Tag: whore

  • My Love – 6 – If I have not love

    My Love – 6 – If I have not love

    ‘I’m not happy.’

    ‘I met someone’

    IF you claim to be a follower of the Bridegroom of the church, Jesus Christ and things don’t go quite your way, would you tell Jesus to ‘get out’?

    Would you look for someone better, who might make you happy in this world?

    (Did God really say, “Don’t eat of the fruit of that tree?”)

    IF you are unfaithful to Christ’s love, would it not be adultery?

    christian whoreThough you claim to be a follower of Jesus, so had Judas!

    This is the unfortunate false witness of some with a cross in front of their home, ‘christianity’ claimed before ‘friends’ as religion, their stamp of approval before the world. These claim many things by the ‘Blood of Jesus,’ yet their more bold witness of worldly sins again crucifies hope in His body and true Bride, the church.

    Some have heard the following, even at weddings, known as the ‘love chapter.’

    IF Jesus Christ is your love, listen then to true love, you adulterers of Christ!

    1 Corinthians 13

    The Way of Love

     If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

    I have heard in churches the noisy gongs of ‘single moms,’ divorced grandmas and others clanging the noise of their own ‘higher’ worship, ‘tongues of angels,’ God’s messengers; as if we should follow these women, rather than Christ Jesus as Lord. Will they who are not bowed down to their husband or any man in Christ not lead the faith astray with their babel?

    And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

    I have heard prophesy given in the church. Is it from God? Why then did the church not record the very prediction of God given? Is the prophesy confirmed and witnessed to the glory of our Lord, Christ Jesus? Yes, sometimes; but believer beware of the wolves in our midst.

    Have you not endured some claiming such superior knowledge and understanding of mysteries who would teach us of their ‘faith to remove mountains’ in their Sunday school class or church small group?

    Did you experience the embrace of Christ’s love in their Pharisaical instruction? Did you hear love for you in their teaching or prophesy?

    I, too, have received prophesy and spoken it. The revelation of the Lord is a terrible and awesome thing!

    Some prophesy has not yet come to pass. For all I know, I may have been given some spirit of deception to accomplish the Lord’s overpowering purpose. Yet in these last days we must fear the Lord, always listening for the approaching trumpet of truth over the blaring cries of some claiming ‘understanding.’

    Read your Bible and pray for revelation by the Spirit of Truth in scripture.

    If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

    And though I bestow,‘ states the King James; bestow, an interesting word more related to charity as we understand it – charity, agape love of God, used in application throughout these verses of the love chapter.

    Bestow: to feed by putting a bit or crumb (of food) into the mouth; of infants, young animals etc.; to feed, nourish to give a thing; to feed someone, feed out to

    Feed on God’s word in scripture. Nourish your spirit in prayer.

    Does this not also bring to mind the love a father and a mother, given to their child, their teen, their grown adult children, even their spouse given in marriage into your own family? Is this not also the gift of adoption given by our Heavenly Father through Christ to gentile believers (like most of us)?

    Are we not all poor and needy, dependent on our Father’s forgiving gracious love?

    Though I give to the poor, but have not love…

    Is that our charity of witness?

    Now that I have shared the seriousness of God’s love for us, allow me to share the more familiar actions of love often and appropriately shared at weddings:

    Love is patient and kind;

    love does not envy or boast;

    it is not arrogant 5

     or rude.

    Are you patient to your spouse, to whom you are joined to each other and God by your vows?

    Is your husband (or wife) patient with you – patient for you?

    Is your love for your beloved partner until death – kind?

    Are you, dear father, and you, dear mother, kind to your son – kind to your daughter – kind to each and all of your children (obedient and faithful, or rebellious and hateful)? Are you kind to your adopted child, your step-child, your child (even an adult child) given into your nurture by God to raise and guide in the Lord, Christ Jesus?

    Is your love patient and kind even to your prodigal teen?

    Is your love for your spouse, your children, your brothers and sisters in Christ ALWAYS patient and kind? Lord help us, impatient and unkind sinners!

