Hawaii Photos to enjoy…
A Loving touch of Hawaii by Rita Lazenby, REALLY WORTH THE TIME TO CONSIDER…. Just breath taking photos.
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GOD AT WORK
Aloha Saints, Family & Friends, “Worth Considering” 5/26/21 From Ken Smith
We are living now in a fast changing world into hypocrisy and atheism where the lusts of the flesh, lusts of the eyes and pride of life is becoming god for many. Many are making up their own theology that is in total contradiction to the Word of God. There are so very few in the world today that really reflect the Holy Spirit in their lives a clear example of GOD at WORK.
We are living now in a fast changing world into hypocrisy and atheism where the lusts of the flesh, lusts of the eyes and pride of life is becoming god for many. Many are making up their own theology that is in total contradiction to the Word of God. There are so very few in the world today that really reflect the Holy Spirit in their lives a clear example of GOD at WORK.
1 John 5, AMP. Everyone who believes (adheres to, trusts, and relies on the fact) that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah) is a born-again child of God; and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him (His offspring). By this we come to know (recognize and understand) that we love the children of God: when we love God and obey His commands (orders, charges)—[when we keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and His teaching]. 3 For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome (burdensome, oppressive, or grievous). 4 For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith. Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]? 6 This is He Who came by (with) water and blood [[a]His birth and His death], Jesus Christ (the Messiah)—not by (in) the water only, but by (in) the water and the blood. And it is the [Holy] Spirit Who bears witness, because the [Holy] Spirit is the Truth. 7 So there are three witnesses [b]in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are One; 8 and there are three witnesses on the earth: the Spirit, the water (body), and the blood (soul); and these three agree [are in unison; their testimony coincides]. 9 If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [if we are willing to take human authority], the testimony of God is greater (of stronger authority), for this is the testimony of God, even the witness which He has borne regarding His Son. 10 He who believes in the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] has the testimony [possesses this divine attestation] within himself. He who does not believe God [in this way] has made Him out to be and represented Him as a liar, because he has not believed (put his faith in, adhered to, and relied on) the evidence (the testimony) that God has borne regarding His Son. 11 And this is that testimony (that evidence): God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who possesses the Son has that life; he who does not possess the Son of God does not have that life. 13 I write this to you who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) the name of the Son of God [in [c]the peculiar services and blessings conferred by Him on men], so that you may know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have life, [d]yes, eternal life.
Weill informed read by Francis Chan,
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Christianity is NOT
Knowing cute Hillsong Lyrics
Having a bible verse in your IG bio.
Following the World & Chasing Worldly Possessions
Following Jesus only when you fell like it
Being Holy during lint or Holy Week then back to your dirty ways after “Good Friday.”
Christianity IS
Denying yourself and dying to yourself
Being Doers of the Word, not just Hearers
Living for God 24/7 & worshiping HIM no matter how hard life gets.
Pleasing Jesus rather than people, even if it costs you to lose relationships.
Really don’t know who put this together but felt to pass it along.
Our little farmstead is coming along, more garden growing beds in this week. New water lines. Almost ahead of the weeds. We are working towards being self supporting. Today we might be ready for a few chickens. Planting leaks. Tomorrow the bees and rabbits. Grew up on a farm as a boy in Kentucky, nice to get some dirt under my nails once in a while. Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org
HUMAN CREATION
HUMAN CREATION, “WORTH CONSIDERING” Ken Smith, 5/22/21 Gen. 1:26
The 7000 years that God has given man in time started with Adam in his creation as the first living soul in the Image and likeness of God with being the first species with freewill. Humanity is nearing the 6,000 year mark down that time line and we are now into the Jesus prophesy of Matt.24, Mark 13 and Luke 21…. Be teaching about this prophesy on Tues. evening 5/25 (shared pot-blessing meal at 5:30, Study about 6.) The 7, 000 year time line is all a matter of prophesy in which the 6,000 year have been very accurate. So, personally I expect the last 1000 years to be right on as well. 2 Pet.3:8.
So we are living in a temporary time dimension of one week of our 1,000 yr. days. We are here to learn how to use our free will for righteousness and how to walk by faith as so does our Creator.
In Gen.1:26 the statement is made “Let us (God is a trinity) make man in our image and likeness.” Of course we run off with thinking that was an immediate action and not seeing the process that would need to happen to accomplish that vision. It took 4,000 years for God to bring to pass the 1st to accomplish that vision in Christ Jesus as a human being born of the blood of Abraham and David, fulfilling that vision exactly in the Old Testament. And in the New Testament, 2 Peter 3
So lets spend just a little time getting to know who we are and what we are in this process of perfection. 1 John 3-9:3 For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome (burdensome, oppressive, or grievous). 4 For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]? 6 This is He Who came by (with) water and blood [[a]His baptism and His death], Jesus Christ (the Messiah)—not by (in) the water only, but by (in) the water and the blood. And it is the [Holy] Spirit Who bears witness, because the [Holy] Spirit is the Truth. 7 So there are three witnesses [b]in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are One; 8 many coincides]. and there are three witnesses on the earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree [are in unison; their test9 If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [if we are willing to take human authority], the testimony of God is greater (of stronger authority), for this is the testimony of God, even the witness which He has borne regarding His Son. 1 John 5:5-9 “For the life (the animal soul) is in the blood, and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life [which it represents].” Lev. 17:11. 5 Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [[a]even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God. 6 What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:5-6.
