Letter to Pergamum

Revelation 2: 12-17   Write down my words, and send them to the messenger of the church in Pergamum. "These are the words of the One with the sharp double-edged sword: I know your deeds and where you live. It is where Satan, the adversary, has established his throne. You have stayed true to my name, and you did not deny your trust in Me even in the eventful days of my faithful witness, Antipas. He was killed among you in that place where Satan dwells. However, I have a few matters against you: some who live among you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to set up a stumbling block before the people of Israel  As a result, some among you are eating food prepared for idol worship and committing immoral sexual acts. You have others who are holding firm to the teachings of the Nicolaitans. Therefore, change your ways and turn to Me. If you do not, I will quickly come where you live and will battle them with the sword of My mouth. Let the person who is able to hear, listen to and follow what the Spirit proclaims to all the churches. To the one who conquers through faithfulness even unto death, I will feed you with hidden manna and give you a white stone. Upon this stone, a new name is engraved. No one knows this name except for its recipient.

This is a church divided. One part of this church faithfully follows Jesus, but the other is very worldly. This is a Church that tolerates sin in its mist. It allows people to come into the church that have not and will not repent and turn towards God. It has a cancer that will just get worse over time. This is in many ways the churches of today. We treat church as a club or as just a Sunday affair. But what we learn in church we have to apply in our lives. If we learn over indulging of alcohol is a sin and we spend most of our time at the bars are we being very godly? When we act out in sin we just pass it off as a thing that happens and God will forgive us. But repentance requires two things from us it requires us to recognize our wrongs but it also requires us to make a commitment towards doing what pleases God.

Sin is like a sliver if you leave a sliver in your hand in time it can become infected. This infection can lead to lost of a limb or even death. If we tolerate sin in our lives or in the company that we keep it will slowly become infected dooming us to hell.

We as Christians need to rest on the word of God, which is a doubled edged sword. We need to know what God considers right and wrong and then go out and show this in our lives. When we stumble we must then come back to God. For the path to hell starts by being passive about sin and the consequences of sin.

If we do this we have a wonderful promise from God. It is a white stone with a new name on it. In the ancient world court cases was decided by the accused being given either a black stone for guilt or a white stone for innocence. In the final lines of this passage it is saying if you are faithful even unto death your guilt will be wiped away. This has already happen for those who believe. For Jesus died on the cross for your sins all one needs to do to accept this is reach out your hand for the white stone in submission to God. This is the ticket to heaven. No one will be allowed past the gates of heaven without a stone containing their name on it. This is real cool we all have a new name waiting for us given to us by the lord himself. Reminiscent of Saul becoming Paul. Hopefully I will get a cool name.

Abortion modern root in racism

Margaret Sanger the founder of Planned Parenthood more concerned with reducing the nonwhite population than with women's rights. Yet what we here about abortion is that it is all about women's rights. Margaret Sanger was a firm believer in Eugenics. This is the same movement that helped similar man named Hitler kill millions of innocent people in World War II.

You do not have to believe me look it up for yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html

Here is also a site written by a pro-abortionist that also sheds a similar picture

http://feministsforchoice.com/was-margaret-sanger-a-racist.htm

Hitler and abortion

http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id15.html

http://www.angelfire.com/mo/baha/nazis.html

Yet what we hear today is that abortion is a woman's choice. It's a woman's right. The simple truth is that this is a new trick by the enemy. Don't be fooled.

Psalm 12: 8 On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among humankind.

Psalm 1: 1-2  Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law the meditate day and night.

Make no bones about it. If you support abortion you are walking in the way of the wicked. This is not a political issue which many of us a fooled into believing or a female rights issue. It is a good versus evil issue.

Exodus 23: 7  Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Proverbs 6: 16-17  There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Revelations 22: 15 The dogs, the sorcerers, those who commit immoral acts, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love and practice deception must remain outside the gates of heaven for all eternity.

Deuteronomy 27: 25  "Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood." All the people shall say "Amen!"

