lets change this culture

Good afternoon my friends. Tonight I want to speak about a simple message and a matter so ridiculously crazy. America has become riddled with confusion. People are divided on racial issues, political differences, fearful of their bosses, their income or their goals. We all want to live and have a good life. Trouble is we all think it's too late. Well it isn't. Remember we are in control of what we buy,where we shop, which companies we support. There is 3 easy steps to take back our nation!
Number 1 is to research which companies destroy local business and conservative values? Number 2 is buy to support a simple community vision. If you want things to be simple, and family oriented, locally owned, then buy from local companies, demand certain businesses be brought to your town and keep larger monopoly's money out. People you ha e to realize without our money monopoly's fail. Don't believe me?go online and search companies closing this year due to most people shopping online. That's so sad because we did this. We chose to ignore local for greed. We used to buy based on conscience but now most people buy based on a dollar or convenience. We have to take back our nation but we ha e to unite people behind a community minded flag. Only when we stop the monopoly's from buying up all the media, all the choices we once enjoyed. One rain drop does little grow a garden, but when a flood comes it brings new growth. Same with our elected officials. We need to stop letting corporations and Wall street money place reps in office. We need to create voting clubs which are communities that come together to discuss candidates. If you have no idea who represents you how can change come? Think of it this way. What if you were choosing a babysitter for you kids or a school or a place to go to church. Those who represent our towns and our nation also vote to make need laws that effect our families. This last vote by the supreme court effected all of us. Someone voted for Obama, without researching his true nature. Now all of us
 are paying for it. People effect trends! People effect changes! If you want a simpler God focused era to return only we can make that change! People ha e to come together

A world of corruption

Good Morning readers. Today's message is aimed at the emerging corruption of our nation, and the real casue and focus we should be upset about. After investigating alot of what our modern media have been feeding us, as to the causes and problems of unemployment, he depletion of the middle class, and growing fear and uncertainty. It has happened before, in China, in Russia, in Eastern Europe. Check your history books. Where a growing corporate elite, backed by a small portion of wealth, found mostly on Wall Street, capturing and controling Congress, the White House and Washington in general as a machine for their own gains and growth.  The media,having been once founded for the sole purpose to report the truth to the local towns and cities where its constituents resides, have now been bought and paid for by Corporate companies. Check who owns CBS, FOX, MSNBC, CNN,GE, NBC,ABC, most of the Cable networks. Count the number of owners on one hand and tell me this isn't happening right before our eyes. Why would Congress spend trillions of dollars to bale out a bank? A car company? Jobb loss? It would lead to a corporate metldown? Destroy the nation?  All media masks for the truth which was to cover up scandel, corruption, and manipulation from withing Wallstreet. The MTG bubble was done for a reason. The Corporate state doesn't want a middle class. Why? Because from the middle class, has always the revelutionary members, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc etc. People in Europe who ended the Berlin wall were middle class intellectuals who had studied political history, knew how the corporations worked and operated, knew how the corrput regimes has stolen from the populous at the expense of its people's lives and way of life. Its not the poor who build revolutions, its the people who have expected a certain way of life and then not given the opportunity to live that way. We who are the middle class, were once considered to live a healthy way of life. Now the EPA destroys our beautiful landscape that God gave to us to maintain. Corporations buy out mom and pop businesses and build monopolies on the cost of food we must have to survive. Companies buy or chosen elected officials and tell them what to vote for never even caring how we feel about it. I listened to David Kacinich yesterday who is a Democratic Rep of the house from OHIO. He knowing he will not run again, has opened up to the truth about Washington and his fellow members. He says the system is broken, know one votes his conscience now, but the will of the corporate state that funds their campagnes. He said you are either a part time politician running for the fun of it for one term, or you are with the majority and do as they wish. I say it is time for this kind of change. One that Martin Luther King fought to maintain, except now it is not civil rights but the rights of a middle class and lower class to survive and prosper within a nation once created for this same group of people. The upper classe existed and ruled in Colonial England, but folks I tell you today we are again a colonized group of citizens by a corporate Elite no different from King George and the Parliment he dominated. Today I call for every reader to search their souls and look deeper into the nation as a whole. What I speak is the truth. No longer can we trust the media, TV,RADIO, NEWSPAPERS INTERNET MEDIA. Don't believe me, go to truthdig.com and read for about an hour. Your Eyes will be opened. Opened  to what I felt to be true, but didn't want to admit it. Now what do we do about it. We protest in the way the colonials did in 1765, we form groups with like minded people and have peaceful discussions and hold meetings, elect leaders and realize that we are the majority, and majority rules. We have to place the Lord's word first and how he wanted us to live, and what the founding fathers wanted our State and Local governments to be sovereign not the FED. My New Slogan is this and I'm creating a banner and a flag with this one there
This ithe flag flown by George Washington when he crossed the Deleware on that cold night, the Pine tree he knew was a sign of unity and he wanted the people of the North and South Colonies to unite together under God. We as a powerful educated people are a strong force to reckin with, and we should unite and not lay down and satisfied with the scraps given to us by the Corporate State. W must take back our nation, take back our moral code and take back the way of life we love and want for our kids. !!!!!!Are you With me?????  

