KEYS

September 3, 2019/0 Comments/in Worth Considering/by Ken Smith

ALOHA FAMILY AND FRIENDS, Beloved of God, John 3:16

KEYS, “WORTH CONSIDERING” 9/3/19, (Across my desk this morning.)

The Keys to Freedom

Have you ever been locked out of your car or house? It can be very frustrating, not to mention inconvenient. Not having your keys can keep you stuck and unproductive. It steals your time and can steal your peace and joy if you let it.

On a spiritual level, we need keys to access what God has for us—eternal life, peace, freedom and blessing. But we don’t have to stand on the outside of blessing, living in frustration. Jesus holds the keys, and He has opened the way for us to walk from death to life. We don’t have to live in defeat, mediocrity, sickness, sin or any kind of bondage any longer. He has given us the keys to abundant life!

Today, if you feel stuck, locked out or defeated, remember, Jesus is the One who holds the keys to your freedom. All you have to do is call on His name and He will answer. He promises to hear you and deliver you. Receive His salvation, receive hope, and receive the freedom and victory He came to give.

A Prayer for Today

“Father, today I come boldly to You. Thank You for giving me life through Your Son, Jesus. I surrender every area of my heart to You and ask that You make me whole and complete. Set me free and teach me to walk in Your ways in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

My Comments
For better than 50 years now HIS KEYS have been a quest for me. To find and learn how to use all of the Keys To The Kingdom that Christ Jesus purchased for us. What I have found so far have been gathered into a web site: www.Trinity-Aloha.org and at the top of the homepage you will find a link called, “Keys To The Kingdom” Hope you enjoy. And if you find anything that needs editing please let me know as I don’t profess to know it all or to have all of the parts together as yet and am still working on it. But I know we will live forever and it is very important to in faith get ready to go. Christ Jesus has opened the door, to live with GOD, for us but we still have to walk through it. Our salvation from the darkness is a life time process, hope you choose wisely. Read: Jude and James, These guys grew up with Jesus…. and are like HIM.

Yours in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy, Ken<>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org email: Ken@Trinity-Aloha.org
THERE IS BUT ONE CHURCH OF CHRIST JESUS AND ALL WHO LOVE AND OBEY HIM ARE MEMBERS.

PROSPERITY

September 2, 2019/0 Comments/in Worth Considering/by Ken Smith

ALOHA FAMILY AND FRIENDS, John 3:16-18, Romans 10:9-10

PROSPERITY, “WORTH CONSIDERING” 9/2/19, (Across my desk this morning.)

Today’s Scripture

“…let them say continually, ‘Let the Lord be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.’” (Psalm 35:27, NKJV)

He Delivers You From All

In Scripture, the Israelites had been in slavery for many years. That was the land of “Barely Enough.” They were just enduring, surviving, barely making it through. One day God brought them out of slavery and took them into the desert, the land of “Just Enough.” Their needs were supplied, but nothing extra. It says their clothes didn’t wear out for forty years. They were probably grateful, but who really wants to wear the same clothes for forty years?

God eventually took them into the Promised Land, the land of “More Than Enough.” The food and supplies were plenteous. The bundles of grapes were so large that two grown men had to carry them. It’s called “the land flowing with milk and honey.” “Flowing” means it didn’t stop. It never ran out. It continued to have abundance. That’s where God is taking you.

You may be in the land of “Barely Enough” right now. You don’t know how you’re going to make it. Don’t worry. God hasn’t forgotten about you. He’s leading you to a new land. Just keep following His leading and move forward into the abundance He has in store for you!

