ACTS, DOCTRINE ALIVE

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ACTS  –  LIVING TRUTH AND DOCTRINE    “WORTH CONSIDERING”    9/17/21

Upon me finding Jesus as LORD and HIM finding me to save me in April 28 1955, I started attending a Grace Brethren Church.  As I look back now, I am very thankful as it kept me spiritually alive but sorry to say it was a small box with very little power of the Holy Spirit and not much freedom.   One of the first things I was taught was that the Book of Acts could not be used for Doctrine as it was only history.  Not even written by one of the apostles.  That upon the death of John the days of the supernatural were over and now we were saved as we made Jesus our Savior and came to church.  That was OK by me at the time as I had a lot of other stuff on my plate in providing a living for 4 and soon 5.   But I was an evangelical Christian and really tried to get everyone saved and become a member of our Church.

But that was a long long time ago and here I am at nearly 89 with a much different approach to the New Testament and especially the Book of Acts.   In fact I see a lot of God’s Truth in the Book of Acts that we need to really feed on.  Not much in the Bible concerning Luke as a physical but seems he followed the Disciples around and certain became attached to Apostle Paul.

So this evening we are going to as a gathering work together chapter by chapter going through Acts to look for living truth from God.   The first doctrine that is really clear is that you can be a Christian and not yet filled or empowered by the Holy Spirit.   The disciple became Christians when 40 days before they had the Holy Spirit restored to them in the ‘Upper Room.”  John 20:22.  So Christ Jesus restored the spiritual life that had been lost with Adam, Gen.2:7 as the spirit of life.  That is why in John 3:7, Jesus tells Nicodemus that he needed to be born again.   And in the Lord’s resurrection HE made that possible.   But even after being born again, Rom.10:9-10 the Holy Spirit has a further ministry of giving power: Acts 1:8. to become like Jesus.  Acts 1:8.

Next doctrine of interest to me is in Acts 1:11 which gives us a hint of the pre-tribulation Rapture as Jesus appears to be alone and not with the army of Rev. 19.   “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.  ( Meaning no horse nor army as in the 2nd Advent at Armageddon. )

Next thing, seems to me, is Peter wanting to run things.  They are told to wait for the Holy Spirit and after they receive power then “ye shall be my witnesses” Acts 1:8,  Speak,  Luke 12:12,  guide,  John 14:26.    So Peter set about to restore the 12 with drawing lots without being told or guided by the Holy Spirit as yet the Holy Spirit had not been given and so Matthias who was never heard from again.   Later it seems to me that Jesus selected Paul to fit that vacancy.  The twelve Apostles are the 12 foundations of New Jerusalem and are seated as 12 of the Elders before the throne of Christ Jesus.   It seems to me that Paul’s name must be among them.  So in this sense Acts is also a History of what happened in reality.  Not that all done was according to the will of GOD.  Like the fight between Barnabas and Paul,  Acts 15:39, Gal.2:13  so Acts is also a history of what was done as not always guided by the Holy Spirit.

Now that is just what I see as doctrine in the 1st Chapter of the Book of Acts of 28 chapters.  In tonight’s gathering I would like to see if we all can read, understand and extract the Pure Truth of God from this wonderful little book of anointed history written by Luke, the physician.  

Yours in HIS great love and Wonderful Grace and Mercy,   Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org

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REFORMATION

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"REFORMATION"  ++++  TIDAL WAVE of "CHANGE" in THE CHURCH by Andrew Strom   0/16/21    "WORTH CONSIDERING" from Ken Smith,        This article is about why any coming Revival must also be a "Great Reformation" as much as anything else. Many Christians take the attitude that the structures and message and model and the entire approach of modern Christianity is "mostly fine" - and just needs a little 'tweaking' here and there. I completely  disagree with this. I believe God has plans for a large-scale overhaul - at least as big as the largest Reformations in history.    Below are some questions that I feel need addressing:    Does it matter that virtually nothing we do today was done like that in the original church? Our structures, our preaching, our priorities, our systems, our training, our GOSPEL - none of them seem to bear more than a passing resemblance to the Bible. In every way we are UTTERLY DIFFERENT from the church founded by Jesus and the apostles. When you take these issues one by one they may seem insignificant. But when you add them all up - can anyone tell me why we don't just call ourselves a DIFFERENT RELIGION and be  done with it? I mean, we are virtually nothing like them, are we?    We talk a lot about "getting back to the book of Acts" today. But what if it involves removing all this junk? Who's going to take out the garbage? Is anybody really prepared to pay that kind of price?  The rejection? The bitterness? The hatred?    Revival is one thing. "Reformation" is quite another. You can get killed with Reformation. Go ask Martin Luther.    One thing I am convinced of. There needs to be a large "ground-swell" of ordinary people desperate for 'CHANGE' for Reformation to succeed. And I'm not sure that we see that yet. There is certainly the beginnings of it. But I don't think it is enough. And I don't know what will bring the breakthrough. There needs to be a widespread sense of desperation. I think it is growing, but I don't know how long  it will take. And I, for one, am not about to sustain a one-man crusade to keep the pot stirring until then. A 'groundswell' is God's business - not mine.    But I am truly convinced that there must be 'Reformation' along with the coming Revival. There must be a new wineskin, otherwise we will just find ourselves with another 3-year Revival, like so many that  have gone before. Old wineskins leak. That is the lesson of history.  They cannot preserve a Revival. As an historian I can tell you that the most long-lasting moves of God ALWAYS had a strong element of 'Reformation' about them. If a 'new wineskin' was created then sometimes they were able to last for an entire generation. Glory to God! Can you imagine that?    I am convinced that for the last 500 years, since the Great Reformation, God has used each wave of Revival to restore the church more and more to its original state. The first things He restored were 'justification by faith' and the 'priesthood of all believers'. Then in later moves of God we see the teaching of the  'new birth' and 'baptism by immersion' and 'holiness' being restored. Huge movements burst forth, evangelizing the earth and restoring lost Biblical truths. Just over the last century alone, the original  "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" and all the gifts have finally been restored to the church. And since the 1960's virtually every Revival that has occurred around the world has been a full-on Holy Spirit- filled Revival full of healings and miracles from God.    ll the pieces are in place for a last great push - a full return to the simplicity, the purity and the power of the early church. Despite all the advances, we have never seen an actual 'Book of Acts' church  in all her raw beauty, holiness and power. Remember, Jesus is returning for a church that is "without spot or wrinkle or any such thing". I am praying that this coming Revival will see the end of the 'Reformation' process that has been ongoing now for 500 years. I pray that this will be the one that sees the final abandonment of all that is of 'Religion' - and a return to the pristine purity of the original.    When this process is complete, I believe that ONLY THEN can Jesus return for His beautiful Bride.    But all the timing is God's. And much preparation of HEART is needed, along with structural change. In fact, as I have always emphasized, it is the HEART issues that are the most important things.    As I said, all the pieces are now in place. Will you pray with me for one last great Revival and Reformation, my friends?    God bless you all.  Kindest regards in Christ,    Andrew Strom.   To subscribe, please send a 'subscribe' email to- prophetic@revivalschool.com      Also:  Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com>;   Balanced world news and good thoughts.  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CHURCH OF CHRIST JESUS

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CHURCH?   SEEMS WE MAY BE GOING HOME SOON.      “WORTH CONSIDERING   Ken<><      9/11/21

It is an extremely difficult awareness of 9/11 those many years ago, that we are reminded of today.  But even a deeper horror for the lives lost that day is how many of them had used their freewill to the point of making peace with God through Christ Jesus as LORD?  How many would be thankful on the other side that they were ready to go in that time of last moments?