A warning to all of you!!!

Hear me oh people of the United States and the world. Today I am more serious that I have been in I think most of my life. It was this morning that a revelation came over me as I was some how guided from my original reading of the living word of the Bible that I found myself beginning the book of Amos. Now for many of you who may never have even picked up your Bible except to carry it to church on Sunday morning, the prophet Amos is an unusual case in Biblical history. He was a prophet during the reigh of King Jeraboham in Israel and Uzziah in Judah, 2 kingdoms now present day Israel, who had forged an alliance during the years of 479BC-440 BC. The unique thing about Amos, is his background. He was not from a wealthy family, rather a simple sheephearder, though he did own his own small flock. However, he had no servents or hirelings to help him. Further more he would every late summer drive his herds to the western half of Judah where there was tender grass and more fertile lands. It was a custom in this region for landowners who had large reserves of Sycamore Fig trees to provide a land lease in exchange for a service. This service required the shaphards to climb high up into the Sycamore trees and punch small holes in the bottom of the tender fig fruit. This allowed the fruit to completly ripen and be picked. Amos was such a shephard who offered his services to the landowners each year.
This would not be someone in today's standards that the President or various Prime Minstors would chose to deliver an official message to their people. And yet God used just such a man to deliver a most dire message to the people of the surrounding areas of Judah. It was a warning from God. You see the peolpe of the surrounding lands had become weathly in trade, commerce and land holdings. They came to this end onthe backs of the poor,the meek and the downtrodden. These rulers and wealthy land owners had become calice, blind and selfish to God, turning instead to idols of their own makings. They had opened trade with their enemies for slaves and exports, forsaking the very Mosaic covenant God had made with the common classes who were the very foundation of their land itself. People were tricked in buying cheap goods, kicked off their lands and driven from their homes due to debt and taxes. Children were sold into slavery and their parents beaten and spat on.
God has seen enough of this injustice and unrighteousness until he was sickened. Thus he took the common servent, a shephard who understood hard work, devotion, honesty, and meekness to deliver his warning.
The upper classes who had slowly driven the middle class into poverty, resulting in a large class casm, were told that they had 2 choices: Repentance and remourse, or retribution and wrath. No in between, no lawyers to mediate a plea bargain, no middle of the road deal. Either repent or be destroyed.

Amos of course was mocked, and laughed at, he was driven from town to town, however his short oracle, only lasted for a few days and he went home. One of the shortest and simpest warnings of any prophet sent by God. However the message was more serious than the end of the world itself.