    It does not insist on its own way;

    it is not irritable or resentful;

    it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

    Are you just another ‘spoiled child’ of God in your relationships with others in your daily life?

    Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

    Lord: Convict us and forgive us, for the sake of your Son, our loving Savior, Jesus Christ. Help me – help us to love you more and more; help us, miserable saved sinners, to love those you love with your overflowing agape love.

    Love never ends.

    To be continued…

  • Light of Life

    Light of Life

    My wick was dry and lifeless

    Until I beheld Thy Light.

    Witness the touch of Christmas, the distant focused look at the burning bush of Christ Jesus through eyes drawn from darkness to the love of the Lord, which He has planted in our distant cold hearts.

    Come unto me and I will give you rest… God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son…

    The world knows of the love of Jesus Christ. The world knows of the love of God our Heavenly Father. Even marginal christians know the price of the blood of sacrifice this ‘baby Jesus’ would make on the Cross. Yet many who have been called and many who would  claim in vain the Name of Christ Jesus do witness against the blood of the Cross by their adultery against the Bridegroom of the church, Christ Jesus.

    Our unfortunate corporate witness as christians shines no more than the darkness and apostasy of God’s chosen families in the days of Isaiah. We gaze upon the love of the babe in the manger and witness in our lives: no, I will love as I please, because I will not take up His Cross.

    How easily we fail in the Gospel message that GRACE comes only after REPENTANCE! A christian who continues to abide in the darkness is NO witness for Jesus Christ or inheritor of eternal life.

    Have we preached the Gospel from John that love of God and love of one another only comes after we turn from the darkness of our continual sin and touch the Light of Life in Christ Jesus?

    John 3:19

    And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

    Are your works evil, dear sister (brother) in the Lord?

    I met someone, you say. I have someone better, you say. Is this your witness for Jesus Christ?

    Adulterer! Adulteress & whore! The Church is Betrothed of Christ, even from the days before the manger.

    Which of the Prophets has not warned of the whoredom of Jezebel? Which of the Prophets has not seen godless men promising the love, lies and riches of the world?

    Say nothing of virgins and babes in a manger. Speak nothing of Christ Jesus. Say nothing of Christmas. You cannot love God and money. Repent!

    Rather love the Lord your God with all your heart. Return humbly to the house of the Lord and heart of Christ Jesus.

    Confess your sins before Almighty God and return to the husband of your vows; the One who loves you. Though you are unfaithful, remember the Blood of the full-measure of His suffering for you.

    Let the desire of your heart be for faithfulness. Remember your vows to the Lord and to your husband. Recall their unfailing love and persistent prayers for you.

    Are lying, licentiousness, adultery, premarital sex, divorce, drunkenness, desires for riches, living together in sin, abortions, cursing the Name of Jesus Christ and all these worldly things you claimed to repent of – are these wild vines of sin your witness for Jesus Christ this Christmas?

    God forbid!

    Many christians cling to those of the world and the sins they proclaim. Many christians claim the sins of darkness alongside their ‘witness’ for Jesus Christ. These neither love God with ALL their hearts or other Christians with the love of Christ!

    John 3:20

    For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

    This, of course, includes those who call themselves ‘christian,’ celebrate Christmas and boldly witness by their sin against Christ Jesus and the Blood of His Sacrifice.

    If you know the truth, yet refuse to turn back to the Light of Truth, you love the darkness of your sins.

    Let your Christmas gift be repentance.

    John 3:21

    But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

    Yes, even ‘christians’ have a choice. You will know them by their love. You will know them by their light. You will know them by their generosity.

    (Have YOU donated anything to any of the charities I have mentioned or other noble works for Christ this Christmas? {It’s not too late for that..}

    You will know them by their faithfulness, their truthfulness. You will know if a Christian is light at Christmas (and 365 days/year).

