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Bible “Closed Canon” is NOT Closed Canon!

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Bible “Closed Canon” is NOT Closed Canon!

The Holy Spirit contends that the doctrine of a “closed canon” of Scripture and a significant portion of mainstream Christian theology (particularly from the Council of Nicaea and some subsequent church leaders) are fundamentally mistaken, and that this error has led the churches into spiritual darkness, heresy, and severe historical repercussions.

Believing the TRUTH of the Voice of Jesus speaking more Scriptures, that may or may not be included in the Holy Bible, will help strengthen the Church, giving Christians more faith and belief in listening to the living WORD, the Voice of Jesus, and being Led by the Holy Spirit will be a great benefit to them and bring God’s Blessings.

Key points include:

Bible Canon and Continuing Revelation

The Bible’s Canon was “closed” by deceived, sinful bishops who would NOT listen to the Holy Spirit and listen to the Voice of Jesus.

This traditional rejection of the living revelation of the Voice of Jesus and the Holy Spirit has resulted in more than a “thousand years” of spiritual Dark Ages within many churches.

Scripture portrays the sin of unbelief as a barrier to spiritual progress and relationship with God. The inability to enter God’s promised REST stems from a refusal to trust Him (Hebrews 3:19). The sin of spiritual unbelief functions as an active obstruction rather than mere passive doubt. This sinful spiritual condition is characterized as an “evil” orientation of the heart that creates a barrier and increases distance from God (Hebrews 3:12).

The disciples themselves experienced Jesus’s rebuke for this failure— they were criticized both for their skepticism and for resisting the testimony of those who had witnessed the resurrection (Mark 16:14). Unbelief thus becomes not just intellectual hesitation but a willful rejection of God's Light and the Witness of Jesus, the Truth, and the Scriptural evidence that God has provided to Christians.

Yet the biblical record also reveals a more nuanced picture. Rather than portraying faith as an all-or-nothing proposition, the search results capture moments of honest struggle. A desperate father explicitly acknowledges his divided state: “I do believe; help my unbelief” (Mark 9:24)— a confession that recognizes both genuine faith and genuine doubt coexisting within the same person. Similarly, Jesus invites Apostle Thomas to move beyond skepticism by engaging him directly with evidence (John 20:27), suggesting that doubt can be addressed through an encounter with Him and by being given more proof, rather than being condemned for the sin of unbelief outright.

The tension across these passages suggests that while the sin of unbelief carries real spiritual danger, the path forward involves acknowledging the struggle honestly and seeking to strengthen faith through engagement with God’s self-revelation to disciples. Unbelief becomes problematic not when it appears as temporary hesitation, but when it hardens into a settled refusal to trust— a distinction that shapes how Scripture addresses both the disciples’ resistance to believing the Truth and God's invitation to repent, which is extended to those still wrestling with doubt.

Spiritual unbelief is a serious spiritual sin with significant consequences, yet the Bible also acknowledges the struggle between faith and doubt in human experience.

Mark 16:14 “Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen.”

Hebrews 3:12 “Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.”

Hebrews 3:19 “So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.” The sin of unbelief can cost one's life and prevent God's Blessings in your life.

John 20:27 "Then He said to Thomas, “Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”

Mark 9:24 “Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.”

Romans 11:20 “Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear, because the 'natural branches' of Israel were cut off from God because of their sin of unbelief,” and so the American Christian leaders will be eventually cut off from Jesus if they fail to believe in the Reign of King Jesus in government (Rev. 1:5), public schools, and in workplaces, despite hostile laws of ungodly people.

It was similarly illegal to speak about Jesus in ancient Jerusalem, where hundreds or thousands of Christians were persecuted and were murdered by the government. Apostle Paul, before his conversion to Christ, persecuted and imprisoned Christians to be executed by the government. Today in America when many Christians are convicted by the Holy Spirit to speak about Him in government, public schools, or in workplaces they refuse to OBEY the Holy Spirit, quench the Spirit, close their spiritual ears from hearing the Voice of Jesus, in order to “to save their jobs and positions” denying Jesus is LORD in their hearts, bringing God’s chastisement, and Judgment upon themselves.

Hebrews 4:6 “Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience…”

Hebrews 4:11 “Therefore let us be diligent to enter that REST, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.”

John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the NAME of the only begotten Son of God.”

John 3:36 “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does NOT OBEY the Son will not see life, but the WRATH of God abides on him.” Believing in Jesus is NOT ENOUGH to be saved. “The demons believe and tremble with terror” (James 2:19). Although they believe, they will NOT obey, just as some Christian leaders believe, but will NOT OBEY King Jesus in Government, public schools, and in workplaces.

Matthew 13:58 “And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.” The sin of unbelief blocks God from doing miracles, because ONLY FAITH and believing pleases God (Hebrews 11:1).

Romans 11:23 “And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.” There is HOPE for those who sin in unbelief, for Jesus is able to graft them in again into Himself, so they may inherit eternal life with Him.

Scripture passages that prohibit adding to or taking away from God’s WORD (e.g., Deuteronomy 4:2; Revelation 22:18–19; Proverbs 30:5–6) are applied to the continuing ORACLES of God (of whatever Jesus and the Spirit are truly saying). It is not adding to previous, current, and future ORACLES of God, and not to halt any further Holy Spirit-given Scripture or His prophecy from being recorded and published.

Proverbs 30:5–6: “Every WORD of God is flawless… Do not add to His WORDS.”

Revelation 22:18–19: is a closing warning against adding to or subtracting from the prophetic WORDS.

Galatians 1:8–9: Paul reinforces the point that no later message may alter the gospel once it has been delivered. The WORD of God is SACRED, Holy, and cannot be altered. However, the WORD will exist and continue to speak for eternity.

God’s revelation comes with divinely set LIMITS that humans MUST NOT BREACH! ADDING OR SUBTRACTING FROM THE CONTINUING ORACLES OF GOD AND VOICE OF JESUS is SIN. Speaking ONLY the Oracles of God is COMMANDED, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, is the subject, and it is a CHOICE of whether or not Christians should choose to obey the Voice of Jesus.

Jesus continues to Speak today through the Holy Spirit, His apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors, and the teachers (Ephesians 4), and the Voice of Jesus and the Holy Spirit will continue to give true Scripture-level oracles at times strictly according to the Will of God and Jesus the Head of the Body of Christ, which is His Church.

Christology: The Doctrine of Jesus as the Created, Only Begotten Son of God as the “Last Adam” was rejected as Canon, though supported by the Scriptures.

The Council of Nicaea made a mistake in teaching that Christ Who was created by the WORD of the Holy Spirit, did not have a “beginning” and was “fully God” in the same manner as the Father. God is larger than Heaven and the entire physical Universe combined. Jesus said, “ONLY GOD is GOOD,” and Christ, but NOT God the Father, became sin on the Cross, that we may live in Him and fellowship with God the Father through Jesus His Son (2Corinthians 5:21).

Jesus did NOT say He was “fully God,” which is a heresy; Jesus "did not consider it robbery to be equal with God." Because Jesus did NOT consider Himself equal to God the Father. Jesus walked as a servant, humbling Himself to serve God His Father, and Jesus served God His Father with His Last Breath on the Cross (Philippians 2:6).

Jesus said He could do nothing; that is, it was always God His Father in Him who did ALL the miracles. Jesus always did everything God the Father told Him to do and say. Jesus could ask God the Father for twelve legions of angels; it was God the Father that is ALL in ALL. In John 1:1 the Word was God. Jesus the WORD is God reflecting, manifesting, God His Father in the Totality of the WORD God the Father spoke. John 1:1 The WORD of God is NOT the same person Who spoke the WORD! It is NOT "Rocket Science." Jesus said He could do NOTHING; it was God the Father in Him who did every miracle and all of the healing power (John 5:19).

Jesus has "ALL Authority," whereas God the Father gives Jesus "ALL Power" (Mt. 28:18).

Philippians 2:6 “Who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,”… Jesus did NOT consider Himself equal with God, and neither should theologians consider Christ equal with God. Jesus is the WORD of God in the sense that Jesus is EQUAL with the WORD God the Father spoke when He came into existence.*****

The Scriptures have written, God cannot be tempted by sin, God cannot sin, God cannot die, and God cannot become sin; therefore, Jesus Christ, the “Son of man,” “the Last Adam,” Who was tempted to sin, but did NOT, could have potentially sinned, because He became sin on the Cross. Therefore, Jesus Christ is a created, begotten being (the “Last Adam”), in the exact “image and likeness” of God, with a beginning (John 1:1), just as Adam had a beginning.

Jesus always spoke of His Father as GOD and NOT of Himself as GOD (John 14:1). Jesus did say to see Him is to see the Father as Jesus was, is, and forever the PERFECT image and likeness of God, God manifest in the flesh. Jesus did NOT speak on His own initiative, but was COMMANDED by GOD what to speak and do. By faithfully acting according to what GOD had shown Him what to do, Christ is effectively expressing God as perfectly as the WORD, a Created Man, can do. As Jesus commanded His disciples, “Be PERFECT as your Heavenly Father is PERFECT. Jesus, by being PERFECT, expresses God the Father, today and forever.

Colossians 1:15 “The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.” Jesus is the FIRSTBORN, a CREATED BEING, GOD INDWELLING CHRIST from the Beginning, before the Creation of Heaven and Earth.

Hebrews 1:8 “But of the Son He says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of His Kingdom.”

Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His NAME Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”

Jesus is the TEMPLE of GOD. God DWELLS in Christ (Col. 1:19).

Colossians 1:15 “The Son is the [mirror] IMAGE of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, Who is the beginning, firstborn out from the dead, so that He might be having preeminence in all things, 19 because all the fullness was well pleased to dwell in Him, 20 and through Him to reconcile ALL things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross through Him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.” Jesus always has His own identity and body, but He always chooses to express the Will of God His Father.

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and THE WORD WAS GOD. 2 This One was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.” The WORD, the LOGOS, was, and is forever God Almighty as expressed in 1Cor. 15:28 where God the Father is ALL in ALL, expressed in His Son, by His Son’s free will choice forever, Whom He had Begotten, Created.

Scripture Verses such as John 1:1, John 3:16, and Hebrews 12:9 demonstrate that Jesus had an origin, a beginning as a unique spoken WORD of the Father, distinct in His Spirit from the Holy Spirit of God the Father. Jesus was and continues to be eternally indwelt by God the Father (except for a short period of time when God left Christ, the Last Adam, to die on the Cross) and God the Father sharing His life.

The errors of the doctrines of the “Closed Canon,” Nicene Christology, and modern eschatology doctrines fail to recognize the warning that rejecting God’s Light and Truth results in spiritual darkness. The Scriptures command to walk in and toward God’s Light and the Face of Jesus, and have willing hearts and “ears to hear what the Spirit is saying.” The Voice of Jesus is urging submission to the Reign of King Jesus on Earth in His Temple of the Body of Christ today. Be willing to repent of current views on doctrines as God the Father helps you see the Face of Jesus, so you may develop an intimate, loving, fruit-bearing relationship with God the Creator through the Head of the Body of Christ, Jesus, the ONLY Mediator between God and Christians.

Jesus’ Reign and Eschatology

(Partial-Preterist Doctrine):

King Jesus’ reign and eschatology (partial-preterist doctrine) teaches that Jesus has already returned to Earth in His Kingdom, in the first century A.D. in His Father’s glory and commenced His earthly reign in the Temple of His Body—the Church— and He has already begun to rule kings and nations on Earth (Rev. 1:5), Jesus is not delaying or waiting for a future, physical temple in Jerusalem, Israel to be built to establish His Kingdom on Earth!

Passages such as Matthew 16:27–28 and 24:34, Luke 19:27, and Revelation 1:5; 1Corinthians 15:25 are interpreted to teach that Christ is currently reigning over all kings and nations on Earth and has been doing so since the first century A.D.

The “DAY OF THE LORD” and “Great Tribulation” are primarily associated with the 70 A.D. destruction of Jerusalem, when King Jesus was already ruling with a “rod of iron,” utilized the Roman legions to raze the city of Jerusalem, and bring God’s judgment against the Jews who rejected Him.

Modern heretical eschatology anticipates a future physical coming reign of Christ in a physical Jerusalem Temple building with restored Old Testament feasts, is regarded as nonsensical, a doctrine of demons, and escapist heresy that obscures believers’ understanding of Christ’s present reign which is absolute over all kings and nations today (Rev. 1:5).

The work of partial-preterist scholars (e.g., Dr. David Chilton’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation: Days of Vengeance) is more accurate and closer to the Truth.

Light vs. Darkness Theme:

A lengthy sequence of Scriptures contrasts God’s LIGHT (absolute Truth, holiness, and the reign of Christ) with spiritual DARKNESS (sin, deception, heresy, and demonic influence).

Embracing falsehoods, half-truths, and heresies constitutes a sin (Galatians 6:7), and rejecting the TRUTH of Jesus Christ’s present reign on Earth and ongoing Holy Spirit revelation today is akin to loving spiritual darkness rather than God’s Light and the TRUTH of Jesus (John 3:19–21).

Churches that ignore and “quench the Holy Spirit” and oppose the current reign of King Jesus face the risk of having their lampstand shining forth God's Light removed from them (Revelation 2:5), resulting in the loss of God’s Light and Jesus the Truth, Who is the Lampstand. Jesus, by removing Himself, sends unbelieving churches into spiritual darkness as the consequence of their sin of unbelief and their sin of rejecting God’s Light and Truth of Jesus, and as a consequence they become spiritually “lukewarm” or dead, and fall under God’s judgment for their sin.

Revelation 1:20 “The mystery of the seven stars, which you saw on My right hand, and the seven golden Lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven Lampstands are the seven churches.” The “seven churches” are part of the Church, that is part of the Body of Christ where Jesus is the Head of the Body. Many members of the Body of Christ will usually leave the dead churches. When Jesus leaves the Church, the life of the Church leaves, the anointing leaves, and members leave.

God sometimes drives individuals away from His presence, away from His Face, and God hardens their hearts, sending the nations deeper into spiritual darkness as a consequence of opposing the Kingdom of God and Jesus on Earth and their persistent rejection of absolute Truth, as evidenced in numerous Old and New Testament Scriptures.

America, the Nations, and Imminent Judgment:

The same spiritual pattern of the sin of rejecting Jesus the Truth and God’s Light is applied to America and contemporary Christian leaders who reject the reign of King Jesus and the Truth.

Many Christian leaders are guilty of the sins of:

*Rejecting Christ’s present reign over governments, educational institutions, and in workplaces.

*False Doctrines: Embracing escapist, future-millennial eschatology instead of establishing God’s Kingdom in law and public life on Earth in the present. Jesus said, “Compel them.” Some serious motivation is required to teach children the TRUTH that Jesus Loves them and wants them to be happy in this life and to be loved in New Jerusalem with Him forever.

The Bible COMMANDS to “train up children in THE WAY.” Jesus said, “I AM THE WAY,” is the role model and subject that the children should be taught in schools. It is catastrophic sin to permit public schools to indoctrinate children with lies, half-truths, LGBTQ+ sexual immorality, ideology, anti-Christian falsehoods, and encouraging the murder of unwanted children up to the age of five as some teach, the murder by abortion of babies as allegedly just cellular “blobs,” as if they did NOT have souls, effectively leading and stampeding the students through the “gates of Hell.” Jesus warns of catastrophic consequences coming for those who tempt children to sin. Those teachers who seduce children to sin by teaching lies and immorality are worthy of eternal damnation (Matthew 18:6).

Prophet Balaam’s historical role was that of a false prophet who weaponized sexualized temptation, as governments and public school teachers did to the children, that will destroy the nation. Similarly, the government and public schools have taught children to be seduced and stumbled by the sexual immorality of LGBTQ+, so God’s Wrath would fall upon them, and upon the nation, so God will hide His Face and, in anger, move circumstances so the nation will be taken over by enemies, ruined and eventually destroyed if there is no repentance. Please NOTE that President Trump has made policies to end government laws implementing LGBTQ+ brainwashing in government, and in public schools, so God could possibly bless the nation instead of bringing God’s CURSE of foreign enemies taking over. If it were possible, Christian leaders could have biblically advocated a theocracy instead of OPPOSING establishing the Kingdom of God on Earth and letting Jesus reign for our good, blessing the nation.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is due to those with TDS being Anti-God and Anti-America. As people decide with their free will to believe the lies and those that advocate half-truths and lies, the demons of madness and hate get greater influence over them. The U.N. Globalists in the U.S. Congress are betraying America to their enemies in the U.N. World Government, believing the doctrines of demons that their enemies will treat them fairly instead of the truth that they will fall to a similar madness of NAZI Germany, where enemies will take over the nation, ruining, plundering, and eventually destroying the United States.

1Cor. 10:21 “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.” Watching CNN and other “Fake news” media is literally spiritually partaking of the spirits of fear, gossip, hearsay, and half-truth lies which corrupt one's souls and ruin their minds.

The Solution is to believe (Jesus) the Truth that most everything President Trump has done was done in order to save the future of America and done to save the future of the children, by obtaining the Blessings of God upon the nation. President Trump has given His Life to Save America and to Save the Children. All Christians are called to be like Jesus and President Trump, who have laid down their lives to save those who wish to be saved. Amen

Revelation 2:14 describes false teachers who “hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit [LGBTQI+] sexual immorality”. The churches’ failure to REPENT of teaching LGBTQI+ doctrine will result in Christ COMING to make WAR against them. God similarly is COMING to make WAR against the United States with enemies, if the Christian leaders do NOT repent of their sin of unbelief and corrupting their children with government brainwashing of lies and perversion in public schools.

The consequences for committing LGBTQI+ sexual immorality are severe: In Numbers 5:29, God has severely punished the Israelites for their sexual immorality and idolatry by sending a plague that killed 24,000 of them. As “Jesus is Always the Same” God has raised up the Muslim enemy of President Obama, who plans to be the world leader of the “Reset” U.N. World Government, who previously directed the National Institutes of Health and Director Anthony Fauci to help the Chinese biological warfare labs build biological weapons of mass destruction by developing the COVID-19 virus plague in order to kill millions of people, so the globalists’ scheme of driving the nations step by step into the U.N. World Government first stepping into the trap of the U.N. W.H.O. World Health Organization of the U.N. It took millions of deaths to drive them into the clutches of the U.N. World Government and better believe Obama and the U.N. Globalists will sacrifice millions of more lives, bankrupting the United States, poverty, destitution and finally bringing in the 51 Coalition Armies of the U.N. that Pres. Obama arranged to take over when Martial Law is enacted. The United States Senate has already ratified the treasonous treaties that have transferred the sovereignty of the nation to their enemies in the U.N. World Government. It is only a matter of time before they “spring the trap” and the United States becomes an “OLIGARCHY” similar to Russia, as is their plan, as President Joe Biden said he and President Xi of China have planned.

Numbers 31:16 identifies Balaam’s counsel as the catalyst for Israel’s apostasy at Peor, which resulted in a plague among God’s people. Prophet Balaam’s teaching resulted in God’s JUDGMENT; Balaam was actively promoting immorality as a weapon against Israel so God would destroy the nation. Similarly, it is part of President Biden’s and Communist doctrine to brainwash everyone with sexual immorality, so people would go spiritually “mad,” and God then would have no choice but to damn the nation, damn most people, and have their enemies take over the nation to ruin and eventually destroy them. The U.N. globalists in the U.S. Congress are conspiring to bring God’s terrible WRATH against the United States with the U.N. World Government, albeit that was not their intention, by rejecting God’s Light and the current Reign of King Jesus. The coming terror of God’s Wrath will bring catastrophic consequences against the nations and American people forever.

Balaam devised a LGBTQI+ strategy to corrupt Israel through sin, reasoning that if he could deceive a divinely blessed people (or Christian leaders today) into wrongdoing, God would be compelled to withdraw His blessing. Balaam’s LGBTQI+ scheme was fundamentally about causing God’s divine punishment to fall upon the nation.

The Bible condemns the governments of nations conspiring together against King Jesus Christ, such as the United Nations World Government today that is conspiring against God and King Jesus, indoctrinating globalism, installing certain globalist leaders, and the misuse of U.S. treaty law as instruments of the anti-Christ U.N. world government advancing toward global totalitarianism, tyranny, and increasing persecution of Christians.

If Christian leaders had heeded the Voice of Jesus and the leading of the Holy Spirit, America could have experienced a “Millennium” of God’s grace and blessing as a Christian nation under Christ’s reign in law.

Instead of obtaining national blessing (Psalm 33:12), the persistent sin of UNBELIEF and opposing the Kingdom of God and Jesus on Earth, and their opposition to establishing His Reign in America’s government, is bringing God’s Judgment upon the United States and upon other nations.

Most Christian leaders, FEARING the loss of their followers, refuse to pay the price, that Jesus paid for them on the Cross, to repent of their sin of opposition to the Reign of King Jesus, and seeking the Face of Jesus (1Cor. 13:12; 2Chron. 7:14). As a result the sin of Christian leaders who OPPOSE the Reign of King Jesus in government, public schools and in workplaces, there will be NO FUTURE NATIONAL REVIVAL for America, though personal spiritual revival with Holy Spirit anointing, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, with the glory of Christ Jesus will remain available if Christians will REPENT of their unbelief and seek the Face of Jesus daily (2Chron. 7:14; 1Cor. 13:12).

Role of Prophets, Gifts, and Oracles of God:

Since “Jesus is always the same,” He continues to give gifts of apostles and prophets, along with the rest of the spiritual gifts, as He chooses for each one (1Corinthians 12; Ephesians 4).

Prophets and all believers are called to articulate the ORACLES of God, and NOT COMPROMISE with worldly philosophy and human speculations.

The church grievously sins when it despises PROPHECY (1Thessalonians 5:21), refuses to test and receive authentic prophecies, or tries to assert that the era of prophets has concluded, when Jesus continues to give Prophets to the Church to speak the ORACLES of God and JUDGE spiritual manifestations, ORACLES of prophecies in the churches (1Cor. 14:3, 29).

1Thessalonians 5:19 “Do not extinguish the Spirit. 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt, 21 but test all things. Hold fast to what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.” IT IS EVIL TO EXTINGUISH THE VOICE OF JESUS AND SILENCE HIS PROPHECIES. “Jesus is always the same,” and He will continue to SPEAK for all eternity.

In the eyes of God, true Bible Canon consists of ONLY His eternal Word (LOGOS), Jesus Himself, and all that Jesus continues to communicate through the Spirit. Human additions, fantasies, and erroneous doctrines are what God condemns— not His own ongoing speech through the Voice of Jesus and by the Holy Spirit.

Call to Repentance and Obedience!

Believers are urged to repent of:

* Closed-Canon thinking that silences the spirit of prophecy in Jesus.

* Denying Christ’s present Reign on earth in His Body of Christ which is the Church.

* Embracing false eschatology that postpones His Kingdom.

*Compromise with worldly philosophies, globalist agendas, and anti-Christian public education.

*Believing Christians are called to:

* Seek the Face of Jesus daily, walk in the Light, and be led by the Spirit.

* Establish the Kingdom of God in law and culture— in a truly Christian nation that openly acknowledges the reign of King Jesus. (See https://www.christianamerica.us/2013/03/christian-america-constitutional.html)

* Expose the deeds of darkness, preach the true Gospel, protect the children, and “fight the good fight of faith.”

Overarching Thesis:

Bible Canon of God’s speaking is not closed, Christ is already reigning on earth in His people, and the church’s refusal to hear the Holy Spirit and obey His present Word is a grave sin that has produced centuries of spiritual darkness and now threatens the survival of nations— especially America— unless there is urgent repentance and submission to King Jesus’ reign today.

The Bible's Books of the Canon Scripture were closed to further additions in the fourth century A.D. by sinful bishops who did not want to be led by the Holy Spirit! Just as the tribes of Israel did NOT WANT to HEAR God speak, but wanted Moses to “tell them” what God had said to him. Human nature does NOT want to hear the Holy Spirit, nor does it want to OBEY HIM. The deceived Church hierarchy did NOT WANT to have “ears to hear what the Holy Spirit was saying,” and they did NOT WANT to listen to the Voice of Jesus as true disciples should do. Most of them LOVED the sin of the spiritual DARKNESS of heresies, the seducing “doctrines of demons,” palatable lies and half-truths, instead of listening to the TRUTH revealed by the Holy Spirit and then OBEYING the Voice of Jesus! They stopped listening to the Spirit, because they wanted to silence the Holy Spirit, drown out the Voice of Jesus, and did NOT want to OBEY King JESUS Who dwelled in many of them. As a consequence of NOT listening to what the Spirit is actually saying, the Roman Catholic Church fell into a “thousand years” of heresies and spiritual DARKNESS called the “Dark Ages.” The sin of NOT listening to the Holy Spirit results in adopting the ideas of men and suffering the consequences of “the doctrines of demons” instead of OBEYING THE TRUTH OF APOSTOLIC DOCTRINE. As Revelation 2 warns, King Jesus will remove God's Light and leave them in spiritual darkness if the churches do not repent! Many churches have had God’s Light removed, leaving some orthodox theology behind. Jesus carries out His Judgments and ultimatums.

By REJECTING the absolute TRUTH that Jesus reigns on Earth over all kings and nations, they became DECEIVED. Because God can and will chastise and destroy nations if they do not repent of their opposition to the reign of King Jesus. Jesus has done this since the beginning of His Reign on Earth thousands of years ago (Rev. 1:5; 1Cor. 15:25). An example of heresy is NOT believing that Jesus is God Incarnate, and that it is God Who dwells in Him and the fact that is He the Temple of God Who exists inside of Christ and NOT “Fully God,” except as the LOGOS WORD precisely defines (John 1:1). Because God cannot be TEMPTED to SIN. Only a mortal, the “Last Adam,” Jesus the Son of Man, Jesus A CREATED BEING, could have been TEMPTED, and with His Free-Will, Christ could have chosen to sin. But Jesus chose NOT to sin until the Cross, when Jesus became sin for a brief time, sacrificing Himself as the LAMB of God. God is always the same, unchanging for all eternity, and GOD CANNOT BECOME SIN.

If Jesus were “Fully God” as the deceived Council of Nicaea believed, then as “Fully God” He could NOT have chosen to BECOME SIN on the Cross and Die for our sins. God cannot DIE; God does NOT CHANGE; God CANNOT choose to BECOME SIN; only a mortal man with a free will could have fulfilled the requirement of God to “be PERFECT as He is perfect!” Jesus is PERFECT; He is in the “image and likeness” of God the Father. It is stupid to think a tiny creature in the vast Universe could be “EQUAL WITH GOD.” Jesus is EQUAL to God in the sense of the parameters of the LOGOS when God His Father spoke His Son into existence. Jesus is the Mediator, NOT EQUAL, to the infinite God. Jesus said ALL the power, miracles, and creation were done by God His Father Who dwells inside His Son. How could God the Father hold the Universe and Heavens together if He were not larger than all the Creation and Earth? Christians foolishly believe lies rather than listen to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. It is time, as America is making the last fight for its life to believe the Truth as the martyred Bishop Arius believed the Truth that Christ was a created being, with the LOGOS having a beginning as each WORD God the Father has a beginning, and as the WORD is “breath” that is the “substance” of the Holy Spirit, it will be equally eternal for as long as God exists.

Since it seems difficult for some to understand John 3:16, which explicitly defines Jesus as “Begotten,” a created being by God the Father. It is NOT ROCKET SCIENCE! Just as human fathers begot and create children, God the Father created His Son and gave Him His Life. Because it is so simple, and NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, Emperor Constantine eventually perceived the deceived Bishops of the Nicene Council were believing lies and ORDERED Bishop Arius reinstated!!! The offended Bishops, full of hate and wrath as Cain was when he murdered RIGHTEOUS Abel for being theologically correct, apparently poisoned RIGHTEOUS Arius with Arsenic Poisoning, and Arius died on his way to the church ceremony to reinstate him.

Hating or MURDERING the TRUTH and Bishop Arius and murdering others that believed the TRUTH instead of believing the traditional orthodox heresies. It was a sinful way to begin the Roman Catholic Church. A Church based on HATE of the Truth and hate of those who believe the TRUTH is a Church whose foundations are in darkness, by calling “darkness” light and Light, darkness…

1John 3:15 “Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” The Roman Catholic Church HATED the TRUTH taught by Bishop Arius, and they escalated from Hating Arius to the Actual MURDER of Bishop Arius and others who believed the Spirit of Truth, the Voice of Jesus.

Matthew 5:22 “But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.” The Roman Catholic Church was ANGRY with the TRUTH taught by Arius and was JUDGED to fall into a thousand years of spiritual darkness.

Micah 5:2 defines Christ’s “Origins” as from eternity, “Origin” meaning that Jesus HAD A BEGINNING, and He was created by the eternal God the Father (John 3:16). ALL relevant SCRIPTURE REFERENCES CONFIRM JESUS HAD A BEGINNING AND DID NOT EXIST ALWAYS IN EVERLASTING ETERNITY. “JESUS IS THE SAME YESTERDAY,” from HIS BEGINNING IN a defined point in time called “yesterday.”

Micah 5:2, stating that He is “one who will be ruler over Israel, whose ORIGINS are from of old, from ancient times.” Having an ORIGIN is NOT having coexisted with God His Father from everlasting eternity. Jesus will continue to coexist for eternity with God His Father forever; however, there was a beginning to His existence when Christ was begotten, that is, Christ was created (John 3:16 “In the Beginning”).

The Council of Nicaea was WRONG in believing that Jesus was without having a “beginning” and instead chose to deceive themselves that He has existed from everlasting eternity, just as God His Father has existed forever. In John 1:1, and in all relevant Bible Scriptures which ALL describe a “Beginning,” for Jesus, the Son of God, and that Christ was NOT co-eternal from “everlasting” but His ORIGIN was from eternity, ORIGIN meaning the “Son of God” having a BEGINNING as He was created by His Father as all spirits are created to exist for eternity. The Bible says Jesus had an ORIGIN, a beginning of His existence.

The WORD of God is very clear to those who honor and obey the WORD of God. Jesus is God Incarnate with God His Father Who dwells in Him (John 14:10). Jesus is the “First-Born of the Creation.” Jesus was given BIRTH by God’s WORD and “was” created before the foundation of the world (Psalm 90:2).

In Revelation 1:8 “was” ἦν (ēn)

Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular

Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. (To “exist” does not imply ALWAYS EXISTED, but mere states Jesus was there “in the Beginning” of Heaven and Earth.)

Jesus will continue to exist for all eternity, just as all those in the Lamb’s Book of Life in the New Jerusalem will exist forever in the next life. All men have a beginning, just as Christ had a beginning (John 1:1), and all men will continue to exist for eternity, as their spirits were once part of the Holy Spirit of the eternal God, the Father of our Lord Jesus. God cannot change and annihilate Himself, so the spirits of life, having been once part of His Holy Spirit at the time of the Creation, will continue to be eternal, whether in Heaven or exiled in outer darkness or in the Lake of Fire which is defined as “The Second Death.” As Jacob was called “you worm,” their “worm” or spirit bodies will NOT cease to exist for all eternity.

John 3:16 and other Scriptures document that Jesus was a created being. He was created as the “Last Adam.” Jesus was begotten, created by God His Father (John 3:16), just as all humans are Fathered or created by the “Father of spirits.” Jesus said on the Cross as He died, “Father, receive my Spirit.” “God is Spirit,” and Jesus has a separate Spirit from the Holy Spirit of His Father, which makes TWO Spirits. Jesus is a different, uniquely “created” Spirit, just as the spirits of all life were once part of God. Christ's Spirit was once part of God, as all human spirits were once part of God, but now Christ has been begotten by God the “Father of Spirits” (Hebrews 12:9). All life has a spirit, that is why Isaiah wrote, “All flesh is like grass” (Isaiah 40:6 and quoted in 1Peter 1:24). Each grass blade has a spirit, as all life on Earth has a spirit down to the smallest virus. This gives insight into what Jesus meant by saying, “You are worth many sparrows.” Each human is worth “many sparrows” and NOT worth more than an infinite number of sparrows as some want to imagine.

Man was made in the “image and likeness” of God and His Son Jesus. Just as men speak WORDS, each word having a beginning, similarly to each WORD God speaks into existence, although ETERNAL in duration, has a BEGINNING. Jesus Christ is a created being, as the WORD of God and Jesus will exist forever. “Jesus is the Same, Yesterday.” Jesus is the Same from His BEGINNING, and He did NOT exist from EVERLASTING ETERNITY, but from the BEGINNING of the Universe; since that point in time He was created by God His Father. It is this type of CONFUSION in the heretical TRINITY DOCTRINE that alienates Jews from receiving their Messiah and God into their hearts. Isaiah 53 has written that the Messiah, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, is a mortal man and not the eternal God that left Jesus ALONE on the CROSS TO DIE as the Lamb Sacrifice for the sins of the world.

King Jesus took His Lamp-stand with the Light of God of His Father away from many churches of the Council of Nicaea and left most of them in spiritual darkness forever, if they would NOT repent, which has resulted in so many false doctrines and unbiblical traditions of men.

In the Book of Job, it is written that if God were to withdraw His Spirit and Breath, ALL life would cease, and humanity would return to dust (Job 34:14-15). This emphasizes that God created ALL life and that ALL living beings depend on Him for their existence.

Catholic leaders had decided to partially, or completely stop being “Led by the Spirit” and refused to listen to the “Voice of Jesus” and they chose to close the Canon collection of Books of the Bible Scriptures because they rejected the LIGHT OF GOD AND did NOT want more Scriptures, more of the WORD OF THE TRUTH, and so they chose to love spiritual DARKNESS, sending the Roman Church into willful ignorance of the Truth, idolizing icons violating the Second Commandment of the “Ten Commandments” (Exodus 20:4-5) and believing the doctrines of demons, by not recognizing King Jesus is reigning on Earth, many churches are becoming more cruel, desiring their own ideas, traditions and believing lies of heresies and half-truths and so they descended into the Dark Ages.

That same fatal mistake for choosing spiritual DARKNESS resulting in God's JUDGMENT, is coming “SOON” to America, if Christian leaders continue to fail to REPENT of their unbiblical church traditions, their half-truths, compromising with the world, their presumptions, and lies. King Jesus is speaking to them today, but many Christian leaders continue to ignore Him!

The Voice of King Jesus is NOT to be ignored nor refused! He is REIGNING today on Earth in the Temple of the Body of Christ!!! The consequences of opposing the reign of King Jesus coming to America will be tragic and catastrophic, resulting in the extinction of most life on earth in the coming thermonuclear war and its nuclear winter aftermath.

Keep in mind, God gave King Solomon “Peace from all of his enemies,” and Jesus is the SAME GOD today, and He could quiet down the enemy spirits globally if there was some repentance of America’s Christian leaders who are opposing having a Christian government with Christian education in public schools.

Jesus views corrupting children with lies, and teaching is immoral, and UNFORGIVABLE, if there is no repentance! It is “NATIONAL SUICIDE” to corrupt the children with lies and immorality as the government schools have done, because when they become voters with their sinful worldviews, that eventually will incite King Jesus to bring the WRATH OF GOD, and the WRATH OF THE LAMB to fall upon the nations.

It is a sin for Christians to be deceived, because they now have an opportunity to learn the TRUTH from the Spirit of Truth! (Galatians 6:7) King Jesus has given America's Christian leaders centuries of time to REPENT of their OPPOSITION to His REIGN in government, in public schools, and workplaces! And America's Christian leaders have had centuries to REPENT of their opposition to establishing the Kingdom of God and King Jesus on Earth in government and public schools with U.S. Law! The Holy Spirit says, “AMERICA, REPENT OR PERISH!” Amen

For millennia, many Christian Leaders have been deceiving themselves and deceiving others and hardening their hearts because they “want” to believe that it is NOT yet the time for their utopian heretical fantasy heresy of the Millennium, and so according to them, it MUST NOT yet be the time for King Jesus to have returned to REIGN on Earth (contradicting what Jesus said about His “SOON” RETURN and documenting Scriptures such as the Spirit of Christ was sent into ALL Christians crying “Abba, Father” in Romans 8:15; Galatians 6:4) So they ignore the “Spirit of Christ crying ‘ABBA FATHER’” in them, because in their heretical version of eschatology that demands that Christ has NOT yet returned to Earth to REIGN because of their idolatry of the doctrine of demons, false doctrines that prevents King Jesus from reigning in their hearts and lives. They prefer their stubborn, willful ignorance and false assumptions instead of the blessings of God and Jesus.

Because many Christian leaders deceive themselves and each other that Jesus will eventually return in their fantasy utopian eschatology in His physical body of flesh and eventually will REIGN on Earth in a physical body of flesh in a physical Temple building in Jerusalem, Israel complete with the restoration of the Bible’s O.T. Feast days with a billion plus Christians traveling to the City of Jerusalem in annual pilgrimages to reinstate already typologically fulfilled O.T. feast days (contradicting Colossians 2:16), foolishly creating the worst "grid-lock" and “traffic jams” in history, which would take months or maybe years to untangle... “Baloney” is the suggested title for their fictional theology of false doctrines and wrong ideas that all work to prevent King Jesus from Reigning on Earth in His Temple of the Body of Christ.

Most American eschatology is ALL just crazy nonsense, based upon the sin of unbelief, which cripples God’s efforts to do miracles, healings, and blessings upon the nation (Mark 6:5-6; Matthew 13:58), and UNBELIEF is a GREAT SIN against the Holy Spirit. (See the commentary on the Book of Revelation, “Days of Vengeance” by Dr. David Chilton for a more accurate “partial-preterist” theology.)

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-days-of-vengeance-an-exposition/id1555345044

Jesus said He would RETURN in the lifetimes of those people of His generation that He physically spoke to in the first century, and God and Christ kept His Promise to RETURN to them in their lifetimes “IN HIS KINGDOM” (Mt. 16:28)! Jesus has already KEPT HIS PROMISE! It is now the DUTY for Christians TODAY to believe in the WORD of Jesus in them and work to establish His Kingdom on Earth in their hearts, in government, in public schools, and in workplaces, instead of stubbornly DELAYING HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH because they do NOT want King Jesus to rule on Earth in their lives. The result of DELAYING God’s Kingdom on Earth for a fantasy heresy of a Coming “Millennium,” where Jesus will do it all, and they can “sit on their hands” and do NOTHING, is damning the children, damning the nation, and damning themselves to excessive chastisement and their possible loss of eternal life.

The Lord declares that when both prophets and priests have become corrupted, as a consequence, their path will become treacherous. The sinning prophets and those speaking false oracles will be driven out of His Presence into spiritual darkness, and there they will experience calamity as punishment for their rebellion (Jeremiah 23:9–40).

Jesus has already returned to Earth to Reign on Earth in His Temple, the Body of Christ, and every eye of those in Jerusalem saw Him return in His Kingdom as God’s prophecy was fulfilled (Mt. 16:28). Jesus Christ prophesied He would return in the clouds to Caiaphas, and Jesus stood on Mount Olivet, so the physical eyes of the High Priest Caiaphas could actually see Him as Jesus told the High Priest that Jesus prophesied that He the Messiah would return “soon” in the actual lifetime of the High Priest Caiaphas and to others that Jesus physically spoke to before His Crucifixion. It had to be fulfilled prophecy because God cannot lie!

Matthew 16:27 “For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s GLORY with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done. / 28 / Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they SEE the Son of Man COMING in His Kingdom.” KING Jesus then returned TO RULE AND REIGN ON EARTH in the lifetime of His audience that He actually spoke to, AND then He would begin His REIGN over all kings and nations (Rev. 1:5) on Earth in His Temple of the Body of Christ, and NOT on the Temple Mount in the physical Temple building in Jerusalem.

Just as He promised, Jesus repaid them all, as He had prophesied, for their sin of rejecting Jesus as their King. Jesus had them slaughtered (Luke 19:27), enslaved survivors, and exiled them and drove them out of the Promised Land and gave the Land to others (Luke 19:27).

Jesus said in Matthew 24:34, “Truly I tell you, THIS generation [that is the people to whom He was speaking at the time] will not pass away until ALL these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth WILL PASS AWAY, but My WORDS will never pass away!” Jesus said physical matter and all life of the physical universe will END, “PASS AWAY,” because JESUS prophesied the WORD of God the Father, a sovereign statement of FACT that the UNIVERSE would be ENDED as God the Father COMMANDED Him to speak the WORDS of God His Father, and it is IMPOSSIBLE for the WORD of God to fail! Once the physical Universe is gone (2Peter 3:12), the “empty space” will be used to express the NEXT WORD of GOD, and then will be a New Universe created, a New Heaven will be created with a New physical Earth will be created with a New Adam and God will start that new BEGINNING by Creating another Son for Himself, that Son He will also name “Jesus.”

God continues to talk to those who are willing to listen to His Holy Spirit and the Voice of Jesus. Today’s Christians had better listen to Him, because Jesus said, “My sheep hear My Voice.” Failure to listen to the Voice of Jesus may result in losing one’s eternal salvation and other catastrophic consequences.

