ARMAGEDDON

Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,  beloved of Jesus and me,   John 3:16

ARMAGEDDON   “WORTH CONSIDERING”    4/7/21    From Ken Smith<><

The window we now have for Christian Freedom is closing rather quickly now unless in the U.S. there is an National Repentance and Revival.  Some of my good friends are pulling up stakes and moving to Panama for a more secure future.  Jesus shared with us that the darkness would get darker and the Light would get brighter.   The middle of the roaders will have to go one way or the other and that will ultimately become an eternal destiny.  Jesus talks about this To the last church prior to the removal of the Church from earth in Rev. 3:14     “Message to Laodicea “    “To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in [e] Laodicea write:  “These are the words of the Amen, the trusted and faithful and true Witness, the [f] Beginning and Origin of God’s creation:  15 ‘I know your deeds, that you are [g] neither cold (invigorating, refreshing) nor hot (healing, therapeutic); I wish that you were [h] cold or hot. 16 So because you are lukewarm (spiritually useless), and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of My mouth [rejecting you with disgust]. 17 Because you say, “I am rich, and have prospered and grown wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked [without hope and in great need], 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold that has been heated red hot and refined by fire so that you may become truly rich; and white clothes [representing righteousness] to clothe yourself so that the shame of your nakedness will not be seen; and healing salve to put on your eyes so that you may see. 19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I rebuke and discipline [showing them their faults and instructing them]; so be enthusiastic and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will]. 20 Behold, I stand at the door [of the church] and continually knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him (restore him), and he with Me. 21 He who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God], I will grant to him [the privilege] to sit beside Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down beside My Father on His throne. 22 He who has an ear, let him hear and heed what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

Notice here that in this last Church prior to John being taken up in to the Heavens that Jesus is outside, what is supposed to be, HIS own Church, knocking to get in.  He wants to give us an eternal treasure, the Holy Spirit so you can see in HIS eternal spiritual world and a covering of HIS righteousness in exchange for your soiled rags.   And if you decided to go with HIM some major changes will be needed and some will not be too comfortable to experience.  You may feel like you are dying to most all that you have known in your past as being of value.  But it is only earthly or temporal value.  And like the dollar, this whole world is in a death spiral of only wanting more.  But the outcome with Jesus will be eternal life rather than an eternal blackness in a void prepared for the fallen angles and lucifer.  You have a whole life time in which to decide but then you really don’t know how long that will be for.  Death can come suddenly and without time to reconsider.  So if you are concerned about the Truth about Eternity it would be good to get into the New Testament and read all about it from one who has returned to tell us about it.  “The Revelation.”  
Also you can find help and support: www.Trinity-Aloha.org   www.OhanaChurch.Life    And   www.CCCInt.org   Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy, Ken<><   ( Change / Delete, ken@trinity-aloha.org    “Worth Considering” Library available as link on HomePage.)  There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD and all who Love, Honor and Obey Christ Jesus as LORD are eternal members.

POLITICAL:

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The Idaho Senate passed a bill that would outlaw nearly all abortions in the state by banning them once fetal cardiac activity can be detected.    The U.S. government won’t issue so-called vaccine passports, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, after Texas sought to limit their development because of privacy concerns.    A British court has ruled that the 2018 UK Lancashire Festival of Hope featuring Franklin Graham was subject to discrimination by local authorities which removed festival bus advertisements reading only “Time for Hope,” Assist News reports. The Blackpool Borough Council and Blackpool Transport Services were found to have violated the UK’s Equality Act 2010 by discriminating against the Festival specifically because of Graham’s religious views on homosexuality.   

https://worthy.watch/data-joe-biden-is-detaining-18000-minors-trumps-peak-number-was-just-2600

Nicole Taylor <editor@offthewire.org&gt;   Great Book by Dr. Crandall concerning “Touching Heaven”  Should be compulsive reading for all seeking God’s Truth concerning eternity.

7 scripture passages for hard times by Beth Matheson:  
1. Genesis 3:14-15 — God has always had victory over evil.
2. Psalm 56:8 — Our sorrow matters to God.
3. Proverbs 18:10 — God is our shelter.
4. Romans 5:3-5 — Our pain has a purpose.
5. Romans 8:26-27 — The Holy Spirit prays on our behalf.
6. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 — We have each other.
7. Revelation 21:3-4 — Our suffering will end in joy.

Most conservatives now feel VERY SURE that Trump did really WIN the election !  That the election was TOTALLY rigged.  But Only the Supreme Court could  STILL step in and disqualify the election due to fraud.  But so far they have refused to consider this possible injustice done to the American voters.  We should all write letters to the Supreme Court requesting a review.  After all, they work for us and they are paid by us.   These are the current members of the U.S. Supreme Court: Chief Justice John Roberts. Chief Justice John Roberts. Justice Clarence Thomas. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Stephen Breyer. Justice Samuel Alito. Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Justice Elena Kagan. Justice Neil Gorsuch. Justice Brett Kavanaugh. 
Mailing Address:     Supreme Court   1 First St NE, Washington, D.C., DC 20543

National Debt. now at about 28 Trillion Dollars.  And looking to add an additional 3.  The house of cards is about to fall again as in 1929 and the U.S. now is  headed into deeply considering socialism at that time.  Socialism is atheistic and lies to the people until in control and then kills or sends to work camps those who object to the lies not happening.  Look at Germany, Russia N. Korea, Venezuela  and China as great Socialists experiments.  Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness means nothing under socialism in the ultimate form.  As you can clearly see at this time, those who voted for Biden, voted for socialism and power for the Democratic Party.  (Which is anything BUT democratic.) 