A Prayer for Today

“Father, thank You for delighting to see me prosper. Thank You for the blessings You have given me and those You have in store for me. Help me to develop a vision for Your abundant life so that I can be a blessing everywhere I go in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

My Comments:
Right away, Joel Osteen, comes to mind as so many Christians are so deeply jealous of his financial success. By the way his success if from book royalties and he does not even take a salary from the church. I guess if we lived in the times of David the King, or Salomon it would be the same, lot’s of jealousy. After all, David was not perfect, in fact he was a REAL SINNER…. But the truth of the matter is that if we are truly “HIS SERVANT” it would not be difficult for the Creator to make any of us very prosperous. The problem is that prosperity could also easily destroy us. We could become so secure with the stuff that we trade in our faith security in and with our Creator. A maturity level in handling prosperity or money seems rather scarce in today’s world. How many people do you know today who do not pay any interest at all, -0- ? Yet the Bible teaches that the borrower is servant to the lender, and what you sow, you will reap, Prov. 22:7. And are taught in the Bible to only be the servant’s of Christ Jesus. How many folks do you know who are living within their means and have a surplus with which to help others. So really think about it, do I have the mastery over the stuff or does the stuff have the mastery over me. If I am comfortable owing my soul to the country store then what good would prosperity do? The habit pattern of having a debt load would just get bigger and more stressful as you could borrow more. Learning to be free of debt and the need of stuff is one of the things that the Holy Spirit is here to help us with but very few take HIS Prosperity Course. Proverbs has a lot to teach on this subject. Paul puts it this way:

⁷Render to all men their dues. [Pay] taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, and honor to whom honor is due. ⁸Keep out of debt and owe no man anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor [who practices loving others] has fulfilled the Law [relating to one’s fellowmen, meeting all its requirements]. ⁹The commandments, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet (have an evil desire), and any other commandment, are summed up in the single command, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself. Rom. 13:7-9.

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

There is but one Church of Christ Jesus and all who love and obey HIM are members.

Hebrew Calendar

September 2, 2019/0 Comments/in Worth Considering/by Ken Smith

ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS, Beloved of God, John 3:16-18.

HEBREW CALENDAR, “WORTH CONSIDERING” 9/1/19 Four months till 2020, across my desk today….

The Hebrew calendar month of Elul began over the weekend. Each day during the month of Elul, a shofar blast is sounded to announce the coming month of Tishrei – wherein the festival of Yom Teruah – the feast of trumpets– takes place, calling for all people to repent. Elul, therefore, is identified as a month during which a serious emphasis is placed on personal self-examination and repentance, an end-of-the year opportunity to set our lives in order before Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashana), the days of Awe, and finally, Yom Kippur. Chronologically, Elul begins 40 days before Yom Kippur.

The number “forty” throughout the Bible consistently denotes a season of probation, trial or testing. For example, Yeshua fasted for 40 days in the wilderness before he was tested by Satan; the children of Israel wandered 40 years in the desert; Goliath tormented Israel 40 days before David stood up to the giant; God caused the rains to come down 40 days and 40 nights during the days of Noah, to name a few examples.

We in the Body of Messiah may also sense and identify with this season on the Lord’s calendar if we choose, to initiate a time of self-inspection and reflection.

The Hebrew calendar extends to all of us an invitation to concentrate on and pray about the particular areas of our lives which need attention, adjustment, or even elimination. We can be sure that our Lord will honor and respond to a humble self-inquiry along the line of Psalm 139:23-24:

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts, and see if any wicked way is in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.”

My Thoughts, Ken <>< : Seems a lot of folks are seeking to interpret the feast days with the events of today. Several Blood moons have gone by in last year or so ???? Seems to me that Pentecost should be right up there with the Resurrection of our Lord and HIS Birth. Of course our Julian calendar has some Pagan smells so am not much in touch with that ether. The shepherds would not be in the fields at night in Bethlehem in December, that is for sure it would be like Oregon. But I go for it anyway, no harm done. One of the days on the Jewish Calendar that I think was really top drawer was the cancellation of all debts every 50 years. Now that in the Old Testament was supernatural. And would work today if the count down started 50 yrs. ago. And I really like Apostle Paul’s attitude in Rom.14:4-14^AMPC

4 Who are you to pass judgment on and censure another’s household servant? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he shall stand and be upheld, for the Master (the Lord) is mighty to support him and make him stand. ⁵One man esteems one day as better than another, while another man esteems all days alike [sacred]. Let everyone be fully convinced (satisfied) in his own mind. ⁶He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. ⁷None of us lives to himself [but to the Lord], and none of us dies to himself [but to the Lord, for]⁸If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or we die, we belong to the Lord. ⁹For Christ died and lived again for this very purpose, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰Why do you criticize and pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you look down upon or despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. ¹¹For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God [acknowledge Him to His honor and to His praise]. ¹²And so each of us shall give an account of himself [give an answer in reference to judgment] to God. ¹³Then let us no more criticize and blame and pass judgment on one another, but rather decide and endeavor never to put a stumbling block or an obstacle or a hindrance in the way of a brother. ¹⁴I know and am convinced (persuaded) as one in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is [forbidden as] essentially unclean (defiled and unholy in itself). But [none the less] it is unclean (defiled and unholy) to anyone who thinks it is unclean.