One of the first JUDICIAL ACTS of the REIGN of King Jesus on earth (Rev. 1:5; 1Cor. 15:25) was to use His absolute authority to rule the nations (Mt. 28:18). Jesus used His absolute Authority with His ruling “scepter of iron” and COMMANDED the Roman legions to slaughter the Jews who would NOT let Jesus be their King (Jesus prophesied their punishment for rejecting His Reign over them in Luke 19:27). Then Jesus, with the help of the Roman Legions, RAZED and leveled the city of Jerusalem so “NOT one stone remained upon another.” By order of Caesar Nero, an earthly king whom King Jesus ruled over (Rev. 1:5), who obeyed God’s COMMAND for the execution of the Jews and the destruction of the city of Jerusalem that was fully carried out by the Roman Legions.

After the Roman Legions entered Jerusalem (fulfilling prophecy of Luke 21:20), before the Jews were slaughtered, they were first enslaved by the Romans and were forced to labor and do the actual demolition of the City of Jerusalem, tearing down each building stone by stone with their bare hands by order of Caesar Nero... America will likewise suffer a similar terrible END if Christian leaders do NOT REPENT of their sin of UNBELIEF!

Jesus told the High Priest Caiaphas that he personally would SEE His RETURN to EARTH with his own PHYSICAL EYES while Caiaphas yet remained physically alive, and that he would see King Jesus returning “in the clouds in His Father's GLORY.” Therefore, to continue to preach that Jesus will return “soon” to rule while at the same time Jesus Christ the King of Kings has ALREADY RETURNED TO EARTH to RULE AND REIGN, IS the SIN of UNBELIEF!

Why many modern Christians should choose lies and the “doctrines of demons” deceiving Christians and churches that claim King Jesus is not yet REIGNING on Earth, exceeds human comprehension. DENYING that KING JESUS IS REIGNING ON EARTH TODAY will probably result in GOD'S JUDGMENT of a death sentence for most nations “soon,” unless they REPENT and believe the TRUTH that King Jesus is now, already REIGNING today on Earth as The King of Kings over ALL kings and nations (Revelation 1:5), with or without their help! All authority in Heaven and Earth has already been transferred to Jesus in Mt. 28:18, and He USES HIS AUTHORITY to smash nations that will NOT repent. The authority Satan had to rule the world before the Cross has been taken away from him. Jesus is NOW the supreme ruler of all kings and nations on Earth (Rev. 1:5).

But for now, time is running out for America's Christian leaders to REPENT of their sinful UNBELIEF and their opposition to the current REIGN of King Jesus on Earth. Instead, they want another heretical special return event AGAIN, with Jesus "returning" in the air in the clouds for their eschatological deceiving fantasies. The time for God's Grace in Jesus for the nation is almost over! The coming ruin and fall of America is partly the FAULT of the deceived Christian leaders who want an ESCAPISM heretical fairy-tale version of eschatology, the FALSE doctrine of demons, who do NOT want Christ to REIGN in their lives, so as to PREVENT and OBSTRUCT the current REIGN of King Jesus on Earth. It is a very clever deception of the kingdom of DARKNESS that church leaders have accepted in their minds in order to delay or to oppose the ongoing REIGN OF GOD AND KING JESUS ON EARTH, which is currently exercised over all kings and nations (1Cor. 15:25; Rev. 1:5). The facts show Christian leaders just don't want to pay the price to let King Jesus rule and have a Christian nation and tell their followers the TRUTH! Christian leaders are in fear of losing their congregations if they tell them the TRUTH. They are correct; they will lose some audience, lose followers, because in Matthew 7:14 Jesus said, paraphrased, ONLY a “few will find eternal life.”

As Christian leaders fear, most children are lost, being brainwashed by the government for years with lies and immorality that chains their minds and locks their souls in spiritual darkness, and the nation is being dragged down the broad highway of darkness, ruin, and destruction.

Meanwhile, many church leaders today continue to oppose God's Kingdom on Earth, and they refuse to believe what the Holy Spirit is saying, and so they continue to sin and oppose King Jesus REIGNING in His Temple of the Body of Christ in Law in government, public schools, and in workplaces.

Many church leaders idolize their heresies where they deceive themselves that King Jesus will REIGN sometime in the future on Earth in a fantasy utopian Millennium, but they continue to deceive themselves and each other that Jesus is NOT ruling on Earth at present. People naturally seek power and control over others rather than submit to God. There is a pleasurable “rush” for power, governmental control, and keeping the saints from believing the TRUTH. Just as Jesus said of the Pharisee leaders who kept people from entering the Kingdom of God because of their wicked hearts and heresies.

“It is an inconvenient TRUTH” for them to believe that King Jesus is here already on Earth REIGNING in His Temple of the Body of Christ. Meanwhile, many block the truth, demanding only eschatological heresies be spoken and “believed.” In effect, they prohibit New Testament godly morality from being taught to children, or restrict the REIGN of King Jesus in the public schools, in government and in workplaces, with their ongoing sin of UNBELIEF, and the Church leaders continue to deceive themselves and each other. Meanwhile, the U.N. Globalists in the U.S. Congress have already chosen to ruin and bankrupt the United States, “dumb down,” and “enslave” the American people in the U.N. World Government, giving them over to God's foreign enemies by making changes in U.S. Law legally enacted by ratified foreign treaties. Starting with Eleanor Roosevelt and Pres. Truman's U.N. Charter Treaty, which was ratified by the U.S. Senate and is now the supreme WORLD LAW. The U.N. Charter reads “ALL LAW MUST CONFORM” TO UN LAW, MEANING THE ERASURE OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION'S BILL OF RIGHTS! Currently, they are planning and implementing government policies to END DEMOCRACY in the United States by OPPOSING Voter I.D. and replacing the dysfunctional, corrupted U.S. Government with a tyrannical totalitarian OLIGARCHY, similar to Russia’s government, with the foreign treaties they have already ratified transferring national sovereignty to the U.N. World Government. (In 2020 A.D., Pres. Biden said at the U.S. Naval Academy that he and President Xi of China had AGREED to END DEMOCRACY in the United States and REPLACE it with an OLIGARCHY similar to Russia's government. This is why the DEMOCRATS oppose the SAVE AMERICA ACT and want unlimited illegal immigration to overwhelm, create chaos, break the spirit of the American people so the nation will fall before their enemies. From Newsweek.com) 2Corinthians 4:4 warns that Satan, “the god of this age has blinded men’s minds.” As the First of the Ten Commandments warns to have NO OTHER GODS. Christians are Commanded to NOT let Satan influence them, and guide their actions.

In Exodus 20, The Ten Commandments are listed:

1.) You shall have no other gods before Me.

2.) You shall not make for yourself a carved image.

3.) You shall not take the NAME of the Lord your God in vain.

4.) Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

5.) Honor your father and your mother.

6.) You shall not murder.

7.) You shall not commit adultery.

8.) You shall not steal.

9.) You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

10.) You shall not covet.

ALL university LAW SCHOOLS teach that treaties and TREATY LAW REPLACES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, rendering the U.S. Constitution LEGALLY “MOOT” and its protections replaced or ENDED by U.N. LAW by each relevant and pertinent foreign treaty that is ratified in the U.S. Senate. Each relevant treaty should be considered figuratively as “another nail in the coffin of the U.S. Constitution.” The sovereignty of ALL USA land has been ALREADY transferred to enemies in the U.N. World Government by SECRET, or semi-secret treaties. President Trump’s Administration is the LAST HOPE of AMERICA to restore the sovereignty of America and have hope for a better future for the American people.

If Christian leaders had listened to the Holy Spirit and carefully obeyed the Voice of Jesus, then America could have had a “Millennium” of God's Grace and with God's Light of the Gospel of Jesus SHINING to the nations. America's government and schools would now be proclaiming the current REIGN OF KING JESUS on Earth, with His freedom and liberty being made available to the nations. If Christian leaders had repented of opposing the Reign of King Jesus, then America could have been given God's Grace and continued time to exist and prosper for perhaps a “thousand years,” a “Millennium.” Instead of freedom, most children are being brainwashed and chained into spiritual darkness by teaching them lies and immorality. Jesus is “the TRUTH,” and God has configured and designed access to Him and eternal life on the basis of believing either lies or the Truth. By believing the lies and half-truths of Satan, “the father of lies,” gives authority for demons to intervene, tempt, and capture the children’s souls, dragging them into escalating sin and the kingdom of darkness.

It is IMPORTANT TO BELIEVE KING JESUS IS ON EARTH REIGNING TODAY! AND BELIEVE THE VOICE OF JESUS AND THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE IS STILL IN NEED OF THE WORD OF GOD SPOKEN THROUGH THE VOICE OF JESUS.

By allowing King Jesus Who is the Truth, to REIGN in hearts and actions, according to freedom of conscience and by the choices of their own free will, they will generally obtain life-giving Grace from King Jesus for America’s future, and they would have obtained His BLESSINGS that would have been provided to a Christian nation if America had become a theocracy (details at ChristianAmendment.com). Amen

The Roman Emperor Constantine listened to the Holy Spirit, but he was utterly vexed by the doctrinal sins and paganism. He was greatly upset with the great corruption and SIN of the Catholic Church. Constantine basically said, to paraphrase, “a curse on your houses,” and he EXITED Rome, and he moved to make his Capital of the New Christian Empire, Constantinople, in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, and created the Millennium of the Byzantine Christian Empire with the help of King Jesus!

Emperor Constantine's OBEDIENCE to King Jesus helped save the Church from the total PAGAN decadence and doctrinal heresies of the Roman Catholic Church, and he did his best to separate himself and the Eastern Empire from Rome's religious corruption.

So their growing obedience to King Jesus resulted in a “Millennium” of God's BLESSINGS, and they had a thousand years to continue to exist before the Muslims conquered the Byzantine Empire and slaughtered the Christians for disobeying King Jesus. This extinction and annihilation of the Christian Byzantine Empire was similar to the fate suffered by the City of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. because King Jesus had then also had judged the Jews who opposed Him and rejected Him as their King (Luke 19:27). For those people who opposed His REIGN on Earth as their King, He prophesied that the Jews would be slaughtered in 70 A.D. for their sin of NOT accepting their Messiah and NOT OBEYING King Jesus (In Luke 19:27 the rebellious Jews were sentenced to death by God and Jesus).

After the slaughter of the rebellious Christians of the Byzantine Empire, Islam continued to grow by forced conversion of infidels and massive bloodshed as they forced conversion to Islam or were killed. Islam has continued to spread by forced conversion, as a growing cancer tumor, to take over half of Europe before they were eventually driven back at a great cost in lives.

Today, America has fallen so far into spiritual darkness that they actually elected a Muslim President who declared he was a Muslim by wearing his Islamic Shahada wedding ring that was inscribed by his conversion to Islam. Obama had the terrorist group of the “Muslim Brotherhood,” stationed in the White House, that was dedicated to slaughtering everyone who would NOT submit to Islam. President Obama even tried to reinstate the Muslim Brotherhood President in Egypt with the late Sen. John McCain, so the Egyptian Christians would be slaughtered by the takeover by Sharia Law.

God keeps His Promises, and if America had obeyed the Holy Spirit and and became a theocracy, then a Christian nation that allowed King Jesus to REIGN by freedom of conscience over the nation in law in government, public schools, and in the workplace instead of making Christian evangelism, proselytism, ILLEGAL in most venues, then God Who LOVES MERCY, would of given America His Grace and MERCY for years to come to live for possibly as long as a thousand years “Millennium.”

By Christian leaders submitting the the Reign of King Jesus in government, public schools, and in workplaces, it would commut God's coming JUDGMENT of giving the United States over to the planned ruin by the U.S. Congress and U.N. globalists Presidents Biden and Obama, who are ALL united together in being traitors to God and American, boy betraying the sovereignty of the United States, turning national sovereignty over to enemy nations in the U.N.

This was partially done in part by ratifying relevant treaties with the COMING U.N. “New World Order” World Government nightmare of cruel tyranny and totalitarian spiritual DARKNESS.

As nationwide Artificial Intelligence is used in China to persecute Christians, A.I. will be used in the United States to destroy Christianity if the U.N. globalists are not stopped and the U.N. dismantled. In my opinion, the ONLY WAY to obtain God’s Blessings for a Millennium is for letting King Jesus rule and reign freely by U.S. Law. The alternative is the coming ruin and death of the United States and the end of most life on Earth as the price of OPPOSING GOD and the Reign of King Jesus on Earth.

ALL LAW SCHOOLS TEACH U.N. TREATY LAW is the supreme World Law, and Treaty Law REPLACES U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS.

Without the REPENTANCE of Christian Leaders OPPOSING to King Jesus' Reigning and working to establish His Kingdom on Earth today, making the nation a theocracy, America will be DOOMED to gradual ruin and a coming Death Sentence for most Americans in WW3 and for other nations conspired against King Jesus reigning in its nuclear winter aftermath...

“God is Light,” and to REJECT God’s Light, Truth, and His Love, rejecting the TRUTH of Jesus Christ, then sinful SPIRITUAL DARKNESS and evil will befall individuals and the nation; and if the people who will NOT REPENT of loving spiritual DARKNESS and wanting to believe lies and heresies more than obeying King Jesus will be condemned to exist in eternal “outer DARKNESS,” without God’s Light forever. “Men LOVED spiritual DARKNESS instead of LIGHT” (John 3:19–20).

Most public schools, by teaching lies, half-truths, LGBTQ+ sexual immorality corrupting the minds and DAMNING the souls of most children, murdering children's souls and perversion, committing tens of millions of gratuitous killing babies with abortions, teaching ungodly parental role models and editing out and erasing Christian records in American history are resulting in making most students “twice the children of the devil” or “twice the children of hell,” as Jesus said they were (Matthew 23:15), who, as they become voters, will damn the future of the nation to fall to certain ruin, to perdition, that will eventually result in the extinction of most life in the coming WW3 and its nuclear winter aftermath.

Synopsis –

The Bible describes the fundamental sinful human condition: when Jesus Christ entered the world as God's LIGHT and TRUTH, most people gravitated toward LIES and spiritual DARKNESS, because their minds and actions were evil (John 3:19–21). Many men love their idols they made of eschatological heresies, false doctrines, and half-truths, traditions, more than they love God.

They practice wickedness, because most people do NOT believe King Jesus is here on Earth reigning (even though they know Jesus is here in them crying “Abba Father”) as they want to presume, so then, since Jesus is NOT HERE, according to them, because of their fantasy ideas, they can do whatever they wish, no matter how sinful. The doctrine of “Once Saved, Always Saved” is unscriptural and it is a doctrine of demons.

This general tendency among most people to prefer the sinful, fallen human nature over a pure heart and the righteousness that comes from obeying the Holy Spirit often results in their becoming enemies of God who actively oppose the REIGN of King Jesus.

Most Christian leaders are UNWILLING to PAY THE PRICE to OBEY GOD AND KING JESUS. Jesus is willing to pay the price to free Christians from sin with His Holy Spirit's power if Christians are WILLING to OBEY Him (2 Chronicles 7:14) and seek and see the Face of Jesus, through Whom God gives power to defeat sin, if they choose to OBEY the Holy Spirit.

Jesus is the TRUTH and NOT a lie (1John 2:21). Opposing the God of Love, and the TRUTH, is resulting in ruining and destroying the nation, which is so utterly stupid and evil when God and Jesus wanted all of them to be saved, if they would be willing to be saved, with His BLESSINGS, His love, and the joy of His companionship forever.

“Jesus said to His believers, ‘You will be hated by ALL nations for My Name's sake.’” Apostle Paul wrote he had to put the sinful “old man to death daily.” “...I die daily…” (1Cor. 15:31; Gal. 2:20; Rom. 6:11).

God is the “Father of spirits” and Creator of everything through His Son Jesus. God has to continually uphold the Universe and sustain the fabric of space-time, matter, in ten-subatomic dimensions, light, and energy designed together to the infinite decimal place. God wants ALL Christians to be conformed into His “image and likeness” of His Son Christ Jesus (Genesis 1:26). That is why continual obedience and holiness and REPENTING of sins is required by God and King Jesus and NOT closing spiritual ears so they will not “have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying.” Jesus said, “Only the PURE in heart shall see God.” “Be Holy, for I am Holy.” Work with Jesus and be Led by the Holy Spirit to walk in holiness and righteousness every day before it is too late.

1John 2:21 “I have not written to you because you do not know the TRUTH, but because YOU DO KNOW IT, and because NO lie is of the TRUTH.”

The spiritual choice to continue sinning and remaining in the kingdom of DARKNESS instead of opting to repent and go toward God's spiritual LIGHT and His Kingdom of Righteousness is sometimes guided by FEAR: those engaged in sinful wrongdoing deliberately avoid the TRUTH and the light's exposure, hiding what they are doing, knowing that God's LIGHT and Holy Spirit would reveal their sins and convict them to repent of the sins they wished to conceal (John 3:19–21). Spiritual DARKNESS is a refuge to them as they hide from the LIGHT of God, not because it’s inherently attractive, but because it permits concealment from the LIGHT and reveals the TRUTH of the sin of what they are thinking and doing. This sinful behavior of hiding one's sin, as Adam and Eve knew they sinned and hid their nakedness with fig leaves, such deception traces back to a more fundamental alienation— people who know God, yet they refuse to acknowledge Him as God, allowing their reasoning to become hollow and their understanding to grow dimmer, finally “searing their conscience” (Romans 1:21).

The choice to believe lies and deceptions that enable the planned U.N. government's eventual takeover of the American people by the spiritual kingdom of DARKNESS of their enemies isn’t neutral or passive. It stands in stark contrast to those who believe the TRUTH and willingly come to know Jesus the Truth and God's LIGHT. They need to invite Jesus into their hearts, so that their actions are genuinely rooted in faith in God (John 3:19–21). Where God's wisdom, a moral conscience, and “common sense” wisdom in the gift of the “Mind of Christ” are all graciously given to those who ask God and Jesus in prayer as Christians see the Face of Jesus and listen to and OBEY His Voice.

Jesus has presented Himself as the King of the Earth, as He told Pontius Pilate. Most “Born Again” Christians know it was God’s Will for America to have become a Christian nation for centuries, yet they did little, or nothing at all which is a sin that is bringing the coming WRATH OF GOD AND JESUS against the United States and against almost all the nations that have CONSPIRED with the United States against the REIGN of King Jesus over the nations (Rev. 1:5) in the antichrist U.N. World Government (Psalm 2:2).

Psalm 2:2 “The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers band together [in the U.N. World Government] against the LORD and against [Jesus] His anointed, saying,”... This PROPHECY is being fulfilled today! The conspiracy of enemies ruling America in the U.N. World Government will eventually crush and eradicate most of Christianity if it is uncontrolled and allowed to continue...

Jesus said, “I am the LIGHT of the world,” God is offering HOPE and SALVATION to ALL those who follow Him providing an escape from the chains of sin, and giving them freedom from the bondage of spiritual DARKNESS lighting their path and WAY into finding genuine life and freedom from sin with the help of God and Jesus the TRUTH to all that ask in prayer (John 8:12).

“The Truth shall make you FREE.” Jesus said, “I am the TRUTH.” Invite Jesus into your heart, and He will fellowship with you, love, and forgive you, and help you REPENT daily, as necessary, of your sins and be Holy as God is Holy, and aim for the perfection of God the Father (that PERFECTION of the Creator, is commanded for ALL Christians in Mt. 5:48). The goal for Christians is to daily seek and see the “invisible” spiritual Face of Jesus of His Spirit in you that is crying “Abba Father” (Romans 8:15).

Paul reframes this spiritual choice for believers who want spiritual LIGHT, instead of darkness, and the daily companionship of King Jesus, declaring that those formerly identified with their sin and love for spiritual DARKNESS now embody God's LIGHT and Jesus, the Spirit of TRUTH, in the Lord, and that they should conduct themselves accordingly (Ephesians 5:8–14).

Jesus said, “I am the Light of the World” (John 8:12).

John 8:12 “Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world. Whoever FOLLOWS Me will NOT walk in darkness, but will have the Light of Life.”

Rather than participating in DARKNESS’s hidden sinful deeds, Christian believers are called to EXPOSE wicked deeds, — because God's LIGHT itself makes ALL things visible that are spiritual deceptions and lies (Ephesians 5:8–14). The preference of many people for spiritual DARKNESS ultimately blocks them from believing the Truth and drawing near to God. Demons are working on them, dragging them into spiritual DARKNESS away from God's Light. Fleeing from God's Light that would illuminate the sin of their souls, renew their minds with the Mind of Christ, and help them obtain Christ's spiritual freedom and abundant life, helping them to be free from the burden of sin in their lives if they choose to walk into God's Light, seeing the Face of Jesus, and accept His Holiness while REPENTING of their sin.

This helps explain Galatians 6:7, “Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. It is a SIN for Christians to believe LIES or the Heresy of false doctrine. The Council of Nicaea (325 A.D.) greatly SINNED by believing a HERESY that Christ was not CREATED, not BEGOTTEN (John 3:16), but deceived themselves into believing the false doctrine that Christ existed for as long as God the Father has existed in eternity. The TRUTH is that Jesus is a unique spoken WORD by God the Father. Jesus Christ is ONLY ONE of many WORDS that God the Father has SPOKEN throughout eternity before Christ Jesus existed, and who will speak more eternal WORDS into existence after Him. The false doctrine that God has never spoken another WORD besides the current WORD of Jesus Christ is a LIE and HERESY (John 1:1). Jesus is the WORD, and God will always speak more WORDS throughout eternity, because God and Jesus are “Always the Same.”

In Revelation 2:5, Jesus threatens to remove the “Lampstand” of God’s Light from among the churches. The "Lampstand" symbolizes the removal of God's Light and His TRUTH from them, resulting in many losing their salvation unless they repent. Importantly, it is a warning of coming correction, a warning of losing their salvation if they do not repent. A WARNING of severe chastisement will come upon them, and it will potentially result in the FATAL ETERNAL Second Death Sentence for them all. This is what many churches have done today; they may have some orthodox theology, but they are spiritually “lukewarm” or “cold,” where Jesus has actually removed Himself, as Jesus is “the Light,” God’s Light, and removal of His TRUTH from some churches.

Because of their sins, including rejecting apostolic doctrines, including rejecting the correct teaching on the “Greater Gifts,” the spiritual gifts that churches desperately need to be equipped with in order to remain spiritually alive in their “first love.”

Teaching Great Heresies such as “Jesus is ‘SOON’ COMING” when “SOON” meant SOON in their lifetimes, in the lifetime of John and in the lifetimes of those people Jesus spoke to in His earthly ministry. Jesus is ALREADY HERE ON EARTH REIGNING IN HIS TEMPLE OF THE BODY OF CHRIST (Rev. 1:5; 1Cor. 15:25), and King Jesus is now trying to get our attention and our cooperation to “rule and reign” with Him before He gives up and gives them over to their enemies and to the kingdom of darkness. “God will NOT always strive with man” to convince men to repent of sin.

America is being flooded with demons because the Churches fail to recognize the Voice of Jesus and the leading of the Holy Spirit to establish His Kingdom on Earth in governments and in public schools, where most children are being brainwashed with lies and immorality, so they are being indoctrinated to become minions of the kingdom of darkness, becoming enemies of God and Jesus and enemies of America! Revelation 20:3 has written that God will release the demons from the Abyss, or Pit, when nations reject His Reign on Earth.

Just as the Bible’s Prophet Balaam advised enemies to corrupt and tempt Israel with sexual perversion in order to bring the WRATH OF GOD upon Israel, so the United States Government did the same evil in mandating the LGBTQI+ brainwashing to sexually corrupt the children that will bring the WRATH OF GOD upon the United States in the form of more demonic attacks, oppression, ruin and eventual destruction in thermonuclear war.

Jesus said, “In the Beginning, God made them male and female.” Either DNA chromosome XX for female, or XY for male, and NOT LGBTQI+ chromosomes. Although the mutations and harmful chemicals are causing the human gene pool to degrade and gradually die, the perfect original DESIGN of the CREATION was either XX or XY and NOTHING else!

The key doctrine for SAVING the lives of the children and empowering America is BELIEVING that King Jesus has Already come to Earth to Rule and Reign over the nations (Revelation 1:5; Romans 8:15; 1Corinthians 15:25).

There are very real, and very severe consequences coming for believing LIES and being DECEIVED by lies and half-truths (Galatians 6:7).

Galatians 6:7 states, “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.” This verse emphasizes the principle of God's Law for personal responsibility and the inevitability of serious consequences for one's actions and believing false doctrines.

The consequences for believing lies, heresies, doctrines of demons, half-truths include plunging many churches into spiritual DARKNESS of believing many more false doctrines, heresies, and condemning the Christians to fall into the ignorance of the “DARK Ages,” where even owning a Bible or a few Scriptures was a crime, as it is today illegal in some countries to have the Bible, and the penalty for them was the death sentence for many who tried to posses a some of the Holy Scriptures, as it is today.

By silencing and refusing to listen and OBEY the Voice of Jesus, the Council of Nicaea essentially “decapitated” the Church.

By denying that Jesus is the actual Head of the Church, and speaking to the Christians today, they made the Roman Catholic Church into a "headless horseman," and the church hierarchy, the POPE, rode down upon the churches and oppressed the laity throughout history, until, as they want to believe, a heretical version of Jesus is “coming” again Who will then eventually rule and REIGN in a “Millennium” heresy. But until that heretical fairy-tale fantasy time of the “Millennium” happens, while they continue to oppose the Reign of King Jesus on Earth, the Roman Catholic Church will continue to make ALL of the supposedly “important decisions,” and instead of reigning with King Jesus, they are REIGNING with the mere ideas of men and the “doctrines of demons.” Many churches will continue to exist as the spiritual DARKNESS is growing in the nation, most everywhere.

Jesus said He is “The Truth,” and He is always the same, and He is the King of Kings, and He will either be allowed to rule on Earth or Jesus will continue to “smash” nations to death that oppose His REIGN on Earth in His Temple of the Body of Christ.

The time for the United States to exist is drawing to a close if there is NO repentance by Christian leaders who OPPOSE or FEAR establishing the Kingdom of God and King Jesus on Earth in government, public schools, and in workplaces.

As an example of spiritual darkness in many churches, Pope Leo XIV stated that “God does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war,” when the Bible explicitly contradicts that heretical idea. The TRUTH is the prayers of King David were heard and answered by God. King David was “a man after God's own heart,” and God trained David's hands for war, and David fought wars, and his prayers were heard and answered with God’s Judgment to give David VICTORY or other answers. Just as policemen are ministers of God's Justice (Romans 13:4), so also King David was God’s minister of Justice, executing great bloodshed in the wars David fought for God and Israel. “Jesus is ALWAYS THE SAME” since His beginning with God, and wars are SOMETIMES God’s Will for good or for evil, as God and Jesus, Who are “ALWAYS THE SAME,” raised up enemies to Israel, or ENEMIES to the United States against the nation to fight for chastisement, ruin, destruction, and national death.

To motivate the nation to repent and OBEY God and King Jesus, Who existed from the beginning of the Creation, Jesus is always doing the Will of God the Father, including raising up enemies for ancient Israel, or raising up enemies against the United States today, to see whether the nation will repent and OBEY their God and King Jesus. In fact, in most cases, by enriching enemy nations, the United States has raised up God’s enemies to destroy the United States with Free Trade, etcetera.

Christians are COMMANDED to “Fight the Good Fight of Faith,” instead of remaining silent in a nation where citizens may vote in elections and possibly have godly leaders and have God’s Blessing by having a THEOCRACY, where the God of Love Reigns in His Son King Jesus, instead of remaining silent while the children are being damned with lies and immoral brainwashing in the public schools, teaching children to sometimes to commit the sin of murdering their babies, when the mothers are healthy enough to have them. The faithlessness of hypocritical Christian leaders and teachers with their sinful compromises with the world in government, public schools, and in workplaces is damning the nation and ENDING all hope for a better future for the children…

The CONSEQUENCES COMING against American Christian Leaders that OPPOSE establishing the Kingdom of God and King Jesus on EARTH in governments, public schools and in workplaces include NOT having the BLESSINGS of having a future “Millennium” for America, because of their sin of UNBELIEF and their abandoning of many children in their churches to be sinfully brainwashed with lies and sexual perversions in public schools, murdering tens of millions of babies by abortions, brutally ending the babies' lives. Failure to ADVISE their congregations to vote for Christian candidates to save the nation, to help save their families, and their FAILURE to WARN their congregations that the United States is leading the nations into the tragic coming totalitarian nightmare of the U.N. World Government (and avoidable) takeover by God's enemies. Warning them that non-Christians are practicing and legislating many more sins against Christianity and are dead-set against the REIGN of King Jesus Who dwells on Earth today, and He is now REIGNING in His Temple of the Body of Christ.

By training people in evil practices in government schools, brainwashing people with evil media with their half-truths, “Fake News” that disregards the TRUTH, and suppresses or ignores basic information necessary for citizens to govern themselves so they are able to continue the Freedoms of the Democracy of America, will bring the PLANNED FALL OF THE UNITED STATES enslaving their souls, their children, by their enemies in the U.N. WORLD GOVERNMENT!!!

The FCC should require by U.S. Law that all broadcasters on government airwaves are required to broadcast news with the 5 W’s of Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, and Why, with “point and counterpoint” experts in order to give enough relevant information needed to voters to preserve their lives and protect the future of the nation. But instead of obeying God, the globalist U.S. Government has sold the airwaves to greed and for destroying Christian values, so much so that the life of the nation is in peril.

It is a sin for Christian leaders to oppose having Christian U.S. Law so they could possibly help SAVE most children and America. The TRUTH of the Gospel of Jesus and Loving God MUST be TAUGHT to Children. The Bible COMMANDS to “Train up a child in THE WAY” (Proverbs 22:6), and Jesus said, “I Am THE WAY” (John 14:6). "JUDGMENT starts first with the Household of God.” As Jesus COMMANDED, “COMPEL them to come.” Mandatory training with the TRUTH, Facts, and the morality of Christ, Who always obeyed God His Father, is a matter of LIFE or death for the nation, or all will be “SOON” lost.

John 3:19–21 “This is the JUDGMENT, that the LIGHT [of God] has come into the world, and men LOVED the DARKNESS rather than the LIGHT, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the LIGHT, and does not come to the LIGHT for FEAR that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the TRUTH comes to the LIGHT, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

John 1:4 “In Him was Life, and the Life was the LIGHT of men. The LIGHT SHINES in the DARKNESS, and the [spiritual] DARKNESS did not comprehend it.” THE SPIRITUAL DARKNESS OF MANY CHURCHES IS so intense that they do NOT COMPREHEND THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS in 1Corinthians 12. They are OPPOSING God and JESUS and are damning themselves and harming their children.

John 8:12 “Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the LIGHT of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the DARKNESS, but will have the LIGHT of life.’”

Ephesians 5:8–14 “for you were formerly DARKNESS, but now you are LIGHT in the Lord; walk as children of LIGHT (for the fruit of the LIGHT consists in all goodness and righteousness and TRUTH), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of DARKNESS, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things become visible when exposed by the LIGHT, for everything that becomes visible is LIGHT. For this reason, it says, ‘Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will SHINE on you.’” The time of the Resurrection of life from being spiritually dead to God is TODAY! Amen. Jesus said anyone willing to do the Will of God, He Hears and God will save them!

Romans 1:21 “For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was DARKENED.” The anointing of the Holy Spirit, for many Christians, is diminished or lacking because of their continual rejection of the REIGN of King Jesus on Earth and deceiving themselves with fairy tales and other heresies. In Galatians 6:7, the Bible WARNS Christians NOT to be DECEIVED! Jesus is the TRUTH, and He will help you to repent of false doctrines and free you from the sin of UNBELIEF.

1John 1:5 “This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is LIGHT, and in Him there is NO DARKNESS at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the DARKNESS, we lie and do not practice the TRUTH; but if we walk in the LIGHT as He Himself is in the LIGHT [of God], we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” God gives GRACE to REPENT if Christians will “Seek the Face of Jesus” and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit.

2Corinthians 4:4 “In whose case [Satan] the god of this world, has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the LIGHT of the Gospel of the GLORY of Christ, who is the image of God” (Genesis 1:26).

John 12:35–36 “So Jesus said to them, ‘For a little while longer the LIGHT is among you. Walk while you have the LIGHT, so that DARKNESS will not overtake you; he who walks in the DARKNESS does not know where he goes. While you have the LIGHT, believe in the LIGHT, so that you may become sons of LIGHT.’ These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.”

1Thessalonians 5:4–5 “But you brethren, are not in DARKNESS, that the day would overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of LIGHT and sons of day. We are not of night nor of DARKNESS.”

Colossians 1:13 “For He rescued us from the domain [kingdom] of DARKNESS, and transferred us into the KINGDOM of His BELOVED Son” Jesus.

Romans 13:12–13 “The night is almost gone, and the day [the Day of the LORD’s Vengeance 70 A.D. destruction] is near. Therefore, let us lay aside the deeds of DARKNESS and put on the ARMOR of LIGHT. Let us behave properly as in the day [LIGHT], not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy [of spiritual DARKNESS].”

“The DAY of the LORD”:

Amos 5:19 “It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake. 20 Will not the DAY OF THE LORD be DARKNESS and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it? 21 I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.”

Zephaniah 1:15 “That DAY will be a DAY of WRATH, a DAY of TROUBLE and DISTRESS, a DAY of DESTRUCTION and DESOLATION, a DAY of DARKNESS and gloom, a DAY of clouds and BLACKNESS,” “Will not the DAY of the LORD be DARKNESS and NOT light.”

Isaiah 13:10 “For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be DARKENED, and the moon will NOT give its light.”

Joel 2:31 “The sun will be turned to DARKNESS and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome DAY OF THE LORD.” “Moon turned to blood” prophecy fulfilled in Acts 2:20!!! The awesome DAY OF THE LORD was fulfilled in the first century A.D. with the Vengeance (Luke 21:22) and “Wrath of the Lamb” (Revelation 6:16). The “DAY OF THE LORD” was the “GREAT TRIBULATION” PROPHECY that was FULFILLED in the First Century A.D.

Ephesians 6:12 “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this DARKNESS, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

1Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of DARKNESS into His marvelous LIGHT.”

Isaiah 5:20 “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute DARKNESS for LIGHT and LIGHT for DARKNESS; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” God promises WOE coming for governments, public school teachers, “news” reporters who lie, teach immorality as “good” and Bible morality as “evil.” The United States will “soon” perish because of the government corrupting the children with lies and immorality, and turning people from believing in God and the TRUTH of Jesus by teaching lies against believing in God and in the Gospel of Jesus.

Job 24:13–17 “Others have been with those who rebel against the LIGHT; They do not want to know its ways Nor abide in its paths. The murderer arises at dawn; He kills the poor and the needy, and at night he is as a thief. The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ And he disguises his face. In the DARK they dig into houses, They shut themselves up by day; They do not know the LIGHT. For the morning is the same to him as thick DARKNESS, For he is familiar with the terrors of thick DARKNESS.” People usually hide from the light of God in their sin when they still have a conscience, for they know in their hearts that they are doing wrong.

Proverbs 2:13–15 “From those who leave the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of DARKNESS; Who delight in doing evil, And rejoice in the perversity of evil; Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways.”

Proverbs 4:19 “The way of the wicked is like DARKNESS; They do not know over what they stumble.”

Isaiah 9:2 “The people who walk in DARKNESS will see a great LIGHT; Those who live in a DARK land, the LIGHT will SHINE on them.”

Matthew 6:23 “But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of DARKNESS. If then the LIGHT that is in you is DARKNESS, how great is the DARKNESS! There is Great DARKNESS coming for America if they do NOT repent of their heresy that Jesus is NOT here to rule and reign, but condones the “silence of the lambs,” the children who are being seduced and damned in many public schools by sinning teachers.

Revelation 2:4 “But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love. 5 Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.” Many American churches have lost their “first love” and have allowed their love of God and Jesus to grow cold. King Jesus threatens to remove God’s Light from them by removing the symbolic lampstand, the Lampstand of God the Father's Light, and the Lampstand holding God’s Light is Jesus.

Jesus promises NEVER TO LEAVE Christians who want Him to remain, but He will depart from them if they do NOT want Him to be in their hearts. If churches continue to reject seeking His Face and the TRUTH OF HIS REIGN ON EARTH, Jesus will HIDE His Face so they will be in spiritual darkness.

Great spiritual DARKNESS has fallen upon many American Churches as a consequence of opposing establishing the Kingdom of God and Jesus in government, public schools, and in workplaces. Demons are being released from the Abyss, the Pit, to torment the people of the United States and to take captive the children who succumb to the doctrines of demons, the lies and perversion taught in the public schools, and the devils drag many people through the “Gates of Hell” into the kingdom of DARKNESS. Jesus WARNS it would be better for them to be killed or commit suicide rather than seducing the children to do evil (Mt. 18:6). Jesus has a terrible end planned for the United States if Christian leaders will NOT repent of opposing Him.

Luke 11:34–35 “The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of LIGHT; but when it is bad, your body also is full of DARKNESS. Then watch out that the LIGHT in you is not DARKNESS.” The DUTY of the spiritual “eye” gifted members of the Body of Christ is to keep their spiritual eyes on the Face of Jesus, which is also COMMANDED for all Christians! (1Cor. 13:12; 2Chron. 7:14)

2Chronicles 7:14 is a verse from the Bible that emphasizes repentance and prayer, promising that if God's people “humble themselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from their wicked ways, He will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.” This passage is a call for spiritual renewal and revival from Heaven and a reminder of God's CONDITIONAL PROMISES to His people. God has given His ultimatum to America, “either repent or perish.”

To be “mature” in God’s Sight is to be conformed into the “image and likeness” of Jesus. To learn OBEDIENCE, as Jesus also suffered to learn OBEDIENCE to God His Father (Hebrews 5:8).

Hebrews 5:7 “During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence. 8 Although He was a Son, HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE FROM WHAT HE SUFFERED. 9 And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.” MATURITY, ACCORDING TO GOD, IS BY BECOMING PERFECT AND BEING OBEDIENT to the Holy Spirit and OBEYING the VOICE OF JESUS.

Acts 26:18 “To open their eyes so that they may turn from DARKNESS to LIGHT and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.”

Romans 2:19 “and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a LIGHT to those who are in DARKNESS.” Many Christians are sinning and believe false doctrines and other heresies they are taught.

2Peter 2:4 “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of DARKNESS, reserved for JUDGMENT.” God will NOT spare American Christians who oppose His rule and reign of King Jesus, just as Jesus also damned the Jews to be sentenced to death in Luke 19:27.

Jude 6 “And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under DARKNESS for the JUDGMENT of THE GREAT DAY,” Satan's angels rejected God's LIGHT, and now they dwell in spiritual DARKNESS. Unfortunately, as Revelation 20:3 has written, to paraphrase, to reject King Jesus reigning in a “Millennium” results in releasing more demons to oppress and torment the people of the United States. Christian leaders MUST REPENT of opposing the CURRENT REIGN of King Jesus over the nations (Rev. 1:5). Their unbelief is literally bringing the coming ruin and desolation of God's Wrath.

God's Coming JUDGMENT on the Ungodly: Jude 11 “Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam [who teaches to corrupt the children with sexual immorality so God’s Wrath will come upon them and the nation]; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest DARKNESS has been reserved forever.” Many Christians who OPPOSE the Reign of King Jesus will suffer a similar JUDGMENT.

John 12:46 “I have come as LIGHT into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in DARKNESS.” Jesus gives the option of having God’s Love and His Companionship forever or not. Churches that continue to have their “FIRST LOVE” are blessed, with Jesus and God’s Light in their midst and hearts. “Where sin abounds, GRACE doth much more ABOUND.” Though Christians’ works of heresies are “wood, hay or stubble,” as the thief on the cross they did not have the time to do good works, but, without appropriate “works” they also will be in the presence of Jesus for eternity, if they work to spiritually see the Face of Jesus, which is God's gift of Love as they pass from this life (1Cor. 13:12).

John 9:39–41 “And Jesus said, ‘For JUDGMENT I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.’ Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, ‘We are not blind too, are we?’ Jesus said to them, ‘If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, We see, your sin remains.’” THOSE PEOPLE WHO REJECT THE LIGHT AND TRUTH OF GOD AND JESUS ARE NOT FORGIVEN, AND THEIR SINS REMAIN, AND THEY WILL BE EXILED INTO “OUTER DARKNESS” AND SUFFER THE “SECOND DEATH.” THOSE WHO DO NOT SEE THE FACE OF JESUS MAY BECOME SPIRITUALLY BLIND AND LOSE THEIR SALVATION AS THEY ARE TEMPTED AND THEN CHOOSE TO FALL INTO SIN AND THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS. As the Ten Commandments have written, to have any other god or spirit between them and the Face of Jesus is sin. “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3).

Isaiah 60:2 “For behold, DARKNESS will cover the earth And deep DARKNESS the peoples; But the Lord will rise upon you And His GLORY will appear upon you.” WANT REVIVAL? REPENT OF your SIN, AND DWELL IN THE LIGHT OF GOD AND PRESENCE OF JESUS, AND HIS GLORY WILL APPEAR UPON YOU!

