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Everyone Has An Expiration Date

Everything and everybody has an expiration date, including you. Which is why it is so important that every single one of us is absolutely certain of where they will go when that expiration date is up – eternal with God in Christ in heaven or eternal life in hell and the lake of fire where the worm dieth not. We are all guilty before God, sinners bound for hell by birth. Scripture tells us that all have sinned and that the wages of that sin is death. That sin separates us from God who is holy, perfect and can not have sin where He is. He didn’t want it to be that way, He made man to fellowship with that’s why he walked with Adam in the garden, but when Adam rebelled and sinned closeness and connection was broken. God knew before he spoke this world into creation it would so way back then He came up with a plan to fix what Adam would bring on the world about to be created. He planned one day to become a man, to put meat on, and live a perfect sinless life then at just the right time he would go to the Cross and die to pay for the sins of all mankind, he’d be buried and rose the third day alive, victorious over death and the grave offering complete and total justification to all who believe that today. It’s that simple to know where you will go when your expiration date comes, just believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins was buried and rose again for your justification before God and that very instant you are saved, sealed and seated in heavenly places spiritually in Christ. It is a done deal and nothing you do or don’t do from that moment on can ever change that. It is finished, you are saved and heaven will be your eternal home.

Romans 3:23 KJV — For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Romans 5:12 KJV — Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Romans 6:23 KJV — For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 5:15 KJV — But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Romans 4:4-5 KJV “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 KJV “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”

Ephesians 1:7 & 13 KJV “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;… In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,”

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” — Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV

The Will of Satan for You

The Will of the Devil For You by Brother Paul Garcia

(2 Timothy 2:24-26 KJV) And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, {25} In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; {26} And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

Paul wrote to Timothy how to restore saved ones who are opposing themselves, living contrary to who God has made them to be in Christ. The way to recover such a person is to instruct them in meekness the sound doctrine that we learned from the Apostle Paul. Sound doctrine is what God will use to grant them repentance, a changing of the mind, to recover themselves out of the snare of the devil.

Satan has a will for your life: to hold you captive so your life will not reflect the godliness that you have in Christ.

Satan wants to be like the most High, the possessor of heaven and earth. God has a plan for the heaven and earth (Eph 1:10 ; Col 1:16-18). Satan wants to take over what God has planned.

In Isaiah 14:13-14 we learn of Satan’s plan and in Ezekiel 28 what he does with the plan.

(Ezekiel 28:1-6 KJV) The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, {2} Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: {3} Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: {4} With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: {5} By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: {6} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

(Ezekiel 28:14-15 KJV) Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. {15} Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Satan was the wisest, most beautiful creature God created. God gave him creativity and beauty in order to lead creation into the worship of God. However, instead of appreciation toward God, Satan turned his focus on himself; he becomes lifted up by pride and thinks that creation ought to worship him not God. He devises a plan to take over.

(Ezekiel 28:16-19 KJV) By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. {17} Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. {18} Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. {19} All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

Then Satan took his plan and went out to the other angels and began to sell the idea that he can do it better than God. He convinces them to take over and undermine God’s authority. Rev 12 says that a third of the angels joined Satan in his plan.

God created hell to stop the rebellion (Matthew 25:41). He created a judgment of wrath that was so terrifying that it brought the rebellion to a screeching halt. He covered the universe in darkness (Gen 1:2). Then He creates light so they can see what He is going to do. He sets the earth up there and gets it functioning again. Then He puts somebody on the earth, something like the angels never seen before.

(Genesis 1:26-27 KJV) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. {27} So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Those angels watched what God was doing; they never saw anything like it before

(Genesis 1:28 KJV) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

God’s response to what Satan did was to create man on the earth in the midst of the Satanic realm to be used by God in the thwarting and defeating of Satan’s plan. God put man on the planet for the purpose of restoring the earth back under His dominion, to take back the authority that Satan usurped.

The first thing Satan did was go and enlist man over to his side. (Genesis 3) Satan sold his plan to man and immediately man sided with Satan.

(Genesis 3:4-6 KJV) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: {5} For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. {6} And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

All of the heavenly host was watching. Satan sold Adam and Eve the same bill of goods that he sold to the angels: you can be as gods.

(Romans 1:21-23 KJV) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. {22} Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, {23} And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Man believed the lie that they can becomes as gods. Satan thought he outsmarted God; when Adam and Eve belived the lie, Satan became the undisputed king and ruler.

