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Trust
Sometimes people will pretend to help you and appear to be your friend as long as you are dependent upon them and subordinate to them. They really have no interest in seeing you out blossom them and shine as bright, if not brighter, than they do.
Stay Alert! Watch as well as PRAY.
It is almost impossible to distinguish friends from enemies these days. They both look and sound so much alike.
And just as in personal relationships where we cannot trust everybody who says that they love us or who pretends to care about us, we better not trust everybody who says that they are sent by God and know the way to salvation. Experience and past betrayals have taught me to examine and question everything and not to trust anybody, especially Christian Religious Institutions and church folks.
Mark 13:22-23
“For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible. So be on your guard.”Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; For why should he be esteemed? (Isaiah 2:22)
Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. (Psalm 146:3)
Thus says the LORD, “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD.” (Jeremiah 17:5)
Regardless of their positive propaganda and smooth-talking convincing and accommodating rhetoric, mankind and its financial, social, political and religious machinery will not and cannot effectuate any type of righteous, fair and peaceful solution to the world’s problems of racial hatred, economic inequality, judicial disparity and governmental corruption, unfair taxation and unfair distribution of wealth and resources and poor and inaccessible health care.
These problems are rooted in man’s fundamental problem of sin and rebellion. And until all peoples and nations on earth REPENT and DILIGENTLY seek YHVH and His righteousness, Satan’s agenda will continue to prosper and evil will continue to rule on earth. (Daniel 7:25, 2 Corinthians 4:4 and Revelation 12:9)
Anyone who trusts in humanity and who looks for salvation and righteousness from the works of mankind is cursed and has turned away from the LORD.
We cannot be trusted with our own personal happiness and we cannot correct our own evils. Our decisions are corrupted by our selfishness and our choices are stained with the sin of rebellion. We were born inherently perverted and arrogant and with a prideful spirit. We love and trust ourselves, our monies, our material symbols of wealth and success and the admiration of other sinful human beings too much. We love our Christian religions and churches and manufactured systems of Faith too much to be trusted with genuine righteousness and divine salvation. We cannot save ourselves or solve our own problems. We Need CHRIST.
Even some of those who profess to be ministers of the Gospel of Christ and who appear to be servants of GOD cannot be trusted. Many of these false prophets serve the idol gods of greed and selfishness and of institutional Christianity and new world morality. They are full of blasphemies, misdirection, thievery, fornication, perversion and deception.
God never told us to put our trust in man’s institutional systems of Catholic or Protestant Christian Faiths and churches nor did Christ teach His disciples to trust in man’s twisted and self-serving interpretations of Holy Scripture and way of salvation. To the contrary. All believers are encouraged to OBEY GOD’S Commandments and the Teachings of CHRIST while working out their salvation. (Proverbs 3:5, Psalm 118:8 and Philippians 2:12)
Saints of FATHER YHVH who believed the Gospel of CHRIST and who have correctly responded to the Gospel by OBEYING GOD’S COMMANDMENT to REPENT and be Buried with CHRIST by water Baptism into His death in His HOLY Name and who have received the precious gift of the HOLY SPIRIT, are encouraged and taught to TRUST in the HOLY SPIRIT. (1 John 2:27) And this is where many would be saints of GOD miss the mark.
They are indoctrinated into believing in an imaginary, church imputed, Pastor approved, academically sanctioned, emotionally charged and physically animated false spirit that their doctrines decree and declare as being the Holy Spirit. Many souls no longer believe in or seek the authentic HOLY SPIRIT of YHVH. Many no longer believe the HOLY SCRIPTURES’ witness regarding GOD’S Gift and HIS Sign of speaking in tongue as evidence of our acceptance by GOD. And because they don’t believe they are already condemned. (John 3:18, Acts 10:45-46, Acts 19:6 and Acts 15:8)
Don’t Get It Twisted My Friends. Belief in any one of the many sects of Catholicism or Protestantism doesn’t equate to belief in GOD and it sure doesn’t equal to eternal life with CHRIST. (Matthew 7:21-23)
LORD PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON US.
WE NEED TO REPENT!
WE NEED CHRIST AS OUR SAVIOR.
WE NEED THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
WE NEED TO TRUST IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Help us, Oh LORD, to turn back to you and to seek you in earnest and please forgive us for trusting in ourselves and in our own devices of salvation.
Copyright © Othealor W. Prince November 22, 2016
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TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
Some folks watch and listen to the news on television more attentively and more trustingly than they do to GOD’S chosen and sent messengers who preaches GOD’S unadulterated, uncompromising, Holy and Saving WORD.
There is a great mass of people who subscribe to the broadcast media and depend upon the media networks and their paid commentators and host personalities to tell them what is true, what is right, what is wrong, what they should like, who they should like, what they should believe and what they should doubt as well as what is morally acceptable and what isn’t.
