HEAVEN

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HEAVEN                           “Worth Considering”            July 24,2026

When a little boy in one of the few times I attended Sunday School, I learned about a beautiful place where God lives,  and wants us to learn to live there with Him, so I better be good.   After many years I came to think of heaven as sitting on cloud 9 and playing a harp.  Seemed like a boring idea to me, so never got very interested.  Too many other things to do and filed it somewhere in the back of my mind in a don’t disturb file.  I did like to sing, my mother took me to a big old Episcopal Church in L. A; called St. Paul’s Cathedral.  And they signed me up to sing soprano in the boys Choir and even paid me.   Later on in High School I was able to get into the Los Angles Concert Choral which sang in the Hollywood Bowl.  Then move on into the Roger Wagner Concert Choral which sang in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.  One time we were singing the Mozart – Requiem in D minor one of the sections was, “What shall we say, when we stand in judgment before God?”  Of course we were singing the mass over and over to get it right and the English was written under the Latin that we were singing.  And it started getting under my skin that there was really a heaven and a hell.  And what was I going to say in my defense at the judgment. So by 23 Jesus caught me and called me into ministry at 38.

And over the years through a study of the Holy Bible I have totally changed my understanding of what Heaven is all about.  So in this paper I will try to share what I have found to be true on the other side.  Even had a near death experience on 10/31/2023 where I experienced a small taste of heaven.  First of all as per Gen.1:26, the vision of God is to reproduce Himself and have a family in which we are all invited to become members.  His eternal goal is to create a family of souls who are like Jesus.  Jesus is the first born of many brethren.  Our Creator God want to saturate His creation and universe with HIS LOVE.  And we are in a school to train us for that purpose if we will in humility and obedience allow it to happen to us.  And of course this includes the need for us to put our Adamic Carnal Sin Nature to death, Rom.8:13 with His help in the Holy Spirit, called sanctification, or to make holy.   One of the difficulties we have is the use of word meanings that are about 2,000 years old to try to know what the Holy Scriptures are really saying. Some times an animal is used to really give an idea of power, wisdom, flight and such.  Like, do angels have wings? I am not sure, or do the wings just mean no gravity for them?  Wings are only good if there is air to fly in.  Most of the universe is without air or sound.  Jesus went to the 3rd Heaven and back in one morning.  Probably the light from the 3rd heaven has not even reached earth as yet. Paul tells us he was caught up into the 3rd heaven but could not tell what he saw.  Obviously, lucifer get’s booted out of the 2nd heaven in Rev.12:11 by the Testimony, Blood and death of the Elect (not angels) on their way to their eternal union with Jesus before our Heavenly Father.  Then to enjoy meeting all of the families of God at the marriage feast of the Lamb in Rev.19.  This is all prior to coming back to earth with Jesus for Armageddon and to help set up our Lord’s 1,000 year Kingdom like Eden, as the curse is lifted.  And it would appear that we are now getting very very close to the end of the age of the gentiles and the birthing of the Body of Christ.  Which is the Church, Bride, Wife, Rod of Iron with which Jesus will use to govern the universe, In a real way, Proverbs 31:10-31 is prophesy in action.  So the 144,000 may then have harps as Jewish Saints.  But for us, I see an eternity that is more like being free to explore and take the Holy Spirit in enjoying finding what my Heavenly Father has been up to with the rest of the universe.  Of course we had, the only lucifer, so those of us who make it to the Jump to light speed will find our training most helpful in loving the rest of our Father’s Creation. So let’s now check out some of the things that the Holy Scriptures tell us about Heaven;
Heaven:
1.    No toilets in heaven, pure energy, no waste, no dirty dishes, nothing that needs cleaning.
2.    Never get tired even though the lights are on for 24/7.
3.    Never bored, always something positive to do in loving,  serving and learning.
4.    Never need new tires, they never wear out, in fact not even needed, teleportation.
5.    No one ever grows old.
6.    No watches in heaven, guided by the Holy Spirit as needed and always on time.
7.    Time ceases, Our present dimension of time ceases to exist as also does death.
8.    Music is important in carrying the essence and power of God into all of HIS Creation.
9.    Friends will be friends for eternity and forever and Jesus will be our very best friend.
10.    We will have fellowship in eating but never be hungry. All a perfect balance. no waste.
11.    Unlimited exploration of all of God’s Creation and other world families
12.    The ability to co-create with Christ Jesus in music, art and literature.
13.    The ability to know even as we are known and love without fear or hesitation.
14.    As to sex, an unknown.  Except that marriage does not exist as a form, as it is not needed.
15.    Those who assisted us will all be in perfect fellowship. 
16.    We will get in on being there for Armageddon with Yeshua, Jesus, The Christ.
17.    We will assist the Lord to set up His earthly Kingdom of Peace of a thousand years.
18.    All of the promises that God gave to Abraham will be completely fulfilled.
19.    We are so changed by God’s Love and Mercy to be able to enter HIS presence and live in HIS dimension as HIS family, the former things are all passed away.
20.    There will be no limitations as to time, distance, knowledge and exploration or God’s Love in Heaven.
“No eye has ever seen or no ear has ever heard or no mind has ever thought of the wonderful things God has made ready for those who love Him.” God has shown these things to us through His Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit Who looks into all things, even the secrets of God, and shows them to us.”  (1 Corinthians 2:9–10, NLV)

We are very close now to the great evacuation of the Church and the release of the antichrist 2 Thess.2:1-12, Matt.25, Luke 21:36  & 1 Thess.4:13-18 which tell us we meet Jesus in the clouds and in loving comfort to be with Jesus and receive our new eternal body and our rewards for what we have done out of love for Jesus.  By mid-trib, Rev. 12:11,  we are booting lucifer out of the 2nd heavens with his minions.  Then Jesus takes us before our Heavenly Father for the eternal union to be His wife, Rod of Iron, then to enjoy the Marriage Feast with all of the families of God.  Then we come with Jesus down to Armageddon and to help set up the Kingdom and assist with Abraham in receiving all of the promises given by God. 

Amish Boy Dies & Returns with a needed message from Jesus! (Perhaps AI but good.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUbhkkt2f28

Kathryn Kuhlman, “How God’s Anointing is Given.” POWER-FULL,  VERY MUCH WORTH CONSIDERING.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6OfyZTEys  (Her voice and her words but may Be AI ? )

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace & mercy, Pastor Ken <>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is ONE Church of Jesus as LORD, all who love, honor and OBEY Him are members.

LOVE

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LOVE                 “WORTH   CONSIDERING”             7/17/26

1 John 4:16-17, “And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him.  In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.