(Luke 4:5-7 KJV) And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. {6} And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. {7} If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

Satan tempted Christ by saying, ‘If you will make me God then I will give you the planet.” Satan understood Christ came to reclaim the earth. Satan said, “I will give it to you, if you will worship me.” The Lord Jesus Christ does not dispute that it was given to Satan. Why not? Because the fact that Satan had the crown on his head was true.

(Ephesians 2:2 KJV) Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Paul calls Satan the prince of the power of the air: chief ruler of the air, the invisible realm. Satan is prince of the heavenly realm just as he is prince of the earthly realm. These two titles describe him in relation of his usurpation of the territory.

In Genesis 3, when Satan took the crown from Adam for the earth God made a promise in response to what Adam did:

(Genesis 3:15 KJV) And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

This promise tells us that God had a plan in response to Satan’s usurpation of authority. We see God’s wisdom working here.

Bruising of the head = 1st coming of Christ
Crushing of the head – 2nd coming of Christ

God gives the promise of the seed of woman; it is through this seed that God will set up a kingdom to restore His rule over the earth.This seed line is vested in the nation Israel. The seed of the woman becomes the seed of Abraham, which becomes the seed of David, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. It is through the Lord Jesus Christ that Israel will reign and establish that kingdom.

In prophecy, the purpose is the restoration of God’s authority over this planet earth through the instrumentality of a kingdom given to the nation Israel. This kingdom and God’s use of Israel with Christ as their Messiah is how God will restore his headship over the planet and destroy all other kingdoms and have just His kingdom reign. This is the goal of prophecy.

(Daniel 2:44 KJV) And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

God of heaven will set up a kingdom, a.k.a. as the kingdom of heaven. It can also be called the kingdom of God because the God of heaven set it up. Now, this is not talking about a kingdom in heaven but the kingdom of heaven that God sets up down here on the earth and it will stand forever. One day God is going to establish His kingdom and dominion on the earth over this planet and He will use the nation Israel to do that.

(Zechariah 14:9 KJV) And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
The issue of the kingdom is man’s purpose to restore the earth and subdue it. However, man failed and joined the satanic rebellion and turned over the planet to Satan.

Since man failed to do what God intended for him to do God gives a promise that He will do it for man. God will accomplish plan to restore the earth through the nation Israel. This is why Satan opposes Israel so intensely.

Why would Satan have offered the kingdom to Jesus Christ? If Christ came to get the planet, then why would Satan give it to Him? The reason is if the kingdoms were taken away from Satan then Satan would lose his stronghold in the heavens also. The goal of prophecy is to restore the earth.

(Ephesians 1:9 KJV) Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

God made known to us the mystery of His will. His revealed will was to restore the earth. However, His will also had a secret. God had a secret purpose from before the foundation of the world. Not only was God’s purpose in prophecy revealed but now He has made known to us a secret, something that He had always planned to do.

(Ephesians 1:10 KJV) That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

God’s plan is to gather all things in heaven and earth in one in Christ. Satan’s plan was to take the heaven and the earth. From Genesis until Paul, it was only God’s revealed will to restore earth through Israel. But now we know that He will restore the heavens also.

We, as members of the body of Christ, are a heavenly people. It is through the members of the body of Christ that God will restore the heavens.

(Colossians 1:16-20 KJV) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: {17} And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. {18} And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. {19} For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; {20} And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Here we see what the “all things” are: thrones, dominions, principalities, powers. These are governmental authorities, all created in Christ and for Him. The blood of the cross is the means in which He will restore these things unto Himself.

In verse 18, we read that Christ is the head of the body. Why is this important? The Lord Jesus Christ is head of Israel: King of kings and Lord of lords over all the earth. He is made the head of the body so He might have preeminence in all things. If He were to be just head of things on the earth, He would not be head of all, all positions of rank and authority.

God will use Israel to restore the earth and the church, the body of Christ, to restore the heavenly places. God has a two-fold purpose that is really one purpose: to make the Lord Jesus Christ restore His headship over all things.

(Ephesians 3:9-10 KJV) And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: {10} To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

Notice this is all being done to the intent those in heaven would know the manifold wisdom of God. You know what Satan wants to do with this? 2 Corinthians 4:3 “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.” Satan cannot overcome so he will try to hide what God has done.

Satan’s will for your life is to keep you from understanding God’s purpose is for you to restore God’s rule and authority in the heavenly places. He is most successful in doing this by selling you the lie that all of God’s promises and blessings to Israel (things pertaining to the earth) belong to you. His goal is to get you to follow the wrong set of instruction so that the manifold wisdom of God will not be known unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places.