These folks have more Faith (trust, obedience, submissiveness) in the News Media Industry and Information Media Networks and News media outlets than they do in the PERFECT, UNCHANGING LAWS AND COMMANDS OF ALMIGHTY YHVH.
They have made the News and Entertainment Industry their idol gods and its commentators and host personalities their pastors and television has become their one true church.
Luke 10:18
So He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.Revelation 12:9
And the great Dragon was cast down, that Chief Serpent, which is called The Devil and Satan, which deceives all The Earth, and it was cast down unto The Earth and its Angels were cast down with it.Revelation 12:12
… Woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”2 Corinthians 11:3
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
The World and Her False Preachers Seek To Change What God Has Not Changed and To Lead Many Into Damnation.
We must do our due diligence to be watchful for Satan’s tricks and deceptions that lull many into a false sense of complacency and confidence in a false religion and cause many to ignorantly worship idol gods and believe in and take pleasure in doctrines of demons and unrighteousness. (Daniel 7:25 and Ezekiel 7:25-27)
In this end time era we cannot be too careful or too cautious or too holy and we certainly cannot affords to be too trusting of the wicked and their programming machinery to tell us the total unprejudiced Truth.
The only Absolute Soul Saving TRUTH That We Have and Can DEPEND UPON is The LIVING WORD of GOD (YHVH) in CHRIST and the record Left By CHRIST’S only TRUE and CHOSEN Apostles.
We Should Take God At His WORD. And never give God’s Honor to man nor to man’s industries and creations. We must understand that only GOD is TRUTH. Everyone else is suspect.
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TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
Christians are not innocent when it comes to redefining God’s Word. Christians can’t point the finger at the “Gay Agenda/ LGBT” or the Supreme Court’s Ruling that effectively redefined marriage and family without first confessing their own sins.
Christians have been diminishing, modifying, redefining and rewriting God’s Holy Eternal Word from as far back as the Fourth Century under the rule, authority and decree of the pagan Emperor Constantine.
When Christians want to criticize and admonish the United States for legalizing same-sex marriage, they have to first admit and accept responsibility for and REPENT of their current corrupt and unholy practices and apostolic apostasy.
Christians must confess their error of changing YHVH’S HOLY SEVENTH DAY SABBATH to a first day of the week Christian sabbath before they can point a finger at anyone else for changing and perverting God’s divine moral TRUTH.
Christians have to confess and REPENT of their gender confusion in the HEADSHIP (pastorate) of their churches before they can criticize anybody else for altering and perverting God’s ordained gender roles in humanity.
There are more deviations from the DIVINE ETERNAL TRUTH than I can honestly name in this post but we all must REPENT if we are going to effectively address the brazen insults to our Faith by the mongers of immorality and sin. We all must REPENT of corrupt man-made Christianity if we are to honestly and without contradiction, witness to the holiness of Yahweh in Yeshua the CHRIST.
Christians living in a glass house can’t throw no stones.
Copyright © Othealor W. Prince 2015
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TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
This revelation just came to light in my soul.
“We are too dependent upon somebody helping us or coming to our rescue or giving us favor or working on our behalf or being fair to us and considerate of our particular situation. When in actuality, many people couldn’t care less about us. All of our REAL help comes from the LORD!!!”
Psalm 121:2-8 (KJV)
2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Copyright © Othealor W. Prince 05/25/2015
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GLORY TO GOD!!!
[This post is not necessarily for the new convert or for the unread or spiritually immature. Please proceed carefully and prayerfully. The Holy Spirit Guidance Is Highly Recommended.]
Praise the LORD everybody. Let everyone praise the LORD!
I am led to shine a little light on a very sensitive subject that has become a well established and ingrained part of the “Christian Culture” even to the point of becoming an idol god.
I feel that the LORD is sending a warning to us to be careful that we do not make an idol out of something that he never intended for us to worship. We should not become like the pharisee and scribes who made their interpretation of Moses’ Law their god and final authority in their lives.
There is a notion among Christians that the Bible is the unadulterated, infallible and undisputed word of God.
I believe the majority of professed Christians would support and argue that the Bible is the undisputed Word of God.
Let’s examine that premise for a moment.
But first let us set forth the definitions of “Unadulterated” and “Undisputed and Infallible.”
According to the Oxford Dictionary, Undisputed means to be accepted without being called into question. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines undisputed as being impossible to question or doubt.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, Unadulterated means not to be mixed or diluted with any different or extra elements. It means to be complete and absolutely pure.
According to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, Infallible means not capable of being wrong or making mistakes: not fallible.
Based upon these definitions and what we know about the many translation errors and politically motivated manipulations and changes in the translation of Holy Scriptures, can we still say that the Bible is the unadulterated, infallible and undisputed Word of God? (Ref. Williston Walker’s A History Of The Christian Church)
The above picture caption sounds good but is it biblically true?