The Bible clearly teaches that each of us is born with a freewill and an eternal soul.   Our life on planet earth in this temporary dimension of time is given us to learn how to use our Freewill in righteousness and to learn to love God, ourselves and each other.  And to accept and submit to Christ Jesus as both LORD & SAVIOR.  Otherwise we will not be invited into the Loving Righteous Kingdom of God and enjoy a brand new eternal body to house our Eternal soul.   If any soul rejects Gods salvation and the righteousness provided by Christ Jesus, there is only eternal night with total recall of opportunities missed and a soul with no body,  which  means no possibility of any kind of communications.  Jude mentioned it as being a wandering star for whom the midst of darkness is reserved for eternity.  Jude 13:   “Wild waves of the sea, flinging up the foam of their own shame and disgrace; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of eternal darkness has been reserved forever.  The whole little letter is packed with Gods Truth.

JESUS DID NOT DIE SO THAT WE COULD COME TO CHURCH.
JESUS DIED SO THAT WE WOULD BECOME HIS CHURCH !!!!

As far as the Church goes,  of Christ Jesus, what we have now is not that Church.  What we have now is a very poor imitation of the meaning of the word,  CHURCH.  The True CHURCH of Christ Jesus WILL BE powerful in the HOLY SPIRIT in perfect unity and obedience.  You can read a lot in the New Testament of what the real Church will look like when completed.  What we mostly have today is mostly a play church that Paul prophesies about in 2 Tim.3:1-5:   “But understand this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear].  2 For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.  3 [They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.  4 [They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God.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].”   And in most so called traditional theater churches today we find the same stuff if we look in the dark corners.  So here are some scriptures to consider in looking for the Real Church of Christ Jesus.
1 Cor. 12:5-31   Many parts yet working together as one body.
John 17:              The prayer of Jesus for the unity of faith, love and truth in HIS CHURCH
Eph. 4:11-16,      The True Church is fitly joined and compacted by living stones, compacted..
2 Peter 3:14        “We are to be ready at HIS return with out spot, blemish or moral conflicts.”
Rev. 12:11,      “In the resurrection, Jesus uses the CHURCH to boot lucifer out of the heavens to bring                                      glory   to His name through HIS Church”
Eph. 4:1,         The Church is perfected by Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and                                                                 Teachers,   So far we are yet lacking in some of the Elders that we need.
1 Cor.14:23-33 The TRUE CHURCH is the people, not the steeple. It is the orderly assemble  of the                                         people      in Love, Holiness & Power coming together to minister to one another in the Holy                      Spirit.  Notice the Acts 2:42-42, The progression..  Last thing mentioned was “Great and Mighty                         Signs were done by the apostles. When was the last time you experienced that happening?

If further interested in the Biblical Progression of a gathering goto:   “www.Trinity-Aloha.org” and then to the link:   “Keys To The Kingdom” And then to “Early Church” & “House Church.”

The concept that we can agree to dis-agree is wrong.  If we are truly wanting to know any truth about God to facilitate HIS Kingdom HE is honor bound to share that truth with us.  But we need to knock, seek and ask and we will surely be held responsible for what we know is God’s Truth.

Think about it, have you ever been to a wedding where the bride came directly in being dirty after working on a farm or in a garden all day?  So from where we are now, denominations will need to go as there is but ONE CHURCH of Christ Jesus as LORD.   Need to find Unity in love.   And that church must become fully submitted to the Commandments in loving humility and obedience that Jesus set before her when here.   All of the non-Biblical traditions will need to be trashed.

First thing in the 1st Resurrection is to receive a new Eternal Body like Jesus.   Second thing to happen is the wages, gifts and rewards that were done in life out of love for HIM.  1 Cor.3:11-15.   Then the 3rd thing to happen, Rev. 12:11 Where the Church with Michael and the Angels of God boot lucifer and his fallen ones out of the heavens, Ezek 28:18 and all this by Mid-Trib. 3 ½ years after the Rapture.   Then as the Heavens are purged of the darkness, we are to become the Church/Bride/Body/Rod of Iron joined to Christ Jesus for Eternity.  Fitly joined to Him for HIS plans for God’s Universe.   4th we then return with Jesus to help clean up the mess after Jesus destroys the army’s of the world gathered for Armageddon.  5th There is the thousand year Kingdom of Christ Jesus with the curse of Adam lifted so like the Garden of Eden.  6th an opportunity of those folks to choose light or darkness with the last war.  7th God destroys the army’s and has a 2nd Resurrection and all dead stand before God for the final judgment.   And then, a brand new earth and the heavens (solar system) wherein dwells Righteousness.  And all who live there will want to be there and serve willingly in love.   No death, no time, no jails, no police, no trash, no toilets, the former things are all passed away.  Too much to give you all the scriptures on two pages but have attached a 11 page paper for more details if interested. 

Yours in HIS great Love and Wonderful Grace and Mercy,   Ken<><   www.trinity-aloha.org
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AUTHORITY 9/9/21

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AUTHORITY (A KINGDOM, NOT A DEMOCRACY.)  WORTH CONSIDERING,  9/9/2021

In the beginning, Adam had difficulty with authority, in fact most of the Bible is the story about what happens when we violate God’s loving Authority (Sowing & Reaping.)  Rom.8.   The difficulty is that the GOD kind of authority is from the bottom up and not the top down unless there is no room left for repentance.

Our Creator is seeking to gather a family who wants to be loving and obedient in humility and righteousness by choice.  There will be no police or jails in the new Kingdom that HE is building.  There will be no waste nor toilets nor a constant war with dirt and decease and bugs.  God’s sustaining energy will be pure, the life sustained by HIS energy will be pure and have no waste.

But In our creation it was needed for us to feel independent so that our freewill would not be manipulated.  As love is invalid without freewill.  And as God is Love to become like HIM we have to learn how to love.    So we could look at a tree and seek who made it or we could cut it down and make it into an idol or anything that we wanted to.  We can seek, ask & knock and find out about GOD or not.  We can be self centered and try to be the master of our own destiny or yield our rights to God in Christ Jesus as Lord and have the help of the Holy Spirit in finding out about our Creator.  We can in pride become an atheist or an agnostic or join a cult or find our Creator and allow HIM to change us into HIS image and likeness (Gen.1:26) if we want to.  We are free to allow our eternal soul to be swallowed up in darkness or in light, the choice is totally ours.