WAITING FOR THE ADOPTION

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Apostle Paul Writes To The
Church the Body of Christ:

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Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

1 Corinthians 1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 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.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

Romans 8:23 … waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Romans 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

1 Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

1 Corinthians 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

1 Corinthians 15:48 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.
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, 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.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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The Rapture not the 2nd Coming

Denial of the Rapture – when the members of the Body of Christ are caught up to meet Him in the air – is a quick tip that a person fails to rightly divide Scripture and is at best confused and misled at worst likely not even be saved!

Anyone who thinks they have to go through or endure the Tribulation because they believe they are Israel; they aren’t, we’re the Body of Christ and  have already received the atonement  –
Romans 5:11 KJV — “And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom  we have now received the atonement.” –
does not understand the gospel that saves today (1 Corinthians 15:3-4), and they can’t really believe what they don’t understand so they need to get saved.

The rapture ends the dispensation of grace and is one of the mysteries revealed to Paul by the glorified, risen Christ so cannot be found or connected to anything outside of Romans thru Philemon. Sorry, but it’s not in Matthew 24, Isaiah, Daniel, Luke, or Revelation.  Believe me, there was a dark period before I found the key when I was ready to sell everything find a cave in the deepest wilderness and learn to survive on berries, tree bark and those weird meals you justvadd water to when I tried like mad to find it there with no luck.  You can’t find what isn’t there, so I began to think maybe the people saying we had to go through the Tribulation had it right.  Praise God though my husband in his study of the Bible – no teachers, no preachers, just him and God’s word and the Holy Spirit – began to see right division and share it with me.  One day it clicked and Praise the Lord I saw things right!!  All the confusion, doubt, fear, and worry was gone because I realized who I was, I was complete in Christ and set free from sin, dead to it and the reason I couldn’t find the rapture in the red letters or prophets was cause it wasn’t there. 

But what I did find through pouring over God’s word rightly divided was the division between the Rapture and the Second Coming I had missed.  I hadn’t realized that the Tribulation is the divider between the two events.  The Rapture occurs, then the Tribulation begins at some point after the Body is caught up, the Tribulation then ends with Christ’s Second Coming.  Below is a summary of the key differences between the Rapture and the Second Coming that right division makes glaringly obvious. 

The Rapture:
• Occurs before the Tribulation period (1 Thes 1:10)
• Is a message of grace, joy and peace (1 Thes 1:1, 10; 2 Tim 4:8; Titus 2:13)
• Believers are to look for Christ, not signs (Phil 3:20-21)
• Believers have “comfort” and “rest” (1 Thes 4:18; 5:11; 2 Thes 1:7;2:16,17)
• Results in LIFE as Members of the Body of Christ are raised from the dead (1 Cor 15:52; 1 Thes 4:16)
• Marks the end of the Dispensation of Grace (Rom 11:25; 1 Cor 15:51-52)
• “Blessed Hope” for Body of Christ (1 Thes 4:14)
• Believers burden is to reach others for Christ so they are not left behind to go into the Tribulation (1 Thes 5:4-8)
• Unrevealed until the risen Christ told Paul about it (1 Cor 15:51)

The Second Coming:
•  Takes place after the Tribulation (Matt 24:29)
• Is about judgment, vengeance and wrath (Psa 50:3; Joel 3:9-16; Rev 19:11-21)
• Israel is to look for the signs of Christ’s Second Coming (Matt 24:3,15,33; Luke 21:28)
• The earth will “mourn” and great fear (Zech 12:10; Matt 24:30; Rev 1:7)
• Results in DEATH, carcasses from Armageddon cover the ground (Psa 110:5-6; Zech 14:12; Matt 24:28; Rev 19:17-18)
• Marks the end of the Tribulation (Matt 24:3)
• Believers in Jesus as Israel’s Messiah MUST endure till the end to be saved by the Second Coming (Matt 10:22; 24:13; John 20:31)
• The burden of Israel will be God’s vengeance poured out on their enemies (Psa 5; 58; 59; 79)
• Predicted in the Old Testament, the Gospels and the Hebrew epistles (Isa 64:1-2; 66:15-18; Mark 13:24-26; Jude 14, 15)

Covid 19 – It’s Not The End of the World

I awoke this morning to a question by a friend in Christ who is worried by all the hype around the current situation and the stuff people are saying about Covid 19 twisting scripture and making what God said into a lie by trying to make it a sign of the last days.

Covid 19 is just a result of living in a fallen, broken world. In Genesis 3 man fell when Adam sinned and the ground was cursed so to speak. It would bring forth thorns, man would eat by the swear of his brow, etc. God didn’t send it and he isn’t punishing the world with it, he doesn’t do that today thankfully. His attitude towards us today is grace and peace.

