TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS

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TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS          “WORTH CONSIDERING”       11/11/22

An organization in Montana offered a bounty of five thousand dollars for every wolf captured alive. Two hunters decided to head for the hills and make some money capturing wolves. Day and night, they scoured the mountains and forests, searching for their valuable prey. Exhausted after three days of hunting without success, they both fell asleep.    During the night, one of the hunters suddenly woke up to find that the two were surrounded by a pack of fifty wolves, their eyes flaming and teeth bared. At once, he called to his friend, “Hey, wake up! We’re gonna be rich!”

Sometimes we feel in over our heads in difficulties. They surround us like that pack of wolves preparing to pounce. But perhaps these difficulties are actually opportunities??  But through these tribulations, we see that God is taking each situation, one by one, and turning it for His Glory — They just become more opportunities for us to testify of His goodness.  Today, we have the opportunity to learn and grow and experience the grace and power of God through these trials which surround us. The devil is not as smart or powerful as he appears — and we have a great and All-Mighty God who has a way of using our enemy’s silly tactics for the building up of His Great Kingdom!   Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;

Ken’s Notes:     Often, people have shared with me about why did God allowed this and that.  Or why does not God do something about this and that.  As if God is somehow responsible for all of the bad stuff on earth.   Actually God did make Adam and made him with a freewill to rule on earth but Adam did not listen and decided to obey lucifer instead of God.  So in disobedience the world came under lucifer’s control but in obedience is could be won back.   So in the fulness of time Jesus came and won it back for those who want to learn to live in obedience to God.   So like the scripture teaches us, “In Adam all died, so in Christ Jesus all are made alive.  Rom. 5:18, 1 Cor.15:22

So our Creator God has given us the cure for all of the bad stuff on earth if we will decide to obey Jesus as Lord rather than lucifer as lord.  And the 66 writings in the Bible have been given to us by God through HIS prophets for us to learn how to become obedient to Jesus as LORD.  Rom. 10:9-10

And if you get into your Bible and learn about sin and righteousness you will find that God has allowed lucifer to still be in charge of the disobedient.  And that the bad stuff on earth only makes those who submit to Jesus as LORD even to be stronger in victory.  God will not allow us to be tested beyond what we are able to have the victory over.  But the victory is only ours if we go for it and depend upon the Lord for the help we need to secure the victory.  Rom. 8 is a wonderful chapter concerning God’s Power, through Jesus for our victory over trials and tribulations.  1 Cor.10:13

And God never gives anything and then takes it back.  He already knows what we are going to do with it before it is given.   GOD knew that lucifer would defect due to free will.  But he also knew that Gabriel and Michael needed free will to be complete.   So our Creator God  now has 2 mighty angels who do as they do because that is what they want to do.   Unfortunately lucifer will soon find that his pride and rebellion in his free will is going to be very costly for him.  So we are now growing up in a spiritual gymnasium with freewill which can make us strong spiritually or kill us.  We are really in deep spiritual warfare which come to us in physical forms as per Eph. 6:11-12:  “Put on the full armor of God [for His precepts are like the splendid armor of a heavily-armed soldier], so that you may be able to [successfully] stand up against all the schemes and the strategies and the deceits of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places. 13 Therefore, put on the complete armor of God, so that you will be able to [successfully] resist and stand your ground in the evil day [of danger], and having done everything [that the crisis demands], to stand firm [in your place, fully prepared, immovable, victorious].”  So who puts on the armor?  Do you see it, we are responsible for putting on the armor of God.”  And then Paul goes on to tell us about the armor.  Eph. 6:14-18: “So stand firm and hold your ground, having [a] tightened the wide band of truth (personal integrity, moral courage) around your waist and having put on the breastplate of righteousness (an upright heart), and having [b] strapped on your feet the gospel of peace in preparation [to face the enemy with firm-footed stability and the readiness produced by the good news]. Above all, lift up the [protective] [c] shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.  With all prayer and petition pray [with specific requests] at all times [on every occasion and in every season] in the Spirit, and with this in view, stay alert with all perseverance and petition [interceding in prayer] for all [d] God’s people.”

So we have Belt of Truth, Breastplate of Righteousness, Firm Footing, Shield of Faith, Helmet of Salvation, Sword of Word of God and all in prayer.  We are heading into some really stiff battles so is your armor in good repair?   How polished up is your armor?  Does is shine like the Son?

Belt of Truth:  Holds my pants up, need I say more…. (as a man?)  Matt. 5:28
Breastplate:    Righteousness,   To be like Jesus, 1 John 4:17,   Rom. 3:22, 1 Tim.6:11, Heb.1:8
Boots:              Feet,   Beautiful, Rom.10:15, Stomping, Rom.16:20, Gospel, Eph.6:15
Shield:             Faith, by hearing, Rom.10:17,   Substance, Heb.11:11
Helmet:          Hope and assurance, 1 Thess. 5:8, Salvation, Eph 6:17, Thought Life…
Sword:            Dividing light & darkness, Matt.10:34, Word of Truth, 2 Cor. 6:7,   Bible
Prayer:            Make things happen, John 16:23, Phil. 4:6, Col. 4:2, 1 Pet.4:7

If you learn to put on your full suit of armor you will be able to live a victorious life in Christ Jesus as your LORD, (Master).   If not, you will be like a kite in a strong wind without a string.    Rom.8:37-39:   “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us [so much that He died for us]. For I am convinced [and continue to be convinced—beyond any doubt] that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present and threatening, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the [unlimited] love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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

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

POWER

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POWER                “WORTH CONSIDERING”         11/8/22

The LORD has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said, “Don’t…live in dread of what frightens them. Make the LORD of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life…. He will keep you safe.”  Isaiah 8:11–14, NLT
    
Don’t Think Like Everyone Else     (    Received this morning from a church in Texas.)
Ken, negative news is all around us—how frightening the sickness is, how bad the economy is, what’s coming in the future. If you dwell on that, you’re going to end up afraid, worried, and panicked, thinking you’re not going to make it. It’s a negative cycle that keeps drawing in more fear, more worry, and more defeat. It weakens you and drains your strength, your energy, and your passion.   Today’s Scripture warns us to not think like everyone else. Negative thinking is contagious. When other people are afraid, worried, and negative, you have to be on the offensive and say, “No, I know my God is still on the throne. I will outlast whatever comes against me. I have strength in Christ for all things.” At the start of the day, you need to set your mind for victory. Don’t let just any thoughts play. You have to purposefully think power thoughts, victory thoughts, abundance thoughts, can-do thoughts. Keep honoring God, and He will defeat your enemies and keep you safe.
    
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that no weapon formed against me shall prosper because You are the guardian of my soul. Thank You that I can set my mind for victory today and not be afraid of what frightens and worries other people. I declare that I will not think like everyone else. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Notes,
As I woke up this morning, the Holy Spirit started talking to me about the Power of God and how very difficult it was to get souls to understand how God’s Power works and why the church of today is so weak concerning knowing about or how to enjoy the Power of God.   Our vain traditions have moved us from being a very powerful representative of God’s Power to mostly, if not all, just words about Power.   So I felt the words from Texas confirmed what the Holy Spirit wanted me to write.

