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“Preach the Word …” 2 Timothy 4:2

“And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house … For I have not shunned to declare unto you ALL the counsel of God.” Acts 20:20, 27

—- EVERY penny you spend today …. you are spending God’s money for which you will give account. You are a steward. Read Matthew 25 to find out what happens to obedient and disobedient stewards of His resources.

—- Honour This! \ o / Ask yourself: Is GOD first in your spending? Does He get the first portion of your income? Isn’t this how He told us to honour Him? Listen saints: “Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” (Proverbs 3:9-10)

If I truly belong to Him, everything I am and have belongs to Him. Not just my life but also my resources, all of which are from the LORD (James 1:17; 1 Chronicles 29:14).

— Some who are greedy, covetous like to shout out that it doesn’t take money to minister the Gospel. To this I ask, Okay why then did Jesus have a treasurer if no money was being handled?

—- INTERESTING: WHY PAUL wanted people to give … Christ’s apostle stated: “NOT because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.” (Philippians 4:17) Was Jesus’ apostle Paul a greedy, covetous, money grubber? Noooooo! Paul wanted the LORD’s saints to participate in HIS work so that they could lay up treasure in Heavenly places that is forever going to pay back the highest return/dividends. Let’s get some biblical perspective. He was Jesus’ messenger and wanted God’s people to help His work and lay up treasure in Heaven just like Jesus told us to do. Listen to the instruction of One who owns all: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Matthew 6:19-21) Now, the specific way the LORD told us to honor Him in our stewardship, is to put Him first in it, right? … “Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” (Proverbs 3:9-10)

Truth-seeking servants of the LORD in our day beckon God’s people to give, not for their own benefit but rather:

1) So Christ’s Great Commission is carried out by His people, and

2) So those who participate by their obedient stewardship, lay up treasure in eternity!

Christ’s called out servants are as Paul – they don’t just want your money. In fact, if they are Christ’s servants, they preach His Word instead of lying to people, and are therefore most likely living on the edge of broke. So, they are not getting rich in this world but only seeking to survive on the post Jesus called them to in order to carry out His work. Yet, anything you say about money and stewardship will be ridiculed. The greedy and covetous will be angry due to you speaking to their hearts which are unrepentant. When the truth is preached on this topic, they see you as the enemy because you are now tampering with their false god. The LORD is seeking to convict and bring them to repentance before it’s too late. Jesus says, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24)

— IF YOU DON’T THINK STEWARDSHIP MATTERS TO GOD, THEN ASK WHY 16 OF JESUS’ 38 PARABLE INVOLVE STEWARDSHIP. ALSO, THERE ARE 500 BIBLE VERSES ON FAITH AND 2,500 ON STEWARDSHIP. DOES STEWARDSHIP MATTER? YES, THE WAY WE TREAT EVERY BIT OF GOD’S RESOURCES DOES MATTER MUCH TO HIM AND TO THOSE WHO TRULY FEAR HIM.

Saints, we are passing through in this life. This earth is not our home. Our home is with the LORD (Revelation 21). We are “strangers and pilgrims.” “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” (1 Peter 2:11) We are to become entrenched in Christ who is our life and not in this fleeting world and its comforts and trinkets.

—- THE GREAT apostle of Jesus, and all true servants of Christ, labor diligently to get His Bride ready for His soon return. In doing so, they preach, warn, and teach (PWT). Listen to Paul: “Whom we PREACH, WARNING every man, and TEACHING every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:” … In contrast, hireling wolves exploit their prey. They use them to build their own kingdoms and this makes up for over 90% of those doing ministry today. They are using the name of the LORD in vain – to build their own empires. They give you reasons why “God” is saying “we must expand.” And so they take up your money to expand their kingdom instead of Christ’s – which is in the hearts of men, not herded and corralled in some certain building on Sunday mornings. The hireling seduces you to center your world around his ministry and not Christ’s ministry at the right hand of the Father (Jeremiah 17:12; Colossians 2:18-19; Hebrews 7:24-25). The wolf builds His kingdom by peddling this pablum to the gullible who gladly give to support and bid God speed to this evil (2 John 10-11). All who participate are idolatrously / adulterously diverting their affections and resources away from Christ and will be judged together in “damnation.” (2 Peter 2:1-3; 2 John 10-11)

Okay, when Jesus said “I will build my church,” He could not possibly have been speaking of participating in building so-called church buildings because neither Christ or His apostles ever collected a dime to do so.

No, Jesus was speaking of building His kingdom (dominion of the KING) in the hearts of men when He stated “I will build my church.” (Matthew 16:16-18) In that very context, Jesus was speaking of His revealing of Himself in the hearts of men.