I know people are saying all sorts of crazy stuff about how it’s judgement or they claim verses out of Israel’s program trying to bind it or cast it out. They are wasting their time because they don’t understand what God is doing today and how they are supposed to function as members of the body of Christ.

Today God hasn’t given us a spirit of fear and he isn’t imputing sin to the world. His attitude is one of peace as he offers grace to the world through the cross work if his precious Son.

Don’t be afraid and don’t fear. God hasn’t given us a spirit of fear today but one of peace.

“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” — 2 Timothy 1:7 KJV

“Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” — Philippians 4:4-13 KJV

I say all of that to say, no this is not the last days or times of the end. The last days can not begin as long as the body of Christ is still here in the world. And when they do begin they last 1007 years. 7 years of the 70th week of Daniel and 1000 years for the millennial kingdom of Christ. That period is what the books of Hebrews to Revelation is specifically dealing with but it’s not us today. Today we as the Body of Christ are waiting for our adoption, our blessed hope our catching up to be with Christ in the air for all eternity. We will be caught up and that could possibly happen soon but it is a blessed hope not an event to fear. It is our homecoming where we get our eternal positions in the heavens replacing the angels that fell way back before the world began. Our calling is a heavenly calling and when the age of grace ends we go home! As the age of grace began with Christ in the air it will end the same way.

That is a glorious thing! We leave behind this sin cursed broken world and go home to heaven where our head Christ is. Earth is not our home it’s just our assignment until the age of grace ends and the prophetic program of Israel begins again.

Now the end of grace is drawing to an end and has been ever since it began some 2000 years ago. Paul himself thought it would end during his lifetime at first but by the time the last book of scripture was written (2 Timothy) he knew it would continue for some time. That’s why he tells Timothy the following:
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” — 2 Timothy 3:1 KJV

The age of grace will end with perilous times. In Ephesians we read that we are to

“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” — Ephesians 5:16 KJV

But not to fear because we have a blessed hope OUR GLORIOUS APPEARING with Christ!

“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 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 them which are asleep. 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: 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” — 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 KJV

“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” — 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 KJV

“Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.” — 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17 KJV

Don’t be afraid or worried about the last days or end of this world, we will not see that day from earth but may witness it from heaven and we know that God is just restoring and fixing what man jacked up when Adam at that fruit way back in the garden. The age of grace could end at any moment there is no signs or warnings it happens in a moment the twinkling of an eye and only God knows when that will be. It could be today or in 100 years. I do feel it is close it has been close for 2000 years and every day that passes it gets one day closer. But we aren’t to fear for it is a day of rejoicing, our redemption when our earthly bodies are made heavenly as Christ’s is and we take our roles, our place in heaven .

Sin is the Problem, Not God

Often believers face difficult situations, hard times and inevitably most ask “Why is all this happening to me?” They say that they are mad at God in a way because of the circumstances they find themselves in. I understand that feeling but it isn’t God causing those things to happen, God isn’t punishing or chastising them. That’s not what the Bible says He is doing today and the Bible is God’s very words to us. His only way of communicating to us today what HE IS and ISN’T doing right now. He’s not punishing us – He will punish those who reject him in the future but right now His attitude towards the world is grace and peace.

2 Corinthians 5:19 KJV — “To wit, that God was in Christ, 👉reconciling the world unto himself👈, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”

Bad things happen because we live in a sin fallen world, of which Satan is the prince.

Ephesians 2:2 KJV — “Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to 👉the prince of the power of the air👈, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:”

Job 1:7 KJV — “And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, 👉From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it👈.”

Ephesians 6:12 KJV — “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but 👉against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places👈.”

When we are living for Christ then we are working against Satan and his wiles as spoken of in Ephesians 6 so he gets mad and thus is working double time to try and stop us. One of his most powerful tools to do this is keeping us mixed up doctrinally. Such as being in a church or group that teaches law and grace or that we can loose our salvation, that we must work to keep it. Another is convincing us that God is working through signs and wonders as He did in times past with Israel such as praying for signs, physical blessings and wonders. That’s not how God is working today we walk by faith not sight. The signs and wonders ceased during Paul’s lifetime but today we still have many blessings they are spiritual though not physical. Here are just a few of the blessings we have in Christ :

Colossians 2:10 KJV — “And 👉ye are complete in him, 👈which is the head of all principality and power:”

Ephesians 1:3 KJV — “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath 👉blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:👈”

Ephesians 2:6 KJV — “And hath raised us up together, and 👉made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus👈:”

Romans 3:24 KJV — “Being👉 justified freely by his grace through the redemption👈 that is in Christ Jesus:”

When we realize what God is doing by obeying Christ’s instructions to us to rightly divide the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15) and are thus grounded in sound doctrine as found in Paul’s Epistles for us today then Satan can’t decieve us because we know what God is doing and why. We have our armor on and are standing strong in Christ.