In the creation of an eternal heavenly family our Creator has allowed us a life time to learn how to use our freewill to serve ourselves or to serve HIM.  But upon our death that choice becomes eternal.  So the Bible was given to us through God’s Prophets to share the vision of what our Loving Creator has invited us to enjoy, if we want to.  But HE has also allowed lucifer, (god of this world) to also try to manipulate us to stay as a part of  the kingdom of this world.   As the children of Adam and Noah we have grown up in a dark world filled with wars, hate, lust, bitterness, unforgiveness, debts and a lot of other junk like the movies that we may find entertaining.  And there are many hooks to try to keep us attached to this world.  Problem is, this world will be terminated along with lucifer in judgment and us with it if we don’t use this opportunity of life to change our citizenship.   We need to renounce our Citizenship to this world, and make a whole hearted application to the Kingdom of God if we believe in the invitation to live with our Creator God.  1 John 2:15-17, “  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”

And It is not about keeping the LAW, it is about having a living relationship with the Holy Spirit through Christ Jesus as LORD.  Last night, the Holy Spirit, told me to write on Authority today ????  So I set down about 30 minutes ago and started writing and this is what happened and what  I am sending you today.  It is like the Book of Hebrew that notes that Israel never kept the Sabbath,  never found the true meaning of resting in the Lord.   Heb.4:6.   Also Paul in Romans 14:4-6.    One of the main issues with the Jews was with Jesus not keeping the Sabbath.   Jesus walked, healed and harvested grain to eat on the Sabbath.   He taught that the Sabbath was made for man and not man the Sabbath.   It was to be a day set aside to help us secure communications with our Creator.   As Christians we are to be walking in this level of contact 24/7 of each and every day.   In obedience to the Holy Spirit any and every day could be a day not to work or to work.  It is not about work.   It is about learning to be sensitive and obedient to the Holy Spirit.   Read Hebrews 4,  the whole chapter….  It is about the Sabbath and learning to walk in the Spirit so that we don’t fulfill the lusts of the flesh.   We really don’t know who wrote the Book of Hebrews but it sure is top drawer with me as to spiritual information.   If my little  farm is being guided by the Holy Sprite it will be a big help to the Kingdom of God.   But if it is just me wanting to make a name for myself and set up my own little kingdom, it will come to nothing.  So the Sabbath Rest is us really about learning to walk in the Spirit and to cease from our own efforts to build stuff for our own little egos.  “Unless the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it.”  If it is not the Holy Spirit guiding me/us, it will all come to nothing.

If you need some help with any questions, please feel free to get back to me.   It will not be a bother.  I write this “Worth Considering” blog in hope to help you find the Kingdom of God and come in out of the rain and get warmed up by the fires of GOD.

In world events it is looking much like we are at the end of the age of the Gentiles, Luke 21 and getting very close to the Rapture, 1 Cor.15:42-58,    1 Thess.4:13- 5:11 Read whole chapters….

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful Grace & Mercy,    Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

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“The first month of the Jewish year begins with Passover. Two thousand years ago, the new age began with the crucifixion of Yeshua (Jesus) on the Cross on Passover! Next, Messiah rose from the dead precisely on day of the celebration of first fruits. Then, fifty days later, the Feast of Shavout (Pentecost) began the celebration of the harvest season. This day marked the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the beginnings of the first harvest right here in Jerusalem as three thousand souls came into the kingdom!

Now, here we are, in the midst of the summer harvest — the harvest of souls, awaiting the great sound of the trumpet! When the trumpet sounds — it shall be the beginning of a new age when “this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality!”

So as we celebrate Rosh Ha Shana or Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets), it’s a reminder that this age is soon coming to a close — that the summer will soon end and there will be no more days to work. Let’s take heed the sound of the shofar and rise to this awesome occasion!”

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MARRIAGE NOTES

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Aloha Saints, Family & Friends  9/7/21   “WORTH CONSIDERING” 
A good friend and brother sent this along just now as to his thoughts concerning the union the God wants with us through Christ Jesus or LORD.   So felt to send it along without comment.
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Hi ken
Many years ago, when I was just beginning to write about spiritual things, i wrote this. I hope you can use it…

By Christian Scott Berg

INTRODUCTION

As I have studied the Bible over the years, it has been impressed on my heart that:

  •      The meaning and design behind creation is the Bride of Christ.
  •      The economy of God’s creation is love and companionship.

Inspired by these truths, the Holy Spirit guided me in writing the following commentary.  It is my hope that my thoughts will excite your spirit into a greater relationship of love with Jesus our Betrothed.  Marriage is the central theme throughout scripture.  The history of humanity begins and ends with a wedding, beginning with the marriage of Adam and Eve (Gen. 2;18-24) and ending with the marriage of The Lamb (Jesus) to His bride (Rev. 19:7-9).

God created humanity in His own image.  God said, “Let us make man in our image, like us.”  (Gen. 1:26)  We have the same spiritual DNA as God The Creator of all that is.  The angels and other spiritual beings do not possess God’s DNA, only humanity.  God in all of His glory desires a loving companion, a relationship, only with redeemed humanity.  “for your Maker is your husband.”  (Isa. 54:5)  This thought is so awesome and overwhelming the finite mind can scarcely comprehend it.

This life and the meaning of it are to prepare us to be The Bride of Christ.  We must begin to establish a relationship with our Husband to be.  If He does not know us, He will not marry us.  Remember the Parable of The Ten Virgins?  Five of them were not prepared and were not allowed into the wedding.  The reason given by the Lord for them not being allowed into the wedding was that, He did not know them.  Though we are not the bride now, we are His fiancée.  Paul says, “I betroth you to Christ as a pure virgin.”  (2 Cor. 11:2).  And Isaiah 62:5 says, ” For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you:  and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you”.  John the Baptist said this, “The bride belongs to the bridegroom.  The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice.  That joy is mine, and it is now complete”.  (John 3:29).

You have been chosen by the creator of the universe to be His bride.  This should give you all the self worth and affirmation you will ever need in life.  All of creation, every star in the sky, every raindrop, is for you.  Every problem and blessing in life is for your benefit.  It is all part of God’s plan to prepare you to become His Bride, to co-reign with Christ.  God decided before the worlds were ever formed to have a companion that would love Him.  How would He choose this companion, this bride and where would she come from?  She could not be an angel for angels are not of His kind.  God desired a bride that could offer Him the one thing He could not produce from His own will.  A bride that could freely choose to love or reject Him.

She would have the ability to give and receive love as well as the ability to deny and reject love.  It would not be a true loving relationship if there were no choice.  His bride would choose to love Him even when circumstances made it easier to deny loving Him.  She would trust Him even though the world would proclaim He does not exist, He is dead and cannot love.  She would love Him even though, she would be persecuted and martyred for it.  She would proclaim her love for Him from the rooftops and encourage others to join her in her love.  Where could such a bride be found and how could she have developed such trust such love for a God she has not seen?

The Holy Trinity is in agreement to share the Holy Realm itself with the Bride of Christ.  Luke 12:32 states, “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.”  And Romans 8:17 says, “Now if we are children, then we are heirs — heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”  Second timothy 2:11-12 says, “here is a trustworthy saying:  If we died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him.”