In this we see that our Creator God, is creating a physical family that is spiritually just like HIM.  Gen.1:26.  “ God said, Let Us [Father, Word, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth.”  And Jesus in His resurrection became the first, as the Word of God, to become physical as well as eternal.  And if we decide to die to our carnal nature that we inherited from Adam.  Die to our prideful sin nature in humility and obedience.  We can also be filled with the Holy Spirit and  joined to Jesus as LORD in eternity and receive a new eternal body without all the earthly Adamic limitations, Rom.8:13.

But the enemy that was originally given stewardship over this world as the “Covering Cherub” Ezekiel 28:14-16 is still trying to set up his own kingdom along side of our Creator. Our Creator God is now using him to give us the needed resistance for spiritual growth.  And thus a lot of confusion.  So let’s take a look, in 1 John 4:16 & 17 where we find that our Creator God of all things is “LOVE.”  And we find that lucifer, is basically the king of lust.  Love is to give, Lust is to get or to use. “If you love me, let me.”   I ask the Lord one time for His definition of LOVE…  Quickly, in my mind, I heard the following words, “Love is the highest good for the other person regardless of personal cost.”   Lust is not love. It imagines possession without covenant, pleasure without faithfulness, intimacy without honor. It takes what God made in His image and reduces it to something to be consumed.  It is totally manipulative without concern for the best for the other person.  

And the enemy has us so concerned about lust that really very little of God’s love can even flow.  We are told to greet one another with a Holy Kiss.  Romans 16:16, “Greet one another with a holy (consecrated) kiss. All the churches of Christ (the Messiah) wish to be remembered to you.”  1 Corinthians 16:20, “All the brethren wish to be remembered to you and wish you well. Greet one another with a holy kiss.”  I have never been taught just how to do that?  But I did experience that with a ministry in Santa Rosa at one time, blew me away, One of the most powerful gatherings in the Holy Spirit that I had ever experienced.  So much loving faith, so few fearful walls.  Everyone was loving and kissing me in faith as a visiting apostle.  And it worked, God’s power fell.

In a good marriage we are taught to expect the fullness of loving faith and to avoid fear, 1 Cor.7:4 as fear is faith going backwards, and tends to bring on us what we greatly fear as in Job 3:25.   Types of Love:  Love may take many forms, ranging from the  selfless love you might feel for a child to the passionate love of a romance. Exploring these distinctions can provide insight into relationships:  Eros: Passionate, romantic, or erotic love.    Storge: Affection based on kinship or deep familiarity, such as family love.   Agape: Unconditional, altruistic, or selfless love for humanity, God’s Love.  Ludis: Playful, flirtatious, or uncommitted affection.

So the basic question is how do we really find our way to be free from selfish love that is nothing more than the Carnal Nature sliding us into the lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes and pride of life.  And if I seek to attend to my own needs by using someone, that may be lust and sin.  But if in love I am seeking to help some one else resolve their needs, that could be Jesus.  Of course sex outside of marriage is very dangerous and it is sin.  There are over 20 million new cases of STD’s in the U.S. every year.  Sexually transmitted disease infections that are passed from person to person through vaginal, anal, or oral sex. Common types include chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, HIV, and HPV. They are typically caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites.  There are 5 now without cure.  Our Heaven Father in wanting to keep the Family safe and has adultery and fornication at the top of His SIN List for our own protection.  But then that fear can also kept us from much of HIS love.

So how do we know in a relationship if we are blessed in God’s love or are we in the sin of lust.  I have been taking this to the Lord for some time now and this is what I am feeling.  Our enemy has been trying to make God’s Love into Lust so we are fearful of getting into lust and sin and getting locked out of God’s Love to each other.  Are we are feeling rather boxed up and lonely about it.  But I am beginning to sort it out.   If I see a lovely women, I can enjoy her beauty like a sunset or a lovely flower in someone else’s garden and send up a prayer for her to find God’s perfect will for her life. God made women to be beautiful, I can enjoy the beauty without trying pick the flower for my myself.  I love rainbows, I love living in Hawaii.  I love getting hugs from all of my great grand kids.  I am learning to be free in my love as well.  I am learning to breath in the Kingdom of God as I put to death my Carnal Nature that wants to make everting that God made beautiful,  to be sin.  If we allow that, it could dry us out and make us bitter and worthless.  We must learn how to great one another with a Holy Kiss.  That would be very difficult for me.  But you get the idea.  It is God’s loving power that brings people to Jesus.  We need to know when it is our carnal Adamic sin nature that is crying out.  We need to learn to put more rocks on it’s casket when it cry’s for mercy.  We need to learn when to be free in the Holy Spirit to love and help others find Jesus.  We need to learn to be loving salt and light in the Kingdom of God in order to complete our mission on earth.

Bottom line, we need to really check things out, is it God’s Love.  If it is something that Jesus would do for or to someone else to help them find the Kingdom of God.  It then is a good chance it is the Holy Spirit who is guiding us.   I gave a tract to an older gray haired oriental lady at Costco yesterday, and it made her day. When I approached her she was totally defensive.  But after a loving smile a few words and the tract, I thought she was going to run off with me and take me home.  I do look for God’s light when giving out tracts on light.  And in the resurrection, I wonder what happened?  Obviously we need to learn to be perfected in God’s kind of giving  love, John 4:16-17.

Yours, in HIS great love for us in HIS grace and mercy, Pastor Ken <>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD, Master & Savior.
All who Love, Honor and OBEY Him are Eternal Members.

SALT

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SALT            “WORTH CONSIDERING”                                      7/10/26

Matthew 5:13  “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” 
Yeshua (Jesus) has just finished pronouncing ashrei (אַשְ רֵי) over the poor in spirit, the mourners, the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, and the persecuted. Now He turns to His disciples and declares something that reshapes everything before it: “You are the salt of the earth.” He does not say, “You should try to become salt,” or “One day, if you mature enough, you may become salt.” He says, “You are.” Identity precedes assignment. Before the disciple is sent to do anything, he must know what the King has already made him to be.

Salt was covenant currency in the ancient world. It preserved what would otherwise decay, seasoned what was bland, purified what had been defiled, and marked faithfulness. Every offering required it: “with all your offerings you shall offer salt” [Leviticus 2:13]. The covenant itself is called a brit melach (בְּרִית מֶלַח), a covenant of salt [Numbers 18:19], language of permanence, loyalty, and enduring obligation, not sentiment. So when Yeshua calls His disciples salt, He is not handing them a compliment. He is giving them a calling.

