20050521

What Church do you go to?

Jeremiah 24:6
For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull [them] down; and I will plant them, and not pluck [them] up.

In these last days, the Lord has brought His children together into little flocks. We don't worship in special places, like at Jerusalem, or in the mountains of Samaria. The Lord is with us wherever we gather together.

The way of the world is to build a city, and great, high tower, and to make a name for ourselves so that we can do whatever we think together, and won't be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. That's why the Lord Jesus has allowed contentions about everything from rock music to head coverings to enter into our assemblies. He has confounded our speech, so that the brethren don't all have a single tongue, like we used to.

The Lord has scattered us abroad upon the face of the entire earth so that we've had to leave off building Our Apostate Church, the Modern Babylon.

If you've ever seen the Lord's House in it's first Glory, like I have, it certainly makes you cry that the sheep are scattered, and nobody gathers them. So many smiling voices, singing praises, you'll never see again.

One brother used to say, "This, here, my Bible, is the last Bible I will ever have. The Lord is coming back." As far as I know, that, there, was the last Bible he ever had :-(

This is The Falling Away, the Great Forsaking. Many betray one another, and hate one another. Doesn't iniquity abound? Doesn't the Love of many wax cold?

Two days ago, some believers went early to worship, and stood in line for hours to get in. It was the middle of the night, and it was already packed and crowded. Friends who knew and cared about each other all came together in the same places at the same time. People came so early. They had such a great time there, it was SO great, I've heard. god had something to show his people that he wanted them to see, and they loved to see it and remember him. People had fellowship, and were talking, laughing. Crying. People had so many good things to say about what they saw there. They couldn't stop talking about it. It was a great worship time.

You're probably thinking, what Church is there like that today? Where is it? How can I join? What was it that god had to show his people there that they were so excited about? A made up illustration of a bunch of people using demonic powers, lusting, lying, and brutally murdering each other. Star Wars. It was worship, but not for my Lord.

When's the last time you came so many hours early to worship My Lord? When's the last time you were bold to talk so much all the time about Him, and what He has to Show us? When's the last time all the friends who care about each other came together in the same place at the same time for Jesus?

"I already go to Church. I belong to the Church. I believe."

Congratulations, don't the demons also believe that Jesus is the Lord, so much that they tremble? You believe that much, just like them?

Congratulations.

You don't belong to, or go to no Church. God doesn't give out His Kingdom, and Eternal Fellowship, and Fullness of Joy, to people, just become some other person put their names down on paper with ink. The only Church Ledger with my name written in it is the book of Life. That's the one in which Jesus Christ Himself engraved my name eternally in His own blood.

You can't enter into the presence of God by entering into a "Church" (building) with an organ, stained glass windows, crosses, pews, and a steeple. (BTW, the steeple represents the tower of Babel.) God doesn't dwell in a house made with hands. What building could we make Him? Even the heavens and earth can't contain Him.

What about me? Do we have a Pastor? Reverend? Bishops, deacons, or elders? Leading Brothers? We have a single Human Man who is our Reverend Pastor, our Bishop, Deacon, and Elder, all rolled into One. He's written some documents for Our Church, click here to read them:

It's very good and Biblical to be good examples to each other, serve each other (minister,) and take care of each other. That's what authority, leadership, and ruling are all about. We don't need to give each other any flattering titles. Jesus said "But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, [even] Christ; and all ye are brethren." (Mat 23:8.)

My Church is the asamblea anonimo- the nameless gathering. We don't need a denomination or name (Like some say, I am of Paul, or others, I am of Christ.) We're not out there preaching about ourselves or how great we are anyway- "For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake."

If you think you might have finally found Your Home, Click here to find out how to join my Church.

That's right. You can be in Church in any place at any time. There are earthly, human institutions, like 501(c)3 organizations, called Churches, or even called "The Church," but God's True Church is Us- His People.

Take every opportunity to Love and do good to the Household of Faith. Be consumed with the zeal of the Lord's House. Come boldly before the throne of Grace. Exhort one another daily. Continue with one accord, daily. Don't forsake the assembling of yourselves together!

Never forsake your Friends.

