HEART FAITH HEALING 2

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HEART FAITH HEALING 2     “WORTH CONSIDERING”   11/1/21   by Ken<><

A very dear, old friend and brother in Christ Jesus, today, sent me a reminder concerning Repentance as follows:

Ken. You might add to your list God’s timing. I spent four months in intense pain and acute anxiety in 2017.   Prayed intently, literally day and night, as I also couldn’t sleep. But during that time I felt God’s love and presence. I ultimately repented of four major areas of sin. Some going back over 60 years. Then came my healing. God said it was in His timing. During the process He touched me sovereignty several times, keeping me from suicide and within the confines of tolerable.    ( I wrote back as follows: )   Excellent,  Thank you,   misplaced the repentance part….   I did go through a whole month at one time between life and death.  It was a  considerable time for me to think about such things in repentance….   But 4 months,  WOW !!!!   As for God’s Timing,  if the God conditions for healing exist I feel that healing is in the now… we are already healed in Jesus.   It is a done deal,  but often we are yet to take off our shoes and find the Holy Ground.   Like Paul and his thorn,  later as he met the conditions and was healed.  But I do wonder about Timothy and his “Oft  Infirmities,” however.  Perhaps it was bad water?  Be Blessed in your day and your efforts for our KING and again, I do appreciate your comments.

So with this “Worth Considering” it is not meant to pontificate but in God’s Love it is written to find more of God’s Truth so that we can enjoy more of God’s Freedom in loving unity.  Truth is far more important than winning any debate.  Walking in God’s Truth always gives us more freedom to serve HIM.

However, it is important to find the Holy Scriptures that clearly show God’s position of truth in a doctrine or we tend to go with our emotions or some teachings that we have heard and digested that may be in error.

A good scripture to start concerning healing is Isa 53: 5, “But He was wounded for our transgressions,  He was crushed for our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]; The punishment [required] for our well-being fell on Him,  And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.” and in Isa.61:1-2, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,  Because the Lord has anointed and commissioned me To bring good news to the humble and afflicted;  He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted,  To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives And freedom to prisoners, To proclaim [a] the favorable year of the Lord,  [b] And the day of vengeance and retribution of our God, To comfort all who mourn,”   

So we see our God of unconditional love but HE is also limited by our heart faith and lack of humility and in us mourning for our sins or being in a state of  repentance.  The message of the greatest of the Old Testament prophets,  John the Baptist was “REPENT,” at Pentecost the first words out of Peter’s mouth was also: “Repent.”  Acts 2″38.  “And Peter said to them, “Repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways, accept and follow Jesus as the Messiah] and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ because of the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”  And added later in 2 Peter 3:8-10, “Nevertheless, do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day. 9 The Lord does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is [extraordinarily] patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will vanish with a [mighty and thunderous] roar, and the [material] elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are on it will be [a] burned up.”  John asks us to pray for folks who need to repent, “If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he will pray and ask [on the believer’s behalf] and God will for him give life to those whose sin is not leading to death. There is a sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for this [kind of sin]. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death [one can repent of it and be forgiven].  We know [with confidence] that anyone born of God does not habitually sin; but He (Jesus) who was born of God [carefully] keeps and protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.  1 John 5:15-18…

The Revelation of Christ Jesus has 10 scriptures concerning repentance some of which are:
Rev. 3:18: “ I counsel you to buy from Me gold that has been heated red hot and refined by fire so that you may become truly rich; and white clothes [representing righteousness] to clothe yourself so that the shame of your nakedness will not be seen; and healing salve to put on your eyes so that you may see. 19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I rebuke and discipline [showing them their faults and instructing them]; so be enthusiastic and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will]. 20 Behold, I stand at the door [of the church] and continually knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him (restore him), and he with Me.   Rev/ 2:5, “So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand  from its place—unless you repent.

So repentance includes the act of changing your mind and heart at to also change how you feel about things that God calls sin like in 2Tim. 1-5, “But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times [of great stress and trouble] will come [difficult days that will be hard to bear].  For people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane, [and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of [sensual] pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of [outward] godliness (religion), although they have denied its power [for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith]. Avoid such people and keep far away from them.  Also include, Rom.1:18-32….

Yours, in HIS great Love and wonderful Grace and Mercy,   Ken<><   www.OhanaChurch.Life

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD, and
all who Love, Honor and Obey HIM are eternal members.

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HEART FAITH HEALING

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HEART FAITH HEALING     “WORTH CONSIDERING’   10/31/21   From Ken<><
    

Today’s Scripture
A vast crowd brought to him people who were lame, blind, crippled, those who couldn’t speak, and many others. They laid them before Jesus, and he healed them all.   (Matthew 15:30, NLT)

Your Healing,   
All through the Scripture you can see it is God’s will to heal the sick. Fourteen times in the Scripture it says that Jesus healed “all” who were sick. I can’t find one instance where Jesus turned someone away and wouldn’t heal them. He didn’t always heal the same way, but He healed them all. Isaiah 53:4 says, “Jesus carried our sickness and took our infirmities.” He already paid the price. You have to have the boldness to say, “God, I know it is Your will.” That Scripture goes on to say, “By His stripes you were healed.” Past tense. Jesus took those stripes before He was crucified. He didn’t leave anything out. He’s already done it.   You have to make the switch from “God, if You want to heal me” to “God, I know You want to heal me.” Our attitude should be, “Lord, I receive Your healing. By faith I receive what You’ve already done.” You don’t have to talk Him into it or wonder if it’s His will. Make the switch.
    
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that wherever Jesus went He brought healing to all who came to Him. Thank You that my faith and expectancy can be settled that it is Your will to bring me healing. I will reach out and touch You by faith today for whatever I need. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Thoughts,
GOOD THOUGHTS ABOVE.  BUT not everyone was healed in Jesus’s day,  only those who came to Him in heart faith.  So why are not all Christians healed today?  So let’s hang 10 and take 5, Hawaiian Time and share about it.   First off, in the home town where Jesus grew up, they were all familiar with Jesus and his family.  And in Matthew 13:57-58 it is recorded, “And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.   58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their dishonor and unbelief.  So we can get comfortable in our vain traditions and miss the Glory (Power) of God due to pride, fear and unbelief.

