* A shocking question.

We have a neighbor who is a tennis coach.  She stopped by our house one day and I showed her my colorful tennis wrist bands that I have been using to help with my two broken wrists.

As she looked at them, she asked, "Does this mean you support gay rights."

I was very shocked.

I replied, "I don't think so."

(I couldn't understand why anyone would think my tennis wristbands would imply that.)

I looked on Amazon where I had ordered the wristbands to see if in any way these referred to homosexual/lesbian and they did not.

Then I recalled an organization formed years ago to support black people and it was called "Rainbow Coalition".

The wrist bands have several colors: purple, green, yellow, orange, red.

I think our neighbor wanted to know our view concerning homosexuals and lesbians.

I prayed:  "What do I do about this?"

Immediately I felt I had God's answer.

Pam Padgett heard this neighbor's question, so I called Pam into my room and asked her to send an email and a Podcast to this neighbor.

Pam sent the following:

"Since you mentioned "gay / lesbian support" yesterday when Joan showed you her wrist bands, you may be interested in God's view of this.  Here is a podcast:  "

Homosexual/lesbians.  What Bible says.   

https://jesusministriespodcasts.blogspot.com/2020/02/homosexualslesbians-what-bible-says.html 

 

As Pam and I spoke about this subject, she was reminded of the following:

When you showed neighbor your colorful tennis wristbands and asked if she knew what they were, and she replied, "Does it mean you show support for "gays" and lesbians?", I kept thinking "Why would she say, or even think of that?

Nothing other than the bands being colorful ever came to our minds regarding the bands.

Then I was reminded of the following scripture:

Titus 1:15   Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

16   They profess that they know God; but in works they deny HIM, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

*****

Another scripture:

Genesis 6

5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the LORD that HE had made man on the earth, and it grieved HIM at HIS heart.

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth ME that I have made them.

11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted HIS (God's) way upon the earth.

God sets the perfect way for man to live and man changes that way set by God.  This brings the wrath of God upon man.  

 

*****

* Are you vexed by the filthy conversation of the wicked?

In the days before God destroyed Sodom, the sins were open and widespread in every part of the city.

Abraham's nephew, Lot, was continually troubled by that which they said and that which they did in Sodom.

Genesis 19  God sends 2 angels to destroy Sodom.

1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

(Angels do not have wings.  Angels look like natural men.)

2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.  (have sex with them)

6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

(Lot knew that which the men of Sodom planned in their hearts to do was wicked.)

II Peter 2

6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

And why did Lot choose to live in Sodom where there was so much wickedness?

Genesis 13

10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

(The beauty of Sodom attracted Lot to Sodom.  Satan was the most beautiful of all creatures before he was cast out of heaven.  Beauty often attracts the flesh to itself and great evil often dwells in beauty.)

11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

As Sodom was destroyed because of the wicked, this present world is going to be destroyed by God.  (II Peter 3:10-14)

Jesus said:  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.   But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.  (Mt. 24:12-13)

You may think you can lead them to God but they will lead you away from ways of God.

God has HIS way to deliver you but you might be ignoring God's way thinking you can help the ungodly.

You must rethink what you are doing if this is the case.

For if you are in "Sodom" when it is destroyed, you will be destroyed with Sodom.

*****

II Corinthians 6

14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you,

18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be MY sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

*****

* God had Noah build an ark so he would not be destroyed with the wickedness of this world.

God had Noah build an ark so he would not be destroyed with the wickedness of this world.

 

I believe we, too, build an ark based on that which God has told us to do so we will not be swept away in the end times.

When you look at my life, I think you can see that ark.

My job is to exhort the church and God gave me ways to do that in this period of time.  (Blog, Podcasts, Twitter)

exhort:  to urge earnestly by advice and warning

So many of the recent messages have been on the fact that the things we can see with our natural eyes are very temporary.  (II Peter 3)

God will judge the world ... We are to judge the church.  (I Cor. 5) 

For us, live in peace.

Stay in your ark where you can live in peace.

Genesis 6  

5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the LORD that HE had made man on the earth, and it grieved HIM at HIS heart.

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth ME that I have made them.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 And God looked upon the earth, and, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted HIS way upon the earth.

