
“If we Suffer, we shall also Reign with Him” [podcast]
Suffering is Required
Suffering with the Savior – Suffering the death of our own will in order for God’s will to be done. Following Jesus.
“And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, 42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” Luke 22:41-42
Dead, Buried, and Raised Up with/by Christ!
Is He worth it?
Paul says:
“IF we Suffer, we shall also Reign with Him”
When the Holy Spirit led Paul to pen these words, what did He mean? What is the biblical context? How does this truth apply to me, to my personal life and responsibility to my LORD Jesus?
“It is a faithful saying: For IF we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: 12 IF we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: 13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.” 2 Timothy 2:11-13
If I am unwilling to “suffer” I shall not “reign with him.” This would clearly prove that I do not love Christ supremely, which He requires (Matthew 22:37-40; Luke 14:26; Revelation 2:4-5).
ARE YOU taking Jesus at His own Word? OR, are you listening to wolves who water it down?
“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26-27
If you don’t take Jesus at HIS OWN WORD, you are going to hell—no matter how strongly you vainly believe you are going Heaven. If you want to be with the Father, Son, the saints, and heavenly hosts, you are going to have to offer you whole being as a living sacrifice unto God, to truly repent, lay down your life in this fallen world, and truly follow Jesus—on His stated terms. Fast and pray (Isaiah 58).
Suffering the Death of Self so Christ is Reigning in You
“God saved us so that we would reflect his glory (the gospel) to those around us that are in darkness. How shall we then, continue in sin? God forbid. He gave us the cross and the Holy Spirit to overcome the evil of sin which dwelleth in our flesh (Rom. 6-8). Only they who hear him, who endure to the end, shall be with him in eternity. (John 8:47; 10:27; Matt 24:13; Rev. 2-3)” Jon Crane
Someone says “But brother, I doubt I will ever be thrown into a lion’s den or in prison or have to suffer like God’s people in the Word. So how should I view suffering? What should be my perspective? What should I do today?”
Suffering the death of self is the suffering God calls His people to—and all other sufferings are thereafter, and we are powered through them victorious via that resurrection power of Christ who raises us up reciprocally are we dead and buried—as we choose to sacrifice self on the altar, at His holy feet. That’s when the great exchange happens—His power taking over as you are vanquished down deep into His death (Romans 6). It’s only through the cross life that we can be raised upward in His resurrection power which propels us through any and all things He allows us to be brought through.
“Dear Jesus. I give you all of me to be totally surrendered to you. I thank you for all the pain I have had to go through because You used it. It has gotten me to the place to be willing to nail myself at the cross of Christ. And to be resurrected and made new! The old self is dying and You are making me more into Your likeness everyday. I owe it all to You Jesus!” Karen Cochran
God is teaching His true remnant that you cannot dabble with the cross message but you must become immersed in it and camp out on it.
“Downward… Upward”
GOD’S KINGDOM FUNCTIONS ON A CROSS ECONOMY
It’s in dying “DOWNward” that Christ raises up “UPward.”
“And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root DOWNward, and bear fruit UPWARD.” Isaiah 37:31
Read that verse again, slowly.
The “remnant” of Christ has come out of the professing church (Judah) and is following Jesus by way of the cross, the crucified life—as they “take root downward (death and burial), and bear fruit upward (resurrection).”
Anyone living in any sin, is the servant of sin and not the Savior. Read also 1 John 3.
“Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.” John 8:34
“Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;” 1 Peter 4:1
Who “hath ceased from sin”? Only those who suffer the death of the flesh.
“Arm yourselves likewise with the same mind.” Those camping on Christ’s cross message alone are armed, are equipped and therefore not shocked when they suffer, when they are allowed to go through seasons of fiery trials. God will raise them up through those fiery trials.
“He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:30
Are you becoming addicted to Christ, to experiencing His resurrection power and you choose daily the cross, the going down with Him in death and burial?
“We absorb the blows! Not return them. Didn’t Jesus absorb the blows? As scripture says ‘He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth;’ (Isaiah 53:7). This is only possible through the cross! Where you die! And you no longer need to retaliate because you are able to love people with the love of Jesus! You absorb the blows.” Karen Cochran
“WITH Christ”
“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried WITH HIM by baptism (immersion, burial) into death (cross): THAT like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.” Romans 6:3-7
Sin and Satan cannot conquer or control those who live the cross because as they surrender daily in the crucified life, they are being daily raised up by the resurrection power of Christ the LORD! Nothing could stop His resurrection and nothing shall ever stop His resurrection power in the lives of His beloved saints—the “remnant” who are known by their dying downward and “bearing fruit UPward.”
Let’s make certain we are grasping this cross truth illustrated in Isaiah 37:31: Christ’s “remnant” defined:
“And THE REMNANT that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again TAKE ROOT DOWNWARD (death and burial), and BEAR FRUIT UPWARD:” Isaiah 37:31
If today I am not crying out to the LORD and learning to die downward—to be dead and buried “with Christ”—I am not truly following Him, no matter what other professed religious “form of godliness” I have going on (2 Timothy 3:5).
- Going to church doesn’t replace the necessity of the cross.
- Putting out social media truth about Jesus doesn’t replace the necessity of the cross.
- Wearing a Christian tee shirt or cross around my neck doesn’t replace the necessity of the cross.
- Reading God’s Word and praying doesn’t replace the necessity of the cross, because the cross is obedience to God to what He mandated in His Word.
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20
Memorize Galatians 2:20 above and Colossians 3:3 below:
“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3
Being “hid with Christ in God” is how the LORD powers us through, past the many afflictions to be suffered by Christ’s saints.
“There is a beauty in being rejected, misunderstood, unseen, and unsupported by people. It teaches you to rely on God for everything.” unknown
Shall you be free from the sin that has brought death to your life?
“For he that is dead is freed from sin.” Romans 6:7
Submitting yourself to God is submitting to death and burial and resurrection with Christ.
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7
It doesn’t matter that we nearly never ever, even hear the message of the cross on social media or from the pulpits of the apostate modern church. God has not and will not change. You must choose to die and be buried as He commanded in order to be raised up in His holy power! Read Romans 6 each morning this week prayerfully.
You, I, cannot walk with Jesus other than obeying Him—obeying His cross He mandated (John 14:15).
The crucified life is the only answer for overcoming any and all sin. Jesus and His holy apostles prescribed, commanded it, and we must take it up “daily” to follow our LORD or we are not truly following Him (Luke 9:23-24).
Memorize Galatians 2:20 and read Romans 6 prayerful each morning. KJB
“All of these ads for porn addiction really raises a red flag for profiting off of someone else’s infirmity (sin).” Fred
Fred is correct. These companies never give the Bible answer—the only solution God gave—the cross, the crucified life. This begins upon true repentance and placing all trust in the LORD Jesus (Acts 20:21, etc.).
If we don’t literally apply the cross principle daily, it clearly proves our love for this world over Christ. Such people have made their choice, regardless of their mere verbal profession.
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” 1 John 2:15-17
The cross-less, “the enemies of the cross of Christ” prove they do not love Jesus supremely, that He is not their “first love” (Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:4-5).
DEAR ETERNAL SECURITY HERETIC: You are actually teaching the first lie of Satan in the Garden, which led to the fall of mankind into sin. See what God said then see what Satan said and what his false teachers say – Genesis 2:17; 3:4. Case closed. Repent now before it’s too late. EVERY false teacher is going to hell – will have “damnation.” (2 Peter 2:1-3)