Micah 7:8 “Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall, I will rise; Though I dwell in DARKNESS, the Lord is a LIGHT for me.” Jesus will light THE WAY out of spiritual darkness, if you pray to God the Father to save you. JESUS WILL FORGIVE YOU THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST JESUS AND HIS WORK ON THE CROSS. CRUCIFY YOUR SINFUL DESIRES, LUSTS, AS YOU SEEK THE LIGHT OF THE FACE OF JESUS, AND THEN YOU WILL RISE to Heavenly Places!

Psalm 82:5 “They do not know nor do they understand; They walk about in DARKNESS; All the foundations of the earth are shaken.” BECAUSE THE Council of Nicaea (325 A.D.) SINS OF REJECTING THE LIGHT AND TRUTH OF KING JESUS REIGNING ON EARTH, THE SELF-CURSED ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH CHOSE TO FALL INTO SPIRITUAL DARKNESS FOR MORE THAN A “THOUSAND YEARS.” THEY HAD A MILLENNIUM OF SPIRITUAL DARKNESS INSTEAD OF A MILLENNIUM OF GOD'S GRACE AND BLESSINGS because they did NOT want the TRUTH and God’s Light illuminating their sins!

Jeremiah 13:16 “Give GLORY to the Lord your God, Before He brings DARKNESS And before your feet stumble On the dusky mountains, And while you are hoping for God’s LIGHT He makes it into deep DARKNESS, And turns it into gloom.”

Amos 5:18–20 “Alas, you who are longing for the DAY OF THE LORD, For what purpose will the DAY OF THE LORD be to you? It will be DARKNESS and NOT LIGHT; As when a man flees from a lion and a bear meets him, or goes home, leans his hand against the wall, and a snake bites him. Will not the DAY OF THE LORD be DARKNESS instead of LIGHT, even GLOOM with no brightness in it?” Because most Jews rejected King Jesus, the DAY OF THE LORD, ALSO CALLED The “Great Tribulation” of 70 A.D. was truly a “Day of DARKNESS” as the Promised Land “vomited OUT,” and expelled the Jews from it and the City of Jerusalem was destroyed, razed to the ground, not one stone was left upon another, and the city was “wiped from the face of the earth” as America will be soon if Christian leaders will NOT repent of opposing establishing the Kingdom of God and Jesus on Earth in government, public schools and in workplaces such as the media.

Matthew 4:16 “The people who were sitting in DARKNESS saw a great LIGHT, And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, Upon them a LIGHT dawned.”

Luke 1:79 “To SHINE upon those who sit in DARKNESS and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into THE WAY of peace.”

Ephesians 4:18 “being DARKENED in their understanding, excluded from the LIFE of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart.”

1John 2:8–11 “On the other hand, I am writing a new Commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the DARKNESS is passing away and the true LIGHT is already shining. The one who says he is in the LIGHT and yet hates his brother is in the DARKNESS until now. The one who LOVES his brother abides in the LIGHT, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But the one who HATES his brother is in the DARKNESS and walks in the DARKNESS, and does not know where he is going because the DARKNESS has blinded his eyes.”

Job 12:25 “They grope in DARKNESS with no LIGHT, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.” Those who reject God's LIGHT and TRUTH are without “Common Sense,” and they grope and stagger, prophesying in their own ideas and those other ideas that demons give them.

Psalm 107:10–14 “There were those who dwelt in DARKNESS and in the shadow of death, Prisoners in misery and chains, Because they had rebelled against the words of God And spurned the counsel of the Most High. Therefore, He humbled their heart with labor; They stumbled, and there was none to help. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; He saved them out of their distress. He brought them out of DARKNESS and the shadow of death, and broke their bands apart.” God is Willing to bring people back into His LIGHT and Love in His Son, Jesus. But people MUST be willing to REPENT of the spiritual DARKNESS, and learn to seek His Face and yield to God's Love, for “God is Love.”

Isaiah 42:7 “To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon [chains of sin] And those who dwell in DARKNESS from the prison [bondage of sin].”

Isaiah 49:9 “Saying to those who are bound, ‘Go forth,’ To those who are in DARKNESS, ‘Show yourselves.’ Along the roads they will feed, And their pasture will be on all bare heights.” As people “show themselves” and expose their hearts to God's LIGHT, they are on the road, THE WAY, to SALVATION and God's BLESSINGS.

Zechariah 14:6–7 “In that day, there will be no LIGHT; the luminaries will dwindle. For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be LIGHT.” The DAY OF THE LORD is the context, in the time of the Old Testament Covenant PENALTY of Destruction, which was the required penalty of God's Law in Dt. 28. This Day of DARKNESS was probably fulfilled in 70 A.D. when Jesus, the LIGHT of the World, appeared, fulfilling His prophecy to the High Priest Caiaphas that he would see Jesus “Coming in the Clouds.”

John 15:22–24 “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated My Father and Me as well.” Most people love the spiritual DARKNESS of sin and hate the LIGHT and TRUTH of the Reign of Jesus over the nations, and His Namesake.

Romans 1:28–32 “And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.” Sin has a certain seductive spiritual attraction of more lust to commit more sin, sending sinners to go into greater DARKNESS, as sinners hide from the LIGHT of God in Jesus.

2Corinthians 6:14 “Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has LIGHT with DARKNESS?” It is a sin, and it is FORBIDDEN for Christians to marry nonbelievers in Jesus. However, as the Bible promises, “SALVATION is by Grace,” and Christians who have sinned may be saved if they repent, continue to believe in Jesus, and walk in His LIGHT and TRUTH.

1Thessalonians 5:7 “For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.” People who are sinning avoid Jesus, Who is the LIGHT of the world, and they hide in the spiritual DARKNESS of sin.

2Timothy 3:1– 5 “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.” As the Public Schools brainwash and seduce students with LGBTQI+ sexual perversion, and lies in the science classrooms, they are seduced into greater spiritual DARKNESS so they may never see the LIGHT of Jesus, Who is God's gift of eternal life and His Love.

Titus 3:3 “For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.” All people have been shut up in sin so God could give His mercy to all (Romans 11:32). God chooses spiritual DARKNESS for mankind, the sinful nature, so there will be less punishment in eternity for rejection of the LIGHT of the TRUTH of God. The more LIGHT and TRUTH people reject, the more punishment and JUDGMENT they require, so God, knowing the future, does them a favor by giving them only a minimum amount of LIGHT so they will be JUDGED and SENTENCED with a MINIMUM amount of eternal PUNISHMENT.

Psalm 74:20 “Consider the Covenant; For the DARK places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.”

Isaiah 29:15 “Woe to those who deeply hide their plans from the Lord, And whose deeds are done in a DARK place, And they say, ‘Who sees us?’ or ‘Who knows us?’”

Isaiah 47:10 “You felt secure in your wickedness and said, ‘No one sees me,’ Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one besides me.’” Spiritual DARKNESS gives a false sense of security by deceiving people into believing they may be correct, when the facts show they are believing a lie. Believing in anti-science evolution from amino-acids to humans with a TOTAL LACK OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE is a typical example of people trained to believe lies. In James 3:1, God declares, “Teachers shall have the GREATER JUDGMENT.” Teachers are fully accountable for ruining the minds of children and corrupting their souls with sin. As the Prophet Balaam said, to corrupt the people with the sin of sexual immorality, LGBTQI+, will BRING THE WRATH OF GOD UPON THE NATION!!!

IT IS A GREAT SIN to NOT LET KING JESUS RULE AND REIGN ON EARTH, for it will result in the damnation of many peoples and children, and it will result in the DEATH SENTENCE for many nations coming in WW3 and in its nuclear winter aftermath.

Jeremiah 2:31 “O generation, heed the WORD of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick DARKNESS? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; We will no longer come to You’?” America has wandered away from God. It is a miracle that God gave President Donald Trump the ministry to CALL AMERICA back to God and Jesus in public, and to make days dedicated to restoring America back to One Nation Under God.

John 7:7 “The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.” The world hates the LIGHT of God and Jesus! Because Christians obey the command of Jesus to “SHINE your LIGHT unto all men,” most people hate Christians! Because Jesus actually dwells inside Christians, the world hates Christians. Jesus said, “You will be hated by all nations for my Name's sake.” Christians are given the choice of being the “Head or the Tail” of all nations. The Choice of taking the Commanding Heights of government policies, public schools, and the workplace, or being persecuted into near extinction, as the U.N. World Government and America's public schools have PLANNED and are doing today to brainwash children against believing in God or America (“America” means: “Kingdom of Heaven”).

Matthew 5:15 “Neither do people LIGHT a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives LIGHT to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your LIGHT SHINE before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in Heaven. 17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.”

Progressive SANCTIFICATION AND HOLINESS IS GOD’S COMMAND for believing Christians, and obeying the Spirit of God's Law of “The Ten Commandments” is instrumental in showing the LIGHT of God in Christians' lives. Jesus is the “LIGHT of the world,” and Christ dwells in you, shining the LIGHT of God. These are some of the reasons why the world hates Christians.

Romans 1:18 “For the WRATH OF GOD is revealed from Heaven against ALL ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the TRUTH in unrighteousness.” America should FEAR GOD's Coming WRATH for the sin of OPPOSING Him and becoming a Christian nation by U.S. Law and FAILING TO SUBMIT to the leading of the Holy Spirit according to one's freedom of conscience. “THE WAY OF ESCAPE” FROM GOD’S COMING WRATH IS TAKING THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS AND LETTING KING JESUS REIGN ON EARTH in the United States Government. The Holy Spirit says: “America, Repent or Perish.”

The early Christian Church is called “THE WAY” in Acts (Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22). Proverbs 21:1 COMMANDS for children who are to be trained up in “THE WAY.” The Bible defines the WAY to educate children. Jesus identifies Himself as the ONLY WAY, that is the ONLY “THE WAY” they have to access God and eternal life.

In John 14:6, Jesus says, “I am the [ONLY] Way, and the [absolute] Truth, and the [eternal] life. No one [nobody!] comes to [God] the Father except through Me.”

King Jesus is not just a religious savior, but He is a fierce King here to establish His literal, physical kingdom on earth (Rev. 1:5).

The modern cultural shift in most media and public schools has turned Christian values from being viewed as “stupid” to being viewed as “evil” and hate speech. Because of this, he asserts that the church can no longer remain neutral or silent under the guise of avoiding politics, as the government has increasingly crossed over into theological and moral territory.

The Shift From “Neutral” to a “Spiritual War” against God and America (America's definition: Kingdom of Heaven). The government is getting theological. As the government begins to redefine marriage, sexuality, and dictate what people put into their bodies, it is no longer a political issue, but a spiritual one. The government is no longer neutral but has become hostile to Biblical morality and doctrines.

If the Church goes silent, society, government, and public schools fall victim to demonic agendas in government, school curriculum, and moral collapse.

Free apologetics are available at ChristianAmendment.com to advocate for the Christian America Constitutional Amendment!

1Corinthians 4:5 “Therefore do not go on passing JUDGMENT before the time, [“Who are you to judge?”] but wait until the Lord comes, who will both bring to LIGHT the things hidden in the DARKNESS and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to him from God.” This “coming” (Gk: Parousia) or “presence” of Jesus in the air in at the clouds happened at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem and will also be at the Resurrection of the Righteous is when this prophecy is fulfilled; the motives of men are exposed by the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

2Corinthians 4:6 “For God, Who said, ‘LIGHT shall SHINE out of DARKNESS,’ is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the LIGHT of the KNOWLEDGE of the GLORY of God in the FACE of Christ.” This shows the IMPORTANCE of OBEYING God’s COMMAND to “see the Face of Jesus” (1Cor. 13:12) in the lives of Christians EVERY DAY, including TODAY! “Seeing the FACE of JESUS” is “THE WAY OF ESCAPE” (1Cor. 10:13). The Face of Jesus is the direction to go, as it is THE WAY OF ESCAPE from temptations, freedom from sins, spirits of infirmity, sicknesses, and pain. Although pain may or may not continue, it will be diminished and more tolerable as God the Father lifts our spirits to see the Face of Jesus every day!

1Corinthians 10:12 “So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall. 13 No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it. 14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.” If Christians will pray when facing temptations and trials, God will provide a “Way of Escape”: seeking and “Seeing the Face of Jesus,” whose spirit now dwells in ALL believing Christians (Romans 8:15).

Hebrews 3:13 “But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called ‘Today,’ so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” Christians are COMMANDED to ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER EVERY DAY that Jesus is with them and the Spirit of Christ dwells in them (ROMANS 8:15) and although Jesus said, “the Spirit is invisible like the wind,” and Apostle Paul said, “we do not know what He looks like,” yet God helps us to see Christ's "invisible" face which is THE WAY to SEE God the Father as Jesus told Apostle Thomas, TO SEE THE FACE OF JESUS IS TO SEE GOD THE FATHER.

1John 3:19–20 “We will know by this that we are of the TRUTH, and will assure our heart before Him in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows ALL things.”

Revelation 16:10–11 “Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became DARKENED; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain, and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not REPENT of their deeds.” This shows the general behavior of the human race and WHY the COMING folly of the U.N. World Government will NOT bring world peace and prosperity because men and women refuse to REPENT of their sinful behaviors and repent of their hate of the TRUTH and LIGHT of God and Jesus. No matter how “equal” the global standard of living becomes, wars, sins, and all sorts of evil with a totalitarian WORLD GOVERNMENT will gradually drive humanity to EXTINCTION!!!

Job 38:19–20 “Where is THE WAY to the dwelling of LIGHT? And DARKNESS, where is its place, That you may take it to its territory And that you may discern the paths to its home?” JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO THE DWELLING OF GOD'S LIGHT! TAKE IT! Seek to See His Face daily, AMEN.

Psalm 35:6 “Let their way be DARK and slippery, With the angel of the Lord pursuing them.” King David was “a man after God's Own Heart.” And so it is CLEARLY God's Will for the Angel of the LORD to pursue them into spiritual DARKNESS, executing God's JUDGMENT upon them if they will NOT REPENT of their evil deeds and hating God’s Light.

Psalm 88:6 “You have put me in the lowest pit, in DARK places, in the depths. Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will FEAR NO evil, for You are with me.” “The LORD is My Shepherd” (Psalm 23).

Psalm 23:1 “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His Name’s sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will FEAR no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.” Amen

Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 1:5 “No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.” In the Great Commission, Jesus promises to always be with all believing Christians FOREVER (Matthew 28:20).

Psalm 143:3 “For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in DARK places, like those who have long been dead.” Jesus sometimes allows and raises up enemies to oppress our souls, as the Book of Job has written. God has raised up enemies for America just as He raised up enemies against Israel, as the Holy Bible has written, because “Jesus is ALWAYS the same,” and Jesus did what God His Father TOLD HIM TO DO in the Old Testament when He raised up enemies against ancient Israel and being the same in the New Testament, Jesus will raise up more enemies against the United States.

Ecclesiastes 11:8 “Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the DAYS of DARKNESS, for they will be MANY. Everything that is to come will be futility.” As Jesus said, “Every day will have its own troubles!!!”

In the Book “The Purpose Driven Life” by Rick Warren, the Pastor claims that God basically wants us to be “happy.” However, as the Beatitudes have recorded, to be “Blessed” and “Happy” requires OBEDIENCE TO JESUS with certain characteristics and godly behaviors. Without these righteous behaviors, we will NOT be HAPPY! What God and Jesus want above all else is OBEDIENCE to Him by listening and obeying the Voice of Jesus. Jesus said, “If you LOVE Me, you will OBEY Me!” Happiness is the result of OBEDIENCE to the Leading of the Holy Spirit. To be conformed into the “image and likeness” of Christ is God's Command for all those who want to be eternally “Happy.” “The PURE IN HEART WILL SEE GOD.” Technically, Jesus said He is the ONLY one that will ever see God; however, Jesus is the exact representation and image of God His Father, as Jesus told Apostle Thomas: to see Jesus is to see God the Father.

Jeremiah 23:12 “Therefore their WAY will be like slippery paths to them, they will be DRIVEN AWAY into the GLOOM and FALL DOWN in it; For I will bring CALAMITY upon them, [in] the year of their PUNISHMENT, declares the Lord.” GOD HIMSELF DRIVES THOSE WHO DO NOT WALK IN GOD’S LIGHT AND THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS from His Light INTO the GLOOM AND DARKNESS OF SIN.

Lamentations 3:2 “He has DRIVEN me and made me walk in DARKNESS and NOT in LIGHT.” When God drives people into spiritual DARKNESS because of their unREPENTant sin, Jesus continues to look for those who REPENT, walk in God's LIGHT, and are willing to do His Will.

Matthew 8:12 “But the [SINNING in UNBELIEF Jews who were, ‘past tense,’] sons of the Kingdom will be CAST OUT into the OUTER DARKNESS; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” “Jesus is always the same,” and as He was in the Old Testament, so Jesus is the same in the New Testament and takes His Light from Christians and churches in their sin of UNBELIEF.

Romans 11:19 “You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20 That is correct: THEY WERE BROKEN OFF BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. 21 For if GOD DID NOT SPARE THE NATURAL BRANCHES [OF ISRAEL AND] HE WILL CERTAINLY NOT SPARE YOU [harlot or unbelieving Christians] EITHER.”

Luke 22:53 “While I was with you daily in the temple, you did not lay hands on Me; but this hour and THE POWER OF DARKNESS are yours.” God gives people over to their sins and the power of DARKNESS when people reject God's LIGHT and the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jude 4 “For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” Christians who “love” Jesus and then continue to sin regularly with sexual perversion will end up in eternal outer DARKNESS if there is no REPENTANCE. True LOVE is OBEDIENCE to the LEADING of the Holy Spirit and OBEYING the VOICE OF JESUS. Jesus COMMANDS CHRISTIANS TO “Hear what the Spirit is saying.” TO FAIL TO LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF JESUS IS SIN.

Revelation 3:19 “Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline; therefore be zealous and REPENT! 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My Voice and opens the door [of their heart], I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. 21 The one who OVERCOMES, I will grant to him to sit with Me on My Throne, as I also OVERCAME and sat with My Father on His Throne. 22 The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Deuteronomy 28:29 “and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in DARKNESS, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.” This is God's Covenant Law today: if Christians fail to walk in God's LIGHT and TRUTH, then Jesus sends oppressors, destroyers, devils, and evil spirits to oppress and motivate people to REPENT, IF POSSIBLE.

Psalm 91:6 “Of the pestilence that stalks in DARKNESS, Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.” If Christians will WALK IN God's LIGHT and in His RIGHTEOUSNESS, God will help those who REPENT of their sins to walk in His LIGHT and TRUTH.

Proverbs 20:20 “He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of DARKNESS.” Those people who sin and curse their parents, when the spiritual DARKNESS of sin comes upon them, then God's LIGHT will depart. The Prodigal son cursed His father by demanding his inheritance prematurely. Then the prodigal son continued into sinful DARKNESS of prostitution, revelry, and nearly DIED of starvation. Then his mind was given God's LIGHT to seek REPENTANCE and forgiveness of his sin by his Father, SYMBOLIC OF GOD THE FATHER, and he was figuratively clothed with the robe of “Christ,” and his name was written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and if he would endure to the end of his life, then the repentant prodigal son would inherit eternal life.

Isaiah 50:10 “Who is among you that FEARS the Lord, That obeys the voice of His servant [JESUS], That walks in DARKNESS and has NO LIGHT? Let him trust in the NAME of the Lord and rely on his God.”

Ezekiel 8:12 “Then He said to me, Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the DARK, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

Matthew 22:13 “Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer DARKNESS; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’” Jesus WARNS those people who will not REPENT of continuing in their sin will be exiled and imprisoned in eternal DARKNESS for eternity.

Matthew 25:30 “Throw out the worthless slave into the outer DARKNESS; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

2Peter 2:17 “These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black DARKNESS has been reserved.” To fail to have the “living water” of Jesus (John 7:38) will eventually result in eternal exile from the Light of God and Jesus, Who is “The Light of the World.”

EXODUS 10:21–23 “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be DARKNESS over the land of Egypt, even a DARKNESS which may be felt.’ So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick DARKNESS in all the land of Egypt for three days. They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the sons of Israel had LIGHT in their dwellings.” Christians who are Sons of God will always have God's Light in them. Because Jesus is “The Light of the world,” He will always dwell in believing Christians, shining His Light in them.

Job 34:22 “There is no DARKNESS or deep shadow Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.” God's Light will find you eventually, no matter how dark the DARKNESS you are hiding in, if you pray and want deliverance from sin and do His Will.

Psalm 112:4 “LIGHT arises in the DARKNESS for the upright; He is gracious and compassionate and righteous.”

Nahum 1:8 "But with an overflowing flood He will make a complete end of its site, And will pursue His enemies into DARKNESS." God PROMISES He will avenge and pursue His enemies into spiritual DARKNESS until He has fulfilled His Wrath upon them.

Genesis 1:2–4 “The earth was formless and void, and DARKNESS was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be LIGHT’– and there was LIGHT. God saw that the LIGHT was good; and God separated the LIGHT from the DARKNESS.”

1Samuel 2:9 “He keeps the feet of His godly ones, But the wicked ones are silenced in DARKNESS; For not by might shall a man prevail.”

Psalm 18:28 “For You LIGHT my lamp; The Lord my God illumines my DARKNESS.”

Psalm 139:11–12 “If I say, ‘Surely the DARKNESS will overwhelm me, And the LIGHT around me will be night, Even the DARKNESS is not DARK to You, And the night is as bright as the day. DARKNESS and LIGHT are alike to You.’”

Isaiah 45:7 “The One forming LIGHT and creating DARKNESS, Causing well-being and creating calamity [bad]; I am the Lord who does all these.”

It is God's COMMAND that ONLY the ORACLES of God are to be regarded as Scripture and NOT the imaginations of men.

Proverbs 30:5–6: “Every WORD of God is flawless… Do not ADD to His WORDS.” To ADD to the WORD of God is sin and God's CURSE will be ADDED to him (Deuteronomy 4:2; Revelation 22:18-19). It is a common sin in the pulpit to add to God's WORD or take away from the WORD of God and substitute the wrong-headed ideas of people.

Revelation 22:18–19: is a warning against adding to or subtracting from the one single prophecy SCROLL of the Apocalypse and NOT to end ALL prophecies and end ALL new Scriptures for ALL time. God, Who is “always the same,” will continue to speak through Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, and to every Christian who has “ears to hear what the Spirit is saying,” through His Son Jesus, forever.

Deuteronomy 4:2 “Do not ADD to what I Command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the Commands of the Lord your God that I give you.” – Deuteronomy 4:2 It is sin to add man’s ideas and words to the ORACLES of Voice of Jesus. Jesus continues speaking today, and to add to the words of the Holy Spirit is a GREAT SIN AND TRANSGRESSION against God.

Proverbs 30:6 “Do not ADD to His WORDS, or He will REBUKE you and prove you a liar.” – Proverbs 30:6

Revelation 22:18-19 “I warn everyone who hears the WORDS of the prophecy of this SCROLL: If anyone ADDS anything to them, God will ADD to that person the plagues described in this SCROLL.” JESUS IS STILL SPEAKING TODAY, AND MORE SCROLLS or books will be written, MORE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, THE ORACLES OF GOD ONLY MAY BE REGARDED AS THE TRUTH AND sometimes WORTHY TO BE included in the CANON IN THE HOLY BIBLE AS THE WORD OF GOD.

Galatians 1:8 “But even if an angel from heaven or we should preach another gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!” God harshly judges those who oppose His WORD and substitute their own ideas.

1Corinthians 4:6 “Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, ‘DO NOT GO BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN’.” – 1 Corinthians 4:6

Why do the Scriptures prophesy that God will CONTINUE to give to the CHURCH Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, and Teachers if Prophets were truly no longer being GIVEN BY JESUS (Eph. 4 and no longer authorized to speak prophecies? Because God does NOT contradict Himself. As in 1Corinthians 14:29 “Two or three PROPHETS should speak, and the OTHERS should weigh carefully what is said.” But because Christian leaders continue to oppose the WORD of God and the sin of unbelief, they ban or silence the utterances of the Holy Spirit. Jesus indwells every believing Christian who invites Him into their hearts, and Jesus speaks today just as the Holy Spirit COMMANDS Him. True PROPHETS who have “ears to hear what the Spirit is saying” will speak the “Oracles of God” of prophecy of the Holy Spirit, just as Apostle Paul prayed the “Oracles of God” would be given to him to prophesy.

Ephesians 4: 11 “And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ,” or do the ministries of Jesus on Earth need NO FURTHER EQUIPPING?

Sinning, unbelieving Christian leaders don't want “competition from Jesus” and have their false doctrines contradicted by the Holy Spirit! So they obstruct and quench the Holy Spirit’s work in their flocks and congregations. Christian leaders should work with Jesus “face to face” so their congregations may be equipped with spiritual charisma gifts to work and interface with Jesus, face to face (1 Cor. 13:12), and be prepared for eternal life.

Shame on Christian leaders who OPPOSE the work of the Holy Spirit gifts (1Cor. 12) in the lives of the saints because of their great sin of unbelief! Their sins of unbelief are damning the churches, saints, children, and the nation.

Revelation 22:18 “book” or “scroll” in the Greek βιβλίου (bibliou)

Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular

Strong's 975: A papyrus roll. A diminutive of biblos; a SINGLE ROLL or scroll.

The Book of Revelation is a book of a SINGLE prophecy, and not all the prophecies of the Canon would be ended on this Earth. They imagine God has changed and has become SILENT, and there would be no more Scriptures spoken to include in the Holy Bible. The sin of unbelief is damning children and driving the United States into the kingdom of darkness.

Because the Christian leaders of the Nicean Council in 325 A.D. refused to listen to the Voice of Jesus, and as a result, a “thousand years” of the “Dark Ages” fell upon the church! They failed to understand that God CANNOT CHANGE! (Malachi 3:6) and He is “ALWAYS THE SAME.” Jesus is the “Last Adam,” and Christ became sin on the Cross, as ONLY a created being could sin (John 3:16). Just as Adam, who sinned, Christ was also a created being, begotten by the Holy Spirit of the Father Who “breathed” His Spirit into Adam. As God fathered, He created all spirits (Hebrews 12:9). Repeat: God CANNOT Sin because He is forever Holy and He does NOT CHANGE! KING JESUS DOES NOT SUDDENLY CHANGE AND sometime in the future BEGIN HIS REIGN OVER KINGS AND NATIONS IN A heretical version of the MILLENNIUM. JESUS REIGNS TODAY OVER ALL KINGS AND NATIONS (Rev. 1:5; 1Cor. 15:25).

Hebrews 12:9 “Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them for it. How much more should we SUBMIT to the Father of spirits and live!” SUBMIT to God the Father, Creator of our spirits, and live, and NOT die in the Second Death.

God's Tragic JUDGMENT is Coming for America if Christian leaders do not REPENT of opposing establishing the Kingdom of God and the Reign of King Jesus being established in America, by advocating and allowing enough Christian law so the children are not being corrupted by government forced indoctrination in immorality and lies in the public schools, and also allowing Freedom of Christian speech in government, public schools, and in the workplace.

Galatians 1:8–9: Paul reinforces that no later message may alter the gospel once delivered. “Jesus is Always the Same.” JESUS THE WORD will not deviate, nor sin by changing His WORDS of Apostolic Doctrine written in the New Testament. God the Father Who spoke the WORD that will last forever will NOT change; He is “ALWAYS THE SAME.” Once CREATED, after Jesus passed THE TEST, Jesus the WORD of God will last forever as the Mediator between God and Christians. Having passed the TEST of choosing to remain sinless, Jesus will give Himself and everything to God His Father and will perfectly express God the Father through Himself for all eternity (1Cor. 15:28).

All three passages mirror the Sinai principle: God’s revelation comes with divinely set limits that humans must not breach or transgress. God’s revelation will continue throughout eternity. Speaking the Oracles of God is the subject, whether or not Christians should choose to obey the Voice of Jesus and speak His ORACLES.

Canon Integrity of More Scripture:

Hebrews 1:1 “On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets. 2 But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.” Jesus will continue to speak directly to the spiritual ears of listening Christians, and He will continue to speak through PROPHETS who have JESUS indwelling them. Otherwise, why would Jesus continue to give additional PROPHETS in the New Testament (Eph. 4:11), if Jesus was NOT SPEAKING through PROPHETS? Do not PROPHETS speak the “ORACLES OF GOD?” Of course, Prophets speak the ORACLES OF GOD, as ALL Christians are asked to speak the ORACLES OF GOD. The Canon of Scripture is CATEGORICALLY NOT CLOSED, as Jesus is ALWAYS THE SAME and He WILL ALWAYS SPEAK more LOGOS Canon to Christians throughout eternity.

The real sin is that if Christians speak anything else but the ORACLES OF GOD; it may be SIN. As Jesus said, “Every WORD will be JUDGED that man speaks.” Jesus said, “I do not speak of My own initiative,” but ONLY what God the Father COMMANDS Him to speak in visions. All Christians, especially prophets, are called to speak the ORACLES of God as Jesus does.

Christians should GREATLY FEAR taking away from the WORD of God YHWH, or Jehovah, DELETING the NAME of GOD more than 7,000 times, which angers God. Bible publishers should reinstate the Name of God YHWH, or Jehovah in all published Bibles. The Jews dared to delete the Name of God 7,000 and got themselves cut off from Jesus, as branches once connected to the Vine of Jesus (Romans 11:17), the Jews were cut off and they were exiled from the Promised Land for 2,000 years. America needs to REPENT of foolish, stupid ideas, and heresies before God takes the life of the nation for the Sin of its rebellion, the sin of unbelief and opposition to establishing the Kingdom of God on Earth by making America a Christian nation before it is too late! It is almost too late now! Instead of having a supposed “third revival,” America shall have ruin, enemy takeover, coming destruction, and death.

Jesus is our example, and Jesus spoke as God the Father told Him what to speak:

Christians are COMMANDED to do the same as Jesus did, and speak what Jesus tells us to speak. Jesus said, “My Sheep Hear My Voice!” Christians are COMMANDED to “speak the ORACLES of God.”

John 12:49 “I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it. 50 And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”

John 5:19 “So Jesus replied, ‘Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.’” Jesus EXPECTS believing Christians to “Pray Always” (2Th. 1:11; Lk. 21:36) and seek and spiritually “see” the Face of Jesus by petitioning God Our Father to help us who are seeking Him to see the spiritual Face of Jesus which is God’s Promise in 1Cor. 13:12; 2Chron. 7:14. Just as Jesus Christ could do NOTHING without seeing the Visions God gave Him of what to say and what to do, Jesus could do NOTHING. Likewise, Christians are COMMANDED to spiritually “see the Face of Jesus” and spiritually listen and physically OBEY the Voice of Jesus and the leading of the Holy Spirit. As Jesus told Apostle Thomas, to see Him is to see God the Father. “The pure in heart shall see God,” meaning that the more Holy, more pure, and more sanctified Christians become, the better they will spiritually see God by seeing the Face of Jesus.

John 14:24 “Whoever does not love Me does NOT keep My WORDS. The WORD that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father Who sent Me.” Jesus speaks the WORDS that God COMMANDS Him to speak, and Jesus will CONTINUE to speak for all of eternity according to the LOGOS of God.

John 17:8 “For I have given them the WORDS You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.”

John 3:34 “For the One whom God has sent speaks the WORDS of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.”

John 6:38 “For I have come down from Heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the Will of Him who sent Me.” Jesus has His OWN FREE WILL, and He chose to align His WILL with God the Father's WILL, Who created Him in the Beginning of the LOGOS (John 1:1). As Jesus Christ serves God the Father, so Christians are called to do the Will of God the Father exactly as He speaks with the Voice of Jesus. And all believing Christians are expected to daily see the Face of Jesus and HEAR the Voice of Jesus, and be Led by the Holy Spirit.

John 8:26 “I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is TRUTHFUL, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”

2Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is God-breathed,” equipping believers “for every good work.” The Canon of the WORD stands. However, to express ALL of the WORD as the ORACLES of God will take forever.

Jude 3— “the faith once for all delivered to the saints” reflects the same finality first signaled at Sinai with the Ten Commandments given to Moses. God gives each Christian a measure of Faith who will receive Him.

Synopsis:

“Closed Canon”— is a false doctrine that claims God’s revelation is complete and no additional authoritative texts should be added to Scripture. Jesus is the WORD OF GOD, and He continues to speak ORACLES FOREVER. The heresy of silencing God by CLOSING the Canon of Scripture to more letters and books OF THE ORACLES OF GOD, rejecting the WORD of God, has sent the world into more spiritual DARKNESS for more than a Millennium and continues sending the churches and nations into the kingdom of darkness as Jesus and the Light of God leave churches who are rejecting the Reign of King Jesus on Earth today!

Biblical warnings about textual integrity: Revelation warns against adding to or removing from its single scroll, or pamphlet, of the Apocalypse prophecy (Rev 22:18–19), while Deuteronomy contains similar prohibitions against altering God’s commands (Deuteronomy 4:2; 12:32). God continues to speak ORACLES and PROPHECIES through His Son Jesus today and believing Christians are expected to listen, submit and obey the Rule and Reign of King Jesus on Earth!

Jude appeals to believers to defend “the Faith which was once and for all handed down to the saints” (Jude 3), and 2Timothy asserts that Scripture equips believers for every good work (2Tim. 3:16–17). Faith is a spiritual substance that pleases God (Hebrews 11:6). God gives each a measure of the Faith (Romans 12:3).

These Scriptures provide biblical foundations that theologians have historically invoked in discussions of the closure of the canon.

Revelation 22:18–19 “I testify to everyone who hears the WORDS of the prophecy of this book [single “scroll” or book singular and NOT plural books]: if anyone adds to them, God will ADD to him the PLAGUES which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.” God will punish and banish anyone who takes away from His WORD into “Outer Darkness” and the “Lake of Fire” if they imagine fairy tales and add them to the WORD of God. Christians are sinning by opposing the ORACLES of God when they are presented as additional “Canon” to be added to the Canon of the Holy Bible.

God promises to give severe chastisement and punishment, when necessary, to those who take away from the WORD of God. This is why if Christian leaders do NOT repent of taking away from the Reign of King Jesus on Earth in His Temple of the Body of Christ, the consequences coming will be extremely severe, ultimately resulting in the end of the nation and ultimately its destruction.

Jude 3 “BELOVED, while I was making every effort to write you about our common SALVATION, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.”

2Timothy 3:16–17 “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.” All future ORACLES of Scriptures will be inspired by God forever.

Deuteronomy 4:2 “You shall not add to the WORD which I am Commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the Commandments of the Lord your God which I Command you.

Deuteronomy 12:32 “Whatever I Command you, YOU SHALL BE CAREFUL TO DO; you shall NOT ADD to NOR TAKE AWAY from it.”

Proverbs 30:5–6 “Every WORD of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. DO NOT ADD to His WORDS, or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.” God watches over His WORD to perform it, and He will personally reprove those who violate Scriptural integrity by substituting traditional doctrines and heresies and PROVE the false teachers are LIARS. Note: Liars “shall find their part in the Lake of fire” (Revelation 21:8). Lying about what supposedly belongs to the “Closed Canon” may result in being cast into the Lake of Fire forever.

Revelation 21:7 “The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son. 8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters AND ALL LIARS, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the Second Death.”

1Corinthians 4:6 “Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may LEARN NOT TO EXCEED WHAT IS WRITTEN, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.”

Galatians 1:8–9 “Even if we, or an angel from Heaven, were to preach a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he would be accursed! As we have previously stated, I reiterate that if any man is preaching a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!” Any words that are different than the ORACLES of God, the WORD of God, are ANATHEMA!

2Peter 1:20–21 “However, it is important to note that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of personal interpretation! No prophecy was ever made by human will; rather, men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” Only men or women who are Led by the Holy Spirit may possibly speak the ORACLES of God.

Deuteronomy 18:20–22 “But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My Name which I have NOT commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall DIE!” “You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’” “When a prophet speaks in the Name of the Lord, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.” False prophets speak false words and imagine things that will NOT happen.

1Corinthians 14:37–38 “If anyone believes they are a prophet or spiritual, they should recognize that the things I write to you are the Lord’s commandment. However, if anyone does not recognize this, they are not recognized.” The same holds TRUE today! To those who reject the Oracles of God and Voice of Jesus ARE NOT RECOGNIZED BY GOD AND JESUS, and have NO PART in Jesus the Vine of Life.

Many churches rejecting the WORD of God, and King Jesus have the Light of God taken away from them. By removing Himself, the Light of God also departs from them. Jesus said, “I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.”

Although many churches may continue to practice a “form of religion” with some orthodox doctrines remaining, they remain unwilling to listen to the Voice of Jesus and accept the rest of the Truth, thereby preventing themselves from salvation. As Jesus WARNS in Revelation, He will remove God’s LIGHT by removing HIMSELF, symbolized by the threatened removal of the lampstand, from that church that wants the sin of spiritual darkness instead of embracing God’s Light and Truth.

2Thessalonians 2:15 “Therefore, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us.” God's traditions and Letters of the ORACLES of God are to be recognized and universally taught.

1Timothy 6:3–4 “If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound WORDS, those [WORDS] of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, they are conceited and understand nothing. Instead, they have a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, which lead to envy, strife, abusive language, and evil suspicions.” ONLY the “Pure in Heart,” having godliness, will see God.

2John 9–10 “Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who ABIDES IN THE TEACHING has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive them into your house and do not give them a greeting;” Many churches disfellowship true Prophets, and instead welcome false prophets because they want “another gospel,” and their lusts fulfilled for wealth and personal gain.

Revelation 1:1 “This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants WHAT MUST SOON COME TO PASS. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, 2 who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because THE TIME IS NEAR.”

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God bestowed upon Him to reveal to His faithful servants the imminent events, was communicated to His servant John by His angel. John, a witness to the WORD of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, bore witness to all that he had seen. This is Scriptural PROOF that most of the Book of Revelation is already fulfilled prophecy that happened “soon” or was imminent, as the Great Tribulation was symbolic of the 70 A.D. destruction of Jerusalem. “Blessed is the individual who reads and hears the WORDS of the prophecy and heeds the instructions contained within it, for the time is drawing near.” The time for the Great Tribulation and the destruction of the city of Jerusalem was “near” and was NOT to be delayed for thousands of years.

Hebrews 1:1–2 “God, after speaking to the fathers through the prophets in various portions and ways in the past, has now spoken to us through His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things and through whom He created the world.”

John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, will TEACH you ALL THINGS and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.”

John 16:13 “But when He, the Spirit of TRUTH, comes, He will guide you into all the TRUTH; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.”

2Timothy 2:2 “The things that you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.”

1Thessalonians 2:13 “For this reason, we constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it truly is, THE WORD OF GOD, which also performs its work in you who believe.”

2Peter 3:15–16 “And consider the patience of our Lord as SALVATION; just as also our BELOVED brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things difficult to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.”

1Corinthians 15:1–2 “Now, I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.”

Colossians 2:8 “See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.” Many churches compromise with the world; many Christians are hypocrites and compromise the WORD of God and cooperate with the sins of governments, and brainwash children with antichrist philosophy and unbiblical worldviews.

2Timothy 4:3–4 “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the TRUTH and will turn aside to myths.”

Titus 1:9 “Holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict.”

Romans 16:17 “Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.”

1John 4:1 “BELOVED, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

Acts 17:11 “Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the WORD with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.” Be noble and examine Scriptures to see if the oracles spoken in God’s Name are Scriptural.

Isaiah 8:20 “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this WORD, it is because they have no dawn.” People who live in spiritual darkness have no Light of God and no understanding of righteousness.

Psalm 119:89 “Forever, O Lord, Your WORD is settled in Heaven.”

Isaiah 40:8 “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the WORD of our God stands forever.”

Matthew 5:18 “For truly I say to you, until Heaven and Earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until ALL is accomplished.”

Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My WORDS will NOT pass away.”

1Peter 1:25 “‘But the word of the Lord endures forever.’ And this is the WORD which was preached to you.”

Luke 16:17 “But it is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.”

Ecclesiastes 3:14 “I acknowledge that all of God’s actions will endure eternally; there is nothing to add to them or take away from them, as God has so ordained that people should FEAR Him.”

Psalm 119:160 “The entirety of Your word is TRUTH, and every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting.”

Mark 13:31 “Heaven and earth WILL PASS AWAY, but My Words will not pass away.” PAY ATTENTION! JESUS SAID ALL PHYSICAL MATTER WILL PASS AWAY! Christians who are faithful to hear and OBEY the Voice of Jesus will be “like the angels,” who usually do NOT appear in physical bodies.

The heresy of the “Closed Canon” of scripture refers to the fixed collection of biblical books that the religious community regards as authoritative, divinely inspired, and final. Once the canon was considered “Closed,” no further books of Scripture, Oracles of God, could be added, and none could be removed. As a result of being closed-minded about what was claimed to be the Closed Canon, and thus rejecting the Light of God and the TRUTH, the Church entered the “Dark Ages” and was largely ruled by the Kingdom of DARKNESS because it largely rejected the Reign of King Jesus on Earth.