I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
WILL MY PRAYERS BE ANSWERED, THE WAY I WANT?
WHY BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?
BUT I DO KNOW THAT GOD LOVES ME 100%
AND I CAN TRUST IN THAT
100%

MY STORY

I have been a Christian for many years and have always known that God loves me.  I have to admit that my walk has not always been a perfect one as my love for Him did wax and wane.  Though I knew of His great love…Jesus’ sacrifice for me…it was all intellectual.  My experience was similar to watching a romantic love story at the movies, rather than actually being in a romantic loving relationship.

I guess the underlying reason for my distance was that I knew who I was and what I had done in my life.  I knew my faults well.  I had made commitments to God and broken them.  Knowing all of this about myself, plus realizing how great and powerful my Creator was, begged the question, “How can God love me?”

The answer to this question and the revelation knowledge of the Bride of Christ came in an instant, a single unforgettable moment.  That moment became the defining point of my life.  Just as Christ’s birth split time itself in two…BC and AD…so has my life been split into before and after

MY REVELATION

I was in love with a beautiful lady whom I hoped to marry.  It was late at night and I had just finished reading the Song of Solomon.  I asked the Lord to show me the meaning of the Song and I fell asleep.  In the middle of the night, I awoke and felt the need to pray these words, “Jesus, I love her so much.”  I closed my eyes and I had a vision of her that brought a smile to my face.  “Jesus, show me how to love her, I want to take care of her and comfort her.”

At that very moment, the spirit of God fell on me and in an audible voice I heard these words, “Scott, you mean you want to love her the same way I love you?  Scott, the feelings that you have for her are the same feelings that I have for you.  Scott, I have a vision of you before me all of the time and it brings me joy and a smile to my face.  Scott, I have a love affair with every man and woman’s, every boy and girl’s spirit on earth.  But they do not know it.  I am at the door of their heart wanting to come into them and love them.  But they will not let me.  There is nothing that hurts me more than the rejection of my love.  Scott, I cry over them because they will not let me love them.  Scott, tell them of my love.”

The revelation ended, but still being bathed in His Spirit, I realized that God, my Creator is in love with me and He is emotionally involved with me.  I must have felt as the prophet Daniel did when, “one having the form of a man put his hand on me and gave me strength.  And he said to me, O man greatly loved, have no fear:  peace be with you, be strong and let your heart be lifted up.  And at his words I became strong…”  (Dan. 10:18-19)

LIVING OUT MY REVELATION

The love Jesus has for me is no longer intellectual but emotional.  I no longer see God as a distant force but as the one and only true lover of my soul.

God’s love is of a romantic nature in the purest of interpretations.  Romance has inspired the most beautiful works of art and literature.  It is the most sought after feeling on the planet.  Most advertisements use promises of romance to sell products.  Of course, this is a counterfeit and a very poor substitute, for the romance that Jesus offers the heart.  Jesus will never leave you or forsake you.  He will not divorce you for He is committed to you in this life and the next.  Jesus will tell your heart all of the things it has always wanted to hear.  All of the hurts and pains inflicted by people will be erased by His love.  You will know beyond the shadow of a doubt that His love is for real and will always satisfy your heart.  Jesus will make your life satisfyingly complete.

We possess God’s Spiritual DNA.  His emotions.  His desires.  Even His “hurts”.  The emotions and love I have for my beloved bride, is the same that God has for me and for you.  In times past. my heart had been broken by love betrayed.  The rejection I felt hurt more than any physical pain I had ever known.  Jesus also knows that pain of rejection and of betrayal.

GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS IMAGE 
THAT MEANS HIS EMOTIONAL IMAGE TOO

We can all understand the feelings and emotions of romance because we experience them as a part of life.  We can also identify with rejection when our overture of love is spurned.  The reason we understand and identify with all of these emotions is because they are a part of the spiritual DNA that God has created us with.

Jesus is at the door of everyone’s heart knocking and saying, “Let me in.  I want to love you and take care of you.  I want to marry you”.  And when we open our heart to Him, He is as delighted as a man who has proposed marriage to his beloved sweetheart, and hears her whisper, “Yes”.  If our heart remains closed and there is no answer to Jesus’ words of love, His heart is devastated by the pain of rejection.  However, His love continues until the last knock, the last heartbeat, and the last breath.

At this point, I need state that we cannot always trust our emotions.  They have been corrupted by Satan, the curse, and the evil desires of man.  The Godly emotions which have been given to us, and meant for good; Satan has counterfeited and means for evil.  We must weigh our emotions and feelings against God’s Word, The Bible.

God does not fear, have lust, or pride but rather faith, hope, and love.  When God’s love is rejected, He does not respond with anger but with more love.  He is, however, a jealous God and we should place no other gods or things or persons before Him in our lives (see Exodus 20:3-5).  If we do place anything before God, He considers us as adulterers and fornicators (this is cited dozens of times throughout the Old Testament) breaking the fidelity of our relationship with Him.  These emotions give us a glimpse into the heart of God and how He feels about us.  This is so important for us to understand, THAT WE FEEL WHAT GOD FEELS!

God is right at the door of every heart.  He is in pain, for He is being rejected by people who He loves…everyday.  He is hurt deeply by His church in not trusting in Him.  He is being hurt by the bride not longing to be more intimate with him.

WE LOVE GOD BY BEING WITH HIM IN PRAYER
AND SHARING OUR LIVES WITH HIM THERE

A couple in love enjoys spending time talking and listening to each other.  The most important part of the day, is the time they spend with each other.  They are both thinking of ways to express their love to one another; be it through gifts or love notes.  The intent is to express their love and this is the romantic nature of God’s own heart.  Jesus wants to hear from you personally, not some stand in.  How can Jesus marry you if He does not know you?

The Bride of Christ realizes that she can break Gods heart by not giving Him the love He deserves.  Just as a mortal husband and wife must communicate with loving words of affection, so must we communicate with Jesus our divine husband.  My wife and I share each other’s lives.  She knows what issues are troubling me, what challenges I will be facing each day, what blessings have occurred and the nature of my plans and desires.  I also know what is happening in her life.  We discuss the details of our lives.  Thus, should we not do the same with our beloved Jesus?  He desires this type of intimate relationship with us.  He desires to be a part of our lives in every way.

I love my wife and I want to please and bless her.  I do not want to do anything that would hurt her.  I want to give her gifts and acknowledge all of the wonderful things she does for me.  Should I not do the same for my Jesus?

I CAN GIVE JESUS GIFTS OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP

I guarantee you that when you start treating Jesus as a beloved spouse, He will open up His life to you.  You control how much of Jesus you want in your life by how much you allow Him in.  You also control how much of your spouse’s life you share, by how much you let them in to your life.  You are in control of your spiritual marriage as well as your physical marriage.

I suggest to you that if your earthly marriage is not what it should be, your spiritual marriage may not be either.  To improve your earthly marriage, begin to see your spouse as Christ…your other marriage partner…and try to treat them both the same.  If you would not be critical or complaining of Jesus, extend the same courtesy to your spouse.  If you would not think of being abusive or cruel to Jesus, transfer that respect to your mortal spouse.