Centuries earlier, Job asks, “Can flavorless food be eaten without salt?” [Job 6:6]. Some things are simply unbearable without it. Salt makes what is tasteless discernible. It awakens what would otherwise remain flat. In the same way, a disciple who withdraws from the world merely to preserve his own comfort becomes the kind of salt that seasons nothing. Salt works by contact. It does not preserve meat from inside the container, and it does not season food while sitting on the shelf. It must be scattered, rubbed in, and brought near what needs preserving. The disciple is not called to hide from the earth or curse it from a distance. He is sent into it. Where corruption spreads, he carries righteousness. Where bitterness takes root, he carries mercy. Where shalom (שָ לוֹם) decays, he pursues it.

But contact is not the same as compromise. Yeshua is not calling His disciples to disappear into the culture. Salt that blends in until it loses its distinction has failed the very reason it was sent. Yet neither is the disciple called to be harsh for the sake of sounding bold, loud for the sake of proving conviction, or offensive in order to appear faithful. Salt does not scream. Salt simply remains what it is, and because it remains what it is, it changes what it touches. That is the quiet power of Kingdom witness.

Then comes the warning: if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? The Greek word carries the idea of becoming tasteless, dull, or foolish. Its root is connected to mōros, the word behind “fool.” Salt without savor has not merely weakened; it has forgotten itself. It has lost the very distinctiveness that made it useful. This is not the world’s danger. Yeshua already knows the world is dark and prone to decay. This is the danger facing those entrusted with Kingdom distinction. And what dilutes salt is not imperfection, but mixture: part obedience, part compromise; part Kingdom, part fear of man; part truth, part desire for acceptance. The remedy was never religious self-improvement. It is returning to the covenant that made the salt salty in the first place.

You are not insignificant where the King has placed you. You are salt — not becoming it, not approaching it, not hoping one day to qualify for it. Your faithfulness carries more weight than you have been told. Your obedience preserves more than you can see. Do not let compromise dilute what covenant has already sealed in you. Do not let fear make you bland, or bitterness corrupt your witness. The world does not need you to taste like it. It needs you to carry Heaven’s savor into it — not someday, not theoretically, but now. Ashrei (אַשְ רֵי) is the salt that has not lost its flavor.   George Baltimore,   Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;

Ken’s Notes:   On 9/22/32, I was introduced to this world on a Kentucky 100 Acre,  hillbilly farm.  As I grew up, we used salt in everything and it was one of the few items that we needed to go buy.  We were really off grid and totally self contained.  We went through the “Great Depression” without missing a meal. It was a wonderful experience for me to grow up in a family so full of salt.  To this day at 93, I have a shaker of salt on my desk.  So for me in the Spirit, I am to be salt.  Gave away a bunch of tracts in town yesterday, mostly received with a smile.  Only one guy gave me the drop dead look.  I look for people who have some light in their eyes and trying hard to do good.  I tell them that I can see that they like the light and it is true and they feel blessed that someone noticed, and they smile.  Then I put on a little salt and say, “Would you like a little more?”  The tract I use is only Bible verses on light.  On the cover it says, “Let there be Light” and out of about 4,000 tracts now,   I have only had 3 to turn me down so far,  due to just a touch of salt in the contact.  Made up the tract about 50 years ago out of only Bible Verses on light.  And there are a 101 ways to add a bit of salt in making contact with all the eternal souls while living in this temporary and dying world.  And we usually don’t know what happens after that, but in the resurrection I am sure it is going to be very interesting to find out what happened with the salt. 

Shopping at Costco is always an experience for me in considering all of the eternal souls wondering around and knowing that only a few will make it into the Family of God and looking for those who are looking for light.  I don’t try to blanket the space, I try to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and be guided by Him.  I placed one tract in the restroom, He told me to leave 2.  I don’t know why, but I did.  And it could have just been me, but so what, salt was left.   So our IDENTITY is a major question to ask yourself today.  I have been Farm boy,  Army guy, Family Man, Shop Keeper, Student, Youth Leader, Contractor, Minister but my Bible tells me that my identity is to be a King, Priest or an Ambassador.  That I am called to be a Joint Heir with Christ Jesus. I am even called to sit in judgment on men and Angles, 1 Cor.6.  So in faith it is not in trying to be an identity but in faith knowing your own identity for yourself alone, even if no one else knows.  God wants to train us to be like HIM, Gen.1:26.  So where is our present identity?  Is it with this temporary dying world under God’s judgment or is it with the Kingdom of God in the eternal world and family of God to come.  That will determine the kind of salt that you are.  Where do you have your identity and membership?  That membership will determine if you are God’s salt or not.   Jesus told us that we would know the truth and the truth would set us free.  In that freedom we are to become salt and light in this world to help the lost find their way to the Kingdom of God, if interested, God’s grace is there for us.

Yours, in HIS great love, grace and mercy, Pastor Ken <><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus, Yeshua as LORD, Master and Savior.
All who Love, Honor and OBEY HIM are Eternal Members.

MERCY

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MERCY                                       “WORTH CONSIDERING”                                 7/3/26

“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6.   Matthew 5:7  Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.   Exodus 34:6  And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth.   There is a word at the center of this Beatitude that Yeshua’s disciples would not have heard as a moral virtue — but as something deeply intimate. When the Hebrew mind spoke of mercy, it reached for rachamim, a word rooted in rechem — the womb. The hidden place where life is carried, protected, and loved before it can ever respond. So when Scripture declares that God is rachum — merciful — it is not describing cold pity from a distance. It is revealing the fierce, covenantal compassion of a God who carries His people, remembers His promises, and moves toward them even when they cannot move toward Him.

The Greek word Yeshua uses is eleemon — merciful, compassionate — but it carries the full weight of the Hebrew Scriptures behind it. In the Septuagint, eleos translates both rachamim and chesed. Rachamim speaks of womb-tenderness — the deep, instinctive compassion of God. Chesed speaks of covenant  loving kindness — loyal love bound not by feeling alone, but by faithfulness. Together they reveal the shape of the mercy Yeshua is blessing: not sentiment, not shallow tolerance, but love with covenant backbone — tenderness that refuses cruelty, faithfulness that refuses to abandon, compassion that moves toward the broken and the undeserving with the heart of God.

When ADONAI passed before Moses in Exodus 34, He began His own self-disclosure there: rachum v’chanun — merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in chesed. Mercy is not a minor attribute. It is woven into how He reveals Himself. Micah pressed it to its covenant conclusion: “Do justice, love mercy (chesed), and walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). To love chesed is to be aligned with the nature of the King.

This is why Yeshua places mercy here in the Beatitudes. The poor in spirit have come empty before God. Those who mourn have allowed their hearts to feel what is broken. The meek have surrendered their strength. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness now long for the world to be made right. And now the merciful appear — those who have been so marked by the mercy of God that they become vessels of that mercy to others.