By rejecting the rule of King Jesus, denying Him from REIGNING in their lives, and refusing to listen or choosing to discredit God and His Voice of Jesus, the churches have rejected the Light of God, damned themselves, helping the devils of the Kingdom of DARKNESS to take over the churches and the nations of Earth.

1Corinthians 14:29 “Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.” PROPHETS ARE NEEDED in ALL New Testament churches today!

1Thessalonians 5:20-21 “Do not treat prophecies with contempt, but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.”

1John 4:1 “BELOVED, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

1Corinthians 12:10 “…to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.” PROPHETS are needed in all New Testament Churches to judge the veracity and truth of what happens in Churches.

1Corinthians 2:15 “The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s JUDGMENT.”

The heresy of the “Closed Canon” silences God and the Voice of Jesus. How can ALL Christians speak the “Oracles of God” if the Canon of Scriptures were truly Closed? Jesus is the very WORD of GOD, the LOGOS, and He is speaking to His sheep, and He will continue to speak for all eternity in New Jerusalem.

But many Christians demand to NOT hear from God, as Israel sinned under Moses, for they DO NOT WANT GOD and JESUS TO SPEAK to them, but instead they want the church leaders to speak their own ideas and prophesy from their own spirits to their great harm and loss to future generations.

The Concept of “Closing” the Canon of Scripture of the WORD of God:

The term “Canon” comes from the Greek kanōn, meaning a “measuring rod” or “standard.”

Closing the Biblical canon serves to:

Establish Orthodoxy: It defines the limits of their faith and, although it protects against heresy, it also limits it. Basically, by establishing boundaries around theology, they decide NOT to listen to God and the Voice of King Jesus to their harm.

Closed Canon Preserves Traditions: It ensures that the religion's foundational teachings and traditions remain consistent across generations. Immobilizing Christians, often binding them with sins of UNBELIEF, freezing them into inaction when most of the nation’s children are being ruined, corrupted, and their souls are being damned, brainwashing as they are stampeded through the “Gates of Hell.”

Finalized Authority limiting Jesus’ influence to the confines of the Closed Canon of the Bible: It signals that the era of primary revelation (such as that of the Prophets or “Twelve” Apostles) has concluded. Although Ephesians 4 has written more Apostles and Prophets will continue to be given by King Jesus until all Christians are “perfect” as Jesus commanded as the Will of God for His disciples in Matthew 5:48. The “Closed Canon” mindset freezes Christians in place; their love is being turned cold because of their sin of UNBELIEF and unwillingness to listen to the Voice of Jesus. To them, the 66 books of the Holy Bible are all there is and all there will ever be in this life, as America falls to bankruptcy and ruin. Because they do NOT BELIEVE that Jesus is Not Only in Christians, that suddenly, Jesus will begin to reign in a Millennium, while their children are given to their enemies in the public schools to be corrupted by immorality, to be brainwashed, and to be seduced by clever “doctrines of demons” that are being taught by many churches and public schools.

Just as people continue to speak as long as they are alive, so God has NEVER stopped speaking through King Jesus His Son. God will continue to speak for ALL eternity. Many Churches are being deceived and are being very foolish; they are hurting themselves and have GREATLY SINNED by closing their spiritual ears and hardening their hearts by insisting on believing the false doctrine of the “Closed Canon” of Scripture that refuses to “listen to what the Spirit is Saying!”

God's Closed Canon is ONLY His WORD spoken through eternity in His Son Jesus. The oracles of God.

Man's words: fairy tales, wrong-headed ideas, and fantasies are NOT God's Canon, but are sin. Jesus said, “Every WORD will be judged!” God will HONOR ONLY HIS WORD! God's Closed Canon is the entirety of the eternal LOGOS, Jesus the WORD, Who is God Incarnate.

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD was God.

To silence God and refuse to listen to the Voice of Jesus will eventually result in the Death of the United States. Jesus has given His ULTIMATUM: “America, Repent or Perish!”

The Christian leaders that oppose the Reign of King Jesus on Earth in His Temple of the Body of Christ have condemned the nation to ruin and death. Just as in the Bible when the leaders sin, such as King David, then tens of thousands die. Christians will pay a terrible price for the sin of unbelief of Christian leaders and their other sins.

Before the author of this article was born, King Jesus had already judged America to have one revival and then the END of the nation. Instead of having a future Millennium, because of opposition to having a Christian nation, the people will die of starvation in the nuclear winter caused by WW3. To oppose the REIGN of the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE is a tragic sin that God will NOT FORGIVE, unless there is repentance. Amen

Bible Closed Canon is NOT CLOSED, except to closed-minded people WHO DO NOT WANT the Light of God, who DO NOT WANT Jesus Who is the Truth, THEY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR THE Voice of Jesus and DO NOT WANT TO HEAR what the Holy Spirit is saying today.

Bible “Closed Canon” is NOT a closed Canon. Amen

John 6:39-40 “And this is the Will of Him who sent Me, that I should lose nothing of all that He has given Me, but raise it up on the Last Day. For this is the Will of My Father, that everyone who looks upon the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the Last Day.” Repent and Look upon the Face of Jesus Christ and receive the gift of eternal life and His Love Forever.

Let Jesus be your King and reign in your heart, helping you in all areas of your life. Amen

Grace, Respect, and Love Always in Jesus Christ,

Rev. William E. Burk

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God's Sabbath Rest In The New Testament

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God's Sabbath Rest In The New Testament

In the New Testament, the Sabbath is transformed from an Old Testament required seventh‑day ceremony into a deeper, daily spiritual rest found by faith in Jesus Christ. Christ fulfilled the Old Covenant’s ceremonial laws, including Sabbath days and festivals, and brought a better covenant in which God’s Law is written on believers’ hearts. Now Christians are known not by observing special days, but by living in Christ’s continual rest, love, and obedience to Him every day.

In the New Testament, God's rest is understood as a deeper spiritual rest that believers can enter through faith in Jesus Christ. This rest is not just a physical break but a state of spiritual peace of mind and assurance that comes from trusting in God's grace and promises, as described in Hebrews 4:9-11.

The Fourth Commandment of the Bible's “Ten Commandments” that legally required Jews by God’s Law to religiously keep the Seventh Day Sabbath laws, was an Old Testament ceremonial day that was legally completed by Jesus Who gave His Life on the Cross, and thereafter in the New Covenant, the ceremonial requirement for keeping the Seventh Day was done away with by the better New Testament. ALL of the Bible’s Old Covenant ceremonial days were fulfilled by the Life and personal Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, Who came to completely fulfill the Law of God and He did fully complete the mission to fulfill the Law of God (Colossians 2:16). After fulfilling God's Law then Jesus changed God's Law to a much better covenant that God His Father Promised that would bless the Bride, His Beloved friends forever (Hebrews 8:6-7).

Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath Day by keeping it Holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the Seventh Day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work— neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the Seventh Day He rested. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath Day and set it apart as Holy.” In the ceremonial recognition of God's Work, the Seventh Day of the Week Commandment was established so men would remember all the Work that God did for them in the first Six Days of the Creation of the heavens and the earth.

The Sabbath Day is a Holy ceremonial day that recognizes that God “rested” on the Seventh Day after His Creation of Heaven and the earth and of life on it.

Isaiah 58:13-14 “If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My Holy Day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s Holy Day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words, / then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob. For the Mouth of the LORD has Spoken.” In truth, God always wants people to always refrain from going out and doing their “own way,” and doing as we please. Instead of fulfilling our selfish desires, we are to be always “Led by the Spirit” as Christ Jesus always was “Led by the Spirit” and do what pleases God.

The legal requirements of God's Law written in the Bible of required Feast Days, New Moons, and Sabbaths, were eliminated (Colossians 2:16), as also the legal requirements of Old Testament ceremonial sacrifices that were a symbol and shadow of the type of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The Old Testament has figurative “shadows” showing the “types” of the first coming Jesus, the final Lamb of God at Calvary's Cross. Jesus, Who was to come and when Jesus Christ came, He fulfilled the requirements of the entire Old Testament Law of God when He said "It is Finished" and died. Jesus ended the legal religious observance of all the Bible's ceremonial days and the legal requirement of the Old Covenant ceremonial sacrifices by fulfilling what they pointed to in the Life and Final Sacrifice of Jesus the Lamb of God. Jesus always perfectly OBEYED God, His Father, and He became the New Covenant Mediator between God and mankind so Believing Christians could repent of their own sins and become free to become “slaves of righteousness and OBEY the Holy Spirit of God as Jesus also did.

The Book of Hebrews explains that the Old Covenant and Testament have been made obsolete by the New Covenant and Testament established through Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, as the final lawful sacrifice of the old Law of God, forever. The New Covenant was given by Jesus at the Last Supper and was then enacted into God's Law by His death and resurrection. The New Covenant is based on God's much better promises and on the superior ministry of Jesus indwelling Christians. Significant changes in the Law of God from the Old Testament makes God's New Law written on the hearts, enabling Christian believers to conform their minds to the “Mind of Christ.”

Writing the Law of God on our hearts in the New Testament creates opportunities for a more personal, intimate relationship with God if Christian believers will spiritually work to see the “Face of Jesus” Who dwells within them (1Cor. 13:12). (c.f. King Jesus is actively reigning on Earth Today in His Temple of the Body of Christ (or at least He is trying to reign as King for our good), as many Christian leaders oppose King Jesus reigning in government, public schools, and in the workplace.

King Jesus reigning today on Earth in the Temple of the Body of Christ Doctrine is found at https://www.christianamerica.us/2024/01/king-jesus-is-ruling-on-earth-today.html.

Ezekiel 20:20 “Keep My Sabbaths Holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’” In the New Testament, “you shall be known by your love for one another” and NOT by keeping the Bible's ceremonial days that Christians may or may not practice.

In John 13:34, Jesus said, “A New Commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” The “God of Love” that dwells in Jesus, His Son, now dwells in His eternal Temple, which is the Body of Christ.

God’s sovereignty extends to every moment of our existence. Scripture reveals this truth from multiple angles— divine foreknowledge, human responsibility, and the call to trust Jesus rather than be bound by anxiety. Jesus said, “Fear not.” Do NOT fear.

God has already “written” the number of our days of earthly existence in His Book before any of them existed (Psalm 139:16), yet humans plan the paths they will take while the Lord guides their steps (Proverbs 16:9). This isn’t a contradiction but complementary. Many plans exist in human hearts, but ultimately God’s purpose will be established (Proverbs 19:21). God declares the end from the beginning of time of the Creation, and He accomplishes all His wishes (Isaiah 46:9–10), operating with His absolute authority that no one can resist or question (Daniel 4:35).

This reality should reshape how we approach daily life. Rather than anxiously controlling the future, we should acknowledge God’s will in our plans (James 4:13–15), recognizing that we cannot know what any day’s circumstances will bring (Proverbs 27:1). Jesus taught that anxiety about tomorrow is unnecessary because each day carries its own concerns (Matthew 6:34). Instead, we’re invited to rejoice and be glad in each day God has made (Psalm 118:24)— not because circumstances are always pleasant, but because “all things work together for good for those who love God” (Romans 8:28).

The theological foundation of our days of earthly existence is profound: our times, our lives rest in God’s hands (Psalm 31:15), and humans cannot direct their own steps (Jeremiah 10:23). This isn’t fatalism but freedom— liberation from the worrisome burden of ultimate control of our time on this earth. When you surrender each day to God’s sovereignty and direction, you exchange anxiety for trust, as you are planning for your obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Jeremiah 10:23 “I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps. 24 CORRECT ME, O LORD, but only with justice— not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.”

The Old Covenant was replaced by the New Covenant, which introduced a New Law with significant changes to God's Law. Changes in God's Law of between the Old and New Covenants is explained in the Book of Hebrews, which discusses the significant transition and CHANGES IN GOD’S LAW from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant established through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This New Covenant is described as much superior to the Old Covenant and is based on much better promises from God. It emphasizes a more personal, intimate relationship with God, in which His Law is written in the hearts and minds of Christian believers rather than on scrolls and parchments. Paper Bibles are good to read and have, but God Commands Christians to do everything they can to work with the Holy Spirit to help write God’s Law upon our hearts and minds.

Key Verses on the Covenant Changes in the New Testament:

Hebrews 8:6-7: “But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that He Mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises. For if that First Covenant had been faultless, there would have been no [need or] occasion to look for a second.”

Hebrews 8:13 “In speaking of a New Covenant, He makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.” The Old Covenant requirements to observe religious ceremonial days and keep their related practices have ended, as far as God is concerned, though some Christians want religious days kept by ritually obeying the Fourth Commandment, which has been written about the Seventh Day Sabbath ceremonial keeping. This CHANGE in Sabbath Day LAW occurred when Jesus completed the requirements of the Old Covenant when He said, “It is Finished.” Then the New Covenant Changes in Law were enacted, and the ceremonial days and sacrifices of the Old Covenant were done away with.

King Jesus exercised His absolute sovereign authority when the City of Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 A.D., shortly after Apostle Paul's death, fulfilling the Luke 19:27 prophecy of killing the Jews who would not let Him reign as their King and had them slaughtered before Him literally. King Jesus probably stood on the Mount of Olives, watching the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. (as Prophesied by Jesus in Luke 19:27).

For the very same reason why the Jews and ancient Jerusalem were destroyed, America, if Christian leaders will not repent of their delaying the reign of Jesus and instead advocate the current reign of King Jesus in the public schools, government, and in the workplace, will result in the same terrible judgment that fell upon ancient Jerusalem and the Jews because “Jesus is Always the Same.”

Like the Council of Nicea, the wicked church leaders don't want to hear the Voice of Jesus as the ancient tribes of Israel under Moses did NOT want to hear the Voice of God. The Roman Catholic Church effectively silenced Jesus from speaking as they want to be the "Head of the Body of Christ" instead of letting Jesus be the Head of the Body of Christ. The Church leaders essentially made the Body of Christ headless, like the "headless horseman," making all the big decisions themselves as the "brains" of the Body of Christ instead of letting God and King Jesus be the "Brain" and Head of the Church. As a result of intense government public school brainwashing, the Christians are being deceived, and the nation has built up its enemies to destroy themselves and the human race.

The Role of Jesus in the New Covenant:

Jesus Christ is the Mediator of this New Covenant between God and man (1Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 9:15). Christ's death was required to enact His Last Will and Testament, so that it would take effect and free Christians from their sins. The New Covenant takes effect only upon the death of the one who establishes it. Similarly, for those who have a legal “Last Will and Testament,” their last words are carried out by law. This means that the New Covenant initiated by Jesus through His death on the Cross fulfilled the Law and God's promises made in the Old Testament.

New Testament Implications for Believers:

The New Covenant offers complete forgiveness and deliverance from sin forever if people humble themselves and repent of their sins. The New Covenant legally makes it possible for believers to have a more direct, intimate relationship with God, which, after being invited into Christians’ hearts, Jesus Christ now dwells in believing Christians who ask Him to come into their hearts, minds, and lives to fellowship with. This contrasts with the Old Covenant, which was based on adherence to the ceremonial rituals of the Law of Moses. This shift allows believers to experience more of God’s grace and mercy, moving beyond the limitations of the previous covenant through the new gift of the Holy Spirit, first given at Pentecost (Acts 2:38).

Mark 2:26 “During the high priesthood of Abiathar, David entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful ONLY for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.” 27 “Then Jesus declared, ‘The SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH! 28 Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.’”

Matthew 12:8 “For Jesus, the Son of Man, is Lord of the Sabbath.”

Luke 6:5 “Then Jesus declared, 'The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.’”

Hebrews 4:9-10 “There remains, then, a Sabbath REST for the people of God. / For whoever enters God’s REST also RESTS from his own work, just as God did from His.”

Colossians 2:16-17 “Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or Sabbaths. / These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.” Weekly Ceremonial Days observance is only a SHADOW of "The God of Light" shining His Light upon His Son Jesus, whose shadow was cast throughout the Old Testament.

John 5:16-18 “Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him. / But Jesus answered them, ‘To this very day My Father is at His Work, and I too am Working.’ / Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He BREAKING the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.”

Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you REST. / Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in Heart, and you will find REST for your souls. / For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” God wants disciples to be daily learning from Him. To be a true disciple means to be a "learner," and ongoing learning is part of the COMMAND Jesus gave to His disciples that we learn from Him (Mt. 11:29). Although God offers GRACE to those who confine learning to weekly ceremonial days, His DESIRE is for us to have daily, intimate, FACE-TO-FACE learning as we strive to spiritually "see the Face of Jesus" (1Cor. 13:12). Through Whom Christians see God the Father. The Promise of the "pure in heart shall see God" in the Beatitudes is fulfilled by seeing Jesus, which is the fulfillment of God's Promise to see Him if we are pure in heart, mind, soul, and spirit.

The New Testament fundamentally reinterprets the Sabbath Day observance, shifting its meaning from a weekly day of physical REST to a spiritual reality of RESTING achieved through faith in Christ. The central issue becomes spiritually RESTING in Christ and ceasing from one's own efforts to earn salvation through works and accomplishments, rather than maintaining the ceremonial Sabbath Day practice itself.

Jesus establishes that the Sabbath Day exists for human benefit, not the reverse (Mark 2:27–3:5), and uses this principle to justify healing people on the Sabbath— Christ's actions that challenged Jewish interpretations of the Law of Moses. When confronted about healing a woman on the Sabbath, Jesus points out that people routinely care for their livestock on that day, questioning why releasing someone from the spiritual bondage of sin should be prohibited (Luke 13:10–16). His healings demonstrate that mercy and RESTORATION take precedence over ceremonial Sabbath restrictions and traditions whose origins come from “religious” men.

Paul explicitly tells believers not to be judged regarding Sabbath Day observance, characterizing it as a shadow pointing to Christ as the ultimate reality Who casts the shadow in the Old Testament (Colossians 2:16–17). No command to ceremonially keep the Sabbath Day appears in the New Testament—uniquely, the Fourth Commandment is never repeated there, unlike the other nine of the Ten Commandments, which continue in the New Covenant. Instead, individual conscience determines whether to observe particular days, with the underlying principle being that whatever one does every day should be done for the Lord (Romans 14:5–6).

Psalm 118:24 states, "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." Every day is the Lord's, and God wants us to meditate, pray, and praise the LORD and enter His spiritual rest He offers through Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ fulfills the intent of the Sabbath Day. Jesus gives Christians His REST, and He gives the spiritual reality of salvation's daily REST that supersedes and replaces the ceremonial observance of special Days in the Old Covenant.

1Thessalonians 5:16–18 "Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus." God wants Christians to enter into His REST every day, PRAY every day, and give Him thanks and intimate fellowship every day. This passage emphasizes the importance of Christians engaging in daily practices of rejoicing, prayer, gratitude, and fellowship with God.

Early Christians maintained a weekly rhythm by gathering on Sunday, the First Day of the week, with their theological perspective linking this not to physical REST but to celebrate Jesus and His Salvation's spiritual REST that Christ brings. Hebrews describes an enduring spiritual Sabbath REST for God’s people— one entered by faith, in which believers cease from their own works just as God RESTED from creation (Hebrews 4:9–11).

The PROMISE of spiritual REST for our souls that Jesus made when He COMMANDED “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you REST” is now being thankfully fulfilled in the New Covenant (Matthew 11:28).

Matthew 11:27 “All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. 28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you REST. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find REST for your souls.”

Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Jesus is the same every day; so should Christians be like Him every day and enter the daily Rest that God provides for His children.

The early Church regularly gathered on Sunday, the First Day of the week, to break bread (Acts 20:7), marking a subtle but significant shift from Seventh-Day Sabbath observance to celebrating God's Gift of Christ’s Resurrection and the spiritual “new creation” inaugurated by God and Christ at Pentecost in Acts 2.

In Hebrews 4:9, the term “Sabbath REST” (Greek: sabbatismos) describes a special spiritual REST that remains for the people of God to learn to enter into and enjoy. This spiritual REST for the soul is distinct from the physical Sabbath Day of REST ceremonially practiced weekly in the Promised Land. It signifies a deeper spiritual REST found in FAITH and growing into an intimate relationship with God through Jesus.

Spiritual REST: Hebrews 4:9 uses “Sabbath REST” to describe the special spiritual REST given to God’s people through Jesus, God’s Son.

Distinction from Physical Sabbath: God’s spiritual REST through Jesus is distinct from the weekly physical Sabbath Day on Saturday.

Source of True Spiritual REST: Is found in faith in God and through the many blessings of a closer, intimate relationship with Him through Jesus.

Cross References for the REST of God and Jesus to enter into:

John 7:37 “On the Last and Greatest Day of the Feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, ‘If anyone is THIRSTY, let him come to Me and DRINK.’”

Isaiah 55:1-3 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the WATERS; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! / Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. / Incline your ear and come to Me; LISTEN, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an EVERLASTING COVENANT— My loving devotion promised to David.”

Hebrews 4:9-11 “There remains, then, a Sabbath REST for the people of God. / For whoever enters God’s REST also RESTS from his own work, just as God RESTED from His. / Let us, therefore, make every effort to ENTER that REST, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.”

Jeremiah 31:25 “for I will REFRESH the weary soul and REPLENISH all who are weak.”

Psalm 62:1-2 “For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. ‘In God alone my soul finds REST; my SALVATION comes from Him. / He alone is my ROCK and my SALVATION. He is my FORTRESS; I will never be shaken.’”

Revelation 22:17 “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ Let the one who hears say, ‘Come!’ And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the WATER OF LIFE drink freely.”

Isaiah 40:29-31 “He gives POWER to the faint and INCREASES the STRENGTH of the weak. / Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. / But those who WAIT UPON THE LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and NOT GROW WEARY, they will WALK AND NOT FAINT.”

John 6:35 “Jesus answered, ‘I am the Bread of Life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.’”

Psalm 23:1-3 “A Psalm of David. ‘The LORD is my Shepherd; I shall not want. / He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. / He RESTORES my soul; He GUIDES me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His Name.’”

1Peter 5:7 “Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He CARES for you.”

Isaiah 28:12 “to whom He has said: ‘This is the place of REST, let the weary REST; this is the place of REPOSE.’ But they would NOT listen.”

Philippians 4:6-7 “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. / And the PEACE of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Psalm 116:7 “Return to your REST, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.”

Isaiah 30:15 “For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: ‘By repentance and REST you would be Saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.’”

2Corinthians 12:9-10 “But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.’ Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. / That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

A.T. Lincoln’s work “Sabbath, REST and Eschatology in the New Testament” explores the theological significance of the Sabbath and its implications for understanding spiritual REST and eschatology in the New Testament. It examines how these themes are interwoven in biblical texts, particularly in relation to the teachings of Jesus and the early Christian (A.T. Lincoln, “Sabbath, REST and Eschatology in the New Testament,” in From Sabbath to Lord’s Day: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Investigation, ed. D. A. Carson (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1999), 215.)

The New Testament fundamentally reframes Sabbath Day observance from a weekly ceremonial obligation on Saturday into a spiritual gift centered on faith in God in Christ. No command to keep the Sabbath appears in the New Testament— uniquely, the Fourth Commandment is never repeated, unlike ALL other nine Commandments of the Ten Commandments.

Early Christians continued observing the Sabbath on Saturday, as it was their Jewish practice, and Jesus and Paul regularly attended and taught in synagogues on Sabbath days. However, the theological significance shifted dramatically. While the Old Testament emphasized refraining from work, the New Testament transformed the Sabbath into an occasion for spiritual engagement— Jesus read from Scripture in the synagogue, making what was originally intended for physical REST into a day for spiritual pursuit of improving God's presence in their spirits and better obedience to God’s Will in their lives.

Some Jewish believers were Judiazers, who struggled to continue to religiously obey Sabbath Day observance, thinking they still obeyed the Lord by maintaining Old Covenant Law in their lives, but Paul indicates each person should follow their own conviction in the New Covenant, because the matter of following religious ceremonial days is no longer binding (Colossians 2:16).

Colossians 2:16-17 “Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or Sabbaths (NKJV). / These are a SHADOW of the things to come, but the body that casts [the shadow] it belongs to Christ.” Christ casts the SHADOW of Old Covenant ceremonial days that were completed and fulfilled in Jesus Christ in the New Covenant.

The shift in emphasis appears in the resurrection narrative: The disciples first saw Jesus on Sunday, the First Day of the week, and Jesus appeared multiple times on that day, signaling a theological reorientation rather than giving a formal command to abandon the Seventh-Day observance, which is allowed in the New Covenant (Romans 14:5-6).

Apostle Paul writes in Romans 14:5–6, that Sabbath Day observance is not binding, emphasizing individual conviction over Old Covenant law.

Sabbath Day Observance: is NOT binding in the New Testament, and that each person should follow their own convictions (Romans 14:5–6).

Resurrection Significance: Jesus’ first appearances on Sunday signify a theological shift, not a formal command to abandon Seventh-Day Sabbath observance.

Apostle Paul’s Emphasis in Romans 14:5–6 is that in the New Covenant, individual personal convictions replace the Old Covenant Law regarding keeping Sabbath Day observance.

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Jesus Christ in you, the Hope of Glory!

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Jesus Christ in you, the Hope of Glory!

The apostolic doctrine of Jesus Christ in you, the Hope of Glory, explores the profound New Testament doctrine of Christ's indwelling presence in believers, rooted primarily in Colossians 1:27 and Galatians 2:20.

Key themes include:

1. Christ's Indwelling – Jesus Christ spiritually resides within every true believing Christian, forming a deep spiritual union that transcends mere intellectual understanding.

2. Transformation – Christ's presence within us transforms our thinking, character, and actions, conforming us into the "image and likeness" of Christ, changing us "from glory to glory."

3. Hope of Glory – Christ's presence provides both present spiritual empowerment and future hope of eternal glory, serving as God's divine plan for salvation.

4. Drawing Near to God – The post emphasizes the importance of seeking God wholeheartedly, through obedience, repentance, and faith, supported by extensive Scripture references.

5. The Body of Christ – All believers are spiritually interconnected through Christ's Spirit, forming His New Testament Temple.

6. Overcoming Faith – Believers are called to be "overcomers" through growing faith, corresponding works, and remaining rooted in Christ.

The doctrine of Jesus Christ in you, the Hope of Glory, is richly supported by dozens of Scripture references throughout both the Old and New Testaments.

The New Testament consistently emphasizes Christ’s presence within us as a fundamental aspect of our Christian journey toward God’s salvation. Apostle Paul describes a remarkable transformation in which he experiences a profound spiritual sense of Christ residing within him (Galatians 2:20). This revelation helps us understand how we can establish a similar connection with Jesus after Christ's Ascension. This presence is God’s divine plan for our salvation, a mystery once hidden, is now being unveiled to Christians who are being “Led by the Spirit” (Colossians 1:27).

The indwelling of Jesus Christ in believing Christians transcends mere intellectual concepts; it entails a profound spiritual union within the Body of Christ, where we become the N.T. Temple of God (Ephesians 4:16). Jesus asserts that those who genuinely love Him will OBEY Him, adhere to His teachings, and experience, with Him, an intensified sense of God the Father’s love, with God and Jesus residing within them (John 14:23).

The living presence of Jesus Christ in us profoundly alters our internal state. It commences with faith and instills a profound sense of love as the paramount aspect of our spiritual lives (Ephesians 3:17). This bidirectional relationship operates in a reciprocal manner: Jesus remains with His Father, while simultaneously residing within believers (John 14:20). As a result of the indwelling of Jesus Christ, New Testament Christians are all spiritually interconnected 24/7 continuously through His Spirit as Christians dwell in Him, transcending the confines of church services.

The active presence of Christ in contemporary Christianity profoundly transforms our self-perception and actions when we commit to “seeking the Face of Jesus.” Instead of viewing Christ as a historical figure or merely someone to be followed, we experience His spiritual presence within us. Christ’s presence in us alters our thinking, as we are granted the spiritual gift of “The Mind of Christ,” leading us to desire and act in accordance with God’s Will.

This transformation into the “Image and Likeness” of Jesus Christ stems from our FAITH in Jesus’ presence within us and His love for us (Galatians 2:20). Therefore, it is not merely about contemplating this Apostolic Doctrine, but about trusting and loving Him. This doctrine transcends mere talk; it is spiritual and embodies the essence of Christian life— the manifestation of God’s plan for salvation in our lives, our children, our communities, and it is the life of our nation, as “He works ALL things together for our Good” (Romans 8:28).

Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives IN me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by FAITH IN the Son of God, Who LOVED me and gave HIMSELF for me.” Abraham was justified by God by Faith (Romans 4:3).

Colossians 1:27 “To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ IN you, the HOPE of GLORY.”

“Christ in you is the Hope of Glory” is a comforting reminder from Colossians 1:27, emphasizing that Jesus Christ’s presence within us provides a reassuring assurance and hope of inheriting eternal glory. This divine promise emphasizes the transformative power of faith, changing us for the better in our Christian journey. Being “Changed from Glory to Glory” with the Glory Christ has given us (John 17:22; 2Corinthians 3:18) gives believing Christians the spiritual power to transform us and to CONFORM us into the “image and likeness” of Christ Jesus (Genesis 1:26).

God's ORIGINAL intention and objective today is to transform believers into His "Image and Likeness" (Genesis 1:26) to become His Bride, His Beloved Companion and Friend (Revelation 19:7-9; 21:9-10).

2Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom/liberty. 18 And we, who with UNVEILED faces all reflect the Glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying Glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

Comprehending the Concept of “Christ in You, the Hope of Glory”

The Concept Explained: The phrase “Christ in you, the Hope of Glory” comes from Colossians 1:27. It signifies that Jesus Christ resides within us, providing us with hope and assurance that we can partake in His glory. This concept underscores the transformative power of faith, suggesting that through Christ’s presence, we can attain a profound spiritual existence (James 4:8), growing closer to God and experiencing a more intimate relationship as we draw near to the “Face of Jesus,” through Whom we see God the Father (1Cor. 13:12; John 14:9).

James 3:7 “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” Make up your mind to spiritually DRAW NEAR TO THE FACE OF JESUS, and by seeing His Face, you will see God.

“Drawing Near to God” Cross References:

Psalm 73:28 “But as for me, it is good to Draw Near to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.”

Hebrews 10:22 “Let us Draw Near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled [by the Blood of Jesus] to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”

Isaiah 55:6-7 “Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. / Let the wicked man forsake his [sinful] way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him RETURN to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely PARDON!”

Jeremiah 29:13 "You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”

1John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” They will see God the Father (John 14:9) through spiritually seeing the “Face of Jesus” in prayer.

Psalm 24:3-4 “Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? / He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully. Wash your hearts with the WORD of God, repent of your sins, and seek His Face (2Chronicles 7:14).

2Chronicles 15:2b “The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.”

Zechariah 1:3 “So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, AND I will RETURN to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’”

Hosea 6:1 “Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.”

1Peter 1:22 “Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.”

Psalm 145:18 “The LORD is near to all who CALL ON Him, to all who call out to Him in Truth.” AS YOU SPIRITUALLY DWELL IN JESUS CHRIST, THE TRUTH, THEN GOD THE FATHER WILL HEAR YOU!

Deuteronomy 4:29 “But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you SEEK Him with ALL your HEART and with ALL your SOUL.”

1Samuel 7:3 “Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, ‘If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.’”

GOING AFTER OTHER GODS IN ENTERTAINMENT AND IN THE WORLD PREVENTS YOU FROM DRAWING NEAR TO GOD THE FATHER WHO LOVES YOU. The First Commandment of the Ten Commandments states that it is a sin to have any other gods, or spirits, between you and Jesus.

John 15:4-5 “Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear [fruits of the Holy Spirit Galatians 5:22-23] fruit unless you remain in Me. / I am the Vine, and you are the branches [Romans 11:17]. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.”

Matthew 21:43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you [the Jews] and given to a people [the Gentiles] who will produce its fruit.” Let the warning of what happened to those people of ancient Israel who refused to produce the Fruit of the Holy Spirit and lost the Kingdom of God be a warning to today’s Christians who refuse the Will of God or are negligent in producing the Fruit of the Holy Spirit.

The Mystery of God in Christians is revealed in the New Testament:

The Apostle Paul refers to this doctrine of Christ in you as a “mystery” that was concealed for ages but is now revealed to the saints. This former mystery transcends mere secrecy about God's plan; it is a profound revelation of Truth regarding the spiritual relationship between God in Christ and Christian believers.

It demonstrates that Jesus has chosen to share the abundance of His Glory with all who draw near to Him, including those who are not Jewish, thereby affirming that salvation is accessible to everyone, both Jews and Gentiles. God does NOT share His glory with anyone. But God gave Jesus Christ a portion of His glory that we may share in it, so we may be gradually changed into His “image and likeness” from “glory to glory.”

Implications of God in Believers and

Benefits of the Presence of Christ in us:

Believers are not isolated from each other; Christ’s presence empowers us to live out our faith and spiritually connects Christians in the Body of Christ, His Temple.

Hope of Glory:

This hope of existing in Christ’s Glory extends beyond the present; The Glory of Jesus Christ permeates the present, helping to change us from "glory to glory" into His image, motivating us to live uprightly and with purpose, helping us to be conformed into "the image and likeness" of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Transformation:

The indwelling of Christ results in a transformed life, enabling us to emulate His character and love.

This divine gift of God in Christ, Dwelling within us, encourages Christians who have received Him INTO their lives to actively embrace Him and live out their faith. Christians are called to intimately know the presence of Jesus Christ within us. Who serves us as a source of Love, Joy, Strength, and Hope.

John 14:20 “In that day you will know that I am IN My Father, and you IN Me, and I IN you.” Today is that “DAY” that Christians should know that Jesus and God His Father dwells in ALL believing Christians.

John 14:23 “Jesus answered him, ‘If anyone LOVES Me, he will keep My WORD, and My Father will LOVE HIM, and We will come to him and make our HOME with HIM.’”

Ephesians 3:17 “So that Christ may DWELL IN your hearts through FAITH— that you, being rooted and grounded IN LOVE.”

2Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are IN the FAITH. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is IN you?— unless indeed you fail to meet the TEST!” The “TEST” is whether Jesus Christ remains in you after you have invited Him INTO your heart!

1John 4:13 “By this we know that we abide IN HIM and He IN us, because He has given us of His Spirit.”

Colossians 3:3 “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ IN God.”

1Corinthians 6:19 “Or do you not know that your body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit WITHIN you, Whom you have from God? You are not your own!”

Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My Voice and opens the Door, I will come INTO him and eat with him, and he with Me.”

John 17:23 “I IN them and you IN Me, that they may become perfectly ONE, so that the world may know that you sent Me and LOVED them even as you LOVED Me.”

1John 3:24 “Whoever keeps His Commandments abides IN God, and God IN HIM. And by this we know that He abides IN us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.”

Romans 8:9–11 “You, however, are not in the flesh but IN the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells IN you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to HIM.” Christians who desire to "rule and reign" with Christ must invite Jesus Christ to come into their hearts!

“But if Christ is IN you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is Life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of HIM who raised Jesus from the dead Dwells IN you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give Life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who Dwells IN you.”

2Corinthians 6:16 “What agreement has the Temple of God with idols? For we are the Temple of the Living God; as God said, ‘I will make My Dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.’” Jesus is the Dwelling of God His Father, and Jesus dwells in every believing Christian.

John 6:56 “Whoever feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood abides IN Me, and I IN HIM.”

1John 4:15–16 “Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides IN HIM, and he IN God. So we have come to know and to believe the LOVE that God has for us. God is LOVE, and whoever abides IN LOVE abides IN God, and God abides IN him.”

Ephesians 2:22 “IN HIM you also are being built together INTO a Dwelling place for God by the Spirit.”

1Corinthians3:16 “Do you not know that you are God’s Temple and that God’s Spirit Dwells IN you?”

John 14:17 “even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees HIM nor knows HIM. You know HIM, for He Dwells with you and will be IN you.” Jesus speaking to disciples before the Cross.

Romans 8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are IN CHRIST Jesus.”

Philippians 1:21 “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is Gain.”

2Timothy 1:14 “By the Holy Spirit Who Dwells WITHIN us, guard the GOOD Deposit entrusted to you.” Guard the "Good Deposit" of the Holy Spirit you daily invite to fill you up to overflowing by putting on the "Armor of God," which is Jesus Christ Himself, clothing you with Himself.

1John 2:24 “Let what you heard from the beginning abide IN you. If what you heard from the beginning ABIDES IN you, then you too will ABIDE IN the Son and IN the Father.”

Colossians 2:6–7 “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk IN HIM, rooted and built up IN HIM and established IN the FAITH, just as you were taught, abounding IN thanksgiving,” to Him.

John 17:26 “I made known to them Your NAME, and I will continue to make IT known, that the LOVE with which you have LOVED Me may be IN them, and I IN them.”

1Corinthians 1:30 “And because of HIM you are IN CHRIST Jesus, who became to us Wisdom from God, Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption.”

Ephesians 4:6 “One God and Father of all, Who is over ALL and through ALL and IN ALL.”

1John 5:20 “And we know that the Son of God has COME and has GIVEN US UNDERSTANDING, so that we may know HIM who is true; and we are IN HIM who is true, IN HIS SON Jesus Christ. He is the TRUE God and Eternal Life.”

2Corinthians 4:10–11 “Always carrying IN the Body the death of Jesus, so that the Life of Jesus may also be manifested IN our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested IN our mortal flesh.”

Galatians 4:19 “My little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is FORMED IN you!”

Philippians 3:8–10 “Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of KNOWING Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain CHRIST and be found IN HIM, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but that which comes through FAITH IN CHRIST, the Righteousness from God that depends on FAITH— that I may know HIM and the power of His Resurrection, and may share His sufferings, becoming like HIM IN His Death.”

2Peter 1:4 “by which He has granted to us His precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the Divine Nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.”

1John 2:6 “Whoever says he abides IN HIM ought to walk IN the same Way IN which He walked.” Live Life more abundantly as you "walk the walk" of Jesus in you.

1John 5:11–12 “And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is IN HIS SON. Whoever has the Son has Life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have Life.”

Colossians 1:29 “For this I toil, struggling with ALL His Energy that He powerfully works WITHIN me.”

Philippians 2:13 “For it is God who works IN you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.”

2Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is IN CHRIST, he is a NEW CREATION. The old has passed away; behold, the NEW has COME.”

John 15:7 “If you abide IN Me, and My WORDS ABIDE IN you, ASK WHATEVER you wish, and IT WILL BE DONE for you.”

Romans 6:11 “So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God IN CHRIST Jesus.”

1Thessalonians 5:10 “Who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with HIM.”

Hebrews 3:14 “For we have come to share IN CHRIST, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.”

Galatians 3:27 “For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”

Ephesians 1:13–14 “IN HIM you also, when you heard the word of Truth, the Gospel of your Salvation, and believed IN HIM, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of His glory.”

1Corinthians12:13 “For IN ONE Spirit we were all baptized INTO ONE Body— Jews or Greeks, slaves or free— and all were made to drink of ONE Spirit.”

Romans 6:3–5 “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized INTO His death? We were buried therefore with HIM by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk IN newness of life. For if we have been united with HIM IN a death like His, we shall certainly be united with HIM IN a resurrection like His.”

Colossians 2:9–10 “For IN HIM the whole fullness of Deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled IN HIM, who is the Head of ALL rule and authority.”

Ephesians 5:30 “Because we are Members of His Body.”

1Corinthians15:22 “For as in Adam all die, so also IN CHRIST shall all be made alive.”

Romans 16:7 “Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were IN CHRIST before me.”

2Corinthians 12:2 “I know a man IN CHRIST who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third Heaven— whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.”

Philippians 4:13 “I can do ALL things through HIM who strengthens me.”

1John 4:4 “Little children, you are from God and have OVERCOME them, for He who is IN you is Greater than he who is in the world.”

John 17:21 “That they may all be ONE, just as you, Father, are IN Me, and I IN you, that they also may be IN us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.”

Ephesians 2:6 “and raised us up with HIM and seated us with HIM in the Heavenly places IN CHRIST Jesus.”

Revelation 3:21 — “To the one who OVERCOMES, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My Throne, just as I OVERCAME and sat down with My Father on His Throne.”

“OVERCOME” (nikaō) appears seven times in Revelation chapters 2-3 and again in 12:11; 21:7, nine times in all in Revelation. Scripture defines OVERCOMING as persevering, growing FAITH, and corresponding works.

John 6:28 “Then they inquired, ‘What must we do to perform the WORKS of God?’ 29 Jesus replied, ‘The WORK of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.’”

Romans 4:5 “However, to the one who does not WORK, but BELIEVES in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his FAITH is CREDITED as RIGHTEOUSNESS.”

1John 5:4-5 — “This is the victory that has OVERCOME the world— our FAITH.”

Therefore, for every true believer, AS his FAITH INCREASES, he becomes an OVERCOMER (cf. John 16:33).