In Isaiah 61 the prophesy is that God would come to earth in Power,   In Luke 4:18-21 we find that Jesus  fulfilled  that prophesy concerning God’s loving Power.   In Acts 5:16 we find that same Power of God invested in HIS CHURCH to the point that every one who came to Jerusalem to Church were healed and delivered.   In fact Paul tells Timothy in 2 Tim.3:5 that if a church has no power to avoid that church and go someplace else where there is God’s Power.   Frankly here in Kona, I really don’t know where to go to find GOD” POWER among GOD’s people as I see it in the New Testament.   More like none at all or only hit or miss and even sometimes mixed with deceit to make a show that looks like God’s power.   With the pushing of folks over and the miss use of tongues without interpretation in the church, 1 Cor.14:26-33.   Yet Paul tells us clearly the speaking in prophesy with understanding is better than thousands of words in tongues.  1 Cor.14.  And that the real proof of being filled with the Holy Spirit is the use of GOD’s  POWER to make Jesus known as LORD & KING.   So it is very obvious to me as I read the Holy Scriptures that God deeply loves every soul of HIS creation and wants the very best for all of us.  But for us to be able to grow up and be like HIM, Gen 1:26, HE had to give us free will.  God is LOVE and love must have free will as otherwise we would just be robots.  And a family of robots is not what our Creator God is up to.   He is in the process of creating a real family in HIS image and likeness.  And He is enjoying the process and  HE is never in a hurry as with HIM time does not exist. So how do we get back to Luke 4:18-21 and enter into what Jesus came to do as we come to be in HIM to be able to do as He did?

1.    Are we really in HIM or are we really still in our old Adamic ego prideful selves only trying to look like HIM but really not changing anything to be like HIM.  This is incomplete REPENTANCE.  God would violate your free will to try to change you if not up for it..  You would then become only a robot but not family.  This is not what God is about.  Our Creator God is into building a family who really loves Him and wants to be righteous and with HIM.

2.    Family with our Creator God is a spiritual unity and not biological unity.  Ideally,  great to be both.  But the spiritual is the connection not the biological.   I hope all my biological family get to be born from above and find their way into the family of God. but up to each of them.

3.    There are many words that we use to share the knowledge of the Kingdom of God but do we know God’s meaning for: Love, Faith, Humility, Obedience, Unity, Honor, Repentance, Forgiveness ?  All words in the New Testament of importance but do we really know what God thoughts are by these words?  Or have we altered the meaning to mean what we are comfortable in what we mean by them?  Do we really love our neighbor as ourselves with Agape Love.   The kind of love that Jesus had for the guys driving nails in HIS feet.   Do we really have heart faith so as to begin to learn to move mountains?  Where the mountains really begin to be moved and we are not walking is presumption or empty head words.

4.    Or Humility, do we really have the humility to read John 17:20-26 and become part of the cure and not part of the problem of disunity?  My last paper was on Unity, take a look if really up for it.   This is a major factor concerning the lack of power in HIS church.  Humility is experiencing a desire to want to find God’s Truth above all else and to walk it out.  Humility is not self serving, but GOD serving.  It wants to find God’s Truth more that protecting it’s self serving,  prideful ego or self righteousness.  Humility is learning to be selfless like Jesus as he shared the Kingdom of God with the woman at the well,  John 4:6.

There is so much available on this subject in the New Testament as Jesus came and received the Power to change us and anyone who is interested.  Rev. 22:17.   Of course God already knows those who will respond to HIS Love in Christ Jesus, but we don’t.  So in time it is still up to us as to living with God in Light or living with ourselves in Darkness.  Jesus gave the Church the Power that was given to HIM, John 17:22, Matt. 28:18-20.  So we need to find and restore that GOD Power so that the world can see and honor Christ Jesus as high and lifted up and draw all of God’s Elect to HIM.   If your soul lives out eternity in total darkness, it will be because you made that choice to be there.  The Creator God will only be giving new eternal bodies to those who  want to really live with HIM in loving peace, joy and power and are willing to repent or change, to be able to fit in.   He is not going to allow pride and rebellion on earth to mess up HIS universe for eternity like it has this planet in time.   God gave Adam authority to rule,  we have the story of what happened.

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

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD/KING,
all who Love, Honor & Obey HIM are Eternal Members.

UNITY FACTOR

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UNITY FACTOR:           “WORTH CONSIDERING               11/7/22

Nimrod, (meaning a might hunter) was a king of Shinar,   today if we call someone a Nimrod we infer they are an idiot or a jerk, a foolish or inept person, a droofus.  In Genesis 10:8-12 he is described as to be the first on earth to be a mighty hunter before the Lord..  He is also thought to have built the cities of Nineveh Calah, Rehoboth-Ir and Resen.  There is some resemblance between Nimrod and the Mesopotamian epic hero Gilgamesh.   I add this in as an introduction as to the importance of the truth found in Gen. 11:5-8, which I share so you will deeply consider:  

“Now the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one [unified] people, and they all have the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do [in rebellion against Me], and now no evil thing they imagine they can do will be impossible for them.   Come, let Us (Father, Word &, Holy Spirit) go down and there confuse and mix up their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”   So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the entire earth; and they stopped building the city.    

Notice the line that is bold and underlined.  What made this evil possible and what was God’s solution.  It is obvious that Unity and Power go together for Evil or for Good….”United we stand, divided we fall.”  So if power was built into Adam to have authority over the world as in Gen.1:28, then when the parts of Adam come together in unity there is the synergy of power.  As you consider the Book of Acts, please note the Unity factor as mentioned many times as there is the supernatural intervention of the Holy Spirit in Power.  Acts 1:14 “One Mind”,   Acts 2:1, “in one place”,   Acts 2:32″ we are all witnesses”, 2:42,”devoting themselves to the instruction of the apostles…”2:43, “A sense of awe was felt by [j] everyone, and many wonders and signs (attesting miracles) were taking place through the apostles.” 4:32 “Now the company of believers was of one heart and soul,” 5:12, “ And by common consent they all met together [at the temple] in [the covered porch called] Solomon’s portico.“   5:42, “And every single day, in the temple [area] and in homes, they did not stop teaching and telling the good news of Jesus as the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed).”  6:5, “The suggestion pleased the whole congregation;” 13:3, “Then after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them [in approval and dedication] and sent them away [on their first journey].  13:52, “And the disciples were continually filled [throughout their hearts and souls] with joy and with the Holy Spirit.“   15:22, “ Then the apostles and the elders, together with the whole church, decided to select some of their men to go to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas….“The apostles and the brothers who are the elders, As most of the rest of Acts is the record of Paul as a missionary we now go back to the words of and about Jesus.  Matt.13:58, “And He did not do many miracles there [in Nazareth] because of their unbelief.” Mark 6:4-6, “ 4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor (respect) except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” 5 And He could not do a miracle there at all [because of their unbelief] except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6 He wondered at their unbelief. “ ”John 1:26, “  Nathanael answered him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip replied, “Come and see.”                   

In the Early Church confession, we find these compacted thoughts:   “In Essentials,  UNITY…  In all else LOVE….”   So how to get rid of the vain (prideful) traditions that make the Word of God,  ineffective.    David gives us the answer in Ps. 119:10-16.   Only by deeply knowing the Word of God in “CONTEXT” can we filter out the poisons of this world.   And where there is any difference, to have the love to seek God’s Truth and not try to protect our own.  And both submit to God’s Truth what ever that is.   It is only in HIS TRUTH that we find freedom.