PEACE

Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,  beloved of Jesus and me,   John 3:16

PEACE      “WORTH CONSIDERING”     4/5/21 by Ken Smith<><

.Today’s Scripture    (From a church in Texas that I felt to pass along.)
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
(Isaiah 26:3, ESV)
   
Where Peace Is Found
When you go through disappointments and face closed doors, you’ll be tempted to put self-pity and discouragement on the throne. Don’t fall into that trap. Keep God on the throne. He is saying, “If you keep Me on the throne, if you say no to the worry, no to the fear, and no to the offense, you’ll live a peaceful, blessed life.” Keep your mind stayed on Him, pass that test, and you’ll come into favor, blessing, healing, and promotion. And be aware every morning that something is going to try to get back on the throne. You don’t take it down once and you’re done. You have to keep it off. All through the day, worry and self-pity and other negative attitudes will try to creep back on the throne. There’s always something trying to get on the throne.

What’s on your throne? I wonder how much higher we would go, how much more we’d enjoy life, if we kept God on the throne.
   
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You are my Savior, my Lord, my provider, my healer, and my deliverer. Thank You for being on my throne, and my health, my finances, my family, and my circumstances are all in the palms of Your hands. I will keep my mind stayed on You. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 2 Cor

Ken’s Thoughts:
Peace & Jesus go hand in hand.   After all, HE is the Prince of Peace.  The more of us we submit to Jesus as LORD the more Peace we experience.   The more of Adam we submit to, the less Peace we enjoy.   Jesus teaches us not to be concerned and to forget about the past,, HE has it covered.  And Jesus also teaches us not to be concerned about tomorrow that HE will take care of us as we love and submit to HIM.   But I can count on one hand the number of people in my experience that were really walking in that PEACE of GOD everyday due to traditions.  We are taught in the Bible to become like Jesus but we are taught in our schools, homes and churches that some of Adam is expected and OK.   In sharing on Holiness I have had folks challenge me with, “Who do you think I am, Jesus Christ.”   Actually I was only sharing about my efforts to walk in God’s Grace and live by the teaching of Jesus and HIS Apostles in faith.  And actually still working on it.   It is so easy to say something stupid or to be self centered especially when a conversation is moving briskly along.   Or that emotions are high about some issue and we end up in a pile thinking, “WELL!!!  What about ME!!!   Don’t I count, and pride destroys everything.

“Now large crowds were going along with Jesus; and He turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to Me, and does not [a] hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God]—he cannot be My disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow after Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me] cannot be My disciple.  Luke 14:25-27.  Hate in 1611 was use more to consider preferential love.  In other words, If we are a Christian we love HIM and HIS WORD above all else.  And HE really means to conform to HIS example in loving others through HIM.   Being conformed to Jesus would mean not to be comfortable with anyone not knowing the truth and spending eternity in blackness of darkness for ever.  Yesterday at our resurrection dinner not one soul had anything to say concerning the Resurrection.  

“… and [as to His divine nature] according to the Spirit of holiness was openly designated to be the Son of God with power [in a triumphant and miraculous way] by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 5 It is through Him that we have received grace and [our] apostleship to promote obedience to the faith and make disciples for His name’s sake among all the Gentiles, 6 and you also are among those who are called of Jesus Christ to belong to Him;” Rom, 1:4-6    So we are called into obedience through faith if we belong to HIM.  How are you doing in your classes in obedience.  Do you even know what HE wants you to be and do?   If you are blessed to live in the Kingdom of God for eternity, how much have you sent ahead with which to Honor the LORD?

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org
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Data from hundreds of millions of Facebook users was leaked online on Saturday, including personal information such as phone numbers, full names, and email addresses. The leaked data from 533 million users in 106 countries was posted on an obscure hacking forum.    Top Israeli officials are concerned that the United States is preparing to restart the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran without strengthening it, according to a new report.     The Israel Defense Forces received the first of a series of new spy aircraft, dubbed the Oron, on Sunday that it said would improve its ability to gather intelligence and identify targets for attack in Iran, Iraq, Yemen and other far-flung areas in the Middle East.     The U.S. Special Operations Command is shifting its focus from battling terrorists to fighting Chinese disinformation and preparing for a covert role in any future conflict with Beijing.     Enemy drone attack threats are a key part of the inspiration for newer kinds of laser weapons because they can incinerate drones without generating large amounts of explosive fragmentation. Moreover, newer lasers can scale attacks to align with the target and desired combat effect and, perhaps most of all, travel at the speed of light to destroy drones quickly, ideally before they are able to strike.       A new study finds that at least 55 of the United States’ biggest corporations paid no taxes last year on billions of dollars in profits.  America’s placeholder president, the Communist Chinese ventriloquist’s dummy who fantasizes about becoming the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt, wants vaccination passports badly.

