Fri, Jul 10th - 8:54PM

JUDAS' JOURNEY TO HELL

Wed, Jul 8th - 9:19AM

JUDAS' JOURNEY TO HELL

Brothers and sisters, much love, blessings and peace to you in the gracious name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, three EQUAL eternal inseparable utterly holy Persons in one God who lives in us and will be in us forever.

JESUS CHRIST IS GOD THE SON EQUAL WITH GOD THE FATHER.

Jhn 14:28 - Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

 Scriptures interpret  scriptures without error nor any contractions whatsoever. When Jesus said:  “ My Father is greater than I”. It never meant He was less to or inferior to God the Father. What it meant is that Lord Jesus in His earthly life/ministry voluntarily of His own free will chose to lower Himself/take on the form of a human being, while never ceasing to be sinless and God the Son. Only in this form could God the Father accept Jesus’ voluntary offer of Himself as the perfect sinless sacrifice to pay for the sins of all who believe in Him. Phl 2:4 - Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Phl 2:5 - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Phl 2:6 - Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Phl 2:7 - But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Phl 2:8 - And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

God has given us His Son Jesus as the supreme example of a humble faithful obedient Son who loves God His Father and His people, selflessly putting the will of the Father above His own out of complete trust in the goodness of the Father towards all men. We likewise ought to have the same mind as Christ- willingly subject ourselves to the will of God the Father, and seek not just our own interests, but the interests of others as well, out of love and trust in God.  

After Lord Jesus made the perfect atonement for sins, He was exalted by God the Father as He had always been before coming to earth:  Phl 2:9 - Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

Phl 2:10 - That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

Phl 2:11 - And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

God commands that Jesus receive equal worship with Himself:

Jhn 5:23 - That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. We shall worship God and the Lamb for all eternity: Rev 5:13 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

We can do nothing without Jesus. We cannot grow to maturity without the gospel. Jesus Christ is the Word of God. He alone is ordained by God the Father to be the only spiritual food that can nourish and sustain the people of God now and forever in the kingdom of God to come Rev 7:17.  God commands us to study His word and live it in this present evil world. Scripture interprets scripture without error nor contradictions of any kind nor in any manner whatsoever.

We fully understand evil people, wicked persons through the perspective of the abundant goodness of God our Father who wants all men to be saved and has provided the sole means of permanent forgiveness of sins through the atonement of His only Son Jesus Christ. All men are born of rebel Adam with a sin nature loving sin, on a journey to hell. However, by the grace of God in sending His only sinless Son Jesus, all who believe in Him are forgiven of all their sins, and guaranteed a one-way free ticket on an irreversible-non-cancellable journey into the kingdom of God forever.  The Bible teaches us that there are evil, wicked people who hate God, His people, and desire to destroy His kingdom. Evil people are not benign, for they persecute the church on earth. It doesn’t matter how often or long they hear the gospel, they will reject it.

Lord Jesus teaches us to: Mat 7:15 - Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Evil people come disguised like a godly person, can speak church-ese, but inwardly they are like a savage animal raging with contempt and hatred for God and His people.

The apostle Paul warns the church that:  Act 20:29 - For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Act 20:30 - Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Evil people come into the church and also arise from within the church. They are vicious, cruel, greedy, destructive. They don’t care how badly they damage the flock through the use of perverted doctrines to draw followers to themselves.

Timothy warns: 1Ti 4:1 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

1Ti 4:2 - Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; the scriptures is clear that the believer is holy of a godly spiritual nature from God the Father, not carnal. Evil people are unholy of a devilish spiritual nature, carnal, of darkness like their father the devil, with the same evil nature, and hatred of God and His people.

The apostle Peter warns:

2Pe 2:1 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

Evil people have not changed they still come in secretly, but at some point, they pervert scripture and attack the divinity of the Trinity in whole or in part. They are spiritual poisoners spreading heretical doctrines amongst gullible/ignorant believers.

Brothers and sisters, God commands us to drink solely from the Lord’s table. Anyone claiming to be a Christian, who willingly accepts the heresy and doctrines of devils from these evil people are seen as evil too in the eyes of God and His people.