13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before ME; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 Make thee an ark ... (God told Noah how to do this.)

22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Genesis 7:16   and the LORD shut him in.

*****

Before Coronavirus hit in 2020, God moved me to Colorado where I live in the home of Pam Padgett.  I'm so glad not to have been alone during this time.

I'm also very glad not to have responsibility for physical property.

And I usually have plenty to do daily in keeping up the blog and Podcasts and Twitter.

As long as I do my assignment, the time flys by.

I'm sure each of us are assigned things to do.

And if time does grow heavy, we can ask God to fill our day.  I often do that.

For me, I feel I could not stand being around people who live in various torments of this life.  I think I would end up going down with them.

The devil often tries to get me to reach out to them and "help them".  But I have a pretty strong view of my assignment from God.

Recently I received an email from a man who says he is a pastor and he wanted me to be his "mentor."

(I'm pretty sure this man is not of God for I know God is our "mentor" if Jesus has assigned us to work as HIS minister.)

This man wanted me to have weekly phone conferences with him in another country.  Then he wanted me to come to his country (Africa)  and work with the other ministers.

(I've had several e-mails like this where men who say they are pastors want me to come to their country, at my own expense, and help them.)

I'm 83 years old.  I cannot travel.  (Actually I can't even walk without walker and then only very little.)  Sometimes I ride to dog park or grocery store with Pam but I never get out of the car.  And there are times even that short trip is difficult for me and I have to lie down and rest when I get back to my room.

But I am able to write and record for hours per day, usually without being tired.

(I know my assignment from God.  Other humans often want me to do their assignment.  But I stay with that which God has shown me I am to do.)

Each of us have to work out our lives so we eliminate those people and things which greatly torment us and set our paths to live in peace with the remaining time.

I Thessalonians 5:21   Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Matthew 11:30  Jesus says:  For MY yoke is easy, and MY burden is light.

The yoke of other humans is hard! difficult! draining!  destructive!

James 3:17   But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

***

Also there are several people God has shown me I cannot be around for they "dump" their troubles on me, and thereby they would pull me down with them.

They will not do Philippians 4:6, though they say they are the church.

Philippians 4:6   Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

They say they are Christians but they do not show themselves to be believers, but they show themselves to be unbelievers, for they do not take their problems to God in prayer but they tell me their troubles.

II Corinthians 6

14  Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you,

18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be MY sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

*****

* When an angel speaks a message other than God's.

 

 The apostle Paul said:

Galatians 1:8   But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

There is only one gospel, and that is the Word that is from God, the Holy Scriptures.

Angels carry messages from God.

What if a message comes to you which is opposite from the Bible?

Many years ago, a woman told me that when she met her 2nd husband, she heard this, "He's going to be your husband."

She, a divorced woman, did marry this man.

I wondered about that for several years.  How could this message have been from God when it went against that which we see in the Bible.

If a divorced woman remarries, according to Bible, she commits adultery.

Romans 7:1-3 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

Recently the scripture in Galatian 1, spoken by the apostle Paul, was called to my mind and I recalled this story where my divorced friend had heard Hal was going to be her husband.  

And I realized this could have been an evil angel speaking to her a "gospel" which was opposite to the Bible.

There are evil angels.  (Psalm 78:49)

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, so the Holy Spirit will always be compatible with scripture when HE speaks a word to us by bringing a concept to our mind.

But an angel might bring a message to us also, and that message is usually from God, but if it conflicts with scripture we must not go that way.  It could be an "evil angel" speaking.

Galatians 1:8  But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 

*****

Looking back on this story of my friend and what happened to her, there were signs for her not to marry the first husband.  And then after divorce, she practiced deception and hypocrisy at the next church which she attended and this could have opened the door for the evil angel to bring her a message.

She was raised Baptist.  She wanted to marry a Catholic man.  She went to Catholic school to convert to being Catholic so she could marry this Catholic boy. Catholic doctrine has many teachings opposite to Bible.  Her stepfather, a Baptist, refused to allow her to come back into his house if she married this man and became Catholic.  They married. Then her husband left her.  They divorced.  

She left Catholic church and went to a non-denominational church.