The Kingdom does not form people who merely know they have been forgiven. It forms people who become forgiving. Mercy is not a feeling you carry — it is a force you release, and it shapes the world it touches.  When Yeshua says “they shall obtain mercy,” He is not describing a transaction but covenant reciprocity. The stream that reached them now flows through them. The well does not run dry when poured out — it reveals its source.  Ashrei (Blessed) are the merciful, because they are living in the flow of what they have already received — vessels of rachamim and chesed, carrying the womb-tenderness and covenant faithfulness of God into places starving for His love.

You are a recipient of the rachamim of the Most High — not because you earned it, but because He is rachum v’chanun, and His womb-love has been upon you from before you drew your first breath. That mercy was never given as a private possession. It was deposited in you as a living force, meant to flow. You are now commissioned to carry chesed into a world starving for covenant love — not sentiment, not weakness, but fierce, loyal, costly tenderness that looks like God. Go and be what you have already received. Ashrei are the merciful, because they carry the heart of the King.
With much agape love,    George Baltimore: <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;

Ken here,   I have been deeply considering the words of Jesus this last week concerning what Yeshua meant by what He said about the “Fruit of the Spirit”  Gal. 5:22, “But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love,  joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].  And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires, Rom.8:13.   If we live by the [Holy] Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [If by the Holy Spirit we have our life in God, let us go forward walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit.]”  So our Lord Jesus, gives us a big key here to know if we are His or if someone else is His.  

Matthew 7:16, “You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles”  Matthew 7:20, “Therefore, you will fully know them by their fruits.”  And this is a two way street as we consider what is on our tree?  1 John 2:15-17, “Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself]. And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (the passionate desires, the lust) of it; but he who does the will of God and carries out His purposes in his life abides (remains) forever.”  There is only freedom from this world, not in this world.

These were the 3 demonic tests that Adam & Eve went through and failed, Yeshua/Jesus went through them and gained victory, and they come to us every day in one way or another.  We have been given the wonderful opportunity of living for eternity in the Family of our Creator God or we can use our time on earth in trying to build our own little kingdom as did lucifer and become like him.  There is no middle ground, I wasted years trying to find it.  Our Lord is coming for a perfected Church that is a perfect match for HIM.  A Church without spot, wrinkle or blemish. Our Lord Jesus/Yeshua has given us all of the tools that we need to secure our victory over our Carnal Adamic Selfish (what about me) Sin nature, if we will find them and learn to use them we can also have his victory.  It is not an impossibility, But it is a daily choice of what we feed.  What we don’t feed will ultimately die.

Yours, in HIS great love, mercy and grace for us, Pastor Ken <>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD, MASTER & SAVIOR.
All who Love, Honor and Obey HIM are Eternal Members. 

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FALLING AWAY

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FALLING AWAY II                                            “WORTH CONSIDERING”                                        6/19/26

The primary biblical prophecy regarding an increase in knowledge is found in Daniel 12:4. The angel tells Daniel to seal the scroll of his prophecies until the “time of the end,” adding: “Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase”.  And with this prophesy for the end time, also see a falling away as churches are replacing sound doctrine with feel-good sermons.   People following emotion over Scripture.  Teachers twisting the Word of God to gain fame.  A gospel without the cross, conviction, or repentance. Holiness mocked, and wordiness celebrated.  Many claiming to know Jesus, yet deny His authority as LORD.

So knowledge will increase as it is today and foundation the “Falling Away,” 2 Thess.2:1-12. “   “But relative to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and our gathering together to [meet] Him, we beg you, brethren, Not to allow your minds to be quickly unsettled or disturbed or kept excited or alarmed, whether it be by some [pretended] revelation of [the] Spirit or by word or by letter [alleged to be] from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has [already] arrived and is here. Let no one deceive or beguile you in any way, for that day will not come except the apostasy comes first [unless the predicted great falling away of those who have professed to be Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of perdition), Who opposes and exalts himself so proudly and insolently against and over all that is called God or that is worshiped, [even to his actually] taking his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself is God, (Rev 12:11 & 13:11.  Seems this happens about the middle of the Great Tribulation in the 3rd Temple to yet be rebuilt with all of the pieces already fashioned, boxed and marked for delivery to the Temple Site as is made ready for the reconstruction.)

Do you not recollect that when I was still with you, I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining him [from being revealed at this time]; it is so that he may be manifested (revealed) in his own [appointed] time. For the mystery of lawlessness (that hidden principle of rebellion against constituted authority) is already at work in the world, [but it is] restrained only until he who restrains is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one (the antichrist) will be revealed and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of His mouth and bring him to an end by His appearing at His coming, (Rev.19.)  The coming [of the lawless one, the antichrist] is through the activity and working of Satan and will be attended by great power and with all sorts of [pretended] miracles and signs and delusive marvels—[all of them] lying wonders— And by unlimited seduction to evil and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing (going to perdition) because they did not welcome the Truth but refused to love it that they might be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a misleading influence, a working of error and a strong delusion to make them believe what is false, In order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe in [who refused to trust in, and rely on] the Truth, but [instead] took pleasure in unrighteousness.” It would appear that the antichrist will begin his New World Order and World Conquest in Rev.6 and by mid tribulation will have total control over buying and selling for each individual soul on planet earth, Rev.13:15-18.  Which would take an AI computer connected to every place to purchase point on earth. Timing for this is mid-tribulation and all who take the mark to buy and sell,  loose their salvation and those who refuse the mark will be taken and killed.  But the Jews will also see the worship that is committed by the antichrist in the desecration of the new 3rd temple and they will be protected by God.  They will finally check the scriptures and see that Jesus was/in their messiah, and make Him Lord.  They are then freed from the curse and yield to His salvation. Rev. 12:17.  (Rev.6 & 12 are 7 yr. time line chapters for the 7 years of the great tribulation.)   Also we are told that just prior to this great move of God the earth will be at peace like the days of Noah prior to the Flood that floated that family to safety but destroyed the known world.  Matt.24:37, Luke 21:36.  

In Matt.25, Jesus tells us a parable about 10 virgins with lamps with a date for a wedding they were expecting.  It is getting late in the day, 5 had money but had procrastinated as it was already getting too dark for a wedding. So they turned in with what they had, thinking, well, we can get the oil (Holy Spirit) tomorrow and have plenty of time.  I can hear them saying, “who has a wedding at night.”  But at midnight the Groom did come for the wedding.  And their lamps were going out so they asked to borrow.  But the other virgins only had enough for the night and told them, “Go buy for yourself.  They had money so went,  but when they returned with the oil, the other 5 had already gone into the wedding, and the door was shut like the Ark.  They then knocked and were told by Jesus to go away, HE said, “I don’t know you.”  This consideration is a consistent teaching in much of what Jesus taught.  Matthew 7:20-24, “Therefore, you will fully know them by their fruits of the Holy Spirit.  “ Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven.  Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name and driven out demons in Your name and done many mighty works in Your name?  And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My loving commands].  So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts upon them [obeying them] will be like a sensible (prudent, practical, wise) man who built his house upon the rock, Isa.28:16-20.”