Matthew 18: 3-6  This is the truth: unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. In that kingdom, the most humble who are most like this child are the greatest. And whoever welcomes a child, welcomes her in my name, welcomes Me. And do not lead astray one of the weak and friendless who believes in Me. If you do, it would be better for you to be dragged down with a millstone and drowned in the bottom of the sea.

Who are the most defenseless of any society? It is the children both born and unborn. We are given children by God to take care of them. But many times we treat them as property to be used and disposed of as it suits us. But hear the warning of Jesus in Matthew 18. A millstone weight is in the thousand of pounds. He is saying if you harm the defenseless it would be better for your bones to be ground to powder and you to be thrown into the sea. Imagine if that is a better punishment. What is in store for those who harm children or murder children?

Letter to the Seven Churches - To Ephesus

Revelations 2: 1-7  Write down My words, and send them to the messenger of the church in Ephesus. " These are the words of the One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks and moves among the golden lamp-stands: "I know your deeds, your tireless labor, and your patient endurance. I know you do not tolerate those who do evil. Furthermore, you have diligently tested those who claim to be emissaries, and you have found that they are not true witnesses. You have correctly found them out to be false. I know you are patiently enduring and holding firm on behalf of My name. You have not become faint. However, I have this against you: you have abandoned your first love. Do you remember what it was like before you fell? It's time to rethink your ways; go back to how you first acted. However, if you do not return, I will come quickly and personally remove your lamp-stand from its place. But you do have this to your credit: you despise the deeds of the Nicolaitans and how they concede to evil. I also hate what they do. Let the person who can hear listen to and follow what the spirit proclaims to all the churches. I will allow the one who conquers through faithfulness even unto death to eat from the tree of life found in God's lush paradise."

While the  apostle John was imprisoned on Patamos he was given a vision from God. These series of letters to the seven churches are one part of these visions. It is interesting to note from church history that John was only imprisoned after Domitian first ordered his excursion by having him boiled alive. John survived this so Domitian did the next best thing he could think of which was to send him to the island of Patamos which was a prison colony at the time.

These letters are written both for the church and for individual believers

So what was the problem in Ephesus? After all Jesus said it was tireless in labor and he knew her works. They apparently knew the word great enough that when people came in his name they were able to test them out.

The problem with Ephesus is I believe they became much like the pharisees. They relied on knowing the law and good works in order to gain salvation. This is an easy trap for all of us to fall into. Salvation is not the results of being a good person but the result of putting our full trust in God.

 go back to how you first acted

When someone first becomes a Christian there is no good works to rely on. There is also no real knowledge of scriptures to rely on. The only thing one has to rely on is the promise and love of God. We come either as young souls or come latter as broken souls. In the beginning we tend to do our good works or study the word of God because we love God. But we easily fall in the trap over time that loving God is not good enough that we need to do something more. This is Satan talking to us. He whispers to our souls "Did God really say that?" "Are you sure that is all you need to do to be saved?".

There are two main ways to show that you love God. The first is by obeying God and the other is by loving others. But we need to remember these things do not bring salvation they only show our appreciation for what God has done for us.

In the final part of this letter we receive a promise from the lord. It is the promise of e mortality if we love God. This is the promise that Adam gave up when he disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden  This is one of the things that are our true inheritance. Satan and our sin took it away from us, but the blood of Jesus has given it back to the rightful heirs.

So one last thing you may be asking yourselves who were the Nicolaitans? It seems they were a Gnostic sect who apparently they believed in a few different things. First they believed that since Jesus died for your sins that you could now sin as much as you wanted and still be saved. While it is true that you can sin after you are saved and not lose your salvation. A person who is truly saved is not going to out and purposely sin as much as they want because they are saved. After we are saved we need to make every effort to obey God. That would mean to try our hardest to obey his laws. The second thing that they appeared to believe is polygamy and group sex. Both of these were probably adopted from pagan religions of the region.

Basic Christian Beliefs Part 2

Romans 2: 14-15  When Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on theirs hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.

Romans 1: 32 Despite the fact that they are fully aware that God's law says this way of life deserves death, they fail to stop. And worse - they applaud others on this destructive path.


