WORLDWIDE NEWS: “Consider Diligently what is Before Thee…”

The Bible says, “When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.” (Proverbs 23:1-3)

BRING IT DOWN ON HOME:

Everybody likes to eat and that is a fact! For example, somebody gives a BBQ and invites the neighbors to attend. If you are one of the invitees, your appetite gets ready for some good old BBQ (beef/pork ribs, hot links, hot dogs), corn on the cobb, potato salad, buttered rolls, pies, ice cream, watermelons, and whatever else.

Perhaps, you dine out at your favorite restaurant! No problem, we all go to restaurants because we like the food, atmosphere, servers, and we may know the owners! Just make certain the food is fresh!

However, you may be invited to dine with ruler(s) or some top official(s)! Best not to get happy-glad about it because they might just be a twisted fools! Although you may be “…given to appetite…” you better consider who you are dining with. Your food could be laced with poisons, fentanyl, or some other opioid! The fact is you don’t know what ingredients are in the food!

Don’t be smitten with their luxuries, clothing, servants, possessions, or whatever! By nature, we all put price tags on objects and things. We admire people dressed in fine clothing or driving impressive vehicles or living in 5,000 to 10,000 square foot homes! Don’t you fool yourself! The devil and evil spirits not only live in the homes of people, but these evil spirits possess the bodies of people (who live in the house)! As you know, the devil is a trickster and his job is to “…rob, kill, and destroy…”

We are in a spiritual warfare here on earth. After Lucifer & Company warred in Heaven, they were cast down to earth, and Lucifer (a.k.a. Satan) is the prince of the air! His job is to deceive mankind and to destroy our relationship with the LORD GOD! Thus, Satan & his demonic force transform themselves into spirits of light! This is how people are beguiled! For this reason, these evil spirits don’t appear to you as ugly creatures as they know humans like beautiful things and beautiful people! So, they fix themselves up to look like the people you desire. If you like muscle tone men, then, the devil will tempt you with a masculine man. If you like shapely women, then, the devil will put sexy women in your path. Get the picture?

King Solomon said, “Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.” Through wisdom is an house builded: and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength…The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men…” (Proverbs 24:1-9) Do you understand? Don’t be envious of evil men…don’t desire to hang out with them…don’t call them your boo or dog or partner..; instead seek wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. The LORD GOD gives us all free-will; therefore, you have every right to make up your own mind.

Have a Blessed Day!

WORLDWIDE NEWS: “I got my Mind on my Money and my Money on my Mind!”

The Bible says, “Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.” (Proverbs 23:5)

I was listening to the radio and heard a song which came out years ago by Snoop Dogg (an American rapper). It’s amazing how messages in songs can cause one to think. I am not interested in this kind of music; however, this song has a strong message!

BRING IT DOWN ON HOME:

Per Google, the rich are content: (1) it’s been said on an average that billionaires own at least four homes; (2) you may own an island like John Malone (said to be the largest private landowner in the USA with 2.2 million acres (3,437 square miles); (3) you may be able to fly anywhere in the world on private jets (like Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, Pat Robertson, Harrison Ford, Nancy Pelosi, and others); (4) you may own fleets of cars and rent airport hangers for storage like Jay Leno; (5) you may be as glamorous and famous as the late Gabor sisters (Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda) or like the Kardashian sisters of today; (6) or you may be a world-famous master plastic surgeon like Dr. Movagharina who advertises that he “can achieve in a couple of hours what might take you a couple of years to achieve at the gym”; (7) are you may be a successful businessman/women with lots of money and assets; (8) you may be a modest citizen satisfied with paid-off mortgages, cars, and able to take vacations; (9) you may be an ordinary person still working and able to satisfy monthly debts and obligations; (10) you may be making thousands of dollars selling drugs to the rich and poor; (11) you may be pimping men and women like the late Scotty Bowers (a famous prostitute and pimp who provided sex partners to gay Hollywood celebrities); (12) you may be working the streets and turning tricks to get by or to fund your habit; (13) you may be recruiting and pimping young girls and boys to sick adults with kinky sexual appetites; (14) you may be prostituting your own children to pay the rent; (15) or you may be holding on to every nickel and dime refusing to help those in need; (16) you may be a nobody trying to be somebody and still in discovery.