That makes Satan madder still so his next line of attack is throwing problems in our path to distract and discourage us. However if we understand who we are in Christ, what He has made us to be, and why as well as focus on His word and will for our lives found in Scripture then Satan and the world loose their hold and power over us because we are made strong in Christ. We have His peace filling and sustaining us. His will as given to us through His word the Bible which leads us, guides us, builds us up and edifies us to go out in the world and live for Him the one who died for our sins, was buried and rose the third day for our justification. The one in whom we are sealed by the Holy Spirit the instant we believe until the day of our redemption, our blessed hope the catching away of the body of Christ.

Now if we aren’t grounded and stablished in God’s word, knowing that it is our final authority in life and allowing it to work effectually in our lives by studying it and following what it says then we are not going to be fruitful and our lives will be unstable, we are weak soft targets for Satan to attack. Instead of doing what God would have us we are doing what the world tells us.

That’s what those who ask “Why” are doing, letting the world pull them away from Christ and who they are in Him. And Satan is dancing a jig about it, they’re really making that ole slewfooted deceivers day. Many times the problems they face involve family and friends and how they feel they have failed them. They say they try to give those they love everything yet feel they messed up, I ask them did do they give them what matters most? Do they give those around them time and letting others see them putting God first in their life? People will do what we do not what we say! Just as Paul is our example in following Christ, we are our loved ones example, they follow us. We have a choice every day do we give them more of the world by buying them things, adding more stuff to their lives, letting money and the world be the focus. Or do we give them our time, do we give them God’s word, point to Him in our actions and speech, and behavior?

They focus on money and the world in their personal life even though it makes them so miserable. Always wanting more, craving it, being overwhelmed by greed and lust for the things of this world. Always seeking more to try and fill that gaping void in their heart that stuff can never fill . When they realize all the stuff can’t make them happy they throw it out and try new stuff again and again and again. That carries over to their families and friends. They love them and think they show it if they buy them stuff but don’t really spend time with them. Not quality time. They never let them see you studying God’s word or relying on Him to lead them, never share the gospel of God’s glorious grace with them or help them grow in grace. They certainly don’t help them find a way to escape their temptations and problems in Christ through the word, because they themselves don’t do so.

1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV — “There hath 👉no temptation taken you but such as is common to man👈: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will 👉with the temptation also make a way to escape👈, that ye may be able to bear it.”

One way to escape those temptations is through God’s word working effectually within us.

Psalm 119:11 KJV — “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”

They always wonder why they are falling into a world of hurt, along with those around them. But their lives ones are just reacting to the problems of this world the way they were taught. When believers focus in the world and not Christ they don’t take time to learn how to walk in Christ, to really live and grow in Him or teach others how. Instead they reach for the world, teaching others to also and then seek God when it bites them as it inevitably will because it belongs to Satan not God. They use God as a life preserver not as their life and Savior.

I know this is gonna make many of you mad and I am sorry but I speak from experience here. We reap the results of the seeds we sow , the life we choose to live and what we focus on is the seed the results of that are the fruit we reap. Focus on the world then you get the heartache and worry and stress of the world because you get the world. Focus on Christ and even though you live in the world and it’s problems you have peace and hope and strength because you get more of Christ. This world is just a cheap motel for us if we are saved in Christ, we are His Amabassadors representative of who He is and one day we aregoing home to the one whom we represent here. Do you represent him well? Or do you represent the world?

Those are questions I ask myself often and I strive to live in a way that represents Him well.

Satan’s Big Knockoff

“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, 👉which deceiveth the whole world:👈 …” — Revelation 12:9 KJV

Satan is a deceiver out to deceive the whole world. He has a knockoff or counterfeit for everything the Lord has and tries to pass his cheap copy off as truth at every opportunity. That’s one reason Paul tells us in Ephesians 6:11 to “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” As saints we need to know if we have the real thing or a knockoff if we are to avoid being deceived.

For example there’s a holiday that is celebrated every year called Christmas which Satan has used to deceived the world, including many in the Body of Christ, into believing is the birthday of Jesus Christ.