Today I bear such a warning to all of you reading this message. What I have to say is short, and simple much like Amos. We have come to the same crossroads that Israel, and Judah, Syria, Tyre, Ammn, Gaza, Edom, and many of the nations God sent his warning to thousands of years ago. My warning is just as serious and just as mocked. Here in what was once America, the wealthy use injustice, as the weapon to destroy and beat down the poor, the meek, the helpless. In the shadow of what once was a republic of the common man, now stands a tyrant who has sold his soul to capitalistic indo totalitarianism. Like Israel who's cities and towns were founded on the blood and sweat of the lower common classes, the U.S has forgotten and allowed injustice to run amuck in the streets like ravounous dogs. Lustful greed stricken capitalists enslave our people in the abomination of debt, selling them on every channel, every radio station every mail campaign. Home ownership has become something of a past dream for so many young peolpe, while others who had the chance are now thrown out by banks and financial firms. I had stood idolly by and watched the demise of what was a strong and hardworking middle class, being driven from their jobs and their security by the promotion of education. We grow ever smarter in technology, economics, politics, science, and yet grow stupider in reality, ethics, Biblical truth and our future. Amos said that until Justice flowed down like water and rightousness like a mighty stream the Lord would never be satisfied.
I go back to the word Justice. To God that is not a mere word found on the block buildings of the courthouse. It is something that he akins to rightousness. TO him justice allows relationships to happen, it forms stability, and togetherness. Without it, a society breeds anger, frustration, greed, and moral decay. To him a world without Justice for all its people breaks down the moral fabric, allowing sin and destruction to replace honesty and ethics. Folks today I am not speaking in a joking manner at all. I tell you as I live and breath, that this world as we know it will soon be thrown into chaos and distruction. God had sent his warnings clear enough as of late. We must either return to the moral fabirc and allow justice for all people to once again flourish, vanquishing corruption, greed mongering and selfish upper class devilry, or we must face his retribution as Isreal, Judah and the surrounding nations did 30 years after the prophet Amos gave his warnings. All were burned, and destroyed either from the inside out, or by their enemy nations God used to perform the act.
Today we have to stop and take a long look in the mirrior. We have to realize that we cannot keep going at this pace of selfish progress. People watch as their homes are taken from them, they watch as their kids are bullied and no one seems to care. They watch as their land becomes too exspensive to afford except by the weathly, we watch as the upper classes dominate politics and the media and the businesses we are forced to serve just to survive. I tell you people it is time to STOP!!!!! We can no longer see ourselves as the LOWER CLASS. People just like us founded this great nation, this very world. How many farmers slaved to settle the American west? How many Indian's fought and died to preserve their sense of peace and harmony, their natural resources or common decency or honor? How many Chinese workers were beaten or used as slaves to the railroads so that wealthy business tycoons could make a name for themselves in the name of progress.
I watch every day as Rick Santonrum speaks openly and without fear of a nation he envisions where family values means more than buying an IPAD or chosing what clothes to wear. We have to get back to where it all began. A wise man once told me that in order to find the road you first took, go back to where you started. We were a nation founded by poor people, founded by hard working selfless immigrants who were shopkeepers, farmers, ranchers, and just plain common people. The latter part of this 21st century, our nation has acted like some spoiled rich kid who grew up believing they came from money and deserve all the best things in life. GROW UP!!! Spell the roses as my great grandmother used to tell me. We need the lower classes, they are the roots, and any pompous rich politician who says otherwise needs to pick up an edition of a local history book.
I am sick to death with hearing about how the US needs more money, more oil, more wealth, more stuff, and more more more.  You people need to wake up and realize that without God in our lives and in our nation it all means NOTHIN! NOTHIN! Absolutly nothing, because without God, this nation is on a colision course with its own destruction. and soon. We have such God given power as a poor populous to elect whomever we want. and instead of finally electing someone with some ethics, and moral fabric, we chose just like Eve in the garden the candidate who give us the fruit. We want more stuff and well we vote for the one who is the business man, the one who may not have any morals and lies through his teeth but Heaven help us if we don't elect him to give us our stuff. Folks Job loss isnt the end of the world. Get educated, grow a garden, learn survival and forget the STUFF!! You might live longer and actually survive the coming Apocolypse. I tell you brothers and sisters, God commanded us to be like minded and to bear one another's burdens, and woe to all of us who do not do it!!! You can turn this website off, ignore it, laugh at it, and forget my warning, but I assure you whether your intelligence choses to believei t or not, you are going to die, and when you do, you will most assuredly face a judement unlike anything the surpeme court could cook up for you. You think Alcateraz is scary on that last vacation? Wait until you see Hell. 
It doesn;t have to be like this though. Don;t you understand? We are the poor and the most populated. We can elect whomever we want and we have the numbers and the power to take back this nation, take back our morals, our television programming, our movies, our families, our very exsistance. Why should we gravel to the upper classes? Why? Tell me that? Why should you who works so hard and prays to a God who loves and honors you, be disrespected by those who could care less.
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Halloween good or bad??

This Halloween,
Please keep in mind some of the things out there that can both be negative and abasive to our faith. It is a time for many of fun, of food and of gatherings. However for others it is being used as both for and against the gospel. Below is a few informative articles I found that tell of how this Halloween, churches and haunted houses are competing for their own casues. Please list a comment of how you feel pro or against this information

Listen up people!!!!