1Co 10:21 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

2Jo 1:10 - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

2Jo 1:11 - For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

2Ti 3:5 - Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. Evil people hide behind a façade of godliness while they deny the equal divinity of the God Head and the power of the body and blood of Christ to forgive all sins forever for all who believe in Him.

The Bible does not teach that unrepentant evil people are evil because they are ignorant of the truth. To the contrary God’s word informs us: Rom 1:19 - Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

Rom 1:20 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Rom 1:21 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Rom 1:28 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:32 - Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. 2Ti 3:8 - Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

2Ti 3:9 - But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

Tit 1:15 - Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Tit 1:16 - They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

 This is why God commands every Christian to know the scriptures: 1Jo 4:1 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

It is true that Judas’ fall was prophesied in the scripture, and Christ’s sinless sacrifice was also prophesied in scripture. However, we know that from the beginning God gave men free will. God doesn’t force anyone to love and obey Him. He desires that people would willingly love and trust Him. Even in the garden of Eden, we see that Eve was tricked by the serpent, but Adam willingly sinned in eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, choosing to please himself not God, plunging the whole creation and human race into sin, depravity, spiritual and physical death and separation from God. Jesus didn’t have to die on the cross, He did so voluntarily of His own free will. When one of His disciples tried to fight and save Him Jesus said: Mat 26:53 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? Jesus voluntarily gave Himself to pay for our sins out of love for His Father and all men.

Judas did not have to betray Lord Jesus but chose to do so of His own free will. We notice Judas went back to the chief priests to return the money they paid him to betray Lord Jesus, but he never went back to his fellow disciples in repentance, nor did he return the money he stole over the years while he was in charge of the bag that stored contributions given to the ministry. Judas had an impenitent heart. Christ withheld nothing from Judas, treated him the same as the other disciples, knowing he was a thief and a betrayer. Judas over the course of Jesus’ entire earthly ministry directly heard the gospel and the warnings from the Lord, saw the miracles, saw the power to cast out devils, received power to preach the gospel. Jesus even washed Judas feet and gave him the communion dinner, and never threw him out of His presence.  Nothing none of the love, mercy, care, teachings etc. from Jesus made any difference to Judas, he chose not to believe in Jesus. In Judas and in all evil people throughout scriptures and in the world, we grasp the nature of evil people, the will of evil people, and the works of evil people who impenitently choose to reject the goodness and mercy of God. We clearly see the justice of the wrath of God and the necessity of heaven, hell, and ultimately the day when all unrepentant evil persons shall be separated from the kingdom of God forever. How God commands the church individually and as a whole to deal with evil persons is clearly laid out in scripture in the general, specific and the minutiae.