And in Acts 5: 16 it is written by Luke where all were healed that in verse 12 that the “Church” folks were all in one accord and many signs and wonders came to pass by the Holy Spirit.  So Unity, as in John 17:20-24 is also a factor in healing.   Not the agree to disagree unity,  but real solid rock bottom spiritual unity in humility and obedience.  And the unity factor as in John 17:20-24,   “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;  21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.  22 And the “glory” (power) which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:  23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.  24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory (power), which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.   (God’s absolute foreknowledge saw what Jesus would elect to do in freewill prior to all of creation.  And it is the same with us,  God already knows who HIS elect are,  but we don’t. )  And remember that Glory,  as in John 2:11,  miracles and glory have the same meaning.

And further on that note, notice in Eph.4:11-16 that the 5 offices set in the Church are for the “Perfecting” of the Saints.   “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying (building) of the body of Christ:  13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Also there is the factor of personal faith as in Romans 10:17, Not many so called Christians are really into the Bible for God’s Truth.   Many make up doctrine from their emotions and feelings as to what they would like it to be and have not a clue as to what GOD really said on a subject.  “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”  Like the Bereans in Acts 17:11, “These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.  12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.”   We must understand that head understanding and heart faith are not the same at all.   As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.   Heb. 10:22, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;”

So it would seem that Divine Healing takes a personal heart faith, Bible Truth Unity plus Collective Faith Unity.   Like batteries being fully charged and connected together with all of the wiring properly connected.   So we have good and bad traditions in our churches that we need to be aware of in order to expect stand before God in HIS Righteousness as Elijah in James 5:14-18,    Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:   And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.  Elias (Elijah) was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.  18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.  Jesus came so we could be healed, delivered and set free, Isa. 61:1-11.  “READ IT” It takes some things to go through the mind 20-30 times before the heart finally catches on.   If we will spend time in the Word of God and avoid vain traditions we will see the Glory of God.


At 89 now, and I am still working on getting this right in my heart. The Ideal,  120 healthy years as per Gen.6:3 and Moses.   So if we go home early it is usually due to our lack of maintenance or Bible kind of faith.  Bible faith, KNOWS!  We have been taught only to hope…..   And if we know and are healed,  then there is no harm in allowing a Dr. to certify God’s Love.

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful Grace & Mercy,   Ken<><   www.OhanaChurch.Life

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD and
all who Love, Honor and Obey HIM are eternal members.

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TOMORROW

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TOMORROW        “WORTH CONSIDERING”     10/28/21    From Ken Smith<><

Received today from a church in Texas….
The LORD will work out his plans for my life—for your faithful love, O LORD, endures forever.
(Psalm 138:8, NLT)

You Don’t Have to Know
When Moses led the two million Israelites out of slavery into the desert and toward the Promised Land, I can imagine them asking him, “What route are we going to take? Where are we going to get food and water? How will we protect ourselves?” Moses answered, “I don’t know.” Just because you don’t know how something is going to work out doesn’t mean God doesn’t have a plan. Moses had such a trust in God that he was comfortable not knowing. He took it one step of faith at a time.     When we’re trying to figure everything out and manipulate a solution, we’re being God. It’s very freeing when you learn this principle that it’s okay to say as Moses did, “I don’t know how it’s going to work out, but I’m at peace.” You’re taking yourself off the throne and putting God on the throne. Take the pressure off. You don’t have to know; God knows. He will work out His plan and get you to where you’re supposed to be.
    
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that what lies ahead and is unknown to me is well known to You. I choose to rely on Your strength and Your Word to guide me step by step. I trust that You will go before me with Your plan and get me to where I’m supposed to be. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Thoughts:
While it is very true that God has a wonderful plan for our lives in our existence and creation.  But finding it is still on us.  It is on the basis of our faith that there is “Intelligent Design.  And that our Creator has the ability to count the hairs on our head and with absolute foreknowledge know exactly what you are going to do with your privilege of life from before matter was even created from HIS unlimited power.  So God has woven your decisions, even prior to your birth, into HIS plans for you.  So HE is absolutely sure of the future and those who are his,  but we, locked in time, are not, and are working it out.   He never manipulates or violates our freewill because it is the only way that LOVE can be real.  So you are totally responsible for your decisions before God.   And in the end He secures exactly what HE wanted to happen for HIS Family.

Reminds me of a vision that a person shared with me long ago.   He shared that he saw himself as a large diamond but uncut.  But it was up to him as to what happens to his stone.  Whether he cared for it or tossed it at tin cans.   And even though a diamond is hard it can easily be chipped and damaged.  That is the reason that most diamonds are very small.   As each time it is thrown or tossed a diamond can chip and the stone becomes smaller and limits the size of the  stone for the final cutting and polishing to bring out the glory its reflective beauty.  So it is best if our stone is submitted to our creator for safe keeping as soon as possible so as to experience less damage.  Jesus came to teach us these facts.   We can do nothing about yesterday, and we can not live in tomorrow as it is not here.  But we do have today to send up faithful prayers for God’s Grace to help us through this one day and offer back the Life that God has given us for HIS glory an as a beautiful addition to HIS Eternal Kingdom Family of Righteousness.

So Jesus taught us a different way to approach things Matt. 6:29-34, “  Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his [a] magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these.  30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?  31 Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?  32 For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.  33 But seek ([b] aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness ([c] His way of doing and being right), and then all these things [d] taken together will be given you besides.  34 So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.

James, (The Less) son of Mary & Joseph who grew up with Jesus teaches it this way.   James 4:12-14,  One only is the Lawgiver and Judge Who is able to save and to destroy [the One Who has the absolute power of life and death]. [But you] who are you that [you presume to] pass judgment on your neighbor?  13 Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and carry on our business and make money.  14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air].