So we are told that in the end times that knowledge will increase.  That there will be a falling away.   That it will be a time of normal family relationships.  And that if we are not really ready, we could be left behind with no second flight.  Tonight, in thinking about this I tuned into a You Tube, AI Grock review of Bible Prophesy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZrFpTZ-eZ8 and I found it very interesting and well worth the time considering it.  Hope you will do the same?  Grock came up that there must have been a single author.

Basically, from my perspective, seem like the one single prophesy that would need to be fulfilled prior to the Lords coming is the world talking about peace and safety, 1 Thess.5:3.  And we have a president doing just that.  I know that some feel the Church goes through the Great Tribulation, I don’t believe that it does.   So you need to do your own in-depth search of the scriptures for yourself as it is very important issue of doctrine.  We can see by the Jesus prophesy in Matt.25, Luke 21:36 & 2 Thess.2:1-12.  Our human nature, tends to procrastinate if we know an exact date.  If Jesus evacuates His Church, are you filled with the Holy Spirit?  Could you miss the flight as did the 5 foolish virgins by procrastinating?   There was no backup,  no second flight, 1 Thess. 4:13. 

Be blessed in getting closer to Jesus, Pastor Ken <><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is but ONE powerful Church of Christ Jesus as LORD & Savior.
All who Love, Honor and OBEY Him are Eternal Members.

SANCTIFICATION

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SANCTIFICATION                   “WORTH CONSIDERING”                        6/12/2026

Sanctification is a very interesting concept and word in our Bible.  Sanctification means to make holy or to set something apart for a special, sacred purpose. While the term is primarily used in Christian theology to describe the ongoing process of growing in holiness and becoming more like Christ, the root concept applies universally to dedicating something to a higher use.

In theology, sanctification is the process of shedding sinfulness and producing the fruits of the Spirit. It is generally broken down into three phases:  The Fruit of the Spirit (9) are the keys to both hearing our LORD and what we are to give unto others, Gal.5:22-23.
Positional Sanctification: A one-time event at the start of faith where a believer is declared holy and set apart for God’s purposes.
Progressive Sanctification: The lifelong, ongoing work of God’s grace to free a person from the power of sin. Believers actively participate in this by pursuing spiritual maturity through prayer, studying scripture, and obedience.
Ultimate Sanctification (or Glorification): The belief that God will one day perfect believers, completely removing all of the presence of sin when their earthly lives are over.

In my initial experience of coming to Jesus as LORD, the church I became joined to one that believed in a one time event when a person was saved.  And basically, as a member, it was to find a comfortable space where you felt good about yourself when going to church.  Sort of like, what you don’t know can not hurt you.  After a few years it got really boring and I found myself mostly sleeping through the sermons.  But had a guy working for me who went to another church who was feeling I needed to be sanctified like he was.  One day he was working on completing a model home for me as a contractor and he was standing on the roof, applying nails to the facia with a 32oz. framing hammer and leaving waffle marks along the fascia.  I hollered at him, he lost his focus and came down on his thumb which was very painful. Slammed his hammer into the roof and was cursing to the top of his lungs.  And I thought, so much for his sanctification?  Tossed the hammer back up on the roof and that was the end of his pushing for my sanctification.  So I did not feel really comfortable in my church or in his.  So as it to really changing the heart, it had to come from the inside out, not the outside in.

About 10 years later, I was actually running to do something and caught my right knee cap right in the center on my T340 cat tread which tossed me to the ground in pain without thinking, I yelled out “Praise The Lord, Thank you Jesus” I was stunned at what I had just said and the pain left immediately.  Simply, from the washing of the Word of God over the years. But I was still being attacked by the enemy in a lot of other areas.  In 1967,  a painter gave me a bid on painting my home that I was building and it was a big house.  The painter was a strong Christian, Marvin Langenberg, and he started talking to me about the Baptism in the Holy Spirit to help me in my walk with Jesus.  I really liked the guy and as the painting was a bid it made no difference to me how much time he took in  talking while painting my house.  And I began to see what he was talking about in Holy Scripture and began praying about it.  One day going to work I was singing in my truck, it was big and set really high so I was very much alone, I forgot the words, started filling in with what ever came to mind and after awhile it seemed like a language that I did not know.  And it felt good and was fun to do.   Later on Marvin invited me to a prayer meeting at his church and as I came in the door he asked if I would mind if the folks prayed for me.  Why not? I can use all the prayer I can get.  But then he asked me to come and kneel down in the middle of the room, and that felt a little uncomfortable, but I did it anyway.  and then about 15 people came and laid hands on me and prayed over me with such fervor and it felt like about 600# on my back.  I thought, if I don’t do something, they are not going to let me up.  So I started saying the words that I used for singing in the truck and that made them all really happy and they let me up.  But then I felt deceitful, and had to mention that I had been singing that language in the truck for many weeks now.  And they did not know what to say, but I felt that I had conformation that it really was the Baptism in the Holy Spirit.  So my experience is that when we begin to make Jesus LORD that is the beginning of the process of our Sanctification. We really need the power of the Holy Spirit in that commitment to help make the sanctification happen, Rom.8:13.   Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”  And it takes our faith and God’s grace to make it happen.  1 Corinthians 15:47-49 “The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.  48  As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.  Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.” 

When Paul summarizes what happens to the person who believes in Yeshua (Jesus), he uses a breathtaking phrase: “new creation.” He could have simply said “saved,” and that would have been true. But Paul chooses language that is far more expansive. He is not describing a better version of the old life, a repaired heart, or a revised story. He is announcing the arrival of an entirely new order of existence breaking into the present world.  The Greek phrase is “kaine ktisis” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Kaine does not merely mean new in the sense of recent; it means new in kind, something qualitatively different from what existed before. Ktisis refers to creation itself – the created order, the cosmos spoken into existence by God. Together, these words proclaim far more than personal transformation. They declare that the new creation has already begun, and everyone who is in Christ Jesus, the Messiah, is part of it, and is growing in the fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22-23.