Eternal Security is the First Doctrine of the Devil
Memorize Romans 6:7 today. KJB
YOUR PRAYER: Holy Father, please take me down deep into the death of Christ – that this life You gave might be raised up in Your divine power! Have all of me dear LORD Jesus. I am all Yours and I know You are all mine. Into Your holy hands I now commend, submit my spirit. In Jesus’ name.
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Abiding
Humility. Surrender. Sobriety. Restoration. Vigilance. [podcast]

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7 casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.” 1 Peter 5:6-10
“Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:14-16
“But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. 26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.” Hebrews 7:24-26
May God bless you and I with this child-like disposition, heart! Please do it in us dear LORD, in Jesus’ name.
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Idolatry
THE SIN, THE CURSE, AND THE FRUIT OF IDOLATRY [podcast]

“Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.” Leviticus 26:1
Idolatry will damn the eternal soul to hell (Exodus 20:3-7; Galatians 5:19-21, etc.). Just one idol. ANYthing that is more important to you than Jesus Christ is an idol. You must repent and receive Christ or you will perish in the flames of eternal damnation (Luke 13:3; John 1:12). If you aren’t willing to give up your religion to follow Jesus, you are a hell bound idolater who has chosen to pay for your own sins for eternity in hell.
God will not be worshipped by physical objects, idols. Jesus says:
“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him MUST worship him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:23-24
2 Corinthians 5:16 says “Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.” This verse, this divine truth has helped me out much. God forbids any attempt to worship Him through, via any images, anything physical (Exodus 20:3-7). According to this Bible verse, we do not even know Jesus after the flesh.
Jesus stated the divine essential, the non-negotiable imperative that “they that worship him MUST worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).
17 Soul Damning Sins
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 IDOLATRY, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:19-21
“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.” James 3:14-16
IDOL’ATRY, noun [Latin idololatria. Gr. idol, and to worship or serve.]
1. The worship of idols, images, or any thing made by hands, or which is not God.
Idolatry is of two kinds; the worship of images, statues, pictures, etc. made by hands; and the worship of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon and stars, or of demons, angels, men and animals.
2. Excessive attachment or veneration for any thing, or that which borders on adoration.
from Websters1828
Anything you refuse to give up for Jesus is your idol.
Any person who will not give up their religion to follow Jesus is a hell bound antichrist idolater.