In other words, if the Bible does not guide us into the Truth concerning an action we may then take it to our conscience to make the call and not to traditions. And some of these calls are tough like suicide. Do all suicide victims go to hell? I have come to the conclusion not to try it for myself but the Holy Scriptures are not explicit, really. So now I just say I really don’t know, which I don’t. So if the Bible is silent concerning what tradition may call sin, I go with the Holy Scriptures. It is then between my conscience and The Holy Spirit and no one else.

Add Jenna and Curtice to your prayer list for cancer. Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful Grace and mercy, Ken<>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org (just finishing overhauling the files.) Remember:

THERE IS BUT ONE CHURCH OF CHRIST JESUS AND ALL WHO LOVE AND OBEY HIM ARE MEMBERS.

DEAD OR ALIVE ?

August 30, 2019/0 Comments/in Worth Considering/by Ken Smith

ALOHA FAMILY AND FRIENDS, Beloved of God, John 3:16-18

DEAD OR ALIVE ? “WORTH CONSIDERING” 8/30/19 (Across my desk this morning.)

Today’s Scripture

“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins…” (Ephesians 2:1, NKJV)

You Are Alive

Jesus came to give us life! Think about that for a minute. You used to be dead in your sins and trespasses. You had no hope. You lived in fear. But once you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you weren’t dead in your sin anymore. You now have hope for the future. You are alive in Christ! God wants you to live life to the fullest today. It doesn’t matter how you may feel or what you are facing, start thanking God for giving you life. Even if He didn’t do another thing for us, giving us eternal life is more than enough reason to praise and thank Him every day. Thank Him for eyes to see and ears to hear. Thank Him for the air that you breathe. Thank Him for loving you and making you alive today!

A Prayer for Today

“Father, thank You for making me alive in Christ today. Thank You that I am new. Show me how to live every day to the fullest so that I can enjoy life the way You intended in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

My Comments:
So are you spiritually dead or alive? God told Adam (and God never lies) that if he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that he would surely die. And we are born as the children of Adam, not GOD. We very little like GOD at all to begin with. As I study the Holy Scriptures I see that being disconnected from God is to be dead, to be dead in sin, as HE calls it, like a walking zombie. A zombie controlled by the Adamic pride and rebelling flesh on automatic pilot. The Holy Scriptures teach us: Lust when conceived, brings us into sin and sin as completed makes us dead.

One of the big issues on this subject is what is sin. Is sin what we say it is or is it what GOD says that it is. Most folks I know have a list of respectable sins for themselves and a list of deadly sins for others and neither list seems to agrees with God’s list. If you really want to know how God feels about sin then you need to consider what it cost to undue what Adam did but looking at what Christ Jesus had to do. For us HE made possible, forgiveness, redemption and sanctification (to make holy.) So if you want to cease to be a part of the sin problem and join with those seeking the cure you will have to get into the Word of God for yourself. The more you do, the more in God’s image and likeness you will become. But you really can not find out what sin is from others or even from most churches today.

I like this old hymn as it tells it like it is: “Stricken, Smitten and Afflicted.” Play this twice and allow your mind to digest the meanings of the words, really powerful.
choir    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG4iw9ruMyY
Solo     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otMhq2TAg_g

Please pray for our local house church gathering tonight.   May we shine for Christ Jesus,   Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

Enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b2qkWnzYhE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvOV44Xv0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG7v8jJKAOk

A GOOD QUOTE:
“Those who say they will forgive but can’t forget, bury the hatchet, but they leave the handle out for immediate use.”
D .L . Moody

FORGIVENESS

August 29, 2019/0 Comments/in Worth Considering/by Ken Smith

ALOHA FAMILY AND FRIENDS, Beloved of God, John 3:16-18

FORGIVENESS: “WORTH CONSIDERING” 8/29/19 (Across my desk this morning.)