Whatever the case may be, “You got your Mind on your Money and Your Money on your Mind!” just as this Blog states! Honey, you ain’t gonna take nothing with you when you leave this world! When you die, they ain’t gonna bury thousands or millions of dollars with you! If you’re in flight 33k miles up in the air and the airplane crashes, all will be lost! If you are on a cruise ship and a rogue wave capsizes the ship, you may be lost forever. If you are touring on the side of a sleeping volcano and it awakes spurring out lava, your body may be lost forever! If you are on vacation (swimming in Hawaii), a shark may eat you. When you die (regardless the case), you will no longer need your American Express or Diners Club card.

RICHES HAVE WINGS AND THEY FLY AWAY AS AN EAGLE TOWARDS HEAVEN! Naked you came into the world and naked you will leave this world! (Job 1:21-22) If you are blessed with wealth, enjoy it but never, never, never, never put anything before the LORD GOD as he says His Name is JEALOUS! If you don’t believe me, just Google the famous who have departed bankrupt or not this year and in years past. Many people (rich and poor) are quickly leaving here every day! The reason we are still here is because the LORD GOD is giving us time to do the right thing! None of us know when our time is up! Our name(s) may be on the role or call list today, tomorrow, next week, or next year! PUT YOUR FAITH AND TRUST IN THE LORD GOD! Repent, Repent, Repent!

Have a Blessed Day!

Worldwide News: “Sin has no Respect of Persons which includes you so-called Christians!”

The Bible says, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. “ (Romans 5:12-21) Thus, sin is not privy to race, gender, creed, to any particular latitude of the earth’s equator nor is sin unfamiliar to astronomical or celestial objects in the universe. For it is known that JESUS saw Lucifer fall from heaven as lightning to the earth and as Lucifer & Company fell the lights of the sun, moon, stars were blackened, and dark matter entered into the universe.

BRING IT DOWN ON HOME:

(A) TO ALL THE CHURCHES (black, white, red, yellow) OF GOD:

Sin has no respect to you so-called Christians (including deacons who reign and rule and to your evil/jealous wives) at church! Sin makes you ugly! You all need to lay aside every weight and hindrance to run this race! “The race is not given to the swift nor the battle to the strong but to the one who endures unto the end!” (Ecc. 9:11)

Instead, you so-called Christians (drinking, smoking, and whoremongering) are living a double life (appearing to be one thing at church and the heads of committees) but another person in your secular life as proven by your behavior! Within the church, you are fighting one another, competing to lead songs on the praise team and in the choir, full of jealousy, sending cell text messages across the room about people you hate (during worship service), planning special invites for selected groups, blocking others from the women’s program (knowing newcomers are equally talented/skilled as yourselves), and worst of all presenting yourselves flawless and highly favored of God!

How can you call yourselves Christians as you run other races from the church? By the way black and white slaves over 200 years ago helped to be build your church! Where are the pictures of these people? Posthumously, they have every right to be honored and saluted as well!

As the body of Christ, you need to come together and connect arms in prayer and fasting with all Christians regardless of race, creed, or color. You cannot cherry pick who to love! GOD is LOVE! JESUS said, “A new commandment I give you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” (John 13:34) [Notice the LORD said it twice…that ye love one another …that ye also love one another!]

Most of you need to lay crisscross at the altar as you are full of yourselves! You need to check yourselves! There should be a bi-weekly Communion service and more meditation for those needing deeper time with the Lord to forgive them! Maybe this will force sinning Christians to repent and honor the One who gave HIS life for all!

The church does not belong to you; but you have decided which race of people (including your own folks) should or should not be allowed to fellowship! If folk don’t look like you; then, you cast them aside! One day, you will have to give an answer to the LORD JESUS for your bigotry. Repent!