Our earthly marriage is on the job training for the heavenly marriage that awaits us.  Consider Jesus as the third partner in your marriage.  If you are single, consider yourself being married to Jesus and live your life that way.  The most important thing to remember is, Jesus is madly in love with you and there is nothing you can do about it.  <><

I hope the above has served to introduce you to the topic of the Bride of Christ.  More specific themes to this topic will be added in the months ahead.  We would love to discuss the Bride of Christ with you on our message board.  Please link to it from here.

Aloha    Christian Scott Berg

 

MARRIAGE & SEX

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MARRIAGE &  SEX   “WORTH CONSIDERING” 9/6/21   Ken Smith<><

Sure prayed a lot before I started on this paper.   What a difficult subject to deal with in the light of God with today’s obsessions.   So to understand what was the original vision we need to go back in time.  Marriage and Sex was obviously one of God’s most wonderful of creations along with the beauty and design of the physical body to help enjoy it.  The muscle efficiency or a lobster is much better than ours but are you not more happy with the skin?   The human Body expresses a beauty of God that is unique beyond words.    Originally making Children was a joyful painless event prior to the rebellion and  bad tree experience.  On the farm where I grew up reproduction was as natural with the animals around us as breathing.  But with Adam’s departure from learning from GOD to learning from lucifer we see big changes in protection,  pain and provision.  By the way, it was note an apple on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but simple a fruit.  Think of it as a NO! Fruit tree rather than a YES fruit tree as with the rest of the whole Garden.  This NO! tree was allowed for the exercise and growth of free will and for the experience of love.   True Love, God’s kind of love,  can only exist in a state of Free will.

But what I am getting at is that the creation of sex, in the beginning, was a wonderful intimate way of expressing love in a spiritual, mental and physical way in a Life time union.  It was a divine glue to hold a husband & wife  in a family bonding for a life time.  And in that divine union of marriage to be safe from S.T.D’s and having unwanted children who wold be neglected and perhaps lost to the enemy.  Of course this is the God ideal position for the experience of sex which is not see very often today.   If fact I know of so called Christians living in fornication openly as OK with no plans at all concerning children or home stability..  

I ask the LORD one time, long ago as to HIS definition of Marriage.  He said to my heart, “ Marriage is a life time commitment of a man and a woman to become one.  (This would be much like Adam in his creation prior to Eve of being like the Father, Word and Holy Spirit in a simple form.  And then Eve was divided from Adam and took more the nature of the Holy Spirit with her..  And that the life time pledge was  to be witnessed openly.   In marriage today in Rev.13, Paul writes to also be submitted to the local govt.  So in the U.S. that would mean some paper work for a sexual union for the protection of the family and children.  Of course I fully realize that most will hit the delete button about now.  But if you hang in there I have a lot more from the Holy Spirit to share on this subject.

So lets start with the Old Testament, it seems that the early time in world history sound like much of what is going on today when we consider Noah ,  Duet. 6:5-7,   “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was only evil continually.  6 And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved at heart. 7 So the Lord said, I will destroy, blot out, and wipe away mankind, whom I have created from the face of the ground.  So GOD reduced the population down to Noah and family or 4 couples and started over again with the human race.  Now we appear to be returning to the same kind of a civilization in moral values so Jesus is sharing with us, and notice in verse 40 we have an event like the flood of lifting one out but leaving another.

Matt.24:37-42, “ As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.  38 For just as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, [men] marrying and [women] being given in marriage, until the [very] day when Noah went into the ark,  39 And they did not know or understand until the flood came and swept them all away—so will be the coming of the Son of Man.  40 At that time two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one will be left.  41 Two women will be grinding at the hand mill; one will be taken and one will be left.  42 Watch therefore [[t] give strict attention, be cautious and active], for you do not know in what kind of a day [[u] whether a near or remote one] your Lord is coming….

If we consider the lives of them Biblical men we can learn a whole lot about our situation.
Adam            Listened to his wife, we died.  A woman tends to live by emotions and intuition.
Abraham,     Was told to wait for a son.  Sarah encouraged, we got Ishmail & (Islam)
Isaac,            Did well, waited on Dad to get him a wife and got a good one.
Jacob,           He was a rascal but had a lot of faith and basically founded the Jewish nation.
Moses,          40 years learning Egypt, 40 unlearning Egypt, Delivered Israel from slavery.
Samson,       Judge in Israel, got clipped by a women, blinded, ground grain, restored in end.
David,           Murdered Uriah, slept with his wife, Truly Repented, We got the Psalms.
Solomon,     Stupid, wise man.  Brought idiolatry into Israel and destroyed his kingdom.
                      We have a lot to learn from each of the lives of these men to give us wisdom.

For marriage where one is Christian:   1 Cor 6:13-16,   1 Peter 3
For Marriage
Unity              Matt.19:4-6
Authority:     Eph.5:22-33,   Gen.3:16,   Prov. 31:10
Wives            1 Cor. 7: 10-11,   1 Tim. 2:11-15
Teaching:      1 Tim.  5:1-3,    1 Tim. 5:13-15
Widows:       James.  1:26-27,    1 Tim. 5:16,   1 Tim 5:11, 1 Cor, 7:7-9
Sex:               Hebrews 13:3-5,   Song of Solomon Chapters 1-8,   (Some feel this is porn, but others feel it is a                     true expression of married physical love as it should be and as Christ’s love  for HIS                                          Church.  This is yet a big mystery.
Children:      Eph. 6:1–24
Work:           Prov.31:10,   1 Tim. 5:7-9,   Col 3:22-24, 1 Cor. 4:12, 2 Thess. 3:9-11
Divorce:      1 Cor. 7:15,   Matt.5:32,   Matt. 22:25-30

It should be understood that there is no New Testament record of women ever being given authority over men in marriage or the Church.   Only a Righteous and Holy man can teach another man how to be Righteous and Holy as a man.   Men under women tend to remain as children, emotionally.  Romans 16:7 has to do with a married couple, Andronicus and Junia who God sees as a married team in the work of the ministry and as one.   Eph. 5:31-32.
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Yours in HIS great Love and Wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org
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FIRE

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FIRE     “WORTH CONSIDERING”   9/1/21  By Ken Smith
 
In the days before Edison,  all lights by man on earth was a product of FIRE.   Sun,  Lightening did start fires.   Now we have LED with hardly any heat at all.   So fire is an interesting study through the Bible.  Both good fire and painful fire, so we shall try to sort out the good fire for you.      I grew up on a hillbilly farm with no electricity at all,  all our lights were by fire.  After it was sold and the new owners put power to the house, it burned down.

When Jesus started HIS ministry on earth HE made an interesting comment about fire.   Luke 12:49,   “I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?  Matt. 3:11,  John the Baptist said,  “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:   Luke 3:16,  “John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:  The disciples became Christians at the resurrection in the Upper Room,  but the  fire power came on Pentecost.