Today’s Scripture

“Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little.” (Luke 7:47,

Love Much

Did you know that forgiveness opens the door for love to operate in your life? In this Scripture passage, Jesus was at a Pharisee’s house when “a certain immoral woman” came in and poured a jar of expensive perfume on Jesus’ feet and began to wash them with her tears and her hair. The religious leaders were shocked that Jesus would allow this “sinner” to touch Him. But she knew she was forgiven. When she received Christ’s forgiveness, love was the automatic response. She was forgiven of much, and she loved and longed to please Him.

Do you want more love in your life? Do you want to feel more of God’s love and have stronger relationships with the people around you? Open your heart to forgiveness. Receive Christ’s forgiveness and extend it to others. When you are forgiven much, you will love much. As Christ’s love flows through you, your faith will be strengthened, your hope will be renewed, and you will be empowered to live the abundant life He has in store for you!

A Prayer for Today

“Father, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for Your forgiveness which opens the door for Your love to flow through me. Show me Your love and help me to be a light and example of love everywhere I go in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

My Thoughts:
When Christ Jesus gave us an example of how to pray, one of the serious provision was that our forgiveness with HIM was totally dependent upon how we treated others in forgiveness. In other words as we cut others some “slack” HE would do the same for use. And that there was no justification for holding other accountable or manipulating them by the past. Unforgiveness and Trust are not the same. And often we can lie to ourselves about unforgiveness and still talk stink about them or try to bring others into your point of view to try to hurt them. And all of this while GOD is trying to teach us to love your enemies and do good to them. Long term feuds and vendettas only create bitterness and seed more pain. The very best way to get rid of your enemies is to make friends of them.

And a lot of our dark attitudes of unforgiveness come from not fully realizing where we would be before the Throne of God without the forgiveness provided by the death of Christ Jesus, Rom.10:9-10. In Rev. 22:10-17 without Christ Jesus, this would be our lot. So if we would see our many sins as GOD sees them, we would live in a world of forgiveness and love towards one another. When the Roman Guys were driving the nails into the feet of Jesus, HE was more concerned about their souls going to hell than He was the extreme pain HE was suffering in his feet. And HE is set for our example. We have much to grow in this room to experience HIS Freedom in this area of our sanctification. So let the pains of the past go… give them to Christ Jesus and find HIS love and blessings for your tomorrow’s.

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

¹¹He who is unrighteous (unjust, wicked), let him be unrighteous still; and he who is filthy (vile, impure), let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous (just, upright, in right standing with God), let him do right still; and he who is holy, let him be holy still. ¹²Behold, I am coming soon, and I shall bring My wages and rewards with Me, to repay and render to each one just what his own actions and his own work merit. ¹³I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last (the Before all and the End of all). ¹⁴Blessed (happy and ^[a]to be envied) are those who cleanse their garments, that they may have the authority and right to [approach] the tree of life and to enter through the gates into the city. ¹⁵[But] without are the dogs and those who practice sorceries (magic arts) and impurity [the lewd, adulterers] and the murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and deals in falsehood (untruth, error, deception, cheating). ¹⁶I, Jesus, have sent My messenger (angel) to you to witness and to give you assurance of these things for the churches (assemblies). I am the Root (the Source) and the Offspring of David, the radiant and brilliant Morning Star. ¹⁷The [Holy] Spirit and the bride (the church, the true Christians) say, Come! And let him who is listening say, Come! And let everyone come who is thirsty [who is painfully conscious of his need ^[b]of those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, and strengthened]; and whoever [earnestly] desires to do it, let him come, take, appropriate, and drink the water of Life without cost.

Revelation 22:11-17 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

EARTHEN TREASURE

August 28, 2019/0 Comments/in Worth Considering/by Ken Smith

ALOHA FAMILY AND FRIENDS, Beloved of God, John 3:16-18

EARTHEN TREASURE, “WORTH CONSIDERING” 8/28/19 (Across my desk this morning.)