Don’t allow yourself to be defined by the person you started out to be or by the struggles that still surround you.   In Christ Jesus, you can be, kaine ktisis — a new creation — and the very life of His Kingdom of righteousness can become alive in you if Jesus is really your LORD.  Learn to yield to your new nature in Christ Jesus. The same Spirit who raised Yeshua from the dead can now dwell in you, not to polish the old life but to reveal a new one. So stop measuring yourself by the standards of a world that is broken and passing away 1 John 2: 15-17.  Begin walking in the reality that God’s  Kingdom has broken through, 1 John 4:16-17.  That the old no longer has the final word over your identity, future, or purpose. Every step that you take now in faith will be a declaration that God’s Kingdom is here, that resurrection life is real, and that this new Jesus, Gen.1:26,  creation can also be unfolding through you, like Jesus,  until the day it fills  the whole universe with our Creator God’s love as Jesus did for us on earth.  This is sanctification.  We are in a hot house of spiritual growth that can bring us into God’s Holy eternal family.  Or, our choice of Pride and Rebellion can send our eternal soul, with total recall, into outer, eternal darkness without a body, Jude 13.

Yours, in HIS great love for you, Pastor Ken <>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as Lord, Savior & Master.
All who truly Love, Honor & Obey HIM are Eternal Members of God’s family.

POWER OF GOD

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POWER OF GOD                  “WORTH CONSIDERING”                            6/5/2026

God’s Power all starts with the Holy Spirit.  A good start would be to listen to Kathryn Kuhlman,      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ-5sGldBYs   I met her in 1968, sang in the choir and was an usher.  She was a lot like Lonnie Friesbee in walking in John 3:8 with the Holy Spirit.

First off lets consider the powerlessness that Jesus warned us about as did Paul in prophesy told us about:   Mark 7:7,  Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.  Mark 7:13, “Making the word of God of none effect through your vain traditions, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”  Matthew 13:58, “And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”  2 Timothy 3:5: “For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].”  This is a prophesy of Paul concerning the “Latter Days” of which is also covered by Jesus in Rev. 3:16, “So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth!  For you say, “I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing;”  and you do not realize and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.  Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire, (works out of a pure love for Jesus, 1 Cor.3:11-15.) that you may be [truly] wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, (righteousness of Jesus, Rev.19:8.) and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.” (being filled with the Holy Spirit, Luke 11: 9-13,  Psalm 23:5 & 133.)

Let’s start of with Apostle Paul in his letters to Corinth, 1 Cor. 2 and difficult to know where to stop through 1 Cor.4 on the above subject.   “As for myself, brethren, when I (Paul) came to you, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony and evidence or [a] mystery and secret of God [concerning what He has done through Christ for the salvation of men] in lofty words of eloquence or human philosophy and wisdom;  For I resolved to know nothing (to be acquainted with nothing, to make a display of the knowledge of nothing, and to be conscious of nothing) among you except Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and Him crucified.  And I was in a state of weakness and fear (dread) and great trembling after I had come] among you.  And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit and power,   a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them],  So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human philosophy), but in the power of God.”

And so after the resurrection of Jesus becoming God made Flesh, Totally the son of man and son of God, Jesus was the first in the image and likeness of God as per Gen.1:26.  And now we are in the process of deciding if we want to be like Jesus in humility and obedience or remain like Adam in pride and rebellion,  contaminated by lucifer who wanted to build his own kingdom in which to rule.  Rom. 8:13 tells it clearly, “For if we live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, we will surely die. (go to hell.) But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit we are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, we shall [really and genuinely] live forever. (go to heaven.)  So we find our eternal soul is in a short time capsule to decide with our free will, where we would like to spend our eternity.  The enemy tells us it can not be done to be like Jesus.  And to procrastinate and enjoy being as comfortable as possible, Matt.25.   But Apostle Paul tells us to kill our flesh sin nature, with God’s help, to make room to be filled with the Holy Spirit.  I was saved in 1955 in Long Beach California but the church I went to knew nothing about being filled with the Holy Spirit.  In 1968, I finally gave the keys to my house to the Holy Spirit and HE has been cleaning out my rooms and filling them with His presence, I am at 93 now and still finding rooms to clean out and to be filled with His presence.  I originally thought I was a one room log cabin but I am finding that there are a lot of rooms that I did not even know existed that were filled with the junk of this world.  And the Holy Spirit is lovingly, without condemnation, gradually making me ready for the Kingdom of God as I submit and allow HIM to change me.  The process, in our Bible is called sanctification or to make holy.  John writes about it in 1 John 4:16-17.

So how do we get back to being the Church of the Holy Spirit as in Acts 5:14?  “More and more there were being added to the Lord those who believed [those who acknowledged Jesus as their Savior and devoted themselves to Him joined and gathered with them], crowds both of men and of women,  So that they [even] kept carrying out the sick into the streets and placing them on couches and sleeping pads, [in the hope] that as Peter passed by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them.  And the people gathered also from the towns and hamlets around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.  But the high priest rose up and all who were his supporters, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and being filled with [a] jealousy and indignation and rage.”  And I have found that Religious Church people feel the same about it today.

There are two things to work on to get back to being a powerful healthy church 1. Are we willing to really put all of our Adamic sin nature to death, Rom.8:13.     2. We need to find and dump all of the vain traditions and divisions of man that are not Biblically supported and get back to only walking in the Word of God, 1 Cor.3:1-10.  1 John 4:16-17 give us the heart of where we need to be headed. “And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.”  Jesus gave us the power that HE had been given to do what HE did for the Glory of our Heavenly Father, We now have so-called churches where the Holy Spirit is no where to be found.  And they are nothing at all like the church that the Holy Spirit started in the Book of Acts.  And very few of the members really look like Jesus or His disciples.  There is nothing in our New Testament to support building buildings, having ministers on a payroll, tithing, church membership,  voting, denominations, theater type of services, program, worship team or order of service.  Check, 1 Cor. 14:26 for the Early Church kind of service.  Difficult to do that with the formal kind of Theater seating that is now traditional.  As for me, it seems starting a house church is the best way to gather the Pentecostal fire we really need to have restored.  Each of us is like a battery that needs filling and to be in good unity for the POWER of the Holy Spirit to win souls to Jesus.  Our Heavenly father will only empower, HIS TRUTH.

Yours, in His great love and power, Pastor Ken <>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD & MASTER’
And all who Love, Honor and Obey Christ Jesus as Lord are Eternal Members.

SEEDS

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SEEDS            “WORTH CONSIDERING”            5/29/26

Mark 4:30-32 And Jesus said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?  It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,  yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”

So the issue is not the seed’s size — but what it contains. Yeshua said that when the mustard seed is sown, it grows and becomes greater than all the garden plants, putting out large branches so that the birds of the air may nest in its shade (Mark 4:32). In the Greek, the word for “grows” carries the idea of rising up. The seed does not remain buried forever. What God plants may begin hidden, but it does not stay hidden. It rises because the life within it comes from Him.

This is the pattern of the Kingdom. It began in a borrowed manger, in a carpenter’s home in Nazareth, among fishermen, tax collectors, and ordinary people who had no earthly power. It moved through dusty roads, village synagogues, through healed lepers, and finally through the shame of a Roman cross. To the world, it looked small. To heaven, it was unstoppable. The prophets had spoken this way long before Yeshua told the parable.

