UNITY     6/14/18
How to bring Christian Ministries into a John 17:20-26 much needed Unity is going to take some real soul searching and wisdom for us Christians in the Holy Spirit?  The Church of Christ Jesus needs to come into Universal Unity for the Power of the Holy Spirit to flow again like in (ACTS 2:43, 5:14-16,  notice: Every One was healed.)   And we need to become prepared for the next Great Harvest of Souls and then to GO HOME.  We go home,  clean house, boot out lucifer (Rev.12:11) and enjoy our union with Christ Jesus. (Rev. 19)   Then Armageddon, help set up the 1,000 year Kingdom of Christ Jesus as KING of KINGS.   Then one last battle and a new heaven and a new earth of Righteousness with our Creator for Eternity.    As Christians we need to see that our differences,  in humility and love,  are a wonderful opportunity to find more of GOD’s TRUTH and FREEDOM.  The world is totally confused by the differences that they see in our divisions.  We have agreed to disagree. This does not work.  (United we stand, divided we fall.)

Eschatology  (Study of Prophesy) is also something that most are interested in as we seem to be coming into our LORD’s prophesy’s of Matt.24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 and the end of this age.

Denominations and Cults often weave in some kind of a special track for securing their own community and keeping their “own” membership safe so as to pay their “own bills.”  Many of which are not for the poor or for evangelism as per the scriptures.  Often it is just not a Jesus Church.   When I was the moderator one year for the local Ministerial Association I was sharing on unity and the other ministers told me that they were all very much in unity.  I suggested that then they should all have the same ministry bank account,  I about got hooted out of the meeting.

In a Jesus Church there is only the membership to Christ Jesus as LORD and to learn to hear HIS voice and do what HE says to do.  Of course there is provided by the Holy Spirit a structure of elders to help guide us in this purpose, (Eph.4:11-16.)   But these Elders also need to be guided by the Holy Spirit.   And have a global view and not a local,  political or a denominational kind of view.  His Church is HIS people,  not the steeple.  I hope to live to see a Church/Fire that brings unity with every other Church that is on fire into the John 17 Unity that our LORD prayer for.   The New Testament began with HIS Resurrection.  No one was a Christian until HIS Resurrection and the debt of sin was paid in full.  Then the Church was started at Pentecost with the coming of the Holy Spirit.   That process is still at work in the world today but nearly over for the gathering of HIS CHURCH.

God has set out 7,000 years to develop HIS Eternal Family of souls who are to become in HIS IMAGE and LIKENESS as per the original design plan.  He was powerful with man for the first 2000 years,  Then with Abraham and Moses came the 2,000 years of Faith and LAW.  Now we are nearly concluding the 2,000 years of Faith and LOVE in Christ Jesus.   Next we have a Sabbath of 1,000 years of REST in the Kingdom of Christ Jesus to complete the restoration process.  After that is a New Heaven and a New Earth with our Heavenly Father living in LIGHT and RIGHTEOUSNESS as an Eternal Family without time, fear or sin but in LOVE, POWER and a SOUND MIND.

There are a lot of folks that have been deceived by a traditional religious theater church experience that is advertised as the way to heaven, but ???,  Isa. 28:9-20.   Our relationship to Christ Jesus is as LORD ( King,  Master) and then SAVIOR on a personal level,  HE is the only way into God’s Holy Light for Eternity.   HE is building a KINGDOM,  not a democracy,  and we will not get to vote.   But a Kingdom with a perfect loving King is the very best form of government.

There is only one True Church of Christ Jesus and all who love and obey HIM are members. 
In the New Testament HE give us HIS commandments to obey and they are good for us.
HIS TRUTH sets us FREE and brings us no bondage.  The lies of sin do bring us into bondage.

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

GETTING OLD    6/12/18

Being 85  and nearing 86 in a few months,  LORD willing and the lava don’t rise is a very interesting study in humility for me.  

It is almost like the LORD realizes our need to become humble later in life and has set the stage for it to happen.  Things that I did 10 years ago and did not even think about I now look for someone younger and with better balance to do.   Don’t get me wrong,  I enjoy being 85, it is a brand new experience for me. 