So the bottom line principle is that today is the 1st day of the rest of your life.  So fill it with obedience and humility in the Word of God so you can send it on ahead into the Kingdom of God, 1 Cor.3:11-15, “  For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is [already] laid, which is Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).  12 But if anyone builds upon the Foundation, whether it be with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,  13 The work of each [one] will become [plainly, openly] known (shown for what it is); for the day [of Christ] will disclose and declare it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test and critically appraise the character and worth of the work each person has done.  14 If the work which any person has built on this Foundation [any product of his efforts whatever] survives [this test], he will get his reward.  15 But if any person’s work is burned up [under the test], he will suffer the loss [of it all, losing his reward], though he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has passed] through fire.  And in Rev. 3:17-20, “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.  18 Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire, that you may be [truly] wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.  19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I tell their faults and convict and convince and reprove and chasten [I discipline and instruct them]. So be enthusiastic and in earnest and burning with zeal and repent [changing your mind and attitude].  20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me.”  

So how are your Eternal Investments doing?  You can only keep what you send ahead.  Di you make some Kingdom investments today?    Yours in HIS great Love and wonderful Grace & Mercy, Ken<><   www.OhanaChurch.Life

Some pictures of our little TrueVine Minifarm if interested.


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Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;    10/28/21    WORLD NEWS/PROPHESY


TRADITIONS, GOOD & BAD

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TRADITIONS 10.27.21,        “WORTH CONSIDERING”   From,  Ken Smith<><

Matt. 9:16-18,   “16 And no one puts a piece of cloth that has not been shrunk on an old garment, for such a patch tears away from the garment and a worse rent (tear) is made.  17 Neither is new wine put in old wineskins; for if it is, the skins burst and are [a] torn in pieces, and the wine is spilled and the skins are ruined. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.  18 While He was talking this way to them, behold, a ruler entered and, kneeling down, worshiped Him, saying, My daughter has just [b] now died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will come to life.   Mark 2:22,  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the bottles destroyed; but new wine is to be put in new (fresh) wineskins.   Luke 5:37,  “And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the fresh wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be ruined (destroyed).

In my study,  it is a teaching against old rabbinic powerless prideful traditions  Matt. 9:1-16 ?    13 Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy [that is, [I] readiness to help those in trouble] and not sacrifice and sacrificial victims. For I came not to call and invite [to repentance] the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God), but sinners (the erring ones and all those not free from sin).   Of course, we know that all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God….   So it was the “Traditionally Righteous” that Jesus was rejecting in preference to the lost of 1 Cor. 1 & 2,  the foolish, base, despised and nothings of this world….

So what then is Jesus teaching us?  Jesus chose not one member of the Jewish Traditional Religious Sect to become one of HIS 12 disciples…. excerpt, later, for Saul who had to lay aside his robes to become a Christian and then it was about 7 years that Peter and Co. watched him before giving him the right hand of fellowship and the commission to go to the Gentiles as an Apostle.   Although Jesus had commissioned Paul to go first to the Jews and then to the Gentiles.

Mark 7:6-9, “ But He said to them, Excellently and truly [[e] so that there will be no room for blame] did Isaiah prophesy of you, the pretenders and hypocrites, as it stands written: These people [constantly] honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far distant from Me.  7 In vain (fruitlessly and without profit) do they worship Me, ordering and teaching [to be obeyed] as doctrines the commandments and precepts of men.  8 You disregard and give up and ask to depart from you the commandment of God and cling to the tradition of men [keeping it carefully and faithfully].  9 And He said to them, You have a fine way of rejecting [thus thwarting and nullifying and doing away with] the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition (your own human regulations)!

So as we see such a lack of the Power of God today to confirm the Word of God that we must consider, what are we doing wrong?  Could it be that we are playing church when we should really be the CHURCH?   Could it be that some of our traditions are making the Word of God to be in-effective?   Some of those traditions that seem counter productive are as follows:
1.    Eph. 4:11-16 TEACHES that we need 5 anointed ministries in the Church to be perfected?
2.    The word Church means the people and not the building.  We were never told to build anything at all in the New             Testament.  Not that we should not use what we have.  But funds for buildings cut down on funds needed for                       evangelism and for helping the poor.
3.    The Early Church was gathered in the round so all could participate, 1 Cor.14:26-40.
4.    The Early Church walked out the steps in the Tabernacle of Moses, Acts 2:41-43, 5:16.
5.    Nothing said about tithing but to give as per the leading of the Holy Spirit.  Lk.6:38,   2 Cor. 9:7, “Every man according     as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”
6.    No support for divisions in the New Testament, John 17:20-24.  Denomination tend to divide where unity tends to empower, Acts 5:12.  There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD and all who love, honor and obey HIM are eternal members.  
7.    God authority is based in humility and anointing and from the bottom up.  Jesus came as a servant and to show and teach us how to serve one another.  The strong serve the weak and not the other way around.   Top down authority runs on fear, bottom up authority runs on love.
8.    We should go by the Prophets that God has given us in context through Holy Scripture and not by the traditions of man which are powerless, Paul’s Prophesy:   2 Tim.3:5. “… having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

We are in the process of putting together a Biblically Based Web Site to help us go back the the Early Church format that was confirmed by and through the Holy Spirit in power.   www.OhanaChurch.Life  For our ministry in Hawaii.  If you would like to use anything to help your ministry please feel free to do so.   And you see anything we can do better, please let us know.   ken@trinity-aloha.org

Some Churches today only teach Love,  nothing negative,  acceptance,  self will and are non offensive.
Some Churches Teach from the Bible about God’s Righteousness,  Salvation,  warning of Judgement,  persecution by the world,  and lifts up Jesus as LORD which totally offends the world with the Truth of God.

Good Easter Music:
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Good Christmas Music:
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Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;   10/26/21     “Worth Considering”
By George Whitten,   george@worthyministries.com.  Great source of world news & views.
There are at least 439 American citizens still in Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official told Congress on Tuesday, upping the number from what the administration told lawmakers just last week.    Iran has taken another step to increase its enrichment activities in purifying uranium beyond 20 percent, Reuters reported Monday, citing a report by the International Atomic Agency. …………   And much more in the files……

Yours, in HIS great Love and wonderful Grace and Mercy,   Ken<>< www.OhanaChurch.Life

THANKFULNESS

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Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,  beloved of Jesus and me,   John 3:16,  12:24-26 &  17:20-24….