Kingdoms and empires were often pictured as great trees — Ezekiel described Assyria like a mighty cedar whose branches gave shade to the nations (Ezekiel 31:3–6), and Daniel saw Nebuchadnezzar as a great tree visible to the ends of the earth (Daniel 4:10–12). Those kingdoms wanted to look large from the beginning. But Yeshua reveals a Kingdom that does not begin as a towering cedar. It begins as a seed — not because it is weak, but because it carries a different kind of power. The kingdoms of men grow by force, fear, and control. The Kingdom of God grows by design and inner life.

Zechariah asked, “For who has despised the day of small things?” (Zechariah 4:10). That question still searches us. Many despise the early obedience because it does not yet look fruitful. Many despise the hidden preparation because no one is applauding. Many despise the quiet beginning because they have mistaken visibility for value. But God is not confused by small beginnings. He knows what He planted.

The Hebrew prophets spoke of the coming King as the Tzemach (צֶמַח) — the Branch, the sprout that would rise from David’s line. Jeremiah declared that God would raise to David a Branch of righteousness (Jeremiah 23:5). Zechariah spoke of God’s Servant, the Branch (Zechariah 3:8), and again of the Man whose name is the Branch, who would build the temple of the Lord (Zechariah 6:12). Even Isaiah saw life coming from what looked like a stump — a Rod from the stem of Jesse, a Branch growing out of his roots (Isaiah 11:1). That is Yeshua. A shoot from Jesse’s stump. A hidden life rising from covenant roots. What looked small to men was the beginning of the restoration of all things.

So do not despise what God has planted in you, even if it still looks small. The mustard seed does not grow merely for itself — it becomes large enough for the birds of the air to nest in its branches. Your obedience may become shade for someone weary. Your faithfulness may become a shelter for someone broken. Your small beginning may become a place where others encounter the love, mercy, and intimacy of the King. This is how the Kingdom works. It starts small. It grows quietly. It rises steadily. And one day, what everyone overlooked becomes a place of life.   from George Baltimore, 5/29/26.  Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;

I had put a teaching together on another subject, but the Holy Spirit wanted to share this tonight.  My life verse from when I was born into the Kingdom of God in 1955 has been John 12:24-26,   “ I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains [just one grain; it never becomes more but lives] by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest.  Anyone who loves his life loses it, but anyone who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. [Whoever has no love for, no concern for, no regard for his life here on earth, but despises it, preserves his life forever and ever.] “

I often pray and ask the Lord, “What good am I doing out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a grain of sand living on the side of a living volcano in a jungle at 93.  And HE gently just keeps on filling me with HIS TRUTH.  The ‘House Church” is now down to only a hand full of souls.  But HE just keeps on loving me and giving me grace to put my carnal nature on His cross and filling me with His love and the Word of God.  But it is only as I die to my carnal nature that He then has the room to fill me with His Holy Spirit, Rom.8:13, “For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.”  So as per Rom. 7, we were born into a contaminated body that lucifer through pride & rebellion manipulated Adam into becoming.   And so  we are faced with living in a body of pride & rebellion that wants to rule our soul.  But in Jesus I have the seed of a new beginning, a new life in righteousness.  And I am confronted with which to feed every day.  So if I feed my flesh, my carnal nature, it will grow stronger and take me into eternal darkness.  And if I feed my New Nature in Christ Jesus, it will take me into eternal light.  So regardless of where I am, each day, it is up to me as to which seed to care for and to help grow.  And it is not an easy choice at times.  I have a young lady writing to me now who would love for me to send her a ticket to come and take good care of me and is not concerned about my age.  She is 39 and lovely at 5’2″ 115#.  But I don’t feel the Holy Spirit is guiding me in that direction.   However, my flesh is jumping at the door,  even at 93.  But, I am guided to try to help her find a real walk with Jesus and allow Him to take care of her.  Every day that our eternal soul, as a seed, is alive in this temporary body we will be faced with the choice of either feeding our flesh carnal nature or feeding our new nature in Christ Jesus to grow up to be like Him and to help build HIS Eternal Kingdom.  And if we pray for God’s helping grace, we can enjoy HIS victory for us.  Otherwise like the 5 foolish virgins of Matt.25 & 1 Thess.2:1-12, we could be locked out.

Yours, in HIS great love, grace and mercy, Pastor Ken <><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is but ONE church of Christ Jesus as LORD & Master.
All who Love, Honor and Obey Jesus as LORD are Eternal Members.

Divisions

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DISCORD & DIVISION                  “WORTH CONSIDERING”                    6/29/29

It is amazing how our carnal nature can wrap itself up so look righteous and honorable in getting us into pride, rebellion and division.  How easy we can move into the space of, “My way or the High Way.” when those who love us the most are seeking to keep us from making very painful mistakes.  I am reminded of a verse of scripture in the Old Testament.   Proverbs 6:13-15,  He winks with his eyes, he speaks by shuffling or tapping with his feet, he makes signs [to mislead and deceive] and teaches with his fingers.  Willful and contrary in his heart, he devises trouble, vexation, and evil continually; he lets loose discord and sows it.  Therefore upon him shall the crushing weight of calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken, and that without remedy.”  And, “Proverbs 6:19, the 7th deadly sin,   “A false witness who breathes out lies [even under oath], and he who sows discord among his brethren.”  A lot of the time we are so caught up in the emotions of an issue that we tend to forget about Jesus and everything and everybody who is effected by our choice.

I remember one time while living in Oklahoma in the 7th Grade that about 6 boys were gathered and planning to go steal some watermelons on the other side of the river.  And I begged them to take me along.  I knew down deep it was wrong but I could taste the watermelon and so tagged along.   Farmer would not miss a few watermelons.  They all got to the other side just fine but I stepped off of a sand bar into the river current and went down for the count up and down about 3 times and about the time I was going down for the last time my feet found another sand bar back to my side of the river. Now looking back, that sweet watermelon sure took control of me.  Of course, it never occurred to me to talk to my parents or the school counselor about the idea.

Our Heavenly Father for hundreds of years has given us HIS wisdom through His prophets on just about every subject of what to do for a loving,  painless and productive life.  And yet, even today, over half of the Christian Marriages end up in a divorce court contrary to 1 Cor.6 & 7.  And a lot of so call Christians are now in Jail.  So what does the Bible teach us about Discord & Division.

1 Corinthians 12:24-26, “Which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so adjusted (mingled, harmonized, and subtly proportioned the parts of) the whole body, giving the greater honor and richer endowment to the inferior parts which lack [apparent importance],  So that there should be no division or discord or lack of adaptation [of the parts of the body to each other], but the members all alike should have a mutual interest in and care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the parts [share] the suffering; if one member is honored, all the members [share in] the enjoyment of it.”   So where is there room for division or discord ?