TRADITIONS

Aloha Saints, Family and Friends,  beloved of Jesus and me,  John 3:16

TRADITIONS,     “WORTH CONSIDERING”     4/4/21       From   Ken Smith<><

My wife Sue, started cooking this morning about 4-5 in the morning to have her family over for an Easter Dinner at one.  It was a big spread of ham and poultry and all of the trimmings with home made fresh strawberry ice-cream and mango cheese cake.   We had prayer and dug in.   Folks left about 3 and took Sue till about 5 to get the place all back into order and to bed she went about 6.  Has to work tomorrow…   Get’s up at 4.

Not much said or was there interest in why the day but good food on the table,   chess was played, cell phone buzzed and it was a good family time in spirit of the stealth-full virus.  I will gargle good with Listerine tonight.  Did give away some Jesus Pidgin Books.

The older I get the more uncomfortable I seem to be getting about holidays.   As at my age I don’t have to go to work but get to do mostly what I want to or what I feel the Holy Spirit is guiding me to do.   As to the name Easter or really the Resurrection Day of Christ Jesus, I am more and more getting uncomfortable.   Seems that the name may be due to an English pagan goddess but tradition is tradition and hard to change even if a High Holy Day has very little impact.  Even hard for me to remember to say Happy Resurrection….

Google.  “The naming of the celebration as “Easter” seems to go back to the name of a pre-Christian goddess in England, Eostre, who was celebrated at beginning of spring. The only reference to this goddess comes from the writings of the Venerable Bede, a British monk who lived in the late seventh and early eighth century.”

It is very interesting for me as to what Jesus had to say about traditions:   “… and they had seen that some of His disciples ate their bread with [ceremonially] impure hands, that is, unwashed [and defiled according to Jewish religious ritual]. 3 ([a] For the Pharisees and all of the Jews do not eat unless they [b] carefully wash their hands, holding firmly to the traditions of the elders; 4 and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they [c] cleanse themselves [completely according to ritual]; and there are many other things [oral, man-made laws and traditions handed down to them] which they follow diligently, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper utensils.) Mark 7:2

And this is the teaching that Jesus had for them:   6 He replied, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites (play-actors, pretenders), as it is written [in Scripture],  ‘These people honor Me with their lips,  But their heart is far from Me.7 ‘They worship Me in vain [their worship is meaningless and worthless, a pretense],Teaching the precepts of men as doctrines [giving their traditions equal weight with the Scriptures].’8 You disregard and neglect the commandment of God, and cling [faithfully] to the tradition of men.

However,   Paul encourages us: “Imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.  2 I praise and appreciate you because you remember me in everything and you firmly hold to the [a] traditions [the substance of my instructions], just as I have passed them on to you. 3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head (authority over) of every man, and man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ.  1 Cor.11:1 “   So there are good traditions and bad traditions and how do we tell the difference?   By knowledge of the Word of God as validated in context with all of the 66 writings.

So our Creator sent Jesus to give us a living example of good traditions as per Heb. 1:3,   “The Son is the radiance and only expression of the glory of [our awesome] God [reflecting God’s Shekinah glory, the Light-being, the brilliant light of the divine], and the exact representation and perfect imprint of His [Father’s] essence, and upholding and maintaining and propelling all things [the entire physical and spiritual universe] by His powerful word [carrying the universe along to its predetermined goal]. When He [Himself and no other] had [by offering Himself on the cross as a sacrifice for sin] accomplished purification from sins and established our freedom from guilt, He sat down [revealing His completed work] at the right hand of the Majesty on high [revealing His Divine authority],

John the Beloved, teaches it this way:   “Whoever confesses and acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 We have come to know [by personal observation and experience], and have believed [with deep, consistent faith] the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides continually in him. 17 In this [union and fellowship with Him], love is completed and perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him]; because as He is, so are we in this world.

Also it is the LIGHT of TRUTH and that continuity of truth that makes the Bible, the Word of God.  Not the details in the translations.   In John 8, Jesus tells the religious leaders of HIS day 3 times that the “I AM”, Word of God, was speaking through HIM to them.  They understood clearly as they picked up rocks to kill HIM.  But not one translation that I know of gets it totally accurate 3 times.   Adam was created as a new species to grow into the image and likeness of GOD in 4K BC +/-.  He was told to replenish and subdue the earth.  So the earth (outside the garden) was still out of order as per Isa.14:17 which fits nicely in between Gen.1:1 & Gen 1:2.  Is there any history of an intelligent creator making a mess?  Seems the translators have an issue with that one as well and some only allow 6,000 years for the age of all creation?   But the overall Truth of the Prophets and Apostles in prophesy makes it very clear that our Creator loves us and has given us an opportunity to join with HIM for all eternity in Christ Jesus through the whole Bible.  On the other side, how can you prove extinction.  How do you prove there is nothing on the other side to the door of death.  The unfounded faith in extinction, to me, seems only a ploy of the enemy of our souls to make us feel comfortable in rejecting God’s salvation.   Extinction gives us a blind reason to try to be our own little ego king on our own little turf.  Logically,  if you can not prove extinction, (and you can’t)  in humility it would be better off in spending your time searching for the real TRUTH.   Asking good questions for good answers.  Why toss the potential of Eternal life under the buss.    Why not just toss out the dirty bath water,  and there is a lot of it.  If I am wrong, it will make no difference to me at all.   But if in humility and obedience I accept what I believe to be God’s Truth, and it is HIS Truth,  I have gained eternal life with my Maker. 