This morning I found that the oat meal (a favorite breakfast) was on the top shelf of the kitchen cabinets and needing a ladder to get to.  No one around,  wife gone to work.  So got the little step stool out and started up the steps.  And then said to myself,  what are you doing here with your bad balance?  If you fall,  you would put those you love in a very bad way to take care of you and the mending process just might not go as well as it use to.  So very carefully I got my oatmeal and had my breakfast,  cleaned up my mess and the put the oats in the freezer this time for the next time with kitchen stool ladder not needed.   I also Still have my bike license,  and that also is a no, no…..

My mind is still really pretty sharp but this house that I am living in is really getting worn out.  Should have taken better care of it.  Now if I eat much red meat the gout in my feet feel like walking on broken glass.  But I try to stay away from red meat, and miss it, and I still get things done PTL…  But much more limited.   So not so much by my own doing any more but by those who I can find to help.  Had heavy boxes stored on shelves today,  looks great, that I had been looking at for a week to be stored but just too much for me to do.  So the concept of humility settled in a little deeper today in my world.  The word humility is rather interesting when used in the Bible.

          A fool always loses his temper, but a wise man holds it back. (NAS, Proverbs 29:11)

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. (NIV, James 1:19-20)

“‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. (NIV, Leviticus 19:18)

An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins. (NIV, Proverbs 29:22)

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips. (NIV, Proverbs 27:1-2)

When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom. The integrity of the upright will guide them, but the falseness of the treacherous will destroy them. (NAS, Proverbs 11:2-3)

Humility and the fear of the LORD bring wealth and honor and life. (NIV, Proverbs 22:4)

“But the greatest among you shall be your servant. “And whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. (NAS, Matthew 23:11-12)

And [Jesus] called a child to Himself and set him before them, and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (NAS, Matthew 18:2-4)

And the other side of humility is a willing heart to be obedient as was Moses and Jesus.   So it would seem that I am now entering a school to learn humility and obedience to my LORD in a way that can not be avoided that goes much deeper than ever before. 

Love you much in Christ Jesus and hope you make it into HIS KINGDOM.  Yours, in HIS great love,   Ken<><

SIN   6/8/18
Often we get lost in our own little cosmic world of emotional truth.  It is truth because we say it is without any objective Biblical support whatever.    The reason we need the Holy Scriptures is to give us a source of objective truth from God’s point of view that HE has spoken through HIS prophets over thousands of years all saying the same thing as to what really is really TRUTH.  HIS Truth makes it possible for us to know what we need to be set free from..  Our emotionally created supposed truth only brings us in to bondage.    2 Tim.3:16-17,  Psalms 119:9-12   It is really easy to make up your own rules that fit with what you like to do.  We have a gay affirming church across the street that told me they have a progressive interpretation of the scriptures.  I just bet that they do…..  So even in knowing the Holy Scriptures is must be in Context and Consistent  with every thing said concerning the subject.

The word sin was taken from an old English archery match where it simply meant to miss the center of the target,  and that was called to sin.  With us Christians the center of the target is Christ Jesus.   To not be like Christ Jesus is to sin.  Attached to today’s “Worth Considering” you will find an objective report card list that will easily show us all the reason that we all truly need a SAVIOR and LORD to make it into the Totally Righteous Kingdom of God. 

If you would like to study some 52 basic doctrines of God’s Truth for us,  let me know.  A really great Biblical Foundation that all true Christians should have.

Your soul is designed by God to live for eternity.   Only in this life you have the opportunity to choose to live with GOD in righteousness or to live alone in darkness for eternity.  I truly hope you choose wisely.     Blessings,   Ken<><    www.Trinity-Aloha.org

Our New Mailing address:   85-4554 Mamalahoa Hwy,  Capt. Cook (Kealia),  HI 96704 

Thoughts of some past Saints of God:

"I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but   whatever I have placed in God´s hands, that I still possess."  -Martin Luther    "If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not   fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is   praying for me."  -Robert Murray McCheyne    "As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any   cause to complain."  -Charles Spurgeon    "Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God.   Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God´s removal of that   which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him."  -Charles H. Brent    "The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace   in trouble."  -Thomas Watson    "A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit."  -Watchman Nee    "The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity."  - Matthew Henry

RELIGIOUS SPIRIT   
A large number of folks no longer attend the big buildings on he corner that call themselves  THE CHURCH OF …………….”  Due to running on a religious spirit.   That spirit is judged in Rev. 17 & 18.