Godly Unity in Truth is needed for the release of the Power of the Holy Spirit as God is not the author of confusion.  He can not confirm what is not HIS.  The lack of power,  1Tim3:5,  in the church today is due to lack of  unity and use of vain (prideful) traditions.   Jesus prayed in John 17: 20-26 as follows, for our perfect unity.  God’s power can only flow through God’s unity in truth..  “I do not pray for these alone [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for [all] those who [will ever] believe and trust in Me through their message,  that they all may be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe [without any doubt] that You sent Me.  I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one, just as We are one;  I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected and completed into one, so that the world may know [without any doubt] that You sent Me, and [that You] have loved them, just as You have loved Me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given to Me [as Your gift to Me], may be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.  “O just and righteous Father, although the world has not known You and has never acknowledged You [and the revelation of Your mercy], yet I have always known You; and these [believers] know [without any doubt] that You sent Me; 26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them [overwhelming their heart], and I [may be] in them.”

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea!’ and [a] does not doubt in his heart [in God’s unlimited power], but believes that what he says is going to take place, it will be done for him [in accordance with God’s will]. For this reason I am telling you, whatever things you ask for in prayer [in accordance with God’s will], believe [with confident trust] that you have received them, and they will be given to you.
Matt. 11:23-24

So we need to line up in heart faith in loving unity concerning Building of the Body of Jesus, 1 Cor.12.   That we become fitly joined and compacted together as provided by every part till the world can see Jesus, Eph. 4:11-16.   And prior to the Church being called home,  this prayer will be totally and completely  answered.  So divisions by denomination or doctrine or attitudes or to agree to disagree have no place in the Kingdom of God.   Division only means we are too prideful and self centered to work together on finding God’s Truth in love and coming into the Unity of the Faith and the Bond of Peace  in His truth.   

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


There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus a LORD (Master),
All who truly Love, Honor and Obey HIM are Eternal Members.

WORD OF GOD

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WORD OF GOD          “WORTH CONSIDERING”        10/31/22

The Word of God, is normally understood to be the Holy Bible by most Christians.   Some believe that every word is anointed and directly from God.  Others feel it contains the Word  or Truth of God as originally written but that the Truth of God comes to surface as you consider all of the prophetical writings on the same subject.  And also some see the Bible as just another book on spiritual stuff like  the Qur’an or any other book.  The present Pope seems to feel this way.

Before I became a Christian in 1955 I felt that there must be a heaven and hell,   I was not ready to say that there was no God as no one can say that logically unless they know all that is knowable.  But my Cosmic Glue theology was what I collected over the years for myself.  It allowed  me to do what ever I wanted to do and really not needing to change, if I didn’t get caught hurting someone.   My theory was that when you died it was a soul migration to be with folks like yourself.   And I was somewhere in the middle so would be with souls like me and that would be OK as from my perspective I was a pretty nice guy at 23 with 1 ½ kids and working hard at paying the bills.  Of course this philosophy had no solid justification at all in fact.  I concocted it all by myself.  And it seems like most folks today also take the freedom to make up their own philosophy for their lives.   The Golden Rule does get some subjective consideration within limits.  But basically we are telling our Creator to accept what we have made up for ourselves as being HIS Truth?

So then comes along Moses, the Bible, Jesus, Peter James, John and Paul to tell us that there are really absolutes, spiritually, just as there are physically in our known world.  So the Bible has become the most published of books but probably the least read and understood.  So in this blog I will try to help you understand how to find God’s Truth in your Holy Bible.  First off most try to start reading in the beginning not knowing some guide lines.   The Old Testament contains history and truth but they are buried in hundreds of words.  Jesus came to give us the simple version of God’s Truth.  So I recommend starting with the Gospel of John as a good starting point.   John wrote his account of the Good News about Jesus as an old man about 95 AD.   And he had a good overview of the life of Jesus and the Early Church.  Then we need to read Acts as to what our church today is supposed to be like.   And after that the Book of Romans that Paul wrote to the Church in Rom as to fine tuning some very important doctrines of God’s Truth.  Those 3 writings contain the bones of the Christian Faith on which all else will easily be joined into in developing the Body of Christ..

So for me the Truth of God as contained in the Holy Bible works for me.  Over the years I have witnessed hundreds of souls being set free and finding a new life in Christ Jesus as LORD.   I have seen and been apart of many being healed and delivered from demons.  It was not of me, but the collective faith of those who came together in love.  And when the message went out in the solid Truth as the Word of God and many were in faith to believe then the Holy Spirit was free to confirm with mighty signs and wonders like as in Act 5:17.  In my first 13 years of “church” experience I was taught that this no longer happened.  Of course, without faith, in that church nothing much did happen.  More like a social club meeting of some kind.   But in 1968 I found out that the Bible still worked if you knew the guide lines and returned to what the Holy Spirit taught in the beginning.

So how to find the guide lines.   You know that if you find out God’s Truth and reject it and refuse to change that God’s Truth will be a point of judgment for you in the resurrection.  So if you are not interested in changing at all.   You need to stop here.  As the first words from the mouth of St. Peter at Pentecost, and it is the same for today, was,  “REPENT” or change.  We must all change from being the self centered, rebellious, unloving, prideful, children of Adam to asking God to make us in HIS image and likeness as in Gen.1:26.  This is God’s will for us but HE has given us a free will and HE can not make us change.  HE can only help us change when and  if we want to change.

So if you are still with me, the key for the understanding of the Bible is found in the writings of the prophet Isaiah 28:9-20.  The key verses being 11-13, “Indeed, the Lord will teach this people [in a more humiliating way]  By [men with] stammering lips and a foreign tongue,  He who said to them, “This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary,” And, “This is the resting place,” yet they would not listen. Therefore the word of the Lord to them will be [merely monotonous repetitions]:  “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,  Rule upon rule, rule upon rule, Here a little, there a little.” That they may go and stumble backward, and be broken, ensnared, and taken captive.

So notice here that the same Truth to one gives  rest and a resting place but if ignored becomes a snare and causes those who reject God’s Truth to be broken.   In 2 Tim.3:15-17 we find these words concerning the Holy Scriptures, “and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings (Hebrew Scriptures) which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus [surrendering your entire self to Him and having absolute confidence in His wisdom, power and goodness]. All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage]; so that the [a] child of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.

So the way I seek to find God’s Truth for more freedom starts off with a quest in a given subject that I want to know more about.  I use the convenience of “Bible Gateway” which gives me about 35 different translations and a Greek to English translation as well.   Then I take all of the scriptures on the same subject and move them around each other until they fit together like in  a puzzle..  Then I ask the Holy Spirit to help me  find the foundations of what HE is trying to teach with that Truth of God.  And I am finding that much of the traditions of today were added and are not allowing the Holy Spirit to move in power to confirm God’s Truth.  I asked a Christian the other day if they knew what the fruit, gifts and ministries of the Holy Spirit were and they had no idea.  Jesus had and taught about them yet they knew nothing about any of them.  Do you know why you were created and what your Creator has designed for you to do in your very short time on earth.  Is your time spent on being comfortable or in living for God?  It is the “Word of God” in context, written as a love letter from God to help us figure this out.  If you need any help, please feel free to get back to me.