Jesus teaches that humanity is born spiritually dead and needs to not only have a physical (water) birth as human but also must have a (spiritual) birth for the soul to have eternal access to the Kingdom of God. The is found not in good works but by having a spiritual birth and relationship in Christ Jesus as LORD and to keep HIS commandments.
Isa. 28:9-20 is also a good read on the subject along with John 3.
Body = water = Word of God
Soul = blood = Holy Spirit
Spirit = spirit = Heavenly Father
Gen.1:26, God began the process of making man in HIS Image & Likeness. as per the star of David used in the flag of Israel…. Jesus is the first to fulfill that vision. In HIM we have the same potential, if we are up for it?
The 7000 years that God has given man in time started with Adam in his creation as the first living soul in the Image and likeness of God with being the first species with freewill. Humanity is nearing the 6,000 year mark down that time line and we are now into the Jesus prophesy of Matt.24, Mark 13 and Luke 21…. Be teaching about this prophesy on Tues. evening 5/25 (shared pot-blessing meal at 5:30, Study about 6.) The 7, 000 year time line is all a matter of prophesy in which the 6,000 year have been very accurate. So, personally I expect the last 1000 years to be right on as well. 2 Pet.3:8.
So we are living in a temporary time dimension of one week of our 1,000 yr. days. We are here to learn how to use our free will for righteousness and how to walk by faith as so does our Creator.
In Gen.1:26 the statement is made “Let us (God is a trinity) make man in our image and likeness.” Of course we run off with thinking that was an immediate action and not seeing the process that would need to happen to accomplish that vision. It took 4,000 years for God to bring to pass the 1st to accomplish that vision in Christ Jesus as a human being born of the blood of Abraham and David, fulfilling that vision exactly in the Old Testament. And in the New Testament, 2 Peter 3
So lets spend just a little time getting to know who we are and what we are in this process of perfection. 1 John 3-9:3 For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome (burdensome, oppressive, or grievous). 4 For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]? 6 This is He Who came by (with) water and blood [[a]His baptism and His death], Jesus Christ (the Messiah)—not by (in) the water only, but by (in) the water and the blood. And it is the [Holy] Spirit Who bears witness, because the [Holy] Spirit is the Truth. 7 So there are three witnesses [b]in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are One; 8 many coincides]. and there are three witnesses on the earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree [are in unison; their test9 If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [if we are willing to take human authority], the testimony of God is greater (of stronger authority), for this is the testimony of God, even the witness which He has borne regarding His Son. 1 John 5:5-9 “For the life (the animal soul) is in the blood, and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life [which it represents].” Lev. 17:11. 5 Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [[a]even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God. 6 What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:5-6.
Jesus teaches that humanity is born spiritually dead and needs to not only have a physical (water) birth as human but also must have a (spiritual) birth for the soul to have eternal access to the Kingdom of God. The is found not in good works but by having a spiritual birth and relationship in Christ Jesus as LORD and to keep HIS commandments.
Isa. 28:9-20 is also a good read on the subject along with John 3.
Body = water = Word of God
Soul = blood = Holy Spirit
Spirit = spirit = Heavenly Father
Gen.1:26, God began the process of making man in HIS Image & Likeness. as per the star of David used in the flag of Israel…. Jesus is the first to fulfill that vision. In HIM we have the same potential, if we are up for it?
Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy, Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org
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So how you doing in training your soul to love God and to seek for HIS Righteousness? If we don’t learn humility (To have ears) and obedience. Do you really expect God to replace your temporary body with another eternal body in which to make his universe like the planet earth?
MONEY AND RESURRECTION
MONEY AND THE RESURRECTION, WORTH CONSIDERING, 5/20/21
THE RETURN OF THE KING Dr. Larry L. Goldman “Chrislam”
•What is the timeline of current events leading to the appearing of the Antichrist?
•What are the Abraham Accords and how does it play into the End Times?
•What role does the Roman Catholic Church play in the End Times?
•Why should we be concerned about the rise of Chrislam?
THE RETURN OF THE KING Dr. Larry L. Goldman “Chrislam”
•What is the timeline of current events leading to the appearing of the Antichrist?
•What are the Abraham Accords and how does it play into the End Times?
•What role does the Roman Catholic Church play in the End Times?
•Why should we be concerned about the rise of Chrislam?