1Corinthians 6:17 “But he who is joined to the Lord becomes ONE Spirit with HIM.”

2Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake he made HIM to be sin who knew no sin, so that IN HIM we might become the righteousness of God.”

Romans 12:5 “so we, though many, are ONE body IN CHRIST, and individually Members one of another.”

Galatians 5:24–25 “And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep IN step with the Spirit.”

Colossians 3:4 “When Christ Who is your Life, appears, then you also will appear with HIM IN glory.”

1Peter 5:10 “And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, Who has called you to His eternal glory IN CHRIST, will HIMSELF restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”

John 14:18–19 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.”

Acts 17:28 “for ‘IN HIM we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are indeed His offspring.’”

1John 3:6 “No one who abides IN HIM keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen HIM or known HIM.”

Romans 7:4 “Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to HIM who has been raised from the dead, IN order that we may bear fruit for God.”

Ephesians 3:6 “This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, Members of the same body, and partakers of the promise IN CHRIST Jesus through the gospel.”

1Corinthians1:9 “God is FAITHful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of HIS SON, Jesus Christ our Lord.”

2Corinthians 1:21–22 “And it is God who establishes us with you IN CHRIST, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit IN our hearts as a guarantee.”

Ephesians 1:3–4 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us IN CHRIST with every spiritual blessing IN the heavenly places, even as he chose us IN HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before HIM.” IN His LOVE.”

1Peter 1:3–5 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great Mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept IN heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through FAITH for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”

Romans 8:17 “and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with HIM in order that we may also be glorified with HIM.”

Galatians 5:16–17 “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.”

Colossians 2:13 “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with HIM, having forgiven us all our trespasses.”

Ephesians 4:15–16 “Rather, speaking the truth IN LOVE, we are to grow up IN every way INto HIM who is the head, INTO Christ, from whom the whole Body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up IN LOVE.”

1Corinthians10:16–17 “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation IN the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation IN the Body of Christ? Because there is one Bread, we who are many are one Body, for we ALL partake of the one Bread.” Jesus said He was the Bread from Heaven (John 6:50).

John 6:57 “As the Living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on Me, he also will live because of Me.” As Jesus said, disciples must feast upon His “flesh and blood.” Our spiritual nourishment must come ONLY from the “Table of the LORD” and NOT from the “table of demons” (1Cor. 10:21).

1Corinthians 10:21 “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the Table of the Lord and the table of demons too.”

Romans 6:8 “Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with HIM.”

1Thessalonians 4:16–17 “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead IN CHRIST will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”

2Timothy 2:11–12 “The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with HIM, we will also live with HIM; if we endure, we will also reign with HIM; if we deny HIM, He also will deny us.”

1John 5:12 “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”

Romans 8:2 “For the Law of the Spirit of Life has set you free IN CHRIST Jesus from the law of sin and death.”

Galatians 4:6 “And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of HIS SON into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'”

Ephesians 2:10 “For we are his workmanship, created IN CHRIST Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk IN them.”

Colossians 1:13 “He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of His BELOVED Son.”

1Peter 2:5 “You yourselves like LIVING STONES are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”

John 17:22–23 “The glory that you have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I IN them and you IN Me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent Me and LOVED them even as you LOVED Me.”

Romans 5:10 “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the Death of HIS SON, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by His Life.”

2Corinthians 3:18 “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed INTO the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord Who is the Spirit.”

Philippians 1:6 “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work IN you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.”

1John 2:27–28 “But the anointing that you received from HIM abides IN you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about everything, and is True, and is no lie— just as it has taught you, abide IN HIM. And now, little children, abide IN HIM, so that when He appears we may have confidence and not shrink from HIM in shame at His coming.”

Jesus keeps His WORD, and He soon returned as He PROMISED and Prophesied in the lifetimes of those He actually spoke to, and probably fulfilled the prophecy, standing on the mount of Olives, watching the slaughter of the Jews before Him (Zechariah; Luke 19:27).

Hebrews 10:10 “And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”

Romans 8:29 “For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS SON, in order that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.”

1Corinthians2:12 “Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.”

Ephesians 1:22–23 “And he put all things under His feet and gave HIM as Head over all things to the Church, which is His Body, the fullness of HIM Who fills all IN all.”

Colossians 2:19 “and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole Body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.”

1Peter 1:23 “since you have been born-again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the LIVING and ABIDING WORD of God.”

2Peter 1:3 “His Divine Power has granted to us all things that pertain to Life and Godliness, through the knowledge of HIM who called us to His Own Glory and Excellence.”

John 10:14–15 “I am the Good Shepherd. I know My own, and My own know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My Life for the sheep.”

Romans 5:17 “For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free Gift of Righteousness Reign IN life through the One Man Jesus Christ.”

Galatians 3:26–28 “For IN CHRIST Jesus you are all sons of God, through FAITH. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one IN CHRIST Jesus.”

Ephesians 5:23 “For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, and is Himself its Savior.”

1John 1:3 “That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with HIS SON Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 2:11 “For He Who Sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why He is not ashamed to call them brothers.”

1Corinthians 2:16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct HIM?” But we have the Mind of Christ.”

2Corinthians 2:14 “But thanks be to God, who IN CHRIST always leads us IN triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of HIM everywhere.”

Ephesians 1:11 “IN HIM we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of HIM who works all things according to the counsel of his will.”

Colossians 3:1–3 “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the Right Hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ IN God.”

1Thessalonians 1:1 “Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians IN God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.”

2Thessalonians 2:13 “But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers BELOVED by the Lord, because God chose you as the first-fruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief IN the Truth.”

1Timothy 1:14 “And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the FAITH and LOVE that are IN CHRIST Jesus.

2Timothy 2:10 “Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is IN CHRIST Jesus with eternal glory.”

Titus 3:5–6 “He saved us, not because of works done by us IN righteousness, but according to His own MERCY, by the WASHING of REGENERATION and RENEWAL of the Holy Spirit, Whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.”

1Peter 5:14 “Greet one another with the kiss of LOVE. Peace to all of you who are IN CHRIST.”

1John 2:5 “But whoever keeps His WORD, IN HIM truly the LOVE of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are IN HIM.”

Jude 1 “Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, BELOVED in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.”

Romans 8:23 “And not only the Creation, but we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”

1Corinthians 3:9 “For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s BUILDING.” CHRISTIANS ARE THE PLACE WHERE GOD DWELLS IN.

1Corinthians 6:15 “Do you not know that your bodies are Members of Christ? Shall I then take the Members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!”

2Corinthians 5:5 “He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.”

Ephesians 2:13 “But now IN CHRIST Jesus, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.”

Ephesians 3:12 “IN whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our FAITH IN HIM.”

Philippians 3:20–21 “But our citizenship is IN Heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like His Glorious Body, by the power that enables HIM even to subject all things to HIMSELF.”

Colossians 1:21–22 “And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled IN his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before HIM.”

1Thessalonians 5:23–24 “Now may the God of peace HIMSELF Sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is FAITHFUL; He will surely do it.”

Hebrews 10:14 “For by a single offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.”

1Peter 2:24 “He HIMSELF bore our sins IN his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.”

1John 3:9 “No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed [Gk sperma] abides IN HIM; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been Born of God.”

Romans 6:13 “Do not present your Members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your Members to God as instruments for righteousness.”

Romans 12:1–2 “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the Mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the Will of God, what is Good and Acceptable and Perfect.”

1Corinthians1:2 “To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those Sanctified IN CHRIST Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who IN every place call upon the NAME of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours.”

1Corinthians15:23 “But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruits, then at His coming those who belong to Christ.”

2Corinthians 4:6 “For God, who said, 'Let Light shine out of darkness,' has shone IN our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God IN the Face of Jesus Christ.”

John 8:12 “Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, ‘I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of Life.’”

As saints are the “Temple of God” and “God is Light,” Christians are commanded to let their Light from God, as a “City of Light on a Hill,” shine forth in the spiritual darkness of the world and show forth the good works that God provided before the foundation of the world.

Galatians 1:22 “And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are IN CHRIST.”

Ephesians 2:5 “Even when we were dead in your trespasses, [He] made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved.”

Philippians 2:5 “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours IN CHRIST Jesus.”

Colossians 1:2 “To the saints and FAITHFUL brothers IN CHRIST at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.”

1Thessalonians 3:13 “so that he may establish your hearts blameless IN holiness before our God and Father, at the Coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.”

2Thessalonians 1:12 “so that the NAME of our Lord Jesus may be glorified IN you, and you IN HIM, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

1Peter 3:16 “having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior IN CHRIST may be put to shame.”

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life IN CHRIST Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 15:5–6 “May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live IN such harmony with one another, IN [one] accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one Voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

1Corinthians 4:15 “For though you have countless guides IN CHRIST, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father IN CHRIST Jesus through the gospel.”

2Corinthians 1:5 “For as we share abundantly IN CHRIST’S sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly IN comfort too.”

Galatians 6:15 “For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.”

Ephesians 4:24 “and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God IN true righteousness and holiness.”

Philippians 4:7 “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds IN CHRIST Jesus.”

Colossians 1:4 “since we heard of your FAITH IN CHRIST Jesus and of the LOVE that you have for all the saints.”

1Thessalonians 2:14 “For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God IN CHRIST Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews.”

Hebrews 12:23 “and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled IN Heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect.”

1Peter 4:13–14 “But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when His Glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the NAME of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of Glory and of God RESTS upon you.”

1John 4:17 “By this is LOVE perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is so also are we in this world.”

Romans 13:14 “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.”

1Corinthians 5:4 “When you are assembled IN the NAME of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus.”

1Corinthians 11:1 “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.”

2Corinthians 3:3 “And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”

2Corinthians 11:2 “For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one Husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.”

Galatians 2:16 “Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through FAITH IN Jesus Christ, so we also have believed IN CHRIST Jesus, in order to be justified by FAITH IN CHRIST and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.”

Ephesians 1:6–7 “to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us IN the BELOVED. IN HIM we have Redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.”

Ephesians 4:32 “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God IN CHRIST forgave you.”

Philippians 1:1 “Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons.”

Colossians 2:11–12 “IN HIM also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with HIM in baptism, IN which you were also raised with HIM through FAITH IN the powerful working of God, who raised HIM from the dead.”

1Thessalonians 4:14 “For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with HIM those who have fallen asleep.”

1John 1:7 “But if we walk IN the light, as He is IN the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus HIS SON cleanses us from all sin.”

Summary:

This theological text explores the central Christian doctrine of Christ dwelling within believing Christians, presenting it as a transformative spiritual reality rather than merely an intellectual concept.

Key Themes:

1. The Mystery Revealed

What was once hidden in the O.T. is now revealed in the N.T.: Jesus Christ lives in believers (Colossians 1:27 - "Christ in you, the hope of glory")

This indwelling applies to all believers, both Jews and Gentiles

The Body of Christ becomes the New Testament New Jerusalem, "Temple of God."

2. Transformation Through Christ's Presence

Believers receive the "Mind of Christ" and are changed "from glory to glory" as they conform into the "image and likeness" of Christ.

This presence fundamentally alters thinking, desires, and actions.

The transformation requires faith, obedience, and love— and not just intellectual assent.

3. Spiritual Union with Jesus Christ & The Body's Connection

Christians are spiritually interconnected 24/7 through Christ's Spirit.

Believers form one Body with Christ as the head.

This creates a bidirectional relationship: Christ in the Father, believers in Christ, and Christ in believers.

4. Drawing Near to God Results in God Drawing Near to you.

Includes extensive cross-references about seeking God with a pure heart

Emphasizes repentance, confession, and forsaking idols/worldly distractions

The promise: seek Him wholeheartedly and He will be found.

5. Practical Implications

He is the Source of strength, hope, and spiritual power

Jesus enables believers to "overcome" through growing faith.

Jesus Calls for holy living and bearing spiritual fruit

This article contains 100+ scripture references supporting the Doctrine of Christ's indwelling presence in believers, which is essential to Christians' salvation and spiritual life. Amen

ORIGINAL TEXT Written by Rev. William Burk is GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Christian America Constitutional Amendment

noreply@blogger.com (RevWm) — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:50:00 +0000

The Christian America Constitutional Amendment

The Christian America Constitutional Amendment reads:

“The United States of America is a Christian Nation. Congress shall make no law abridging the Free Exercise of all Christian religions, nor make a law giving preference of one Christian denomination over another Christian denomination, nor giving preference of one Christian sect over another Christian sect. This Amendment replaces the religion clause of the First Amendment and supersedes all treaties as relevant to this Amendment.”

The "No Religious Test for public office" clause of the U.S. Constitution will remain unchanged, thereby allowing non-Christians to be elected to and hold public office.

At a minimum, the proposed change in U.S. Law will make it legal again to faithfully witness in the Name of Jesus in the workplace, government, and in public schools.

The legal remedy of a Christian America Constitutional Amendment— that formally declares the U.S. a Christian nation will help restore public, legal promotion of Christianity— will help save America from increasing moral decay, loss of legal freedoms, anarchy, and avoid the planned eventual takeover by hostile nations under the secular, anti-Christian U.N. World Government. Only by honoring God and Jesus in government, public schools, and the workplace will the grace of God be available to preserve the nation's life and well-being and to give hope for the future.

The United States has become an enemy of Jesus Christ, denying His Name and even making it illegal to speak of Him by Federal Law and by case law in many venues.

It should be obvious that the curse of God and Jesus is upon the nation. The churches are giving most of their children to the public schools so that they can be indoctrinated in the "secular" state religion of Civil Government. Thomas Jefferson told the leaders in Virginia that Civil Government was a State Religion in opposition to Christianity, which they, at the time, had voted out the state church, which had become so corrupted and heartless in its reign over the commonwealth.

U.S. Law restricts the freedom of Religion and negates the gospel of Jesus Christ. U.S. Law mandates teaching LGBTQI+, which means Jesus will NOT free people from their sins.

Acts 4:12 reads: "The Name of Jesus is the ONLY NAME given by Heaven for men to call upon to be saved." By making the Name of Jesus illegal in government, public schools, and in the workplace in most venues, the U.S. Government is making certain that as few people as possible would save their eternal life.

As a result of making the Name of Jesus illegal to speak in most venues, the U.S. Government has become the enemy of God and Jesus, also demanding that even the mention of God be removed from all the earth's nations' governments in the coming dark tyranny of the U.N. World Government.

The angel Gabriel said Jesus would save people from their sins. The public schools teach the nation is racist and bad instead of teaching "God is Good" and allowing the saving Gospel and grace of Jesus Christ back into the school classrooms. The government prohibits the teaching of Judeo-Christian morals, including the "Golden Rule" of treating others as they would want to be treated.

The early Apostles in Acts 4:10-20 said they were commanded by God and Jesus to break the law as necessary, so in order to "Preach and Teach in the Name of Jesus" (Acts 5:29). The early Christians were willing to be martyrs and die to pray, so to speak and teach in the "The Name of Jesus" (Acts 5:29). Today's Christian Lawyers sin and are willing to die and have the children lose their souls while they oppose Christian Law and continue to make the Name of Jesus illegal in government chaplain prayers and the Gospel taught as Truth in the public schools. In the Holy Bible, Colossians 3:17 has written: "Do ALL in the Name of Jesus."

There are 23 states that, before the U.S. Supreme Court, sought to legalize the Name of Jesus in a legal case in 2013... The states' legal efforts will be ultimately doomed as Christian leaders, lawyers, and the U.S. Senate oppose Christian Law and having a Christian nation and oppose Bible-believing judges who would base their judgment decisions and legal opinions upon God's law instead of upon men's deceptions and the self-serving deceptions of "rule by law" handed down from Caesar Augustus from the ancient Roman Empire that worked to exterminate Christianity for centuries. In the long term, the choice is either "Jesus is Lord" or the U.N. and "U.S. Government is Lord." The question is "Who is your Lord?"

By banning King Jesus by Name in prayers by Congressional Chaplains, instead of "Blessed is the nation that is called by [Jesus] the Name of the LORD," the opposite is true, so by making the Name of Jesus illegal, the nation has brought upon itself God's Coming Terrible Curse and His Wrath of eventual destruction, if leaders will NOT repent. Without Jesus and His angels doing the battles for America, the nation will eventually be soon ruined and eventually destroyed.

The U.S. Government demands to be obeyed, venerated, or worshipped as a god above God's Law and King Jesus. It is effectively bringing God's Curse as Jesus warned to "whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in Heaven" (Mt 10:33). The government persecution of Christians in the military has been especially pernicious.

Making Jesus, the Name above all Names, illegal results in the nation being denied access through Jesus, who is before God the Father, and most people losing eternal life and God's blessings forever.

Though the SCOTUS, the Supreme Court, has temporarily reversed U.S. law, which was a previous total ban on public meetings with deities' names in sectarian prayers, it is only a temporary situation, until future antichrist presidents appoint one more antichrist Supreme Court Justice. The future coming and certain tyranny of the U.N. as a global police state with martial law will eventually drive Christianity worldwide into oblivion, as Pope Benedict XVI said.

Tragically, history is again repeating itself as today's federal courts and U.S. Law are erasing Christianity from public life. Literally, the government's educational system and U.S. Law are driving Christianity to extinction in the United States. (Note: NAZI Germany and Hitler also tried to erase most Christianity from public life in the end, as Christian leaders opposed Germany's war machine, and the world domination objective of Hitler and future plans of the U.N. World Government.)

Today's Christians, at a minimum, should vigorously work to change U.S. Law so as to legally preach and teach in the Name of Jesus, as God and Jesus commanded, as the apostles obeyed (Acts 5:29).

Legalizing the Name of Jesus under the Freedom of Conscience Christian America Constitutional Amendment should be fully supported by all Christians. It is a "no-brainer" choice for Christians to have a Christian nation, as God commands us to obey Him, "establish His Kingdom on earth," and to do all in the Name of Jesus. The early disciples interpreted Acts 5:29 as God's command for their salvation, so that they might inherit eternal life (Col 3:17), and were commanded to break all laws necessary to "Preach and Teach in the Name of Jesus."

Christians are commanded to establish the Kingdom of God and Jesus on Earth instead of opposing it or choosing to do nothing, while most children are being overcome by the kingdom of darkness, and America is being given to its enemies.

To deny "Jesus is Lord" by Name results in Jesus denying eternal life to those responsible, such as Christian Lawyers and leaders who oppose God's Law and His Kingdom on Earth in government, and the Name of Jesus used by government chaplains and the Gospel taught as Truth in the public schools (Mt 10:33)...

The coming loss of the Bill of Rights is already legally binding, and will be fully implemented as antichrist judges are appointed by the president and globalist Democrats in Congress, as treaty law replaces constitutional law as taught in ALL Law Schools. The Globalists are working to overwhelm the justice system and courts by always appointing ungodly liberal judges who are working to make the nation ungovernable, so the Democracy will END and the United States will become a Russia type of OLIGARCHY, as President Joe Biden said would happen at the U.S. Naval Academy with the support of President Xi of China. The U.N. World Government takeover is their objective, which will be controlled by China and by enemy nations to the harm, ruin, and coming death of the nations.

The Freedom of Conscience Christian America Amendment is the ONLY effective legal solution to override U.S. Law and the anti-Christian courts and the U.S. Supreme Court SCOTUS so as to save the nation and allow for general Bible teaching in the public schools as Thomas Jefferson allowed and had taught the Bible to students, so if were possible, to save most of the children's souls with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As President Eisenhower and other Presidents have agreed that America cannot be governed without God's help.

"Raise up a child in the Way to go" in their lives and not wait until they are turned from believing in Jesus by a trillion USD antichrist media and propaganda juggernaut of the public educational system, where 94% of the graduating students do not believe in Jesus and are the root cause of the fall of the government and nation as they become adults who become voters. The Bible commands to give children a godly education instead of brainwashing them with lies and LGBTQI+ sexual dysphoria. Jesus said it would be better for those who are stumbling the children by teaching them lies and leading students into sinning, to "drown themselves" rather than endure the coming eternal Wrath of God (Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2).

Most American public schools are educating the students with lies, immorality, and propaganda so they will agree and submit to their enemies who are taking over the government.

The American people are becoming increasingly incapable of self-government because of their demise, which has resulted primarily from the public education system.

There is no “religious test for office” written in the Christian Amendment, meaning Jews, Muslims, and Atheists may run for, be elected, and hold public office.

One would hope and pray that the public would have sufficient grace and respect for God and Jesus to elect Christian leaders, as the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Jay advocated, so that God may again bless America. As the Gospel of King Jesus is allowed into government and, especially, expressed in public schools, according to one's conscience, God's Mercy and Grace and His Wisdom will return to America's leaders.

Important Reasons for The Christian America Amendment:

The Christian America Amendment is the ONLY effective legal remedy to correct the courts. The legal freedoms have been mostly lost due to changes in U.S. Law by anti-Christian courts.

Only by electing Christian leaders and amending U.S. law through the Christian Constitutional Amendment may Jesus again be called upon to save the USA in public prayer in the U.S. Congress and in public schools. Without King Jesus' grace and His Holy Spirit helping Christians fight the daily spiritual battle, the nation will soon be lost forever... By opposing God and King Jesus, the death of the nation will be the only possible outcome of ruining and corrupting the children with lies and immorality in the public schools, as they become misinformed voters, and vote in bad leaders who will bring the ruin and destruction of America.

America needs to bring Jesus into government and schools and honor Him, and have some freedom to throw out the false gods of “The New Religion of Civil Government,” as Thomas Jefferson said. Either Jesus is God, or the spirits of the world and the gods of the ancient Roman religion of worshipping the government above Jesus are to be obeyed. Civil Government demands submission from all religions, pretending that the state religions of Secular Humanism and Civil Government are not religions (Webster's Unabridged Dictionary defines a belief system as a religion).

Embracing the demons and spirits of the State Religions of the Civil Government and Secular Humanism religions in government and in the public schools, instead of encouraging the presence of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, will result in the coming ruin and eventual destruction of the nation. Jesus said, "Either you are for Me or Against Me."

"Choose this day whom you will serve" in this life. *

We need to choose God and His Holy Spirit to lead us and to go forth to help fight the spiritual battle of faith for the nation and be our help in the "good fight of faith." Then and only then will there be a chance and opportunity to save the nation from our enemies and have a reasonable time to train the eternal souls and minds of our children to honor the Golden Rule and God’s Way in their lives before their minds are ruined, and their souls are lost.

By standing up for Jesus and openly confessing "Jesus is Lord" in public prayers, Christians will earn the children’s respect instead of their contempt and disrespect caused by their parents' hypocrisy of sometimes opposing Christian Law while claiming to support a Christian USA in the future, in false doctrine proposing a heretical, far-future version of the Millennium doctrine. Either Christians will obey and establish God's Kingdom on earth, or they will oppose God's will by default and do nothing while children and the nation are ruined and being led to their doom!

By believing in delaying the rule and reign of King Jesus in government, in public schools, the children learn King Jesus is just an irrelevant "fairy tale" waiting to be fulfilled, instead of believing the TRUTH that King Jesus is already here on earth in His Temple of the Body of Christ ruling and reiging over all kings and nations (Revelation 1:5). If parents will repent of their sin of unbelief, then more children will believe.

Jesus has been effectively thrown out of Government in people's hearts and minds, banned by law from their workplace, and they are denying King Jesus as their true Lord in their public lives. As a result, the nation has lost God’s Blessings. Failing to honor King Jesus and employ MAGA rebuilding America policies, there is no hope for a prosperous future for the nation's children. Only the expectation of increasing poverty, misery, unnecessary persecution, and the certain coming dark tyranny of the U.N. World Government Police State with global martial law with no real legal rights dooming the people.

Support The Christian America Amendment!

Do you want your enemies, including Russia and the Arab League nations, to eventually rule over you in the United Nations, leaving no hope for future generations? Or do you want the God of Love and Jesus Christ to rule you and Christian leaders of good conscience to rule you? Congress has already transferred much of the United States' sovereignty to the United Nations in several legally significant areas of government. Only the Christian Amendment will restore America's sovereignty and enable the people to prosper as a sovereign nation. Otherwise, all the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights will be lost as treaty law replaces Constitutional Law. The U.N. Charter Treaty reads "ALL LAW MUST CONFORM" to U.N. Law, and there is no Bill of Rights in U.N. Law. Enemies will soon rule America if Jesus and the Truth are not taught in the public schools. Teaching lies and immorality gives Satan, the father of lies, a foothold in the children as they believe the lies taught to them.

Do you want the children state-indoctrinated with the false religions of civil government, where they are taught “no nation may be above another nation” as Pres. Obama stated when speaking in Egypt. Because of the world government objective of the establishment globalists, Obama is bringing down the United States to third-world status in every way he has authority, and that is politically acceptable with the cooperation of the U.S. Congress. "No nation will be above another nation," as the ruinous policies of Globalists will be achieved soon if MAGA efforts to rebuild America are ended. This will be true of most nations except, of course, for those who think the USA is led by U.N. New World Order fools, such as Russia, China, and other enemies of America.

The Congress lies and deceives itself by dogmatically saying almost all enemy nations will eventually be our friends and allies in the United Nations... History shows that pretending your enemies will become "true allies" and become your friends in the government of "the Family of Nations" is a terrible lie, a lie so pernicious and evil that it will destroy freedoms past generations fought and died for, and eventually take the life of the nation.

Having your enemies rule over you U.N. World Government constitutes a dystopia, a pernicious lie, and is a seducing doctrine of demons, as the nation's leaders fall into the Kingdom of Darkness and lead the nation to certain doom...

Do you want your children taught the truth of the God of Love and Jesus and have truth, justice, liberty, and freedom from our enemies? Or do you want a "kinder, gentler America?" Then ADVOCATE the Christian Amendment and save the children!

Do you want enough for the children's future, to be blessed as the Bible promises, "These things will be added to you?" It is all conditioned by King Jesus upon the nation's leaders submitting themselves to Christ and being led by the Holy Spirit. Otherwise, as the current situation shows, the leaders, even the Christian leaders, do not have legitimate solutions as they disobey God and the Holy Bible.

Most people seem to support the national suicide of "Free Trade," which is a lethal "Trojan Horse," designed to gradually take down the first-world economies to third-world poverty status over the century or sooner. With zero taxes and zero regulations, the USA cannot compete with foreign nations such as China. Only a "Productivity Economic Policy" will provide for a prosperous future for America. Note Pres. Trump brought growth and prosperity with a productivity-based economic policy. Billionaire Bill Gates, a globalist, says rough "equalization of income will be achieved by 2030," if the Democrats and Globalists have their way. They will soon bankrupt the economy with ruinous spending on futile climate regulations that will soon bring third-world poverty to the United States.

The Bible states that a nation may be the “Head or the Tail” of nations. “A level playing field” of all nations in the U.N. is a seductive, deceiving doctrine of demons. As Jesus said, “You will be hated by all nations.” How can there be a "Level Playing Field" when Christianity is hated by the U.S. government and other nations? As America falls into bankruptcy and third-world status, with its Credit Rating now rated, the nightmare of a future enemy takeover becomes a certain reality.

Christian lawyers are actually opposing Christian Law and having a Christian nation. Jesus said, "Men will be traitors!" and oppose establishing God's Kingdom on earth. Or by default of doing nothing, the result will be helping enemies to remove God's Blessings and the Grace of having King Jesus reign in public prayers in government.

Christian Lawyers are stubbornly opposing Christian law. The result is essentially opposing necessary Christian training for the children so they will follow the morals of Jesus in the public schools.

Christian Lawyers are, by their negligence, or by their opposition to Christian U.S. Law and to King Jesus and His Kingdom being established on this Earth, are, in effect, working to bring God’s coming Wrath upon the USA.

Christian Lawyers and leaders hypocritically believe they would eventually obey Jesus in U.S. Law in a future fairy tale version of a Millennium, but in reality, most are deadly enemies of establishing the Kingdom of God on Earth outside of their "silent prayers" and hypocrisy of their hearts supporting legal polytheism and the freedom of ALL other religions to corrupt and deceive the children in the government educational system...

The choices are either "BOLDLY PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST" and PRAY out loud so others may agree with each other, "spiritually touching" with each other and with the Holy Spirit with understanding, or the choice of marginalizing or hiding the truth, and you have the legal right to pray by "remaining silent." (In Great Britain, which is now a Muslim-ruled nation, even praying silently is illegal!) Meanwhile, most children and the nation are being destroyed by the antichrist "establishment," U.N. Globalists, Deep State, anti-God, and by those who oppose restoring and building up America with MAGA policy.

Either America will be a protector of human rights, the “head of all nations” and control the situation as best as one could hope for, or be "the tail of all nations," sent to the bottom of all nations by the U.N. Globalists and Deep State, and eventually suffer the coming global genocide of Christianity and martyrdom when the U.N. World Government is fully empowered and overturns the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights and legal protections that have been provided by U.S. Law.

With God’s help and yours, we can have a better future with King Jesus reigning over the USA in our hearts and spirits for good and not for evil!

Support The Christian America Amendment!

Do you want the “Golden Rule” of Jesus taught to bring about a generally more loving, kind, and gentle society for future generations? Or do you want your enemies to rule the nation and indoctrinate your children to become enemies of God and America?

One's actions have consequences, and one cannot deceive God or escape the results of one's behavior. Teaching children lies and LGBTQI+ dysphoria perversion will eventually bring God's WRATH upon the nations.

In Matthew 18:6, Jesus WARNS that it would be better for someone who causes a believer, especially a child, to sin to commit suicide and have a millstone hung around their neck and be drowned in the sea.

New International Version "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows."

English Standard Version "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap."

New Living Translation "Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant."

Implications:

Moral Responsibility: The verse emphasizes personal accountability. Good actions lead to positive outcomes, while negative actions lead to destruction.

Spiritual Consequences: Sowing to the flesh (selfish desires) results in corruption, while sowing to the Spirit (following God's guidance) leads to eternal life.

Conclusion:

God's Warning is clear: one cannot take God's principles lightly. Actions have CONSEQUENCES, and living in holy accordance with God's will is essential for a fulfilling life and for the future prosperity and survival of the nation...

Do you want to save infants and babies' lives from being murdered by abortions? Support the Christian Amendment! As God and Jesus are respected more over time, as the law helps build respect for God, the true lawgiver, then His creatures and infants will be respected more, and their lives will be shown godly mercy and sometimes will be spared from being murdered.

Only by bringing Jesus into government by advocating and ratifying the Christian America Amendment, and by inviting the presence of the Holy Spirit in prayer in the Name of Jesus, then His blessings and truth will be brought back into the schools and saving the school children and saving the nation depending upon the willingness of leaders and judges who ask God to renew their heart and give them a clear conscience in their service of God Who is the Creator.

The Christian character and integrity that you, the voters, choose to have, giving God's leading and direction, will help you legislate Godly and just laws protecting you and all children. America's success depends on your willingness to have King Jesus rule in your hearts and over the nation for the nation's good.

The presence of the Holy Spirit provides wisdom, peace, respect, and supernatural solutions to the nation's needs.

Do you want a prosperous future for the nation, or increased civil unrest caused by the coming ruinous poverty that could reduce the USA to a third-world economic status due to Free Trade?

Save yourselves and support the Christian America Amendment!

Do you want federal tax laws rewarding the parasitic worship of wealth and the idolatry of greed, returning virtually nothing for the benefit of America and the future prosperity of our children? Do you want a kinder, gentler, more productive economy, and a Christian government that truly cares for you with laws and regulations that promote a rising standard of living for most Americans? Then support the Christian America Amendment!

Do you want the USA to be a third-world economy, with destitution and poverty for most people, and to be eventually ruled by our enemies in the United Nations for perhaps centuries to come? Then repent and establish God’s Kingdom Here on Earth in America as it is in Heaven as Jesus commanded in the Lord’s Prayer (Mt 6:9-13).

The Founding Fathers of the Early American Colonies did their best. Today, together, we can do much better with freedom of religion for all Christian religions, without government favoritism or interference! Support the Christian America Amendment!

The early American Colonies were severely traumatized, and sometimes alienated from the Love of God, by their corrupt state churches, and as reactionaries, they threw Jesus out of government in favor of the "new religion of Civil Government," as Thomas Jefferson defined Civil Government to be a hostile religion to Christianity.

The early American Christians were duped, deceived, and legal polytheism, the freedom of all Christian denominations and sects was what they believed the nation needed for God's blessings. Not bringing back the (freedom of all religions) legal polytheism that eventually destroyed the children and nation of Israel under King Solomon. Islam requires wiping out all other religions

The Founding Fathers made America a polytheistic nation, and the official state religion of Civil Government and legal freedoms of polytheism available for the rest of the earth's religion is NOT what God and Jesus wanted. The Holy Spirit called Christians to make America a Christian nation for centuries.

The evidence and Biblical apologetics show Christianity is the only infinitely logical and provably righteous religion. The Bible has written that the physical Universe was designed and created for man to exist. The ten-dimensional subatomic design with Space, Time, Matter, Energy, Light was all designed to the infinite decimal place! The Universe was NOT the result of a cosmic "Big Bang" explosion! Chaos does NOT result in order; amino acids cannot randomly "evolve" into human beings. Total lies and perversion are being indoctrinated into the children. Truth must be taught to the children.

Jesus said He is the Truth and He will bring ruin and destruction to the nation if Christian leaders continue to reject His reign (1Cor. 15:25; Rev. 1:5) and will NOT repent of opposing having Him rule in government, public schools, and in the workplace.

"Jesus is Always the Same," and having a future Millennium by doing nothing is unbiblical. Israel under Joshua had to fight for every square inch. So Jesus is the same today, and America must fight for its life, for the children to have a future by "fighting the good fight of faith" by advocating and fighting for the Christian America Amendment.

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SAVE our nation and SAVE the minds and souls of our children with the Christian America Amendment! Amen

Jesus did NOT say in the Lord’s Prayer “Thy Kingdom will come based on fantasies and would NOT ALSO ON Earth come in our lifetimes,” as many Christians deceive themselves today and do NOTHING to save their children and America. The legal separation of Church and State by law is an evil sin destroying the children and America.

Matthew 26:27 "For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done. 28 Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

Jesus spoke as God His Father told Him to. Jesus said He would RETURN TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO in His Kingdom in the lifetimes of the people He actually spoke to. Fulfilling Zechariah 12, Jesus stood on Mt. Olives in the sight of the High Priest Caiaphas and the people of Jerusalem, fulfilling the prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem, with every stone of the city torn down by the Jewish people as ordered by Caesar Nero.

As Jerusalem was wiped from the face of the earth, America, if Christian leaders do not repent of opposing the reign of Jesus, so also America will be eventually "wiped from the face of the earth" for rejecting the reign of King Jesus. The prophecy of World War III has already been made (Luke 19:27). Only the repentance and obedience of Christians can delay it as "God Loves Mercy."

There are God-appointed "times and seasons" (Acts 1:7) for Christian nations to exist on this earth, and America should have been one of them before the wrath of God is unleashed upon the nation.

Jesus said at the Last Supper, when He drank wine again with the Apostles, it would be after He had received His Kingdom on Earth, where God's will "will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." A few days later, after the resurrection, Jesus ate and drank wine with His disciples in His Kingdom on this Earth. And IMPORTANTLY, King Jesus returned in their lifetimes in His Kingdom and began His rule on earth (Matthew 26:28).

Jesus said before the cross, "My Kingdom is not of this world. IF My Kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting…" Jesus does NOT make empty threats. Now that Jesus's Kingdom is reigning over all nations today (Rev. 1:5), God's servants ought to be fighting today with the "good fight of faith" for the reign of King Jesus and for His Kingdom on this earth with Christian laws, starting with making the Gospel of Jesus Christ legal to be taught as truth in public schools. The Kingdom of Jesus is now existing, TODAY on this Earth, and Christians are COMMANDED to establish His Kingdom everywhere they are able to, including in the public schools, government, and the workplace.

Jesus Reigns in His Temple of the Body of Christ on Earth Today!

See: https://www.christianamerica.us/2024/01/king-jesus-is-ruling-on-earth-today.html

Revelation 1:5 "And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of the kings [and nations] of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood, 6 who has made US to be a Kingdom [on earth], priests to His God and Father— to Him be the Glory and Power forever and ever! Amen."

Jesus said, "But those enemies of Mine who did NOT want Me to be King over them--bring them here and kill them in front of Me" (Luke:19:27). The context was terminating the Jews' occupation of the Land of Israel and giving the land to others circa 70 A.D.

Those opposed to having a Christian nation will be slaughtered as Jesus said in Luke 19:27. In the case of the USA, it will be in WW3 and in its aftermath. The relentless madness of China and Russia threatening nuclear war should be taken to heart and believed. Enemies are preparing for the destruction of the United States, and they will not repent! America's Defense Budget is not greater than Pres. Reagan's. With the "Golden Dome" antimissile system, the budget should have been much larger... Make America a Christian nation, and "Common Sense" will return to some of America's leaders. Without reverence and consideration of the Will of God and Jesus in government, the nation is doomed.

Just as there was an O.T. "Promised Land" and eventually the nation of ancient Israel, "Jesus is always the Same," so Jesus promises a "Millennial" rule of the nations on this earth in this life if Christian leaders will repent of opposing His Will. A world where there would be a number of Christian nations existing, and His enemies would be made into His footstool instead of preparing for a war to destroy most life on earth.

Jesus began His reign on this earth two millennia ago, as He said in Rev 1:5.

Why didn't Jesus say, "My servants would never fight, but always be pacifists?" Because, after the cross, and after receiving His Kingdom, as Jesus said, He would then require His servants to fight sometimes on earth His Kingdom and for God's Will to be done on earth, as the Holy Spirit leads each one according to their freedom of conscience... Jesus did NOT choose to say His followers were pacifists, and there is no kingdom on Earth but only in a heretical future time. After speaking with Governor Pontius Pilate, it was only a brief time until His Resurrection, after which Jesus began to rule on this earth for good or for Judgment (Rev. 1:5).

Revelation 11:17 "Saying: “We give thanks to You, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign." Separation of Church and State is a great sin of Christians and an evil transgression against the reign and authority of God Almighty and King Jesus.

After His crucifixion, Christ was resurrected and has been made the King of Kings over all leaders and nations on earth. Eventually, a few nations would become Christian at God the Father's appointed time (Acts 1:7).

The American Christians have been in rebellion, opposing having a Christian nation and God's Kingdom on Earth in the public schools. As a result, most children are spiritually lost, false doctrine ruining their minds and damning their souls, and the nation has been betrayed by treaties to its enemies in the U.N. World Government. America's Christians have GREATLY SINNED by failing to "fight the good fight of faith" for the children and for America's future.

Jesus said, “Thy Kingdom come ON Earth, in a tangible physical way with legal foundations in U.S. Constitutional Law, as some of the American Colonies' Founding Fathers righteously believed.

The Apostles in Acts were ready for a Christian nation, which Jesus answered there would be “Times or Seasons” as God’s Promise (Acts 1:7). The original American States and Colonies were God’s answer to His Promise of “Times or Seasons of Christian Nations on this earth. Amen

For those who want a "revival" for the nation, unless Christians support giving the nation by Law to King Jesus, there will be NO "Great Revival," as most children are heartlessly turned over to the public schools, which turn them from believing in Jesus. It is also necessary to engage in legal evangelizing in the Name of Jesus in the workplace and in most government venues, where the Name of Jesus is now illegal under U.S. Law. Prophetess Aquilla Nash of TBN prophesied years ago that the USA would never have a "Great Revival" because of its unrepentant harlotry with other religions and ruining their minds with lies that are destroying most of the children's souls in the government educational system. Destroying the children with lies and sin is bringing the Wrath of God upon America.

Matthew 6:31 Jesus said, “Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.” 33 “But seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”

With the Name of Jesus outlawed in public prayers (Acts 4:18; Col 3:17), instead of the USA receiving God's blessings, all will be eventually lost, unless Christians repent of doing nothing or actually opposing Jesus in government, and advocate the legalizing of the Name of Jesus in public prayers again by the ONLY EFFECTIVE LEGAL SOLUTION, being the Christian America Constitutional Amendment...

Christian lawyers and leaders have greatly sinned and have been unwilling to have a Christian nation by Law and instead wish to be "like the foreign nations" who are polytheistic and corrupting the souls and minds of the children... God loves mercy, and He is not willing that any should perish if His Christians would repent. It is time to call the Christian leaders to repent and support God's Kingdom on Earth in government and teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the public schools so as to save as many as possible (Jesus says teachers have the greatest responsibility to train the children to be Christians in Luke 6:40)...

Jesus said, "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters" (Mt 12:30).

Will you work to gather disciples with Jesus? Will you be in prayer and help gather the children in His ministry? Or will you "deny the faith" by denying that Jesus is Lord and King before men? Join with King Jesus in His rule and reign of kings and the nations today (1Cor 15:23-25; Rev 1:5)...

"Seek the Kingdom of God above ALL else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need" Matthew 6:33 NLT

Support the Christian America Constitutional Amendment!

The children being brainwashed in Public Schools need your HELP Today!