— Not long ago I visited a local church building based organization where it’s obvious that the “pastor” is well spoken (a good speaker) and things move fast. It’s an upwardly mobile, rather upper middle class clientele and things are popping. Yet we must observe and remember that wolves like to keep things moving fast so no one stops to actually think … about what is really transpiring. They don’t want their prey getting deep into Christ’s Word and therefore Him due to how this would disturb THEIR game. Let’s get a clue saints. Oh, and that very new local church organization is expanding rapidly. They are in a nice building already, busting at the seems, and buying a much larger, nicer building …. already, in a very short time.

Oh, I later found out that that pastor is linked with Joel Osteen and attends Osteen’s “leadership” seminars. God figure, right.

PREACHERS: Like it or not, you MUST preach what the Bible says concerning stewardship (Acts 20:20, 27). 1) It’s all over God’s Word, and, 2) Christ’s saints must be taught so they can prepare to be judge by their stewardship in this life.

You must be dead to self and therefore dead to what others might and will say or think. See Isaiah 51:7, 12. You were not bought by their sinful blood but rather by the blood of the only begotten Son of God whom you will soon stand before to give account.

There is the tendency that God-fearing men have. They seek to avoid preaching on stewardship and certain other Bible truth due to the prevalence of abuse of these doctrines, especially stewardship due to the greed-mongering false prophets of today (2 Peter 2:1-3). Yet, there is no justification for refusing preaching what Jesus and His apostles and prophets preached. Stewardship is a component of the full counsel of God’s Word and we are accountable to preach the Word of God on this important doctrine. The LORD will bless you in doing so.

So, let’s follow this faulty line of reasoning which I’m sure we’ve all fallen into. So, if we cease to preach something because others have misused those Scriptures, doesn’t this mean we have to cease preaching all of God’s Word … because it’s obvious that every single doctrine of Scripture has been abused, right?

This is not about us. This is about the crucified and risen LORD and Savior. We must never not preach something due to the self-centered perception of how some may interpret or read-into what we preach.

“Ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3

“…Ye are not your own? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

The fact that something has been twisted and abused should more greatly motivate us to preach the truth concerning that which was falsely taught, right?

Listen closely:

“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; ²Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. ³For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; ⁴And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. ⁵But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:1-5

You must preach and teach and warn or the blood of those who went uninformed and un-warned will be guilt on your own hands.

“And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ¹⁷Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. ¹⁸When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.” Ezekiel 3:16-18

You are accountable to preach and warn and teach (PWT) the whole counsel of Holy Scripture from Genesis to Revelation.

“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand. ⁷So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. ⁸When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.” Ezekiel 33:6-8

Please give close ear to the great apostle. Hear His heart, the heart Christ gave him for Himself and His people:

Acts 20

“Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews: ²⁰And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house, ²¹Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. ²²And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: ²³Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. ²⁴But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. ²⁵And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. ²⁶Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. ²⁷For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. ²⁸Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. ²⁹For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. ³¹Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. ³²And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.”

You and I will soon give account to the LORD for whether or not we truly fulfilled His calling to preach His Word in His holy fear and love. I like this saying:

“Some will. Some won’t. So what!”

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The Joy of Seed Sowing

“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22

Always remember, there must be a seed sown before there can be a crop reaped.

BEFORE Jesus saved me, He had several of His people along the way drop His precious Word into my sin-darkened, alienated heart. Read Ephesians 2. Wow.

“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:” Ephesians 4:18

Some of this Gospel action from God’s people toward me, included the tangible, the printed page. These things all culminated into His saving me into His glorious kingdom (Isaiah 55:11).

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11

How about you? What was the process of our LORD saving you? Who did He use? How did they sow His seed into your life.

Think about how when we plant a seed in the ground. Do we plant that seed and stand back and expect to see the plant begin to rise up out of the ground? No. Jesus spoke of this very thing.

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The Parable of the Seed Growing

Mark 4:26-29

“26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.”

We don’t know how a seed turns into a plant and a crop. We just plant them and go to bed knowing they will produce the desired outcome (crop), right? Isn’t that the same faith we should have when we plant God’s Word in the hearts and minds of people?

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;” Romans 1:16

May God bless each of us to prayerfully and faithfully plant that seed of God’s Word beloved. God’s Word is the seed of salvation (Romans 1:16; 1 Peter 1:23). Just like the ground when a seed is planted into it. GOD will do the rest as we simply, lovingly, wisely, plant His precious truth into the hearts of those around us.

Speaking of such…. Yesterday, I gave a copy of the Moments with Our Master book to a dear young couple (they are about 18). This daily devotional comes in a dark or light cover. I asked if they like to read. As most people, they answered in the affirmative. Then I asked if I could gift them with a book. Most people won’t turn down a free gift, right? Right. She was given the lighter cover version and he the darker. As usual I opened the book (anywhere) and told them that “there is a Scripture at the top, a few words and then a prayer. One devotional for each day of the year.” Show and tell. I encouraged them by saying “this is a great way to start your day.” God was working.