Tonight  I want to discuss something that I feel strongly about. Something I feel the Lord has laid on my heart to discuss. The Lord says in 1 Timothy 4:1 that even the Holy Spirit in the last times will say people will give up their faith and turn or lay up for themselves decieving spirits and the doctrines of demons. This is not that I am saying the world is coming to an end.Nor that I claim to know the time is short, because no matter how many preachers, teachers, and speakers tell your they know the end of times, based always on Matthew 24 and the books of Daniel and Ezekiel chapter 37, but what I am claiming is the world itself with all its good intentions has fallen way off the path. Our children come home with Migraines complaining how stressed out their day was, our parents come home tired, overworked, mentally drained of their emotions. What does the media and television have to offer but non realistic programing meant to drive and coax the human mind to do and say what they want it to. We have gone from a generation of faithful trusting family oriented people to a generation void of reason, understanding, values, morals, or a path leading to God. When was the last time you heard someone say God bless you, or may the Lord keep you and restore your day? Did you know that those were customary greetings during the revolutionary period? Our own founding fathers who allowed us to even have a nation to begin with. Everyone goes about now with a scowl on their faces, rude, obnoxious, selfish, too busy to even open a door for someone, much less day have a good morning. It spreads to the home where teen violence, divorce, separations and domestic disputes have increased threefold whether the news stats say otherwise. I've seen it for myself, I don't need some corporate driven media to tell me I'm wrong. Folks we're lost, not just spiritually, but emotionally, and mentally. Driven by the belief spurned by our media and corporate funded institutions that brilliance comes only in the form of a doctorate degree. Student debt tripled this past year due to the rising cost of books, tuition and demands for longer class loads. When I was in elementary school, we learned that our imaginations took us far, that drawing, being read to, coloring, and using the parts of our brain that allowed for fun and excitement meant more for our futures than programing us like metal machines as most of our children are today. I spoke to a group of children the other day about what made them like school, or what the most fun thing they had done at school that day. Do you know what they told me? That they liked school because it gave them a chance for a college education? Elemetary students now mind you. Others said that they didn't like it, and that recess was the most fun part. Kids want to play, they want to imagine, they want to feel creative. Too much learning is like the word of the Apostle Paul, they are always learning, and yet never finding the knowledge of the truth. This was in 2nd Timothy chapter 3. Always learning, never finding knowledge. Where has our learning taken us now in the present generational plotline? We are on the verge of a recession, higher in debt that we ever have been, unemployed, under paid, over worked, out governement filled with highly educated people who are filled with deception and greed. A president with a law degree who has no clue how to solve the legal and moral ramifications of what his congress has done to the american people. Yes please allow our children to become robots. Then there is the programing on out televisions. I was watching the tube the other night with my wife and searched over 467 channels until I found a program that actually I could find as morally and mindfully worth something. 467 channels??? What is wrong with us? When I was a child we had 4 stations, until the summer then due to station interference maybe 2. But I will tell you that out of the occasional trash that appeared most of the shows offered clean, wholesome lessons to be learned by the end of the show. I remember the first satellite dish we bought, large as something out of NASA, but man we had the Disney channel. Now I was about 11 and man I thought we were in some other world. I watched this channel all day and all night until my studies began to fail and my parents began to realize that maybe this new technology wasn't such a good thing after all, and turned it off. We would then watch movies which they felt was clean and family oriented. But you know what, I realize now, the addictive nature of those programs on the satellite. How it took over my mind and my family time became less important. Before the satellite came we played darts, or cards or I would play outside until dark. Then came the computer in late 1989 which though it was a simple Tandy, mingled with the emergence of the ATARI I began spending less and less time with my family.
I know I am getting off on a tangent here, but the focus of tonights blog post is to tell people just how much technology has taken over our lives, and at the same time, destroyed our moral and value based culture. I guess on the death of Steve Jobs, a brilliant creator and thinker of his age, I have to think on how much publicity his passing has raised. How many men who have shaped people's lives, turned them to Christ, saved their very souls, have also passed this week? How many people who taught our children in the 80's and brought their families up on good wholesome programming and moral standing past this week. How much publicity have they recieved? Any headlines for their death? Any focus on their contribution to other people's lives. I guess I become rather angry and ask the Lord to please forgive me, when  I look at television and radio and how they continually focus on the lives and events of famous people who have probably done more to separate the lives of families, homes, husband and wives, and for the fact that they made our lives faster, more complex, more clouded with confusion and chaos, not to mention the billions of dollars they have made companies world wide, thus contributing to the medias bottom line, Heaven forbid a pastor be placed on local news for anything other than a sex crime, or during a tornado or storm that ripped apart their church. Lord forgive us if a person who stood up for what was decent and right against the machine of Corporate dominance, get any publicity my mainstream media. Just once I would like to turn on my T.V and watch 4 consecutive channels that had actual family oriented moralistic programming, instead of killing, sex, violence, indencency, slander, vulgar language or hatred. I dare any of you tonight to turn on your TV and find 3 in a row without them. Even Hallmark has slowly began to realize that without some sense of immoral shows they can't compete for the funding against others like TBS, Fox, or TNT. Is is so wrong to want my family to grow up in a place where they can imagine themselves surrounded by people who care about them? Is it so bad to want to watch programming where when it is over I feel a sense of hope or peace, or that I actualy am a better person from watching it? Thank God for Alex Kendrick the director of the new movie Courageous, and Fireproof, who isn't afraid to stand up against mainstream Hollywood and say "Yeah!" There is what life is all about, there is what your movie theatres should be showing to the world!"
It's funny when I think of his name because my Great Uncle, God rest his sould, Kendrick Mullins, was a man who would have loved this movie. He died with Lou Gerigs disease. Durign his life he lived by the words of the new testament, and after he died people still talked about his generosity, his kindess and his love for others. Going back to the beginning of this post, I have to conclude with this idea. Let't agree to bring back the "Good old days" everyone always talks about. Why not? We are after all, the "We the people"  Found in the Gettysburg address. Or have you all like pigs accustomed to lying in the muck and filth, grown accustomed to the feel of the imoral life? Have we become filled with a mental block that doesn't allow us to want what is best for our kids? Tune in tomorrow for my audio blog, I think you'll get a blessing out of it. For now,
God Bless

