.