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

There is but ONE Church on earth with Jesus as LORD;
And all who Love, Honor & Obey Jesus are eternal members

ORGANIZATIONAL

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ORGANIZATIONAL        “WORTH CONSIDERING        10/28/22

There is now a real possibility for the United States to fall into a Second Great Depression.

    Mortgage Interest Rates Rise To Highest Level Since 2006
    Mortgage Rates Hit 15-Year High At 7.3% — More than Double Since Last Year
    Fed hikes rates by 0.75 percentage point, biggest increase since 1994
    Iranians Protest For 10th Night Despite ‘No Leniency’ Warnings
    Fed likely to boost interest rates by three-quarters of a point this week
    Rocket launched from Gaza intercepted, 3rd consecutive night of fire
    Syria accuses Israel of consecutive air strikes on Aleppo airport, Damascus
    European Central Bank will raise interest rates in July for first time in 11 years
    World  Food Prices Rise To Highest Level In 10 Years
    Oil and Gas Prices Spike to Highest Level in 7 Years, America Now Paying an Extra $400M Per      Day .

There is also a real possibility of Russia, Iran, China or N. Korea sending an EMP over the United States and kill 90% of the U.S. population within 1 year due to lack of power and use of any thing containing an unprotected computer chip.  Also Pearl Harbor could be a secondary target.

So it would seem that we should become pro-active preparing, while we can, for the possibilities of no mainland shipping and a substantial lack of power, water,  food and supplies.   I would suggest that we all and especially those who live here in Hawaii,  do the following:

Organize the following within a Biblical perspective:

Chaplaincy        To help everyone spiritually by sharing simple spiritual Truths without vain traditions.  Eph. 4:11-16,  John 17:20-26,  2 Tim.3:5, 
Rev. 12:11

Security:        To study on how to make us safe in a lawless time.  Police will probably all go home to protect their own families.
 
Gardening:        How to grow the most amount of food in the smallest space and to have food available for a number of people for at least a year or more.

Health        Find someone knowledgeable concerning keeping all healthy.

Library        As the web will probable also go down we will need a good library of how to do books as a back up.

Procurement        Find folks who are gifted in securing land & things and bartering

Suggest that each of these concerns have a leader who will donate their time to helping all to occupy as commanded of Jesus until HIS return.  Felt strongly to write this today and to try to gather a team who has the same concerns and can confirm what I feel could easily happen.

If this becomes organized, I would like to go to Bishop Trust and seek a yearly lease on the 15 acres directly behind the two ½ acres parcels that the ministry is now leasing.  That would make an easy access to the land and a space for a large community to come together for what is ahead.

If you are now living in an urban secular area that could become very dangerous for you and your family if what I feel is true.   So you also need to pray about all this and seek to get it direct  from the Holy Spirit.

When I was a boy gasoline at my dad’s Try Service Station was .17.5 cents per gallon.
I could go to the movies for .25 cents including popcorn and ice-cream after the 5 films.
In 1964 I was selling and building a 3 bedroom home with fireplace and double garage for
$10, 650.00 and making money.  In 1964 I bought a brand new, top of the line For T-Bird for
$6,400.00.  and a good carpenter wage was $10. per hour.  and a 1000 board feet of lumber from Kimball’s Mill was $38.00 Now a single 2×4 is close to $10. each.   And if today you sold all of the Federal Lands including Washington it is doubtful if you could pay off the $31 Trillion debt that our government has borrowed in our name.  Which for each of us is now about $86,000.00 per person.

So we are now headed into a faster and faster spiral like in the “Wizard of Oz” and no one really knows where it will land and what it will look like.  But we do know that our Creator God is still in control and has promised to those who stay close to HIM will be OK, Roman 8.   But there is still much we can do to make the trip more comfortable.  We know that there is strength in unity, for ether good or bad.  So this is a note to try to gather positive  folks together and make a positive unity.   First we can start by forming an e-mail unity and work out any differences in loving faith.  Jesus prayed about this in John 17.   And HE also told us about the time we are now going into to help make it easier for us.  I can e-mail you a copy of what I have been working on for many years if interested.   Eventually we can find places to get together and in given areas and form a community support group?

So feel free to send this along.   This is not intended to gather another denomination.  The intent of this is only to help you and your family get closer to your Creator and try to  find a safe place to go though what is up ahead.   Nothing to buy, No buildings to build or support, No one is to get paid.  There is but one Church of Christ Jesus and all who Love, Honor and Obey HIM are eternal member.   So if you feel alone, cold or wet, this might work for you. Read 1 Corinthians 1: 19-31, and you will find God is looking for the foolish, weak, foolish, humble, despised to help to become like Jesus.   Perhaps you qualify?  And our Creator God would like to start small hot fires for HIS glory all over the world.  As the Church was to be an interactive forum not a big anonymous theater for the glory of men.

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

There is but ONE church of Christ Jesus on planet earth;
All who Love, Honor and Obey Jesus as LORD are eternal members.

U.S.  lunar eclipse very early on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, midterm Election Day.

LOVE OF GOD

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LOVE OF GOD       “WORTH CONSIDERING”      10/27/22

I have a dear friend of many many years, David Sinkler, who is always talking about God’s Love like that is all that he knows about.   He was the teacher for our Ministry Home School in the late 70’s when I was trying to get the Trade-Winds up to speed.   And I tended to just turn him off sometimes as he seem to get pretty mushy about God’s Love.   I thought I knew all about God’s love in even saving a sinner like me.   But the other morning early the Lord gave me a small taste of what David was talking about.   And in spite of my warts and grunges the Lord started loving on me and telling me why things are the way they are with such patience.

First HE went back to the notes of Moses written about 1500 BC and 2500 years after the facts.  Only the book of Job is older.  But HE confirmed that Gen 1:26 was accurate that HIS original design plan was to make an even playing field where we could become like HIM if we really wanted to.   And HE knew exactly what it was going to all look like even before HE started.

HE knew that HE would only gain 2/3rds of the angels in their exercise of free will.   And with humanity even less in that only about 2 to 3% would learn to exercise their free will to want to become like HIM.   HE confirmed that Love, Truth, Righteousness and keeping of HIS word were all schools of learning for humility.   And that it would take humility and obedience to make the needed changes to be able for us to live comfortable with HIM as in Rev. 21.  

And that it was not a matter of being good, but of taking the time to establish a relationship with HIM as that is the deep need.  And this takes a  focused  time to make this happen with anyone.  About 5 years ago an old army injury went off in my feet making it painful to walk.  So having a more comfortable day,  to sit, I began writing a blog called  “Worth Considering” on what ever the Holy Spirit encouraged me to write about.   You can find this file as a link at the bottom of my web file: www.OhanaChurch.Life   with also  my book, “Keys To The Kingdom”  available there as well as to setting up a House Church, plus a lot of other links that you may find interesting.