Today’s Scripture

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels…” (2 Corinthians 4:7, NKJV)

Treasures Deep Within

You have many treasures buried deep inside of you—gifts, talents and abilities that you don’t even know about yet. But the greatest treasure within you is the Spirit of God. You carry the treasure of God in an earthen vessel! He’s also deposited treasures on the inside of you that are tied to your purpose. By His Spirit, you will discover that God has fully equipped you for everything you need in this life. We have to draw out those treasures inside of us by what we speak and what we believe. We stir up the gifts by praying in the Spirit. Don’t let those treasures lie dormant. Seek God and follow His leading. Dig deep, stir it up and move forward in the destiny God has in store for you!

A Prayer for Today

“Father, thank You for choosing to live inside of me. Show me the treasures You have deposited within me so that I can fulfill Your purposes for me all the days of my life in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

My Thoughts:
We have a tendency to underestimate the Creator’s design and purpose for us. We tend to see only the dust. HIS original vision was and still is to make us into HIS Image and Likeness. That Jesus did not break the mold for us, HE perfected the mold for us. So our Creator’s only issue is, in giving us a freewill is for helping us to have it activated in a positive direction to seek HIM without any manipulation. So Christ came to give us the example of what our potential is, John shares it in this manner, “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in that day of Judgment: because as HE is, so are we in this world.” 1 Jn.4:17.

Our Creator God has even entrusted the GOOD NEWS of the Gospel into our clay hands. That we can take the message of HIS love, forgiveness and redemption to our families and our lost world. So as we really, in our hearts, understand the cost of our forgiveness in HIS great love, it can jump start us into loving HIM, ourselves and each other. All in 1 John 4… Should take time to read the whole letter of 1st John from time to time. It will help you keep your priorities in order. It is so easy to get caught up in the winds of the world and forget that our time on earth is less than a second in eternity. We should invest our time in exploring why GOD created us and what would be the very best investment of our very limited time on earth. That in humility we need to find and keep HIS commandments and learn how to be changed to be able to live with our Creator for a very long, long eternity.

Check out our new web files: www.Trinity-Aloha.org especially: “Keys To The Kingdom” AND REMEMBER:
THERE IS BUT ONE CHURCH OF CHRIST JESUS AND ALL WHO LOVE AND OBEY HIM ARE MEMBERS.

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

UNLIMITED

August 28, 2019/0 Comments/in Worth Considering/by Ken Smith

ALOHA FAMILY AND FRIENDS, Beloved of GOD, John 3:16-18

UNLIMITED, “WORTH CONSIDERING” 8/27/19 (Across my desk this evening.)

Today’s Scripture

“And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body…He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.” (Romans 4:19-21, NKJV)

Consider Your God

Abraham, who is known as our father in the faith, had many obstacles coming against the promise of God in his life. God told him that he would be “the father of many nations.” Abraham was over ninety years old before he ever saw that promise begin to come to pass. This Scripture tells us that He didn’t consider his body. He didn’t think and meditate on all the reasons why he couldn’t be the father of many nations. No, he considered and thought about the strength and ability of God! He thought about God’s faithfulness and gave praise and glory to Him. The faith that Abraham exercised opened the door for God to do mighty things in and through Him.

Today, what are you believing God for? Does it seem impossible? Sometimes there’s no logical reason to have hope. There may be many reasons your situation will never work out. Consider your God. Consider His Word. Consider His faithfulness. Just like Abraham, you’ll grow strong in faith as you give glory to God. Trust Him today and experience the victory He has in store for you tomorrow!

A Prayer for Today

“Father, thank You for Your faithfulness and strength at work in my life today. I choose to consider Your ability over my circumstance. I choose to trust You and give You praise, honor and glory, now and always in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

My Thoughts:
Ok, so in what way is GOD not UNLIMITED????   So the scriptures tell us that HE never changes, He is the same everyday.   He does not have good days and bad days.

When HE gives a gift he never takes it back, HE never repents.