But then we don’t want to miss GOD’s HOLY SPIRIT and GOD’s TRUTH that gives us eternal joy and sets us free in Christ Jesus.   There is but one Church of Christ Jesus and all who love and obey HIM are members.   

Not sure this article really covers this issue completely,  what do you think?   But it was interesting enough to send along for those who might be interested.    Love in Jesus    Ken <><

You Can Be Free From a Religious Spirit
10:00AM EDT 5/23/2018 J. Lee Grady   

After Elisha watched Elijah ascend into heaven, the prophet went to the city of Jericho and performed his first miracle. The men of that city faced an environmental crisis: Their water was toxic, most likely because of the sulfur and other chemicals that had rained down upon nearby Sodom and Gomorrah years earlier. This poison had made the land barren (see 2 Kings 2:19-22) and it was affecting people and animals as well as plant life.

So Elisha performed a bold, prophetic act. He threw salt in the water and proclaimed: “Thus says the Lord, ‘I have purified these waters; there shall not be from there death or unfruitfulness any longer'” (v. 21, NASB). His proclamation brought immediate cleansing.

This obscure story in the Old Testament offers us a picture of the gospel’s power. The message of Jesus Christ heals us. The Holy Spirit brings life where death has reigned. He neutralizes the poisons that cause spiritual barrenness. He balances the pH level in our hearts and our churches so that spiritual growth and vitality is possible.

All of us would like to enjoy a healthy spiritual life. And we would love to see our churches thriving and growing. But the sad truth is that many of us are barren because of hazardous additives. We have embraced a gospel laced with legalism, performance-based religion and salvation by works—when Christ alone is our only source of life.
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Jesus Himself referred to these toxins as “the leaven of the Pharisees” (Luke 12:1b). He told us that the Pharisees’ brand of religion, which looked good on the outside, was deadly—and contagious.  Have you been infected? You can take your own pH test by examining these eight characteristics of a religious spirit.

    A religious spirit views God as a cold, harsh, distant taskmaster rather than an approachable, loving Father. When we base our relationship with God on our ability to perform spiritual duties, we deny the power of grace. God does not love us because we pray, read our Bibles, attend church or witness, yet millions of Christians think God is mad if they don’t perform these and other duties perfectly. As a result, they struggle to find true intimacy with Jesus. 
     A religious spirit places emphasis on doing outward things to show others that God accepts him. We deceive ourselves into believing that we can win God’s approval through a religious dress code, certain spiritual disciplines, particular music styles or even doctrinal positions.        
     A religious spirit develops traditions and formulas to accomplish spiritual goals. We trust in our liturgies,   denominational policies or man-made programs to obtain results that only God alone can give.
    A religious spirit becomes joyless, cynical and hypercritical. This can turn a home or a church completely sour. Then, whenever genuine joy and love are expressed, this becomes a threat to those who have lost the simplicity of true faith.
    A religious spirit becomes prideful and isolated, thinking that his righteousness is special and that he cannot associate with other believers who have different standards. Churches that allow these attitudes become elitist and dangerously vulnerable to deception or cult-like practices.
    A religious spirit develops a harsh, judgmental attitude toward sinners, yet those who ingest this poison typically struggle with sinful habits that they cannot admit to anyone else. Religious people rarely interact with nonbelievers because they don’t want their own superior morals to be tainted by them.
    A religious spirit rejects progressive revelation and refuses to embrace change. This is why many churches become irrelevant to society. They become so focused on what God did 50 years ago that they become stuck in a time warp and cannot move forward when the Holy Spirit begins to open new understanding. When religious groups refuse to shift with God’s new directives, they become “old wineskins,” and God must find more flexible vessels that are willing to implement change.
    A religious spirit persecutes those who disagree with his self-righteous views and becomes angry whenever the message of grace threatens to undermine his religiosity. An angry religious person will use gossip and slander to assassinate other peoples’ character and may even use violence to prove his point. Jesus, in fact, warned His disciples: “There will even come a time when anyone who kills you will think he’s doing God a favor” (John 16:2b, MSG).