So basically my experience the other morning was the wonderful presence of the LORD or Holy Spirit or GOD.   And the feeling of being in a relationship of HIS loving care.   That Jesus had taken care of my sins including pride and rebellion and  that with my permission God was now happy to be my friend and talk to me any time that I was up for it.  Having grown up with a lot of rejection in my life, it was a very different feeling of being loved as I am.   Not that sin was overlooked or accepted but that HIS love was there  in spite of my warts as I am now totally interested in being like my Creator as per HIS vision. And HIS great love helps me to head  deeper in into HIS loving holiness and out of Love and Holiness comes HIS freedom to help me with His power and to change me in supernatural ways.

So I am, even at my age, headed into a God assisted growth experience to become like my Creator.  He told me that in order for freewill to be really valid the world would need to be as it is.  That is, that God can not be proven unless someone really want to know.  And that people are completely free to follow what ever seems best to them without any manipulations.  The native in the Jungle can seek who made the tree or he can cut it down and make an idol out of it.  Our Creator God is honor bound to help those who are honestly seeking, knocking and asking for God’s Truth.  So we see many in the Old Testament sharing God’s truth with us in prophesy.  We see Able being taught to offer the sacrifice of a Lamb as a type of Jesus coming as the “Lamb of God” to take away the sin of the world.  Isa. 63 covers this well as so does Psalm 22.  So when Jesus was born HE had a wealth of God’s Truth at HIS disposal as so do we..  And now we also have the last Will & Testament of Christ Jesus in the New Testament to guide us along.  But we need  to filter out the vain (prideful) traditions of men (2 Tim.3:5) in order for the Truth of the scriptures to work as intended in changing us.  So let us take time to consider what Paul told Timothy to consider:   1 Tim.4:15-21  Notice the first word spoken by Peter on Pentecost was “REPENT” and same today.

“Whoever lives like and acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 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. 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. There is no fear in love [dread does not exist]. But perfect (complete, full-grown) love drives out fear, because fear involves [the expectation of divine] punishment, so the one who is afraid [of God’s judgment] is not perfected  in love [has not grown into a sufficient understanding of God’s love]. 19 We love, because [b] He first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates (works against) his [Christian] brother he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should also [unselfishly] love his brother and seek the best for him.”

More GREAT QUOTES
“Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.” – Charles Spurgeon….   “The average man is not going to be impressed by our publicity, our posters or our programs, but let there be a demonstration of the supernatural in the realm of religion, and at once man is arrested.” – Duncan Campbell….  “This is our time on the history line of God. This is it. What will we do with the one deep exhale of God on this earth? For we are but a vapor and we have to make it count. We’re on. Direct us, Lord, and get us on our feet.” – Beth Moore….   “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”- Corrie ten Boom….  “If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.” – Charles Spurgeon….  “The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.” ― C.S. Lewis….  “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” -G.K. Chesterton;;;;  “I see no hope for a revival among God’s people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered  up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God?” – Lester Roloff

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

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

SAFE

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SAFE        “WORTH CONSIDERING”    10/25/22

Of course Biblically to be safe is to be where the Holy Spirit wants you to be, if we can hear HIS voice above all of the other voices.   Security is not what we are really good at.   I have many scars to prove  that learning process.  Our Creator God has set in place sowing and reaping as a universal cosmic law.  But it is only when we turn off our internal normal static of life that we can tune in to HIS voice to a totally different wave link and can be where it is really safe.  Our Creator sent me to Hawaii in 1969.  And after 50 years, it is totally home for me.  Here it is 10/25/22 in Kealia, at 77F and 77 % humidity with a beautiful sunny day, and 8 great grand children giving me tons of love every day.   Lawn is cut,  home is safe and clean all are clean, feed and happy and My grandson is working on the roofing for the back lanai for the ohana.  It is like a Jesus centered oasis on this ½ acre of growing food.  Enjoying a good fellowship each day and on Friday;   6 adults and 8 kids last Friday HouseChurch and the kids were really into it.  Starting to get a little fire going now after so many years of trying.

But nationally, I feel rather concerned for those of you in the 48 States, especially if in an urban area.  We need to be in prayer that some adults with integrity are elected to the house and senate on 11/4 as we are teetering right on the edge of becoming another Socialistic Slave State  of the masses.  So be in prayer for the peace of the world as there is not much left.

Even in our country:
Alaska            Most violent place to live
Tennessee      3rd most violent place to live
Arizona          9th most violent place to live
Hawaii           11th most safe place to live
Maine            Safest place to live.

The US Has Only 25 Days of Diesel Supply; Shortage Could Cripple Economy   “Now, after draining our emergency reserves to a 40-year low, Democrats want billions more of taxpayer dollars to refill the [Strategic Petroleum Reserve] at more than double the price,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told the New York Post last week. “This is a direct attack on every single American struggling to fill their tanks and heat their homes.”

It would seem that we are very close to being stuck with what we have and where we are.   So if the stores that you shop at, next week, had empty shelves, what would happen to you and your family?   So if you are planning to do something, please do not procrastinate.   If the Holy Spirit has been taking to you about doing something, you best be about doing it.

If you don’t want these e-mails please let me know, I would like to reduce the mailings.  To stop just hit return and write STOP in the Subject line.

The reason for my concern is,  I am not even sure if the coming Nov. mid term will be able to turn things around.   So many now are trying to bankrupt this nation and still look good so as to take control when if folds.   When Rome folded, those who promised the most perks from the government were elected to the Senate then took what was left of the treasury and did not even pay the army and it all went down the tube into the Dark Ages for 900 years.  We have the same situation plus we have 4 countries that hate us with the ability to send an EMP sneak attack of our power grid that could kill an estimated 90% of our population in 48 of our States with just one bomb in one year.  And not destroy a physical thing, except computer chips.  We would destroy ourselves trying to survive.   Seems the LORD may be coming soon now.

Jim Hagman,  Put it this way,   One party in Nov. is building a platform with the promises to:
1.  Kill babies
2.  Mutilate and give children drugs that will damage them for life by lying to them about being able to change their gender/sex.
3.  Destroy women’s sports by allowing men to compete against them
4.   Encourage crime by reducing police forces and no bail policies.
5.  Destroy the economy with false claims that fuels the green agenda with the basic use of oil?
6.  Destroy the borders by allowing everyone and anyone to enter the USA. What other country in the world does that?
7.  Destroy our election system with mail in voting, online vote recording that can be changed And saying it’s racist to ask for ID.               
8. Wrecked the economy by causing inflation by spending trillions of dollars we don’t have.
9.  Have the FBI raid any of our political opponents.
I apologize in advance because I probably missed a few items but that’s at least a good start.

Ken here,
Seems the other Party is also self centered in many ways with both parties having a difficult time with telling the truth or ethics or being law abiding.

So,  for me, seems,  something seems to be blowing in the wind.  Inflation is hitting every one pretty hard.  We are not yet out of the woods from the pandemics.    Stock Market and Real estate is starting to tank.   Taxes are heading up and up.  Almost into a 3rd World War.  Debt load impossible.  Seems we are on the same path, or worse, than the 1929 great depression.