We are all ruled by God's law. Believers and unbelievers alike. Now certain philosophers wrongly say right and wrong are relative to your culture. They say your culture is what creates your conscience. But this is wrong it is your culture or lets say the atmosphere around you that destroys your conscience. Everyone knows from birth certain things like stealing, murder, rape and other things are inherently wrong. But if we are raised in a culture that looks past these things our conscience becomes dead to these things over time. It is also the same way when our culture deems it wrong and we do these things anyways. At first our soul screams out to us but the more we act on our sin the more we deaden our conscience until one day we wake up dead to what is right or wrong. At some point many of us try to justify our sin by leading others along the same path or finding others of similar dysfunction.

Our soul screams out. This the pain in your heart. That feeling in your gut. The one you can not get over. In essence it is you soul be ripped further and further from God. Every sin, every wrong widens the chasm that has formed between us and God. Until one day we reach the point that it becomes hopeless to ever think that we can find a resolution to bridge the chasm. Many of us give up. Some of us convince ourselves we have a new found freedom in sin.

This new found freedom in sin is not freedom at all. It is really a prison. It has consequences. It has consequences if we get caught; it has consequences if we do not get caught. I know I can look at my life and I did not control my sin but it controlled me. I am sure if you honestly look back at your life you can see the same thing unfolding before you also.

So what are we to do. We have a God that seems so far away and every time we try to reach him we find that sin is like a chain that is firmly bolted to the ground keeping us put.

John 3: 16-17  For God expressed His love for the world in this way: He gave His only Son so that whoever believes in Him will not face everlasting destruction, but will have everlasting life. Here's the point. God didn't send His son into the world to judge it; instead, He is here to rescue a world headed toward certain destruction.

It is true we can not find a resolution to the problem of sin that will bring us back into the presence of God. But we do not need to find a resolution to the problem  Every thing we do will never be good enough. God however has found the solution for us and all we need to do is accept it by faith. The solution is Jesus died for the sins we have committed. Through his sacrifice we are made right with God. While all our hearts know the law and are convicted by the law of God. A few of us will be given a pardon from our conviction based solely on our faith in Jesus. There is no other way to save you from the conviction your consciences has already assured you of.





 

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http://www.e-sword.net/

May God's word be always with you.

Daniel 7:13-14   "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed."

So in this passage from Daniel we see some great imagery of the end times. In it we see a man led before God himself. This man is like man but also given the authority of God. This individual can be none other than Jesus himself.

In a world that is at times troubling it is nice to know the ending. One day all people not just Christians will have to acknowledge Jesus as God. So no matter what is going around you; understand this in the end the battle is already won. The forces of evil have already lost. They are bleeding to death on the battle field. So have courage when persecution comes we can confidently face it knowing God has already won.

Another great thing about this passage is knowing this was written before the time of Jesus. What must it have been like for the Israelites to read this not knowing who it was talking about? We today have the benefit of reading this and other passages in the old testament and knowing the rest of the story.

Basic Christian Beliefs part 1

The testimony of God has been given to all people.

Acts 14: 16-17   Through all previous generations, God has allowed all the nations to follow their own customs and religions, but even then God revealed Himself by doing good to you -giving you rain for your crops and fruitful harvest season after season, filling your stomachs with food and your hearts with joy.

Psalm 19: 1    The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Hebrews 3: 4    Every house is built by someone, but the builder of all is God.

Romans 1: 19-20  These people are not ignorant about what can be known of God, because He has shown it to them with great clarity. From the beginning, creation in its magnificence enlightens us to His nature.


I find it difficult at times to understand atheist. I see God all around me. From the way the wind blows through the grass. To the very way the stars make their nightly journey through the sky. Nature speaks of God. It works as if designed. If you see a house you don't think it just appeared do you? Why should something more complicated like life itself be just an accident? I got to say this about atheist they have more faith than I do. After all my faith is not based on nothing.

God has created this world for both believes and non believers. It rules do not favor one or the other. It has simple laws that govern it. The more you realize about it. The more you take it in. The more you wonder about what is behind it all. That is perhaps its purpose to point you in the direction of the source. 

"The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics." - Johannes Kepler