Counterfit Father

Jesus is our Great, Pure, Holy, and Revered Father, The Only Potentate. He is our Bishop and High Priest according to the Word of God. He is even Our King. Of course, Our Father isn't just another fallible, sinful, person like you or I. He's none other than the Lord God Jesus Christ Himself. The Holy Father isn't here on the earth today. There is a counterfit here who claims to be the Holy Father, but he isn't. He brings doctrines of demons, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from the meats that God made for us to receive with all thankfulness. Jesus, the True Father, is coming back again, to destroy the counterfits who don't have the Love of God, and to Rule for eternity.

Call Upon the Name of the Lord

This song is from Romans 10.

Call- upon the name of the Lord,
and you- will be saved.

Believe- on the name of the Lord,
and you'll have everlasting life.

Life Everlasting!

Jesus will answer your Prayer

This file was from 2004_4_1_1324:
You can't find Jesus on the internet, so just quit looking there. You know, if you pray you'll find Him today because Jesus will answer your Prayer.

Let the Lord be Magnified!

This song was out of a file dated 2003_9_20 .
1 Let the Lord be Magnified! The Lord reigns! He's forgiven my sin, and He's answered my prayers Jesus Christ is the true God. Let the Lord be Magnified! 2 Jesus was wounded for our transgressions He willingly suffered and died on the cross, but rose again on the third day. Let the Lord be Magnified! 3 Confess the Lord Jesus, call on His name Believe God raised Him from the dead on the third day and you will not be ashamed. Let the Lord be Magnified! 4 The dead in Christ will rise first, and then we Will be caught up together with them forever Home with the Lord forever. Let the Lord be Magnified!

Save Your People

This song, taken from Jeremiah 31:7, might be the first music I ever made up. I've paced back and forth singing this one over and over again, kind of like "Revive Us Again," and "Send the Power Just Now." It became sort of a rallying cry for me when I was too ashamed to pray, but also too depressed to sing praises.

Oh, LORD- save Your people,
The remnant of Is-ra-el.
Oh, LORD- save Your people.
The remnant of Is-ra-el!

Hallelujah, shout Hosanna. Hosanna, Hal-le-lu-jah!
Hallelujah, shout Hosanna. Hosanna, Hal-le-lu-jah!

Life Water

This was actually one of the first pieces of music I ever made up. I dug it up out of a file on my computer dated 2004 01 30 , but I'm sure I made it up before that.

If you are thirsty... (If you thirst, come unto me-e.)
Come unto me-e. (And I'll give you water for fre-e.)
I'll give you water (and from it life will spri-ing.)
Clear water, springing...
Up into everlasting life!

Life Everlasting!

20050519

The Great Mystery

Ephesians 5:32

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.
From the beginning of the Bible to the end, there's a mystery.
The mystery is The Love of God. How broad is it? How long, how deep, how high?

Not only does His Bride know the Love of God, which exceeds knowledge. Not only is She is the expression of His Love, being the likeness of Themselves. She is the One that He loves.

We, His Bride, are able to fully comprehend His Love, because we know Him!

20050518

Treasure Vessels and Yokes of Babylon

Jeremiah 27:13
Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Today I read Jeremiah 27 and 28.

Praise the Lord God Jesus Christ for His awesome, unspeakable Love for us!!!

Matthew 6:21

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Treasure Vessels

My world is darkened.
My heart is broken.
My understanding flies away!

I'm only longing,
to show through the shadows,
this very vice,
in complete sacrifice!

We have this treasure,
in earthen vessels;
Some to be shattered,
some to be changed!

That we may cleave to,
a far more exceeding,
weight...

in eternal glory!

Most Blogs are Jokes

I don't know how many people have asked me "What is a blog?" One thing you have to understand when you're reading a blog, is that they're generally to be taken very lightly. My blog is much deeper and heavier than most. I try to bring a lot of serious issues home to people. Most people just post whatever they feel like posting. I do that sometimes too. If a guy feels like saying that Condelezza Rice would make a better President than Tom Osborne or Arnold Schwarzenegger (and she would,) he should be able to post that without offending Husker and Terminator fans. If a guy thinks that bottled water isn't any more healthy than any other water, (it's just the worst scam since CD Rewinders,) he should be able to post that without offending bottled water consumers. A guy shouldn't loose his job for saying that the snacks at his current company aren't as good as the snacks at his last company. Most blogs are jokes.