He does not manipulate to get HIS way. He tell us the truth and never violates our free will. In one place HE says that HE is not willing that any should go to hell and in another place he says that only a few will find the Kingdom of God and get to go to heaven. (Freewill is absolutely necessary for LOVE to exist at all. To learn to love ourselves, HIM and others is the primary reason we have been created.)   Before honor is humility…. and GOD gives GRACE to the humble (obedient)…

Christ Jesus could not do many mighty works in HIS home town due to the unbelief. Also God can not be tested or tempted and of course HE can not die.   And God can not break HIS promises.

But HE can do what we have faith for HIM to do in righteousness. By making Christ Jesus LORD we can always have the victory if we are keeping HIS commandments. James reminds us that the prayers of a righteous man get answered So it is a good investment of time to find out what HE expects of us like good kids and then to do so. Then to ask for the things that we need for ourselves and others. There is a verse like this that shares with us that unless we behave like good little children we will not get into the kingdom of heaven. Hebrews 11, is a great chapter on how to receive from GOD.

Last Friday was a very peaceful and lovely time of gathering at our little house church in Kealia. Next Friday hope to spend some time in the little letter by JUDE. Also my edited copy of “Keys To The Kingdom” is up on our web site now at: www.Trinity-Aloha.org (as a link.) If you see any typo’s or stuff that is not right, please get back to me.    Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy, Ken<><

THERE IS BUT ONE CHURCH OF CHRIST JESUS AND ALL WHO LOVE AND OBEY HIM ARE MEMBERS….

LITTLE FOXES

August 26, 2019/0 Comments/in Worth Considering/by Ken Smith

ALOHA FAMILY AND FRIENDS, Beloved of God, John 3:16

LITTLE FOXES, “WORTH CONSIDERING” 8/26/19, (Across my desk today.)

Today’s Scripture

“Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.” (Song of Solomon 2:15, NIV)

Catch The Little Foxes

Everyone has opportunities to get upset and be frustrated every single day. Sometimes it’s the little things—we can’t find the car keys, traffic is backed up, somebody was rude, or what should have taken an hour ends up taking four hours. Something happened and now you are frustrated and all bent out of shape. There will always be something that can sour your day, but if you are going to live in victory, you have to maintain the right approach. You can’t let the little foxes spoil the vine. In other words, don’t let the little things in life spoil the harvest God has for your future.

I’ve heard it said, “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond.” Make sure you respond to life with an attitude of faith and expectancy. Sure, things may irritate you, but don’t let that irritation last into the next moment. Let it go. Don’t try to control everything around you. Instead, release it to God knowing that His plans are for your good, and He is leading and guiding you in the path of blessing.

A Prayer for Today

“Father, today I choose to hold on to peace. I won’t let the little things upset me and steal my joy and peace. I choose to trust You and praise You for what You are doing today and in the future of my life in Jesus’ name! Amen.”

My Thoughts:
Seems to me that the Church has really not been too faithful in rooting out the doctrines based upon the concept of “Once Saved, Always Saved?” This rather permissive and indulgent concept came basically from some of the teachings of Calvin. Calvin was a really studious scholar and wrote over 22 books which are in circulation today on predestination. The flaw was that the Elect could make Jesus their Savior and be saved for eternity. I call this idea greasy grace or slopy agape. The Bible clearly teaches that unless we make Christ Jesus LORD and in humility become obedient to HIM as LORD that we probably will not make the jump to light speed in the resurrection. There are hundreds of conditional scriptures in your Bible that will back this up. Only if you make Christ Jesus LORD are you secure with HIM being your Savior. And we are challenged in Holy Scripture to walk this out. Read the Book of James or Hebrews or the little letters of John…. Or the words of Christ Jesus for that matter. Of the four soils only one in four made good fruit. So drop the other shoe, if you have as yet not done so, and make Christ Jesus your LORD. Find your real security in HIM. Fill your life with HIS Words and don’t be fearful of becoming just like HIM. Kill the little foxes of the flesh, you will be glad you did. Yours in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy, Ken<>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org

https://trinity-aloha.org/keys-to-the-kingdom/mystery-of-iniquity/

August 25, 2019/0 Comments/in Worth Considering/by Ken Smith

Mystery of Iniquity

It was a nice church service today and the little church was filled. I go to a Charismatic church when I can. But after all the years of being in ministry it is hard sometimes to sit through a normal church service.