Hope to see you all in the Kingdom,  Ken<><  www.Trinity-Aloha.org
There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD,
all who Love, Honor & Obey HIM are eternal members.

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IT IS FINISHED

Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,  beloved of Jesus and me,   John 3:16

IT IS FINISHED,   “WORTH CONSIDERING”    4/2/21       From Ken Smith<><

When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then bowing his head, he gave up his spirit. John 19:30 CSB      3/23/21 by Melody at Day Spring

I had read this Scripture in John 19 so many times—the last words Jesus spoke on the day He was crucified. I knew that in those final moments as He was there on the cross, Jesus simply said, “It is finished,” closed His eyes, and died.

There’s such gravity in that moment. Imagining the Son of God, our Savior, with His battered and broken body nailed to a cross, stirs up a sense of both sadness and shame. He endured such terrible things that even thinking about them leads me to close my eyes in sorrow. Most every time I heard or read the story, my focus was on what happened, the events themselves, and less so on those three simple words He spoke at the end: “It is finished.” What did Jesus mean when He said “it is finished?”

A few months ago, my friend and Pastor Rodney Holmstrom spoke on this Scripture before a large Celebrate Recovery congregation, and he challenged each of us to really consider those words. In that moment, he said, Christ was not simply stating the obvious—that His earthly life was over. He was declaring that our sins were forgiven once and for all, their price paid by His sacrifice.

I knew this in my head. Of course I did. But had I taken it into my heart?

Rodney asked us, could we say these words out loud? “When He said, ‘It is finished,’ He was talking about me.” Could we write those words in a journal and mean them? Could we look into a mirror and speak them?

I tried, and I was surprised by how difficult it was for me to say them, how easy it was to shy away from them, as if my mistakes were too great for His forgiveness. It was simultaneously painful and humbling to realize the truth in that statement, and the truth was this: In that moment and by His death, Christ paid the price for every sin no matter how great—even for mine. Every wrong I had ever or would ever commit was forgiven, the debt for it paid in full, before I ever drew my first breath. I only had to accept it. How could that be?

I left that service that night with the weight of those words still clinging to my thoughts: When He said, “It is finished,” He was talking about me. At home, I tried saying them aloud again and again. And while it was still difficult, I found that each time I spoke them, my heart had a harder time rejecting them. The truth began to win. Later, I spent some time writing and creating around John 19:30 in my Journaling Bible, and I found that with each moment that I lingered there, those words became further etched onto my heart.

It’s fascinating how we can spend years knowing something without fully accepting it as certainty. Since childhood, I had believed that Jesus died for our sins and accepting Him meant we were forgiven. But isn’t it often easier to think that applies to everyone else?

I came to recognize that the shame and guilt of my own mistakes had clouded my understanding. I had believed the lies in my head (as so many of us do), like: I’ve made too many mistakes. Maybe I’m different. How could He really forgive me? My sin is just too great… I had let those lies sink deeply into my heart. But speaking and writing that simple, declarative sentence began to destroy the lies by covering them with his truth—that no sin is too great for his mercy, not even mine—and it brought me immediate peace and joy.

Today, as you consider the events from the day Jesus was crucified, as you consider Jesus’ last words, as you ponder that weighty moment when His spirit passed, try speaking those words aloud (even if you have to whisper them to get them out): When He said, ‘It is finished,’ He was talking about me.

Then say it again. Accept this truth—that Jesus died to grant the forgiveness of sins for all who accept Him—and annihilate the lie that your sins are too great or too numerous. Try writing it down or reflecting in the pages of your Journaling Bible. How does it feel to know that every mistake—past, present or future—is covered and the debt is paid in full? When Jesus said “it is finished,” He was talking about me. He was talking about you.

Good Thursday,   7 last words of Christ Jesus, the LORD   (Jesus was in the tomb 3 nights.)
1.  “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”  (Matthew 27:46)
2. “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34).
3. “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43).
4. “Dear Woman, here is your son!” and “Here is your mother!”  (John 19:26-27).
5. “I am thirsty” (John 19:28). Psalm 22:15, &  69:21:
6. “It is finished!” (John 19:30).
7. “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” (Luke 23:46)

Jesus know all about this prior to yielding to this time of agony for us threw the Old Testament prophesies.   He did it for the Glory that was set before HIM in faith…..   “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of [a] witnesses [who by faith have testified to the truth of God’s absolute faithfulness], stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us, 2 [ looking away from all that will distract us and ] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, [b] disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [ revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work].  Hebrews 12:1-3

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org
( Add / Delete: ken@trinity-aloha.org  “Worth Considering” library found on Homepage.)

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

FREE WILL & GOD’S FAVOR

FREE WILL & FAVOR,   WORTH CONSIDERING”  4/1/21    From Ken Smith<><

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.  (Psalm 84:11, NIV)
    

It’s Called Favor, Grace, Blessing, Power.
What God has in your future can’t be accomplished on your own. There are places He’s going to take you that you can’t get to by yourself. There will be obstacles that look too big, dreams that seem impossible. If it were only up to you, you’d get stuck. The good news is that God has bestowed on you something that gives you an advantage, that opens doors that you can’t open, that makes you stand out in the crowd. It’s called “favor.” Favor will cause good breaks to come to you that you don’t deserve. You weren’t next in line, but you got the promotion. That’s the favor of God.