It’s not and scripture proves that if we just study it. Hint: Luke 1 tells of John the Baptist’s daddy, Zachariah, serving his week long course of Abia in the Temple, that’s the Greek word for Abijah from 1 Chronicles 24:10. The Jewish religious year begins on Passover which is the 3rd week of April so count forward 8 weeks from the end of Passover week and that puts you in late June for when Zachariah went home at the end of his course and Elizabeth conceived John. Six months later Mary was visited by the Angel Gabriel and Jesus was conceived. Just for the record that means a conception, not birth, occurred in late December. The birth of Jesus Christ occured not in late December but in late September, during the Feast of Trumpets.

But the deceiver doesn’t want us focusing on the real miracle of late December so one of Satan’s biggest knockoffs, the Catholic Church, took the real miracle of a virgin conceiving that Holy Thing of God and twisted it to be about what was really an ordinary birth that occurred 9 months later in late September. They call it the mass of Christ but really it’s just taking the beautiful truth of Jesus birth steeping it in idolatry and pagan traditions then calling Christmas to make religious people buy it hook line and sinker

Christmas is bad enough but that deceiver Satan and his Catholic Church have also supplied us with another even more insidious knockoff linked to this fake birthday of Jesus, Saint Nicolas, better known as Santa Claus. Look at all the ways this vile knockoff attempts to imitate the real thing, the Lord Jesus Christ and not just imitate Jesus Christ in general but in a very specific way as you will see.

1. Psalm 48:1-4 the city of the great King is in the North, Santa lives in the North.

“Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.” — Psalm 48:2 KJV

2. John 4:24 God is a Spirit. We also have the spirit of Christmas.

“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” — John 4:24 KJV

3. Psalm 139:7-12 God is present everywhere. We tell our children that Santa is everywhere watching them.

“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?” — Psalm 139:7 KJV

4. Romans 11:33 God has all wisdom. Santa has all wisdom.

“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” — Romans 11:33 KJV

5. Isaiah 46:8-14 God knows all. Santa knows all.

“Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:” — Isaiah 46:10 KJV

6. Acts 1:9-11 Jesus returns in the clouds. Santa comes in the air.

“Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” — Acts 1:11 KJV

7. Revelation 19:11-14 Christ returns on a white horse. Santa rides on a sleigh pulled by reindeer.

“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.” — Revelation 19:11 KJV

8. Revelation 19:13 Christ returns with a red and white outfit (he is clothed in a white robe which is dipped in blood think about that.) Santa has a red and white outfit.

“And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.” — Revelation 19:13 KJV

9. Luke 17:34 Christ comes at night. Santa comes at night.

“I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.” — Luke 17:34 KJV

10. Revelation 20:12 Christ keeps a record of all the works that are done. Santa keeps a record of all the good and bad you have done.

“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.” — Revelation 20:12 KJV

11. Revelation 11:10 there is a time when gifts are exchanged. Santa has a time when gifts are given.

“And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.” — Revelation 11:10 KJV

12. Revelation 1:14 & Isaiah 50:4 Christ has white hair when he returns and a beard when he was on earth. Santa has white hair and a beard.

“His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;” — Revelation 1:14 KJV

“I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.” — Isaiah 50:6 KJV

13. Ephesians 2:8 Christ is a giver of gifts. Santa is a giver of gifts.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” — Ephesians 2:8 KJV

14. Hebrews 4:16 believers come boldly unto the throne of grace. Believers in Santa approach his throne and ask for what is wanted.

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” — Hebrews 4:16 KJV

15. Ephesians 6:1-3 the Word commands children to obey their parents. Santa tells children to obey their parents.

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.” — Ephesians 6:1 KJV

16. Luke 12:40 the hour of His coming is a mystery. Santa coming is a mystery.

“Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.” — Luke 12:40 KJV

17. Mark 10:14 Christ tells the children to come to him. Santa tells the children to come to him.

“But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.” — Mark 10:14 KJV

18. Zechariah 2:6 the Lord says Ho; ho. Santa says Ho, ho, ho.

“Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.” — Zechariah 2:6 KJV

19. Mark 6:3 Jesus was a carpenter. Santa builds toys.

“Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.” — Mark 6:3 KJV

20. Revelation 19:6 Christ is all-powerful (omnipotent). Santa is all-powerful. He can deliver all the toys to the entire world in one night.

“And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” — Revelation 19:6 KJV

21. Jeremiah 10:1-4 the heathen had a custom of cutting down a tree and decking it with silver and gold. Santa leaves our gifts under a tree that has been decorated.