The Stark Contrast between True and False Worship
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3
Whatever you won’t give up for Jesus is a soul damning idol (Mark 9:43-49).
The reason so many don’t take sin seriously and sit under sin-justifying wolves in sheep’s clothing, is because they do not fear nor take God seriously. Then they attack the true messengers of Christ who are declaring that God is holy and He requires non-negotiably that anyone who will know and be with Him eternally cut off occasion for all sin as Jesus commanded in Mark 9:43-49 KJB. They talk about grace but only in the respect that their sins were initially forgiven, yet never in respect to divine grace being the divine influence and enablement in their daily lives to overcome all that displeases Him, as they worshipfully with great gratitude deny self, take up the cross and follow, abide in Jesus (Titus 2:11-14; Luke 9:23-24; John 15:1-6, etc.).
The cross message of Christ and His holy apostles is not a novel concept, idea, or mere suggestion but rather it is a non-negotiable essential component of the original Gospel.
Recently, I ran across a comment by a person who wrote: “A cross (or crucifix, picture, statute, etc.) is not idolatry so long as it leads the person to worship God, and not the object itself.”
Is this true? No. This is pure human reasoning and a denial of the Word of God. As you can tell, this person commenting was most likely catholic. Speaking of the catholic church, they removed the second commandment because it was costing them money. The 2nd commandment says:
“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: 5 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; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.” Exodus 20:4-6
God is not and will not be worshipped through images. In fact only Satan receives worship when images are used (Exodus chapter 20; 1 Corinthians 10:19-21). Satan is the entity who received worship when someone does that which God forbids….
Committing the sin of Idolatry yokes you with devils.
“They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.” Deuteronomy 32:17
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Abiding
LORD Please Prepare and Send Me! [podcast]

So you don’t do anything for anyone except yourself and yet you claim to be saved? Nah. Real repentance, will always, with no exception, bring for a new life, the life of Christ, full of fruit that bears witness to His lordship in that life (Matthew 3:7-10).
Of Isaiah’s repentance and preparation to be used of God, one writer notes:
“This phrase is a powerful, timeless prayer for spiritual readiness and a willing heart to serve. It echoes the beautiful biblical passage from Isaiah 6:8, where Isaiah responds to God’s call saying, “Here am I; send me.”
WHEN you ask God to use you, get ready, He’s going to do it. He’s going to prepare and launch you into His fields which are “white already to harvest” (John 4:34-38).
Sometimes I’ve been through seasons of testing, chastening, stripping, purging, etc., not remembering I had prayed for the LORD to prepare and send me. Then it would dawn on me and all began to make sense. God is able. Memorize 2 Timothy 2:21 KJB.
When the LORD appeared to him, the prophet Isaiah was shown his own depravity, his own wicked heart, his own unpreparedness. What was his response and how does this relate to us?
Are you ready this day to say “Jesus please prepare and use me mightily for Your eternal glory! I love You LORD. I am all Yours! Please do Your deeper work in this life You gave!”?
One must be prepared by God to be used by God.
“If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.” 2 Timothy 2:21
To the degree that we allow God to prepare us, to that degree shall He powerfully use us. The cross. The only way up is down beloved.
Is today your day to surrender afresh? John 3:30, Colossians 3:3 anyone?
Prepared by God to be Used of God (category)
Regrettably, most professing Christians will never love Jesus enough to give up this fleeting world for Heaven’s coming King (Luke 14:33; 17:33).
Have you ever pondered why there is little or no Scripture being used when listening to someone pretending to be speaking about the LORD? You should wonder (Matthew 7:16, 20; 1 John 4:1).
“Preach the word” is the divine mandate, command, and also “do the work of an evangelist” (2 Timothy 4:2,5).
Let us cease to pretend that we represent the LORD when everything we say isn’t coming straight out of His Word. Read that again please. He didn’t instruct us to entertain or to tell stories. He commanded us to preach HIS Word. King James Bible.
“If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles (written Word) of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:11
Think God is calling you to serve? Good. If He has saved you, He has called you (Ephesians 2:8-10; 4:7). Get lost in His Word every day (Jeremiah 15:16). Read it (Revelation 1:3). Study it (2 Timothy 2:15). Memorize it (Proverbs 4:4). Meditate upon it day and night (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1). THAT’s your prep for ministry, not going to an antichrist seminary. Jesus inducted you into His school of the Holy Ghost and Word the moment He saved you.
Are you daily devouring God’s Word, OR are you backsliding?
“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.” Jeremiah 15:16
God Visits Isaiah
If we’re not talking about the holiness of the one true God—that He is “Holy, holy, holy” —what false god are we speaking of?
Isaiah 6
Isaiah’s Calling/Vision of the Lord
“1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Isaiah’s Commission from the Lord
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.”
In Your process of preparing this vessel, when needed, please “Let the righteous smite me….” (Psalms 141:5).
HAVE YOU ever prayed this prayer? Do you want to be a man after God’s own heart like David? (Acts 13:22) If so, you must emulate the beloved David and pray this prayer!
“There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong.” — G.K. Chesterton
IF you are not a DOER of God’s Word, it proves you are not saved, and are a lukewarm hell bound rebel. Repent now and bring forth fruit to prove it (Matthew 3:7-10; 7:21; Titus 1:16; 1 John 2:4; Revelation 2:26, etc.).
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” James 1:22
May I be a doer of Your Word dear LORD. Let it be, in Jesus’ name.
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 7:21
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