•How are evangelicals committing spiritual fornication?
•How can we know when the Lord is returning?
•Where are we right now in the timeframe?
•Why is Satan loosed after 1,000 years?
•What is the purpose of the Tribulation?
•What happens before the Tribulation?
•Who are the Tribulation saints?
•What is the covenant of death?
•Who is the False Prophet?
•Who is the Antichrist?
COMMERCE or CHRIST? By Gerald Chester -SOURCE: www.strategieswork.com
In his gospel record, the first-century physician Luke quoted Jesus: “No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money” Luke 16:13 (NIV). Hence the worship of God and money are mutually exclusive. Please note that I did not say that God and money are mutually exclusive, but rather the worship of God and money are mutually exclusive. Most of us do not consider ourselves to be worshipers of money. Instead we claim to be worshipers of God. But if Amy Domini is correct and the signs and symbols of the culture reveal what people really value and therefore worship, do the signs confirm that we are worshipers of money? Consider the following signs: Sign #1: Success is denominated in terms of money. When the label “successful” is applied to a person, we are commonly referring to his or her financial success. Unless the person is an outright criminal like Bernie Madoff, the level of success that one enjoys is directly proportional to one’s financial fortune.
Sign #2: Americans live as consumers not stewards. This is so obvious to the workplace that business pundits have labeled Americans as “consumers.” Furthermore, our economy is built on consumption; hence, when personal consumption drops, so does the economy. Sign #3: An entitlement mentality has emerged in America regarding the right to a certain standard of living, disaster aide, health care, and financial safety. Most people expect the government to care for them if something goes wrong and when they get old. There is no compelling reason to responsibly save money or to help each other. Sign #4: Almost everyone chooses their work based on money. People, as a general rule, accept jobs and leave jobs to make more money. Any other factors that might be considered are secondary.
Sign #5: Money, for the most part, dictates where people choose to live. Most people determine the largest mortgage they qualify for and shop for a home that will match that mortgage. Because of this, many people live “house poor,” meaning that they cannot adequately furnish, decorate and/or maintain their homes. Further-more, because people live on the edge financially, when economic stress comes they often lose their homes through foreclosure.
As I consider these signs, I am persuaded that money is very important to people-far more important than God. Having been active in Christianity for more than fifty years, my anecdotal observation is that God is important to people for a few hours each week on Sunday, but the rest of the time most people focus on money. Money defines who we are-how we view and use money, our social standing, our public policy, where we work, and how we live. Where is God in all of this?
As noted above, one of the rules of God’s universe is that people cannot worship both God and money-a choice has to be made. Sadly, few seem to understand this reality-many professing Christians display the signs noted above, which means that they are trying to worship God and money. Let us be clear: when we break God’s rules, there will be consequences. Note the words of the apostle Paul in Galatians 6:7: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” [NIV]. It is deception to think that we can sow seeds of rebellion by violating God’s laws and not have consequences. Yet, this is what we are doing. We think that we can worship God and money, but God has said that we can’t…
The popular paradigm of present day Christianity focuses on getting people to make a decision for Christ, as if one decision is all that we need to make. This implies that all other decisions can be made without Christ. When you read the New Testament, it is abundantly clear the apostle Paul viewed Christ and his teachings as the basis for making all decisions (e.g., Colossians 2). About a year ago, I heard a speaker say that he was not trying to get people to make a decision for Christ, rather he was trying to get them to make every decision for Christ. This is the biblical perspective. I think the signs of the times are clear. The professing Christian community, particularly in North America, has abandoned the worship of Christ and chosen to worship commerce (i.e., money). This choice will have undesirable consequences. Perhaps the current economic calamity is part of the consequences. Hosea 13:2 reads: “Now they [the Israelites] sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen . . .” (NIV). Note that the craftsmen (i.e., the workplace) simply accommodated the wishes of the people. The real driver in a culture is the worldview of the people. The workplace and public policy of a culture merely reflect the people’s worldview. If the people choose to worship God, then the workplace and public policy will worship God. And if the people choose to worship money, the workplace and public policy will also worship money. Choosing to worship money instead of God will lead to judgment (see Deuteronomy 28). But if people repent and worship the one true God, then there will be blessings. So the choice is ours, commerce (i.e., money) or Christ-what will it be? Know this: because of the sin of man, the default answer is commerce. So if you want to change, truly change, you have to proactively engage in rejecting the worship of money and choose Christ…
Yours, in HIS great Love & wonderful Grace & Mercy, Ken<>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org
REVELATION-2.pdfFAITH & RAPTURE
FAITH & RAPTURE, “WORTH CONSIDERING” 5/18/21, From Ken<><
To be included, everything in the Kingdom of God, is a matter of faith. Without faith it is impossible to please GOD. If we don’t have faith to make Christ Jesus LORD, we remain lost. If we don’t have faith to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit we remain powerless. If we don’t have the faith to get out of the boat, we will never learn to walk on water. Faith is the Substance and Evidence of things hoped for and not seen.