THANKFULNESS        “WORTH CONSIDERING”   10/26/21    From Ken Smith <><

Thoughts from a church in Texas today were very good, We tend to be so active in getting ahead that we often forget to thank the giver when we should.   I have 2 little wild bantam hens that come running to me each morning and tend to set in front of my study door due to the cup of cracked corn that I give them each day.   They are still wild, but thankful.   But it is so easy to very quickly forget what God has done our lives.  Even before I became a Christian HE saved me from death at least 3 times.

Today’s Scripture, from Texas…
When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God…  (Deuteronomy 8:10–11, NIV)
    
Don’t Lose the Awe
In Deuteronomy 8, after promising the Israelites that He was bringing them into the Promised Land, a land filled with abundance, favor, and blessing, God gave them a warning that they not forget He was the source. God was saying, “When you get that promotion, when your health turns around, when you have that house you asked Me for, don’t ever forget that it was My goodness. Always take time to thank Me for what I’ve done.”

In some area of our life, we’re all in the Promised Land. God has done something amazing. We know we have His favor. The problem with forgetting that it came from Him is that God won’t share His glory. If you don’t stay grateful, if you don’t recognize His goodness, the same God who opened the door can close the door. A lack of gratitude is what causes blessings to not last. Every morning when you wake up, the first thing you should say is, “Lord, thank You for Your goodness.”

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that Your hand has been upon my life in so many ways. Thank You for the countless things You have made happen for my good that I could never make happen. I stand in awe of Your goodness to me, and I will not forget it. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

THANKFUL  SCRIPTURES:
Psalm 100:4, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise His name!
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise His name!
Isaiah 57:19, “Peace, peace, to him who is far off [both Jew and Gentile] and to him who is near! says the Lord; I create the fruit of his lips, and I will heal him [make his lips blossom anew with speech in thankful praise].
1 Corinthians 10:30,  If I partake [of my food] with thankfulness, why am I accused and spoken evil of because of that for which I give thanks?
Ephesians 5:4, “Let there be no filthiness (obscenity, indecency) nor foolish and sinful (silly and corrupt) talk, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting or becoming; but instead voice your thankfulness [to God].”
Colossians 3:15, “And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ’s] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful (appreciative), [giving praise to God always].”
1 Thessalonians 5:18,   “Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Reveal-er and Mediator of that will].
Hebrews 13:15,   “Through Him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name.

AND UNTHANKFUL:
2 Tim. 3: 1-5,   “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”  (Paul’s prophesy about the last days which seem to now be here, Luke 21.) 

So in the morning,  be thankful for another day in which to serve King Jesus as our LORD?  Be thankful for the air, water, sleep and food that HE has given us and fully realizing that our Creator knows we have need of such things but that due to our sin, we can block HIM from blessing us.   So if we take just a moment upon waking and ask the Holy Spirit what HE would like to see us change in our lives to be like Jesus,  the answer will be immediate.  We may then choose to obey or to rebel but until we submit and are thankful, the next spiritual doors will remain shut.  Perhaps even for years and years.  Once you know the Truth but are not thankful and walk it out, we will have put a lock on the door to that room in our house that we have placed on the door all by ourselves.  The Holy Spirit will then only wait until we change your mind.  If never, we will die with the potential of that room unrealized and miss the blessings of GOD and the thankfulness of what could have been.  So try waking up and being thankful for the free air and what ever you can think about that is all around us every day of our lives.  And elect to live in obedience and humility to our LORD.   Being thankful contributes to humility,  while unthankfulness fills us with pride.


Yours, in HIS great and wonderful Love and Grace and Mercy,  Ken<><     Ken@Trinity-Aloha.org

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There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD,
all who really love, honor and obey Jesus as LORD are eternal members.

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BOND SERVANT

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Bond Servant      “Worth Considering”     10/24/21     From   Ken Smith <><   Kona, HI

A dear Brother of mine, now 90,   Kennedy Brown,  ©August 28, 2020 sent me a Kendal Book he is writing that I thought to send along some of his thoughts today.  “Almost repugnant to today’s culture is the ascribed identity of bond-servant or more graphically, slave. Yet, 28 times in the New King James Translation this identity is valid, even in most instances embraced as an agreed lifestyle and relationship.   In the progress of my spiritual growth, I have been challenged by most of the authors of the New Testament (Messianic Writings) professing the relationship of bond-servant.  As you will read, the motivation to a bond-servant confession can have a mixed genesis. The dynamic between son (daughter), bond-servant and Father are all an ingredient of the ultimate relationship with the Divine.“

“The Message on the Door”  A consideration of Deu 15:12-18, especially vs16 &17 and Matt 26:19     Two servants stand at the Master’s door each for six years has passed through this doorway in bondage to the Master.  Soon one will step over that threshold “free.” The other chooses to remain at the Master’s side—  The portal where they stand, will be marked with the servant’s blood—  visible testimony of his decision. A message on the door to be read by all.  “Bond-servant” it says, an identity he would thereafter embrace— The shed blood from his pierced earlobe forever closing “freedom’s” door.  Messiah too left a message written in His blood on the cross on which He was nailed. Bond-servant, it clearly said—”not My will, Father, but Thine be done.” The shed blood of Messiah made the cross on which He hung a door. A door that anyone who elects to pass thorough must declare themselves Bondservant— the world’s “freedom” no longer a choice.  The true freedom of Bond-servant calls one to the Master’s side, there to remain—  back turned to Babylon’s beckoning.  A message on that door forever written in Messiah’s blood.   

