TRADITIONS

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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
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IT IS FINISHED

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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
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FREE WILL & GOD’S FAVOR

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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

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Emerging Church, Christ or AntiChrist ?

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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

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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

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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

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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. 2 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<>< 

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PEACE

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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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CHURCH, AS WE KNOW IT

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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
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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)

FEAR (Political)

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FEAR,    “WORTH CONSIDERING”    3/14/21    From Ken Smith <><

My wife is a health care professional and each week has been giving anti virus shots to long lines of people waiting in the sun.   And she shares how very thankful that they are to be possible saved from a horrible death from the virus.   In great fear our country has gone into the worst kind of fear concerning the virus.   Not saying that there is no threat, nor that the vaccine will not help.  Even a little early to know what the vaccine will do to our general population over time?

But seems to me that the virus was released in an area in China that had a special lab working on the virus.   And then the CCP did not alert the world of the danger when it was known but sent all out from the area to all over the world as students and to other endeavors.   Then the WHO got it wrong and gave it to Trump wrong and many got angry with Trump for not getting it right.  Now about a year later our nation is headed into “Deep State Socialism.”   Trump even made it possible for the quick availability of the vaccine but not one word of thanks for his efforts.

Socialism/Communism is totally a power play based upon empty promises of greed and fear.   Those who believe the lies that make it possible to come into power are the fist ones to object when the promises are not kept.  And as socialism is in power their voices are stilled by death and work camps.  We see the bone yards of Socialism in many nations of the world today.   There is only freedom for the very elite in Socialism.   The workers are slaves for the support for those in power.  N. Korea is the ultimate example for us to consider of where it all ends.

About 75 years ago, Hermann Goring,   
ADOLF HITLER’s lieutenant, testified at the Nuremberg Court of Appeal, being asked:
“- How did you get the German people to accept all this?”      “He replied: “It was very easy, it has nothing to do with Nazism, it has something to do with human nature.  You can do it in a Nazi, socialist, communist regime, in a monarchy and even in a democracy.  The only thing that needs to be done to enslave people is to scare them.   If you manage to find a way to scare people, you can make them do what you want.” 

Worth Considering,   Ken<><  We need to really place our trust in Jesus.
Apostle Paul’s letter to Timothy:
6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God.   2 Tim.1:6-8

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WALKING ON WATER

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WALKING ON WATER:     “WORTH CONSIDERING”    3/11/21    By Ken Smith <><

We all know really well the story of Peter wanting to walk on the water, and needing to be saved.  Yes, and it is all there in the details of the story, Matt.14:24-33   “But the boat was by this time out on the sea, many furlongs [a furlong is one-eighth of a mile] distant from the land, beaten and tossed by the waves, for the wind was against them.  25 And in the fourth watch [between 3:00—6:00 a.m.] of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.  26 And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified and said, It is a ghost! And they screamed out with fright.  27 But instantly He spoke to them, saying, Take courage! I Am! Stop being afraid! 28 And Peter answered Him, Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.  29 He said, Come! So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water, and he came toward Jesus.  30 But when he perceived and felt the strong wind, he was frightened, and as he began to sink, he cried out, Lord, save me [from death]!  31 Instantly Jesus reached out His hand and caught and held him, saying to him, O you of little faith, why did you doubt?  32 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.  33 And those in the boat knelt and worshiped Him, saying, Truly You are the Son of God!”

Notice in verse 27 Jesus tells them to have faith and be courageous and not full of fear that HE was the “I AM” who gave the 10 Commandments to Moses and delivered the nation of Israel from bondage after 500 years.   Exo. 3:14,   And I Am is used hundreds of times in the Amplified Bible.  But the 3 times I use a lot in sharing are in John 8:24, 28, 58.  the “he” is not in the Greek…..  Great for Mormons and J.W.’s as they do not believe that the Word of God, I AM, was speaking through Jesus and in the resurrection, GOD merged with Jesus for eternity.