Why did I have to wait 13 years to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit? It was due to my false doctrine and lack of faith that needed to be corrected. Above all things, God honors our freewill but only in faith & truth. “Be it unto you according to your faith.” Matt. 9:28-30. If you are set on going through part of the Great Tribulation, that is your faith? There is but one Rapture, not 2 or 3. Frankly I feel I will be with Jesus booting lucifer and his minions out of the Kingdom of God from the beginning to the middle of the Great Tribulation. The time of the Rapture (Rev.12:11 is still with God and will come as a thief in the night. We need to be on a constant watch for it. Matt.24:42-44 Jesus tells us that we will not know until in the instant that it happens. And only those with oil and bright lamps of faith will get to go.
In Essentials, Unity. In all else Love.
Essentials:
The Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ (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 Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7:14, Mt. 1:23, Luke 1:27).
The Blood Atonement (Acts 20:28, Rom. 3:25, Rom. 5:9, Eph. 1:7).
The Bodily Resurrection (Luke 24:36 46, 1 Cor. 15:1 4, 1 Cor. 15:14 15).
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.
An expanded 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 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. 4:1 16).
Our present world. Prophesy of the last days Church by Apostle Paul: 2 Tim. 3:1
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].
Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com>
A new poll by Rasmussen shows that around two-thirds of American voters consider the current migrant situation at the US-Mexico border to be a “crisis,” and half believe the Biden administration is to blame for it, Fox 28 reports. The survey of 1,000 likely US was conducted on 9-10 May 2021. China’s Communist authorities have launched a digital revolution against Christianity, according to Christians familiar with the situation. Islamist militants killed and injured numerous Christians in a church and towns in central and northern Nigeria, Christians confirmed Thursday. An open letter by Retired Military leaders who have served in recent administrations blasted the Biden administration, his mental fitness, and stated the election was rigged in their open letter published this week. Some highlights: The letter questioned the integrity of the U.S. election Questions Biden’s Mental Fitness Stated that the Biden Administration is launching a full-blown assault on our Constitutional rights in a dictatorial manner The loss of Freedom of Speech, Blasts the Iran deal, ‘Anarchy’ cannot be tolerated
‘Illegals are flooding our country’ Conservative lawmakers in over thirty US states have introduced legislation to prohibit transgender youth from competing in female sports, the American Family Association reports. The Biden administration said in a court filing last week it may reverse a 21-year-old restriction on the abortion pill and allow it to be distributed by mail, even after the pandemic ends. Row verses Wade to be reconsidered by the Supreme Court.
TODAY’S WORLD
U.S. Customs and Border Protection just released the official count of border apprehensions from April, and the numbers unsurprisingly SURPASSED March’s record high apprehension numbers: More than 178,000 migrants in total ILLEGALLY crossed the Southern Border in the month of April ALONE Over 17,000 of those migrants were unaccompanied children. This is the HIGHEST one-month total of illegal crossings in the past 20 years. And more are coming… This is unconstitutional as it violates national laws to protect our nations boarders.
Be Blessed in your day, Ken<>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org
To be included, everything in the Kingdom of God, is a matter of faith. Without faith it is impossible to please GOD. If we don’t have faith to make Christ Jesus LORD, we remain lost. If we don’t have faith to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit we remain powerless. If we don’t have the faith to get out of the boat, we will never learn to walk on water. Faith is the Substance and Evidence of things hoped for and not seen.
Why did I have to wait 13 years to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit? It was due to my false doctrine and lack of faith that needed to be corrected. Above all things, God honors our freewill but only in faith & truth. “Be it unto you according to your faith.” Matt. 9:28-30. If you are set on going through part of the Great Tribulation, that is your faith? There is but one Rapture, not 2 or 3. Frankly I feel I will be with Jesus booting lucifer and his minions out of the Kingdom of God from the beginning to the middle of the Great Tribulation. The time of the Rapture (Rev.12:11 is still with God and will come as a thief in the night. We need to be on a constant watch for it. Matt.24:42-44 Jesus tells us that we will not know until in the instant that it happens. And only those with oil and bright lamps of faith will get to go.
In Essentials, Unity. In all else Love.
Essentials:
The Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ (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 Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7:14, Mt. 1:23, Luke 1:27).
The Blood Atonement (Acts 20:28, Rom. 3:25, Rom. 5:9, Eph. 1:7).
The Bodily Resurrection (Luke 24:36 46, 1 Cor. 15:1 4, 1 Cor. 15:14 15).
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.
An expanded 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 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. 4:1 16).
Our present world. Prophesy of the last days Church by Apostle Paul: 2 Tim. 3:1
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].