And this happened, as a mighty public witness on Pentecost,  Acts 2:3,   “And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.   3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.   4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 

And it is interesting to me that many years later the writer of Hebrews (Paul I think) added this note.  Heb. 1:7,  “And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.   There are some 515 verses mentioning fire in the Bible but most are equating the pain of fire with hell.   This is not the context of this note.  So lets go back in the Old Testament and find the threads.   In Deuteronomy 4:24,  33,  5:24 we have this observation that God is a consuming fire,  speaks from the midst of fire, and that HIS Glory and Greatness is a voice in the midst of fire.  So for us to really know who HE really is, HE had to send the son of man in our image and likeness to help us know HIM and to help us become in HIS image and likeness.   Notice in Ezek. 28:18 where the fire is seen as our starting point:  God here is giving a prophesy to Ezekiel as to how lucifer will meet his end.   “28:18,  “Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

Hey, Guys!!!   We all got our start as the children of Adam in sin.   We grew up in sin.   We have all sinned and come short of the Glory of God.   But then comes along Isaiah 53 and tells us how God has made a way for us to still become like Him and in HIS Image and LIkeness,  Gen.1:26 if we will want it enough and believe it enough to go for it.

So when Jesus was resurrected what did HE look like in that we are told that HE was the first born of many brethren.  Assuming that I have your attention and wonder what you would look like in the resurrection if you really made Jesus LORD.  We will always  be different but this will give you the idea of what God means for us to be like in HIS Image and Likeness.    Rev. 1:23-17,   “And in the midst of the lampstands [One] like a Son of Man, clothed with a robe which reached to His feet and with a girdle of gold about His breast.14 His head and His hair were white like white wool, [as white] as snow, and His eyes [flashed] like a flame of fire.15 His feet glowed like burnished (bright) bronze as it is refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters.16 In His right hand He held seven stars, and from His mouth there came forth a sharp two-edged sword, and His face was like the sun shining in full power at midday.17 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as if dead. But He laid His right hand on me and said, Do not be afraid! I am the First and the Last.”   ( So as we yield to become in HIM we will become like HIM.)

In the resurrection there will be only one Jesus, that looks like HIM in the image of the “Word of GOD” But we also will carry GOD’S identity and in our own personal identity as Joint Heirs for our LORD become HIS “Rod of Iron” to help minister HIS rule throughout the Creation of God through the universe in the God dimension of time-less-ness.

Oh! think we are the only ones alive in God’s Creation,  think again.  Only that we have been in a spiritual hot house as there is only one lucifer who has either made us strong or sent us to hell as per our decision.  John 14:1-3,   “Do not let your hearts be troubled (distressed, agitated). You believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely on God; believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely also on Me.2 In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places (homes). If it were not so, I would have told you; for I am going away to prepare a place for you.3 And when (if) I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also.

Interested in being on fire?    Paul ask that question to disciples in Acts 19:2 long ago in Ephesus,  “And he asked them, Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed [on Jesus as the Christ]? And they said, No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.3 And he asked, Into what [baptism] then were you baptized? They said, Into John’s baptism.4 And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, continually telling the people that they should believe in the One Who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus [having a conviction full of joyful trust that He is Christ, the Messiah, and being obedient to Him].5 On hearing this they were baptized [again, this time] in the name of the Lord Jesus.6 And as Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spoke in [foreign, unknown] tongues (languages) and prophesied.”   (Same as on Pentecost.)  This should be norm for the Church of Christ Jesus and I hope so for your church, but if not,  read 2 Tim.3…   A man at my fellowship ask me one day about this,  and I felt to give him a book:   “A Handbook on Holy Spirit Baptism” by Don Basham.  He went home, read the book, did what it said and has been on fire for the LORD from that time on.  Find on Amazon,  get a copy,  “WORTH CONSIDERING” you will be glad you did.   

Be blessed in your day,   Ken<><  www.trinity-aloha.org 

THERE IS BUT ONE CHURCH OF CHRIST JESUS AS LORD
AND ALL WHO LOVE, TRUST AND OBEY HIM ARE ETERNAL MEMBERS. 

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INTERNET & TRUTH

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INTERNET & TRUTH    “Worth Considering” 8/26/21      By Ken Smith <><

The Internet can be either good or bad as per the person sitting at the computer.  punch 2 or 3 keys and into Worship & Praise of God or watch harm, pain, danger and death to other human beings.  So many ways to destroy God’s epitome of HIS creation, man.    It is like any thing else you become what you eat.  Same with the soul, it can be blessed or corrupted by what you feed it and the world is a very messy place.  In fact the Word of God warns us in 1 John 2:14-17: “ Do not love the world [of sin that opposes God and His precepts], nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life [pretentious confidence in one’s resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father, but are from the world. 17 The world is passing away, and with it its lusts [the shameful pursuits and ungodly longings]; but the one who does the will of God and carries out His purposes lives forever.,    And as I was telling someone on the phone today, A real New Testament Church is also a messy place in the Holy Spirit.  In the Early Church there was no liturgy, only the Holy Spirit, 1 Cor.14:26-31:   “ What then is the right course, believers? When you meet together, each one has a psalm, a teaching, a revelation (disclosure of special knowledge), a tongue, or an interpretation. Let everything be constructive and edifying and done for the good of all the church. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be limited to two or at the most three, and each one speaking in turn, and one must interpret [what is said]. 28 But if there is no one to interpret, the one [who wishes to speak in a tongue] must keep silent in church; let him speak to himself and to God. 29 Let two or three prophets speak [as inspired by the Holy Spirit], while the rest pay attention and weigh carefully what is said. 30 But if an inspired revelation is made to another who is seated, then the first one must be silent. 31 For [in this way] you can all prophesy one by one, so that everyone may be instructed and everyone may be encouraged; 32 for the spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets [the prophecy is under the speaker’s control, and he can stop speaking]; 33 for God [who is the source of their prophesying] is not a God of confusion and disorder but of peace and order.”     And as the Holy Spirit would guide so would the Elders and leaders follow.   Actually church was supposed to be more like pop corn on a hot grill, as church was heated up in the Holy Spirit it would pop open and become a new form and you really never knew where it was going to land.  In the Bible we find the words, “If any person be found in Christ, they are a new creation.   Old things are passing away and all things are becoming new.  That the birthing into the Kingdom of God a new soul already had a calling and gifting to accomplish what our loving Creator designed them to be and do.  But the normal tendency is to box them up in a little box so they can not embarrass any one nor do anything stupid.  And of course when the hormone storms go off at puberty, many are lost to the world due to the lack of truth and valid knowledge. 