And so impetuous Peter, looks at the situation not sure it was the LORD and makes a big leap of faith.  “If it is REALLY YOU, let me walk with you on the water.  Of course there is a big difference between Heart Faith and Presumption.  And of course we have to hand it to Peter, He did get to walk on the water for a little bit.  That was a lot more than for the rest of the wet guys who were left in the boat.  Of course, here is where God’s Grace kicks in and Jesus caught Peter and got him back into the boat and Jesus told the winds to go away, and they did.

So we are all feeling a little like walking on water as we wake up to what socialism has in store for us Christians and as our security in physical stuff begins to crumble.  I think about moving to another country, perhaps Cook Island, but then I have no anointing for looking for any other security than where I am now in Jesus.  I felt to purchase a lot a little north of us that had a house burn down on it about 5 years ago.   I have no personal need for it, have no idea why I felt moved to purchase it.   Went there today and big piles of trash and burnt word and junk everywhere?  2 rusted out old cars but still in the middle of it all felt the peace of God.  Felt a little like Peter stepping out of the boat, Is this really you LORD???  Got the GRACE handy…  HAY!!!!  Remember I am 88 and way over the hill for doing stuff like this.   But my son David wrote me a note and said not to worry about it, it is in our blood to like to build thing.

So bottom line are we really doing what is in the BLOOD to do.   Are we really challenged and happy with where the Holy Spirit is leading us.   Do we really know where we are going or what we are doing and does it really matter.   Peter jumped ship and had not the foggiest idea of where he was going to go after he got to Jesus.  It appears that they were possible a mile or more from shore.   And Peter was heading away from the boat, his only place of security if that was not Jesus out there in the waves walking on the water.   Really it is an amazing story and one of the few places in the New Testament where the Word of God, Creator of all things, give a clear statement of who is really speaking through Jesus and that also spoke to Adam, Abraham, Moses, David and today even want’s to speak as the I AM to you and me to not be fearful of walking on water but seek out HIS GRACE when needed and that HE will always be there to pull us out of the rough seas of life and place our feet upon HIS ROCK for our security.   That HE came to save and to serve us and to help us by HIS grace to become like HIM.  And Jesus went on to Gennesaret and healed the sick by them merely touching HIM.  And he asks us if we would like to become like HIM in so many scriptures.  In one place HE said it this way.  “11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me; or else believe Me for the sake of the [very] works themselves. [ If you cannot trust Me, at least let these works that I do in My Father’s name convince you.]  12 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father.  13 And I will do [I Myself will grant] whatever you ask in My Name [as [a] representing all that I Am ], so that the Father may be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son.  John 14:11-13   So we are invited into a wonderful living unity school to learn how heart faith works in God’s Truth.  Or we are doing our own thing our own way and may end up having our talents given to another.  Be Blessed in your day, Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

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Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;    BGI Genomics—the Chinese Communist Party-linked genomics firm flagged by U.S. officials as “mining” the DNA of Americans—has collaborated extensively with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The National Pulse can reveal.   Last week’s discovery of a massive new cyberattack that targeted flaws in Microsoft’s Exchange Server indicates the world has entered into the age of mass-scale cyberwar, Axios reports. The Microsoft hack affected some 30,000 small businesses and organizations in the US and many more globally, and follows the SolarWinds massive hack in December.     Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is set to sign Senate Bill 6, which would ban abortion in Arkansas except to save the life of the mother.    New numbers, reported by CNN, reveal the biblical scale of the Biden-induced mass migration headed to the U.S. border, with a reported 100,000+ arrests and apprehensions in the past four weeks.     The number of unaccompanied minors detained at the U.S.-Mexico border has tripled in the past two weeks, as the Biden administration struggles to find enough adequate shelters for the children.    California lawmakers last month introduced a bill that would require large department stores to stop dividing toys and child-care products into girls’ and boys’ sections, the LA Times reports. If approved in its current committee stage, the bill will pass to the state Legislature for consideration.   Five Christians were arrested Sunday morning during a police raid on a house church in China’s Chengdu, International Christian Concern reports. The Spring of Life Church (East Hall) was in the middle of a service when authorities arrived and took away the elder Cha Changping, who leads the church, his wife, and three others.


Still Hate Trump?   WORTH CONSIDERING….
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