“Six Years in the Master’s House The six years is a metaphor describing some point in every blood-bought servant’s relationship with God. It is a spiritualizing of Deuteronomy 12:15-17–The Law Concerning Bond Servants. Poem two in the Bond-servant trilogy.  Six years ago I entered service in the Master’s house.  I answered an invitation from His Son.  He offered to extinguish a debt I could never pay.  In return I said I would be a faithful servant.  My debt was erased, forgiven, I rejoiced in serving.  And now six years have passed—do I seek freedom to do my will? What have I learned of the Master? What have the years in His service shown me?
Have I ever known want during my years of serving? Has the Master ever rejected, belittled or condemned my failures? Has He ever asked me to do anything for which He did not equip me?   The answer to each of these questions is the same, “No”. I have learned well the lessons of His love.  But yet that door to independence beckons, entices, whispers.  Does my knowledge of Master now suggest I know better? Is fear of my being obedient to His direction justified by my six years experience in the Master’s house? My relationship with Master over these six years is positive, affirming,  ever increasing in intimacy.  Still, do I claim my right to freedom from my servant hood, Or, do I make that irreversible choice of Bond-servant, Forever closing the door to leaning to my own understanding? Do I fear the totality of commitment to permanently place myself in the Master’s hands? We each must face our own six year decision at some point in our servant relationship with the Master.  May the gift of faith propel you into the seventh year where the security of Bond-servant overflows and washes away every lingering doubt.  Page 4 or 8   

My thoughts,   Seems to me that the world seeks,  demands a top down authority run by fear of one kind or another.   “But God has not given us a spirit of fear but of Love, Power and a Sound Mind.”   And the Kingdom of God has established a bottom up authority which is run by love.   And I have been invited to change citizenship by my Creator.   By choice I may elect to become a Citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven if I accept the commandments concerning Jesus as LORD.   And then the world only become my spiritual gym where I can learn to gain spiritual muscles rather then be flattened out by gravity.  Jesus once said, “He that endures to the end, shall be saved.”  Matt.10:22 & Matt. 24:13   So #1, There is an end, #2.  There is spiritual growth available in this world that requires endurance until death.   #3.  It will not be over at death or what I prefer to call graduation as all souls are eternal.  It then becomes a simple matter of receiving a new body or not and the placement thereof.   No toilets or jails in Heaven as there will no longer be any waste produced.

So the authority of the church is Created to be lovingly supportive because it is needed and wanted and, in faith, freely embraced as from our Creator by those who want to spiritually prosper and grow in faith and walk in love towards our Creator and our fellow man.   Eph.4:11-16.

More GREAT QUOTES   -Sermonindex.net
“Oh, the lives eternally wrecked by the yellow gospels of the  day-the bloodless theories of unregenerate men that send their hearers to their doom instead of stopping them on their downward road!” – H. A. Ironside       “And what is wrong with the old method of scaring the ungodly with a sermon on hell?” – Vance Havner       “There is a lot of soft, sentimental talk about Him today that brings no conviction. When Isaiah saw the Lord, he did not feel comfortable! Neither did Habakkuk nor Daniel nor Paul nor John. We want a picture of Him today that does not disturb us, that smiles at sin, and winks at iniquity. I remember a man who told me he wanted to hear no hell-fire sermons but rather about the meek and lowly Jesus.
Yet the poor man did not seem to realize that the meek and lowly Jesus said more about hell than is reported from the lips of anyone else in the Bible! We need a true and complete vision of God in His holiness and Christ in His glory that will bring us to repentance.” -Vance Havner.    “Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.”   -Martin Luther    “Spiritual maturity is reached when obedience [to God and His word] becomes a joy.” – Jesse Yoder       “In Acts the apostles prayed for 10 days then preached for 10 min- utes and 3000 people were saved. Today pastors pray for 10 minutes then preach for 10 days and wonder why no-one is saved.” -B.H. Clendennen.       “It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the
hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.”-George Whitefield.

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CHURCH OF JESUS

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CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST   “WORTH CONSIDERING”     10/7/21, Ken Smith

If you study the New Testament you will find the Early Church was much different than that of our church today.   The Early Church evangelized on Saturday Mornings at the local Synagogue and met again Saturday evenings at House Churches for Teaching, the Lord Supper, Agape Meal and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in power confirming the Word of God that was taught.  Perhaps if we would return to the traditions of the Earl Church as a forum gathering of interaction in God’s Truth we would get the same powerful results.  The Holy Spirit is still here to confirm the Word of God in power.   Paul in 2 Tim.3:5 tells us that if there is no obvious power after a message, don’t waste your time, go somewhere else..  Go where you can experience the Holy Spirit in love, holiness & power.   In Matt.15:6,  Jesus tells us about the same thing.

There is but one Church of Christ Jesus.   If we are truly a member of HIS Church then there is no need to join a denomination or anything else.   If we walk together in God’s Truth and Unity, we would match our LORD’s prayer in John 17:20-24 for unity just fine.   But if a house is a divided house it can not stand.  So membership in the LORD’s Eternal Church is really by coming into the Unity of the Faith and the Bond of Peace,  it is not in becoming organized.   If the deep roots of God’s Truth were shared and believed then the Holy Spirit would confirm with signs following and we would be so busy in the Kingdom that we would have little time for organization.   The Early Church used their gifts and offerings for evangelism and to help the poor.   There is no  mention of tithing in the New Testament or in building anything for that matter.   The Early Church had no overhead as the churches we  have.   They had no physical maintenance stewardship needing constant funding.   All of the house churches were on their own as were the Elders.   But God saw to it that all of the needs were met very nicely.   So here,  we are about working together in God’s Loving Truth to build a little fire in the Holy Spirit and hope it will get big enough to dry out some big wet logs like Saul was before he became Paul.  The Western World is starved for the very truth of God and seems to be getting fed very low cal diet of religious traditions

So how to share God’s basic vision of the Kingdom across to get folks so that they are willing to sell all that they have so to buy the treasure in the field.   Or to spend all they have on Holy Spirit oil so as to have a good light going when the LORD returns.   For lack of a vision the people perish. Folks all around us are being taught to love this world and be comfortable in it, rather than seek the King of the Kingdom of God and HIS Righteousness.  And this is even being taught in our so called religious theater gathering called churches,   Give to GET….  Not give as guided by the Holy Spirit or out of a great love for Jesus and HIS Kingdom.   Or for a Jesus love for the souls of man.   And this is what God does honors

If your traditional church dumps the vain traditions that make the Word of God ineffective that would cause more to be interested and want to find out what you are doing.  At this point in life I am drawn to experience the Church of Jesus rather than to continue to only play church without the power of God to help those in need.

