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May 23, 2013

Did Jesus Christ Die Upon The Cross For Nothing?

It's sad to know that some people think that He did...

The truth of the matter is that He—Jesus—died for you and for me. He died upon that cross for Humanity. Scripture reference is found in John 3:16 where it states: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. KJV

Now I know some people have read, or even heard, this verse from time to time as it is one of the most popular in the Holy Bible. But even so how many times have people "thought" about it after having read it.

 

 "FELIX WHO?"

9/25/2011~ The word of the Lord came to me one Sunday morning about two years ago saying "TELL MY CHILDREN DO NOT BE LIKE FELIX."

Because I did not know of any particular man or friend by that name, I asked the Lord for more understanding concerning His message to me so that I might dispense or convey it accurately. The Mighty Spirit of God then directed me to a remote area in the book of Acts... This is where I found "Felix." Acts 24:24:25 reads as follows: A few days later Felix came with his wife, Drusilla, who was Jewish. Sending for Paul, they listened as he told them about faith in Christ Jesus. As he reasoned with them about righteousness and self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified. "Go away for now," he replied. "When it is more convenient, I'll call for you again.'' After reading it through, I then asked the Lord for a specific name to which I was to convey this very important and detailed message. He then gave me the name of an individual by which he called "Jason", and to whom He would introduce me to later that day. I must admit to you that prior to that faithful morning, I knew of no one by the name Jason. Needless to say, after meeting Jason later that day and conveying to him the message I received from the Lord, he gave his life to the Lord, Jesus Christ, the following week. Jason may have been a child of God or perhaps not, but either way, God knew Jason as his child because God knows the future. Did God need me? No, He didn't. But He used me nonetheless and for His glory, and to that I am thankful. You see, as I sat in the church of about 2000 to 3000 people, God positioned me directly across the aisle from a young man who looked to be in distress. The Spirit of God led me to a remote area of the church I had not sat in before. The Holy Spirit engaged my spirit as I honed in on him (Jason) and supernaturally knew this had to be the guy named Jason the Lord told me about, even though I had never met him. That day, as my wife can also affirm, Jason looked dull and full of gloom but the following week, Jason looked to be alive and full of shine with a huge smile on his face. My wife asked me "Was that the same guy from last week you talked with?"  My answer to her was Yes... Well, the time has come again to release this same message to any one person, or perhaps a group of people who this message may be tailored to... 

The lesson we draw from this message from the Lord is this: God is Love, and no matter if the topic of the day is based on faith in Christ, being righteous in Christ, having self-control in your daily walk with Christ, or the judgment to come from Christ... etc. It's all in the Book of God we call our Holy Bibles. And it's all motivated by God's Love for us all, both Christian, and non-Christian alike. Through conviction, comfort, growth and through warning etc. There is something for all of us and we must learn to feed on every word of God! We must not be like "Felix" and become terrified of God's word for lack of sound behavior (unrighteous living) on our part, lack of self-control due to immense pressures of life and or unlawful sexual attraction, or terrified because of the warning of the coming judgment etc. We need to hear and teach (Across the board) all of these things—Truths— whether it's convenient for us or not... We don't just eat the appetizer or entree or even just the desert when dining out or in, but we eat the three-course meal—traditionally. The same can be applied to God's Holy Word. It's a matter of life or death for some, and living in the Spirit and not in the flesh for others, Amen!!! Felix wanted to no more about faith in Christ but didn't want to hear the rest of the Gospel message Paul was conveying. Perhaps if Felix would have listened to the message in its fullness, he would have known both sides of God's truth in its fullness. So many lost souls know about the wrath of God and thus are turned off by it without knowing the grace of God and thus become learned in the full truth of His word... And some teachers would rather teach about one side or the other without conveying the fullness of God's word. Now don't get me wrong, there are some teachers whose gift is specifically tailored to certain assignments. But it's best that we re-examine our call and thus follow through with it accordingly lest we find ourselves following Felixes' lead as found in verse 27 and seeking to find favor from a select demographic in hopes of gaining popularity. Verse 27 reads as follows: Two years went by in this way; then Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And because Felix wanted to gain favor with the Jewish leaders, he left Paul in prison... Another lesson learned is the fact that God loves us so much that he reaches out to us and warns us to not be like certain "Real Life" characters he wrote about in his Holy Word in this case "Felix." Now that right there is an amazing display of God's love and faithfulness shining down on humanity, Amen!

Please stay tuned for more Writings, Teachings, and Special Messages of  Biblical Truth...



Build Build Build:

[1] Sanballat was very angry when he learned that we were rebuilding the wall. He flew into a rage and mocked the Jews, [2] saying in front of his friends and the Samarian army officers, "What does this bunch of poor, feeble Jews think they are doing? Do they think they can rebuild the wall in a day if they offer enough sacrifices? Look at those charred stones they are pulling out of the rubbish and using again!"

[3] Tobiah the Ammonite, who was standing beside him, remarked, "That stone wall would collapse if even a fox walked along the top of it!"

[4] Then I prayed, "Hear us, O our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land! [5] Do not ignore their guilt. Do not blot out their sins, for they have provoked you to anger here in the presence of the builders."~ NEHEMIAH 4:1-5 NLT.