The Book of John Chapter 12

Tonight We are going to start something a bit different. We are going to begin our Study of the Book of John. I believe this book was written to outline the examples Jesus Christ was and is the way to everlasting life, the only way. This book highlights Jesus as a diety and the manifestation of God. Tonight I wanted to begin in Chapter 12 and we will work throughout the rest of the book. I am doing this because this was six days before the Passover when Jesus came to Bethany and stayed in the home of Lazarus. You will remember if you studied the earlier Chapter, Jesus had just raised Lazarus from the grave, signifying his power over death itself and that the beliefs of the Saducees that there is no resurrection, had been falsified. In the beginning of Chapter 12 we have Jesus eating supper with Mary, and Lazarus,  along with his disciples. It was here that Mary took the exspensive oil of Spikenard(the cost of a man's yearly wages) and began applying it to Jesus's feet and head. This is important because to annoint his feet was a sign of devotion, we must all be willing to devote ourselves to one another, but especially to the Lord Jesus, being a servant to his will. During the time of Mary, to annoint a guest's head with oil was common, it was a sign of respect, but also a sign of kingship, as King David was annointed by the prophet Samuel. We must also point out here whether she realized it or not, annointing the body with oil was the first step in embalming. Jesus recognized this when he prevented Judas Iscariot from stopping her procedure, saying;
"Let her alone, she has kept this for this day of my burial. For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always."
He knew his death would come within the week, and Judas knew that this Money would have gone in the moneybox he guarded and had previsouly stole from for his own gain. It says that the fragrance of the oil filled the house. So we must keep the sweet smell of the Lord's blessing filling our own homes.
Moving on we see many of the jews coming to see Lazarus who had been raised from the dead. The chapter teaches that God used Lazarus as a tool to bring believers to him. However the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death. Why? 2 main reasons:
1. He was a symbol that the resurrection was indeed possible
2.He brought followers to Christ and away from their false teachings
You see when the world sees it's supporters turning from it's wickedness and turning to Christ, it too seeks to destroy us. Man  cannot serve God and Mammon
We move to the setting of the next day. What is referred to as "The Triumphal Entry".
Jesus up until now in the Book of John had kept himself withdrawn from public support from the people. However realizing the hour had come that the Son of Man should be glorified, he allowed public enthusiasm. He entered Jerusalem on the back of a young donkey which fulfilled the acto f prophecy foretold by the Prophet Zechariah in Zech Chapter 9:9. Meek and Lowly he would enter the city while people shouted "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" The King of Israel. A foreshadow and a clear proclamation that Jesus is the Messiah. The strange thing is that not even Jesus's own disciples understood the meaning of this symbolic act until after Jesus had ascended into Heaven. It was during this entry that a group of Gentiles, Greeks who had come to Jerusalem to worship at the Passover feast, came to Philip and Andrew wanting to meet Jesus. What did Jesus Say to them in versus 23-26?
He proclaimed his own death and gave the reason why he had to suffer and die on the cross.
"The Hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Most assuredly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves life shall lose it, he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let his follow me, that where I am, my servant shall be also. If anyone serves me,him my father will honor."
What he was telling his disciples Andrew and Philip was that he had to die but like a grain of wheat which rises from the field, so would he rise and from his death others would find everlasting life. Also he was telling them his time had come and to be ready. He was also telling us here in these versus that those who serve only themselves, are selfish, refusing to follow his directives, they would lose the gift of eternal life. However those who set themselves on self sacrifice, loving others first, abiding in his word, and not placing their desires on the this world, would find eternal life. To be a servant of the Lord is to find peace, and to develop a close and personal relationship with the Lord, that is why he said that "where I am there my servant shall be also." It is a 2 step process. Follow him, trusting in his word and directives, and Serve him.. Then the Father will honor you. To be honored by God will be a truly wonderful and unimaginable thing to behold. But this precept has a precurser. To serve him, one must be willing to not set his mind on the things of this world as verse 26 says, we must be willing to abide in his word, then we can truly become disciples of the Lord and true Bond servants. We must be willing to commit ourselves fully to the Lord and setting the right priorities which follows his word and not to this world and it's temptations.
When we move into verse 27 we see something that for many is unthinkable. Here we have Jesus in true agony,, before the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane later in his book. Jesus is praying to God  for him to "Glorify you name", it says his soul is troubled  over the impending suffering and death that would be but a few days away. We see Jesus say "Now my soul is troubled and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour? Bit for this purpose I came to this hour. Father glorify Your Name."
What is he saying here? For those who think Jesus never doubted, or Jesus never felt agony as we have from time to time, here is written proof otherwise. Back in Chapter 2 Jesus could have easily followed Lucifer's temptations and thrown off this suffering and just took the prize, leaving all of us to fend for ourselves, lost in death and eternal sin. However here Jesus answers his own question. What shall I say? Father Save me? No, I came here for this purpose, I will follow through with it until the end no matter the pain, the suffering, the torment or the shame.So he finishes with "Father glorify Your name." To defeat sin, and to die would be the ultimate glorification of God's purpose.