When the HOLY SPIRIT cries out in church (during the altar), it’s because you all are grieving the HOLY SPIRIT; but you don’t want the HOLY SPIRIT to speak! I tell you of truth – you cannot keep the HOLY SPIRIT silent! HE will enter into your own people who shall cry out very loud and go forth in praise, worship, and in the dance! You just wait! Will you ask them to be quiet or have the police escort them out of the sanctuary which belongs to the LORD? Wow to you Scribes and Pharisees!

Every week, somebody is dying! There aren’t any miracles being evidenced in the body of Christ! There is no anointing oil placed on the foreheads of folks at the altar because the prayer lines are few! There is no hallelujah or jubilee music to make others get up clapping hands, leaping to their feet, dancing (as king David did) to worship the LORD. However, you give more excitement to football or other sport events than you give unto the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY! JESUS said, “IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, I WILL DRAW MEN UNTO ME!” (John 12:32)

Perhaps, you are wondering who has the power and right to draw people to the church? That’s easy! JESUS PAID WITH HIS RIGHTEOUS BLOOD FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.” (Hebrew 9:22)

(B) TO ALL THE DRUG USERS AND DEALERS (black, white, red, yellow):

King David said, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” (Psalm 51:5) Another scripture states, “For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a LAW UNTO THEMSELVES.” (Romans 2:14) Yet another scripture says, “Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of GOD upon the children of disobedience.” (Ephesians 5:6)

JESUS (a.k.a. Alpha and Omega) said, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

When the first Adam failed (in the Garden of Eden), all Mankind synonymously failed as well! From that very day until now, we have sunk to an all-time low and still sinking! In fact, the whole earth and creation is grieving and mourning!

KENSINGTON AVE, PHILADELPHIA, PA!

If you don’t believe me, I want every man/woman/boy/girl to Google – “Kensington Ave, Philadelphia, PA!” You can see your own kind (white, black, brown, red, yellow, young, teens, college age, middle age, and old age) laying on the streets in filth, raggedy, skinny, full of needle marks, drunken, staggering, and motionless like zombies! Check out the stores all boarded up and metal gates/doors covering buildings! What is this?

The streets of Philadelphia (particularly Kensington Avenue) are out-of-control with opioids! Drug dealers are mixing concoctions with all types of synthetic drugs (heroin, opium, fentanyl (fifty times stronger than heroin), hydrocodone, tramadol, morphine, hydromorphone, carfentanyl (used in veterinary medicine to anesthetize large animals such as elephants and bears. ARE YOU AN ELEPHANT OR BEAR?

Drug users (by their own testimonies) are doing whatever it takes to support their habits. This means, they steal from anyone and everywhere, they prostitute themselves, they lie and cheat, and murder to fulfil their needs! One skinny man was ridden with needle marks, open sores, and his swollen arms. His arms looked like the arms of Popeye the Sailor (a cartoon character), except Popeye’s arm had a tattoo of an anchor not needle marks!

Today, there is a very popular non-opioid called xylazine (a.k.a. street name “tranq”). This latest drug is used as a sedative in veterinary medicine for horses! Some dealers are mixing xylazine with fentanyl! This combination is killing folks! ARE YOU A HORSE? Well now, this cocktail has disfigured you and you now look deformed and more and more like a horse or animal left to die on filthy streets! This drug has you bent over, standing still like a fool on corners, looking up at the sky, sitting on curbs, talking to yourself, lying on your face, lying flat on your back (thieves rummaging your backpack for whatever), waving/flapping your arms like a bird about to fly, aimlessly dancing (without music), and whatever! The police need to arrest the drug dealers as well as get help for the drug users; but users must want help! You must repent and seek GOD’s face!

Most of the drug users look like college students (dropouts), no direction in life, jobless, despondent, godless, lost, homeless, rebellious, haters of righteousness, searching for human philosophies and/or drug usage to lead them to a greater path. You are children of the disobedience – followers of the fallen one (Satan) who is leading you straight to hell, because hell was made for the dEVIL and his fallen angels – but not for you!

