Category Archives: Salvation

2021, Forgiveness, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Matthew, Repentance, Salvation

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It’s a quiet, cloudy day here in LA.
Football commentary is streaming from the other room and JT is waiting for the real game to come on :) so I thought I’d say hello.
At this moment I don’t feel talkative — hard to believe, I know.  And it could change. :)

This week has slipped right by with much praying, some reading, and some video watching. 
I’ve even found some new-to-me people to watch this week as well as some long-standing favorites.
Presently we have abundant sources from which to gather information. I endeavor to spend more time listening to Biblical messages than other forms of information available at my fingertips.  I wonder how much time we have left to make these voluminous watching/listening decisions. 

Unpopular as it may be, with Scripture in view and world events popping, I and others are urging this: let us get our houses in order. 

Scripture has heretofore not been so easily understood as It is today. 
The unfolding of events foretold in Revelation is no longer a mystery. 
It’s here. The means and ways are here in place — we are waiting. 
And because we are waiting, some are sounding alarms. I am grateful for that. 
I confess for me, it is hard to watch the apathy.
It’s hard to watch what speaks of seared consciences. 
And as I sit with keyboard, viewing trees and beauty from my library window all looks right with the world; but I know nothing is right with the world.
And the wrong with the world is advancing rapidly. 

But it’s not all bad news. Really it’s not. 

But what of unrepentant sinners? 
And this is why we pray. And this is why we warn.

It’s not. 
Ask the Apostle Paul.  Click HERE.
You see ALL who have been born from above came to that rebirth on their own Damascus Road with JESUS. 
I urge you to lean in with GOD and allow your mind to revisit your Damascus Road.
See if you really are IN THE FAITH.

Thanks for stopping by ~~~~

We have the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT to do RIGHT in this WRONG world,

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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.        
source

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 
source

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,



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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.