The United States Government has turned against God and King Jesus Christ through secular laws, public education, and restrictions on explicitly Christian expression in government, schools, and workplaces.

As a legal remedy, a proposed Christian America Constitutional Amendment stating that the U.S. is officially a Christian nation and that Congress may not restrict the free exercise of Christian religions nor favor one Christian denomination over another, while keeping the “no religious test for office” clause, allowing other religions and atheists to hold public office.

Key points:

Core Claim: Only a Christian Constitutional Amendment can legally restore public Biblical teaching and allow official acknowledgment of Jesus Christ in government, public schools, and workplaces, overturning court precedents and replacing the First Amendment’s religion clause in relevant parts. The globalist democrats appoint antichrist judges who are making case laws to make the nation ungovernable and ruin the economy, so America will fall under the coming tyranny of the U.N. World Government New World Order.

Coming Crisis Diagnosis: The U.S. law and public schools teach a “state religion” of secular humanism and civil government, which suppresses Judeo‑Christian morality, normalizes sexual perversion, LGBTQI+ ideas, lies, and half-truths, and thus destroys many children’s faith, ruins their minds, and erases the nation’s moral foundation (Matthew 18:6).

Theological Framing: Cites many biblical texts to argue that King Jesus is already reigning over the nations, and that Christians are Commanded to Establish God’s Kingdom on earth today (including through changing the law and government), and that “separation of church and state” is unbiblical and a grave sin.

Thomas Jefferson said, "Civil Government is a New Religion," and in opposition to Christianity. Civil Government is NOT NEUTRAL to religions, it is its own unique religion from ancient Rome that is dedicated to sexual pervsion, lies, such as life supposedly evolved from random amino-acid sequencing, and the universe is supposedly the result of chaotic "Big-Bang," even though facts scream it is the product of careful design with a ten-dimensions subatomic structure, energy, space, time, light, and matter which is infinitely carefully designed to exist together to the infinite decimal place.

Severe Warning of Coming Consequences: Without legal recognition of the reign of King Jesus by one's freedom of conscience, and having some Christian law, God’s curse is coming. Beginning with the loss of legal freedoms, moral collapse of general society, economic ruin, and eventual domination of the U.S. by hostile powers, the treaty empowered a totalitarian-tyrannical U.N. world government by enemies.

In 2,020 Newsweek reported President Biden and China's Pres. Xi had agreed to END DEMOCRACY and establish the nation as an OLIGARCHY, as Russia has. Wake up, America, as MAGA leaders are the nation's last hope to five America's children a good future.

Call to Action: Christians— especially leaders and lawyers— are urged to repent of supporting anti-biblical secular law. Christians MUST advocate and work to ratify the Christian America Amendment, in order to bring TRUTH and Christian teaching back into public schools and government, and thus potentially “save” both the nation and some of the children spiritually and physically.

In short, the Christian Amendment is a manifesto and a hope for transforming the U.S. into a nominal Christian nation through a constitutional amendment, presented as the only legal way to preserve both national survival and the possibility of salvation for future generations. Turning America over to its enemies to govern in the U.N. World Government is a really bad idea. Serving God, NOT your enemies, is what Jesus is calling everyone to do.

Legal Opinion of the Christian America Constitutional Amendment:

Only a Constitutional Amendment can neutralize Islamic Sharia Law and other hostile laws to Christianity, which are replacing the freedom and liberty of Jesus Christ.

"Freedom of Conscience Christian Constitutional Amendment" is built on a specific three-section legal structure.

This modern draft is partially modeled after the 1954 Flanders Proposal but updated with modern "Freedom of Conscience" language to address current legal concerns.

Section-by-Section Breakdown:

Section on Legal Provision Primary Objective:

Section 1 The Recognition Clause Amends the Preamble to state: "This nation recognizes the authority of Jesus Christ, Savior and Ruler of nations."

Section 2 The Freedom of Conscience Clause explicitly states that the amendment cannot be interpreted to establish an official state church (ecclesiastical organization) or to abridge existing religious freedoms or freedom of the press.

Section 3 No Oath of Allegiance. Congress cannot provide a "suitable oath or affirmation" for citizens whose religious scruples (such as those from non-Christian faiths) might conflict with the new constitutional language.

The "Unwritten" Goals of the Amendment:

The author of the book draft on ProChristianAmerica.com clarifies that this legal framework is designed to encourage or enable specific social changes that the current Constitutional Law prevents:

Education Reform:

Legally enabling the removal of the state religions of "secular humanism" and evolution from public schools, and replacing them with some Biblical teaching and teaching scientific facts showing "Intelligent Design" is the only scientifically plausible explanation for the Universe and Life on Earth.

Restoring National Sovereignty:

Providing a legal basis to nullify U.N. treaties that have publicly and secretly transferred U.S. legal sovereignty to the U.N. "World Government.

"Theocratic Transition:

Moving the U.S. from a "demonocracy" (the author's term for modern "secular" democracy) to becoming a Christian theocracy.

Historical Origins:

The text used in Section 1 and Section 2 is almost identical to the amendment proposed by Senator Ralph Flanders in 1954. The modern advocacy on the page you are viewing emphasizes that the "Freedom of Conscience" aspect is vital to ensure that the "reign of King Jesus" is politically accepted by the public without the fear of government-forced conversion to Christianity.

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Jesus is my Friend and my Comfort

noreply@blogger.com (RevWm) — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:14:00 +0000

Sermon: Jesus my Friend and my Love

Synopsis

Jesus demonstrates His sacrificial love, expressing the love He receives from the Father, and invites believers to remain in that love by keeping His Commandments (John 15:9–11). He defines true friendship as a sacrificial relationship where He no longer views His followers as slaves, but as friends to whom He reveals everything He has heard from the Father. The ultimate expression of this friendship is His willingness to lay down His life (John 15:13–15). This agape love is so expansive that God gave His only Son so that believers might have eternal life, and nothing can separate believers from this love in Christ Jesus (John 3:16; Romans 8:38–39). The purpose of this Love is to bring complete joy to those who embrace Him because God is Love (John 15:9–11).

Love is not a one-time act; it is a continual growing of God’s presence. Love is one of the fruits of the Spirit that God is trying to grow in our hearts and spirits as we abide in the Vine of Jesus (Galatians 5:22-23).

Galatians 5:22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law."

Love- A selfless, unconditional affection for others.

Joy- A deep, abiding happiness that comes from faith.

Peace- A state of tranquility and harmony with God and others.

Forbearance- Patience and tolerance in difficult situations.

Kindness- A disposition to be friendly and considerate.

Goodness- Moral excellence and virtue in actions.

Faithfulness- Loyalty and reliability in relationships.

Gentleness- A humble and meek attitude towards others.

Self-Control- The ability to control one's impulses and desires.

The Lexham English Bible is used in this sermon

John 15:13–15

No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from My Father I have revealed to you.

Jesus is in all Christians (Romans 8:9). Jesus expects Christians to be “martyrs,” translated “My witnesses” in English Bibles. The Compassion of Jesus in Christians urges each one to act in faith and in the Holy Spirit's leading.

John 15:9–11

“Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have spoken these things to you in order that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete.

Song of Solomon 5:16

His mouth is sweet, and He is altogether desirable. This is my beloved; this is my friend, O young women of Jerusalem.

Jesus would have Christians greet each other with a Holy kiss (Romans 16:16; 1Corinthians 16:20; 2Corinthians 13:12).

John 3:16

For in this Way God loved the world, so that He gave His one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

Jesus gives His life to intercede for Christians, forgiving seventy times seven times or even more times daily in His Love (Matthew 18:21-22).

Hebrews 7:25 states that Jesus is able to save completely those who come to God through Him because He always lives to intercede for them. Jesus has an eternal role as a High Priest who offers perfect salvation, unlike the temporary sacrifices of human priests.

Hebrews 7:25 "Therefore He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He ALWAYS LIVES to INTERCEDE for them."

Jesus Completes Our Salvation: This means Jesus can save completely, meaning His salvation is total and eternal. Unlike Old Testament priests, who could only offer temporary sacrifices, Jesus provides a PERMANENT SOLUTION for sin if we are willing to repent and seek His Face.

Jesus gives His all for eternal Intercession for us: Jesus ETERNALLY intercedes for believers. This means He advocates for us, those who ask God for forgiveness and His help, ensuring we have continuous access to God the Father's Divine grace and His forgiveness for our sins as we repent of them.

Romans 8:38–39

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus gives us continuous love as we seek His Face and be in His presence in His Spirit (1Cor. 13:12).

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I even consider all things to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the LOSS of all things, and consider them dung, in order that I may gain Christ.

God’s Love is so GREAT that the LOSS of ALL THINGS is nothing compared to gaining His Love that He gives to all of His friends who spiritually work to see His Face and the presence of the Holy Spirit daily. This is why Apostle Paul spoke in unknown tongues more than the Corinthian Christians did: speaking in tongues edifies oneself spiritually; it builds you up in the faith (1Cor. 14:4). "Praying in the Spirit" is worthy of your time, and it will help you to OBEY Jesus. All Christians need to pray and “seek the greater spiritual gifts” (1Cor. 12:31).

In 1Corinthians 14:4 the gift of speaking in tongues edifies the one speaking in unknown tongues, while prophesying is meant to edify the church as a whole. “You can ALL prophesy” (1Corinthians 14:31). Be building yourself up in God's Love by perfect prayer in an unknown language.

1 John 4:19

We love, because He first loved us.

When we feel love, we love to return His love.

John 14:21

The one who has My Commandments and keeps them—that one is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will Love him and will Reveal Myself to him.”

Jesus Returns His Love to us when we love Him by our OBEDIENCE, as Jesus said, “If you love Me, you will OBEY Me.”

Revelation 3:20

Behold, I stand at the door and knock! If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, indeed I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

Matthew 11:28–30

Come to Me, all of you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke on you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy to carry and My burden is light.”

Because Jesus is our Friend, the spiritual burdens are light for Christians as we seek the face of Jesus (1Cor. 13:12).

Psalm 16:11

You will make known to me the path of life. In Your presence is fullness of joy. At Your right hand are pleasures forever.

2Cor 5:14–15

For the Love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one died for all; as a result, all died. And He died for all, in order that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

Galatians 2:20

And I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me.

1John 3:1

See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

John 17:23

I in them, and You in Me, in order that they may be completed in one, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and You have loved them just as You have loved Me.

Romans 5:8

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

Ephesians 3:17–19

That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith (you having been firmly rooted and established in love), in order that you may be strong enough to grasp together with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth, and to KNOW the LOVE of Christ that surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be FILLED UP to all the FULNESS of God.

Because He LOVES us, He gives us His Love to fill us up to overflowing to others.

John 14:23

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will KEEP My Word, and My Father will LOVE him, and We will come to him and will take up residence with him.

God Himself and His Son Jesus will dwell in you, if you ask your Creator in Jesus Name.

Christians are called to honestly KEEP the WORD of Jesus, and then we will have His Love in this life and in the Life to come. "Draw close to Me and I will draw close to you" (James 4:8; Jeremiah 29:12-14).

Scriptures emphasize drawing closer to God through faith and prayer, seeking the Face of Jesus and His presence. God promises to be near to those who seek Him with all of their heart and believe in Him.

Scriptures encourage drawing closer to God, as exemplified by James 4:8, which states, “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” Other verses that encourage seeking the Face of Jesus include Hebrews 11:6, which emphasizes the importance of having faith in seeking God, and Psalm 145:18, which reassures that the Lord is near to all who call on Him.

Scriptures for Drawing Closer to God

Promises of God’s Presence:

Jeremiah 29:13-14: “You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.”

2Chronicles 7:14

My people who are called by My Name [Jesus] humble themselves and PRAY and SEEK MY FACE and turn from their evil ways, then I will listen from heaven, I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land [of America].

James 4:8: “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”

Psalm 73:28: “But for me, it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge.”

Encouragement in Faith:

Hebrews 11:6: “Without faith, it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”

Hebrews 10:22: “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.”

1John 5:14-15: “This is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.”

Psalm 143:8: “Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust.”

Matthew 11:28: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

Lamentations 3:24-26: “The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in Him.”

These scriptures on drawing near to God serve as promises of God’s nearness and the significance of placing our faith in Him and our efforts to draw closer to Him.

Jesus stated that if anyone is willing to do the Will of God the Father, then He will make His Will known to them.

Jesus is our friend, and if anyone is willing to do His Will and not their own desire, they will be informed by Jesus what He wants to be done! God is faithful, and He will keep His word. This was always true as “Jesus is Always the Same” from the Garden of Eden until today!

“God is no respector of persons,” and He respects the fact that if we are willing to obey Him, listen to His voice, and be led by the Holy Spirit, then Jesus, our friend, will draw closer to us. God respects the fact that the more Christians are willing to listen to Him and draw closer to Him by seeking the face of Jesus in their spirit, then Jesus will draw more closer to them.

1John 4:10

In this is [true] LOVE: -not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

True LOVE is sending Christian missionaries to teach as many as possible how to be saved from sins and how Christ will cover Christians as the Armor of God.

Romans 8:29 has written that Christ dwells in every Christian to fellowship with His beloved and to intercede on their behalf to God the Father and our Creator.

Romans 8:35–37

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword? Just as it is written, “On account of you we are being put to death the whole day long; we are considered as sheep for slaughter.” No, but in all these things we prevail completely through the One who loved us.

Christians are commanded to overcome dangers, including martyrdom, persecution, affliction, and hunger. Nero complained that the Hymns of Praise that the dying in the Roman Coliseum were lovingly singing in their agony.

Jeremiah 31:3

"The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: 'I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.'"

John 13:34–35

“A n\New Commandment I give to you: that you LOVE one another —just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this, everyone will know that you are My disciples— if you have love for one another.”

God wants fellowship with His friends. We are to befriend each other as He is our faithful friend every day.

Just as Jesus is our constant Friend, we are to be friends with one another in the Body of Christ.

1Peter 2:24–25

Who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we may die to sins and live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed. For you were going astray like sheep, but you have turned back now to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

Jesus is the Good Shepherd, and He gives us His Help to know the Way to God the Father.

Isaiah 41:8

But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the offspring of Abraham my friend.

James 2:23

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

It helps to believe in God so God may call us His friends. (Note: Jesus called Judas “friend” while he came to betray Him.)

Psalm 139:17–18

And to me, how precious are Your thoughts, O God; how vast is their sum. If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. I awaken, and I am still with you.

As Jesus said, He told His disciples everything the Father told Him to say. Truly vast are the thoughts that God is willing to give to us if we are willing to seek His Face and listen to the Voice of Jesus.

Ephesians 3:17

Yahweh your God is in your midst; a Mighty Warrior Who Saves. He shall rejoice over you with joy; He renews you in His love; He will exult over you with singing.

God dwells in the PRAISES of His people, and because you are His friends, He will rejoice over you and renew us in His Love, if we repent and seek His Face and sing His praises, audibly or in our hearts.

John 10:14–15

“I am the Good Shepherd, and I know My own, and My own know Me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down My Life for the sheep.

“A Friend Loves At All Times,” even to the point of moving to save your life, knowing it will cost him his life.

Ephesians 2:4–5

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, and we being dead in trespasses, He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved).

God, Who is our Friend, moved us from spiritual deadness to be alive in Him, making us “Born from Above,” in the Greek manuscripts or “Born Again” because He is our Friend.

1Thessalonians 1:4

Knowing, brothers, dearly loved by God, that He has chosen you.

Because Jesus is our Friend, He has chosen us to be adopted as His sons.

Colossians 3:12

Therefore, as the chosen of God, holy, and dearly loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

Because Jesus has chosen to be our Friend, He helps Christians to be filled with love, affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and the other Fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).

John 17:26

And I made known to them Your Name, and will make it known, in order that the love with which You Loved Me may be in them, and I may be in them.”

God, our Friend, is willing for believing Christians to know His Name so that the LOVE Jesus received from His Father may dwell in us also.

Romans 5:5

And hope does not disappoint, because the Love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, Who was given to us.

Holy Spirit-inspired Hope will not disappoint, as God’s Love pours into our hearts.

Psalm 63:3

Because Your loyal [everlasting] Love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

As we seek the Face of the Son of God, as Jesus said, we see the Father, God’s Love and Friendship pour into our spirit.

John 14:18–19

“I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. Yet a little time and the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me, because I live, you also will live.

Jesus PROMISES we will see His FACE if we faithfully seek His Face.

1John 4:16

And we have come to know and have believed the Love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in His LOVE resides in God, and God resides in him.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for her.

God gives His spiritual LOVE to husbands to flow through them to their wives. Amen

Psalm 103:11–13

For as the Heavens are high above the earth, so His loyal [Everlasting] LOVE prevails over those who FEAR Him. As far as east is from west, so He has removed far from us the guilt of our transgressions. As a father pities his children, so Yahweh pities those who FEAR Him.

Definition: φόβος phobos Fear, terror, alarm, reverence

φοβέω phobeó To frighten, be afraid, revere, respect

Usage in the Bible

Phobos: This noun refers to fear or terror and is often used in contexts that imply alarm or reverence.

Phobeó: This verb indicates the action of fearing or being afraid. It can also mean "to revere" or "to respect," depending on the context.

Contextual Meanings of Fear

Healthy Reverence: Fear of God is often portrayed as a positive, reverential awe that leads to worship and obedience.

Crippling Terror: In some contexts, fear can indicate a paralyzing dread that hinders faith and action.

Biblical Examples:

Fear of God: This common theme emphasizes respect and awe for God's majesty and holiness (e.g., Proverbs 1:7).

Misplaced Fear: Instances where fear leads to doubt or lack of faith, such as the disciples fearing during a storm (Mark 4:41).

Conclusion:

In biblical Greek, fear encompasses a range of meanings from reverence to terror.

In Biblical Greek, the word for fear is "phobeó" (φοβέω), which can mean to frighten, be afraid, or show reverence. It encompasses a range of meanings from healthy awe of God to crippling terror, depending on the context. *

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains may depart, and the hills may sway, but My Faithfulness shall not depart from you, and My Covenant of peace shall not sway,” says Yahweh, who has compassion on you.

When Jesus felt compassion, He healed them. God, our Friend, is always the same, and when you feel God’s compassion, it is a signal that Jesus, your Friend, wants to do something.

John 16:27

For the Father Himself Loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

Because we Love Jesus who dwells in all Christians (Romans 8:9), God the Father LOVES you.

Deuteronomy 7:9

So know that Yahweh your God, He is God, the trustworthy God, maintaining his covenant and His loyal [everlasting] LOVE with those who LOVE Him and with those who KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS to a thousand generations.

Jesus commanded this when He said, “If you LOVE ME, then you will OBEY ME!” Are you continuously OBEYING the Holy Spirit or yielding to something else?

Psalm 36:7

How precious is your loyal [everlasting] LOVE, O God, and the children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Jesus wept for the City of Jerusalem, because they could have taken shelter under the shadow of His wings. In His Shadow, people were healed. Peter also demonstrated this fulfillment of the Name of Jesus.*

John 10:27–28

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will seize them out of My hand.

2 Thessalonians 2:16–17

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word.

Ephesians 1:4–5

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love, having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will.

Romans 8:31–32

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all things?

Psalm 23

Yahweh is my Shepherd; I will not lack for anything. In grassy pastures He makes me lie down; by quiet waters He leads me. He restores my life. He leads me in correct paths for the sake of His Name. Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare before me a table in the presence of my oppressors. You anoint my head with oil; my cup is overflowing. Surely goodness and loyal love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will stay in the house of Yahweh for a very long time [forever].

Isaiah 43:1–4

But now thus says Yahweh, He who created you, Jacob, and He who formed you, Israel: “You must not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name; you are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not scorch you. For I am Yahweh, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give you Egypt as ransom, Cush and Seba in place of you. Because you are precious in my eyes, you are honored, and I myself love you, and I give people in place of you, and nations in place of your life.

Lamentations 3:22–23

The loyal love of Yahweh does not cease; His compassions do not come to an end. They are new in the morning, great is Your faithfulness.

John 6:37

Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and the one who comes to Me I will never throw out. Hebrews 13:5

Your lifestyle must be free from the love of money, being content with what you have. For He himself has said, “I will never desert you, and I will never abandon you.”

1John 3:16

We have come to know love by this: that he laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

Matthew 28:20

teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age.”

Hebrews 18:24

A man of many friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Psalm 73:25–26

Whom do I have in the heavens except you? And with you, I have no other desire on earth. My flesh and heart failed, but God is the strength of my heart and my reward forever.

Romans 8:1

Consequently, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 3:14–19

On account of this, I bend my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he may grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith (you having been firmly rooted and established in love), in order that you may be strong enough to grasp together with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Isaiah 49:15–16

Can a woman forget her suckling, refrain from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, they may forget, but I, I will not forget you! Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Psalm 42:1–2

As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

John 14:1–3

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house, there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because I am going away to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, so that where I am, you may be also.

Revelation 1:5

And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood

Colossians 1:13–14

Who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have the redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Psalm 145:18

Yahweh is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose,

John 1:12

But as many as received him—to those who believe in his Name—he gave to them authority to become children of God,

1 John 5:11–12

And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. The one who has the Son has the life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

Ephesians 2:13

But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ.

Hebrews 4:15–16

For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who has been tempted in all things in the same way, without sin. Therefore, let us approach with confidence to the throne of grace, in order that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

John 6:35

Jesus said to them, “I am the Bread of Life. The one who comes to me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again.

Psalm 34:8

Taste and see that Yahweh is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Isaiah 53:3–5

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like one from whom others hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not hold him in high regard. However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his wounds we were healed.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

Galatians 4:6–7

And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba! (Father!),” so that you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir through God.

1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your cares on Him, because he cares for you.

Psalm 147:3

He is the one who heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

Luke 7:34

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

John 11:35–36

Jesus wept. So the Jews were saying, “See how he loved him!”

Hebrews 2:11

For both the one who sanctifies and the ones who are sanctified are all from one, for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers.

Romans 8:15–17

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself confirms to our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together with him so that we may also be glorified together with him.

John 4:10–14

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God and Who it is who says to you, ‘Give me water to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you LIVING WATER.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water? You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become IN HIM A WELL OF WATER SPRINGING UP TO ETERNAL LIFE.”

Revelation 3:20–21

Behold, I stand at the door and knock! If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, indeed I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. The one who conquers, I will grant to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also have conquered and have sat down with My Father on His throne.

Psalm 27:10

If my father or my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will receive me.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their distress, there was no distress, and the messenger of His presence saved them; in his love and compassion, He Himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all the days of old.

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, “Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.’ ”

Hebrews 2:17–18

Therefore, he was obligated to be made like His brothers in all respects, in order that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in the things relating to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people. For in that which He himself suffered when he was tempted, He is able to help those who are tempted.

1 Corinthians 1:9

God is faithful, by whom you were called to fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Philippians 1:6

convinced of this same thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it until the day of Christ Jesus,

Psalm 18:1–2

And he said: “I love you, O Yahweh, my strength.” Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.

Isaiah 12:2

Look! God is my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might is Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me.”

John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world! The one who follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Matthew 12:49–50

And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Behold my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

Mark 3:34–35

And looking around at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of God, this person is my brother and sister and mother.”

Colossians 2:9–10

because in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you are filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority,

1 John 1:3

What we have seen and heard, we announce to you also, in order that you also may have fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

Psalm 91:14–15

Because he loves Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will protect him because he knows my name. He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue and honor him.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the WAY, and the TRUTH, and the LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Psalm 118:28

You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God; I will exalt you.

Isaiah 25:1

Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans of old, in faithfulness, trustworthiness.

Philippians 4:13

I am able to do all things by the one who strengthens me.

2 Corinthians 12:9

And he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, because the power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me.

Psalm 46:1

God is our refuge and strength, a very sufficient help in troubles.

John 8:31–32

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my WORD you are truly my disciples, and you will know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH will set you FREE.”

Col 3:3

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with him.

Psalm 16:5–6

Yahweh is the portion, my share and my cup. You hold my lot. The measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Yes, my inheritance is delightful for me.

Isaiah 26:3–4

You will protect a firm inclination in peace, in peace because he trusts in you. Trust in Yahweh forever, for in Yah, Yahweh you have an everlasting rock.

John 10:10

The thief comes only so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

Romans 8:10–11

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.

Ephesians 2:18–19

Because through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. Consequently, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God,

Hebrews 7:25

Therefore, He is also able to save completely THOSE WHO DRAW NEAR TO GOD THROUGH HIM, because He always lives in order to intercede on their behalf.

Psalm 84:11–12

Because Yahweh God is a sun and a shield; Yahweh gives grace and honor. He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly. O Yahweh of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts You.

John 17:20–23

“And I do not ask on behalf of these only, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they all may be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me. And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, in order that they may be One, just as we are One—I in them, and you in Me, in order that they may be completed in One, so that the world may know that you sent Me, and you have loved them just as you have loved Me.

Psalm 25:14

Intimate fellowship with Yahweh is for those who fear Him, and He makes known His Covenant to them.

Isaiah 41:10

You must not fear, for I am with you; you must not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, indeed I will help you, indeed I will take hold of you with the Right Hand of My Salvation.

1John 2:1–2

My little children, I am writing these things to you in order that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One, and He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Romans 8:26–27

Likewise, the Spirit HELPS us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as one ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unexpressed groanings. And the one who searches our hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit is, because He intercedes on behalf of the saints according to the will of God.

Psalm 37:4

Take pleasure in Yahweh as well, and He will give you the requests of your heart.

John 6:68–69

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. And we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”

Philippians 3:10

So that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Colossians 1:27

To whom God wanted to make known what is the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of Glory.

Psalm 62:5–8

Only for God wait in silence, O my soul, because my hope is from Him. Only he is my rock and my salvation, my high stronghold; I shall not be shaken. On God rests my salvation and my glory; God is my strong rock, my refuge. Trust him at all times, O people; pour out before Him your heart. God is a refuge for us. Selah

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a Shepherd; He will gather the lambs in His arm, and He will carry them in His bosom; He will lead those who nurse.

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three are gathered in My Name, I am there in the midst of them.”

Luke 15:20

And he set out and came to his own father. But while he was still a long way away, his FATHER saw him and had COMPASSION, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

Hebrews 12:2

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

1 Peter 1:8–9

Whom, although you have not seen, you love; in whom now you believe, although you do not see Him, and you rejoice greatly with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Psalm 33:20–22

Our soul waits for Yahweh; He is our help and our shield. For in Him our heart rejoices because in His Holy Name we trust. Let your loyal love, O Yahweh, be upon us, even as we hope in you.

John 1:16

For from His fullness we have all received, and grace after grace.

Psalm 143:8

Cause me to hear your loyal love in the morning, for I trust you. Cause me to know the way that I should go, for I lift up my soul to you.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore, Yahweh waits to be gracious to you, and therefore He will rise up to show you mercy, for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.

2 Corinthians 13:13

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

Galatians 2:20

And I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Psalm 31:19–20

How abundant is your goodness that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before the children of humankind. You will hide them in the protection of your presence from the plots of man. You will hide them in a shelter from the strife of tongues.

John 12:26

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me, and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

Romans 6:23

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

Ephesians 1:7–8

In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace, that He caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight,

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abundant in loyal love and faithfulness.

Isaiah 55:1–3

“Ho! Everyone thirsty, come to the waters! And whoever has no money, come, buy and eat, and come, buy without money, wine and milk without price! Why do you weigh out money for what is not food, and your labor for what cannot satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul take pleasure in rich food. Extend your ear, and come to me! Listen so that your soul may live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the enduring proofs of the mercies shown to David.

Luke 19:10

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost.”

1 Timothy 1:15

The saying is trustworthy and worthy of all acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

Hebrews 10:19–22

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence for the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Psalm 107:8–9

Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, for he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good.

Revelation 22:17

And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And the one who hears, let him say, “Come!” And the one who is thirsty, let him come. The one who wants, let him take the water of life freely.

John 3:29–30

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete. It is necessary for that one to increase, but for me to decrease.”

Psalm 63:1–4

O God, you are my God; I will seek you diligently. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you as in a dry and weary land without water. Thus, I have seen you in the sanctuary, beholding your strength and glory. Because your loyal [Everlasting] love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and as is the joy of the bridegroom over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said to them, “The bridegroom’s attendants are not able to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them. But days are coming when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

2 Cor 11:2

For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Psalm 45:10–11

Hear, O daughter, and discern and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father’s house. Let the king desire your beauty. Because he is your lord, therefore bow down to him.

John 21:15–17

Now, when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed My lambs!” He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Shepherd my sheep!” He said to him a third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was distressed because He said to him a third time, “Do you love Me?” and he said to Him, “Lord, you know everything! You know that I love You!” Jesus said to Him, “Feed my sheep!

Romans 12:1–2

Therefore, I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

Ephesians 5:1–2

Therefore, become imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, just as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

Psalm 42:7–8

Deep is calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me. By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Isaiah 61:10

I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns himself with a head wrap like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewelry.

Luke 10:38–42

Now, as they traveled along, he entered a certain village. And a certain woman named Martha welcomed him. And she had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the feet of Jesus and was listening to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much preparation, so she approached and said, “Lord, is it not a concern to you that my sister has left me alone to make preparations? Then tell her that she should help me!” But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things! But few things are necessary, or only one thing, for Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”

1 John 2:5–6

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this, we know that we are in him. The one who says that he resides in him ought also to walk just as that one walked.

Hebrews 3:14

For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our commitment steadfast until the end,

Psalm 119:57

Yahweh is my portion; I intend to heed your words.

Jude 24–25

Now to the one who is able to protect you from stumbling and make you to stand before his glory blameless with exultation, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time and now and for all eternity. Amen.

John 7:37–38

Now on the last day of the feast—the great day—Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink, the one who believes in me. Just as the scripture said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’”

Psalm 34:18

Yahweh is near to those who are heartbroken and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty one who resides forever, and whose name is holy: “I reside in a high and holy place, and with the contrite and humble of spirit, to Revelation the spirit of the humble, and to Revelation the heart of the contrite.

Matthew 1:23

“Behold, the virgin will become pregnant and will give birth to a son, and they will call his name Emmanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

Romans 8:18–19

For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us. For the eagerly expecting creation awaits eagerly the Revelation of the sons of God.

Psalm 116:1–2

I love him, because Yahweh has heard the voice of my supplications. Because he has inclined his ear to me, I will call all my days.

John 11:25–26

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die [the second death] forever. Do you believe this?”

Colossians 2:6–7

Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, live in him, firmly rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding with thankfulness.

Ephesians 4:32

Become kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.

Psalm 103:1–5

Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and all within me, bless his holy name. Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits: who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with loyal love and mercies, who satisfies your life with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Isaiah 44:21–22

“Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant: I formed you; you are my servant; Israel, you will not be forgotten by me! I have wiped your transgressions out like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you!”

Luke 15:3–7

So he told them this parable, saying, “What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he returns to his home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!’ I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, in order that we may know the one who is true, and we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Psalm 100:5

For Yahweh is good; his loyal love is forever, and his faithfulness is from generation to generation.

2Peter 3:9

The Lord is not delaying the promises, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

John 4:23–24

But an hour is coming—and now is here—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. God is Spirit, and the ones who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth.”

Psalm 130:5–7

I await Yahweh; my soul awaits, and I wait for His Word. My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning. Yes, more than watchmen for the morning. O Israel, wait for Yahweh. For with Yahweh there is loyal love, and with him there is abundant redemption.

Isaiah 43:25

I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Matthew 26:38

Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.”

Romans 15:7

Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also has accepted you, to the glory of God.

Psalm 139:1–6

O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thoughts from afar. You search out my wandering and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word yet on my tongue, but behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely. You barricade me behind and in front, and set your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is set high; I cannot prevail against it.

John 13:1

Now before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, and having loved his own in the world, loved them to the end.

Colossians 3:15–17

And the peace of Christ must rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom, with Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God, and everything whatever you do in word or in deed, giving thanks for all things in the name of the Lord Jesus to God the Father through him.

Ephesians 3:12

in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through faith in him.

Psalm 32:10

Many are the pains of the wicked, but for the one who trusts Yahweh, [Everlasting] loyal love surrounds him.

Isaiah 46:3–4

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel who have been carried from the belly, who have been carried from the womb: Even to your old age I am he; even to your advanced age I myself will support you. I myself have made you, and I myself will carry you, and I myself will support you, and I will save you.

Luke 23:42–43

And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!” And he said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

1 John 4:7–8

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Hebrews 4:14

Therefore, because we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

Psalm 145:8–9

Yahweh is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and great in loyal love. Yahweh is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works.

2 Cor 1:3–4

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in all affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

John 16:33

I have said these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world.”

Psalm 121

I lift up my eyes to the mountains; whence will my help come? My help is from Yahweh, maker of heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved; he who protects you will not slumber. Look, he will not slumber, and he will not sleep— he who protects Israel. Yahweh is your protector; Yahweh is your shade at your right hand. The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. Yahweh will protect you from all evil; he will protect your life. Yahweh will protect your going out and your coming in from now until forever.

Isaiah 53:4–6

However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his wounds we were healed. All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.

Matthew 11:29

Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Romans 10:9–13

That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation. For the scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who is rich to all who call upon him. For “everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Psalm 40:1–3

I waited patiently for Yahweh, and he inclined to me and heard my cry for help. And so he brought me up from the roaring pit, from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady. Then he put a new song in my mouth, a praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and will trust Yahweh.

John 19:26–27

So Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

Colossians 1:21–22

And although you were formerly alienated and enemies in attitude, because of your evil deeds, but now you have been reconciled by his physical body through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

Ephesians 2:4–7

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, and we being dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved), and raised us together and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, in order that he might show in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 30:5

For there is a moment in his anger; there is a lifetime in his favor. Weeping lodges for the evening, but in the morning comes rejoicing.

Isaiah 42:3

He will not break a broken reed, and he will not extinguish a dim wick. He will bring justice forth in faithfulness.

Luke 7:47

For this reason, I tell you, her sins—which were many—have been forgiven, for she loved much. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little.”

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Hebrews 9:14

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God?

Psalm 51:10–12

Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and with a willing spirit sustain me.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” is the one who has shined in our hearts for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

John 5:24

Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

Psalm 23:4

Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Isaiah 40:28–31

Have you not known, or have you not heard? Yahweh is the God of eternity, the creator of the ends of the earth! He is not faint, and he does not grow weary! There is no searching his understanding. He gives power to the weary, and he increases power for the powerless. Even young people will be faint and grow weary, and the young will stumble, exhausted. But those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength. They shall go up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint.

Matthew 6:25–34

“For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, and not for your body, what you will wear. Is your life not more than food and your body more than clothing? Consider the birds of the sky, that they do not sow or reap or gather produce into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they are? And who among you, by being anxious, is able to add one hour to his life span? And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not toil or spin, but I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these. But if God dresses the grass of the field in this way, although it is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not do so much more for you, you of little faith? Therefore, do not be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?,’ for the pagans seek after all these things. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore, do not be anxious for tomorrow, because tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Romans 14:8

For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

Psalm 56:8

You have kept count of my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle; are they not in your book?

John 14:27

“Peace I leave with you; the peace I give to you—not as the world gives [peace], I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.

Colossians 3:1–4

Therefore, if you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Psalm 68:19

Blessed be the Lord. Daily, He loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation. Selah

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of a pupil, to know how to help the weary with a word. He awakens morning by morning, awakens an ear for me to listen as do the pupils.

Luke 24:32

And they said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?”

1 John 5:4–5

because everyone who is fathered by God conquers the world. And this is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. Now, who is the one who conquers the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Hebrews 6:19–20

which we have like an anchor of the soul, both firm and steadfast, and entering into the inside of the curtain, where Jesus, the forerunner for us, entered, because he became a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

Psalm 94:18–19

When I thought, “My foot is slipping,” your loyal love, O Yahweh, supported me. When my troubled thoughts were many within me, your consolations cheered my soul.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

John 12:32

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

Psalm 17:6–8

As for me, I have called on you because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me. Hear my words. Show wondrously your acts of loyal [everlasting] love, O Savior of those who take refuge at your right hand from those who rise up against them. Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me in the shadow of your wings

Isaiah 48:17

Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, leads you in the way you should go.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her young together under her wings, and you were not willing!

Romans 1:16–17

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, “But the one who is righteous by faith will live.”

Psalm 119:76

Please let your loyal love comfort me, according to your word to your servant.

John 6:44–45

No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears from the Father and learns comes to me.

Colossians 2:2–3

so that their hearts may be encouraged, united in love and into all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Ephesians 5:29–30

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.

Psalm 31:7

I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man? He dies! And of the son of humankind? He is sacrificed as grass!

Luke 12:6–7

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered! Do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

1 John 3:2–3

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is. And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.

Hebrews 12:22–24

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of angels, to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous people made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than Abel’s does.

Psalm 149:4

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; he glorifies the afflicted with salvation.

2 Corinthians 6:16–18

And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, “I will live in them and will walk about among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Therefore, “come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord, “and do not touch what is unclean, and I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me,” says the all-powerful Lord.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

Psalm 139:13–16

Indeed, you created my inward parts; you wove me in my mother’s womb. I praise you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was created secretly, and intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my embryo, and in your book they all were written— days fashioned for me when there was not one of them.

Isaiah 54:5

For your husband is your maker, his name is Yahweh of hosts; and your redeemer is the holy one of Israel, he is called the God of all of the earth.

Matthew 10:29–31

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And one of them will not fall to the ground without the knowledge and consent of your Father. And even the hairs of your head are all numbered! Therefore, do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Romans 2:4

Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

Psalm 103:8–10

Yahweh is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loyal love. He does not dispute continually, nor keep his anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities.

John 10:3–4

For this one, the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear His voice, and He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out. Whenever He sends out all His own, He goes before them, and the sheep follow Him because they know his voice.

Colossians 1:19–20

Because He was well pleased for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by making peace through the blood of His cross, through Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

Ephesians 1:11–12

in whom also we were chosen, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all things according to the counsel of his will, that we who hoped beforehand in Christ should be for the praise of his glory,

Psalm 138:8

Yahweh accomplishes things for my benefit. O Yahweh, your loyal love endures forever; do not abandon the works of your hands.

Isaiah 49:13

Sing for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth! Mountains must break forth in rejoicing! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and he will take pity on his afflicted ones.

Luke 15:10

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear includes punishment, and the one who is afraid has not been perfected in love.

Hebrews 10:22–23

let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful.

Psalm 89:1–2

I will sing forever of Yahweh’s acts of loyal love. from generation to generation, I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth. For I say, “forever your loyal love is built up. The heavens you have established with your faithfulness in them.”

2Corinthians 9:15

Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

John 17:24

“Father, those whom you have given to me—I want that those also may be with me where I am, in order that they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Psalm 27:4

One thing I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider his temple.

Isaiah 33:17

Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will see a distant land.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God.

Romans 8:29

because those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brothers.

Psalm 84:1–2

How lovely are your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts! My soul longs and even fails for the courtyards of Yahweh. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

John 14:2–3

In my Father’s house, there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because I am going away to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, so that where I am, you may be also.

Colossians 3:23–24

Whatever you do, accomplish it from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to people, because you know that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we may walk in them.

Psalm 16:8–9

I have set Yahweh before me always. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore, my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices. Yes, my body will dwell in safety,

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come to Zion with rejoicing. And everlasting joy shall be on their head; joy and gladness shall overtake them, and sorrow and sighing shall flee.

Luke 10:20

Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are inscribed in heaven.”

1 John 2:28

And now, little children, remain in him, so that whenever he is revealed, we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.

Hebrews 11:6

Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Psalm 73:23–26

But I am continually with you; you have hold of my right hand. You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me into honor. Whom do I have in the heavens except you? And with you I have no other desire on earth. My flesh and heart failed, but God is the strength of my heart and my reward forever.

2 Cor 5:6–8

Therefore, although we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—for we live by faith, not by sight—so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

John 8:36

So if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Isaiah 9:6

For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Matthew 1:21

And she will give birth to a son, and you will call his name ‘Jesus,’ because he will save his people from their sins.”

Romans 5:1–2

Therefore, because we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

Psalm 18:19

So he brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.

John 3:3

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.”

Colossians 1:12–14

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light, who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have the redemption, the forgiveness of sins,

Ephesians 1:13–14

In whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also, when you believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.

Psalm 32:7

You are my hiding place; from trouble you preserve me. With cries of deliverance, you surround me. Selah

Isaiah 52:7

How delightful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns as a king.”

Luke 1:68–69

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited to help and has redeemed his people, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

1 John 5:13

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life.

Hebrews 1:3

who is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, sustaining all things by the word of power. When he had made purification for sins through him, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Psalm 145:13–14

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down.

2 Corinthians 2:14–15

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and Who Reveals the fragrance of the knowledge of him through us in every place. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Psalm 34:4–5

I sought Yahweh, and He answered me, and from all my terrors He delivered me. They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces shall not be ashamed.

Isaiah 60:19–20

The sun shall no longer be your light by day, and for bright light the moon shall not give you light, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God your glory. Your sun shall no longer go down, and your moon shall not wane, for Yahweh himself will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall come to an end.