In fact, Satan presented himself to God, “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, whence comest thou? Then Satan said, from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” (Job 1:6) And you know what? Satan is laughing at you, “…because the dEVIL is your adversary as a roaring lion, walking about, seeking whom he may devour…” (1 Peter 5:8) However, “…the day is coming when the accuser Satan will be cast down!” (Revelation 12:10) Make sure that you don’t get cast down with Satan!

Satan has beguiled you and you cannot see straight. as there is a beam in your eye. Perhaps, somebody done you wrong or violated you or threw out or you felt unloved! Regardless the reasons, you still have no excuse as JESUS paid your debt in full on Calvary! Don’t let Satan plague you night and day about your faults and sins because he will drive you deeper into depression, dependence upon drugs, or even convince you to commit suicide! If you commit suicide, your soul and spirit will be lost forever because you DO NOT OWN YOURSELF! The LORD GOD made you and JESUS CHRIST already paid for your sin(s). You will end up in the Lake of Fire! There will be no physical relief and no drugs to calm your pain!

LOOK WHAT SIN HAS DONE TO THE USA! Not only is this happening in Pennsylvania, PA, it’s happening all over the world! My concern is the USA is supposed to be the richest and most caring country in the World. There are roughly 167 million Christians in the USA and 2.38 billion (thus, one-third of the world’s populace are Christians, and the largest domination are in the Catholic Church).

Don’t forget all of the other countries (Christians and non-Christians) are currently fighting one another, annihilating innocent people, forcing/selling girls ages 12 to 17 (for money) in marriage to older men twice their age. My question is why in the world would these lusty old men want a young teenage girl for a wife? Most of these old boys have seen their best days and midnight is just around the corner! My other question is where did they leave the old lady? Sin is the blame!

REPENT!

Worldwide News: “HE LIVES!”

The Bible says, “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. I do not frustrate the Grace of GOD…” (Galatians 2:20-21a)

I wish to dedicate the following song to all of you! Please Google:

Beverly Crawford singing, “HE LIVES (Live at Azusa 3) March 8, 2019) The words say:

I serve a risen Savior. He’s in the world today; I know that He is living, whatever foes may say; I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer, And just the time I need Him, He’s always near…. [refrain] He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today! He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation to impart! You ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart!”

BRING IT DOWN ON HOME:

If you are a child of JESUS CHRIST, your flesh is crucified – that is your flesh is mortified to the plagues of the flesh and the demonic spirits directing you. The thangs you use to do, you don’t do anymore…the places you use to go, you don’t visit anymore…the homeboys/homegirls or duckbrothers/duckgirls you hung with, you don’t hang no more!

Being saved does not mean that the devil and his demonic spirits won’t attack you. In fact, they are already coming against you. The second you decide to repent of sin and make an-about-face to the LORD JESUS, the devil sends his generals against you. That’s why all the following (breakdowns and disasters) happen: the car, air conditioner, washer/dryer machines, plumbing, electrical, pipes burst, sickness, job loss, high blood pressure, sugar diabetes, children act up, spouse starts cussing, teens start sniffing drugs, drinking, or cutting school, the manager/supervisor/co-workers turn against you. Nobody is going to pat you on the back saying, “Go Ahead!” Instead, jealous and envious persons will hate you all the more! If they ain’t saints, THEY AIN’Ts! (My Daddy use to label them as such!)

We are continually being purified by the HOLY SPIRIT (as evidenced by speaking in an unknown tongue), just as the disciples and the others present on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2). Some folks are thoroughly cleaned and their tabernacle is thoroughly swept clean with power from the HOLY GHOST; others are being cleansed on a daily basis! As we grow in the LORD, we take off the man/woman bad habits. If you slip and fall, get up! Don’t wallow in your mess! Sometimes, weaker believers backslide into old sin(s). When that happens, they must fast, pray, and read the Bible! More importantly, break away from old foes, move away, change your phone number, etc. You cannot serve two masters!

Do not grieve the HOLY SPIRIT! If you do not accept the doctrine of Baptism in the HOLY SPIRIT, you are not accepting the entire WORD of GOD! Water Baptism is not enough! There is no if, and’s, or but’s about this. One cannot make partial payments on a car to obtain the full title (paid-if-full) as the car must be either purchased in cash and/or the full loan must be paid in full!

