Tag: repent

  • A wife of whoredom: Nations and the Bride

    A wife of whoredom: Nations and the Bride

    +++++++ Conclusion to “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom.

    Hosea 6

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

    6 “Come, let us return to the Lord;
    for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
    2 After two days he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
    3 Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord

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    Few countries embrace Jesus Christ, the Son of God who IS and IS to come as NATIONS with official proclamation: Jesus IS Lord in our Nation.

    • Dios bendiga a Argentina

    • Guð blessi Ísland

    • Gud velsigne Norge

    • Ο Θεός να ευλογεί την Ελλάδα

    Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! – Psalm 33:12

    Yet MANY Nations who once claimed God, even now play the whore.

    Hosea 8

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

    8:1 Set the trumpet to your lips!
    One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,
    because they have transgressed my covenant
    and rebelled against my law.

    7 For they sow the wind,
    and they shall reap the whirlwind.

    10:3 For now they will say:
    “We have no king,
    for we do not fear the Lord;
    and a king—what could he do for us?”
    4 They utter mere words;
    with empty oaths they make covenants…

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    “In the name of God, I, ______, take you, ______, to be my wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death. This is my solemn vow.”

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    Dearly beloved,

    Are you NOT joined to the Groom, Christ Jesus?

    Is Jesus Christ your Lord?

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    Dear Church making claim and witness to the Name and Cross of Christ:

    Do NOT relegate Jesus Christ into a lowly place alongside the religions you change for your Nation.

    Do NOT hear the agendas of the false prophets and false christians with false professions of faith.

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    Give NO ear to the worldly agendas of those who would CHANGE god to serve their SELF interests.

    “Religions’ of sinful Nations may “change their mind,” yet for all time, even before God’s true Prophets like Hosea until beyond this 21st c. day:

    Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. – Hebrews 13:8

     

    For the Lord will say to these: “I never knew you.”

    AMERICA, BLESS GOD.

    Great Britain, Bless God.

    European Union, Bless God

    Australia, Bless God

    Brazil, Bless God

    DR Congo, Bless God

    Russia, Bless God

    Let your Nation, bless God.

    Malachi 3: 6 “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

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    Jesus Christ IS the Groom, returning in these last days for His Bride, His Church.

    Are you a wife of whoredom?

    Our Heavenly King, Who was and IS and will be returning for His Church warns and encourages in the Good News of Matthew 24:

    10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. 

    11 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. 

    12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. 

    13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

    Return to Christ Jesus, our Lord. He has paid the price for your return.

    He has redeemed you from the whoredom of your sin.

     

  • A True Servant

    A True Servant

    I usually don’t have many dreams but I had one this morning and felt like I was supposed to post it.

    In the dream I saw a true servant of God who God was using.

    Because the authorities in the church did not understand what was happening they misjudged him and were telling him to repent of what he was doing.

    In the end, they realized that he was a true servant of God and they repented.

    The LORD says, “Many of My servants have been misunderstood by the authority I have placed in My Body (the Church). Because of that they have been rejected and pushed aside and as a result that which I wanted to do in your midst has been aborted. When you realize that which you have done is wrong and you truly repent of that wrong…I will pour out My goodness upon you and there will be a revival in your midst like you have never seen before. Many of those who have become cold and indifferent toward me will return with newness of heart, mind and actions and those who did not know Me will say, ‘surely God is in this place’, and will turn to Me. My BODY will receive healing and My glory will be seen.”

    Scriptures:

    Romans 2:4b (Amplified Bible) “…are you unmindful or actually ignorant [of the fact] that God’s kindness (goodness…KJ) is intended to lead you to repent (to change your mind and inner man to accept God’s will)?”
    Acts 3:19 (Amplified Bible) “So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord.”

    God will ALWAYS honor His Word :0)(0:
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    Bruce James Bender

  • Rest for the wicked; hope for the weary

    Rest for the wicked; hope for the weary

    It so happens as the Lord had planned it that the launch of http://talkofJesus.com -+- CHRISTIAN SOCIAL WITNESS coincides with the American holiday: Labor Day.  We will have picnics, parades and some much-needed family time.  No school.  Post offices, banks and many not-so-greedy businesses closed to give their employees a rest from their labor – something all of us need at times.

    A prior post began with this same thought. It is about Sabbath rest – a related, but different reference to the word of God in the Bible.  We’ve likely heard the expression:

    ‘NO rest for the wicked and the good don’t need any.’

    NOT true; NOT Biblical.

    We ALL need rest and we all need work.

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    American’s inherited this Labor Day idea of rest though the long-standing culture of the King James Bibles so much apart of our Christian heritage.  The original call for rest comes from Jesus.

    “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Matthew 11:28

    At one time Americans realized the importance to honor God through our labor and to honor labors as God’s own workers.  Sadly, in a 21st c. America (or Europe, Asia or any other place) we don’t get that, do we?  (Jesus tells us why – which I will reveal in a moment.) The world has two approaches to labor:

    Work hard for your SELF. (More work, more reward: right?) God doesn’t really need that “offering AND tithe” to honor Him — after all, the Government gets plenty of our required monetary support.  Our Country will take care of us.

    OR

    I don’t need to labor because Uncle Sam* takes care of me and will always help me.

    *  ‘Americanized’ personalization of our impersonal ‘representative’ Government.

    God never intended for ANY to have a rest from the work they will NOT do.  (We won’t go there today. That’s a different scripture.)

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    Getting back to talk of Jesus:

    The crowds had flocked to hear Jesus on the hillsides of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.  Jesus traveled from city to city on His northern tour.  Everywhere Jesus traveled, He was expected.

    Matthew 11When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.

    Imagine the excitement of the promised Messiah of God coming to your city.  Jesus was predicted by the Prophets.  Jesus was proclaimed by the greatest prophet their contemporary, John the Baptist.

    John was a ‘hell-fire and damnation’ kind of preacher: popular with the people, but imprisoned by the religious establishment.

    REPENT! And be baptized (changed permanently). Cleanse your sins before you must stand before the HOLY ONE.

    Yet our Lord is also calling the people of the cities to hear Him and obey.

    20 Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.

    Jesus? … Preaching ‘hell-fire and damnation’ like John?

    Read what He said comparing the disobedient to the people of Sodom.

    Come to Me, and I Will Give You Rest

    25 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; 26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will…

    28 “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

    What is Jesus saying about our labor?

    Jesus is illustrating a picture of manual labor.  He doesn’t say to just give it all to Him and He will take care of it.  (I’m not saying this about prayer.  We are talking ‘labor’ here.)

    • Take my yoke upon you a picture of the collar of two doing the work of one.
    • learn from me – a direct reference to learning from the example of His life.
    • I am gentle and lowly in heart [Jesus is kind and humble. Have you learned this from His Perfect Example?]

    and [IF you will do this, according to our Lord]

    • you will find rest for your souls. 

    30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

    Jesus didn’t say ‘Take a break and I will do it all for you.”

    Jesus actually called out the people who refuse to repent and listen to Him for their wickedness.

    Our Lord knows how weary we become in this world.

    Do we remember: disobedience was punished in Eden.  Unpleasant work became part of our sinful heritage for having knowledge of good and evil.

    Jesus offers to share in our work in this world.

    Will you work with Him on that?

    Though we are wicked sinners

    Because of the Cross of Jesus 

    Weary laborers have hope.

    Come unto Him.