Matthew 17:5

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him!”

Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 119:103

How smooth are your words to my palate, more than honey in my mouth.

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.

Colossians 2:13–14

And although you were dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, having destroyed the certificate of indebtedness in ordinances against us, which was hostile to us, and removed it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.

Ephesians 4:7–8

Now to each one of us was given this grace, according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore, it says, “Ascending on high, he led captivity captive; he gave gifts to men.”

Psalm 71:5–6

because you are my hope, O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from birth. It was you who took me from the womb of my mother. My praise is of you continually.

Isaiah 58:11

And Yahweh will lead you continually, and satisfy your soul in a barren land, and he will strengthen your bones, and you shall be like a well-watered garden, and like a spring of water whose water does not fail.

Luke 2:10–11

And the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring good news to you of great joy which will be for all the people: that today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born for you in the city of David.

1 John 2:24–25

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise which He Himself promised us: eternal life.

Hebrews 8:10–12

For this is the covenant that I will decree with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their wrongdoings, and I will not remember their sins any longer.”

Psalm 90:14

Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, for your sake he became poor, in order that you, by his poverty, may become rich.

John 15:4–5

Remain in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit from itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him—this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you are not able to do anything.

Psalm 37:23–24

The steps of a man are established by Yahweh, and he takes pleasure in his way. Though he falls, he will not be cast headlong, for Yahweh supports him with his hand.

Isaiah 41:13

For I, Yahweh your God, am grasping your right hand; it is I who say to you, “You must not fear; I myself, I will help you.

Matthew 28:18–20

And Jesus approached and spoke to them, saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age.”

Romans 12:5

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

Psalm 119:114

You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.

John 6:56–57

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats me—that one will live because of me.

Colossians 1:16–17

because all things in the heavens and on the earth were created by him, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all things were created through him and for him, and he himself is before all things, and in him all things are held together,

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, become strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength.

Psalm 28:7

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him, and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and with my song I will give thanks to him.

Isaiah 40:29

He gives power to the weary, and he increases power for the powerless.

Luke 22:31–32

“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail. And you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

1 John 4:4

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Hebrews 2:14–15

Therefore, since the children share in blood and flesh, he also in like manner shared in these same things, in order that through death he could destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and could set free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery throughout all their lives.

Psalm 55:22

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

2Corinthians 4:16–18

Therefore, we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner person is being renewed day after day. For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure and proportion, because we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is not seen is eternal.

John 16:22

So you also are experiencing sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.

Psalm 30:11–12

You have turned my wailing into my dancing. You have removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy so that I may sing praises to you and not be quiet. O Yahweh, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

Isaiah 35:3–4

Strengthen the weak hands and make the staggering knees firm. Say to those who are hasty of heart, “Be strong; you must not fear! Look! your God will come with vengeance, with divine retribution. He is the one who will come and save you.”

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are the ones who mourn, because they will be comforted.

Romans 15:4–5

For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, in order that through patient endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope. Now may the God of patient endurance and of encouragement grant you to be in agreement with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus,

Psalm 126:5–6

Those who sow with tears shall reap with rejoicing. He who diligently goes out with weeping, carrying the seed bag, shall certainly come in with rejoicing, carrying his sheaves.

John 20:20–21

And when he had said this, he showed his hands and his side to them. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you.”

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom, with Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God,

Ephesians 5:19–20

speaking to one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing praise in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God and Father,

Psalm 43:3–4

Send your light and your truth; they shall lead me. They shall bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling places. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my surpassing joy, and I will praise you with lyre, O God, my God.

Isaiah 51:3

For Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all its sites of ruins. And he will make its wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the sound of song.

Luke 24:50–52

And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them. And it happened that while he was blessing them, he parted from them and was taken up into heaven. And they worshiped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

1 John 1:4

And these things we write, in order that our joy may be complete.

Hebrews 12:1–2

Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Psalm 4:7–8

You have put gladness in my heart more than when their grain and their wine abound. In peace I will lie down and sleep at once, for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely.

2 Corinthians 7:4

Great is my confidence toward you; great is my boasting on your behalf; I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

John 2:11

This was the beginning of the signs Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and He revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

Psalm 119:165

Great peace is for those who love your law, and they do not have a cause for stumbling.

Isaiah 26:8–9

Surely we wait for you in the path of your judgments, Yahweh, for your name and renown are the desire of the soul. I desire you with all my soul in the night; also, I seek you with my spirit within me, for when your judgments are upon the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Matthew 7:7–8

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Romans 10:17

Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the word about Christ.

Psalm 119:11

In my heart I have hidden your word, so that I may not sin against you.

John 5:39–40

You search the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me. And you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

Colossians 4:2

Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving,

Ephesians 6:18

with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and to this end being alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

Psalm 5:3

O Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning, I will set forth my case to you, and I will watch.

Isaiah 50:7

And the Lord Yahweh helps me, therefore I have not been put to shame; therefore I have set my face like flint. And I know that I shall not be ashamed;

Luke 18:1

And he told them a parable to show that they must always pray and not be discouraged,

1 John 5:14–15

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the realization of what is hoped for, the proof of things not seen.

Psalm 27:13–14

Surely I believe that I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living. Wait for Yahweh. Be strong and let your heart show strength, and wait for Yahweh.

2 Corinthians 1:20

For as many as are the promises of God, in him they are “yes”; therefore also through him is the “amen” to the glory of God through us.

John 13:23

One of his disciples—the one whom Jesus loved—was reclining close beside Jesus.

Psalm 25:4–5

Make me know your ways, O Yahweh. Teach me your paths. Cause me to walk in your 7truth and teach me, because you are the God of my salvation. I await you all day long.

Isaiah 30:21

And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, “this is the way; walk in it,” when you go to your right and when you go to your left.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Romans 6:11

So also you, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 63:7–8

Because you have been my help, therefore, in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.

John 21:20

Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them (who also leaned back on his chest at the dinner and said, “Lord, who is the one betraying you?”)

Colossians 2:19

And not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by the ligaments and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

Ephesians 3:20–21

Now to the One who is able to do beyond all measure more than all that we ask or think, according to the power that is at work in us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Psalm 119:97

How I love your law! The whole day, it is my meditation.

Isaiah 64:4

And since ancient times, they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; He acts for the one Who waits for Him.

Luke 1:46–47

And Mary said, “My soul exalts the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced greatly in God my Savior,

1 John 3:24

And the one who keeps his commandments resides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he resides in us: by the Spirit whom he has given to us.

Hebrews 10:35–36

Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, in order that after you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Psalm 119: 75 I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me. 76 May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant. 77 May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.…

Cross References for God's Comfort:

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, / who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

Romans 15:4

For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope, / encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.

Isaiah 40:1

“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

John 14:16-18

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever — the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

2 Corinthians 7:6

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

Isaiah 49:13

Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

Hebrews 6:18

Thus, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

Romans 8:28

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

Isaiah 66:13

As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

1 Peter 5:10

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

Lamentations 3:22-23

Because of the loving devotion of the LORD, we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. / They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

Philippians 4:7

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

John 6:44–45

No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears from the Father and learns comes to me.

Colossians 2:2–3

So that their hearts may be encouraged, united in love and into all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Ephesians 5:29–30

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ does the church, because we are members of His body.

Psalm 31:7

I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, I Am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man? He dies! And of the son of humankind? He is sacrificed as grass!

Luke 12:6–7

1 John 3:2–3

Hebrews 12:22–24

Psalm 149:4

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; he glorifies the afflicted with salvation.

2 Corinthians 6:16–18

And what agreement does the Temple of God have with idols? For we are the Temple of the living God, just as God said, “I will live in them and will walk about among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Therefore, “come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord, “and do not touch what is unclean, and I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me,” says the all-powerful Lord.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

Psalm 52:8

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God. I trust the loyal [everlasting] love of God forever and ever.

2 Corinthians 10:5

And all pride that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

John 19:30

Then, when He had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “It is [FINISHED] completed,” and bowing His head, He gave up his spirit.

Psalm 103:2–4

Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and do not forget all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquity, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with loyal love and mercies.

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, and let us argue,” says Yahweh. “Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Matthew 26:28

For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Romans 3:23–24

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 32:1–2

Happy is he whose transgression is taken away, whose sin is covered. Happy is a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is not deceit.

John 1:29

On the next day, he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Colossians 1:13–14

Who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have the redemption, the forgiveness of sins,

Ephesians 1:6–7

To the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace,

Psalm 85:2

You took away the guilt of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah

Isaiah 44:22

I have wiped your transgressions out like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you!”

Luke 7:48–50

And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” And those who were reclining at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us our sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Hebrews 9:22

Indeed, nearly everything is purified with blood according to the law, and apart from the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.

Psalm 130:3–4

If you, O Yah, should keep track of iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.”

2 Corinthians 5:21

He made the one who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him.

John 10:11

“I Am the Good Shepherd. The good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Psalm 23:1

Yahweh is my Shepherd; I will not lack for anything.

Isaiah 40:10–11

Look! The Lord Yahweh comes with strength, and His arm rules for him. Look! His reward is with him, and his recompense in his presence. He will feed his flock like a Shepherd; He will gather the lambs in his arm, and He will carry them in his bosom; He will lead those who nurse.

Matthew 18:12–14

What do you think? If a certain man has a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go and look for the one that wandered away? And if he happens to find it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not wander away. In the same way it is not the will of your Father who is in Heaven that one of these little ones perish.

Romans 8:34

Who is the one who condemns? Christ is the one who died, and more than that, Who was raised, Who is also at the right hand of God, Who also intercedes for us.

Psalm 95:6–7

Come in, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of His Hand. Today if you will hear His Voice:

John 10:16

And I have other sheep which are not from this fold. I must bring these also, and they will hear my voice, and they will become one flock —One Shepherd.

Colossians 1:18

And He Himself is the Head of the body, the Church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself may become first in everything.

Ephesians 5:23

Because the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church (he himself being the Savior of the body).

Psalm 80:1

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock. Shine forth, you who sits enthroned above the cherubim.

Isaiah 53:6

All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.

Luke 15:4–6

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he returns to his home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!’

1 John 2:2

And He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Hebrews 13:20–21

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with every good thing to do his will, carrying out in us what is pleasing before Him through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.

Psalm 100:3

Know that Yahweh, he is God; he made us, and we are His. We are his people and the sheep of His pasture.

2 Cor 5:18–19

And all these things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

John 11:5

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

Psalm 119:132

Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is proper for those who love Your Name.

Isaiah 43:4

Because you are precious in my eyes, you are honored, and I myself love you, and I give people in place of you, and nations in place of your life.

Matthew 10:30–31

And even the hairs of your head are all numbered! Therefore, do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Romans 9:25

As he also says in Hosea, “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and those who were not loved, ‘Loved.’

Psalm 149:4–5

For Yahweh takes pleasure in His people; He glorifies the afflicted with salvation. Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.

John 16:27

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Colossians 3:12–13

Therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and dearly loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, putting up with one another, and forgiving one another. If anyone should have a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord also forgave you, thus also you do the same.

Ephesians 1:4–6

Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love, having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved.

Psalm 147:11

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, the ones who hope for his loyal love.

Isaiah 62:3–4

And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a headband of royalty in the hand of your God. It shall no longer be said of you, “Forsaken,” and it shall no longer be said of your land, “Desolation!” But you will be called “My Delight Is In Her,” and your land, “Married,” for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.

Luke 12:32

“Do not be afraid, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

1 John 3:1–2

See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this, the world does not know us: because it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever He is revealed, we will be like Him, because we will see him just as He is.

Hebrews 12:6

For the Lord disciplines the one whom He loves, and punishes every son whom he accepts.”

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me in the shadow of your wings

2 Corinthians 6:18

And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me,” says the all-powerful Lord.

Summary:

Jesus defines true friendship as a sacrificial relationship, inviting believers to remain in His love by keeping His commandments.

He demonstrates this love by laying down His life for His friends, revealing everything He has heard from the Father.

This agape love, so expansive that God gave His only Son, brings complete joy to those who embrace it.

A collection of Bible verses emphasizing God’s love, faithfulness, and presence.

These verses highlight God’s sacrifice of Jesus, His redemption, and His promise to never abandon His followers.

They also encourage believers to love one another, seek God’s presence, and find strength and comfort in Him.

The provided text is a compilation of Bible verses from various books, including Psalms, Isaiah, John, Matthew, Mark, Colossians, 1 John, and others.

These verses cover a wide range of themes, such as God’s love, salvation, guidance, strength, and the importance of following Jesus.

The text emphasizes the relationship between believers and God, highlighting the transformative power of faith and the promise of eternal life.

The provided text is a collection of Bible verses from various books, including Luke, 1Timothy, Hebrews, Psalms, Revelation, John, Isaiah, Matthew, 2 Corinthians, Romans, Ephesians, and Jude.

The verses cover a range of themes, including salvation, love, faith, worship, and the nature of God.

A collection of Bible verses is provided, covering various themes such as forgiveness, love, comfort, protection, salvation, and peace.

These verses emphasize the importance of accepting one another, loving God and others, and finding rest and strength in Him.

They also highlight the transformative power of Christ’s sacrifice and the assurance of eternal life for believers.

The text is a compilation of Bible verses from various books, including Ephesians, Psalms, Isaiah, Luke, 1 John, Hebrews, and others.

These verses cover a range of themes, including salvation, faith, love, comfort, and the nature of God.

The compilation emphasizes the importance of seeking spiritual things, trusting in God’s promises, and living a life that reflects His love and grace.

The provided text is a compilation of Bible verses from various books, including Psalms, Isaiah, Luke, John, Romans, and others.

These verses cover a wide range of themes, such as salvation, faith, hope, love, and the nature of God.

The text emphasizes the importance of remaining in Christ, seeking God’s will, and living a life that honors Him.

A collection of Bible verses is provided, covering various themes such as faith, strength, joy, and prayer.

The verses emphasize the importance of relying on God, seeking His guidance, and finding comfort in His presence.

They also encourage believers to persevere through challenges, knowing that God is with them and will ultimately bring about victory and joy.

This compilation of Bible verses highlights God’s love, forgiveness, and redemption through Jesus Christ. It emphasizes the importance of faith, obedience, and enduring hardships to receive God’s promises. The verses also portray God as a good shepherd who cares for His people, forgives their sins, and desires their reconciliation. Amen

"Jesus Is All the World to Me" is a hymn written by Will L. Thompson that expresses a deep personal relationship with Jesus, describing Him as a source of joy, strength, and friendship.

The hymn emphasizes trust in Jesus and the comfort He provides in times of sadness.

Verse 1

Jesus is all the world to me:

My life, my joy, my all.

He is my strength from day to day;

Without Him, I would fall.

When I am sad, to Him I go;

No one else can cheer me so.

When I am sad, He makes me glad;

He’s my Friend.

Verse 2

Jesus is all the world to me,

My Friend in trials sore.

I go to Him for blessings, and

He gives them o’er and o’er.

He sends the sunshine and the rain;

He sends the harvest’s golden grain:

Sunshine and rain, harvest of grain—

He’s my Friend.

Verse 3

Jesus is all the world to me,

And true to Him I’ll be.

Oh, how could I this Friend deny

When He’s so true to me?

Following Him I know I’m right;

He watches o’er me day and night.

Following Him by day and night,

He’s my Friend.

Verse 4

Jesus is all the world to me,

I want no better friend.

I trust Him now; I’ll trust Him when

Life’s fleeting days shall end.

Beautiful life with such a Friend;

Beautiful life that has no end!

Eternal life, eternal joy,

He’s my Friend.

Worship video, "The Lord Is Near – Psalm 34:18 (4K) | Worship In Heaven | Heaven Songs:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82pAJyOQZe4&list=RD82pAJyOQZe4&t=309s

This worship video focuses on the comforting and healing presence of God, particularly for those who are brokenhearted or suffering. The song emphasizes God's closeness to those who weep. His understanding of every tear, and His ability to provide comfort in our pain.

Key songs' themes include:

Divine Comfort and Nearness: The Lord is depicted as being near to those who are hurting, crushed in spirit, and despairing.

Healing and Restoration: The music lyrics speak of God restoring wounded souls, healing hearts, binding and making them whole. His nail-pierced hands bring healing.

Hope and unwavering presence: God is portrayed as a source of hope that never dies, ever true and always near. He collects every falling tear and turns mourning into cheer.

Mercy and Love: The worship music highlights God's mercy and unending love. He is a faithful shepherd who walks with us through all trials.

Redemption through suffering: It acknowledges Jesus's shared grief and wounds, through which hearts are healed. Scars can shine as a sign of divine mercy.

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The sermon presents Jesus as the believer’s true Friend and Bridegroom, whose sacrificial, everlasting love is revealed supremely in the cross and confirmed by countless promises of God’s nearness, comfort, and faithfulness. Believers are called to abide in Christ, obey His commandments, and allow the Spirit to grow the fruit of love and other graces, living as new creations and adopted children who walk as He walked.

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What Does The Holy Bible Say About Tithing And Giving?

noreply@blogger.com (RevWm) — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 08:47:00 +0000

What does the Bible say about TITHING and GIVING?

O.T. Tithes, which were required annually, constituted a minimum of 20% of personal income, plus the cost of ceremonial animals for Temple sacrifices. The additional Tithe for the poor, collected every third year, would raise the minimum tithes required to 30% of personal income for the year. Additionally, offerings could be anything they had, as Jesus said of the widow who gave everything she had.

The annual O.T. Levitical Tithe was 10% of agricultural produce or income given to Levites, which was 10% of the total income or produce.

The annual O.T. Festival Tithe added an additional 10% for religious festivals, applied to 10% of the total income or produce.

The tithe for the poor (Alms) was required every third year in the Old Testament and constituted an additional 10% for the destitute. It was a contribution of an additional 10% of total income or produce (required every third year).

O.T. Offerings were contributions made in addition to the required tithes.

Offerings may be designated for specific purposes, such as building projects or charitable causes.

In the N.T., the LAW was changed in the New Covenant from the O.T. 30% plus religious contributions up to 100% sacrifice of everything Christians have. As the Holy Spirit leads you in faith, you know you are pleasing God with your offerings. “What is NOT of faith is sin.”

• Old Testament Tithing: Required a minimum of 20% of income annually, including offerings and tithes for the poor.

• New Testament Giving: Replaced tithing with faith-based giving guided by the Holy Spirit.

• Offerings in Both Testaments: Additional contributions beyond the required tithes, which could be designated for specific purposes.

In the Old Testament, tithing was mandatory, requiring the annual donation of at least 20% of income, including offerings and an additional tithe for the poor. However, in the New Testament, tithing is replaced by faith-based giving, guided by the Holy Spirit.

Key Points of Tithes and Offerings:

This doctrine examines Old and New Testament passages to argue that while the Old Testament mandated a tithe (a tenth) to support Levites, worship, and the poor, the New Testament elevates the standard to radical, Spirit-led generosity—up to 100%—for the sake of Christ, His body, and the needy.

Old Testament Teachings on Tithing and Offerings:

Tithes (a tenth of produce, livestock, and income) were commanded for several purposes:

Supporting Levites and priests who had no land inheritance (Numbers 18, Deuteronomy 14, Nehemiah 10, 2 Chronicles 31).

Providing for the poor, foreigners, orphans, and widows (Deuteronomy 14, 26).

Funding Temple worship, sacrifices, and festivals (Leviticus 27, Deuteronomy 12, 16, 2 Chronicles 24, Nehemiah 10, Ezra).

Giving Firstfruits and best offerings (not leftovers) was required, and defective sacrifices were condemned (Proverbs 3, Exodus 23, 34, Malachi 1).

Tithing was prevalent in Israel’s life and was associated with blessings or curses (Malachi 3, Haggai 1, Proverbs 11).

Examples of significant, willing giving for God’s house are found in David, Hezekiah, Josiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah (1 Chronicles 29, 2 Chronicles 24, 31, 35, Ezra, Nehemiah).

New Testament Perspective:

From the Old Testament Law of Tithing to the New Testament concept of total stewardship.

Tithing, as mentioned in the New Testament, primarily refers to practices from the Old Testament (Matthew 23, Luke 11, Hebrews 7, and Luke 18).

Jesus fulfilled the Law, and with the transition of the priesthood, the Law itself underwent a change (Hebrews 7:12).

Under the New Covenant, believers and all their possessions become the property of God, having been purchased at the price of the life of God's Son, Jesus. Consequently, the standard of giving shifts from a fixed 20% to 100%.

Total surrender of one’s life and possessions, guided by the Spirit, leads to willing, cheerful, and faith-filled giving (2 Corinthians 8–9 and Romans 12:1).

Radical discipleship may sometimes necessitate giving up all (as exemplified by the rich young ruler, and the parables of the Pearl of Great Price and hidden treasure, and Acts 5).

Generosity, equality, and “voluntary socialism” among believers.

Early church examples:

Believers in Acts shared all things; there were no needy among them; some sold property for others’ needs (Acts 2, 4).

Macedonian believers gave generously out of poverty (2 Cor 8).

Churches supported poor saints in Jerusalem and traveling ministers (Rom 15; Phil 4; 3 John; Acts 11).

Paul teaches:

Each should give according to ability, voluntarily, not under compulsion (2 Cor 8:12; 9:7).

Current surplus should meet others’ needs, promoting equality (2 Cor 8:14–15; Exod 16).

Those taught the word should share all good things with their teachers (Gal 6:6; 1 Cor 9; 1 Tim 5).

The text calls this pattern “voluntary socialism”: Spirit-led sharing that carries one another’s burdens (Gal 6:2; 1 Cor 12; 1 John 3; James 2).

Heart issues in giving:

God rejects mere ritual ceremonial giving without justice, mercy, and love (Mic 6; Isa 1; Amos 5; Matt 23).

Giving must be:

From faith, not fear or guilt: whatever is not from faith is sin (Rom 14:23).

From love for God and neighbor with the whole heart, not a token 10% (Matt 22; Luke 6:38).

Cheerful and willing: “God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Cor 9:7; Greek hilaros).

Withholding help from needy believers reveals a lack of God’s love (1John 3:17; James 2; Prov 19:17; Deut 15; Isa 58; Lev 25).

Blessing, reward, and consequences of Tithes.

God promises:

Material and spiritual blessing to generous givers (Mal 3; Prov 3, 11; Luke 6:38; 2Cor. 9:6–11).

Provision for those who seek His kingdom first (Matt 6:33; Mark 10’s “hundredfold”).

God warns:

Robbing God through withholding tithes/offerings brings a curse (Mal. 3; Hag. 1).

Hypocritical or dishonest giving (Ananias and Sapphira) can bring severe judgment (Acts 5).

Rich who hoard and ignore the poor face woe and judgment (James 5 alluded; 1Tim 6).

Total discipleship and costly obedience

Jesus demands that love take priority over family, possessions, and even life (Matt. 10:37–39; Luke 14 implied).

The Holy Spirit's call includes:

Bearing the cross, laying down one’s life for Christ and the brethren (John 15; 1John 3:16 implied).

Living as a “living sacrifice,” being transformed into Christ’s image (Rom. 12:1–2; Gen. 1:26; 2Cor. 3:18 alluded).

The parable of the pearl of great price is applied to show that 100% is ultimately required; nothing can be withheld if the Spirit calls for it.

Conscience, faith, and gray areas are discussed in the New Testament.

In disputable matters not directly addressed in Scripture, believers must:

Act in faith with a clear conscience, not against doubt (Rom. 14; 1Cor. 10; Col. 3).

Ask whether an action pleases God, builds up others, harms witness, or enslaves (1Cor. 6, 8, 10; 1Thess. 5; Col. 4).

“Whatever is not of faith is sin” becomes a guiding principle for all choices, including financial ones.

Prophetic warnings and application to America:

The author cites prophetic warnings (e.g., by Kenneth Hagin and other Prophets) of impending judgment and the coming war against America for sin and disobedience. Just as ancient Israel had to fight unnecessary wars, so America has been Judged by God and Jesus to have to fight unnecessary wars.

Many Christian leaders Sin:

Delay or deny Christ’s present reign by pushing His rule into a future millennium.

Resist establishing a truly Christian law and national obedience at present.

Argues Jesus is already reigning as King of kings from Heaven through His Body, the Church (Matt. 28:18; 1Cor. 15; Rev. 1).

King Jesus Calls American Christians to:

Repent, embrace Christ’s present kingship, and obey fully in government, public schools, and in the workplace.

Be willing, like the apostles, to give up everything, including their lives, as the Holy Spirit leads.

Practical exhortations on giving Support:

To Ministers of the WORD and full-time workers (1Cor. 9; 1Tim. 5; Gal. 6:6).

The poor among the saints and the wider body of Christ Jesus.

God’s house and its work (OT temple support applied analogically to church and kingdom work).

Give:

Your First and best, not leftovers.

Freely, joyfully, and sacrificially, in proportion to God’s blessing.

Live:

In daily fellowship, “face to face” where possible, echoing Paul’s example.

In unity, mutual care, and peace (2Cor. 13:11; 1Cor. 12:25–26).

Overall thesis:

OT: tithe (10%) was the minimum obedience to support worship, leaders, and the poor.

NT: Jesus fulfills the Law and raises the bar—Christians and their possessions belong entirely to God.

Therefore, New Testament giving is not about a fixed percentage but about:

100% availability to God.

Spirit-led, cheerful generosity.

Meeting the real needs of the body of Christ and advancing His kingdom, even at the cost of one’s life.

The text traces Scripture from Genesis through Revelation to show that tithing in the Old Testament was a mandated tenth of produce, livestock, and income to support the Levites, temple worship, festivals, and the poor, always with an emphasis on offering the first and best to God. Failure to bring the tithe, or bringing defective offerings, was called robbing God and brought God's Curse, whereas faithful, liberal giving invited tangible blessings and abundance. Numerous examples demonstrate that Israel joyfully funded the temple and its ministry, and that the poor were included through third-year tithes and other provisions. In the New Testament, tithing primarily refers to the old system; with Christ’s priesthood, the law changes: believers are no longer under a fixed 10% rule but are wholly owned by God, bought with a price. The new standard is total stewardship and radical generosity—up to 100%—expressed in cheerful, voluntary, faith-driven giving as the Holy Spirit leads. Early Christians shared possessions so that no one lacked, supported poor saints and gospel workers, and practiced what the author calls “voluntary socialism,” bearing one another’s burdens and meeting needs to promote equality in the body of Christ.

The text insists that giving must flow from a heart full of God's love, justice, mercy, and faith rather than from mere ritual or legalism: God rejects offerings that coexist with oppression and hypocrisy. Whatever is not from faith is sin; believers must act in accordance with a clear conscience, seeking always to please God, build others up, protect their witness, and avoid enslavement to wealth. Generosity brings blessing and spiritual enrichment, whereas hoarding, dishonesty (as in the case of Ananias and Sapphira), and neglect of the poor invite judgment. Jesus demands first place over family, possessions, and life itself, calling His people to be living sacrifices who may be required to relinquish everything, like the rich young ruler was asked to do. The parable of the pearl of great price is used to teach that eternal life in Christ ultimately claims 100% of the believer. The author prophetically applies these themes to American Christianity, warning of impending judgment, critiquing doctrines that postpone Christ’s reign to a future millennium, and urging believers to recognize that Jesus reigns now as King of kings through His church. Most American Christians must repent, embrace Christ’s present kingship, support ministers and the poor, live in close communal love and mutual care, and be willing to give and even lay down their lives as the Spirit directs, trusting that God’s grace is sufficient and His reward sure.

Apologetic Scriptures on Tithing, Offerings, Giving, and Receiving:

Malachi 3:8–10 “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me!” You ask: “How do we rob You?” “By not making the payments of the TENTH and the CONTRIBUTIONS. You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me. Bring the full TENTH into the storehouse so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this way,” says the Lord of Hosts. “See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.

Leviticus 27:30–32 “Every TENTH of the land’s PRODUCE, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is HOLY to the Lord. If a man decides to redeem any part of this TENTH, he must add a fifth to its value. Every TENTH animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the shepherd’s rod, will be HOLY to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 14:22–23 “Each year, you are to set aside a TENTH of ALL the PRODUCE grown in your fields. You are to eat a TENTH of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, in the presence of Yahweh your God at the place where He chooses to have His NAME dwell, so that you will always LEARN to FEAR the Lord your God.

Numbers 18:21–24 “Look, I have GIVEN the Levites every TENTH in Israel as an INHERITANCE in return for the WORK they do, the WORK of the tent of meeting. The Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting, or they will incur guilt and die. The Levites will do the WORK of the tent of meeting, and they will bear the consequences of their sin. The Levites will not receive an INHERITANCE among the Israelites; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations. For I have GIVEN them the TENTH that the Israelites present to the Lord as a CONTRIBUTION for their INHERITANCE. That is why I told them that they would not receive an INHERITANCE among the Israelites.”

2 Chronicles 31:5–6 “When the WORD spread, the Israelites gave LIBERALLY of the BEST of the grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of ALL the PRODUCE of the field, and they brought in an abundance, a TENTH of everything. As for the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought a TENTH of the cattle and sheep, and a TENTH of the dedicated THINGS that were CONSECRATED to the Lord their God. They gathered them into large piles.”

Nehemiah 10:37–38 “We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our grain OFFERINGS, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and oil. A TENTH of our land’s PRODUCE belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-TENTH OFFERING in ALL our agricultural towns. A priest of Aaronic descent must accompany the Levites when they collect the TENTH, and the Levites must TAKE a TENTH of this OFFERING to the storerooms of the TREASURY in the house of our God.”

Proverbs 3:9–10 “Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first PRODUCE of your entire harvest; then your barns will be completely filled, and your vats will overflow with new wine.”

Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a TENTH of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law —justice, mercy, and faith. These THINGS should have been done without neglecting the others.”

Luke 11:42 “But woe to you Pharisees! You GIVE a TENTH of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. These THINGS you should have done without neglecting the others.

Hebrews 7:1–10 “For this Melchizedek — King of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham and BLESSED him as he returned from defeating the kings, and Abraham gave him a TENTH of everything; first, his NAME means king of righteousness, then also, king of Salem, meaning king of peace; without father, mother, or Genesisealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God — remains a priest forever. Now consider how great this man was —even Abraham the patriarch gave a TENTH of the plunder to him! The sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have a command written in the LAW to collect a TENTH from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they have also descended from Abraham. But one without this lineage collected TENTHS from Abraham and BLESSED the one who had the promises. Without a doubt, the inferior is BLESSED by the superior. In one case, men who will die receive TENTHS, but in the other case, Scripture testifies that he lives. And in a sense, Levi himself, who receives TENTHS, has paid TENTHS through Abraham, for he was still within his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.”

Genesis 14:18–20 “Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine; he was a priest to God Most High. He BLESSED him and said: Abram is BLESSED by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, and I GIVE PRAISE to God Most High who has handed over your enemies to you. And Abram gave him a TENTH of everything.

Genesis 28:20–22 “Then Jacob made a VOW: “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, if He PROVIDES me with food to eat and clothing to wear, and if I return safely to my father’s house, then the Lord will be my God. This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will GIVE to You a TENTH of ALL that You GIVE me.”

Deuteronomy 26:12–15 “When you have finished paying ALL the TENTH of your PRODUCE in the third year, the year of the TENTH, you are to GIVE it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. Then you will say in the presence of the Lord your God: I have TAKEN the CONSECRATED portion out of my house; I have also GIVEN it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to ALL the commands You gave me. I have not violated or forgotten Your commands. I have not eaten any of it while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or OFFERED any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the Lord my God; I have done ALL You COMMANDED me. Look down from Your HOLY dwelling, from Heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the Land You have GIVEN us as You SWORE to our fathers, a Land flowing with milk and honey.”

1 Corinthians 16:2 “On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and SAVE in keeping with how he PROSPERS, so that no COLLECTIONS will need to be made when I come.”

2 Corinthians 9:6–7 “Remember this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows GENEROUSLY will also reap GENEROUSLY. Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful GIVER.”

Amos 4:4 “Come to Bethel and rebel; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, YOUR TITHES EVERY THREE DAYS.”

Deuteronomy 12:6–7 “You are to bring there your burnt OFFERINGS and sacrifices, your TITHES and personal CONTRIBUTIONS, your VOW OFFERINGS and FREEWILL OFFERINGS, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. You will eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do, because the Lord your God has BLESSED you.”

Deuteronomy 12:11 “Then Yahweh your God will choose the place where His NAME will dwell. Bring everything I command you: your burnt OFFERINGS, sacrifices, OFFERINGS of the TENTH, personal CONTRIBUTIONS, and ALL your choice OFFERINGS you VOW to the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 14:28–29 “At the end of every three years, bring a TENTH of ALL your PRODUCE for that year and store it within your gates. Then the Levite, who has no portion or INHERITANCE among you, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come, eat, and be satisfied. And the Lord your God will bless you in ALL the WORK of your hands that you do.”

Deuteronomy 26:2–4 “You must TAKE some of the first of ALL the land’s PRODUCE that you harvest from the land Yahweh your God is giving you and put it in a container. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have His NAME dwell. When you come before the priest who is serving at that time, you must say to him, ‘Today I acknowledge to the Lord your God that I have entered the Land the Lord SWORE to our fathers to GIVE us.’ “Then the priest will TAKE the container from your hand and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.”

2 Chronicles 31:11–12 “Hezekiah told them to prepare chambers in the Lord’s temple, and they prepared them. The OFFERING, the TENTH, and the dedicated THINGS were brought faithfully. Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge of them, and his brother Shimei was second.”

Nehemiah 12:44 “On that same day, men were placed in charge of the rooms that housed the supplies, CONTRIBUTIONS, firstfruits, and TENTHS. The legALLy required portions for the priests and Levites were gathered from the village fields, because Judah was grateful to the priests and Levites who were serving.”

Nehemiah 13:5 “and had prepared a large room for him where they had previously stored the grain OFFERINGS, the frankincense, the articles, and the TENTHS of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the CONTRIBUTIONS for the priests.”

Nehemiah 13:10–12 “I also found out that because the portions for the Levites had not been GIVEN, each of the Levites and the singers performing the service had gone back to his own field. Therefore, I rebuked the officials, saying, “Why has the house of God been neglected?” I GATHERED THE LEVITES AND SINGERS TOGETHER and stationed them at their posts. Then ALL Judah brought a TENTH of the grain, new wine, and oil into the storehouses.”

Mal 3:11–12 “I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not ruin the PRODUCE of your land, and your vine in your field will not fail to PRODUCE fruit,” says the Lord of Hosts. “Then ALL the nations will consider you fortunate, for you will be a delightful land,” says the Lord of Hosts.”

Matthew 5:23–24 “So if you are OFFERING your GIFT on the altar and remember that your brother has something against you, leave your GIFT there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and OFFER your GIFT.”

Luke 18:12 ‘I fast twice a week; I GIVE a TENTH of everything I get.’

Deuteronomy 16:16–17 “ALL your males are to appear THREE TIMES A YEAR before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. NO ONE IS TO APPEAR BEFORE THE LORD EMPTY-HANDED. EVERYONE MUST APPEAR WITH A GIFT suited to his means, according to the blessing the Lord your God has GIVEN you.”

1 Kings 17:8–16 “Then the WORD of the Lord came to him: “Get up, go to Zarephath that belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have COMMANDED a woman who is a widow to PROVIDE for you there.” So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup and let me drink.” As she went to get it, he called to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.” But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I don’t have anything baked —only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks to prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.” Then Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid; go and do as you have said. But first, make me a small loaf from it and bring it out to me. Afterward, you may make some for yourself and your son, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The flour jar will not become empty, and the oil jug will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the surface of the land.” She therefore proceeded to do as the Word of Elijah commanded. Then the widow, Elijah, and her household ate for many days. The flour jar did not become empty, and the oil jug did not run dry, according to the WORD of the Lord He had spoken through Elijah.”

2Chronicles 24:4–10 “Afterward, Joash took it to heart to renovate the Lord’s temple. So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from ALL Israel to repair the temple of your God as needed year by year, and do it quickly.” However, the Levites did not hurry. So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why haven’t you required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by the Lord’s servant Moses and the assembly of Israel for the tent of the testimony? For the sons of that wicked Athaliah broke into the Lord’s temple and even used the sacred THINGS of the Lord’s temple for the Baals.” At the king’s command, a chest was made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple. Then a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that the tax God’s servant Moses imposed on Israel in the wilderness be brought to the Lord. ALL the leaders and ALL the people rejoiced, brought the tax, and put it in the chest until it was full.”

Ezra 6:9 “Whatever is needed —young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt OFFERINGS to the God of heaven, or wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem —let it be GIVEN to them every day without fail.”

Nehemiah 10:35–39 “We will bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the Lord’s house year by year. We will also bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as prescribed by the law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who serve in our God’s house. We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our grain OFFERINGS, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and oil. A TENTH of our land’s PRODUCE belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-TENTH OFFERING in ALL our agricultural towns. A priest of Aaronic descent must accompany the Levites when they collect the TENTH, and the Levites must TAKE a TENTH of this OFFERING to the storerooms of the TREASURY in the house of our God. For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the CONTRIBUTIONS of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the priests who minister are, along with the gatekeepers and singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.”

Psalm 96:8 “Ascribe to Yahweh the glory of His NAME; bring an OFFERING and enter His courts.”

Proverbs 11:24–25 “One person GIVES freely, yet GAINS more; another WITHHOLDS what is right, only to become poor. A GENEROUS person will be ENRICHED, and the one who GIVES a drink of water will receive water.”

Haggai 1:3–11 “The WORD of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet: “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?” Now, the Lord of Hosts says this: “Think carefully about your ways: You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to become drunk. You put on clothes, but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.” The Lord of Hosts says this: “Think carefully about your ways. Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house. Then I will be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord. “You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. “Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. So on your account, the skies have withheld the dew and the land its crops. I have summoned a drought on the fields and the hills, on the grain, new wine, olive oil, and whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on ALL that your hands PRODUCE.”

Mark 12:41–44 “Sitting across from the temple TREASURY, He watched how the crowd dropped money into the TREASURY. Many RICH people were putting in large sums. And a poor widow came and dropped in two tiny coins, worth very little. Summoning His disciples, He said to them, “I assure you: This poor widow has put in more than ALL those giving to the temple TREASURY. For they ALL gave out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, has put in everything she possessed —ALL she had to live on.”

Luke 21:1–4 “He looked up and saw the RICH dropping their OFFERINGS into the temple TREASURY. He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins. “I tell you the TRUTH,” He said. “This poor widow has put in more than ALL of them. For ALL these people have put in GIFTS out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, has put in ALL she had to live on.”

Acts 4:34–5:2 “For there was not a needy person among them, because ALL those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the proceeds of the THINGS that were sold, and laid them at the apostles’ feet. This was then distributed for each person’s basic needs. Joseph, a Levite and a Cypriot by birth, the one the apostles called Barnabas, which is translated Son of Encouragement, sold a field he owned, brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But a man named Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, sold a piece of property. However, he kept back part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge, and brought a portion of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.”

Rom 15:26–27 “Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a CONTRIBUTION for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. Yes, they were pleased, and indeed are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual benefits, then they are obligated to minister to Jews in material needs.”

1 Cor 9:13–14 “Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the OFFERINGS of the altar? In the same way, the Lord has COMMANDED that those who preach the gospel should earn their living by the gospel.”

Galatians 6:6 “The one who is taught the message must share ALL his GOOD THINGS with the teacher.”

Philippians 4:15–18 “And you Philippians know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone. For even in Thessalonica, you sent GIFTS to meet my needs several times. Not that I seek the GIFT, but I seek the PROFIT that is increasing to your account. But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you PROVIDED —a fragrant OFFERING, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.”

1 Timothy 5:17–18 “The elders who are GOOD leaders should be considered worthy of an ample honorarium, especially those who WORK hard at preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says: Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain, and the worker is worthy of his wages.”

Genesis 47:24–26 “At harvest, you are to GIVE a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and as food for yourselves, your households, and your dependents.” And they said, “You have saved our lives. We have found favor in our lord’s eyes and will be Pharaoh’s slaves.” So Joseph made it a law, still in effect today in the land of Egypt, that a fifth of the PRODUCE belongs to Pharaoh. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.”

Exodus 23:19 “Bring the BEST of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God. “You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

Exodus 34:26 “Bring the BEST firstfruits of your Land to the house of the Lord your God. “You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

Leviticus 27:33 “He is not to inspect whether it is GOOD or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be HOLY; they cannot be redeemed.”

Numbers 18:25–28 “The Lord instructed Moses, “Speak to the Levites and tell them: When you receive from the Israelites the TENTH that I have GIVEN you as your INHERITANCE, you must present part of it as an OFFERING to the Lord —a TENTH of the TENTH. Your OFFERING will be credited to you as if it were your grain from the threshing floor or the full harvest from the winepress. You are to present an OFFERING to the Lord from every TENTH you receive from the Israelites. GIVE some of it to Aaron the priest as an OFFERING to the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 18:3–4 “This is the priests’ share from the people who OFFER a sacrifice, whether it is an ox, a sheep, or a goat; the priests are to be GIVEN the shoulder, jaws, and stomach. You are to GIVE him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first sheared wool of your flock.”