Love and truth forever, serola

Thu, Jun 4th - 7:22PM

JUDAS' JOURNEY TO HELL

JUDAS’ JOURNEY TO HELL

Brothers and sisters, we know that God commands every believer to be fed/taught the word of God without adding to nor taking away from it that our foundation will be permanently established upon Christ our Rock. ANYTHING/PERSON that adds to or takes away from the word of God unrepentantly is cursed and not accepted by God. The righteous will believe and receive correction, but the wicked no matter how long and often they hear the truth will never believe it but resist it. The Word of God is the only spiritual food that can feed/grow the church that is commanded by God to: Act 20:28 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he  hath purchased with his own blood.  God commands that the New Testament gospel of Jesus Christ be taught/understood/interpreted within the whole context of both Old and New Testaments wholly by the Standard of Christ held within the whole framework of the boundaries, principals/doctrines of the New Testament of Jesus Christ:  2Ti 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2Ti 3:17 - That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. This starts with the Gifts, (Eph 4:11-16 - And he gave…)    of the Holy Ghost to the church in the guiding/guarding servant officers/teachers, and aides  throughout the whole church of mature believers with various gifts so that the Word of God like leavening will spread throughout the whole of the congregation over time with the goal that every believer in the unity of the gospel will grow  over time from spiritual babyhood on milk to spiritual maturity on the strong meat of the the Word, be equipped, able to live, share and defend the gospel message, and have the knowledge to do/live God’s will walk in love and protect themselves from false teachers/false doctrines. There is no salvation, no church, no growth, without the gospel. WE CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT JESUS. We know that Lord Jesus is loving, kind and merciful. However, we also know that a view of Him as soft, weak, wishy washy, touchy feely warm and fuzzy, loosie goosy understanding and accepting of divergent views/mixes of His gospel is not only wrong it is blasphemous. Although it is eternally true that Lord Jesus is loving, kind, and merciful, again, He adamantly resists the lie or perception of Himself and/or His gospel as loosie goosy come as you are and do as you wish because God knows we are all just helpless sinners, see Rom 6 . Jesus always presents His gospel as absolute, exclusive, explicit, exhaustive, eternal, inerrant, final, finished complete, and unchanging. Jesus never did nor ever will negotiate, compromise, cut a deal, make a bargain, accept excuses, alternatives, mixes, additions, subtractions of His gospel of the New Covenant.  Salvation being forgiven of our sins never meant nor means we can unrepentantly practice any sin see Rom 6. Jesus is the Lamb of God, but let none forget that Jesus is the Lion of Judah, King of kings who fears nothing and no man, He loves and disciplines His church. He will defend His church, He will not turn back from battle until the victory and every adversary bow at His feet. Moses warned about Jesus: Act 3:22 - For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. Act 3:23 - And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.  Those who knowingly/unrepentantly pervert scriptures are not fighting against men they are the enemy fighting against God in vain. God always wins, always. Jesus has given every believer the power of self-control/discipline. Jesus as the Head of the church again, disciplines, purges all those whom He loves so that they can bear good fruit. We know that God never condemns or gets angry with those who make mistakes in interpretation of scriptures out of ignorance, but who gladly receive the correction of truth when they hear. It is anyone who regardless of how often and no matter how long they hear the gospel truth that chooses to resist/continually- reject it that God rightly condemns as wicked persons: Rom 1 20-21; Rom 1:28; Heb 6:4-8; 2Co 11:26; 1Co 5:13.  As we sit together, dearly beloveds at Lord Jesus’ table to eat and drink into Him receiving the spiritual nourishment that only He can provide, we are separated by time, space and distance from one another but joined together in spirit/heart, and mind comforted together in the Holy Ghost who is  always standing by to guide and perfect our understanding of God’s will in His presence lavishing upon us His undying love and truth. Through Lord Jesus we who have believed in His atoning work have full confidence, assurance and peace that He has forgiven us permanently, and made us new creations in Him and priests under Him our High Priest forever:  1Pe 2:5 - Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. All believers are priests in the family of God although all do not hold the same office. It doesn’t matter what race, nation, male, female, rich, poor, healthy, impaired health, all are priests under our Great High Priest Jesus Christ. Dearly beloveds, your priestly prayers and sacrificial love offerings are pleasing and count with God: Rev 8:3-4;  Rev 19:8. I pray that we will be reconciled to God who through Christ Jesus who has finished our work for us under His New Covenant.  Col 2:13 - And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Col 2:14 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; (Isa 43:25 - I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Jer 31:34 …saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Psa 103:12 , Mic 7:19 Rom 4:8 - Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Heb 8:12 - For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Eph 1:7 - In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; The forgiveness of our sins through faith in Christ is permanent, finished, and complete: Heb 9:12;  Heb 5:9. Holy brethren, we know that false teachers deliberately in vain pervert the apostle John’s vs 1Jo 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. False teachers use this one verse out of context to pervert the gospel to deceive the gullible to believe that to stay saved, or not lose fellowship with God they must keep a record of every sins and continually confess each of them, so they won’t fall away or lose fellowship with God. This is a dangerous spiritually toxic lie of a doctrine made wrongly out of one verse in scripture that has caused depression, anxiety, suicidal ideations, and suicide in deceived believers including some pastors too. Anyone who comes to Christ already with these conditions are highly likely to have them worsen to crisis or acting out in self-harm. They sincerely want to please God but noting their constant failures not remembering to confess some sin that day or somewhere in the past and/or become overwhelmed by this endless work they become self-loathing/angry having failed to please God over and over again and see themselves as no good, not deserving to live. We know the only the truth can set every believer free: Jhn 8:32. 1 John 1: 9 interpreted correctly within the context of the whole of both Old and New Testaments is that the apostles’ all eyewitnesses of Jesus the Word of God received the gospel directly from Him. John wants us all to know the truth to be absolutely confident and assured that we have permanent fellowship with God, Jesus Christ and one another with full joy when we believe the absolute truth that God is absolute light and there is absolutely no darkness in Him. Therefore, we can be certain that anyone who claims to be in Christ yet walks in darkness- have no evidence of living/doing the will of God but live contrariwise are liars.  However, we can be absolutely certain that all authentic believers will consistently live/do the will of God, and can be absolutely confident and assured that they have fellowship with the Father, Son, and saints (G40 hagios) proof positive that they are walking in the light and the blood of Jesus cleanses them from all unrighteousness, all sins, permanently. Those who claim they’ve never sinned, or were born sinless, are liars, for all have sinned. Again, John assures every believer that: 1Jo 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Rom 10:9-13.