    John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

    May I say again Jesus’ words before we move with the scriptures of the Prophet Isaiah, who so accurately foresaw the coming of the Christ:

    Jesus said: ” Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12b

    Jesus was and IS that Light in a time of great darkness of the world. Christians joined to the Bridegroom of Life must abide in the Light of Christ Jesus… or surely the darkness will remain. Will the One you have called ‘Lord’ from whom you turn toward the darkness of your sins not say, “I never knew you?”

    If the Light of Christ Jesus once shown on you, why do you now turn your face from the fire of His holiness?

    Will you, unrepentant christian, now turn your dry wick into the arid darkness?

    Will your feet of flesh not crumble under the weight of your stone-cold heart, which was once touched by the love of the Lord Jesus Christ?

    Why does Isaiah speak of Light?

    When you see the lights of Christmas, remembering the birth pangs of a virgin pregnant by the Holy Spirit of God, remember a Son born of the flesh would die for our sins. Remember the 700 years of darkness from the days of Isaiah to this birth in a Manger. Consider the prophetic warnings for days of great darkness, even before the coming of the end of the age.

    Do you, dear virgins, have oil for your lamps? Does your witness prepare a light for the way of our returning Lord?

    Isaiah 5

    Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

    2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

    20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

    21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

    22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

    23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

    30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

     Isaiah 7

    10 Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

    11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

    12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

    13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

    14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

    15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

    16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

     Isaiah 9:

    Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation… and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

    2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

    3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:

    they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

    Do you; beloved brother in Christ, dear sister in Christ; have the JOY in the harvest of the love of CHRIST Jesus, this Christmas?

    JOY to the world. The LORD IS come. Emmanuel, God With Us. Christ, born son of man, son of Mary, son of God.

    6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

    7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

    Christmas – witness for Christ Jesus – is a choice of love… OR a choice of refusal of love (because of your love for the darkness of the world).

    Isaiah 9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

    14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day…

    17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

    18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

    19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

    Jesus speaks as Prophet of what is to come for true followers who know and abide in Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior:

    Matthew 10:22 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

    26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

    Isaiah 53

    Who has believed what he has heard from us?
    And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
    2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    and like a root out of dry ground;
    he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    and no beauty that we should desire him.
    3 He was despised and rejected by men;
    a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
    and as one from whom men hide their faces
    he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
    4 Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
    yet we esteemed him stricken,
    smitten by God, and afflicted.
    5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
    upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
    and with his wounds we are healed.
    6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have turned—every one—to his own way;
    and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

    12c yet he bore the sin of many,
    and makes intercession for the transgressors.

     Isaiah 55

    6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call upon him while he is near;
    7 let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
    let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
    8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
    9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

    Isaiah 56:1 Thus says the Lord:
    “Keep justice, and do righteousness,
    for soon my salvation will come,
    and my righteousness be revealed.

    Isaiah 57:

    11 Whom did you dread and fear,
    so that you lied,
    and did not remember me,
    did not lay it to heart?
    Have I not held my peace, even for a long time,
    and you do not fear me?
    12 I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,
    but they will not profit you.

    Isaiah 59

    Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,
    or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
    2 but your iniquities have made a separation
    between you and your God,
    and your sins have hidden his face from you
    so that he does not hear.
    3 For your hands are defiled with blood
    and your fingers with iniquity;
    your lips have spoken lies;
    your tongue mutters wickedness.

    20 “And a Redeemer will come to Zion,
    to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the Lord.
    21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord:

    “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the Lord, “from this time forth and forevermore.”

    These are just some of the prophesies of Isaiah some 700 years before Christ.

    Christians dully listen to a few verses from Isaiah in a typical Christmas Eve service. (So few ‘christians’ read the Bible. So few ‘christians’ have even seen or heard these additional prophetic words of Isaiah or numerous references by other Prophets and in the Psalms.)

    Seven centuries (like looking back now to the 1300’s A.D.) from Isaiah’s prophesies until the Redeemer IS born in a manger in Bethlehem. Hear Isaiah’s description of the light of our manger scene:

    Isaiah 60

     Arise, shine, for your light has come,
    and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

    2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
    and thick darkness the peoples;
    but the Lord will arise upon you,
    and his glory will be seen upon you.