DREAM of UNHARVESTED FIELDS   by Cathy Asher
We have been too long inside the four walls and in our own little groups. Many are dying and not finding out about salvation and the love of Jesus and how He died for us…      I will share briefly a vision the Lord gave me several weeks ago.  It started with me seeing a vision of a very tall man in overalls and he was a farmer.  I asked him who he was and he stated he was the planter of the Word.  I have to admit at first it frightened me and I prayed and said, Lord if this is not of you, make it go away.  When I opened my eyes, he was still there and he was smiling at me.  I asked him again who he was and he replied, I am the Planter of the Word.  I asked him what did he want and he stated that He was preparing the Bride for the harvest.  I started to ask him more, but he was gone.  I prayed for several days about this and then I knew there was more so I asked Holy Spirit to let me know what it meant.    That night I dreamed the following dream.  I was in a church service and in the dream the Lord came to me and said, come here I want to show you something.    It was as if I were zoomed away and he then told me to look down.  I looked down and there was a wheat field and it was all bent over and as I looked I saw that the stems were mildewed I asked the Lord, what is this.  He stated, there were not enough laborers for the harvest.  I felt so sad and began to cry.    He then showed me another field.  In this field, the wheat was about 12 inches tall but there were lots of sticker weeds in it. I asked the Lord what is this.  He stated this is the fruits of not having enough laborers in the first field.  I was really devastated by then.     He then said, come here and look.  I looked down and there was the Planter of the Word and He was plowing and planting seeds.  I asked the Lord, what are you showing me?  He stated to me that He was planting a field and in this field He was planting seed for His Bride.  Never again, would there be a field like the first one, for His Bride could be trusted.  He was preparing Her even now for the great harvest to come.  I felt a sense of excitement.  When I woke up, I prayed and asked our Lord to forgive me and not ever let me be one who was not ready for the harvest.

Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;
8/26/21   Reads like right out of Biblical Prophesy,   Only a few of the highlights.  Better to read the whole file….

Tehran is two months away from nuclear weapons capacity, warned Defense Minister Benny Gantz as he called for the international community to create a new prevention plan that did not involve reviving the 2015 Iran deal.  Israel’s military is working hard to develop plans to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, the IDF Chief of Staff revealed on Wednesday, as Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett made his way to Washington to discuss the Islamic Republic’s nuclear capabilities with U.S. President Joe Biden.      Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday ordered all U.S. service members be vaccinated immediately for COVID-19.     China’s communist authorities have jailed four Christian businessmen for selling audio Bibles amid a government crackdown on Christians engaged in “illegal” faith-related activities, trial observers told Worthy News.       The heavily persecuted house church Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in Chengdu, China was raided by government authorities again on August 22, and 28 members were taken away during a worship service, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.      Following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban on August 15, Afghan Christians began fleeing to the mountains to escape the Islamist rulers, who reportedly have a hit-list of believers to kill and who are going door-to-door taking women and children, Fair Mission (FAI) reported.        It’s the 800-pound gorilla in the pandemic. The debate over forced vaccination with an ever-waning vaccine is cresting right around the time when the debate should be moot for a lot of people. Among the most fraudulent messages of the CDC’s campaign of deceit is to force the vaccine on those with prior infection, who have a greater degree of protection against all versions of the virus than those with any of the vaccines. It’s time to set the record straight once and for all that natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is broader, more durable, and longer-lasting than any of the shots on the market today.

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><   www.trinity-aloha.org

MARRIAGE & DIVORCE 2

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MARRIAGE & DIVORCE 2 “WORTH CONSIDERING” 8/23/21 From Ken Smith<><

Most people get married believing a myth that marriage is a beautiful box full of all the things they have longed for; Companionship, intimacy, friendship etc… The truth is that marriage at the start, is an empty box – you must put something in before you can take anything out. There is no love in marriage, love is in people, and people put love in marriage. There is no romance in marriage, you have to infuse it into your marriage. A couple must learn the art, and form the habit of giving, loving, serving, praising, of keeping the box full. If you take out more than you put in, the box will be empty.  Unknown

I hope you gave the last notes on marriage some attention as to what a Biblical Marriage is supposed to be from the Bible.  I have observed that a lot of so-called Biblical scholars who write many books that women tend to read, to me, have seemed to move the markers.   Before I became a Christian in 1955 I had a wonderful “Cosmic Glue Theology” what was totally reasonable.  Unfortunately it was totally a fantasy that I was living and  It reminds me of a scripture that not only refers to men but to women as well: 2 Tim. 3, Whole chapter but (4-7) especially.  Of course the core truth of a Christian Marriage is found in Eph. 5:23-25.   “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. (Jesus always primary.)  25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,”   Don’t believe it then ALSO read 1 Pet.3, whole chapter.     As of this time according to Pew Research, those who are identified as Christian are having 51% of the present divorces in the U. S.   And it is no wonder as the so call churches  today are teaching very little concerning humility, authority and loving obedience.   And really the Whole Church of Christ Jesus deeply needs that schooling from the top down.  Obey alone has 114 verses in the Bible including Heb.13:17 on which few have heard anyone preach upon except in the flesh for self elevation.  Or 1 Samuel 15:22.  Concerning divorce, it is not an unpardonable sin but it does destroy families and damage children without parents roll modeling godly lives.  And they have a tough time growing up to be holy people if saved at all.  My parents divorced long before the paper work was done in the court when I graduated high school.  It was a supernatural event that I was even saved at 22.  So there are three Biblical marriage breakers,   death, Matt.22:30,  adultery Matt.5:32 & abandonment 1 Cor.6:15.  But the only sin that can not be forgiven is to call the darkness light and the light darkness.  Divorce is not an unpardonable sin.  It does have sowing and reaping attached with pain as does everything we do that is sin.  But Jesus came to forgive, cleanse and heal us from our sin.   I have known of good men of God that were divorced, did not seem to be at fault and yet were benched for the rest of their lives by their church and not the Lord…  I have also seen pastor’s dump their wives for another lady in their church, cause a lot of pain for everyone.  But as the smoke cleared they went back to preaching again.  I am sure that the their reaping was very painful.  But perhaps they learned to become humble, loving and obedient to the Holy Spirit, that is what being forgiven is all about.  Jesus came to save us from our sin.   Matt. 24:18 tells us what to do about sin in the church but if there is true repentance then Jesus would like us to help the person up to try again and again and again, as HE said to His disciples, 70 x 7 for the same offence.  Our Judgment is to help, not to destroy.  We are called in 1 Cor. 6 to help the church with our Judgment to be better.  The judgment to destroy is reserved to GOD alone.   So If we have the wisdom and loving grace to help someone get back up if they want to get back up, we are to help them get back up.  We all need this support from time to time, none of us are like Jesus, yet.

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John 21:14-15, 22   After Yeshua’s resurrection, He showed himself to the apostles several times. Once, as they were fishing, Yeshua met them on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Peter was there, back at his craft, but swirling with inward negative emotions. The anguish of his recent denial, three times, exactly as Yeshua had predicted, mixed with the amazement and perplexity at the empty tomb, and finally the astounding relief and joy witnessing the risen Lord. Peter was on an emotional roller coaster for days, but the issue of his denial remained unresolved.

The Lord’s encounter with Peter on the Sea of Galilee was to fully restore him. Three times Yeshua probes His beloved disciple “Do you love me?” But this is more than just a quantitative restoration. The Lord is penetrating the apostle’s heart in this amazing conversation, because He really knows how much Peter loves Him and He wants Peter to know that He trusts him completely even after his awful failure. So Yeshua gives Peter his lifelong commission– “Feed my lambs!”; “Feed my sheep.” Yeshua knew that He could entrust Peter with this responsibility, and He told him so. And Peter was restored.    Yet Peter still wobbles, even as he receives his restoration, when he asks about his fellow apostle, John. Yeshua’s response, “what is that to you, you follow me!” settles the matter. The Lord is saying, “stop the competition, Peter. Those days are over, yet you’re still comparing…I have work for you; I have a life for you; live it!”