For many years now I have tried to change negative religious traditional theater structures already in existence as in denominations and have not been successful.   One of the reason that the Pilgrims worked so well in the 70’s was there were no traditions to change.   So it was the New Testament, new wine in a new wine skin.   And once people saw that the Holy Spirit was active in power to confirm,  it drew all kinds of people to Jesus.  Therefore I have concluded that perhaps only by starting  as a new ministry with only the New Testament Traditions in focus could we again find the fire for us here.  Once the fire of the Holy Spirit is going it will draw all to Jesus.  And there can be no competition or compromise with the Holy Spirit as to the Pure Truth of God.  It would make the John 17 Unity easy and ministries would merge easily together when walking out the simple New Testament Truths that Jesus gave us.  There is power in unity,  But Holy Spirit Power is only made available in supporting GOD’S TRUTH.   2 Tim.3:5   The Holy Spirit will not support or confirm any of the vain traditions of the church.   God will not compromise HIS TRUTH.  He will not support what we think is good unless HE feels the same way about it.   We can join and compromise with all of those vain traditions and yet it will again only be a waste of time,  Matt.15:6.

A definition of insanity: To do the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.  Until we sort the Good Godly Traditions from the Bad Religious Traditions I don’t feel we will experience the power of a New Testament Church like in the Book of Acts.  I will be putting together a teaching on Basic Good Church Traditions from the New Testament very soon now. 


Yours, in HIS great Love and wonderful Grace and Mercy,   Ken<><   www.OhanaChurch.Life

There is but one Church of Christ Jesus as LORD,
and all who love, honor and obey Jesus are eternal members.


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WORD OF GOD

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WORD OF GOD,   WORTH CONSIDERING   10/5/21   By Ken Smith<><

Have you ever wondered why there is little or no power of the Holy Spirit in the Church today?  Often folks are sick for years and die early and ahead of the time given by God.  ( 120 Yrs.  Gen.6:3. ) Have you ever wondered why all of the Christian Churches seem to be in competition with each other rather than supportive of Jesus in unity?   Are you one of those souls who has a compartment for religious stuff and another for daily living?   And have pretty much given up on the church as we know it.   It is a nice place to have friends and be social but is it really doing what is was created to do.  Is it really helping us to become like Jesus and lift HIM up or is it just a comfortable place to go and to mostly be told that along with the Biblical history that we are really OK as per the traditions of the church and not to expect too much.   But really, is the church following in the traditions of Jesus and the Early Church of Power that we see in Acts.  With the church I attended for the first 13 years of being a “weedy” Christian I was told that, “The Book of Acts can not be used for doctrine.”  It is a book of History…. ?????   Wondered about that, but they did seems to know a lot more than I did at the time,  1955-68.

So what does the Bible, in context, have to say about all this?   In 2 Tim.3:5, Apostle Paul was rather blunt in a prophesy concerning our day.  Should read from the beginning of the chapter but I will only quote the verse, “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].”   And again in Eph.4:14  Paul warns us to not be children, “So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of [b] unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead.” Good to read Eph. 4:11-16 to get a picture of what the Church of Jesus is to really look like.   And our Lord Jesus also taught on the subject in Matt.15:6.  “So for the sake of your tradition (the rules handed down by your forefathers), you have set aside the Word of God [depriving it of force and authority and making it of no effect] .”  WOW!!!  “MAKING IT WORTHLESS.”  In John 5:38, Jesus said these words, “And you have not His word (His thought) living in your hearts, because you do not believe and adhere to and trust in and rely on Him Whom He has sent. [That is why you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the Messenger Whom He has sent.]”  The writer of Hebrews, in Hebrews 4:12, had this to say about the Word of GOD, “For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.”

So, any deviation from God’s Truth (WORD) and the power of the Holy Spirit will not flow.   If what we do is to work, what is done, can not contain any vain traditions or we will again be playing church and remain at square one.   2 Tim.3:5   The Holy Spirit can only confirm the Word of God as shared in faithful truth and substance as when it was given.   It is my feeling that the primitive Early Church was on track as per Acts 2:41-43,  5:12-16   I believe this Power is still there for us today, John 17: 20-24,  if we will allow ourselves to return to the Early Church truth, unity,  and love in simplicity,  humility and obedience.   I don’t believe we can make a bridge between Acts that works if we allow ourselves to be manipulated by the vanity of the religious theater church of today and to lift them up rather than Jesus.  Seems to me we will need a new wine and wineskin in the Holy Spirit to see Hawaii come under conviction for sin and to repent and find our way into the power of the Holy Spirit and to only lift up Jesus.   If what caused Hawaii to be lost in the first place is rebuilt, will it not only fall apart once again?  We would like to join with anyone and any church that understands this message.  We need to quit justifying our lack of Power in the Holy Spirit.  If we were keeping the commandment of Jesus and walking in the Truth that HE gave us we would be enjoy writing another chapter in the Book of Acts.  John 17:20-24 and Matt. 28:18-20, “Jesus approached and, [a] breaking the silence, said to them, All authority (all power of rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.   19 Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them [b] into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  20 Teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you [c] all the days ([d] perpetually, uniformly, and on every occasion), to the [very] close and consummation of the age. [e] Amen (so let it be).”  So we do have the power till HE returns and we are to teach and observe all that HE commanded.  Obviously we have not learned to be obedient in doing that.

Jesus made of himself no reputation and we are to follow HIS example to be on track.   When we are to saturate ourselves with God’s Truth and walk it out in humility.  And then the Holy Spirit will confirm God’s Truth with power to lift Jesus up and draw all to HIM.  Eph. 4:11-16.  The Church will not go home until completed without spot, wrinkle or blemish in humility and obedience.  The Church will become a match for Jesus at the Union, Rev.19.  and in faith as per faith,  Heb.11 For it is not by might nor by power but by my Spirit…. according to our Creator God.