Later when she wanted to remarry, she didn't tell anyone at that church that she was a divorced woman.  (deception & hypocrisy)

(When Donna practiced deception by not allowing anyone at that church to know she was divorced, this might have opened the door for the deception to come by what appears to have been an "evil angel" telling her Hal was going to be her husband.)

Hal's wife died of cancer.  He wanted to remarry.  He began to consider the single women at the church he attended.  He selected 2 women to date, looking for a wife.  One of these women was Donna but he did not know she had been divorced.

Hal fell in love with Donna.  Then she told him she had been married and divorced.

Jesus says ... whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

They married.

(This happened before I met them.)

Later I asked Hal if he had known Donna was divorced would he had dated her.  He thought for a minute and then he said, "I don't think so."

Hal committed adultery when he married the divorced woman.  (Mt. 5:32)

Donna as a divorced woman committed adultery when she married Hal.  (I Cor. 7:39; Rom. 7:1-3)

***

One of the things we will do in heaven is to judge angels, whether they are good or bad.

A good angel carries messages from God and does the work of God.

An evil angel speaks opposite from the Bible.

Psalm 78:49  He (God) cast upon them the fierceness of HIS anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

I Corinthians 1:3   Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

II Peter 2:4   For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

And Paul warns the church:

Galatians 1

6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from HIM that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

***

Beware:  A message could be carried to our minds which seems to be from God but actually is from an evil angel and is opposite from scripture.  

Line up all messages with Bible.  If that message is opposite from Bible, we should judge that is not a real message from God but is from a destructive source.

For there will be much deception in the end times.

***

One time, a woman wanted to come talk to me about her mother's 2nd marriage.

God said to me:  "Just focus on that which the scriptures say.  You don't need to focus on the circumstances of the divorce/remarriage."

***

What the Bible says concerning a divorced woman remarrying:

Matthew 5:32  Jesus says:  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

- If a man divorces a faithful wife, and that faithful wife remarries after divorce, she will commit adultery, but her husband who divorced her will be the cause of her adultery.

- And the man who marries her that is divorced commits adultery.

***

I Corinthians 7:10-11 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:  But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

***

I Corinthians 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

***

Mark 10

2 And the Pharisees came to Him (to Jesus), and asked Him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting HIM.

3 And HE answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.

11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

***

At the time of sexual intercourse, you become one flesh with that other person.

I Corinthians 6

15  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

***

James 1

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

***

So if any speak opposite to scripture, let him be accursed, even if it is an angel from heaven or a pastor or a member of the congregation.

Cling to the scripture to free yourself from sin.

*****

* Fornication in the church. Paul tells us what to do concerning this and other sins in the church.

 

 People think it wise to pray for that "brother" who is committing fornication and to counsel him.

But the apostle Paul tells us the following concerning a man who is said to be a Christian and he is committing the sin of fornication (or sins of covetous, idolater,  railer,  drunkard, or extortioner)

I Corinthians 5

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

11  But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

This may be the only hope such an one has after committing such a sin after he is born again and enlightened to the truth of that sin.

Peter says:  II Peter 2:20-22   For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

But to the minds of fleshly humans in the churches, it seems so harsh and even unreasonable to put such an one out of the church.  It seems "nicer" to pray for him and counsel him.

But the apostle Paul in the Bible says put him away from you and to turn him over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.  v. 5

Few in churches will actually do what the Bible says.

I Corinthians 2:14   But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

*****

What the Bible says:

I Corinthians 5

1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

* fornicator: to have sexual intercourse outside of marriage

* covetous: having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else; desire for wealth or possessions or power

* idolater :to worship a physical image, such as a statue or person in place of God; could be to worship a church or a pastor or other religious leader

* railer :to express objections or criticisms in bitter, harsh, or abusive language.

* drunkard: a person who is habitually drunk; a person who is drunk or often gets drunk

* extortioner: practice of obtaining benefit through coercion; plying money out of another person through use of scripture to make person feel guilty if he does not give or make him feel God will not bless him if he fails to give money at church

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

***

Hebrews 10

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know HIM that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto ME, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge HIS people.

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

***

Hebrews 6

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put HIM to an open shame.