Then we read on at the end of verse 28 that God answers him.
"I have both glorified it and will glorify it again." People standing around said it sounded like thunder rolling. Others said an angel had spoken. We know that this was the voice of God speaking to the son, comforting him and assuring him. He spoke of the glory upon the cross, and the glory that will come again when the Son of Man returns for his believers.
Jesus says to the people who heard the voice of God.
"This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake. Now is Judgment of this world, now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw, all peoples to myself."
Here praise the Lord, the devil would be defeated, Judgement day would come, the debt called and the savior's blood on the cross would be the payment for all. Matthew spoke to Jesus as a servant himself, saying "I did not come into this world to be served, but to serve and to give my blood, a ransom for many."
The Lord would be glorified for the sins of all of us.
Still the people it says misinterpreted his teachings, for they felt "lifted up" meant removal from the earth by death and they argued that scripture teaches that the Messiah would abide forever. To them the Messiah would not have to die, they just didn't understand that he would be raised again on the 3rd day. Jesus understood their confusion and disbelief. He knew their thoughts and their doubts. So instead of answering the people's questions, instead he gives them a warning.
"A little while longer the light is with you, walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light that you may become sons of light."
What does he mean? Jesus teaches us that to walk in sin(darkness) leads us to confusion, unrest, doubting, frustration, crime, hate, adultry,malice, bitterness, and most of all a life of downward spirals that leads to misery and eternal death. He knew that while he was there, he could still offer them a chance to return to him, believe in him, regain their lost status with God that the children of Israel had aquired. He urged them to walk in his light, and get back on the right path where light could guide them the right direction which led to everlasting life with him. God is broken hearted when we turn from his pathway and chose our own dimly lit road. Often we take roads where there is light lift by others, which only flicker out, or we find the oil isn't sufficient to complete the journey and we end up in total darkness. Ever been on that road? I have. and I tell you being stranded on a dark road without a road map is quite scary. As you know the children of Israel would eventually face judgement because of their rejection of Christ, and in 70AD be completely destroyed by Rome. Jesus warned them here in these versus that time is short, but there was still a light that they could follow. Then we conclude with versus 42-50 which speaks of so many of the rulers of Israel had by this time come to believe on the surface in Jesus, many of the Pharisees and members of the Jewish council, had secretly agreed that Jesus was the Christ, however because of their pride and fear they refused to openly reveal it. Many claimed that their faith was not genuine to appease the Sanhedrine, the text however says "they believed in Him, a cojnnstruction in Greek wording that typically indicated Saving faith. However, the word following, "Nevertheless, marks a stark contrast between these believers and the unbelief spoken of in versus 37-41. These men were genuine believers , however their problem was like so many today in our world, they feared the opinions of their fellow leaders and constiuents. These such people will be ashamed when they face Christ on the day of return. The final versus I feel are the strongest wording of this chapter.
Here Jesus,sensing this hidden hypocracy, says to them, all of the people there.
"He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me. And he who sees Me, sees Him who sent Me.'
He is proclaming here that he is God! He is the fleshly manifestation of God.  Anyone who believes in Him believes also in God the Father. One and the same.
He continues saying,
"I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me should not abide in darkness."
If you believe and hold his word in your heart, you will never be lost, or alone, never tossed along a darkened road but instead led on a brightly lit path which leads to hope, faith and everlasting life.