If the poison of religion has contaminated your walk with God, ask Him to pour a fresh understanding of His grace into your barren spirit—and then expect His new life to flow through you.

ALOHA FAMILY AND FRIENDS,  Beloved in the LORD.

DEBT     “WORTH CONSIDERING”    3/7/19     (Across my desk this morning.)

Folks saddled with this debt have purposefully handed over their Liberty. They traded it so they could get something shiny and new.  And now if their master closes his door… if their job goes away… they’ve got nothing left.  But here’s the one key difference between this situation and the plague that spread across our nation 150 years ago – it’s where free-thinking folks will poke us in the chest and tell us we’re wrong.      Your Credit Score is important.

This form of slavery is entirely optional.
The bank man isn’t coming to vulnerable neighborhoods and gathering folks up at gunpoint – although we know a few salesmen who would love the option.  No, this servitude is entirely derived by the enslaved.  It’s 100% avoidable.  The Only (and Easy) Way Out  It’s been a while since we wrote about our “broken bowl” theory. But with the latest headlines telling us that Americans are now sitting on more debt than we did prior to the 2008 disaster, it’s quite clear we’ve got work to do.

We need to spread our message.
We’re flat-out convinced that if you follow this simple strategy, your wealth will increase and you’ll quickly be on your way to true financial freedom.  As many of our oh-so-wise musings about money do… this one starts during our time in Alaska’s wilderness.  We were newlyweds, and we decided to go camping at one of our favorite lakes along the rugged Canadian border.  We invited a friend named Kenny.  He was a young, hungry kid from Southern California who didn’t get out all that much.  We figured nearly a week without modern influences would do him some good.  For a few short hours at the start of our trip, though, we thought he was going to get us killed.  Fortunately for us, he then did something dumb… something that sparked our powerful way of thinking.

You see, camping in the Alaskan wilderness isn’t like camping in the lower 48.  Once we waved goodbye to the bush pilot who flew us to the lake, we were on our own. No phone. No radio. Just the three of us and a campfire. The nearest person was more than 25 miles away. But it didn’t matter. We couldn’t get there if we wanted to… the nearest road was more than 70 miles south.

We were on our own. And Kenny forgot about that.  Almost as soon as the plane disappeared over the mountaintop and the roar of its engine faded to silence, Kenny attacked his food ration for the week.  By the time we realized what was going on and stopped him, he’d already eaten two days’ worth of food.  We were in trouble.  But then something incredible happened.  He dropped his bowl – his one and only bowl.  It shattered.  All that was usable was a piece about a third of the size of its previous shape.  Need Less… Spend Less

At first, Kenny was distraught. Like most 18-year-olds, he quickly got hungry and grouchy.  But as the sun burned through the  fog on our second day, his mood started to change. He was eating only as much as his bowl would hold… a third of what he was eating the day before.  But he was happy with it.  He quickly got used to it.  It’s a powerful lesson for anybody working to break the bonds of modern slavery.  We’re convinced it’s the only way to build real, liberating wealth.   Happiness does not come with an interest rate.  Freedom can’t be found at the bottom of a credit card statement.  It’s just the opposite.  That statement that comes in the mail once each month represents what you owe to your master. It shows how much you must work before you’ll be set free.  The only way out, we’re convinced, is to break your bowl.  Don’t fall into the cultural trap that convinces us that more stuff equals more happiness.  It’s 100% a lie.  Instead, we beg you to break your bowl in half. Fill it up with only what you need. It’s far less than you think.  Save the rest for another day.  It’s the only way to be truly free.  Millions of Americans are enslaved by their choices… and most have no idea how tight the shackles have become.  They’re not going to like their future – especially when their master wants his money.  Be well,  Andy

My Comment:
It is very important to learn to live without paying interest.   I quit paying interest in 1968.    And as I have learned to live without owing my soul to the company store it has given me a lot more freedom.  Both Debt and Socialism are forms of slavery and to be avoided.    It was tough at times but the Holy Spirit has been a really great teacher as I took this Bible verse seriously  (I don’t even have a credit score any more) :   Yours, in HIS great love,   Ken<><   (Previous “Worth Considerings” are now available at www.Trinity-Aloha.org )