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A new poll by Rasmussen shows that around two-thirds of American voters consider the current migrant situation at the US-Mexico border to be a “crisis,” and half believe the Biden administration is to blame for it, Fox 28 reports. The survey of 1,000 likely US was conducted on 9-10 May 2021. China’s Communist authorities have launched a digital revolution against Christianity, according to Christians familiar with the situation. Islamist militants killed and injured numerous Christians in a church and towns in central and northern Nigeria, Christians confirmed Thursday. An open letter by Retired Military leaders who have served in recent administrations blasted the Biden administration, his mental fitness, and stated the election was rigged in their open letter published this week. Some highlights: The letter questioned the integrity of the U.S. election Questions Biden’s Mental Fitness Stated that the Biden Administration is launching a full-blown assault on our Constitutional rights in a dictatorial manner The loss of Freedom of Speech, Blasts the Iran deal, ‘Anarchy’ cannot be tolerated
‘Illegals are flooding our country’ Conservative lawmakers in over thirty US states have introduced legislation to prohibit transgender youth from competing in female sports, the American Family Association reports. The Biden administration said in a court filing last week it may reverse a 21-year-old restriction on the abortion pill and allow it to be distributed by mail, even after the pandemic ends. Row verses Wade to be reconsidered by the Supreme Court.
TODAY’S WORLD
U.S. Customs and Border Protection just released the official count of border apprehensions from April, and the numbers unsurprisingly SURPASSED March’s record high apprehension numbers: More than 178,000 migrants in total ILLEGALLY crossed the Southern Border in the month of April ALONE Over 17,000 of those migrants were unaccompanied children. This is the HIGHEST one-month total of illegal crossings in the past 20 years. And more are coming… This is unconstitutional as it violates national laws to protect our nations boarders.
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Saturday, Relax and Enjoy…..
Aloha Saint, Family and Friends, Beloved of Jesus & Me
What a lovely Saturday Morning here in Kealia, a good friend sent me some very lovely sounds to start my my day. (The first one, IS Amazing) Don’t tell me that there is no Intelligent Design. The building of the piano, the composer, the gifting of the child all as a gift to us all in this moment of time. So I also found and enjoyed the rest of the attached over a cup of tea. So take some time off, hang 10 and relax a bit in your quest for the good life from our Creator.
Yours, in HIS great love & Wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org
AUTHORITY
Aloha Saints, Family & Friends, beloved of Jesus and me, John 3:16
Authority Worth Considering 5/11/21 Trinity Fellowship at Kealia, Ken Smith<><
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AUTHORITY
English Language Learners Definition of authority : the power to give orders or make decisions : the power or right to direct or control someone or something. : the confident quality of someone who knows a lot about something or who is respected or obeyed by other people.
So, let us start in our quest for understanding here with the first abuse of authority.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Isaiah 14:12-14
Ezek. 28:13-18″ “13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 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.
So in the beginning, before Adam, GOD created a spiritual world that also allowed for freewill. It appears that lucifer was created to cover the works of God in our solar system including earth. So in this event 2/3rds of the Angles stayed submitted and 1/3 of the angles left became demons. God Gained Michael and Gabrael and lost lucifer. But now the angels that are with God are there because they want to be there and want to serve GOD. So there is both freewill and righteousness without manipulation of any kind.
It appears that lucifer misjudged GOD’S loving peaceful humility as to being soft and weak and decided to reign on earth. But in the absolute foreknowledge of GOD, this decision of pride and rebellion was also known as also the ultimate destruction of lucifer. And all was used by God in the creation of Adam as the first species in the image and likeness of God to perfect the use of freewill to grow into righteousness. So only one NO tree in the Garden of Eden was allowed to still belong to lucifer and to help Adam grow in learning how to use freewill. All of the other trees were all yes and to enjoy. But GOD already knew that Adam would fail but that the second Adam (Jesus) would prevail four centuries later.
So we are born into a world where most of the trees of choice cause death but where there is still the one tree of Christ Jesus to bring life. And it is up to us to gather around that Tree of Life or not.
Let’s look at the 3 temptations of Eve that caused the spiritual death to both Adam & Eve. First off Eve was created to help Adam, not to take charge of Adam. Adam needed a wife, not a mother. So then at the temptation why is Eve in the conversation at all. And why is Adam just standing by her and listening. And then lets look at the temptations, every day we get the same 3 temptations. Can you pick them out from the lies and ½ truths ?
Now the serpent was more subtle and crafty than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And he [Satan] said to the woman, Can it really be that God has said, You shall not eat from every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden, 3 Except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. 4 But the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die, 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessing and calamity. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apron like girdles.
For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself]. 1 John 2:16 And these are the same 3 temptations that lucifer used on Jesus. Matt.4:2-10, Notice here that Jesus only used the words of Moses as the authority to defeat lucifer.