1 John 1 assures us that Christ has finished our work, we are a permanently forgiven people, under the New Covenant. John absolutely defends the New Covenant forgiveness through the atonement of Christ: 1Jo 5:18 - We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. In God we are either Saint or sinner and there is absolutely no mix of the two. There is absolutely not one scripture nor doctrine that teaches the lie that the blood of Jesus is insufficient to save permanently leaving the believer to keep a record of their own sins to keep coming to Jesus and/or God to be forgiven/ saved over and over again per each and every sin.  Brothers and sisters, after salvation, we know how God commands every Christian to live, and that we have been equipped and empowered to live the will of God out of love and trust in Him.  The role and purpose of confession after salvation is clearly laid out in scripture Pl 2:11,  Jas 5:16;  Not in any perverted sense to be forgiven over and over again to stay saved or to stay in fellowship with God, but to serve God and one another. Again, we know that through Christ our salvation is permanent and done; Heb 9:12 - Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.   We are all on a journey either to heaven or to hell. We can be certain that Judas’ journey to hell was certified after he heard the gospel many times over the years, and steadfastly refused to believe it.  On the very night Judas the thief showed up to betray Lord Jesus with the chief priests and their sycophants who were thieves too, Judas had the thirty pieces of silver already in hand, when he kissed Jesus on the cheek, referring to Him only as master.  Judas knew Jesus would be put to death and never believed in Him. Judas' fellow disciples and Lord Jesus Christ's message,  meant nothing to Judas. Judas shamelessly watched his shocked/terrified fellow disciples run in fear like roaches caught in the light leaving Jesus alone and revealing himself as the betrayer. Judas was glad that he would live, assured of his financial future with his ill -gotten gain-or so he thought. Some in error might still have a bit of sympathy for the sneaky thief, after all wasn't his fall foretold before he was born predestinating his terrible end?  Love and truth forever, serola

Sun, May 24th - 6:59AM

DINNER WITH JESUS CHRIST

Fri, May 22nd - 12:36AM

DINNER WITH JESUS CHRIST

Brothers and sisters, family of the living God our Father, and priests under our great High Priest, Saviour, Mediator Jesus Christ, God the Son of God, we know that God commands that all believers be taught the scriptures through the local church servant officers it is not automatically known. We know that Lord Jesus Christ is the only saviour and the only way of salvation is through faith/obedience in His atonement. We know that God commands that the New Covenant is the sole and final authority of the church. We know that all believers must be taught/understand and live it publicly and privately through the Standard of Christ within the boundaries established within the whole context of both the Old and New Testaments. We know that God commands every believer in addition to being taught, that after they are taught are to continue to study live and feed themselves on Christ as well: 2Ti 2:15 - Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.