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2021, Calendar Reading Notes from The WORD, Gospel of John, Salvation

To Give Permission

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John 14

1 “Don’t let yourselves be disturbed. Trust in God and trust in me.        
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Don’t let yourselves be disturbed He said. The New King James Version uses the word troubled.  Either way, disturbed or troubled. It’s a choice. 
Why would I say that? It’s a choice? 
Do you see that little word let?

What does it mean this word let? Glad you asked. 

To give permission or opportunity to; allow 
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For my soul to be disturbed or troubled I have to give myself permission to be so. 
In this crazy, hostile, evil, depraved, crazy – oh, I said that – world, how can I not be disturbed and troubled? The permission seems to come automatically. Yes. I agree. It does seem that way, but we can learn better. We really can! 

JESUS answered this dilemma for us. 

TRUST

Trust Him. 
Trust that what He says is true.
Trust that He is who He says He is.
Trust that He loves you.
Trust that He is always good.
Trust that He always has your best interest at His heart.
TRUST. 

When we trust, our disturbed, troubled, anxious, frustrated, aggravated,  ____________, souls will calm. 

Does it take practice?
Yeah. Lots of it! 

There’s so much more. I hope you will read John 14 for yourself. All of it.
Because if you do you will find for ALL those who TRUST JESUS, Heaven is for sure.
It’s a REAL place for REAL people.
You don’t want to miss it. 

HERE’S A POST I WROTE IN 2017, PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ IT TOO.
TROUBLED?

We were made for this,



Please know your honest questions are welcome here, via comment or email. 

2021, For What It's Worth To You, Gospel of Matthew, It's a Bonus Post, Questions, Romans, Salvation

Simple

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This is an unusual post for me.
It is not directed at my brothers and sisters; it is offered to those who have made that common accusation, that GOD sends people to hell.

David penned in Psalm 51

7 (5) True, I was born guilty,
was a sinner from the moment my mother conceived me. source

David is acknowledging here what is the truth. 
We are born sinners. 
What does that mean exactly?

That we each and every one of us are sinners — there is NONE righteous, no not one. (Romans 3:10)

It means we, each of us, are born on the road to hell.
Moreover, through the course of our lives, GOD intervenes, He puts up roadblocks, He brings people into our lives with the Good News of the Gospel that JESUS is alive to save us and desires to save us; He arranges for us to hear songs, sermons, see Scripture Passages – all these things come into our lives. And we even have creation itself to witness to us that we have a Creator. Creation invites us to look and see GOD.

Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,  source

Warning signs.
Flashing Lights.
Roadblocks. 
The Execution Stake
An Empty Tomb!

And people ignore them, go around them, jump over them, and one day they die.
They die on that road to hell. It is their destination; it is the road they refused all their life to get off of.
The Road that JESUS came and met them on and they said, “no, thank You.”

At our deaths, GOD has no choice; His holiness, His love, His mercy, His Justice MUST honor our decisions.

Hell is the place HE tried to keep you out of BUT you refused. 
Hell was not made for YOU but it will open for you if you insist. (See Matthew 25:41)

It’s as simple as that. 

2021, Questions, Repentance, Revelation, Romans, Salvation

Just Say YES

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This is offered not as criticism but as a longing of my being to see and hear people with platforms and influence when speaking an invitation of Come to JESUS to consider making a change.

This: To acknowledge that just repeating a prayer will not save anyone.

Please begin by posing some questions.

Questions like: Is there a tugging in your soul?
Are you sensing something within you that you don’t fully understand but you know you are not right with GOD?
Are you convinced that you are a hell-deserving sinner?
Are you convinced that you need a Savior?
And do you see today that JESUS CHRIST is the only Savior?
The Only One who can take your guilt, your sin, and your shame away?
The Only One who can make you right with GOD?
Moreover that HE actually wants to save YOU?

If you can answer all these in the affirmative, you are ready to surrender to the LORDSHIP of JESUS.
You are ready to be saved.
Just Say YES.
HE WILL DO THE SAVING.
And when He does NEVER stop saying Thank You to Him.

Romans 3:10

10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;

Romans 3:23

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:8

8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 10:9

9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:13

13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

The foregoing passages are from the New King James Version provided hereto via Biblegateway.com

And the following are from the Complete Jewish Bible provided hereto via Biblegateway.com

Revelation 20:13-15

13 The sea gave up the dead in it; and Death and Sh’ol gave up the dead in them; and they were judged, each according to what he had done.
14 Then Death and Sh’ol were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death — the lake of fire.
15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was hurled into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8

8 But as for the cowardly, the untrustworthy, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those involved with the occult and with drugs, idol-worshippers, and all liars — their destiny is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, the second death.”

If you are uncertain of your eternal destiny and you are concerned about that – that is GOOD NEWS! 

Please hear me.
Please read these foregoing Scripture passages (or perhaps others) until you are ready to say YES to JESUS. 

And when you say YES with an honest and thankful heart — welcome to The Family of GOD!!

2021, Repentance, Romans, Salvation

I Sure Would Like To Be Wrong

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I have no feel-good message for you today.
I can only counsel us to pick up our Bibles, read them, obey the Author thereof, and share Him with everyone we can; we have no other individual hope.

The America we loved has expired.
There is no way back and because of human hatred, there is no way forward UNLESS there is national repentance and if I were you I’d not hold my breath waiting.
Repentance has not been a National practiced for longer than I can remember.
There are no honorable days ahead for America as a Nation. She has lost her way and her place.

As I said, I sure would like to be wrong but presently I don’t believe I am.

Anyone able to disprove the foregoing, please, please do! 

Individually, JESUS still saves, for now.

Romans 10:  (NKJV) (I don’t think the Father will mind if we add Americans in parenthesis right after the name Israel.)
1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. 
2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 
3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” 
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” source

My desire for you all is that you Seek the Prince of Peace and find rest for your souls.