We often pray the Prayer, “Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be Done on Earth as in Heaven. Our Heavenly Father has set up an authority structure on Earth to help us get ready to live with HIM in Heaven. He is total authority but wants to live in a peaceful loving gentle family of humility and righteousness. We are now in a temporary earthly time dimension to learn how to do just that. If we are going to see the Glory of Jesus then there must be Loving Authority and Unity. And if we would rather not, there is nothing outside of GOD but void. The order of authority training goes simple like this: Children, Women, Mother, Men, Father, Deacons, Elders, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Heavenly Father. And it is loving authority by choice and not be manipulation.
Jesus prayed this prayer: “20 Neither for these alone do I pray [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for all those who will ever come to believe in (trust in, cling to, rely on) Me through their word and teaching, 21 That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me. 22 I have given to them the glory (power) and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: John 17:20-22, Heb.13:17. We are in school learning how to use our freewill and become obedient in humility or we are in the world walking in pride and rebellion.
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WISDOM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Trinity Bible Fellowship, Friday, 5;30 85-4554 Mamalahoa Hwy. 5/7/21, Kahu Ken Smith
WISDOM: WORTH CONSIDERING, (Don’t leave earth without it.)
Why God Wants You Healthy
1. To Declare His Love & Compassion:
“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith, 1 Jn.5:3-4. “And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.” And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed, Mark 1:40.”
2. To Reveal His Glory:
“…when the multitude saw it, they marveled and glorified God…Matt.9:8.” “…when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel, Matt. 15:30-31.” “…And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou has sent me, and hast loved them, as thou has loved me. Jn.17:22-23
3. To Manifest His Victory:
“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil,”
1 John 3:8. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him,” Acts 10:37-38.
4. To Confirm the Birthright of His Saints:
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed, Isa.53:4-5.” “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all they diseases, Psalm 103:2-3.” “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall he not with Him also freely give us all things? Rom.8:32.” “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed, 1 Peter 2:27.”
5. To Establish His Word:
Matt. 8:16-17, “… they brought unto Him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses, Isaiah 53.” “… If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in Him.” John 10:37-38
6. To Build His Kingdom:
“For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power, 1 Cor.4:20.”
“And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought amount the people… There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one, Acts 5:12-16.”
“The fear (Holy Reverence) of the LORD, is the beginning of WISDOM, and healing. And is seen in POWER !
As the Holy Spirit was assigned by Christ Jesus (The Word of God) to gather HIS CHURCH together; knowing about the Holy Spirit is extremely important for Christians. The Holy Spirit is possible the least understood of the Trinity of God. Think of Water, H2O that can be solid (ice) liquid (water) vapor (steam)… The same element but different purposes. So the Holy Spirit as per the Bible can be sad, angry, insulted resisted, seal, confirm, empower, mis-represented and make people Holy. Is.63:10, Mt.12:31, Acts 7:51, Eph.4:30, Heb.10:29.. He also loves, prays, teaches, testifies, communicates and heals as a person: Neh 9:20, Jn 15:26, Ac 13:2, Rom.8:26-27, 15:30, 1 Cor. 12:11.
But HE is like a wind that can not be seen except for the results and can be everywhere at the same time and in contact with every soul that is truly seeking GOD’s LIGHT. Isaiah 11:1-11 , Rev. 3:1, Rev. 4:5, Rev. 5:6 (Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety and Fear of God are HIS gifts and ministries.) The menorah (/məˈnɔːrə/; Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה [menoˈʁa]) is described in the Bible as the seven-lamp (six branches) ancient Hebrew lampstand made of pure gold and used in the tabernacle set up by Moses in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem. Fresh olive oil was burned daily to light its lamps. (Means: LAMP.) In the Tabernacle of Moses in the wilderness, the Minorah was the prophetic promise of Christ Jesus sending the Holy Spirit to us to build HIS CHURCH. It is not “our” church but HIS CHURCH. We have to learn to follow the Holy Spirit to really be that CHURCH.
We are saved when we Truly make Jesus LORD and submit to HIS commandments and allow Him to rule over us and we are born from above into the Kingdom of God. We are sealed as we give an open clear testimony in our lives as to the rule of Jesus over us. We can also be empowered to help do HIS work on earth as we are filled with the Holy Spirit in obedience through faith.
And we can also decide to jump track and be on our own at any time. It is not how we start out but how we finish that is important. There is no “Get Out Of Hell” free cards or of paper to hang on the wall and then to be able do as you want to in the flesh, Rom.8….
Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy, Ken<>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org
LOVE & OBEDIENCE
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LOVE & OBEDIENCE, “WORTH CONSIDERING” 5/6/21
The other evening as going to bed I was talking to the LORD or HOLY SPIRIT about love. He was sharing with me that GOD’S kind of LOVE “does no harm.” Obviously there is a lot of pain, suffering and harm in our world today. So we are not all on the same page about all this. Of course there is also the law of sowing & reaping. We often ten to blame GOD for what we brought on to ourselves.