 Beloved of God, the enemy, Satan, is working overtime directly and indirectly, through others, to have you believe that you are not worthy to be a builder for God. He is working to have us believe we can no longer be workers for God because of some of our past experiences in life. He mocks and ridicules us to our faces, and behind our backs. Have you been burned in the past due to some minor or even major event, both inside the Church Kingdom or outside the Church Kingdom? Are you, as the Bible put it, "Charred," as a living stone in the Lord's Spiritual Temple, being pulled out of the rubbish and being used again? Know that the Mercy and Grace of God have you covered because of His once, good for all time, Sacrifice through Jesus Christ by His death, burial and resurrection. Maybe you collapsed once before but still had the determination to seek the Lord in your trial. This time around Beloved, you won't collapse, even if a fox walked along the top of you again. Know that God is our "Strong Tower", our "Mighty Fortress". And yes, you are being used again. And yes, you are going to be used again if you are reclaiming availability to God for Him to use you once more. All because of our Great God and His mercy and grace, Amen!!! Let's show the enemy, Sanballat, and his army, that although we are poor and feeble at times, we are rich in Spirit all the time and are strengthened by the Lord. Yes, thanks to the finished work of Jesus Christ, and His power working in and through us, we will help one another in our trials and fatigue, through our Love for one another, and we will continue to Build! Build! Build! each other up in the Faith! and strengthen our walls.

If and when you are mocked as a Christian by your fellow man, cry out to God in prayer, just like Nehemiah had done, as he strengthens you according to his Grace for that situation. And by all means, don't let it hinder your progress in the Lord, for that is what Satan wants for you. Your name may not be among those who were physically rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem in these pages, but know that your name is in the Book Of Life.

In closing, I would like to encourage those who are not in the Kingdom of God. Please know that there is plenty of room for you here, in God's family. Don't fight against God's Kingdom. Instead, fight with God's Kingdom!

MY NEW HEART

by Rose Point Ministries™ on Sunday, August 14, 2011, at 11:02 am

MY NEW HEART

[1] Look, a righteous King is coming! And honest princes will rule under him. [2] He will shelter Israel from the storm and the wind. He will refresh her as a river in the desert and as the cool shadow of a large rock in a hot and weary land. [3] Then everyone who can see will be looking for God, and those who can hear will listen to his voice. [4] Even the hotheads among them will be full of sense and understanding. Those who stammer in uncertainty will speak out plainly. Isaiah 32:1-4 NLT

Thank you, Jesus, for showing us Jews and Gentiles, that you are that Righteous King who came and who will come again. You are our Shelter from the storm and the wind, our River of life in the desert. Lord Jesus, as our Rock giving off shade in the heat of the day, we praise you as the One who gives comfort as we need it. You live in our hearts and now we can see. We spend our time seeking out ways to please you now. Yes, we look for you every day, in every way. We listen to your voice now because we understand it, unlike before, when we didn't understand and even ignored it. This is also because you rule and reign in our hearts. Thank you for being our temperance regulator as we yield to your Holy Spirit and thanks for giving us the boldness and confidence to speak out plainly of you, as our RIGHTEOUS KING!

EXAMINING TRUE AND FALSE PROPHETS ACCORDING TO JOHN

by Rose Point Ministries™ on Sunday, October 16, 2011, at 2:03 pm

TRUE AND FALSE PROPHETS

    The apostle John says in Chapter 4, verse 1, of the book of 1st John NLT: “ Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if  the spirit they have comes from God.”  John continues by saying in verse 1: “For there are many false prophets in the world. (2) This is the way to find out if they have the Spirit of God:  “If a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ became a human being,  that person has the Spirit of God.” Verse 3 goes on to say that: “If a prophet does not acknowledge Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist. “ John says: “You have heard that he (Antichrist) is going to come into the world, and he is already here.” 
    Beloved of  Him that lives forever and ever, let's take a refined approach to this one, of many key insights from the Word of God. Don’t miss this!: It’s because of the fact that Jesus Christ, who is in fact God, became a man and died, and was resurrected to life everlasting by God the Holy Spirit, that the false prophets are determined to short change you and I. He (Jesus) was, and is, the only living being to accomplish this task given to him from the Almighty Father (God Head),  praise God, Amen! The Antichrist, or spirit thereof, would be stepping on his own toes (So to speak) if he were to acknowledge that all this power of Jesus Christ was indeed from God and that he (Jesus Christ) is God. The false prophet would have you to believe otherwise in order to keep you in the dark about the One True God which again, is Christ Jesus himself (Fully God/fully man). The false leaders know that Jesus is the Christ but they would have you believe that he was simply a spirit and not a real man being able to relate to us (Humanity). Or they would have you believe that he was merely a man and not God himself who was and is able to save humanity through God the Son (Jesus Christ). Or perhaps, they may teach both of those false realities of who Jesus Christ truly is. To teach otherwise would voluntarily shift the power from them to the Lord and thus potentially risk the further growth of the Church by their own hands or mouths. But they can’t even truly accomplish this in their own efforts because to speak Truth, one would need to have the Spirit of Truth within their hearts. Surely!, their (false prophets) aim is to keep the masses from knowing the Truth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! and thus stunt the growth of the Church.  Pay attention to what your leaders are preaching to you. Make sure they are preaching Jesus, the Christ!, and not some random Jesus, the anybody up the street! Test them by the Holy Spirit within you, and by the Word of God…
Love you in Christ,

God goes before us. His covering is above us. His protection surrounds us and his Spirit lives in us.