“For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.” — Jeremiah 10:3-4 KJV

Do not be deceived by the Deceivers vile trickery. Christmas was never about Christ Jesus and Santa really is just Satan imitating Christ at his second coming in the future. What better way to get people not to believe that Christ will come again than to get well meaning Christians to lie to their children habitually about a cheap knock off of Christ coming to establish His kingdom on the throne of David. After generations of this lie being perpetrated along with others now the world scoffs and buys the lies Satan has given us about his many ways to get to heaven: Do good works; be baptized, believe in God, be a member of a church, etc. And the world is going to hell alone with many religious folks called Christians.

According to God’s word for this age there is ONLY ONE way to heaven and that is to truly believe that Christ died for your sins, that he was buried and that he rose again the third day (I Corinthians 15:1-4). The instant you just believe that, you are saved eternally, sealed and seated in Christ.

What’s Missing?

Try as you might the completed Cross work of Christ is missing from the gospel preached by Jesus on Earth, John the Baptist, the twelve apostles, as found in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as well as Acts. That’s because the gospel they all preached was a kingdom gospel to the nation of Israel only, not to the Gentiles. Repeatedly we see Jesus sending the disciples only to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel”and on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 when Peter preaches it is a kingdom gospel to Jews only. Just look closely at who he addresses:

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:

Acts 2:14 KJV

Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

Acts 2:22 KJV

Even Jesus in His last orders before His ascension said to go to Israel first and the rest of the world only after Israel accepted their Messiah.

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Acts 1:8 KJV

That’s because under the kingdom gospel salvation is of the Jew, it comes to the Gentiles through Israel. God separated the world into Jew and Gentile, Circumcision and Uncircumcision, taking Israel as His chosen nation, and basically leaving the world to it’s own ways which it wants anyway. That’s why in Matthew 15:22-28 (and Mark 7:25-29) Jesus tells the Canaanite woman He was sent first to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. It’s not that He doesn’t love her or care about her situation but He knows the plan and He’s sticking to it.

So what was the Gospel preached by Christ and the Twelve : basically Acts 2:38. Repent and be baptized… It was a faith plus works salvation. It was faith in Jesus’ name, that He was God, the Messiah and thus keeping His commandments and doing certain activities to prove or identify with Him. And no where does it mention the Cross, His death for our sins, or His resurrection. However they are found in Paul’s gospel found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, just read this glorious word of truth in 3-4.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

1 Corinthians 15:3‭-‬4 KJV

That is what saves us today, belief in Christ’s death, burial and resurrection alone. When we believe this we are instantly saved, sealed by the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption:

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Ephesians 1:13 KJV

…whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Ephesians 4:30 KJV

You won’t find that in Acts or the four Gospels or the red letters, you will only find it in Paul’s epistles, the books of Romans through Philemon, written specifically to us today in this the Dispensation of the grace of God. Today’s it all about God’s grace when there is no Jew or Gentile, just a world full of lost people whom God is saving by the riches of His grace when they put their faith in the faithfulness of His Son who died for their sins, was buried to forever remove them and rose again the third day for their justification. Proving once and for all that it was finished. This was only given to Paul when he was saved on the road to Damascus, when Christ himself shone down from heavens glory and saved the chief of sinners by His grace and made him the apostle to the Gentiles and the first member of the new creation the body of Christ. Christ gave Paul the mystery that had been hidden in God since before the world began, His ultimate master plan. The kingdom gospel of Israel was part of prophecy which had been preached since the world began – it’s basically the whole Bible except Paul’s 13 Epistles, and it ain’t about us or to us. Sure we can learn from it all because if we don’t we won’t understand God’s full plan to reconcile both earth and heaven back under His government. (This is getting long so I will explain more about that later.) But we get our doctrine and our gospel, our Salvation information from Paul’s epistles alone.

See God gave Israel three chances to truly believe and obey Him, and they blew it each time. When they went in the land way back when they asked for a king thus rejecting God, then when His Son their Messiah came they killed Him, and finally when the Holy Spirit came to them they blasphemed Him at the stoning of Stephen. And thus, one, two, three strikes your out! Well, in time out anyway while God offers salvation to the world without Israel instead by forming the Body of Christ which will be caught up to heaven to be forever with Christ there one day, we get heaven. When that happens God will pick back up with Israel again and finish His prophetic plan which will be the establishing of the Kingdom of Christ on Earth fulfilling all the prophetic promises made throughout Israel’s history.