James 4, “What leads to strife (discord and feuds) and how do conflicts (quarrels and fightings) originate among you? Do they not arise from your sensual desires that are ever warring in your bodily members? You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask. [Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures. …

And the Battle is not an easy one in which to secure the Lord’s Victory as our Carnal Nature does not want to die, Rom.8:13, but to live and to explore using God’s Gifts for our own personal pleasure is to be just like lucifer.

1 John 2:15-17, “ Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself].  And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (the passionate desires, the lust) of it; but he who does the will of God and carries out His purposes in his life abides (remains) forever.

On a personal level, I feel like I would like to be married.  And in the last year have joined a couple of Christian introduction sites on the Internet.  It has been a real learning challenge for me as I determined to put Jesus as top drawer to any friendship.  I placed my picture and profile up and have had women from all over the world writing in, some in their 20’s and me at 93.  What a witness for Jesus that would be.  Of course my Carnal Nature want’s to get out of his casket and take over the show.  So it has been good for me for inner healing and to make me stronger.  But as yet, none of the many contacts have gone very far as I keep sharing about Jesus and Eph.4:22-33, 1 Cor. 13, Prov.31:10 and 1 Pet.3. As our Bible teaches us to not become uniquely  yoked.  As Apostle Paul shares with us as per our Lord’s ministry to us.   2 Cor.6:13-15.  “By way of return then, do this for me—I speak as to children— open wide your hearts also [to us]. Do not be uniquely yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership has right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?  What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial [the devil]? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?

And often, if we like a person,  we take as true who they say they are. when Jesus teaches us that His disciples are to be known by the fruit that is on their tree.  In my last marriage, everything seemed so right, she was everything I was looking for but I forgot to be a fruit inspector.  Found out later that she lied to me.  She got an expensive divorce and left about 4 years ago.  No fights at all and no counseling.  I took really good care of her for over 20 years, seems now she was only interested in the security without me. And it is not only the fruit of the Spirit that we look for,  Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].  But also the factor of reproduction, Is there an obvious history of helping others find Jesus as LORD?   John 12:24.  This is basic for all true Christian relationships.  Our relationships must come through the front door of those who love us, not the back doors of this world.  

Yours, in HIS great love, grace and blessings, Pastor Ken <><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD & MASTER.
All who Love, Honor and Obey, Christ Jesus as LORD are Eternal Members.

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GRAFTING       “Worth Considering”   5/18/26 Worthy Brief – May 18, 2026             (Sent to me today and too good not to pass along.)   Blessings Ken < www.Trinity-Aloha.org
Ken, you are living proof of covenant mercy!
Romans 11:17-19 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.”
Paul does not flatter the Gentile believer. He tells the truth. “You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them” [Romans 11:17]. That is mercy, but it is not flattery. A wild olive branch does not enter the cultivated tree as a source of life. It enters as a receiver. It did not grow the root. It did not carry the covenant history. It did not preserve the Scriptures. It did not birth the prophets. It did not bring forth Yeshua (Jesus). It was cut from one life and joined to another.
That image would have landed with force in Rome. They understood cultivation. They understood grafting. Grafting is not casual inclusion. A branch is cut so it can be joined. Wounding comes before union. Something old is severed so something new can live. This is what happened to the Gentiles.  Yeshua brought Gentiles near to covenants they did not establish, promises they did not earn, Scriptures they did not write, and a King who came through a covenant line they did not produce.
Paul says the grafted branch became a “partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree” [Romans 11:17]. The word “partaker” carries the sense of shared participation. Gentiles not standing beside the tree, admiring it. They are receiving life from it. The “fatness” speaks of richness, oil, nourishment, the sustaining flow that rises from root to branch. The wild branch lives because another life now carries it.
This is why Paul’s language in Ephesians is so important. He tells Gentile believers that they were once “aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise” — [Ephesians 2:12]. That is not insult. That is diagnosis. Gentiles were outside the covenant commonwealth. They had no claim on Abraham’s promise, no inheritance in David’s throne, no share in Israel’s prophetic hope by natural birth. But then Paul says, “But now in Yeshua the Messiah you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Messiah” — [Ephesians 2:13]. The blood of Yeshua did not bring the Gentiles into a rootless spirituality or a covenantless faith; His blood brought those who were far off — near.
Near to God, yes. But also near to the covenants of promise. Near to the commonwealth from which we were once alienated.  Near to the hope of Israel. Near to the olive tree. This nearness is not replacement. It is reconciliation. It is not theft. It is grace.
The prophets saw this mercy before the nations understood it. Isaiah heard the Lord speak of the Servant and say, “I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth” — [Isaiah 49:6].  Zechariah declared, “Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become My people.” [Zechariah 2:11] Amos saw the fallen tabernacle of David raised again so that the nations called by God’s name would be brought in. [Amos 9:11–12]  The nations were never invited to erase Israel. They were invited to worship God through Israel’s King.
There is a correction here that cuts deeper than many want to admit. Many Gentile believers have been taught, directly or indirectly, to think of salvation as though it dropped into history detached from Israel. Many imagined the gospel as a new religious beginning rather than the flowering of an ancient covenant promise. But Yeshua did not graft us into rootless faith. He joined us to a living tree.
That means gratitude cannot remain a polite footnote in our theology. It must become part of the way we read, worship, remember, and bear fruit. We give thanks for Abraham’s obedience, for the Scriptures entrusted to Israel, for the prophets who carried the burden of revelation through persecution and tears, for the Jewish apostles who first proclaimed Yeshua, for Jerusalem, for the feasts, for the promises, and for the covenant line through which Yeshua came into the world. We do not worship the root. We worship the God who made the root holy. But we dare not treat lightly what He chose to carry His redemptive purpose.
We were grafted by mercy. That means your life in Yeshua is both a gift and a summons. Gift, because you did not earn your place. Summons, because mercy now demands fruit. The branch does not receive sap merely to admire its own inclusion. It receives life so it may bear witness. A grafted branch that forgets mercy becomes brittle. A grafted branch that remembers mercy becomes fruitful.
Ken, you were brought near by the blood of Yeshua, welcomed by mercy into covenant life you did not originate and could never sustain by your own strength; so let gratitude rise with joy, let reverence deepen your faith, and let your fruit testify that you have been joined to the promises of God through the pierced hands of Yeshua. He has not called you to a rootless spirituality, but to stand as a living branch in a holy tree — receiving life, and bearing witness to the world because of His mercy.
Your family in the Lord with much agape love,
George (Maryland) & Baht Rivka (Arad, Israel) Baltimore, Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com>