Then comes another warning. He says,
"And if anyone hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge you, for I did not come into the world to Judge it, but to save it."
Here is is saying now I do not judge you, I am offering you a chance here, now, before it is too late to save you, all you have to do is believe. But folks in his second coming, that will be another story, he will be coming as a lion it says and he will be judge and jury. Then your apologies will be too late.
Then he gives his reasoning.
"He who rejects Me and does not receive my word that I have spoken on him, has that which judges him, the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day."
On the last day when we stand before Christ it will look like a large movie screen, before us our lives, our excuses, our sin, right there in front of us for all to see. Then Christ will look at you and say, I gave all, what did you give? Can you say, I gave myself to you? Or will you say, I gave to myself and rejected you?
Your choice. No one will ever force you to believe in the Lord and abide in his word, it is as simple as death itself. We will all die one day, all of us will face judgement, your choice.
Then he concludes with who gave this order.
"For I have not spoken on My own authority, but the Father who sent ME, who gave Me a command, what I should said and speak, and I know that his command is everlasting lie, therefore I speak ust as my Father told me to speak."
A command is not a request. God wants all of us to join him, however it will be his last word we hear before either separation and damnation or everlasting people and a relationship with him. Your choice.

I hope this study tonight helped you in finding a closer walk with the Lord. We all want you to find him and develop with him. We will continue our study of the Book of John tomorrow God bless and goodnight

The Shaking Hour

Tonight I want to speak of a subject that for many may be a powerful subject. With all the Nation tore apart with storms and destruction, it is in this hour that me must look around us an become humble. Realizing that this nation of man made items, simple treasures laid up and collected, that in the face of storms are but dust, frail items that as the Bible teaches are but things not to lay our heart upon. However the kind of shaking our nation has endure of late, has done what? Made people think? Made them join together, finding some sense of it all in prayer? Understanding that no matter how brilliant man may think he or she may be, our creations are limited, temporary, here today and gone tomorrow. This sort of shaking is not what I am refering to. Though it does have precident in it's context. In the Book of Hebrews Chapter 12:25-29 which say,

"For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on the earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, who voice shook the earth; but now He has promised , saying, Yet Once more I shake not only the earth , but also heaven. Now this , yet once more indicates the removal of things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are recieving a Kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have Grace, which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear."

Wow! Need we say more? I go back to a song, King David sung when he was king, burdened by the troubles he had caused himself. His enemies were around him, the other nations and leaders of his court plotted against him, forgetting God, forgetting the covenent and the promises Jehovah God had given them.
He sings in Psalms Chapter 3;
"Oh Lord how they have increased who trouble me,
Many are they that rise up against me saying;
There is no hope for him in God

But you Oh Lord are my strength
my glory and the one who holds up my head

I cried to the Lord with my voice
and he heard me from his holy hill;

I lie down
I awake for the Lord sustained me"

Oh if we but would sing songs like this today in our boastful modern world. How far in debt would our nation be? How ravaged would our economy be? How enpoverished would our people be?