Likewise, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven! You must receive Water Baptism and Baptism in the HOLY SPIRIT! The natural man cannot understand the SPIRIT of GOD; however, the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD (within the born-again believer) hears and speaks what HE hears directly from the Throne of GOD! The HOLY SPIRIT is your direct communication or telephone to GOD! When you call, THE LORD GOD answers! You don’t need a cell phone or fax machine to send out an S.O.S. because the voice within your Spirit is always communicating with the LORD.

First John 3:8-9 states, “He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of GOD was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of GOD doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of GOD. In this the children of GOD are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of GOD, neither he that loveth not his brother.”

First John 5:8-9 states, “There are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of GOD is greater: for this is the witness of GOD which HE hath testified of His Son.”

Think about this very carefully, JESUS was crucified and the True SPIRIT OF GOD lived within his body; and out of JESUS’ side came water and blood!

JESUS IS ALIVE AND WELL!

Worldwide News: “The Best Commandment – LOVE ONE ANOTHER!”

JESUS said, “THIS IS MY COMMANDMENT, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, AS I HAVE LOVED YOU. GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.” (John 15:12-13)

JESUS said, “I AM the true vine and MY FATHER is the Husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit HE taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, HE purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in ME, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without ME ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in me, and MY words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Herein is MY FATHER glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the FATHER hath loved ME, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in MY love; even as I have kept MY FATHER’S commandments and abide in HIS love. These things have I spoken unto you, that MY joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” (John 15:1-11)

Question: Have you ever seen a branch hanging mid-air on its own? No way! The branch is connected to the vine as the vine is connected to the trunk and the trunk to the root system! The roots go deep within the soil while it supports the trunk (above ground) and the trunk supports the multi-branches which are above ground. Like all plants, the grapevine develops in stages (vine canes, buds, shoots, leaves, tendrils, flowers and grapes). I am not a horticulturist; so don’t drill me. However, the arms of the vines stretches out as it climbs. As Christians, our fruit (like the branches connected to the vine) should be reaching out to others as we snatch them from hell! Some of us will reach tens, hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of people for CHRIST JESUS!

BRING IT DOWN ON HOME:

The reason many of us don’t do well in life is that we love ourselves more than anyone and anything else on the face of this earth. We shower ourselves in apparel; but our neighbors, their children look raggedy, the needy, and the homeless are left in poverty. We pay vast amounts for our eyebrows, eyelashes, nails, hair, enlarged breasts/buttocks/lips, and other surgical procedures done to make us look good; but the outrageous money we spend can help pay rent for the homeless! We can walk into restaurants while the hungry lay outside the door on the concrete! I’ve seen people laying in the wet rain and cold snow!

Question: Who are we looking good for? A few lazy bums, fools, a good looking nobody, and somebody you ain’t heard from in six weeks because he/she says, “my phone was broken…” Honestly, do you believe that mess?

What kind of fruit are you producing? If you are abiding in CHRIST JESUS and HIS Word abides in you then, you are bearing proper fruit. If you are NOT abiding in CHRIST JESUS, then, HIS Word is not abiding in you. If GOD’s Word is not abiding in you, then who’s word is living in you? What kind of fruit are you bearing? Your children (like yourself) will produce the same rotten fruit. Why? Children do as their parents do! For this reason, many generations of liars, thieves, whoremongers, drug users, alcoholics, murderers’ mimic parents and pass down the same blood line to their descendants. If you cuss, smoke, drank alcohol, shoot-up, hang out in the streets, carry weapons (guns, knives, drug needles), your children will mimic your deeds and lifestyle! And so, you and your fruit are corrupted!

What did JESUS say about the branches not abiding in HIS Word? “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” You and yours will be cast into the Lake of Fire! Can you feel the heat, flames, and burning? There will be no relief medication, paramedics, or hospital burn centers to help you! One day, JESUS will return to collect HIS saints and HE will destroy this world with fire!