The music goes from fellowship to praise to worship. The presence of the Holy Spirit begins to take over and then, as in almost all church services, the worship service is stopped. It is then time for an offering or two and the announcements. The anointing usually lifts and then comes the sermon. Seems like ministers must have a great sermon each week or folks will wonder if they are earning their keep. My heart goes out to the Pastor, he must start on dry ground to try to bring the fellowship back into the anointing and do the work of the Holy Spirit. Most of the time it just does not happen. But such is the results of a normal church liturgy.

Today the message included the observation that God is in ultimate and total control. It reminded me of many contracts that I have signed for construction projects which had the clause: “Acts of God.” In other words, some believe that God is ultimately responsible for every positive or negative outcome of life. It’s no wonder that most folks don’t trust God. But the church just keeps pumping out this doctrine that God is in control and somehow responsible and we will see through the vale by and by and know as we are known. The pastor did a little time today in Job. God dumped His wealth, killed His kids and gave him boils just to make sure he was true to the cause. I don’t believe it. Job may not have been in sin but he may have been ignorant of the law of fear ( Job 3:25). Fear is faith going backwards. Fear is the glue that holds the kingdom of darkness together. The more God blessed Job, the more Job allowed His fears to grow even to the point of offering sacrifices for His children in the event that they might have sinned. It seems obvious that Job was fearful of losing His wealth, health and the lives of His children. It is interesting to note here that he apparently had no fear concerning His wife and she remained untouched by Lucifer. God allowed Job to experience the fruits of His fear as Job allowed God no other way in which to set him free. Job’s troubles were due to Job’s negative faith level. Job was not in sin but he was certainly immature. God is only in control of what we submit to Him in loving faith. In fear, rebellion, lust, pride and etc. we cause our own painful experiences with the power of our own tongues in what we say and believe in our hearts. We are saved through faith. The whole Kingdom works in the same manner. Does God win in the end? YES. Do we win? Yes, but only if found of God in Christ Jesus with His laws in our heart. Our words can be life or death (Proverbs 18:21).

We sometimes forget that God gave Adam the world to replenish and subdue and made him the king of this world. Adam and Eve were corrupted by their own pride and fear and in free will gave the world to Lucifer. Jesus calls Lucifer as the prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air that now works in the children of disobedience. He is removed from heaven in Rev. 12 and comes to earth having great wrath. Three and a half years later he is sent to hell and in another thousand years he is consigned to the Lake of Fire forever.

A son says, “Dad, can I borrow the car?” If you lend him the car, you realize the possibilities of loss of life and the cost of repairs along with his lack of funds. Your are responsible for the car even though he will have the full exercise of His free will in His use of your car. You must decide if he will operate the car according to your wishes or his. If he crashes the car, you will need to pick up the pieces of the learning experience. But he is still driving your car. This is called stewardship in the Bible. We are stewards of God’s creation. That concept includes our physical bodies and all that God has created around us. The big question for eternity is will we drive His car the way He wants us to or will we take His car and drive it in a manner that is against His wishes. If we are obedient with His car then He will invite us to drive everything that is in His garage. If not, then He will exclude us from driving at all.

The right of Lucifer to claim the world by default was broken at the cross by the second Adam, Jesus. Lucifer had no legal rights to kill a perfect man so he could not hold him. But more than that, in killing Jesus he allowed those who would join with Jesus and become a part of Jesus to escape sin’s control and judgement as well. As in Adam all died so also in Christ shall all be made alive. Thus God provides salvation. So God knowing full well in His foreknowledge that we would crash the car, trash the world and destroy ourselves still gave us the use of the car (us and the world), even though in His foreknowledge of our perverted free will He knew that we would wreck it. But then He also knew that Jesus would come and prevail that we might find our way into His marvelous light and be loved, covered, forgiven, redeemed, restored and made to be kings and priests unto His Holy name. For the sake of true and honest love, God has placed everything He has made on the line.