You’ve been faithful, honoring God. Get ready for favor. Get ready for an explosive blessing. God is about to do something unusual, something that you’ve never seen, promotion that you didn’t work for, and good breaks that you didn’t deserve. You can’t explain it or take credit for it. It’s the favor of God.
    
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that Your favor has been upon my life in so many ways. Thank You for the countless things You’ve made happen for my good that I could never make happen. I am getting ready for explosive blessings that are gifts of Your favor that I don’t deserve. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Thoughts: (Missing the Grace/Favor  of God is our usual issue.)    Letters written…..
 If your hand causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It is better for you to enter life crippled, than to have two hands and go into [a] hell, into the unquenchable fire, 44 [b][where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.] 45 If your foot causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It would be better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell, Mark 9:43-45 (Jesus,  Just one of many verses on the subject,):

Obviously, Christ Jesus was not talking about externals as chopping off something would not change the heart. It is our heart that needs to be changed to be able to then walk with Jesus in love, honor, respect and obedience by choice. When we find and believe in the Great and Precious Promises of God and choose to change than we find God’s Grace to help us make the needed changes in Christ Jesus. The letter of the law kills but the Spirit gives LIFE. And it is also obvious that if we don’t want God’s change there remains only a painful eternal darkness to embrace our eternal souls. With the Creation there is always balance. With the Joy of the Heavens there is also the opposite in hell. At this time on earth, with an eternal soul, we are in the middle of that eternal choice. God is in the process of creating an eternal Kingdom and Family of Righteousness that follows Jesus as King of Kings. We have been invited. But it is up to us as to whether we join or not. And if we do accept we must elect to  put on the righteousness of Christ Jesus and walk it out to the end of our life on earth. It is not how we start but how we end up that decides our eternal consequences in eternity.

God is using lucifer’s pride and rebellion to fit out an eternal spiritual gym with the weights that can either make us very strong or can send us off into a Christ less eternity.   It is fool proof for victory if we find and follow the directions.   But if we try to do it on our own then along with lucifer (who also tried to do in on his own) our soul will eventually be consigned to an eternal black hole where light does not exist.   Ezekiel 28:11 & Isaiah 14:12   tell a lot more about that story.

Of course we are in mid process of seeing this all come to pass due to the sacrifice of our LORD JESUS CHRIST as the lamb of God, sent to save us from our sins if we will let HIM. Rom. 10: 9-10. He is the fire and if we are in HIM we have the ultimate victory. Better to burn out than to rot out, for sure. Don’t you think.

The Holy Bible is the only authority. And the unity of the Old Testament with the New Testament is amazing. Over 300 verses in the Old Test. concerning the advent of Christ Jesus and most have already been fulfilled like Ps. 22 and Isa. 53….. Jesus is the guarantee of Heaven.   Jesus returned in HIS resurrection and told the apostles all about it, especially John in The Revelation. All of the disciples, even Judas agreed that Jesus is the Son of God as well as the Son of Man. And all 11 + Paul witnessed to the resurrection of Christ Jesus. I am working on a book called: “Handbook For Atheists:” (who want to believe.) interested? The Bible is full of scientific facts that could not have been known except for Intelligent Design of a Creator.   I was an Earth Science Major in College. I had to find answers to a lot of questions prior to becoming a Christian in 1955. So write me if interested.

So logically, unless you know all that there is to know about everything in creation, how can you logically be an atheist? How can you be sure that Intelligent Design is not working behind the knowable so that your Free Will can be totally valid with no manipulation AND YET TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE.    Perhaps you are simply an agnostic? But then it would seem logical to ask questions rather than exposes a lack of knowledge? Certainly if logical, you would want to know. It would be so very sad to pass through life and miss the last flight out. By the way I also agree that the flood may have been the known world and not the whole world. Perhaps an axis shift and it took a while for the water to settle down to a new rotation pattern. There are many other issues with a world wide flood. But this is not a life or death issue. So if you are interested in seeking some answers for your questions, I would be happy to try to help. Long ago, 1950, I was on the path that you may be on today in my Cosmic Glue Theology without God. But don’t get emotionally bent because you think you know me, or know what I know or believe.  Before honor is humility.


Yours in HIS great Love and wonderful Grace and Mercy.  Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org

( Add / Delete: ken@trinity-aloha.org   “Worth Considering” library located on Homepage.”

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


WORTHY BRIEF, 4/1/21
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Emerging Church, Christ or AntiChrist ?

Aloha Saints, Family and Friend,   3/30/23

Viewing a good overview of the religious deceitful “Emerging,   New Age,  Post Modern Church” of today.  A Church of the “Progressive Gospel.”   Worth Considering as concerning the antichrist,  The NWO that is beginning to move strongly today in our world.

Do you really understand the big powerful lie that is being floated as truth for this generation.

Man’s lies concerning being truth are invading The Church of Christ Jesus and replacing God’s Truth,  can you tell the difference?   This video is a great help for this.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/storefront/ref=sv_atv_2?filterId=OFFER_FILTER%3DPRIME&node=2858905011

Takes an hour and a half so be sure you have the time,  but well worth the Time….for your soul.

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

BIBLICAL CHRISTIANS

Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,  beloved of Jesus and me,  John 3:16

BIBLICAL CHRISTIANS,   “WORTH CONSIDERING”  3/24/21

Beautiful day again here in Kealia on Wednesday March 24th.