You see the Lord the Bible says, just sets up there and laughs, for he knows the hour and the day of our passing. He knows our limited timespan, and the very hairs on our head. There is a shaking going on throughout our nation. But I fear the shaking needs to be also in our churches, in our homes, in our schools, our public buildings, even our very businesses. It bring to mind an story from Isreal. You see when the people of Isreal harvest their olives, they have to go to the trees, and when the olives turn a dark black color, they shake the trees violently allowing the ripest olives to fall to the ground. Then they can gather them and take them to the oilve presses to form the richest of oils. Now the American people are like those olives, ripe for harvest, containing the oil of blessing, but just remain the unshaken, unstired, lifeless, useless. It takes a violent shaking to release us from our stagnant state so God can use us and press us for the annointing of his oil. Too many of us are content to remain on the tree, just hanging there waiting for others to fall of and be used for God's plan. We sat on the pews, afraid of being called out to perform, afraid we will offend someone, afraid that we will be seen as politically incorrect, or offensive. I tell you tonight that unless we get up and stand for the Lord in this nation, God is going to render a shaking upon this nation that will seperate the good olives from the spoiled. Going back to chapter in Hebrews, what God is telling us is that when Christ spoke on earth over 2000 years ago people turned away from him, for this the Israelites shunned this great responsibilty and were judged for not believing in God's promises. We too will be judged for disbelief and I feel today we are seeing but a foreshadow of God's shaking us up trying to wake up the nation. The Earth shook at Mount Sinia when Moses was given the law, it shook on the day Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice, and it will shake again in the latter days the book of Hebrews tells us. However the great news for believers is that the kingdom of God will not be shaken, for it will endure throughout all eternity.

Being a Christian these days is tough, it means mockery, it means being different, being apart from the world and its many temptations. Jesus never said believing in him would stop the shaking, he said his kingdom would endure the shaking. When I lived outside of his love, I never found peace, or joy, or inner rejoicing. Since I gave my life to him, there's been some tough trials, and days when I felt like quitting altogether. So did Paul, so did Moses, so did all the apostles. However if we can do as David did, and allow ourselves to be shaken off of the tree and used for God's service, our lives will be rich in the oil of annointing. Not of riches or material things, but rich with the blessing of God's promises. We can lie down, with torments and temptations all around us, and sleep, we can wake knowing the Lord sustained us. Unless this nation returns to its foundation and place the Lord as the chief cornerstone, we will become as the nation of Israel did in AD 70, when the Roman Empire destroyed it. God uses his own methods of shaking to give the people many chances to turn to him. People have said to me, if God is so good and holy how can he punish or destroy. I tell them that it is now he who turned his back on us, but the other way around. Like a parent who has tried everything to make a child obey them, he will enact discipline on his people. Or worse, he will lift his hand of protection from them. To be isolated from the Lord is true emptiness. True persecution without hope. Let us lift up our voices and shake the trees so that the olives flow into the olive presses and onto the annointing that God intended for us all. Together we are a strong voice, a voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the pathway for the Kingdom of God is at hand!

I hope tonight's message shook you up a little. The people in the time Hebrews was written were at a crossroad, many of the believers of the jewish faith had found themselves isolated, persecuted for their new belief in Christianity and this Jesus Christ. Rome had placed its boot heel on them, false teachers and prophets were feeling their ears with doubts and fears. Many began to question whether their faith in Christ was enough to gain eternal life, returning to their old Jewish customs and practices, foresaking the teachings of Paul and Peter. It was for this reason the Book of Hebrews was written, to confirm once and for all that returning to the bondage of the law was foolish and fatal. Faith in Christ was the new covenant which had replaced the old Hebraic Abraham Covenent and all they had to do was believe on his name and salvation to everlasting life would be theirs. Today we see alot of the same fears, the same doubts, even the same threats and plagues. We hear all the time of employers threatening an employee for reading their Bible, or a person ridiculed in public for speaking opening of their Love for the Lord Jesus Christ. I hear on television how being a Christian is foolish, or based on myth, a waste of time, or based not on "scientific reasoning". I grow tired of hearing people losing faith in the Lord, because they lost their jobs, or failed an interview, or didn't get the promotion they asked the Lord to grant them. Folks, this same false teaching and ridicule is not a new idea, it's existed before the time of Christ. Jesus warned his followers in the book of Matthew that you shall be hated above all men, but those who endure till the end shall be saved. We are going to be in a time of shaking folks, those who follow Christ will soon face trials unseen,people will hate you, ridicule you, mock you, even your own family will turn against you. However God's shaking will make us strong, he will lift us up above all this, and plant our feet on firm soil which he has chosen. I don't know about you, but I want to be an olive that produces so much oil of anointing that it fill five gallon buckets to their overflow. Solift up your voices as David did, let the Lord know that he is your glory, that he is your light of the world, that he is the one who lifts up your head and sustains you. I promise you that he will never leave you nor forake you. No matter your enemies, no matter your river, he will be there if you surrender your life over to him. Amen, and God Bless