Paraphrasing, the LORD said, “…I will sing to MY well beloved a song of MY beloved touching HIS vineyard. MY well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill And HE fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and HE looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.” (Isaiah 5:1-2)

Many wonderful blessings were given to all of us and many of us threw away the blessings. What am I saying? Once upon a time you had a good husband or good wife, but you cheated, and she left you. Afterwards, the family was divided; and the children grew up with one parent and possibly the other with visiting rights on the weekends!

Maybe you had a good job, but your excessive drinking got you fired! Maybe you could not get to work on time and spent too much time frolicking with the wrong people! You get the drift?

There are lots of people (young and old) connected to FALSE VINES [synthetic opioids] in the world; and these FALSE VINES are killing them! What are some of these false vines? Well, I’m glad you asked! Some of these false vines/false dreams/false expectations are the following: prescription opioids, fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, isotonitazene (ISO), krokodil, and flakka, bath salts, and other opiates.

Check out the drug xylazine (veterinary tranquillizer) being mixed with fentanyl and heroin (Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 2010 to present). The users look like the living dead! Trash is all over the streets and corners and users are motionless like zombies. It’s horrible to see half-naked people laying in filth and others stepping over them. Sometimes, other vagrants ransack their backpacks and personal belongings as the victim is asleep or knocked out on the ground! Need I say more?

Don’t ever underestimate the dEVIL because “Your adversary the devil is like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour…” (! Peter 5:8) That is why we are told to be sober and vigilant;’ but you cannot be if you are knocked out cold and unconscious!

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Worldwide News: “Words of Appreciation to my Special Christian Brothers and Sisters!”

The Bible says, “Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.” (Romans 13:7)

BRING IT DOWN ON HOME:

I wish to express Words of Appreciation to my special Christian friends and readers!

I personally want to thank many beautiful Christians for receiving me as one of their own. I was invited to a beautiful church but not by accident. GOD orders our steps! One day, I was alone eating lunch in a restaurant when an unidentified/wonderful Christian lady came up to me saying, “You look so nice and that’s a nice hat your wearing! Why don’t you come to my church?” This lady (Mrs. A) is quite a wonderful loving Christian woman with no malice or hatred in her heart! She loves white and black people alike! Others from her group were just as kind. I especially want to thank Mrs. Blondy for all her invites to lunch. as she is full of hospitality, caring, and smiles as well.

There is another couple (Mr. Mrs. Blue Rubicon) who were the first to invite me to Sunday School and to their home (but I never got the chance to visit their residence). These two lovely Christians encouraged me to hang in there! OMG! These two people gave me such care and support as they called me several times! Thank you both!

Thanks to Mr. B (in my Sunday School Class) and his wife for paying for my lunch! By the way, Mr. B always encouraged me and I’m praying for his family! There is another couple (in my Sunday School class) who invited me to lunch, but I had another appointment. By the way, this couple were the second to invite me to their Sunday School class! The husband asked me to come hear his presentation one Wednesday night at church. He did a great job as he expressed how his brother was saved in a black Christian Baptist church! Wow! Finally, I appreciate the two Linda’s who started a home for abandoned girls! They put out an S.O.S. for support and many church people came forth with aid! There is a special family called 1017 and you know who you are!! I love you very very much!

To those of you who befriended me, invited me to your homes, dinner, breakfast, special events, and even to your swimming pool, your hospitality lines up with the Word of GOD! By no means do I direct criticism to you and yours! You didn’t count it shame as you approached me with welcoming words! In truth I was an anomaly in a predominantly white church! Quite naturally I stuck out like a sore thumb!

More so, there were many others who greeted me with smiles, handshakes, and kind words! Also, I thank you and shall never forget your faces. Some of you said, “Goodmorning” in the lobby/sanctuary. I wish to thank you as well.

Many of you liked my hats and style of dressing! If you want a further explanation about my style of dress, please Google the Church of God in Christ – the late Bishop G.E. Patterson (Gilbert Earl Patterson) and his wife Louise Dowdy Patterson. I was raised up in the COGIC! The Women’s Department had strict rules and regulations for Christian Women. Mind you, not everybody followed as you know people do as they please.

MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU ALL!