About 5 years ago, before our arrival 3 years ago, a lovely home burned to the ground about 7 doors north of our place.   And for the past 3 years have been driving by the 1/2 acre lot of ashes and burnt out cars and stuff and thinking what a nice place that could be if set up to serve the LORD.

So a few months ago decided to check it out and it was on the Owner’s “Sell it Day,” and was able to get the title last week.   Now in the process of leasing it to the Trinity Ministry for $1. per year.   The home had a cement floor and cesspool which is still in tact so now just need 4 walls and a roof.   We are now in the process of considering what the LORD wants to do with the 1/2 acre lot.   Considering using the cement floor of the old home for a common area meeting area with kitchen,  laundry and bath and putting in 4  Christian Co-Housing Units (mini-homes) in the back yard?   Have not yet checked the building codes to see if that would work.  So if you will,  give it a little prayer and see if the LORD gives you some direction for us?   It is a lovely area of Hawaii,  beautiful weather but about an hour from Costco so really need an outside income for this remote area.  Could be ideal for retirement and evangelism.

Our Friday evenings, at 5:30 our shared meal and Bible Fellowship is starting to come together.   This Friday we have decided to start working together on the Dr. Henry Wright materials for clearing the past and the “More Excellent Way.”   Sue and I went to the 2 week seminar in Georgia long ago and it was a real winner and gentle loving freedom in Christ Jesus.  So I sent off for 14 of his big books that are full of good Bible.

Seems to me that the Holy Spirit wants to start a whole lot of small clean hot fires to purge out the darkness.   But we have all been camping and know that getting a hot clean fire takes a little doing.   It is difficult to find a dry space to build the fire, especially in a rain storm.   And then with the dry spot find enough dry tinder and kindling to even get it started.  A lot of smoke to begin with.   But once it gets started good even old wet logs and be added to be dried out and catch on fire as did Paul as he observed the death of Stephen.  Acts 6 & 7.

Can we say without conflict that to be a Real Christians is to truly be in obedience to Christ Jesus as LORD.   But seems the basic problem is in being Biblically Illiterate and not really knowing the Commandments of the LORD.  But being that there are Bibles everywhere, at the final judgment,  not knowing will not work as a defense.  Please take the time to go through the New Testament and find out what the commandments of Christ Jesus really are.  The final testing of passing or failing will be totally on what you do with what HE commanded you to do and nothing else.

Starting to feel my age a bit more now so not writing so often.   But felt to send you a little of HIS great love today.   Be Blessed in your day,  Ken<><

Isaiah 55:11-12  so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.


“My Word shall not return empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” This has proven true in our own lives. Read the beautiful and powerful prophecy of Isaiah. You will be blessed, changed, and equipped to communicate the Lord’s truth with His confidence. And thank Him for His faithful and detailed preservation of the texts themselves.  Your family in the Lord with much agape love,   George, Baht Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah

Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;  
The European Parliament declared the European Union (EU) an “LGBTIQ Freedom Zone” on March 11, largely in reaction to various municipalities in Poland declaring themselves LGBTIQ-Free Zones. The vote in Parliament was 492 in favor, 141 against, and 46 abstentions, according to a European      The Middle East quartet of mediators – the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations – discussed on Tuesday reviving “meaningful negotiations” between Israel and the Palestinians with the aim of a two-state solution.
Frustrated U.S. Border Patrol agents are risking their livelihoods to reveal what’s going on in illegal immigrant processing facilities, a major U.S. newspaper reported Tuesday    Criminal organizations trafficking women, children, families and single adults over the U.S.-Mexico border earned as much as $14 million a day in February, according to border patrol sources.    Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters marched to a Wegmans grocery store in Rochester, New York, trapping customers inside on the anniversary of Daniel Prude’s arrest.    The Biden administration announced late last week its intent to overturn a Trump-era rule that prevents certain federal funds from going to groups such as Planned Parenthood that promote or perform abortions.   The Biden administration is reportedly putting together a multi-layered infrastructure and economic package with a potential price tag of a $3 trillion Tax Hike?     Colorado baker Jack Phillips is back in court again, facing another lawsuit. For more than eight years, LGBT activists have targeted him for his beliefs. This time, he’s being sued for declining to bake a cake celebrating a transgender transition.

KNOWLEDGE

Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,  Beloved of Jesus and me….   John 3:16

It seems that the Heavenly Father has allowed,  Rom. 13 a time for pruning HIS Church of the dead branches.  If you check out the 6,000 years of human history, this is a norm.   God blesses,  man becomes prideful and disobedient and God allows the sowing and reaping process to prune the dead branches.   We call our mini farm the TrueVine as we would rather do the pruning that is needed ourselves and continue in HIS blessings.