7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

***

Revelation 3:5   Jesus says:

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

***

I Corinthians 6

9  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

***

II Peter 2

20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

*****

* Jimmy Swaggart follows his advertising agency to greatness in ministry.

An agent from the Michael Ellison Advertising Agency told me this in 1980, concerning their former client, Jimmy Swaggart.

Swaggart came to the agency because he was unhappy with the small number of people who were coming to his meetings.

The agency told Swaggart:  "To get bigger crowds, stop preaching so much, and put more singing into your meetings."

(Swaggart was a country western type singer.)

Swaggart did what the advertising agency said to do and the audiences changed from about 500 to thousands.

Present entertainment to the people rather than preaching the Word of God, and your audiences will grow, but both you and your followers will go into damnation for lack of the pure Word of God.

This is all antichrist!

II Thessalonians 2:10-12 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

(They and their followers perish.)

Matthew 16:26   Jesus says:  For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

***

This same advertising agency told me:  "We can fill Soldiers and Sailors Auditorium in Pittsburgh for you, all you have to do is don't say anything unpopular on your radio broadcasts."

I am a prophet of Jesus.

When God showed me to begin to speak judgment messages, warning the church, radio stations began threatening me and some started putting me off the air.

The radio station manager at Seattle said to me, "Joan ... you have many wonderful messages.  Just speak those messages.  If you keep speaking these judgment messages, I don't know what is going to happen to you.  We might have to put you off the air."

The Holy Spirit spoke through me:  "George ... if I don't speak the message that I believe to be from God then I don't have a message and I may as well be off the air."

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The apostle Paul said:

Galatians 1:10   For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

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* If you want to glorify God, then share God's views of the issues pertaining to this life.

 

 

 Jesus said:  John 16:13     

 

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear (from God), that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 

 

Jesus says:  14  He shall glorify ME: for he shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you.

We glorify ourselves when we speak our own ideas and our own opinions.

We glorify God when we share God's Word and those things told us by God's Spirit.

I've found the majority of church people do not want to hear that which God has said and that which God has done.

They want to praise their pastors and other humans.

I Cor. 2

1  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and HIM crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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Concerning homosexuals and lesbians:  God's views:

Romans 1:26-28

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

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Concerning divorce and remarriage, God's views:

Matthew 5:32 Jesus said:

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

- The divorced woman who remarries commits adultery but her husband who divorced a faithful wife is the cause of her adultery.

- The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

I Corinthians 7:10-11

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.


I Corinthians 7:39

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.


Mark 10

2 And the Pharisees came to HIM, and asked HIM, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting HIM.

3 And HE answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.

11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Romans 7:1-3

1  Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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Concerning fornication, God's views:

I Corinthians 6

15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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Sins committed by a "brother":

I Corinthians 5

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

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Concerning those who will not go into heaven, God's views:

I Corinthians 6

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Revelation 3:5   Jesus says:

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before his angels.

Revelation 22     Jesus says:

And, behold, I come quickly; and MY reward is with ME, to give every man according as his work shall be.

13  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

14  Blessed are they that do HIS commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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If you share your own opinions or opinions of other people, you glorify humans.

But if you share what God says, you glorify God.

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* Ministers called by Jesus share God's views with the church thereby glorifying God.

Many ministers in today's churches glorify themselves by sharing what they think.  These are ministers of Satan as they seem to be "angels of light," deceiving churches.

Paul says: II Cor. 11:13-15   For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Two or three years ago, I heard the Catholic pope say on TV news that he didn't see anything wrong with homosexuals.

I screamed out:  "What about the Bible."

Romans 1:26-27  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

The scriptures glorify God, showing God's view of the situations.

The Catholic pope glorifies himself giving his views.

A divorced woman wanted to remarry.  She went to a pastor to see if she, being divorced, could remarry.  The pastor said, "My sister divorced and remarried.  I don't see anything wrong with this."   

So this woman remarried after divorce.  Later she was born again and began reading the Bible and saw by the various scriptures that the divorced woman who remarries commits adultery.

The pope and the pastor lead people into damnation, failing to present the Word of God on the issue.  And they glorify their own selves by their own opinions.

Ministers of God glorify God by presenting the views spoken by God.