1 Chronicles 29:14 “But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to GIVE as GENEROUSLY as this? For everything comes from You, and we have GIVEN You only what comes from Your own hand.”

2 Chronicles 31:4 “He told the people who lived in Jerusalem to GIVE a CONTRIBUTION for the priests and Levites so that they could devote their energy to the law of the Lord.”

Ezra 7:24 “Be advised that tribute, duty, and land tax must not be imposed on any priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.”

Nehemiah 13:12–13 “Then ALL Judah brought a TENTH of the grain, new wine, and oil into the storehouses. I was appointed as treasurer over the storehouses: Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan, son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, to assist them, because they were considered TRUSTWORTHY. They were responsible for the distribution to their colleagues.”

Malachi 1:8 “When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong? Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” Asks the Lord of Hosts.”

Luke 6:38 “GIVE, and it will be GIVEN to you; a GOOD measure —pressed down, shaken together, and running over —will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

2Corinthians 8:1–5 “We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God granted to the churches of Macedonia: During a severe testing by affliction, their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the wealth of their GENEROSITY. I testify that, on their own, according to their ability [e.g. upto 100%] and beyond their ability, they begged us insistently for the privilege of sharing in the ministry to the saints, and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves ESPECIALLY to the Lord, then to us by God’s will.”

2Corinthians 8:12 “For if the eagerness is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, NOT according to what he does not have.”

3John 5–8 “Dear friend, you are showing faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers, especially when they are strangers. They have testified to your love in front of the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God, since they set out for the sake of the NAME, accepting nothing from pagans. Therefore, we ought to support such men so that we can be coworkers with the TRUTH.”

Exodus 22:29 “You must not hold back OFFERINGS from your harvest or your vats. GIVE ME the FIRSTBORN of your sons.”

Exodus 35:20–29 “Then the entire Israelite community left Moses’ presence. Everyone whose heart was moved and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an OFFERING to the Lord for the WORK on the tent of meeting, for ALL its services, and for the HOLY garments. Both men and women came; ALL who had willing hearts brought brooches, earrings, rings, necklaces, and ALL kinds of gold jewelry—everyone who waved a presentation OFFERING of gold to the Lord. Everyone who had in his possession blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, fine linen, or goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or manatee skins, brought them. Everyone making an OFFERING of silver or bronze brought it as a CONTRIBUTION to the Lord. Everyone who possessed acacia wood, useful for any task in the WORK, brought it. Every skilled woman spun yarn with her hands and brought it: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen. And ALL the women whose hearts were moved spun the goat hair by virtue of their skill. The leaders brought onyx and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece, as well as the spice and oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. So the Israelites brought a FREEWILL OFFERING to the Lord, ALL the men and women whose hearts prompted them to bring something for ALL the WORK that the Lord, through Moses, had COMMANDED to be done.”

Numbers 5:9–10 “Every HOLY CONTRIBUTION the Israelites present to the priest will be his. Each one’s HOLY CONTRIBUTION is his to GIVE; what each one GIVEs to the priest will be his.”

Numbers 31:28–30 “Set aside a tribute for the Lord from what belongs to the fighting men who went out to war: one out of every 500 humans, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats. TAKE the tribute from their half and GIVE it to Eleazar the priest as a CONTRIBUTION to the Lord. From the Israelites’ half, TAKE one out of every 50 from the people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats, ALL the livestock, and GIVE them to the Levites who perform the duties of the Lord’s tabernacle.”

Deuteronomy 15:19–20 “You must consecrate to the Lord your God every FIRSTBORN male PRODUCED by your herd and flock. You are not to put the FIRSTBORN of your oxen to WORK or shear the firstborn of your flock. Each year you and your family are to eat it before the Lord your God in the place the Lord chooses.”

1 Sam 1:24–28 “When she had weaned him, she took him with her to Shiloh, as well as a three-year-old bull, half a bushel of flour, and a jar of wine. Though the boy was still young, she took him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh. Then they slaughtered the bull and brought the boy to Eli. “Please, my lord,” she said, “as sure as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord. I prayed for this boy, and since the Lord gave me what I asked Him for, I now GIVE the boy to the Lord. For as long as he lives, he is GIVEN to the Lord.” Then he bowed in worship to the Lord there.”

1Chronicles 26:20 “From the Levites, Ahijah was in charge of the treasuries of God’s temple and the treasuries of what had been dedicated.”

2Chronicles 31:6 “As for the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought a TENTH of the cattle and sheep, and a TENTH of the dedicated THINGS that were CONSECRATED to the Lord their God. They gathered them into large piles.”

Ezra 8:25–28 “I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the articles —the CONTRIBUTION for the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and ALL the Israelites who were present had OFFERED. I weighed out to them 24 tons of silver, silver articles weighing 7,500 pounds, 7,500 pounds of gold, 20 gold bowls worth 1,000 gold coins, and two articles of fine gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold. Then I said to them, “You are HOLY to the Lord, and the articles are HOLY. The silver and gold are a FREEWILL OFFERING to the Lord God of your fathers.”

Nehemiah 10:32–33 “We will impose the following commands on ourselves: To GIVE an eighth of an ounce of silver yearly for the service of the house of our God: the bread displayed before the Lord, the daily grain OFFERING, the regular burnt OFFERING, the Sabbath and New Moon OFFERINGS, the appointed festivals, the HOLY THINGS, the sin OFFERINGS to atone for Israel, and for ALL the WORK of the house of our God.”

Proverbs 11:4 “Wealth is not profitable on a day of wrath, but righteousness rescues from death.”

Isaiah 43:23–24 “You have not brought Me your sheep for burnt OFFERINGS or honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with OFFERINGS or wearied you with incense. You have not bought Me aromatic cane with silver, or satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.”

Ezek 44:30 “The BEST of ALL the firstfruits of every kind and CONTRIBUTION of every kind from ALL your GIFTS will belong to the priests. You are to GIVE your first batch of dough to the priest so that a blessing may rest on your homes.”

Micah 6:6–8 “What should I bring before the Lord when I come to bow before God on high? Should I come before Him with burnt OFFERINGS, with year-old calves? Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousand streams of oil? Should I GIVE my firstborn for my transgression, the child of my body for my own sin? Mankind, He has told you what is GOOD and what it is the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God.”

Acts 11:29–30 “So each of the disciples, according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea. They did this, sending it to the elders by means of Barnabas and Saul.”

2Corinthians 8:7–9 “Now, as you excel in everything —faith, speech, knowledge, and in ALL DILIGENCE, and in your love for us —excel also in this grace. I am not saying this as a command. Rather, by means of the DILIGENCE of others, I am testing the Genuineness of your love. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though He was RICH, for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become RICH.”

2Corinthians 9:10–11 “Now the One who PROVIDES seed for the sower and bread for food will PROVIDE and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enRICHed in every way for ALL GENEROSITY, which PRODUCES thanksgiving to God through us.”

Leviticus 6:16–18 “Aaron and his sons may eat the rest of it. It is to be eaten in the form of unleavened bread in a HOLY place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting. It must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion from My fire-OFFERINGS. It is especially HOLY, like the sin OFFERING and the restitution OFFERING. Any male among Aaron’s descendants may eat it. It is a permanent portion throughout your Generations from the fire OFFERINGS to the Lord. ANYTHING THAT TOUCHES THE OFFERINGS will become HOLY.”

Leviticus 7:14 “From the cakes, he must present one portion of each OFFERING as a CONTRIBUTION to the Lord. It will belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the fellowship OFFERING; it is his.”

Leviticus 22:12–13 “If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family, she is not to eat from the HOLY CONTRIBUTIONS. But if the priest’s daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may share her father’s food. But no outsider may share it.”

Numbers 18:8–13 “Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, “Look, I have put you in charge of the CONTRIBUTIONS brought to Me. As for ALL the HOLY OFFERINGS of the Israelites, I have GIVEN them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute. A portion of the holiest OFFERINGS kept from the fire will be yours; every one of their OFFERINGS that they GIVE Me, whether the grain OFFERING, sin OFFERING, or restitution OFFERING, will be most HOLY for you and your sons. You are to eat it as a most HOLY OFFERING. Every male may eat it; it is to be HOLY to you. “The CONTRIBUTION of their GIFTS also belongs to you. I have GIVEN ALL the Israelites’ presentation OFFERINGS to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your house may eat it. I am giving you ALL the BEST of the fresh olive oil, new wine, and grain, which the Israelites GIVE to the Lord as their firstfruits. The firstfruits of ALL that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, belong to you. Everyone in your house who is clean may eat them.”

Numbers 18:29–32 “You must present the entire OFFERING due to the Lord from ALL your GIFTS. The BEST part of the TENTH is to be CONSECRATED. “Tell them further: Once you have presented the BEST part of the TENTH, and it is credited to you Levites as the PRODUCE of the threshing floor or the winepress, then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your WORK at the tent of meeting. You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the BEST part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites’ HOLY OFFERINGS, so that you will not die.”

Deuteronomy 12:17–19 “Within your gates, you may not eat: the TENTH of your grain, new wine, or oil; the firstborn of your herd or flock; any of your VOW OFFERINGS that you pledge; your FREEWILL OFFERINGS; or your personal CONTRIBUTIONS. You must eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God chooses —you, your son and daughter, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates. REJOICE before the Lord your God in everything you do, and be careful not to neglect the Levite, as long as you live in your land.”

Deuteronomy 18:1–2 “The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, will have no portion or INHERITANCE with Israel. They will eat the Lord’s fire OFFERINGS; that is their INHERITANCE. Although Levi has no INHERITANCE among his brothers, the Lord is his INHERITANCE, as He promised him.”

1Chronicles 29:3–9 “Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now GIVE my personal treasures of gold and silver for the house of my God over and above ALL that I’ve PROVIDEd for the HOLY house: 100 tons of gold (gold of Ophir ) and 250 tons of refined silver for overlaying the wALLs of the buildings, the gold for the gold WORK and the silver for the silver, for ALL the WORK to be done by the craftsmen. Now, who will volunteer to consecrate himself to the Lord today?” Then the leaders of the households, the leaders of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officials in charge of the king’s WORK gave willingly. For the service of God’s house, they gave 185 tons of gold and 10,000 gold coins, 375 tons of silver, 675 tons of bronze, and 4,000 tons of iron. Whoever had precious stones gave them to the TREASURY of the Lord’s house under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite. Then the people rejoiced because of their leaders’ willingness to GIVE, for they had GIVEN to the Lord with a whole heart. King David also rejoiced greatly.”

2Chronicles 24:14 “When they finished, they presented the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, who made articles for the Lord’s temple with it —articles for ministry and for making burnt OFFERINGS, and ladles and articles of gold and silver. They regularly OFFERED burnt OFFERINGS in the Lord’s temple throughout Jehoiada’s life.”

Ezra 2:68–69 “After they arrived at the Lord’s house in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders gave FREEWILL OFFERINGS for the house of God in order to have it rebuilt on its original site. Based on what they could GIVE, they gave 61,000 gold coins, 6,250 pounds of silver, and 100 priestly garments to the TREASURY for the project.”

Nehemiah 7:70–72 “Some of the family leaders gave to the project. The governor gave 1,000 gold coins, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments to the TREASURY. Some of the family leaders gave 20,000 gold coins and 2,200 silver minas to the TREASURY for the project. The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold coins, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priestly garments.”

Psalm 50:14 “Sacrifice a thank OFFERING to God, and pay your VOWS to the Most High.”

Proverbs 3:27–28 “When it is in your power, don’t withhold GOOD from the one it belongs to. Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go away! Come back later. I’ll GIVE it tomorrow,” —when it is there with you.”

Eccles 5:4–5 “When you make a VOW to God, don’t delay fulfilling it, because He does not delight in fools. Fulfill what you VOW. Better that you do not VOW than that you VOW and not fulfill it.”

Amos 5:21–24 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I can’t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. Even if you OFFER Me your burnt OFFERINGS and grain OFFERINGS, I will not accept them; I will have no regard for your fellowship OFFERINGS of fattened cattle. TAKE away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harp. But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.

1Corinthians 9:7–11 “Whoever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock? Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing? For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen? Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop. If we have sown spiritual THINGS for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?”

2Corinthians 9:12–13 “The ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but also overflowing with many acts of thanksgiving to God. They will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your GENEROSITY in sharing with them and with others through the proof PROVIDED by this service.”

Exodus 30:13–15 “Everyone who is registered must pay half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel (20 gerahs per shekel). This half shekel is a CONTRIBUTION to the Lord. Each man who is registered, 20 years old or more, must GIVE this CONTRIBUTION to the Lord. The wealthy may not GIVE more, and the poor may not GIVE less than half a shekel when giving the CONTRIBUTION to the Lord to atone for your lives.”

Leviticus 5:15–16 “If someone offends by sinning unintentionally regarding any of the Lord’s HOLY THINGS, he must bring his restitution OFFERING to the Lord: an unblemished ram from the flock (based on your assessment of its value in silver shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel ) as a restitution OFFERING. He must make restitution for his sin regarding any HOLY thing, adding a fifth of its value to it, and GIVE it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf with the ram of the restitution OFFERING, and he will be FORGIVEN.”

Leviticus 23:10–14 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest. He will wave the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to OFFER a year-old male lamb without blemish as a burnt OFFERING to the Lord. Its grain OFFERING is to be four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a fire OFFERING to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, and its drink OFFERING will be one quart of wine. You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grain until this very day, and until you have brought the OFFERING to your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your Genesiserations, wherever you live.”

Numbers 15:19–21 “You are to OFFER a CONTRIBUTION to the Lord when you eat from the food of the land. You are to OFFER a loaf from your first batch of dough as a CONTRIBUTION; OFFER it just like a CONTRIBUTION from the threshing floor. Throughout your Generations, you are to GIVE the Lord a CONTRIBUTION from the first batch of your dough.”

Numbers 18:15–19 “The firstborn of every living thing, man or animal, presented to the Lord belongs to you. But you must certainly redeem the firstborn of man, and redeem the firstborn of an unclean animal. You will pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your assessment: five shekels of silver by the standard sanctuary shekel, which is 20 gerahs. “However, you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are HOLY. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a fire OFFERING for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. But their meat belongs to you. It belongs to you like the breast of the presentation OFFERING and the right thigh. “I GIVE to you and to your sons and daughters ALL the HOLY CONTRIBUTIONS that the Israelites present to the Lord as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the Lord for you as well as your offspring.”

Deuteronomy 23:21–23 “If you make a VOW to the Lord your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin. But if you refrain from making a VOW, it will not be counted against you as sin. Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely VOWED what you promised to the Lord your God.”

Joshua 6:19 “For ALL the silver and gold, and the articles of bronze and iron, are dedicated to the Lord and must go into the Lord’s TREASURY.”

1Chronicles 16:29 “Ascribe to Yahweh the glory of His NAME; bring an OFFERING and come before Him. Worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness.”

2Chronicles 30:24 “Hezekiah, king of Judah, contributed 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for the congregation. Also, the officials contributed 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep for the congregation, and many priests CONSECRATED themselves.”

2Chronicles 35:7–9 “Then Josiah donated 30,000 sheep, lambs, and young goats, plus 3,000 bulls from his own possessions, for the Passover sacrifices for ALL the lay people who were present. His officials also donated willingly for the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, chief officials of God’s temple, gave 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 bulls for the priests. Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah, Nethanel, Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, officers of the Levites, donated 5,000 Passover sacrifices for the Levites, plus 500 bulls.”

Ezra 1:4–6 “Let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, GOODs, and livestock, along with a FREEWILL OFFERING for the house of God in Jerusalem.” So the family leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone God had motivated and prepared to go up and rebuild the Lord’s house in Jerusalem. ALL their neighbors supported them with silver articles, gold, GOODs, livestock, and valuables, in addition to ALL that was GIVEN as a FREEWILL OFFERING.”

Ezra 3:5 “After that, they OFFERed the regular burnt OFFERING and the OFFERINGS for the beginning of each month and for ALL the Lord’s appointed HOLY occasions, as well as the FREEWILL OFFERINGS brought to the Lord.”

Nehemiah 5:4 “Still others were saying, ‘We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.’”

Psalm 76:11 “Make and keep your VOWS to the Lord your God; let ALL who are around Him bring tribute to the awe-inspiring One.”

Proverbs 21:26 “He is filled with craving ALL day long, but the righteous GIVE and don’t hold back.”

Eccles 11:1–2 “Send your bread on the surface of the waters, for after many days you may find it. GIVE a portion to seven or even to eight, for you don’t know what disaster may happen on earth.”

Malachi 1:13–14 “You also say: “Look, what a nuisance!” “And you scorn it,” says the Lord of Hosts. “You bring stolen, lame, or sick animals. You bring this as an OFFERING! Am I to accept that from your hands?” asks the Lord. “The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a VOW but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Hosts, “and My NAME will be FEARED among the nations.”

Acts 20:35 “In every way, I’ve shown you that by laboring like this, it is necessary to help the weak and to keep in mind the WORDS of the Lord Jesus, for He said, ‘It is more BLESSED to GIVE than to receive.’”

Exodus 25:2–3 “Tell the Israelites to TAKE an OFFERING for Me. You are to TAKE My OFFERING from everyone who is willing to GIVE. This is the OFFERING you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze.”

Exodus 36:3–7 “They took from Moses’ presence ALL the CONTRIBUTIONS that the Israelites had brought for the task of making the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring FREEWILL OFFERINGS morning after morning. Then ALL the craftsmen who were doing ALL the WORK for the sanctuary came one by one from the WORK they were doing and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than is needed for the construction of the WORK the Lord COMMANDED to be done.” After Moses gave an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “Let no man or woman make anything else as an OFFERING for the sanctuary.” So the people stopped. The materials were sufficient for them to do ALL the WORK. There was more than enough.”

Leviticus 2:14 “If you present a grain OFFERING of firstfruits to the Lord, you must present fresh heads of grain, crushed kernels, roasted on the fire, for your grain OFFERING of firstfruits.”

Leviticus 27:9–13 “If the VOW involves one of the animals that may be brought as an OFFERING to the Lord, any of these he GIVES to the Lord will be HOLY. He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either GOOD for bad, or bad for GOOD. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be HOLY. “If the VOW involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an OFFERING to the Lord, the animal must be presented before the priest. The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set according to the priest’s assessment for you. If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must ADD a FIFTH to the assessed value.”

Numbers 7:3–88 “They brought as their OFFERING before the Lord six covered carts and 12 oxen, a cart from every two leaders and an ox from each one, and presented them in front of the tabernacle. The Lord said to Moses, “Accept these from them to be used in the WORK of the tent of meeting, and GIVE this OFFERING to the Levites, to each division according to their service.” So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites. He gave the Gershonites two carts and four oxen corresponding to their service, and gave the Merarites four carts and eight oxen corresponding to their service, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. But he did not GIVE any to the Kohathites, since their responsibility was service related to the HOLY objects carried on their shoulders. The leaders also presented the dedication GIFT for the altar during its anointing. The leaders presented their OFFERINGS before the altar. The Lord told Moses, “Each day, have one leader present his OFFERING for the dedication of the altar.” The one who presented his OFFERING on the first day was Nahshon, son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah. His OFFERING was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain OFFERING; one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense; one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt OFFERING; one male goat for a SIN OFFERING.” There was a SIN OFFERING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.

Deuteronomy 16:10 “You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God with a FREEWILL OFFERING that you GIVE in proportion to how the Lord your God has BLESSED you.”

1 Chronicles 29:16–17 “Yahweh our God, ALL this WEALTH that we’ve PROVIDED for building You a house for Your HOLY NAME comes from Your hand; everything belongs to You. I know, my God, that You test the heart and that You are pleased with what is right. I have willingly GIVEN ALL these THINGS with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.”

2 Chronicles 31:14 “Kore, son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the East Gate, was over the FREEWILL OFFERINGS to God to distribute the CONTRIBUTION to the Lord and the CONSECRATED THINGS.”

Ezra 6:8 “I hereby issue a decree concerning what you must do, so that the elders of the Jews can rebuild the house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men out of the royal revenues from the taxes of the region west of the Euphrates River, so that the WORK will not stop.” It is biblical for governments to build houses of worship...

Ezra 7:15–16 “You are also to bring the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have willingly GIVEN to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem, and ALL the silver and gold you receive throughout the Province of Babylon, together with the FREEWILL OFFERINGS GIVEN by the people and the priests to the house of their God in Jerusalem.”

Nehemiah 10:36 “We will also bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as prescribed by the LAW, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who serve in our God’s house.”

Psalm 54:6 “I will sacrifice a FREEWILL OFFERING to You. I will PRAISE Your NAME, Yahweh, because it is GOOD.”

Psalm 116:12–14 “How can I repay the Lord for ALL the GOOD He has done for me? I will TAKE the cup of salvation and CALL on the NAME of Yahweh. I will fulfill my VOWS to the Lord in the presence of ALL His people.”

Proverbs 19:17 “Kindness to the poor is a loan to the Lord, and He will GIVE a reward to the lender.”

Isaiah 1:11–13 “What are ALL your sacrifices to Me?” asks the Lord. “I have had enough of burnt OFFERINGS and rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I have no desire for the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats. When you come to appear before Me, who requires this from you— this trampling of My courts? Stop bringing useless OFFERINGS. Your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons and Sabbaths, and the CALLING OF SOLEMN ASSEMBLIES [ATTEND CHURCH REGULARLY] I cannot stand iniquity with a [Holy] festival.”

Joel 1:9 “Grain and drink OFFERINGS have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.”

Joel 2:14 “Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him, so you can OFFER grain and wine to the Lord your God.”

1Timothy 6:17–19 “Instruct those who are RICH in the present age not to be arrogant or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God, Who RICHLY PROVIDES us with ALL THINGS to enjoy. Instruct them to do what is GOOD, to be RICH in GOOD WORKS, to be GENEROUS, willing to share, storing up for themselves a GOOD reserve for the age to come, so that they may TAKE hold of life that is real.

2 Corinthians 8:14 states that your surplus at the present time should supply the needs of others, so that their surplus may also meet your needs, promoting equality among believers. God’s HOLY Scripture Command emphasizes the importance of sharing resources to support one another in times of need.

2Corinthians 8:14 “At the present time, your SURPLUS will meet their NEED, so that in turn their SURPLUS will meet your NEED. Then there will be equality. 15 As it is written: “He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall.”

There is a very GREAT NEED for HELPING destitute Christians living around the earth.

Apostle James, the leader of the Jerusalem Church, wrote, “WOE to you RICH!”

At that time, the END WAS NEAR for the city of Jerusalem and for the RICH Jewish Christians. They had GREAT WOE, and destruction COMING to them just as God has COMMANDED GREAT WOE to eventually COME against the United States for their unrepentant sin in the form of World War III.

In Malachi 3:8-9 the Jews were guilty of STEALING from God by failing to give their money as the Holy Spirit required! Modern America is guilty of dethroning King Jesus in their hearts, and in government, and is opposing Christian U.S. Law and opposing establishing His Kingdom on Earth until of future heretical time. America is guilty of brainwashing the children with half-truths and lies against believing in God and Jesus in the public schools, leading the children to sin and go into the kingdom of darkness by their forced indoctrination, teaching them to sin (LGBTQI+). Jesus warned that those guilty of seducing children to sin should commit suicide, or a worse fate awaits for those guilty (Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2). Either obey King Jesus in government, public schools, and in the workplace or perish as King Jesus Commanded for the Jews who would let Him reign as King (Luke 19:27).

It is the COMMAND of God and Jesus to have some voluntary socialism for the needs of the saints (2 Corinthians 8:14). Failing to use your surplus as the Holy Spirit leads is sin. “What is NOT of FAITH is SIN!”

James 4:17 “Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.”

Acts 4:32-35 “The multitude of believers was ONE IN HEART AND SOUL. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they SHARED EVERYTHING THEY OWNED. / With great power, the apostles continued to GIVE their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And abundant GRACE was upon them ALL. / There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales.”

1John 3:17 “If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but WITHHOLDS his compassion [TO HELP] from him, how can the LOVE of God abide in him?” A cold heart signals the need to be filled with compassion and God’s LOVE to help the Body of Christ.

Galatians 6:2 “CARRY ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS, and in this way you will FULFILL the LAW of Christ.” IT IS THE LAW OF GOD AND JESUS TO CARRY EACH OTHER’S BURDENS AND DEBTS, SOMETIMES AS THE COMPASSION OF JESUS FILLS YOUR HEART, LEADING YOU TO HELP.

Romans 15:26-27 “For Macedonia and Achaia were PLEASED to make a CONTRIBUTION FOR THE POOR for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem [OR ANYWHERE ELSE ON EARTH]. / They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.”

Philippians 4:15-16 “And as you Philippians know, in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church but you partnered with me in the matter of GIVING and RECEIVING. / For even while I was in Thessalonica, you PROVIDED for my NEEDS again and again.” Some Christians OBEY Jesus and are very GENEROUS...

1Corinthians 12:25-26 “So that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another. / If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.”

James 2:15-16 “Suppose a BROTHER or SISTER is without clothes and daily food. / If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not PROVIDE for his physical needs, WHAT GOOD IS THAT?” “What is NOT of FAITH is SIN!”

1Timothy 6:17-18 “Instruct those who are RICH in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who RICHLY Provides ALL THINGS for us to enjoy. / Instruct them to do GOOD, to be RICH in GOOD WORKS, and to be GENEROUS and ready to share.”

Luke 3:11 “John replied, “Whoever has two tunics should share with him who has none, and whoever has food should do the same.” VOLUNTARY SOCIALISM REQUIRED of Christians according to the WORD.

Matthew 25:35-40 “For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, / I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’ / Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and GIVE You something to drink?”

Exodus 16:18 “When they measured it by the omer, HE WHO GATHERED MUCH HAD NO EXCESS, AND HE WHO GATHERED LITTLE HAD NO SHORTFALL. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.”

Proverbs 11:24-25 “One GIVES freely, yet gains even more; another WITHHOLDS what is right, ONLY TO BECOME POOR [POOR IN SPIRIT]. / A GENEROUS SOUL WILL PROSPER, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.”

Deuteronomy 15:7-11 “If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then YOU ARE NOT TO HARDEN YOUR HEART, OR SHUT YOUR HAND FROM YOUR POOR BROTHER. / Instead, YOU ARE TO OPEN YOUR HAND TO HIM AND FREELY LOAN HIM WHATEVER HE NEEDS. / Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and GIVE him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and YOU WILL BE GUILTY OF SIN.”

Isaiah 58:6-7 “Isn’t this the FAST [FROM SIN] that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke? / Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and NOT TO TURN AWAY, not to turn away from your own flesh and blood [of the Body of Christ, your brothers and sisters]?

Leviticus 25:35-37 “Now if your countryman becomes DESTITUTE and CANNOT SUPPORT himself among you, then YOU ARE TO HELP him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you. / Do not TAKE any INTEREST or PROFIT from him, but FEAR your God, that your countryman may live among you. / You must not lend him your silver at INTEREST or sell him your food for PROFIT.” In the New Testament, the same LAW to support destitute Christians NEEDS to be OBEYED TODAY by some voluntary socialism or giving in the congregation.

The Living Bible puts it this way: “ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THAT SOMETHING HE WANTS TO DO IS WRONG SHOULDN’T DO IT! He sins if he does, for he thinks it is wrong, and so for him it is wrong. Anything that is done apart from what he feels is right is sin” (Romans 14:23).

Some people approach gray ethical areas with extreme care, while others approach them with more liberty. Some might say it is sinful to go to the movies or wear certain clothing, while others have no problem with doing so.

A believer’s life is seeking to please and glorify God (1 Corinthians 10:31; Colossians 3:23). The HOLY Spirit also lives within believers (2 Timothy 1:14).

Regarding disputable matters, whatever is not of faith is sin. That is, if our conscience PRODUCES guilt, we should refrain from that activity. It doesn’t matter if others say the activity is permissible; we must choose to follow our own convictions because “whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is NOT FROM FAITH; and EVERYTHING THAT DOES NOT COME FROM FAITH IS SIN” (Romans 14:23). In other WORDS, if you are not fully convinced that what you are doing is GOOD, DO NOT DO IT. Do not act AGAINST a doubting conscience, FOR WHATEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN.

Not ALL THINGS are beneficial (1Corinthians 10:23), even if they are not sinful, and believers will seek to do only those THINGS that please God and edify their brothers and sisters in Christ. Whatever is not of faith is sin.

Colossians 1:10 gives a GOOD guiding principle: “Live a Life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every Way.”

When a matter arises that is not explicitly addressed in Scripture, we must consider scriptural principles to determine whether it will please God.

We must ask ourselves, are we seeking to please ourselves or God (Colossians 3:1–4; 2Timothy 2:4; 2Corinthians 5:14–15; Galatians 5:16–18)? Is the activity addictive (1Corinthians 6:12; Ephesians 5:18)? Will my Christian witness be upheld (1Timothy 4:12; Colossians 4:5)?

Ask yourself whether doing this will build me and others up to godliness (1Thessalonians 5:11; 1Corinthians 10:23).

Our convictions must be molded to obey Christ, and then we must not go against them. “BLESSED is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves” (Romans 14:22).

“God loves a cheerful GIVER” comes from 2 Corinthians 9:7, which encourages giving with a joyful and willing heart, not out of obligation or reluctance. The term “hilarious” is sometimes used to describe this giving, as it comes from the Greek WORD “hilaros,” meaning “cheerful” or “joyful.”

Let the Joy of the Lord be your strength and GIVE in faith as the HOLY Spirit and Compassion of Jesus fills your hearts.

Matthew 6:33 advises prioritizing seeking God’s kingdom and righteousness above all else in our lives, promising that if you do this, then everything else will be provided.

Matthew 6:33 “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and Jesus [and the Body of Christ] will give you everything you need.” A “hundred houses,” and a “hundred brothers, sisters, and mothers” to go along with the hundred houses and everything else that you need will be provided to carry out His Will for your life.

In the New Testament, the Tithe is not mentioned except as a requirement of the Old Testament Law.

Jesus fulfilled the Law, and in the New Testament, “You were literally bought with a price” (Acts 20:28). Christians and their possessions are ENTIRELY OWNED by GOD and JESUS. As a result, in “giving,” Everything is POTENTIALLY REQUIRED that you have, including YOUR LIFE IN MARTYRDOM! Jesus requires Christians to forsake the practice of sin and be “Faithful” Stewards, as the parable of the “Ten Talents” teaches.

When Jesus said in Acts 1:8 “You shall receive POWER and will be My Witnesses,” the Greek WORD for Witnesses can be translated literally as “martyr” or figuratively.

“What is NOT of Faith in Sin” (Romans 14:23). Jesus expects us to faithfully follow His Holy Spirit, even if we have to give everything away. In the case of the “rich young ruler” (Mathew 19:16-22), he was required to give everything away to the poor as the price to follow Jesus and the disciples.

The Parable of the Pearl of Great Price shows 100% of everything Christians have is REQUIRED for gaining eternal life in Jesus (Mathew 13:45-46). Holding back instead of obeying the leading of the Holy Spirit, as some Christians have done, may result in premature death and loss of their eternal souls (example: Acts 5:1-11). However, “where sin abounds, grace doth much more abound” (Romans 5:20). God will make a maximum effort to try to convince Christians to repent of their sins. “God is NOT Willing that anyone should perish” (2 Peter 3:9). If people have an honest interest in “bonding” and being a friend with Jesus the Creator in the Bride of Christ, and choosing His righteousness, and actively giving up the pursuit of sins, then they will have sufficient grace to inherit eternal life.

Just as Jesus gave His Life by laying it down on the Cross for the salvation of ALL those whose names are recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life, so Jesus requires Christians to give up their lives, to LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR EACH OTHER AND FOR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.

America’s Christians need to learn that King Jesus requires our complete obedience and EVERYTHING we have, as needed, to follow the Holy Spirit’s leading and exercise the legal authority so that Christians might be conformed into the “image and likeness” of Christ (John 1:12-13). Christians's bodies are a “living sacrifice” (Romans 12:1), and are expected to take the glory that Christ gives them and be changed from “glory to glory” into the “image and likeness” of God and Jesus (Genesis 1:26). As "The Temple of God" (1 Corinthians 3:16) in the New Testament, the Body of Christ is expected to give 100% of themselves and their possessions, houses, possessions and money to God as the Holy Spirit leads, and not hold themselves back as Ananias and Sapphir did as they valued lies in their heart more than the TRUTH of the Holy Spirit. As this was a fatal error on their part, it cost them their lives, and they may have also lost their eternal salvation. Lying to the Holy Spirit (about money or anything) is a great sin...

Hebrews 7:12 “For when the priesthood is changed, the LAW must be CHANGED also.” And so the O.T. LAW of the Tithe, Tenth, was changed by God in the N.T. to require 100% of everything for inheriting the Kingdom of God, as the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price has written that everything is required. Matthew 22:8 “Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.”

Matthew 10:37 “Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me; 38 and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”

Matthew 22:37 Jesus declared, “ ‘LOVE the Lord your God with ALL your heart and with ALL your soul and with ALL your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘LOVE your neighbor as yourself.’" JESUS DID NOT SAY JUST LOVE AND OBEY ONLY WITH 10% OF YOUR HEART, 10% OF YOUR MIND, AND 10% OF YOUR SOUL, AND 10% OF YOUR BODY!!! Love God with ALL [100%] of your heart and not just with a small part of your mind, body, and soul...

Sadly, before I was even born, Kenneth Hagin of Rhema Bible College prophesied the coming nuclear war that will eventually wipe America from the face of the earth! But God Loves Mercy and would give grace and delay His Terrible Coming Judgment, if America's Christian leaders would STOP DECEIVING THEMSELVES by believing that Jesus only rules in a far-fetched future, heretical Millennium, instead of believing the TRUTH that Jesus is now reigning as King of Kings over ALL nations today in His Temple, which is the Body of Christ. Jesus will NOT return to reign in a physical temple in Jerusalem, Israel. As He is NOW the sovereign current ruler of Heaven and Earth, reigning in Heaven and on Earth in His Temple, The Body of Christ (1Cor. 15:25; Rev. 1:5; Mt. 28:18) TODAY, RIGHT NOW!!!

Acts 17:30 "In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now He Commands ALL people everywhere to repent! 31 For He has set a day when He will JUDGE the world with JUSTICE by the man [Christ Jesus] He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

Just as Jesus was resurrected from the dead, God will also bring most life on earth to a tragic end in World War III. American Christians should not have brainwashed themselves to delay their obedience to the reign of Jesus, by opposing Christian U.S. Law, and also by opposing having a Christian nation... (see ChristianAmendment.com for free Scripture apologetics for having a Christian nation by U.S. Law.)

Jesus began His reign over earth's nations immediately after He sat down on His Throne at the Right Hand of God the Father.

Matthew 22:8 “Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.”

In the KJV in Acts 17:30, "God winked at ignorance" refers to God's previous tolerance in the O.T. of human ignorance about sin, but NOW He Commands that everyone in the N.T. to repent, OR THERE WILL BE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES FORTHCOMING (WW3 has been prophesied as God's Coming Judgment repeatedly since the 50's!

Apostle Peter said he had NO MONEY, as he and the other Apostles had said they gave up everything to become disciples of Jesus the Messiah. American Christians need to GIVE UP EVERYTHING as the Holy Spirit leads each one. Because the Christian leaders, in their love of escapism heresies, have dared to oppose establishing the Kingdom of God and Christ upon the earth as it is in Heaven!!! President Donald J. Trump may be the nation's last hope of avoiding God's Coming Wrath upon the United States. Opposing the reign of King Jesus in America is a great sin. Idolatry of heretical eschatology is damning the children and damning the nation to be taken over by enemies, to be ruined, and eventually will be destroyed in WW3.

The thief on the cross next to the Cross of Jesus was taken to “PARADISE” that very same day as Jesus promised him, as he had no time left to pursue righteousness, holiness, and the works of God prepared before the foundation of the world...

As God told Apostle Paul, “My Grace is Sufficient.” And “where sin abounds, grace much more abounds” (Romans 5:20). However, it is sin to remain practicing sin. Apostle Paul said to “Aim for Perfection” (Mt. 5:48) and work to “see the Face of Jesus,” who desires a face-to-face relationship with each Christian (in the Bible’s Love Chapter 1Cor. 13:12). Paul wrote that he sought out the faces of the saints to fellowship with them daily, and so should every Christian today. Those without time to travel and visit others should try to use the telephone, or preferably “FaceTime,” or make Zoom video calls. More spiritual insight and intimacy are experienced through video phone calls. Seeking out the faces of the saints daily is what Paul essentially asked Christians to do to follow his example, as Apostle Paul imitated Jesus Christ.

The Great Commission:

Matthew 28:18 "Then Jesus came to them and said, 'ALL AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I Am with you always, even to the end of the age.'”

Matthew 28:18-20 contains GOD'S COMMAND for the Great Commission, where Jesus instructs His disciples to make disciples of ALL nations, baptizing them and teaching them to obey His commands.

The Great Commission, is a divine COMMAND from GOD and Jesus, Who instructs believers to spread the Gospel and make disciples of all nations, including in today's public schools. It emphasizes the importance of evangelism, discipleship, and the need for financial support to fulfill this mission. The Great Commission urges Christians to prioritize this calling of the Holy Spirit over worldly pursuits and to help save souls from eternal suffering.

Overview of the Great Commission:

The Great Commission is found in Matthew 28:18-20. It is a COMMAND directive given by Jesus to His disciples after His Resurrection. This passage emphasizes the mission of spreading the Gospel with all of your life, including the Christians money! As Apostle James wrote, "WOE TO YOU RICH" for neglecting to meet the needs of those fulfilling the Great Commission and making disciples, training them to seek the Face of Jesus and His Righteousness.

Great Commission Directives:

Matthew 28:18-20 (NIV)

Authority: "Then Jesus came to them and said, 'All Authority in Heaven and on earth has been given to Me.'"

Command: "Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."

Teaching: "And teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Importance of the Great Commission:

Divine Command: The Great Commission is NOT merely a suggestion; it is a COMMAND given by Jesus, urging believers to actively participate in evangelism and discipleship. Money for training disciples is greatly needed.

Global Mission: It reflects God's desire for ALL nations to hear the Gospel, fulfilling the PROMISE God made in the Old Testament that all peoples would be Blessed.

Ongoing Presence: Jesus assures His followers of His daily presence with them as they carry out the Great Commission, providing them with God's comfort and support.

This Scripture passage serves as the foundational text for the need for Christians to help Christian missions and Help those who are sent to answer the call to share THE ONE TRUE FAITH with others.

Exhortation: Are you doing your part to HELP? Or are you wasting your lives and financial resources, disobeying God to be a godly steward, and pursuing a higher standard of living?

Are you obeying King Jesus by pursuing the Love of God for others enough to save the eternal souls of the lost with "all of your heart, all of your mind, all of your strength, and with all of your soul?"

Or are you pursuing the pleasures of the world and hardening your heart to the cries of the lost children and others suffering in the kingdom of darkness that wish to be saved from their sins?

Many American Churches have greatly sinned while many of their children are being brainwashed with constant lies and ungodly curriculum in the public schools, K-12, where most students, after being taught to do LGBTQI+ evil, are being dragged into the kingdom of darkness by Satan, the "father of lies."

Without a Christian education, that is COMMANDED in the Bible, so to train children up in the knowledge of Jesus the ONLY WAY TO GOD, the children will be captivated by their sins and will suffer permanent exile in "outer darkness" or if their sins merit it, the Second Death of eternal suffering in the Lake of Fire.

The Great Commission refers to the instructions given by Jesus Christ to His disciples after His resurrection and before His ascension into Heaven to be in the presence of God His Father. This mandate is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew 28:18-20, where Jesus COMMANDS His followers to make disciples of ALL nations, baptizing them and TEACHING them to obey ALL THAT HE HAS COMMANDED. The Great Commission (Mt. 28:18-20) is the foundational directive for all churches, Christian missions, and evangelism.

Will you support the Great Commission with your money? Will you do your part to OBEY King Jesus in the world evangelism and help make disciples from ALL NATIONS AS CHRISTIANS ARE COMMANDED TO DO BY King Jesus?

I hope you are willing to fulfill your part of the Great Commission. Jesus hears the cries of the lost who want deliverance from sins. Jesus said, My sheep hear My Voice. Do you hear the Voice of Jesus? Disciples means "learners." Do you want to learn to hear the Voice of Jesus? Are you willing to Obey Him? God Help Us All to OBEY HIM in Jesus Name! Amen

And to repeat, 2Corinthians 13:11 “Finally, brothers, rejoice! Aim for perfect harmony, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of Love and Peace will be with you.”

Aim for the Perfection of our Holy Father and Lord Jesus (Mt. 5:48).

Amen