This morning I spoke with a lady who is going on a mission trip to Africa. She is leaving next week. Upon hearing this, I smiled real big and said “Praise God, are you guys going to get some people saved in Africa?” She was taken back a bit by such a question. Astounding! “Missions” according to the apostate church world, is nothing more than humanistic, humanitarian help. Jesus fed the stomachs of men but then preach His Word also to them, without which no one can be saved! John 6, etc. Christ commands us to “Go … preach the gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16:15-20) We are going after souls beloved – and God is moving as He promised and saving them! We have seen Jesus save several people in the last month and I believe we are just getting started! God is so good! We have abandoned our nets and are going and need some senders (Mark 1:17; Romans 10:14-15). Our LORD says: “Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.” (John 4:35-36)
If a “mission” trip consists only of building a house or a “church”, or feeding hungry stomachs, it is not fulfilling a kingdom purpose! We need to repent and stop supporting folks who are going on “mission” trips that are not first planting the seed of God’s Word right where they live and 2) are not going with the intention of speaking God’s Word into the hurting hearts of lost souls. We must not “bid God speed” to those who are perpetrating their religion of good works/humanitarianism on others (2 John 10-11). ANY pagan can do a good act. Any lost person can help build shelter for a homeless family. Any antichrist can feed a hungry stomach but only God’s true church is reaching out to lost souls with His blessed Gospel message which begins with “repent ye, and believe the gospel.” (Mark 1:15) The church of Jesus Christ has been sent to say “Come… take of the water of life freely.” (Rev. 22:17) Read Acts this week – look at what the earliest believers did. They “preached Jesus Christ,” and “preached the word.” (Acts 5:42; 8:25, etc.). Oh and not just the apostles …. EVERYone went and preached the Gospel ….. “Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.” (Acts 8:4)
“Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ…” Acts 8:12
Is it time that we repent of forsaking the LORD and misusing His name and funds and get about our “Father’s business”? (Lk. 2:49)
If your “church” has reduced doing the Great Commission to humanitarian aid, you are in an antichrist organization that is part of the apostate, babylonian system that Jesus will soon destroy/judge. Flee and go preach the Word of God or you will perish with them (Rev. 18:4).
Feeding someone’s stomach does not replace their need to hear God’s Word. Beware of humanitarian aid “ministries” which do not clearly communicate sin, the original Gospel, and the need to repent and be saved.
No true disciple can possibly fund or support this error (bid God speed) to this evil misrepresentation. Do you even know what the Great Commission is? When is the last time you heard someone preach or speak forth on the Scriptures concerning the Great Commission Jesus gave to us? If your “church” doesn’t commune with this truth, it is apostate. It’s time to repent and turn back to Christ as our “first love” and “do the first works.” (Rev. 2:4-5)
Jesus didn’t say “Go ye into all the world and do humanitarian acts.” No, He commanded us to “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16:15) Yes, Jesus also fed hungry stomachs but then He preaching and taught His Word to the people. Someone can go to hell with a healed body but can’t go to Heaven and miss hell without a healed or saved soul! Jesus says “Ye MUST born again” to see His kingdom (John 3:3, 7). There is no salvation without “regeneration”! (Titus 3:5-6)
RED FLAG: You attend a “church” and aren’t digging into, devouring, and memorizing God’s Word daily. Backslidden!
So you have time to read the news in the morning but no time or desire and disciple to seek God in His holy Word and prayer when you first awake in the mornings? Self-idolatry!
God’s Word cannot and will not get into you until you get into it!
If anything is more important to you than knowing the LORD through studying His Word, you are not ready to meet Jesus (John 17:3; Philippians 3:10).
MUCH of what you will do in ministering is to preach the original Gospel message to those who think they’re saved and yet are not. They’ve been lied to by the end time wolves who peddle the easy believism eternal security false gospel message. True repentance and the necessity to lay down your life is never mentioned. True repentance or the need to live and die holy is completely absent. The Apostate Modern Church
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5 Loaves, 2 Fishes, and 12 Baskets Left Over [podcast]
“And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.” Galatians 2:9-10
Did Jesus come as a celebrity or servant? Read Philippians 2 each morning this week.
“Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.” Matthew 5:42
“Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.” Luke 6:30
“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. 11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; 12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?” Proverbs 24:12
FEEDING THE POOR IN SPIRIT AND STOMACH: Because you care, you prayed, you gave….. Cenovio, a homeless man, was treated to the hearing of our LORD’s bless-ed Gospel message, a delicious hot meal, hot coffee, fresh water, and a JESUS tract. It was a super blessed time with this man. Thank God and you!
Would you like to pause and pray for Cenovio? | Mission Mexico
Of Jesus feeding the multitudes, one source notes:
“Jesus fed a large crowd on at least two occasions, most notably feeding 5,000 men plus women and children with five loaves and two fish, and later feeding 4,000 men plus women and children with seven loaves and a few fish. The miracles occurred when Jesus had compassion on the hungry crowds who had been following him, and the food multiplied supernaturally, leaving 12 baskets of leftovers in the first instance and seven in the second.”


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“Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not
cast thee away. 10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen
thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold
thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
Isaiah 41:9-10
There are 10 truths to behold in Isaiah 41:10:
• “Thou art my servant”
• “I have chosen thee”
• “and not cast thee away”
• “Fear thou not”
• “I am with thee”
• “be not dismayed”
• “for I am thy God”
• “I will strengthen thee”
• “I will help thee”
• “I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness”
The soul that prospers is that one who clings to, trusts in and
relies upon Christ alone, day by day, walking ever nearer to
the soon coming Savior. He is with us and promises to “never
leave thee, nor forsake thee”—that is, for those who abide
with Christ (Hebrews 13:5).
1 Peter 1
“Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Prayer: Dear LORD, thank You for helping me today, and
continuing the good work of salvation You began in me the
moment You saved me. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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