    3 And nations shall come to your light,
    and kings to the brightness of your rising.
    4 Lift up your eyes all around, and see;
    they all gather together, they come to you;
    your sons shall come from afar,
    and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.

    5 Then you shall see and be radiant;
    your heart shall thrill and exult,
    because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,
    the wealth of the nations shall come to you.

    They shall bring gold and frankincense,
    and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.

    14 The sons of those who afflicted you
    shall come bending low to you,
    and all who despised you
    shall bow down at your feet;
    they shall call you the City of the Lord,
    the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

    19 The sun shall be no more
    your light by day,
    nor for brightness shall the moon
    give you light;
    but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and your God will be your glory.

    20 Your sun shall no more go down,
    nor your moon withdraw itself;
    for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and your days of mourning shall be ended.

    21 Your people shall all be righteous;
    they shall possess the land forever,
    the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
    that I might be glorified.
    22 The least one shall become a clan,
    and the smallest one a mighty nation;

    I am the Lord;
    in its time I will hasten it.

    This is the Gospel of Christmas:

    A manger, God With Us;

    The Cross, Christ sacrificed for us and our obedience to the crucifixion of our sinful flesh to follow Jesus;

    Christ risen, the Light and Life of grace for all who repent and worship Jesus Christ as Lord.

    Christ Jesus IS Life and Light eternal for fallen sinners to abide in the Holy Spirit and dwell in the House of the Lord, forever.

    Please pray for my wife in the Lord, Lissette Harned, and our grown children.

    Pray also for me. For I covet your prayers and love, beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord – our Christ of Christmas.

    May the joy of Christmas be your witness to the love of the Father and Power of the Holy Spirit to draw repentant sinners home to the Light of the King of all Creation and life. Jesus IS Lord.

    Amen.

     

  • The Mirror of Church Hypocrisy – 2

    The Mirror of Church Hypocrisy – 2

    Is Christ’s church not His betrothed, as Israel was chosen of the Lord?

    A word for the Church from Prophets of old:

    Israel Forsakes the Lord

    The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,

    “I remember the devotion of your youth,
    your love as a bride,
    how you followed me in the wilderness,
    in a land not sown.
    3 Israel was holy to the Lord,
    the first fruits of his harvest…

    “Dearly beloved,” begins our covenant witness for marriage.

    “Dear Lord Jesus,” we praise Christ when first we bow to Him.

    9 “Therefore I still contend with you,
    declares the Lord,
    and with your children’s children I will contend…

    19 Your evil will chastise you,
    and your apostasy will reprove you.

    Know and see that it is evil and bitter
    for you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
    declares the Lord God of hosts.

    20 “For long ago I broke your yoke
    and burst your bonds;
    but you said, ‘I will not serve.’

    Yes, on every high hill
    and under every green tree
    you bowed down like a whore…

    DIVORCE, by ‘christian’ husbands?

    DIVORCE, by ‘christian’ wives?

    You have long ago forsaken your love for the Lord your God. Your whoredom is against Christ Jesus, your returning Bridegroom!

    Our “Lord,” Christ Jesus warns: “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce … but from the beginning it was not so. – Matthew 19:8

    Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord…

    25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church… that she might be holy and without blemish.

    31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 

    32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

    How dare we (christians) even speak of the sexual sin of the world, when we have not returned to the purity Christ Jesus expects of His betrothed so soiled in sexual sin!

    Jeremiah 2:

    22 Though you wash yourself with lye
    and use much soap,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,
    declares the Lord God…

    29 “Why do you contend with me?
    You have all transgressed against me,
    declares the Lord.
    30 In vain have I struck your children;
    they took no correction…

    Do our christian children witness the love and forgiveness of  Christ even less than their divorced christian parents?

    Do our christian children sell their flesh and souls to the same sexual desires we would hide from the world?

    To be continued…

     

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