Well let’s look at this premise a little closer using the Bible itself.
I will offer a few exhibits out of the Bible as witnesses to GOD’S TRUTH.
Exhibit 1
The Bible records Jesus as telling Peter that no human agent (human disciplines of education, scriptural interpretation, intellectual or scientific investigation), revealed that he is the Christ but that the revelation of this TRUTH came only from the FATHER (Matthew 16:13-20).
Furthermore the Bible records Jesus as telling Peter and the rest of the disciples that it was upon this divine revelation (not interpretations of Scriptures) that He would establish His One TRUE CHURCH.
Therefore divine revelation is essential to the CHURCH of CHRIST and to His Followers.
Exhibit 2
In Matthew 11:1-25 Jesus is recorded as saying that John the Baptist was actually Elijah who was sent by God to prepare the way of the Messiah and that the learned scribes, Pharisees and religious scholars couldn’t discern this TRUTH although they had the Holy Scriptures for hundreds of years. Jesus even thanked the FATHER for hiding this truth from the learned and revealing it to babes (humble, unassuming, childlike believers).
Therefore, divine revelation was given by God through Christ to those who were humble enough to accept the Gospel of the Kingdom of God in Christ and believe. [Not through the reading and interpretation of Holy Scriptures]
Exhibit 3
The Bible records in the first chapter of John’s gospel that THE WORD was in the beginning with God and that the Word was God. “And that all things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.”
John’s Gospel also witnesses that “the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us” as opposed to becoming an incomplete collection of 66 man written and ordered books called a Bible.
Please note that at the time of the earthly arrival of Christ there weren’t any “Bibles” as we know them today yet God’s Holy Saving TRUTH about The Messiah was revealed to the willing and believing soul.
Exhibit 4
No place in Holy Scriptures does the Bible refer to itself as being Unadulterated, infallible or Indisputable.
Exhibit 5
The Holy Scripture Itself Testifies That The Holy Spirit Is The Required Agent Of Revelation And Not The Bible. (John 16:13)
Exhibit 6
Note that the listeners of Acts 2:37-47, without the benefit of a Bible, heard the Gospel message, believed, obeyed and 3,000 souls were added to the Body of Christ that day.
The Holy Spirit – not the Bible – is essential and mandatory for revelation and SALVATION.
Exhibit 7
Eternal salvation comes only through the Blood of Christ. The Holy Bible, or preferably the Holy Scriptures, can lead us to the giver of Eternal Life and point us in the direction of genuine salvation but it never claims to be the source of our Salvation or to be God.
In Summary:
The “Bible” is not to be worship as if it were God or trusted as if it were a source of unadulterated and indisputable divine revelation and salvation. It cannot be or else it would become an idol god.
There are just too many corruptions of the Holy Scripture’s texts and various interpretations and changes of its words and pages to be trusted literally. This fact is well documented in a variety of resources.
However, I believe that the Bible is a sacred resource tool that can be used by God and His Holy Spirit to reveal His Divine Mysteries and Saving Truth to us through His Holy Spirit – especially to those who have been gifted with His Holy Spirit – the divine teacher. (1 John 2:27)
But just like the Holy Spirit reveals the Truth of The written Word, the devil reveals a counterfeit truth and corrupts and perverts God’s written Word into a lie. And unrepentful mankind has proven to prefer the lie to the truth. (2 Thessalonians 2:9-11)
Don’t make the assumption that the Bible is the literal and infallible Word of GOD. CHRIST IS THE ONLY INFALLIBLE, UNADULTERATED AND INDISPUTABLE LIVING WORD OF GOD (JOHN 1).
The devil reads and interprets Scripture and manipulates the written Word to serve his evil purposes and deceive those who would be saved. All we have to do to see this is to just look at his discourse with Jesus in the wilderness. (Matthew 4:1-11)
And the devil is still misquoting and falsely interpreting the written Word today to deceive, steal, kill and destroy our Faith and our souls.
I assure you that I stand deathly afraid of saying the wrong thing about God, God’s written Word and His Holy Spirit.
I must trust and obey the Holy Spirit in all areas of my life – for I am in utter ignorance without the revelation, knowledge, wisdom and understanding of the Holy Spirit.
I hold the written Word of God as being Sacred and Holy but due to Satan’s deceptions and man’s corruption of the written Word, I must depend ultimately on the Living Word and The Holy Spirit to tell me What The written Word means. I dare not trust my own feeble and sinful intellect, imagination or understanding. I must deeply depend upon God’s revelation and not biblical translations.
Now Don’t Get It Twisted! I respect the Bible but I LOVE and TRUST the True and Living Word More. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 2:10-11)
Repent! And Wash Away Your Sins By Baptism In The Name Of Christ And Seek and Ask for the Holy Spirit of Promise That Will Lead You Into All Truths. AMEN!
REPENT!
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