But as I was talking to the LORD early this morning,  I had a wonderful sense of peace that all was well and that the Elect of God were in the hollow of HIS hand and under HIS protection.  And that these things were all in prophesy and only the birth pains, necessary for the completion and the delivery of the Body of Christ (1 Cor.12) into the wonderful Kingdom of God.  So if you are truly walking out your salvation in the love of Jesus as LORD, you will be OK.   The Holy Spirit with guide you to be in the right place at the right time..  He also shared with me that it was important for us to judge ourselves as HIS judgment was fist to begin at the House of God to remove the hypocrites and the self centered from his flock.  And those who were walking in the vain traditions of this world and telling others that they were of HIM.  The Church of Christ Jesus is to go home without spot, wrinkle or blemish and be an exceptional match for the King of Kings in humility and obedience.   Just the opposite of Adam & Eve..

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

TRADITIONS

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TRADITIONS        “WORTH CONSIDERING”         10/20/22

Have you ever wondered why your church experience is not the same as found in the “Book Of Acts?”   I did, but I was taught in my little church of 1955 that those days were over and not needed any more due to having the Bible.   For me, then, that was am OK answer but I did not know my Bible very well and the guy had letters after his name so, what do I know?   Then I was taught that there was no more supernatural like in Mark because all of the apostles had died in the 1st century.  And the power was only given to them???  That also did not float very high in the water of faith for me.  So I spent 13 years in a little box church even teaching this stuff because I supported the lack of power in the so called church.   Like my computer right now, I could write and put things together but the web is down now so all I have is words but no power.  So, for now,   I am stuck in a word processing mode with no way to get to Bible Gateway or send this note to you. or any up-dates of what is going on in the world today.   So our experience may be a long way from what our Loving Creator has designed us for, 2 Tim.3:5….  (This is a prophecy of apostle Paul for the “latter days.”  Seems like we are now entering those days ?….)

I have attended and been a member of about 20 different denominations or churches and yet saw no power of the Holy Spirit like Acts 5:16 in the New Testament or had any teachings of what was needed to change in order for the Holy Spirit to be free to confirm the word of God with signs following.  Actually, I did not realize that the message of those  ministries  was edited of all that they did not know or have.  So that they looked OK in sharing only what they knew.  An edited gospel that approved of what they were teaching, Rev.3:14-22.   Never heard a sermon on 2 Tim. 5:16.   Was told that Mark 16:16 was good, but then very little taught about Mark 16:17-20 about the signs following (That is Supernatural Signs Following.)  “Signs” is mentioned over 83 time in the Bible, but from 1955 till 1968,  nothing but words.

But then the Holy Spirit got me and I use to think nothing of driving to Santa Ana / Costa  for Mesa from my home in Oregon to experience the Holy Spirit in a real way.  Loved to watch HIM fix people,  Isa. 61,  Luke 4:17-21.   And Jesus gave this power to HIS Church (John 17:20-26),   (Matt. 28:18-20),  (Mark 16:16)  but we are still learning as to how to make  it work,  2 Tim.3:5.  We have a lot of vain (prideful) traditions  that keep the Word of God from being powerful.  Even Jesus could not help much with the folks in his home town due to there vain traditions.  “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”  The supernatural works with “a Jesus kind of faith.”  Faith works in a knowing dimension.  We have to learn to make it all work with HIS kind of faith in loving righteousness and a total commitment to unity.  Heb. 11…..  “

TRADITIONS        “WORTH CONSIDERING”         10/20/22

Have you ever wondered why your church experience is not the same as found in the “Book Of Acts?”   I did, but I was taught in my little church of 1955 that those days were over and not needed any more due to having the Bible.   For me, then, that was am OK answer but I did not know my Bible very well and the guy had letters after his name so, what do I know?   Then I was taught that there was no more supernatural like in Mark because all of the apostles had died in the 1st century.  And the power was only given to them???  That also did not float very high in the water of faith for me.  So I spent 13 years in a little box church even teaching this stuff because I supported the lack of power in the so called church.   Like my computer right now, I could write and put things together but the web is down now so all I have is words but no power.  So, for now,   I am stuck in a word processing mode with no way to get to Bible Gateway or send this note to you. or any up-dates of what is going on in the world today.   So our experience may be a long way from what our Loving Creator has designed us for, 2 Tim.3:5….  (This is a prophecy of apostle Paul for the “latter days.”  Seems like we are now entering those days ?….)

I have attended and been a member of about 20 different denominations or churches and yet saw no power of the Holy Spirit like Acts 5:16 in the New Testament or had any teachings of what was needed to change in order for the Holy Spirit to be free to confirm the word of God with signs following.  Actually, I did not realize that the message of those  ministries  was edited of all that they did not know or have.  So that they looked OK in sharing only what they knew.  An edited gospel that approved of what they were teaching, Rev.3:14-22.   Never heard a sermon on 2 Tim. 5:16.   Was told that Mark 16:16 was good, but then very little taught about Mark 16:17-20 about the signs following (That is Supernatural Signs Following.)  “Signs” is mentioned over 83 time in the Bible, but from 1955 till 1968,  nothing but words.

But then the Holy Spirit got me and I use to think nothing of driving to Santa Ana / Costa  for Mesa from my home in Oregon to experience the Holy Spirit in a real way.  Loved to watch HIM fix people,  Isa. 61,  Luke 4:17-21.   And Jesus gave this power to HIS Church (John 17:20-26),   (Matt. 28:18-20),  (Mark 16:16)  but we are still learning as to how to make  it work,  2 Tim.3:5.  We have a lot of vain (prideful) traditions  that keep the Word of God from being powerful.  Even Jesus could not help much with the folks in his home town due to there vain traditions.  “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”  The supernatural works with “a Jesus kind of faith.”  Faith works in a knowing dimension.  We have to learn to make it all work with HIS kind of faith in loving righteousness and a total commitment to unity.  Heb. 11…..  “FAITH is the substance and evidence of things hoped for and not yet seen.

So let’s read some of the “Signs” scriptures together and see how many vain (prideful) traditions we can find and toss.   The more we can find and destroy, he more that the Holy Spirit will be able to confirm God’s Truth with POWER and set captives free.  Makes my day to get rid of the chains and bondage of the enemy that hold us back from enjoying the Lord’s Kingdom.   Jesus told us that HE would give us the TRUTH and that the TRUTH would set us free.  We need to get on a hunt for HIS TRUTH to set ourselves and others free.  For me, I limit the search to the Word of God as found in the confirming context of the 66 writings of our Bible  as being carefully selected as being without poison.  I have found a few translational issues but easy to correct.  I feel the King James has the least translational leanings one way or the other and that the Amplified is a great help along with the Greek in using Bible Gateway to really get into God’s Truth for me.  So what does the Bible say about finding God’s Truth?    I go back to Isaiah 28:10-13.   “For He (God) says, ‘Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Rule upon rule, rule upon rule, Here a little, there a little  Indeed, the Lord will teach this people [in a more humiliating way] By [men with] stammering lips and a foreign tongue,  He who said to them, “This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary,” And, “This is the resting place,” yet they would not listen. Therefore the word of the Lord to them will be [merely monotonous repetitions]: “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Rule upon rule, rule upon rule, Here a little, there a little.”  That they may go and stumble backward,” So if you don’t learn by humility to listen,   you will not make it.  In another place Jesus puts it this way: “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. ‘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].’ You disregard and neglect the commandment of God, and cling [faithfully] to the tradition of men.”  