I know that’s different than what most of us have heard in Church where we have been taught the church began at Pentecost (actually the church of the kingdom gospel already existed and was just added to that day and it wasn’t us the body of Christ), and that we are saved by Peters gospel but that’s just not true. Most people today miss the truth and fail to truly understand how to really be saved today because they don’t read their Bible the right way. They don’t follow the instructions Christ told Paul to write to Timothy:

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2 Timothy 2:15 KJV

They don’t rightly divide the Bible, they just think every word on every page is to them, about them, for them, they want it all. They fail to recognize the differences and distinctions God put in His word to enable us to understand what He expects of us. That failure is dangerous, it is causing many to be led astray by following the wrong plan of salvation! Please read your Bible starting not in the beginning or the Gospels but go to Romans and start there as that’s the first book all about, to and for you. It’s the book you will find the doctrine for today, what God expects of you and then read on to the end of Philemon before reading the rest of Scripture. Making sure to pay attention to who is writing, whom their are writing to, when , why and what they are saying. You have to rightly divide the word to really understand (for the record you already do this with every other book or writing you have ever read.). Okay. If you have any questions or wanna just talk about this comment below or shoot me a message.

My All In All

Christ: My All in All
Christ IN you – the hope of Glory (Colossians 1:27)

GOD’S WORD SAYS:

I WAS: Ungodly Romans 5:6
A Sinner Romans 5:8
God’s Enemy Romans 5:10
Condemned Romans 5:18
Under Death’s Penalty Romans 6:23
Cursed Galatians 3:10
Dead in Sin Ephesians 2:1

I AM: Crucified with Christ Galatians 2:20
Buried with Christ Colossians 2:12
Risen with Christ Colossians 12
Alive with Christ Colossians 2:13
Ascended with Christ Ephesians 2:6
Seated with Christ Ephesians 2:6
Join-Heir with Christ Romans 8:17
Indwelt by the Father Ephesians 4:6
Indwelt by the Son Colossians 1:27
Indwelt by the Holy Spirit I Corinthians 3:16
Beloved of God Romans 1:7
A Saint Romans 1:7
Dead to Sin Romans 6:2,11
Under Grace Romans 6:14
Eternal Romans 6:23
Free from Condemnation Romans 8:1,34
A Son of God Romans 8:14
Foreknown Romans 8:29
Predestinated Romans 8:30
Called Romans 8:30
Justified Romans 8:30
Glorified Romans 8:30
More than a Conqueror Romans 8:37
In Fellowship I Corinthians 1:9
The Temple of God I Corinthians 3:16
Washed I Corinthians 6:11
Sanctified I Corinthians 6:11
A Member of His Body I Corinthians 12:27
Victorious I Corinthians 15:57
Triumphant II Corinthians 2:14
A New Creature II Corinthians 5:17
Reconciled II Corinthians 5:18
Ambassador II Corinthians 5:20
The Righteousness of God II Corinthians 5:21
Rich II Corinthians 8:9
Redeemed from the Curse of the Law Galatians 3:13
Adopted Galatians 4:5
Free Galatians 5:1
Called unto Liberty Galatians 5:13
Blessed Ephesians 1:3
Chosen Ephesians 1:4
Holy Ephesians 1:4
Without Blame Ephesians 1:4
Accepted Ephesians 1:6
Sealed Ephesians 1:13
Saved by Grace Ephesians 2:8
His Workmanship Ephesians 2:10
Fellowcitizen Ephesians 2:19
Delivered from the Power of Darkness Colossians 1:13
Translated in the Kingdom of the Son Colossians 1:13
Complete Colossians 2:10
Circumcised without Hands Colossians 2:11
Forgiven All Trespasses Colossians 2:13
Elect Colossians 3:12
Delivered from the Wrath to Come I Thessalonians 1:10
Not Appointed to Wrath I Thessalonians 5:9
Saved II Timothy 1:9

I HAVE: Peace with God Romans 5:1
Now Received the Atonement Romans 5:11
The Mind of Christ I Corinthians 2:16
All Spiritual Blessings Ephesians 1:6
Obtained an Inheritance Ephesians 1:11
Hope Laid Up in Heaven Colossians 1:5
An Holy Calling II Timothy 1:9

I SHALL BE: Confirmed unto the End I Corinthians 1:8

HE IS: My Wisdom I Corinthians 1:30
My Righteousness I Corinthians 1:30
My Sanctification I Corinthians 1:30
My Redemption I Corinthians 1:30
My Victory I Corinthians 15:57
My Peace Ephesians 2:14
My Hope Colossians 1:27
My Completion Colossians 2:10

Thus THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS MY LIFE!
Colossians 3:4