Everyone on earth is being influenced by others on earth and it’s our calling from God to influence people toward Him.

“I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.” 1 Corinthians 3:6-9

Personally, I love stopping by the thrift stores and finding every King James Bible they have. Great investment and it equips you to be armed and dangerous. Also, I like carrying, always, Scripture-rich resources. God will quicken. By doing these things (equipping) you are showing in earnest to the LORD that you want Him to use you.

“They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves (harvest) with him.” Psalms 126:5-6

Keep in mind that sowing the seed of God’s Word IS 100% a Great Commission operation and anyone participating in any fashion is obeying God and laying up treasure in glory – as He instructed you to do (1 Samuel 30:24; Matthew 6:19-21; John 4:36; 1 Corinthians 3:6-9, etc.). Perhaps you’d consider to not only buy yourself a supply of printed page materials for ministry but also supply another saint with the same. King James Bible.

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalms 90:12

YOUR PRAYER: Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your every blessing and for finding me in my sin and saving me into Your family by the blood of Christ my LORD. Please sanctify and use us for Your eternal glory. I love You Jesus. Please now fill me with the Holy Spirit and wisdom and open doors for me to sow the seed of Your Word in this late hour as we eagerly expect Your soon return. In Jesus’ Name.

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“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant …” Hebrews 13:20

“To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.” John 10:3

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.” John 10:27-29

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 11 persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” 2 Timothy 3:1-13

“And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?” Luke 9:23-25

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“He that Loveth Pureness of Heart” [podcast]

IS YOUR HEART PURE BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY BELOVED?

DO I truly love “pureness of heart”?

“HE THAT LOVETH PURENESS OF HEART, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.” Proverbs 22:11

Without a pure heart, obtained from seeking, worshiping, knowing, and obey God …. no one “shall see God.” Not one.

“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” Matthew 5:8

If you or I have every word of the Bible memorized and die today with a heart that is defiled with sin, we’d bust hell wide open – and be trapped there irrevocably forever.

TODAY is our day, it’s your day, to throw up those hands and that heart to the LORD who made you, and cry out to Him to grant you a pure heart, one that is innocent, clean, washed, delighting in Him.

“Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” Psalms 37:4

When the LORD is truly working in a man, that man is learning to love “pureness of heart.”

“He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.” Proverbs 22:11

Coming and continuing to come to the light is essential to final salvation.

“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” John 3:19-21

Choosing the Fear of the LORD

WE must surround ourselves with the Word, the people, the praises of our God! FLOOD your ear and eye gates beloved (Proverbs 4:23). Jesus is coming.

“But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” John 3:21

Coming clean: To be sanctified by Christ, one must repent and believe upon Him. As the LORD works in them, there will be the response of honesty, humble repentance and a coming to the light, continually. If not, judgment will be incurred (Isaiah 1:19-20).

“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13

Those who cover instead of bring their depraved hearts into the light to have them changed and cleansed by the LORD, “shall not prosper.” In other words, they are stifled. Those who remain humble, teachable, correctable, rebukeable, and obedient, will receive divine mercy perpetually.

“God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.” Psalms 55:19

Those who refuse to “choose the fear of the LORD” have no changes in their lives.

“For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:” Proverbs 1:29

Psalms 73

“Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. 28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.” Psalms 73:23-28

Drawing Nigh (close) to God Afresh

“But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.” James 4:6-10

Fresh Start with God

You can Have a … Jesus is the Great Shepherd of His Sheep (Heb. 13:20; Lk. 15) A FRESH START WITH GOD (First, if you are not certain that you are genuinely born again, please go here first) Let’s get something straight…. the disciple, the mere man writing this message is more in need of JESUS than anyone who ever lived! No one needs Jesus more than I do and yet, we must do things HIS way, not our own (Ephesians 3:8). “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs […]

Loving and Coming to the Light [podcast]

Recorded at a home fellowship. The first part of the audio reverberates then clears up. Father we come to You in the name of Jesus. Expose the darkness in our hearts and lives and deliver us in Jesus’ name. In Jesus’ name, Amen. May God vanquish all darkness in our own hearts, filling, flooding us with His holy light. “Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!” John 1:47 “HAVING NO PART DARK” “If thy whole body therefore be full of light, HAVING NO PART DARK, the whole […]

MAKING PEACE WITH GOD [podcast]

MAKING PEACE WITH GOD Are you ready to Pass from Death to Life? God desires to pardon you – before it’s too late. Jesus beckons you to “Come unto me” — while you can (Matthew 11:28-30). “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 GOD sees all sin and will either forgive or […]

"To Wait for His Son from Heaven" [podcast]

Waiting for His Son from Heaven “For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 I wonder […]