Gal. 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

10-12  For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.  For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Damnation to every minister who speaks his own opinions and fails to share the words of God on the matter at hand.

The Words of God are salvation to us who believe, and those Words glorify God when we speak them.

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In today's church, ministers of Jesus are called by Jesus from heaven.

The apostle Paul tells king Agrippa about his calling by Jesus from heaven to be a minister of Jesus.

Acts 26   Paul says

Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

13  At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

15  And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And HE said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

16  But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;

17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in ME.

19  Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

Today, each minister of Jesus is called from heaven by Jesus, as was Paul, and put into the ministry offices by Jesus according to the will of God.  It is not by his own will that a minister to the NT church goes into the ministry.  It is by the call of the Spirit of Jesus.

Ephesians 4

8 Wherefore HE saith, When HE ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

11 And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into HIM in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

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But today many ministers are ministers of Satan.  They, by their own will, not by the call of Jesus, put themselves into the ministry.

II Corinthians 11

13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

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Jesus says, concerning the last days:

Matthew 24:4-5 Take heed that no man deceive you.  For many shall come in MY name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

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* Through the pursuit of greatness, he destroyed himself.

In the years 1977 through 1982, I attended a church called, "Word of Faith."  Robert Tilton was the pastor.

Bob set about to be great.  He even said, from the pulpit, that he planned to be greater than Kenneth Copeland.

By his pursuit of greatness, Bob destroyed himself and was left with nothing.

I warned him as a prophet.  But he was overwhelmed with power, money, and fame and would not heed the warning.

Mark 8:36-37  For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

This is that story.

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* The devil tries to get us but God draws us back!

Some days I find I'm not interested in reading anything spiritual.  

But I decide to read some of our blog or the writing on the Podcast.  And I start to be interested and by the time I finish reading those scriptures that are presented, I am restored again.

I Corinthians 1:21 ... it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

Recently the thought came to me that I'm not really called by Jesus to be HIS minister, that I got it all wrong, and then I was reminded of the times after I was born again when I was taken into heaven.  It was in the night while I was sleeping.  I was "transported" into heaven.  I was with God, and Christ, and the Holy Spirit.  (I saw no images it was spiritual.)  At that time I was merged into the body of Jesus, made one with the Word of God, God and Holy Spirit witnessing. A few nights later, the exact same thing happened again.

As I thought on those experiences, I was restored and knew it had been a devil trying to cause me to doubt, for I believe I was ordained into the ministry offices when I was merged into the body of Jesus in heaven those two times.

The devil will try to convince us the way we are going is not the right way.  But then God will restore us by the Holy Spirit who reminds us of the way of God.

Often we are restored by an exhortation.

Hebrews 3:13-14 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

Hebrews 10:25-26  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

I present to you daily exhortations because these two verses tell me to do this.  And notice Heb. 10:25 tells us to exhort one another even more as we see the day of the Lord approaching.

For God uses these exhortations to keep us in HIS way in the midst of the wickedness that surrounds us in this present world.

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Renew your minds to the Word of God:

* Matthew 5:32  Jesus says:  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

- The divorced woman who remarries will commit adultery but her husband who divorced "the faithful wife" will be the cause of her adultery when she remarries.

- The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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* I Corinthians 7:10-11   And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

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* I Corinthians 7:39   The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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* Mark 10

2 And the Pharisees came to Him (to Jesus), and asked Him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting Him.

3 And HE answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

10 And in the house His disciples asked Him again of the same matter.

11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

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* Romans 7:1-3  Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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I Corinthians 6

15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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* Galatians 5

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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* Romans 1

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

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* Revelation 3:5  Jesus says:

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before his angels.

 

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Scriptures such as the above are exactly opposite to that which the world teaches so as we read these scriptures we renew our mind to God's thinking and we pull back from thoughts brought by devils which are opposite to the Word of God.

 

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* God gave me dreams showing me to feed the church through Podcasts & Tweets.

In Hebrews 10:25, God tells us, "Exhort one another and even more as we see the day of the Lord approaching."

Exhort means: to urge earnestly by advice and warnings.

God has given me multiple dreams showing me young Christians starving to death.  I've also been shown in dreams vicious older people in churches "eating" baby Christians, devouring them with false doctrines.