20050517

CONDET - Solving The Mystery

I've always been enthralled by mysteries. I loved books like The Boxcar Children and The Sugar Creek Gang.
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When I was younger, I specially ordered a pocket knife with the word "CONDET" engraved in it. Those of you who at least had a silver card or a gold card once, know what that means.
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Maybe that's why I've spent so much of my time at computers, either taking them apart and putting them back together, or reconfiguring the computer programs in every way possible. 69.13.187.164 2720!!!!
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Anyway, one mystery that's really been bugging me is how I could have happened to draw those particular scripture references out of that bag that night. Now I have no more than 100 seconds to tell their meaning and application to me to the flock.
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The problem isn't that I can't think of any meaning or application from those passages.
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The problem is- How can I tell them something unspeakable?! How can I let them know that which passes knowledge?! I become so hopelessly confused myself, even considering unraveling a shadow of the fringe of the veil :-(
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I don't know why, but I just had to post this message. I hope everybody will forgive me. .מָלַךְ אֱלֹהָיִךְ

20050516

Taking the Lord's Name in Vain

Friends, I've heard some of you say things like "Oh my God," as if it's no big deal. Let me tell you. It's a big deal. Look at Revelation 16:9, and verse 21:
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, [every stone] about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Cursing, and swearing, you blaspheme the name of the Lord, like the lost do, who are in slavery to the devil, and on whom, for such deeds, will be poured fire and brimstone, and all the fierceness of the wrath of the almighty God. I'm not sure that's such a great idea. Your tongue is "an unruly evil full of deadly poison", "set on fire by Hell!" So shut up.

20050513

Very Naughty Figs!

Jeremiah 24:2
One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Be a good fig today, not a naughty fig. :-)

20050511

Cyber Piracy

I'm obviously not posting this stuff to be popular :-) I was once a great cyber pirate. I played hundreds of Shareware games every day. I used shareware programs for ZIP archives and graphics. I had these two Trial Version programs. One of them helped me make awesome interactive movies for my web site. I used the other one to build a totally immersive 3D virtual reality world for my web site. I was building up to run my own big e-business. Here's the catch. The shareware and trial version programs were copyrighted, and I was using them in violation of the law. Each of the license agreements said something like that if I liked them, and continued to have them installed on my computer and use them after a certain period of time, I had to pay certain fees to the authors of the programs. I never paid any of the fees. One morning, as is my habit, I went to meet together with the Lord's people to worship Jesus. Brother Roger got up to share a Word from the Lord. I don't remember exactly what he said, but while he was speaking, he said something kind of like this. It's wrong to copy and use shareware and copyrighted computer files and programs without paying. I knew when I heard it, that what he was saying was right. The Lord convicted my heart of my sin. I didn't stop using the programs, or pay the fees. I had this one trick for the trial versions. One program would tell me when I started it, for how many days I had been using it, and how many days I had left in the 30-day trial period before I had to pay. When it got to the end of the trial period, it would have stopped running so I couldn't use it without paying. To avoid that, I went in my computer's configuration, and set the computer calendar back. As long as I kept setting the computer calendar back, the program never knew I was using it longer than the trial period, and it kept running. So I kept building my movies and worlds, and playing my games. Something rather shocking happened. I don't remember everything perfectly, so I'll just do my best.... In my virtual reality world, I had a mail box, a bill board, and I was just starting to build a video arcade, and some other buildings like a store. The greatest though, was the library. I made the door rotate to open and close, moving just like it was a real door on hinges. I had a little ceiling fan inside, and a light switch. There was a table in the middle of the room with comfortable chairs around it. There was a clock on the wall, and there was a potted plant in a corner for atmosphere. There was a shelf or two of books. I applied different wood textures to the objects. I was just painting the inside of the library a color like vermilion, and trying to figure out how to cut a window out of the wall. In between house-sitting, babysitting, playing on the computer, body building, and doing my school, I did a fair amount of Bible reading. I had been reading through the same part of Jeremiah that I'm reading through today. The first time or two I read the verses, I didn't grasp their significance at all. You'll see what I mean- read on. I came and tried to start up "Titanic", which is the name I gave my good old AMD 486DX33 with 24MB of RAM and a 100Mhz Overdrive processor. I called it that because it was "The fancy, expensive, wreck." It wasn't a huge deal to me at first when Titanic wouldn't start. I was pretty aquainted with switching master/slave drive jumpers, entering the CHS in the BIOS, using a bootloader from a secondary boot device to mount the root filesyetem, and stuff like that. But this time it was different. The hard drive was unrecoverably scrambled, that I couldn't mount any of the partitions, even the Linux partition, from a recovery console- if you get the picture :-) I was pretty upset. I'm not to bashful to admit that I probably even cried about it. Hey- I was a little kid, and my computer stuff was a way bigger deal to me than anything else in the world, and I worked day and night on it for hours in vain, and I'm sure you understand. I prayed from my heart- "Why is my hard disk scrambled? Why did you let this happen to me?" I opened my Bible and started reading it to see.Jeremiah 22:13,14
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and [it is] cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Needless to say I about fell out off my chair when the Word of God jumped off the page out me, out of my Bible. Built a wide house and large chambers? I had just been doing that in virtual reality. I was just trying to cut out a window, apply wood textures to the VR models, and using vermilion-like colors. I was sinning by using the programs without paying for them, and I knew it, and I did it anyway. Then I repented. So, if you're ever trying to give me a CD or MP3 that you've copied, or get me to download shareware that I'm not going to pay for, now maybe you'll understand, why for me, it's not quite such a "gray area." If believe my example, and take my advice, don't expect to be popular. Thank you all for listening, and goodbye fair weather friends. (I even had somebody who saw this article tell me, just a few minutes ago, that if I put "this kind of trash" on my web site, he would hack in and knock my web site down. Oh, but he was only joking, he assured me.) Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