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><   www.OhanaChurch.Life

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U.S. Condemns China’s Mass Incursions Into Taiwan’s Defense Zone
The United States has expressed concern about the unprecedented appearance of Chinese military aircraft in Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ). The self-governing island said a total of 39 Chinese military aircraft entered the ADIZ, airspace dedicated to responding to hostile aircraft. That was one more than the 38 planes the Taiwanese military spotted on Friday.

Iran FM demands US unfreeze $10 billion in order to restart nuclear talks.   Iran said it has told the United States that it will only consider returning to nuclear talks if the State Department releases $10 billion of Tehran’s frozen funds as a sign of goodwill, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Saturday.    (By the way, the Qur’an teaches that a Muslim does not need to keep his word with a non-believer.   So any agreement the U.S. makes with Iran is really, morally,  worthless.)

Bible 101

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Bible 101 “WORTH CONSIDERING”   10/2/21    From Ken Smith<><   www.trinity-aloha.org

Aloha Saints, Family and Friends,  beloved of Jesus and me,   John 3:16
Seems the church today is mostly about physical political stuff.   Seems like it would be better just to focus on becoming a light house and lifting up Jesus.  A house church gathering with only a few would be a good start and simply teach about God’s Love, holiness & Power in Basic Bible.  Jesus said, “Religious traditions have made the Word of God, ineffective.”  We now mostly have a “form of godliness with little or no power”, 2 Tim. 3:5 as Paul wrote..     Most folks have had some kind of a religious experience that has caused them to be discouraged about God.   We need to help start a spiritual fire in the Holy Spirit that is like Jesus.   If HE be lifted up,  He will draw folks, seeking light, to HIM,  Eph.4:11-16.   But seems that the obsession with the religious junk of the past that accomplishes little, may be totally a waste of time. We may be trying to graft a living olive branch onto a dead stump.   The world needs to see Jesus in HIS Church,  alive, well and doing what HE did while on earth,  to sit up and take notice and to be drawn to HIM.   We need to take time to learn how to do this.

CHRISTIAN   DOCTRINE 101

The Early church has a very wise saying:
In Essentials, UNITY…. In all else, LOVE

Genesis: The Prophets of God have given us the understanding  from our Creator that HE lives in a totally different dimension than the small time capsule that we find ourselves living in today.  We find that our Creator God had no beginning of life nor end and that HIS dimension is without limits in power or time.  And further that HE has a vision and plan in operation to make a holy family,  Man in HIS Image and Likeness was created potentially to eventually to become an eternal family of righteousness and power.   Adam was the fist to have that potential opportunity and was created as the 1st of his kind with a  freewill in a temporary time dimension on earth in Eden.  We are told by the prophet Moses that Adam made the choice to allow lucifer to guide him rather than the Creator and lost the spiritual life and authority that he had been given.  The Holy Bible is a collection of 66 prophetical notes preserved to help us know how our Creator God has set in motion a plan of redemption for those who are interested.  Adam was created eternal but his body became temporary due to Adam’s pride and rebellion.  And as the children of Adam we all have eternal souls but it is up to our Creator to replace our temporary body or not.  This is based upon our life choices and how we respond to HIS offered salvation requiring faith, love, humility & obedience through Christ Jesus as LORD.  The Creator is not going to allow the earthly corruption & rebellion of man loose in HIS eternal universe.

There are basics of the Christian faith, which are essential for salvation and upon which all Christians must agree.

The Deity of Christ Jesus, LORD:    (John 1:1, John 20:28, Heb. 1:8 9), the Creator God Himself (Col. 1:16. Compare Gen. 1:1). Who “laid the foundation of the earth” (Heb. 1:10 12. Compare Psalms 102:24 27).   (The first to make it through in becoming in the Image of God.)

The Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7:14, Mt. 1:23, Luke 1:27).   (Needed to bypass the Adamic contamination.)

The Blood Atonement (Acts 20:28, Rom. 3:25, Rom. 5:9, Eph. 1:7).   (To impress on man the results and impact of pride and rebellion or sin as we call it.)

The Bodily Resurrection (Luke 24:36 46, 1 Cor. 15:1 4, 1 Cor. 15:14 15).   (To provide the proof and means for the option for redemption.  In Adam all died, In Jesus shall all be made alive.

The Second Advent of Christ Jesus to set up His Kingdom on Earth and in Eternity (Isa. 9:6,7)

The inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures themselves (Psalms 12:6 7, Rom. 15:4, 2Tim. 3:16 17, 2Pet. 1:20). This is a reference to people who claim to have revelations apart from the Holy Scriptures and which can not be supported by Holy Scripture.  (That earth time is temporary and one day will be no more. ) That only what our Creator God has spoken will be unchanged for eternity.   So among ourselves, we may vigorously debate other items, such as the merits or means of baptism, the validity of various Bible translations, the authority of the Presbytery, etc. Such quests for truth in love are totally acceptable within the confines of Christianity because our salvation does not rest upon these issues.

The Following Positions of doctrines are also considered of importance
God is manifested in a Trinity of, God the Father, God the Word and God the Holy Spirit similar to water as liquid, solid and vapor. This essence of God’s nature is found in 1 Jn.5:7. Love, Holiness, and Power may be seen in these three manifestations of God as in the Evangelical, Sacramental and Charismatic expressions of faith.  But without the balance of each other they tend to become indulgent, sanctimonious and perhaps even a carnival. For more on God’s authority and nature: www.Trinity-Aloha.org   Goto:   “Keys To The Kingdom”

The Word of God became flesh and was born of a virgin. Under God’s judgment of sin, Jesus died in our place and was raised from the dead by the power of God for our justification and He shall come again as Jesus the Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords and His reign shall be forever, Isa.9:6.  Disciples may also be filled with the Holy Spirit and learn to enjoy the fruit, gifts, and ministries of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can give the power to live a holy life and to minister the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven to those who truly walk in faith and love and make Jesus Christ the King of Kings in their lives. Roman chapters 8-12 are supported here. Events are closing for the final judgment in the history of mankind. Those who have yielded to Jesus as Lord will become His brethren in the eternal family of God. Those who reject the Lordship and forgiveness offered through Jesus Christ and have lived egocentric lives will be separated from God’s presence, creation and light and exiled into isolation and outer darkness for eternity. God will not force anyone to come under the authority of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Free will is most precious in God’s creation and God has made all souls eternal. The choice in this temporary time dimension is to learn to want to live with Him in light. To reject His right to be God and King in our lives is to be removed from His presence and His future creation. Jude 11-25