Apostle Paul puts it this way to Timothy: “And how from childhood you have known the sacred writings (Hebrew Scriptures) which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus [surrendering your entire self to Him and having absolute confidence in His wisdom, power and goodness]. All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage] so that the [a] man of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.”  2 Tim.3:15-17.  David shared this with us: “Your word I have treasured and stored in my heart, That I may not sin against You.  Blessed and reverently praised are You, O Lord; Teach me Your statutes. With my lips I have told of All the ordinances of Your mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, As much as in all riches. I will meditate on Your precepts And [thoughtfully] regard Your ways [the path of life established by Your precepts].” Psalms 119: 9-16

Jesus shared this with HIS Disciples:   “If you [really] love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments….”The person who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him [I will make Myself real to him]….” “If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.”  John 14:13-15:10

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

There is but ONE CHURCH of Christ Jesus as LORD on earth,
All who Love, Honor & Obey HIM are Eternal Members.

is the substance and evidence of things hoped for and not yet seen.

So let’s read some of the “Signs” scriptures together and see how many vain (prideful) traditions we can find and toss.   The more we can find and destroy, he more that the Holy Spirit will be able to confirm God’s Truth with POWER and set captives free.  Makes my day to get rid of the chains and bondage of the enemy that hold us back from enjoying the Lord’s Kingdom.   Jesus told us that HE would give us the TRUTH and that the TRUTH would set us free.  We need to get on a hunt for HIS TRUTH to set ourselves and others free.  For me, I limit the search to the Word of God as found in the confirming context of the 66 writings of our Bible  as being carefully selected as being without poison.  I have found a few translational issues but easy to correct.  I feel the King James has the least translational leanings one way or the other and that the Amplified is a great help along with the Greek in using Bible Gateway to really get into God’s Truth for me.  So what does the Bible say about finding God’s Truth?    I go back to Isaiah 28:10-13.   “For He (God) says, ‘Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Rule upon rule, rule upon rule, Here a little, there a little  Indeed, the Lord will teach this people [in a more humiliating way] By [men with] stammering lips and a foreign tongue,  He who said to them, “This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary,” And, “This is the resting place,” yet they would not listen. Therefore the word of the Lord to them will be [merely monotonous repetitions]: “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Rule upon rule, rule upon rule, Here a little, there a little.”  That they may go and stumble backward,” So if you don’t learn by humility to listen,   you will not make it.  In another place Jesus puts it this way: “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. ‘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].’ You disregard and neglect the commandment of God, and cling [faithfully] to the tradition of men.”  

Apostle Paul puts it this way to Timothy: “And how from childhood you have known the sacred writings (Hebrew Scriptures) which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus [surrendering your entire self to Him and having absolute confidence in His wisdom, power and goodness]. All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage] so that the [a] man of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.”  2 Tim.3:15-17.  David shared this with us: “Your word I have treasured and stored in my heart, That I may not sin against You.  Blessed and reverently praised are You, O Lord; Teach me Your statutes. With my lips I have told of All the ordinances of Your mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, As much as in all riches. I will meditate on Your precepts And [thoughtfully] regard Your ways [the path of life established by Your precepts].” Psalms 119: 9-16

Jesus shared this with HIS Disciples:   “If you [really] love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments….”The person who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him [I will make Myself real to him]….” “If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.”  John 14:13-15:10

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

There is but ONE CHURCH of Christ Jesus as LORD on earth,
All who Love, Honor & Obey HIM are Eternal Members.

TRUTH & EXEGISIS

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TRUTH &  EXEGESIS            “WORTH CONSIDERING”        10/16/22

For me, an open, exegesis may violate the very Truth of the Holy Scriptures that we need to have faith in to spiritually survive.   Junk in, Junk out.    If the understanding of Exegesis allows anyone to believe anything that they want to believe.   Then truth becomes subjective to what someone wants it to be rather than truth being Truth.  The Bible records what the Prophets of God and what Jesus had to say about Truth?  I would rather bet my soul on the objective truth found in the New Testament than to expand to sources that may contain hidden poison.  And we will never find unity if truth is only what someone say it is.   Written words can be found to justify just anything that anyone want to believe in or do.  Personally, I am very comfortable & secure with the Truth, in context, that I find in the New Testament and especially as shared by Jesus, John and apostles.   Luke teaches that Paul was the anointed apostles, by Jesus,  to the gentiles,  I believe him.  The fruit is obvious.   I feel blessed to be loved and included by faith as a gentile.  It was Paul’s words that brought me to Jesus.  1 Cor. 3:11-15.   And even the Jews have to come in by the same door of faith as our Creator God has no grandchildren.  So being a Jew or Gentile makes no difference according to Holy Scripture.  Jesus taught that HE came to give us the Truth,  In fact He said,  “I AM the Truth.”  I believe HIM.

In a movie, a bit ago, there was a corrupt senator who made this remark,   “Truth, is what “I” say it is.”  Today we find many who don’t know the New Testament hardly at all taking the name of God in vain (pride) and telling others with much authority things that totally violates everything that I have found in the New Testament.   For instance, “God’s Love is Unconditional, so you are OK and I am OK regardless.   How could a loving God send anyone to hell?”   While it is true that God loves every soul on earth as HE also love Jesus, yet, His Wrath is yet to be experienced by those who have rejected HIS offer of salvation in Christ Jesus as LORD.  Read the New Testament,   Jesus talks as much about hell as HE does about Heaven.  Try out Hebrews 10:23-31 or Heb. 6:1-9.  Or take a look at what Jesus taught in Matt. 7:21-29 or the little book of Jude.

So today, we are living in a very temporary time zone in a very temporary body and we are given the opportunity of living in eternal light with our Creator or in living with ourselves in absolute darkness for eternity.   If God does not place your eternal soul in a new eternal body upon the 1st resurrection you may find yourself judged in the 2nd resurrection having an eternal soul with no physical body and cast into outer darkness for eternity, Jude 13.  These are the thoughts and truths that I find in the New Testament.  Whether or not I believe them or not does not matter if they are true.  I have spent enough time in the New Testament and Old Testament to be confirmed for myself that this is a wonderful source for GOD’S truth.

Many ministers today are trying to keep up their church membership in order to pay the bills.   So some are preaching what the people want to hear and believe.  This keep the funds flowing to pay for the support of the building and the minister.   However, in the New Testament I find no ministers on payroll nor funds spent in supporting a building. These are vain traditions that Jesus warned us about.   The Early Church evangelized on Sat. mornings and had house church gathering on Sat. evenings.   If there was an apostle, prophet, evangelist or teacher in town they would find an available space and call everyone together.  And the Holy Spirit would show up in great power with healing and deliverance, Acts 5:16. to confirm God’s Truth.   And the church would grow.  Read again the Book of Acts, it is a history of what the Holy Spirit was starting and guiding into being like Jesus.   There is but ONE church of Christ Jesus as LORD and all who Love, Honor and Obey HIM as LORD are eternal members.  Read 1 Cor. 14:26-33 for a normal church gathering .  Eph. 4:11-16  and John 17:20-26 also have a lot to add.  But Apostle Paul warns us in 2 Tim 3: 1-5 of what the latter day church will look like as so also does Jesus in Rev. 3:14-22 and please notice that Jesus is outside the church knocking to get in with that last church prior to the snatching away of the church as in Matt. 24:37-51 & Matt.25,    1 Cor. 15:36-58,   1 Thess. 2:12 & Rev. 12:11.   In my web site: www.OhanaChurch.Life on the Home page at the bottom you will find a link to my book: “Keys To The Kingdom” And in the index you will find “Revelation” it is my study as to the events that are just about to take place on earth.  Also, “Keys To The Kingdom” is my book on the Early House Church.  It’s free, hope you are interested, Please get back to me if you have any questions.