Worldwide News: “You must be BORN AGAIN!”

JESUS said to Nicodemus, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.” (John 3:1-21) You don’t have to accept my word because my word ain’t no more than Hee-Haw; but you do have to accept the WORD OF GOD! Can you dig it?

Watch how black and white Christians Praise the LORD GOD in spirit and in truth! Also see the woman being baptized and coming up out the water praising the LORD and being filled with the Holy Ghost! Please Google: Apostolic/Pentecostal Praise Break Medley – UPCI Style, Azusa Street 1906, Published January 26, 2020! The glory and honor belong to the LORD GOD!

BRING IT DOWN ON HOME:

The Word of GOD is biblically infallible! If you are a true believer in the LORD JESUS CHRIST, then, you must accept every Word of GOD! Revelation 1:3 states, “Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.” You cannot cherry pick scriptures to fit your needs – either you eat the whole roll or none at all. If you are a true believer, you must accept every Word of GOD as given by the disciples and men who walked, talked with the LORD JESUS! This includes Apostle Paul who (on his was to Damascus) saw the glorified CHRIST!

In fact, there are others throughout history (including today) whom the LORD JESUS is constantly revealing Himself too! You unbelievers (Scribes, Pharisees, and hypocrites) are missing out on true Revelation and true worship. As the Bible states, “In the last day, I [GOD] will pour out MY Spirit on all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.” (Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17) You cannot nullify the Word of GOD and/or restrict the Holy SPIRIT! Sooner or later one of you or your praise team will be struck by the HOLY GHOST and they will go forth in the dance and loudly praising the LORD GOD! Next, it will spread to others! Hee-Haw!

You people are a faithless generation stuck in rigidness, legalism, cultural, unmoving, and spiritless worship – everyone is present in the sanctuary except the THREE most important ONES! You have left out the TRIUNE GOD (Father, Son, Holy Ghost) as THEY are outside in the lobby of the Church!

You don’t want the HOLY SPIRIT to cry aloud in church. Instead, you want to hog tie shouting believers and channel them to the streets or even worse ask security to escort them to the curbside! Shame on you!! Do you not know there is POWER in the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD and POWER IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS? The church don’t belong to you as JESUS CHRIST paid with HIS blood for the church!

For this reason, folks are not being delivered, healed, and set free. They come in full of bigotry, hatred for others and one another, frowning and scowling at others as well as stuck in their own ways! Many are alcoholics, drug users, wife beaters, homosexuals, lesbians, molesters, adulterers, fornicators, irresponsible, fakers, backsliders, liars, and you name it!

It’s a terrible thing to be outside of the Will of GOD and dependent on your fist full of dollars, retirement benefits, equity in your home (mortgage/debt free), empty nesters, and can travel at will! But now you’re sick, lame, sexless, overweight (still filling up your bellies), wrinkled, and full of hatred for people of color! May the LORD GOD forgive you! Your laying on hands mean nothing because you cherry pick whom to bless! GOD IS LOVE! GOD IS LOVE! GOD IS LOVE! GOD loves all people as HE made all people including your bigots and haters who press upon your pastors to inflict legalism upon God’s elect! Woe to you pastors who obey the Scribes and Pharisees who puppet you as they control your paycheck! May the LORD GOD forgive all of you!

What exactly did Jesus mean? “YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN!” We know as stated in the Bible that Nicodemus (an early follower of Jesus) was a Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin; also, he assisted Joseph of Arimathea (a wealthy man) who was responsible for Jesus’ burial in his personal tomb! That’s great! But like Nicodemus, many Christians are ignorant and they don’t know about the two step process of salvation – most repent and get Water Baptized! Nicodemus asked a dumb question, “Can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second tie into his mother’s womb, and be born?” (John 3:4) How in the world can a fully person enter into the womb of his Mother? If a Mother saw a child coming to do such a trick, she get a baseball bat to knock him/her out cold then have them arrested! However, Jesus checked Nicodemus real good, “Art thou a master of Israel and knowest not these things? ” So, Nicodemus was not stupid (as he was a master of Israel) and he did not fully understand the Messianic Prophecies as written in the Old Testament.