The enemy would love to dig up your past, thrust it in your face, and leave you comparing yourself with others for the rest of your life – but the Lord has a life for you and He wants you to live it. Your life, not someone else’s. He loves you and He trusts you to be who He made you to be. So don’t allow your past failures or your present jealousies to prevent you from the life you’re called to live for Him!   Your family in the Lord with much agape love,  George Baltimore,

Around the World:   President Biden Under Pressure As Taliban Hunts Girls, Journalists And U.S. Allies Taliban fighters ruling Afghanistan have begun hunting for Afghan girls to marry while seeking to kill journalists, Christians, Hazara men, and people who worked for the U.S.-led military, several sources say.      Western allies of the United States struggle to respond to the Islamist Taliban group’s return to power in Afghanistan amid reports of killings and thousands fleeing the country. They also expressed concerns about the situation at a just-concluded virtual meeting of foreign ministers of the NATO military alliance.    At least 22 people were killed and rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through Middle Tennessee.    (Seems Matt.24, Mark 13 & Luke 21 is happening all around us now….  Ken<><)

Seems a professional position concerning the vaccines:    “Dr Mike Yeadon former Pfizer chief scientist” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz7k7kXskaQ

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org
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MARRIAGE     “WORTH CONSIDERING”   8/21/21     By Ken Smith<><

A long time ago, I ask the LORD what was HIS definition of Marriage?  The reply to my heart was, “Marriage, is a life time commitment of a man & women to become one.   Apostle Paul equates the union as an example of Christ and HIS Church, Eph.5:22-32.   While Apostle Peter tell us that prayers will not be even considered without that unity, 1 Peter 3:7.  And further that God created sex to be enjoyed, a helpful safe bonding glue and to help make a family.  Heb. 13:4      But obviously as the bodies designs are very different the responsibilities are very different.

Originally in Genesis 2:20 we find Eve created for Adam as a helper/companion.  (In my book God’s very best work, with  a most exquisite attention to detail.)   “And the man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper [that was] suitable (a companion) for him.”  After the Rebellion and Fall the position was altered as found in Gen.3:16, “To the woman He said,  “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth;  In pain you will give birth to children; Yet your desire and longing will be for your husband,  And he will rule [with authority] over you and be responsible for you.”   Here is about the time that most woman start to fade away….  But I did not write the Book, and this truth is in context with all of the other 66 writings….  So if you have an issue, it is with the Holy Spirit who kept this understanding for us over 6,000 years.

As with Adam he was asked originally to a fruit tester and animal lover and to make lots of babies with a one tree exception.  A no tree to help Adam learn humility, obedience and grow a strong free will.  Of course we all know what happened in Gen.3 while Adam & Eve were over pondering the forbidden fruit????   Yes, Adam was standing there with Eve, verse 6.  But Eve took the authority of fielding the 3 lies. #1, are you sure God really said that? #2.  God’s really holding out on you.   #3.  Do you really believe God will kill you for eating some fruit???   Jesus went through the same 3 temptations and we go through them every day.  The present Church is one big mess because we tend to manipulate the Truth of God to fit our own weaknesses and flesh desires.   That way we can do what we want to and still believe we are OK to be with God in heaven.  That we will somehow get in just as we are rather than allow the Holy Spirit to change us to be like GOD.  Rom.8:6-14.

So today we have a lot of “vain traditions” that we have allowed to roost in our humanity as being from GOD when they are not.   So I am going to keep out of trouble and just give you some verses to look up if you are interested:

Men:        1 Tim.  3:2,   1Tim.5:8,  1 Thess. 3:10-11,  Titus 1:7, Titus 2:15
Woman:   1 Tim.2: 8-15,   1 Pet. 3,   1 Cor.14:34-36,  Proverbs 31:10-31
 
And there is no precedent in the New Testament where the Holy Spirit chose a woman Elder in the Early Church to rule over men.  It takes a Godly Man to teach a young man how to be a godly man.

We are all in a chain of authority from our Heavenly Father, Jesus (Word of God made flesh), Holy Spirit, Elders, Deacons, Steward, Husbands, Wives, Children,   so that all are protected in God’s Loving Truth.   We are writing here concerning the ideal, not what we see in action today.   But in time if we will have learned to enjoy humility, obedience, loving unity and the power of God will really be free.  And those of us who graduate into the Kingdom of God to light speed will be so very happy that they did.
 
1 Cor. 15:24: “ Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

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

Note to me on FaceBook.   “I just got over the covid and I am UN-vaccinated, I hate to see people suffer but I can say from experience  I was treated with hydroxychloroquine, zinc and vitamins. I had a low grade fever and cold like symptoms and was thru in 5 days. Do what you think is right for you but no you do not know if you were UN-vaccinated that it would be much worse because I was and it was not that bad.”   ( I tend to think this is the best way to go, Natural immunity, but all the chips are not in.   It looks dangerous either way, so need to pray about it, seriously.   I called the V.A. about it,  they were not set up for the above treatment?  Even with the Trump success.)

Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.    William Wilberforce led a campaign against the British Parliament to abolish slavery in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. During the course of his intense efforts, Wilberforce came to a desperate place of discouragement, feeling he had absolutely no more strength to continue. In this condition, he was about to give up, when his elderly friend, John Wesley, lying on his deathbed, was informed of his friend William’s distress. Wesley requested pen and paper, and with a quivering hand, wrote these words,    “Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them stronger than God? Oh be not weary of well-doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of his might, till even American slavery shall vanish away before it.”   John Wesley died six days later, but William Wilberforce fought for forty-five more years, and in 1833, three days before his own death, witnessed the abolition of slavery in Britain.     So, do not grow weary in well-doing, for we can still triumph! It’s exactly when everything looks hopeless that our God has the opportunity to display His awesome power. Even the great men that changed history needed a word of encouragement now and then – so be encouraged, and be an encourager! You never know when you may enable another saint to continue pressing on, or how that may change the world!   Your family in the Lord with much agape love,    George  Baltimore, Maryland     Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;

More GREAT QUOTES:  “If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things.
Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.”  -C. S. Lewis    “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,  nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”  – Helen Keller.     “Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.”-C. S. Lewis     “They who navigate little streams and shallow creeks, know but little of the God of tempests; but they who “Do business in great waters,” these see his “wonders in the deep.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon.     Your Bible:   Just don´t read it; do it!”-Unknown  “To risk reputation and affection for the truth’s sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree of moral principle that only the Spirit of God can work in you. Do not turn your back like a coward, but play the man. Follow boldly in your Master’s steps, for He has made this rough journey before you.”  – Alistair Begg

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Listening to:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAw1bb6r0eU   Bringing tears as I write…….   “You are my hiding place….” 1: 06:10   Had to go back and listen to it again…….