God is then fully responsible and in control as the creator of all things. Lucifer is totally responsible for the rebellion and for His own pride in trying to build His own kingdom. We then are responsible in Adam for the divorce and high treason of giving the world to Lucifer. But we say, “We did nothing of the kind, what did we do?” It then really becomes a matter of choice as to the side you have selected to be on in the experience of life. Lucifer has a team that uses self centered ego, fear, manipulation, rejection, hate, greed, lust, jive and pot to mention a few. Jesus has a team of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, kindness, faith, meekness and temperance. You are in the great and eternal reality of life and have joined one team or the other. Of course, if you have read the book, King Jesus wins the victory with the cross and the love of God. He is to be crowned the King of Kings in all of creation. He extends loving forgiveness to all on His team on that final day of the judgment of all things. The negative options are very painful (Jude 10-16)

The Mystery . The Creator, in order to build a Kingdom in which all could experience love and freewill has allow the clear and full use of earth, it has been almost like an auto destruction derby if you will. But all must find their way in free will to gain access into His Kingdom. God will not use force, manipulation, threat or bribe and has refused to make us only robots saying “Jesus is Lord” or “God I Love You.” He has allowed a time and place where hearts may grow and be tested and a place where Godly love and trust can be experienced. There was no other way for the creator to build His forever family after the rebellion. He can only build with those who trust Him and freely submit their will to love and trust Him. In truth we must learn to submit to His right to rule and to be careful to share His Kingdom laws of love with the rest of the creation. He has allowed the world to remain fallen that the children of light in Jesus might gain a thirst for righteousness. The world has become an excellent gymnasium with plenty of weights for the Saints to experience for a much needed strong spiritual growth. Unfortunately, the weights must be used properly in order to receive the benefits. And the very same weights in the gymnasium for growth can be a killer if misused.

Our father Adam, in rebellion, chose to fall into a ditch bigger than the Grand Canyon called sin. We were born in the same canyon of sin. We tend to think there is nothing else. Jesus came and threw us a rope down the canyon wall and into our darkness. The questions now is, will we use the rope to climb out into the light or do we die in the our darkness because we feel it is just more comfortable. We tend to believe that there cannot possible be anything better than our dark canyon and the light is really just too bright up there anyway. GOD want’s to create a HOLY PEOPLE?? IMPOSSIBLE, we say. But then, with GOD all things are possible…

FIRE

August 24, 2019/0 Comments/in Worth Considering/by Ken Smith

ALOHA FAMILY AND FRIENDS, Beloved of God, John 3:16-18

FIRE, "WORTH CONSIDERING" 8/23/19Fire is very interesting as a Biblical search. In Ezek 28:18 we find a prophesy that GOD will bring a fire from lucifer himself that will destroy him. The Messenger of the LORD first appeared to Moses in the flames of the burning bush, Ex.3:2. In Ex.24:17 the Glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire. In Lev.9:24 fire from heaven consumed the burnt offering. In Deut. 4:24 the scriptures tell us that the LORD GOD is a consuming fire.
So is it any wonder that if our Creator want's to make us in HIS Image and likeness that we are going to need to get use to HIS fire? John the Baptist tells us that the LORD JESUS came to baptize us with fire, Matt.3:11. Then at Pentecost We see the apostles of Christ Jesus experiencing just that. Acts.2:3. and then in 1 Cor.3:13 we are taught by Paul that our works will even be tested by fire or GOD's presence. In Hebrews 1:7 we are told that the LORD's servants are to be flames of fire. And in the Revelation we see Christ Jesus the LORD with eyes as a blazing fire. The vision for our little house church in Kealia is to be used of GOD to bring our kindling together and to get a good HOT, Holy Spirit fire going. Not going to be easy as there is not much dry wood lying around. Once the fire is going then a little wet wood will be OK. And when the fire really takes off there will be many that come to get dry and warmed up and catch on fire.
So what we are taught is that Christ Jesus is the 1st born of many brethren Rom.8:29 Not only that but that we are also to be conformed to the image of HIS SON (CHRIST JESUS) So that leaves us with the choice of either burning out for HIM or rotting out for this world. Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy, Ken<>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org FAMOUS QUOTES: "Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience." - A. W. Tozer "There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we nonetheless prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord." - William Booth"We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy." -A. W. Tozer