[a]I am the true Vine, and My Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit].   John 15:1-3″    It is interesting to note that Matt., Mark, & Luke seemed to have left this teaching out?   But Jesus is just bringing up to date the prophesy of Isaiah in 5:5-7 concerning God’s judgement:  

“So now let me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:  I will take away its thorn-hedge, and it will be burned up;I will break down its [a]stone wall and it will be trampled down [by enemies].  “I will turn it into a wasteland; It will not be pruned or cultivated,  But briars and thorns will come up.  I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.” For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house (nation) of Israel  And the men of Judah are His delightful planting [which He loves].  So He looked for justice, but in fact, [He saw] bloodshed and lawlessness;
[He looked] for righteousness, but in fact, [He heard] a cry of distress and oppression. Isa. 5:5


Seems that Biden just broke up the Trump protective boarder hedge on our Southern border.  So it is obvious what is next to happen.  It will be a supernatural blessing if we ever have another near honest election,  seems to me?    So moving from large cities and becoming more self supporting may be the way to go along with getting closer to the LORD.  Of course this caption below is secular and does not address the spiritual.  But life if very short and then what?   Have you really deeply considered what is next for you?  


Our roads here are very dangerous.  Very little law enforcement,  people driving a 2 lane road for some times 2 hours to go to work, each way, to get home again due to the price of living close to work.  40% alcohol related with an average of about 32 deaths per year on this island.  The same power pole in front of our home had been cut off at the base 3 times in the past 5 years by a drunk driver and is not on a curve.    So as the Holy Scriptures put it our life is but a vapor or a short lived flower in the expanse of eternity.  Something really “Worth Considering”  while you can.

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<>< 

www.trinity-aloha.org    www.OhanaChurch.Life    www.CCCInt.org

May be an image of outdoors and text that says 'DID YOU        KNOW?

PEACE

Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,  beloved of Jesus and me,    John 3:16

PEACE,     “WORTH CONSIDERING”   3/19/21   From Ken Smith<>< ken@trinity-aloha.org

For all the talk about Peace and money spent for Peace it is amazing how little Peace there is in the world today.   Even those making the most noise for peace are the least peaceful.  The vision of the NWO, Communist and Islamic teaching is that if we get rid of the opposition to our way of life then we can have real peace.  Of course the rest of the world is not up for the domination.

While at physical therapy today I read a little note on the reception office window that went like this;    “Peace.    It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.  It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”   And I wondered if the person who wrote that was a true Christian as they seem to really understand this message from Christ Jesus.  So I thought to share some of the scriptures concerning PEACE.  In the AMP there are around 412 places in the Bible, 108 in the New Testament concerning PEACE.   Jesus used the word Peace in about 32 places, so an important subject.  I like especially John 14:27,   Peace I leave with you; My [perfect] peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid. [Let My perfect peace calm you in every circumstance and give you courage and strength for every challenge.]
16:32-33,”32 Take careful notice: an hour is coming, and has arrived, when you will all be scattered, each to his own home, leaving Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. 33 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace. In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding.]
20:18-23, “19 So when it was evening on that same day, the first day of the week, though the disciples were [meeting] behind barred doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them, and said, “[a]Peace to you.” 20 After He said this, He showed them His hands and His side. When the disciples saw the Lord, they were filled with great joy. 21 Then Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you [as My representatives].” 22 And when He said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of anyone they are forgiven [because of their faith]; if you retain the sins of anyone, they are retained [and remain un-forgiven because of their unbelief].”

So real PEACE comes with a true relationship with Christ Jesus as LORD so that we don’t become concerned about the stuff.  We don’t need to carry yesterday’s garbage.  And we are told not to carry unforgiveness about anything.  If we glue someone to their sin in negative judgment then God allows the same glue to bind us in our sins as well.  At the Cross, Jesus had more compassion and concern for the souls of the men driving spikes into his feet that He had for the pain He was enduring.  And Jesus is our example and Jesus was not in life any different from you or me in the things that He was learning and endured.  1 John 4:17, “ In this [union and fellowship with Him], love is completed and perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him]; because as He is, so are we in this world.  Start reading in 1 Joh 4:17 and complete the chapter along with John 5 for real peace.

Yours, in HIS great Love & Peace with Grace and Mercy, Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org
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Great LEONARD RAVENHILL QUOTES
“Not many Christians today can forget the fact that the devil goeth about as a roaring lion, but we seem to have lost sight of the fact that the Lion of the tribe of Judah has defeated the roaring lion of hell, and therefore every anointed Samson or Gideon or church can also slay the lion of hell. Though wicked men are doing wickedly, God’s promise to us is that “the people that do know
their God shall be strong and do exploits” (Daniel 11:32).”
“The world is not waiting for a new definition of the Holy Ghost but a new demonstration of the Holy Ghost.”
“The greatest tragedy is a sick church in a dying world.”
“If I am filled with the Holy Spirit the same things that grieve the Holy Spirit will grieve my spirit.”
“A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.”
“The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were “Repent!'”
“A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.”
“John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.”
“I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.”
“Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.”
“There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.”
“Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church? – with prayer and meditation?”
“Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.”
“What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?”
“The Bible is either absolute, or it’s obsolete.”
“Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?”

Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;    The Chinese government maintained tight control of a World Health Organization investigation in Wuhan into the origins of the coronavirus, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, which said that Beijing was granted veto power over which scientists were allowed to take part in the mission.   Surviving COVID-19 protects most people against reinfection for at least six months, but elderly patients are more likely to be laid low by the virus a second time, researchers reported Thursday.   The House of Representatives Thursday passed immigration bills that would protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and offer them a pathway to stay in the United States permanently.   The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday that the US is on pace to see more Central American migrants arriving at the south-western border than it has in the last 20 years. In a written statement on the DHS website, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said the department is expelling most single adults and families, but is not expelling the surge of unaccompanied minors.
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There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus, all who love, honor and obey Him are members

CHURCH, AS WE KNOW IT

Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,   beloved of Jesus and me,   John 3:16

CHURCH, AS WE KNOW IT,    “WORTH CONSIDERING” 3/18/21   Ken Smith <><

DREAM – DISMANTLING of THE OLD  by Richard L. Jones  A dream I had in March, 2006.