Today, many Christians do not understand New Birth and the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD! Allow me to break it down! All people brought forth into the world are born and shaped in sin. The FIRST Man – ADAM of the First Dispensation was made sinless! On day six of recreation (after Lucifer’s Deluge), GOD created man in “…HIS own image and likeness.” (Genesis 1:26) Furthermore, GOD made a conditional “Edenic Covenant” (sometimes called the Covenant of Works) with the first man, “And the LORD GOD took the man [Adam] and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD GOD commanded the man, saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Genesis 2:15-16) We all know that Adam/Eve experience “spiritual” death – separation from GOD!

By the end of the First Dispensation (Genesis 2-3), Adam/Eve sinned (as they ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge), and GOD cast them out of the Garden of Eden. Genesis 3:22-24 states, “And the LORD GOD said, Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good and evil and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD GOD sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So, HE drove out the man; and HE placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”

To this very day (from the beginning of the FIRST ADAM’s sin), mankind is born in SIN! King David said, “Behold I was shapen in iniquity; and in in sin did my mother conceive me.” (Psalms 51:5)

THE NECESSITY OF REBIRTH:

Let’s look at the SECOND ADAM – JESUS CHRIST! The Bible says, “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the LORD from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.” (I Corinthians 15:45-50)

Question: How do you expect to get into Heaven without the Holy Spirit? Jesus said to Nicodemus, “You must be born of water and Spirit to enter into the kingdom of GOD…”

EVIDENCE OF RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT/HOLY GHOST:

According to Act 2:1-12, “And when the Day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the SPIRIT gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And now hear we every man in our own language, wherein we were born? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, dwellers in Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, Libya, Cyrene, Rome, Jews, Cretes, Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. And they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?”

To this present day (like the first audience of unbelievers on the Day of Pentecost (which commemorated the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and others totaling 120 persons in attendance in the Upper Room), folks are still in denial and refusing to be filled with the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD! On that wonderful Day of Pentecost, the mockers said, “These men are full of new wine…” (Acts 2:13) Like the mockers, folks do not want Christians to cry out to the LORD GOD as the HOLY GHOST moves upon them to speak. Stuck up/sadity Christians don’t want others to praise the Lord in shouting, dancing, and crying out; but these same folks holler, jump up and down, throw peanuts, drink beer at sport events to praise their athlete team! And the athletic famous player don’t even know his worshippers on a personal level.

What’s wrong with thanking GOD who made you…woke you up in the morning…kept you as you slept all night…kept your family safe from hurt, harm, danger, healed your body, put food on your table…woke you up after surgery…kept you from dying in a car accident…allowed the airplane to safely land…kept you safe on the cruise ship???? Do you get the drift? When you praise the LORD (in church), they think a bee stung you in the seat of your pants! ISAIAH 58:1 states, “CRY ALOUD….”

The Bible says, “CRY ALOUD, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. ”

JOHN 4:23-24 states, “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. GOD IS A SPIRIT; and they that worship HIM in Spirit and in Truth.” Jesus said this to the woman of Samaria who came to draw water at the well given by their father, Jacob. Unfortunately, this woman was living in sin with a man who was not her husband! She was honest in answering the Lord about her life!

How can you worship the LORD GOD without the HOLY SPIRIT? GOD is a SPIRIT! The spirit of man does not know or understand the Spirit of GOD! However, the Spirit of GOD within the man is the only way to communicate with the Spirit of GOD! You see, the SPIRIT of GOD is ever before the throne of GOD and HE hears, delivers, and speaks what the Spirit of GOD tell HIM to believers!

Please understand me that not all people are set in their ways…not all people are haters….not all people are bigots….not all people hate people of color….not all people are murderers…not all people hinder others from teaching the Word of God…not all people have lily white churches…not all people have all black…there are truly united black and white churches…but whatever you do you must be Baptized with Water and Baptized with the HOLY GHOST (and the latter is evidenced by speaking in an unknown tongue) just as the disciples and others were filled on the Day of Pentecost.

Have a Blessed Day!