An expanded Christian confession of faith:
I confess that Jesus Christ is my Lord, Master, and Savior. By faith in Christ Jesus, I am forgiven, cleansed, healed and made a citizen of His eternal kingdom. Jesus Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law of sin, sickness, weakness and eternal death through His death on the cross for me. I believe in the Trinity of one God: Almighty Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Creator, Word of God made flesh, The Word of God who was begotten as the second Adam. He was born of a virgin, died for my sins, rose for my justification and is coming again soon, in great glory, to establish His Kingdom on earth. I believe in the new birth from above, the baptism in water, and the baptism in the Holy Spirit. I confess that the blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all my sin and I am now made the righteousness of God in and through Christ Jesus. I confess that I can do all things through Christ who is my strength as I abide in Him. I confess that this world is not my home. I confess that I am a pilgrim in a foreign land and I look for that certain return of my Lord Jesus Christ and His Kingdom. I confess that there is but one holy universal and apostolic Church of Jesus Christ and all those who are born from above are brethren and citizens of His kingdom. I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ is being perfected by the Holy Spirit through the Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers and other ministries of His Church until all the faithful come into the unity of the faith and the bond of peace and are changed into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ,    ( Eph. 4:11 – 16 ).

Marriage 9/23/21

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Marriage (2)    “Worth Considering”   9/23/21,   by Ken Smith<><
So let’s again look through the scriptures for the context of the Unity of Marriage.

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.  A long way to go in getting to Jesus.
Jesus was the 1st of man to reach and obtain the vision of the WORD of GOD in Gen.1:26.

Notice here that God is in 3 persons, Obviously the Word of God, speaking to create mankind but man limited to earth in a temporary dimension of Time and that this was the beginning of a very special but limited process.

Gen.2:7, “Then the Lord God formed man from the [a] dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.   Same as in John 20:22 where Jesus restored the Holy Spirit (Breath of Life) that had been lost with Adam’s rebellion.  Jn. 3.  And HIS disciples received eternal life.

Gen.2:18,  Now the Lord God said, It is not good (sufficient, satisfactory) that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.  (So God gave Adam someone to talk to and to help him that was complementary, that is a nice word for the original concept of woman’s creation.  And if a woman applies this to the wrong Adam she reaps much pain from the association.  A woman sometimes marries a man believing she can “fix” him,  this usually is negative as well.   But also obvious is that Adam needed help but not a mother.  Gen.2:24, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.  (Must have been a Moses moment as GOD had said nothing about Fathers, Mother or children in this story of the Creation.)

So then the Pride and Rebellion at the tree of knowledge and the fall of the human race.  When Adam and Eve lost their GOD connection of life through the Holy Spirit and we were born dead, spiritually.

Gen.3:16-17, “16 To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your grief and your suffering in pregnancy and the pangs of childbearing; with spasms of distress you will bring forth children. Yet your desire and craving will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.  17 And to Adam He said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is under a curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you eat [of the fruits] of it all the days of your life.  (So we were born into a cursed world but have the option through Christ Jesus to find our way back into the forgiveness and grace of GOD and elect to go through the process of Sanctification (To be made Holy or to be put back on track..)  But some of us are foolish and only a few are wise, Matt.25:1-13.

Proverbs 31:10-31,   Husband is a Judge at the Gate and safely trusts her (11) And the wife has even the freedom to buy and sell land (16) and run the whole farm.  What a beautiful example of unity.

1 Cor.14:34-36, Only a Righteous man can Roll Model for another man to become righteous.  As it is also very difficult for a righteous  man to teach a mature woman how to become virtuous.

Key Verses:
Eph.4:22-33,  Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.  23 For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, Himself the Savior of [His] body.  24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.  25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,  26 So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word,  27 That He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless].  28 Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.  29 For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,  30 Because we are members (parts) of His body.  31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.  32 This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church.  33 However, let each man of you [without exception] love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [[a] that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and [b] that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly].

The ideal is for a marriage to show Christ and the Church to the world.   Men should love their wives as Jesus does HIS Church.  And women should love their husbands as though they were Jesus.  Complete unity is the ultimate destiny of a Godly Marriage.

 1 Cor. 7 and 1 Pet.3 cover much of the rest.  The ideal is for post puberty youth to find God’s mate for themselves and as virgins and to marry early so that sex become a strong loving cement in the marriage.  And that the families on both sides do what they can to spiritually and physically help the marriage to bloom into a vision of the world seeing Christ and HIS Church in perfect unity.  Today we are seeing about 51% of Christian marriages ending in divorce.   And most of our children are living together with no thought of the Godly warnings concerning fornication and adultery.  We seem to be ending the “Age of the Gentiles” Luke 21 and getting ready for the rapture.  And we must also realize that divorce is not an unpardonable sin. Our U.S. culture is not very supportive of a Christian Marriage.  And yet this is the strongest building block for a nation.  

Psalm 127:4-5, “As arrows are in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth. Happy, blessed, and fortunate is the man whose quiver is filled with them! They will not be put to shame when they speak with their adversaries [in gatherings] at the [city’s] gate.    So children are always a blessing from the LORD.

Every time a society replaces lifelong, monogamous marriage with sexual immorality, that society collapses to the lowest state of functioning within just three generations.  Written by a non-Christian anthropologist who was born in 1865.  The so-called radically anti-family, anti-faith  “Equality Act” bill (S 788) would FORCE pastors to “wed” same-gender couples in their churches, house boys and girls together overnight on mission trips and other church functions, and allow drag queen Sunday School teachers. The alternative would be to face crippling lawsuits or even arrest.  This bill is now headed towards becoming law.  Pray for a national revival of the true faith, once delivered.  And that the Equality Act S-788  will not pass to become law.

Yours, in His great Love and Wonderful Grace & Mercy, Ken<><   www.trinity-aloha.org
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