Many times God will awaken me with a subject concerning what to write to you and what to speak to you.

Also in dreams, God has shown me Church members who never have grown fully in the Word of God and they are as deformed babies because of doctrines that are wrong which they have learned at their churches.

In these Podcasts and Tweets you will learn what to expect in the end times if you are still on this earth when these things begin to happen.  You will not be surprised as the world is.  You will know what is happening and what to expect.

You will be given an opportunity to see those things God has shown me about antichrist through the verses of scripture in the New Testament.  

There are many antichrists:  I Jn. 2:18

Antichrist comes through the churches: I Jn. 2:19 & II Thess. 2:3-4

Saints are all the elect of God, all the church, all those who are born again.

Rom. 8:14  As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the children of God.

The work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, how to recognize ideas that God gives you.

What it means when God shakes the heaven and the earth and the sun and moon go dark.  What to expect next.

What the Bible says about subjects of divorce/remarriage and homosexuals/ lesbians.

Everything I speak and write to you is based on scripture and compares scripture with scripture to give you a firm anchor for your soul.

The end time comes and we all need these scriptural teachings as we go forward.  Coronavirus should awaken us considerably.

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God puts me into the ministry of apostle and prophet of Jesus Christ according to Ephesians 4:11-12, and shows me what to do in HIS work on this present earth.

* Born again by the Spirit of God in 1975:

* January 10, 1980, angel of God speaks to me in the night showing me to go on radio:

* In a dream, God shows me to start a blog, beginning March 28, 2012:

* Writing books on Amazon.

* In a dream, God shows me to begin Podcasts, February 6, 2020:

* Dream of starving, dead kittens shows me to start Twitter to feed baby Christians.

I don't do a work unless I am persuaded God has authored that work.  I don't come to you of my own will.  I come by the will and authority of God to feed the church and to prepare the church for the coming of Jesus in the end .

On the home page of our Podcast blog:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations, you will find over 400 podcasts with several grouped into "Top Podcasts" ...  click here

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From heaven, Jesus gives ministers to the church today to help to bring the church to maturity in Christ:

Ephesians 4

11 And HE (Jesus) gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into HIM in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

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False teachers in the churches today:

Matthew 24:4-5  Jesus says:  Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

II Peter 2

1  But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

Jude

3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

18 How that they told you there should be mockers (men who copy other men) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

(These men just copy other preachers.)

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Even in the time of the apostles Paul & John, antichrist was just waiting to take over in the churches and speak "perverse things":

Acts 20:29-30  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

I John 2:18-19 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

(The church of the apostle John kept sound doctrines of Christ and the antichrist people would not put up with those doctrines.  They left them to set up their own denominations where they would speak their own doctrines.)

Antichrist was already bringing false doctrine to the church of Galatia:

Galatians 1

6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

(Paul had preached the true doctrine of Christ to the Galatians but someone came in preaching another "gospel" to them.  They had no New Testament Bibles at that time.)

9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

Paul warns Timothy about those who would bring other doctrines into their churches.

I Timothy 4:1  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

I Timothy 1:3   As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

I Timothy 4:16   Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

II Timothy 4:2-3   Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

Keeping yourselves ready for the return of Jesus:

Luke 21:34-36  Jesus says:

34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

II Peter 3

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

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The elect will rise to meet Jesus in the air and be taken by Jesus to the new heavens and new earth, new Jerusalem, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

I Thessalians 4

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep.

16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

(We meet Jesus "in the air" because this present earth will be destroyed by God in the fire.  Jesus takes us to that new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.  Rev. 21:1-5)

We will be given new "spiritual" bodies:

I Corinthians 15:48-52

48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

(God is a spirit.  We will have bodies in the image of God a Spirit)

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

(Blink.  That is how fast we will be changed from our fleshly bodies to the spiritual bodies.)

We will live in the new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness:

Revelation 21:1-5

1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5 And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.

Jesus says:

Revelation 22

12 And, behold, I come quickly; and MY reward is with ME, to give every man according as his work shall be.

13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

14 Blessed are they that do HIS commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Revelation 3  Jesus says:

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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