“In this dream I was in the downtown area of a large city and there was a lot of activity going on around me. The next thing I knew, I was on the top of a tall structure that was being dismantled. It was not being torn down, but dismantled and carried away on flatbed trucks. I was directing heavy equipment, like big cranes and such, that were being used to dismantle the many structures of the city. These structures were made of stone, or cast concrete facades, with steel beams used as supports for the structures. Again, I was having the cranes and other heavy equipment lower large pieces of these structures and facades to the ground so they could be moved and taken away on heavy trucks.

I awoke from my dream and I inquired of the Lord what this meant.  The Lord said to me: “I am dismantling the old religious structures that have been erected by men. I am clearing the way to build what I desire to be raised in this place and in this time! There is a large city to be dismantled, but I will raise up a new city built upon foundations of Divine Truth which support pillars of Righteousness and Justice. But first there will be a great dismantling and many will be exposed to the winds and the rain, to the hail and the hot sun, to the snow and the darkness. I am their Strong Tower”, says the Lord. “Oh, how I so desire for them to run to Me in that day of the great dismantling! For I am raising up a New City for those who will.”

I knew then that my dream was specifically about the ‘dis-mantling’ (removing the mantle) of the old Church structure as we know it and that God was going to raise up a new Church, one that is built according to His Divine providence and not built on the plans and ambitions of men.”

Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,
Long ago I had a very similar dream/vision.    I was standing on the edges of a many acres of flat grass land that looked like it had been mowed.  You will see this in Samoa where the grass eating pigs run free and the gardens are all fenced.   And as I was standing there large paper covered crates and packages were being delivered and making a mountain of boxes stacked on each other and they were all carefully marked.  As a Lic. Gen. Contractor I knew that there had to be a set of plans or directions for the placement of the contents of each package and crate.

The all of a sudden from no where a bunch of people showed up and started ripping off the paper and the directions and opening the crates and in small groups started putting the building together.  Some had parts of a door, Some had a corner stone.  Others had a window.  Others a door and they were not even talking to each other.    (I thought of church denominations.)   And so I became very frustrated as parts were littering the big field and the directions on the paper was blowing everywhere.

It was then that I felt the presence of the LORD standing beside me and HE extended his arm all the way across the field and gently pushed all of the building materials and people off to the right side of the field and said, “I will build my church.”

Today I am seeing large denominations is serious trouble due to the virus and wondering if the LORD has aloud the CCP Virus to do just that.   There is not a word in the New Testament about building buildings or collection of funds for buildings.   In fact tithing is not even supported in the New Testament.   When we make Jesus LORD in being saved it means that we belong to HIM 100% and all we have is HIS, 100%.  As the WORD OF GOD in Christ Jesus HE is not only our Creator but also our SAVIOR.   So HE really owns us by creation and by redemption.  So we don’t just give HIM 10% and get to use the 90% for what we want.   It all belongs to HIM.  (There is no safe sex outside of marriage.)   Also we are told to be obedient to HIS COMMANDMENTS for our own protection.   Kingdom Commandments were given to help us enjoy our time on earth but when violate them it causes us much pain.  So it is up to our LORD, if we are really a Christian as to what HE wants us to do and how to live, and what is HIS CHURCH. 

There is a very interesting verse in Acts 5:12-16  “ 12 At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders (attesting miracles) were continually taking place among the people. And by common consent they all met together [at the temple] in [the covered porch called] Solomon’s portico. 13 But none of the rest [of the people, the non-believers] dared to associate with them; however, the people were holding them in high esteem and were speaking highly of them. 14 More and more believers in the Lord, crowds of men and women, were constantly being added to their number, 15 to such an extent that they even carried their sick out into the streets and put them on cots and sleeping pads, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on one of them [with healing power]. 16 And the people from the towns in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing the sick and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.

This was the Early Church as being built and Guided by the Holy Spirit in power.  This is what the real church of Christ Jesus looks like.   Personally, I have yet to see an example of this kind of a powerful ministry.  But feel deeply it is the example of the real Church that Christ Jesus wants to build today.  Personally I feel if we would use the directions as given us in the New testament we could see HIS CHURCH come alive and into power once again.  And I fully believe this must happen before the Church gets to go home.  If there is little or no power in getting together as church then something is out of place and needs to be fixed,   2 Tim. 3, Eph.4:11-16, John 17:20-22.  The Church of Christ Jesus is powerful in doing what Jesus came to do, Isa. 61.

Yours in HIS great love and wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<><   www.trinity-aloha.org
( Add/Delete, ken@trinity-aloha.org  “Worth Considering” library link on Homepage.)

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



Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;     A very interesting article 3/17/21

“I am convinced that many evangelicals are not truly and soundly converted. Among the evangelicals it is entirely possible to come into membership, to ooze in by osmosis, to leak through the cells of the church and never know what it means to be born of the Spirit and washed in the blood.”  “When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.” – A. W. Tozer    (prophetic@revivalschool.com)