The True Church headed for Heaven:  “The Faithful Church:” Rev 3:10-11 NKJV:   “Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. ” (The Church is not appointed unto wrath: Rom.5:9, 1 Thess.5:9 ) “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” Luke 21:34-36.   

But this all is not yet the Great Tribulation that is yet to come as the church has to first be made ready for the jump to light speed.  Perhaps it is, but I really don’t think so?  Matt. 25 gives us some further clues so as to be sure and be ready, but again not much on details.   The reason for this as our Lord has always wanted us to be to be on our spiritual growing edge.   If he set a date in cement we would tend to wait till the last moment to get ready.  We do tend to procrastinate.  And even though we can not plan on how long we will be physically alive on earth many are much too busy to create a relationship with Jesus and the Holy Spirit to make sure their names are written in the Book of Life.

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

STATE OF THE NATION:
As to the state of the Nation,  seems to me we are on the edge of a very slippery moss covered dam poised to flow over the dam into a 2nd Great Depression.   Some feel this or next month.  And it will be far worse than 1929 as there are now very few family farms.   And if some moral adults are not elected into Congress next month seems we may very well slip over into socialism. Stocks are about to crash,  inflation will go much wilder,  Food shipping will become very difficult.  Stores may become empty. Money will become worthless.    Only those who have prepared will be OK.  People in large population areas will suffer the most.    And we may also end up in WW3 with Russia, Iran and China like we did after the Great Depression with Hitler’s Germany and Japan.   Only this time it could be a nuke war as Russia can see the hand writing on the wall in a restrictive conventional war. 

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VISION / LIFE          “WORTH CONSIDERING”   10/14/22

Today’s Scripture    (Received today from a church in Texas.)
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.  1 John 4:16, NIV

Sometimes religion tells us, “Clean yourself up, then God will love you. If you fail to do what’s right, if you don’t perform correctly, God won’t have anything to do with you. If you’re good enough, if you measure up, then God will help you.” That’s not real love; that’s conditional love. Real love is not about your performance, what you do or don’t do. It’s about who God is, and what He’s already done. Nothing you can do will make Him love you more.

When you know that God is love, and you rely on His love for you, you’ll go to Him with confidence. You’ll pray bold prayers, you’ll ask Him for your dreams, you’ll believe for your health to turn around, you’ll expect new doors to open, you’ll move up to the next level—not because of who you are, but because of who your Father is. When you receive His love, you’ll quit trying to be good enough. You know He’ll go out of His way to be good to you.
    
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You love me because You are love, that it’s not just what You do but it is who You are. Thank You that I don’t have to clean myself up to earn Your love or get You to love me more. I receive Your love and rely on You to show out in my life. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Comments,   So GOD is Love, but is that all that HE is?   NO !  GOD is LOVE, of course but HE is also HOLY and POWERFUL.  He totally destroyed all of the civilizations of Noah’s day, saving only 8 souls.  He cremated Sodom and Gomorrah and instructed Joshua to kill every soul and animal in Jericho except for Rahab.  The 10 commandments is not Thou shalt not kill but (murder.)   And the ultimate judgment of the fallen angles and fallen man is outer darkness for eternity with no possibility of redemption.  So are you on God’s good side in loving HIM in humility and obedience or are you on HIS bad side in rejecting Christ Jesus as LORD as HIS salvation for you?  So YES, GOD is LOVE and in HIM is no darkness at all.   But you better believe it that our Creator God is also balanced and is storing up a great WRATH for those who have ignored His salvation in Christ Jesus and what God’s Prophets and Apostles have brought to us to help us gain the victory over the World, Flesh and the enemy.  God has allowed evil to exist as He knew that we would need a spiritual gym with some weights in it in order to get spiritual muscles.   That is why God allowed lucifer to destroy Job’s health, family & wealth.  He allowed it in order to deal with Job’s fear as in Job 3:25.   Interesting to note here that nothing happened to his wife, as Job was not fearful about her in a negative way.   Fear is Faith going backwards and fear causes that which you fear to find you out.  A good verse on this is: 1 Tim. 1:7-8, “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control].  So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord or about me His prisoner, but with me take your share of suffering for the gospel [continue to preach regardless of the circumstances], in accordance with the power of God [for His power is invincible],     So how do we go from where we are to where we need to be as Real citizens of God’s Eternity?   And I use the word real as many think that they have changed their citizenship but really,  they have not,  Isa.28:9-20.  They are still self centered and in love with this world.

First we must find God’s vision for us and then His Church and Biblically confirm it until we have no doubt that we are on the narrow way (road) to receive that Holy Vision which Jesus also talked about as in Heb. 12:2, “  [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, 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].   Peter puts it this way, “For by these He has bestowed on us His precious and magnificent promises [of inexpressible value], so that by them you may escape from the immoral freedom that is in the world because of disreputable desire, and become sharers of the divine nature.”

So as we find promises & vision for us and decided to go for it then we tend to toss the stuff that tends to hold us back.  And proverbs puts it this way,  “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”  So really what is your vision and spiritual purpose of life?  Why did God create you?  How do you fit into the Body of Christ, 1 Cor. 12.   Or are you so absorbed in being self centered that you don’t have time to even consider such things.  Of course when you life is over you will have eternity to consider what was really important in your life.  Had my 11 yr old  great grand daughter just ask me how you can know someone is saved or not.   I told her it is not about good or bad it is about adoption.  That we are born into this world as the children of this world and the children of Adam who died spiritually in pride and rebellion.  And we were born spiritually dead but God, our Creator, in HIS great love sent us an invitation to be able to change citizenship’s to the Kingdom of God and to be spiritually born from above by our Creator if we want to, as in John 3.   So what family do we belong to?  She left happy.

In other words,  have we  agreed to change our citizenship from this world in being self centered OR into becoming a true citizen in the Kingdom of God and Jesus centered,  or not?   All we have to do is ask Christ Jesus to forgive us and to make HIM the LORD of our lives and center in HIM instead of ourselves. In old Hawaii the word was “Hanai” or to be taken from one family and placed into another.  And it was often done as one couple would have too many kids and another couple would have too few or none.   We have been invited to change families, have we done it?

So in the last chapter of the Book of the Revelation we find these words: “The [Holy] Spirit and the bride (the church, believers) say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take and drink the water of life without cost.”  So it is really up to you to find the great and precious promises in scripture for your personal vision and to use your time on earth to grow spiritually into the person that would enjoy living with a Holy God in a totally righteous Kingdom of loving  fellowship.  If this earth is representative of our potential future, we have a lot to look forward to in eternity in creative light.  So have you taken the time to really change your citizenship?  It is not automatic….


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

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