Seems the problem is our ability to rationalize and to presume that we do no harm, when actually, we do. We are taught to train up a child in the way they shall go and when they get to be an adult that will be their life style. So obviously our system of training children in becoming adults is not working. Especially with porn and atheism in our school systems today. My parents never ever taught me anything about becoming an adult. It was bad and good, obedience/disobedience, blessings or punishment and rather soft on the punishment. Like one time when about 6 years old I embarrassed my mother and she whipped me with willow switches on my bare legs all the way home for 3 blocks. And she was wrong in what she did. The problem is that we don’t realize it but it is by example that we do most of the training. “Monkey see, monkey do.” And most of our love is very selfish, it is really about us. Jesus taught us as Christians to love our enemies and to do good to them who use us badly. Jesus taught us to go find the one out of one hundred that is lost. We sit in our own little comfort zones and become our own lord and do what we want to and then tell the world that we are Christian. By what example do we find this in Holy Scripture ? By and large the church, so called, has opted to change GOD’s Truth into being self serving. “If GOD wants them, HE can save them, HE does not need me.” “The Bible teaches in Hebrews that I don’t need or have any other authority over me but the Holy Spirit.” But then many break the 4th commandment in saying GOD said it when HE did not. We have holding pens called churches that tell souls that GOD want’s them rich and to be successful and forget about Job and what he went through due to his bad doctrine of fear being allowed in his family. We tend to make our truth to be God’s Truth and it will not stand in the judgment.
I came away from my conversation with the Holy Spirit feeling a lot different about what it means to “Do No Harm” in seeing it from an eternal perspective of GOD and not a subjective space of me being in charge full of rationalization and manipulation. And knowing the example that I am to set in the world as an example being a Christian or a (willing slave of Christ Jesus.) It gave me a deep feeling of responsibility of really putting on the mind of Christ and clothing myself with what he likes and does not like. And yet it was not an intrusion into my rights but a deliverance from my rights so I could enter into the joy of my LORD. So what in my life helps others to become like Jesus is of the Holy Spirit. And what in my life as being self protective, unproductive and ego centered is not. What is all about Jesus as to what is opposed as about me. Our Creator God has invited us to decide to live with Him in Righteousness in a Kingdom with a King. This is the best form of government if with a good king and it is totally top down. So we are either in a school learning to become obedient for HIS Kingdom, or we are children of this world learning to protect our own little kingdom turf. In Rev. 22:14-17 we see the final graduation. “Blessed are they that “DO” His Commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” Most so called Christians, have no idea WHAT ARE of the true commandments of Jesus and much less, learning to be obedient..
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“WORTH CONSIDERING” “REVIVAL” “GREAT LAST HARVEST OF SOULS”
6:00PM EDT 5/5/2021 Stephen Strang (Facebook/Chris Reed) As the social and spiritual climate in our nation gets worse and worse, talk of an end-times revival, even a third Great Awakening, is on the rise. Many young leaders are now declaring the approach of a coming revival, among them a 36-year-old Indiana pastor named Chris Reed, who had a supernatural encounter with an angel whose words agree with this prophetic perspective. Reed’s encounter took place in what he calls “the libraries of heaven” with an angel he says was named “The Fear of the Lord.” In this encounter, Reed felt a holy reverence and awe as he was drawn to a bookcase labeled “The Supernatural” and to a specific book there titled “The Seven Spirits of God.” On the front cover were the words “The Spirit of the Lord.” Each page, he told me, was thick and white, like a book within itself. The first page was titled “The Spirit of Wisdom”; the next “The Spirit of Living Understanding or Revelation”; the third, “The Spirit of Counsel”; the fourth, “The Spirit of Might” and the sixth, “The Spirit of Knowledge.” These correspond to the description of the seven Spirits of God listed in Isaiah 11:2. Reed turned the book over, and the back cover read, “The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord.” He glanced up and then down to see that the back cover had been torn off, and all the pages in the book fell out. He was left holding the front cover, which also read, “The Spirit of the Lord.” The angel with him in this library said, “Do you understand what you’re seeing? What you are seeing is the result of when the fear of the Lord is missing in the church. You lose the spirit of counsel and might. You lose the spirit of wisdom in everyday situations, knowing how to apply knowledge and wisdom. You lose the spirit of revelation, so people operate out of intellect and head knowledge.” Finally, he said, “When you lose the fear of the Lord, all you’re left with is an atmosphere.” Reed instantly thought of the many church services he had been in where he didn’t see the spirit of might in the form of miracles or the spirit of knowledge in words of knowledge or revelation, but people still said, “We feel the Spirit of the Lord. We feel the presence of the Lord.” “There’s got to be more than just an atmosphere and a feeling that the Spirit brings,” Reed says. “We’ve got to have the full, complete Spirit of God at work, or all we’re left with is an atmosphere.” The full work of the Spirit comes when the fear of the Lord is present, he says. That means a reverential awe and a hatred of all kinds of sin, according to Proverbs 8:13, which says, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.” “Holiness, godliness, returns to the church when there is a sovereign outpouring of the spirit of the fear of the Lord,” Reed says. But it doesn’t end there. Reed drew my attention to Acts 5:11, where Ananias and Sapphira lied about their giving and died. The result was that “great fear came on the entire church and all who heard these things.” This immediately led to the return of signs and wonders at an unprecedented level, a supernatural unity, a heightened respect of the church by the world, exponential growth and harvest of souls, angelic activity and the healing of the sick in unprecedented ways. All these results are found in Acts 5, after the fear of the Lord returned to the early church. “So much is tied to a restoration of the fear of the Lord,” Reed told me. “There is a complete, sevenfold, perfected element of the Spirit of God at work in the church again. That’s what we want.”