Service Without Wages

Jeremiah 22:13
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
I stopped being a cyber-pirate, years ago, when God deleted my hard drive :-) I'll have to explain that later. You might have wondered about how this stuff works for a long time now. Most people completely misunderstand copyrights. Believe me, you will want to take some time to read through this article. Check it out! Did you know-
This is according to the U.S.C. (United States Code,) the "Supreme Law of the Land," written and maintained by democratically elected representatives of the people and the states, in pursuance of the US Constitution, Article I., Section 8, Clause 8. The rights to use every original, non-obvious work of authorship created in the United States, except by the federal government, are automatically reserved exclusively to the author "the moment it [the work] is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device." (The number 4, for example, and the phrase "holy cow" are not protected by copyright because they're not original, non-obvious works of authorship- they're obvious and not original.)
The works include portions of, and entire, computer files, music (including MP3s), (including copying and pasting text), and programs. Prohibited usage includes copying, modification (revisions, and addition and deletion of portions) public display, distribution, and running of programs. Exception: Courts may allow certain rare cases of "fair use," decided on a case-by-case basis. For example, very limited usage of insignificant portions for personal education may be allowed sometimes. The only way you can use any of this work legally is:
  1. You are the author.
  2. The author has granted you specific written permission (a "license.")
  3. Fair Use (rare.)

License Agreements

Many works include a "compulsory" license agreement, which grants "conditional permission" to everyone. In this case, if you violate any condition of the agreement, you don't have permission, and usage of the works is no longer legal. Don't "build your house by unrighteousness," and don't use your neighbor's service without paying him wages!

20050510

Execute Judgment in the Morning

Jeremiah 21:12
O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver [him that is] spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.
Brothers and sisters, there's something good you can do for the Lord right now. You can pray for the dying. You can tell how the Lord has forgiven you. You can praise the Lord by singing a hymn. You have the power of an open door. You have good things, right with you, in your hands to do. You owe God's Love to others. Don't say "go, and come again tomorrow, and I will give it to you." Always abound in Love as you have opportunity. Give that glass of cold water to that child. With Love, it's more blessed to give than to receive. Execute judgment in the morning.

20050504

Be Not Weary in Well Doing

2 Thessalonians 3:13
But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
Praise the Lord for His grace to us!
  1. Endure tribulation.

    Do not be weary in well doing.
    When you have trouble, endure. Have charity. We suffer to be counted worthy of the kingdom of God.

    We'll rest with Him. We'll have His glory instead of everlasting destruction. You won't perish. You'll get the kingdom, the rest, and the glory.

  2. Wait patiently for the Lord's return.

    Do not be weary in well doing.
    When #666 is revealed, he'll have "all power and deceivableness in them that perished." Don't be deceived.

  3. Labor for the food you eat.

    Be diligent, and quiet, and don't accept negligent busybodies who eat other people's food and say things they shouldn't.

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