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FIRE
“FIRE” “WORTH CONSIDERING” 5/3/21
Aloha Saints, Family & Friends, Beloved of Jesus and me, Ken<><
Seems my life lately has been getting cluttered with stuff lately. A home in Kealia to complete. A lot down the street 7 doors to clean up and make into a youth outreach ministry. Thinking of calling it the FireHouse as a home burned down there 5 years ago and the LORD is wanting us to be filled with the fire of the Holy Spirit. So lets do a little study together on Holy Spirit Fire today. 1st we tend to think of fire as destructive but actually the basic elements are not destroyed only changed back into basic building blocks that can be used again and again. In the amplified Bible FIRE is mentioned 527 times and 78 in the New Testament. One of the places in the N.T. that gets my attention is Heb. 12:25: “ See to it that you do not refuse [to listen to] Him who is speaking [to you now]. For if those [sons of Israel] did not escape when they refused [to listen to] him who warned them on earth [revealing God’s will], how much less will we escape if we turn our backs on Him who warns from heaven? 26 His voice shook the earth [at Mount Sinai] then, but now He has given a promise, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the [starry] heaven.” 27 Now this [expression], “Yet once more,” indicates the removal and final transformation of all those things which can be shaken—that is, of that which has been created—so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, and offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is [indeed] a consuming fire.
So, if we are being trained to be like HIM, Gen 1:26 there are some big changes ahead for us. Of course God also created in us a FreeWill so we can decide, (IF) we don’t want it. Jude writes about this. “ 13. … wandering stars (suns), to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. So for me, I really don’t want to go there. So what do I need to do to change to grow into that LIGHT/FIRE of God to be like Jesus?
2 Peter 3:10-11 gives us a prophesy concerning the big change ahead. “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. 11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be [in the meantime] in holy behavior [that is, in a pattern of daily life that sets you apart as a believer] and in godliness [displaying profound reverence toward our awesome God], Also in Matt. 24-25.
So for us, it starts out in Ezek 28:18 (Prophesy concerning lucifer:) “You profaned your sanctuaries. By the great quantity of your sins and the enormity of your guilt, By the unrighteousness of your trade. Therefore I have brought forth a fire from your midst; It has consumed you, And I have reduced you to ashes on the earth. In the sight of all who look at you.” So guess what: We are being trained to be that fire in Christ Jesus, Heb. 1:6-7: And when He again brings the firstborn [highest-ranking Son] into the world, He says, “And all the angels of God are to worship Him.” 7 And concerning the angels He says, “Who makes His angels winds, And His ministering servants flames of fire [to do His bidding].” Jesus also shared about this in Luke 3:15-17: “Now the people were in a state of expectation, and all were wondering in their hearts about John, as to whether he was the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed). 16 John answered them all by saying, “As for me, I baptize you [only] [a] with water; but One who is mightier [more powerful, more noble] than I is coming, and I am not fit to untie the strap of His sandals [even as His slave]. He will baptize you [who truly repent] with the Holy Spirit and [you who remain unrepentant] with [b] fire. 17 His [c] winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom); but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire.” This study only scratches the surface of this great truth. Really not preached much any more?????
Yours, in His great Love. Wonderful Grace & Mercy, Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org
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I Have not been sending along the Worthy Brief much lately, too depressing. Sadly our national heritage of freedom is being quickly eroded away in a great quest for power. As a nation we have elected many into office that are there due to their own quest for power.
But George did send along this following statement concerning faith. “Take a leap of faith!”
Luke 17:5-6 And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
The African Impala (an African antelope) are amazing creatures that can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance greater than 30 feet. Yet Impalas can be kept in a zoo inside an enclosure with a simple 3-foot wall. Why? Impalas will not jump if they can’t see where their feet will land. Do we have something in common with these antelopes? Able to take great leaps of faith, but refusing to do it unless we can see where we’ll land? George Mueller said of faith, “Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man’s power ends.” In Biblical terms: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” True faith cannot see how the landing will occur…it simply leaps under the conviction that it WILL occur. Remember, Biblical faith begins where our power ends! Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George Baltimore, Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com>