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.

Wed, May 6th - 8:25AM

DINNER WITH JESUS CHRIST

Brothers and sisters, priests under our Saviour, Mediator, Great High Priest Jesus Christ God the Son of God, Anointed forever by God our Father in perpetuity, let us pour out our love, thanks and praise offerings to our God Lord Jesus Christ, God our Father, and to God our Holy Ghost, who indwells and lives in us and have made us one body in Christ and members of one another, by the will of God our Father through faith in our Lord Jesus and sealed us forever with God our Holy Ghost. Much love, grace, peace and blessings to you brothers and sisters. I give our great Almighty God who is love and invincible in power thanks for you and pray that He will strengthen you, me us in the knowledge of His will, and all wisdom and spiritual understanding that we will be rooted and established in His undying incendiary love and truth for our God is a consuming fire. Having dinner with someone regularly is so intimate. But how do you keep dining with somebody whom you know, although they think you don’t know, that they are only with you to make money off of you and see you as having no value for anything other than that?  Yet we see again and again the patience and long suffering of God, that Lord Jesus not only dined with Judas Iscariot but slept in the same dwellings and allowed him to be in his life for the total years of His earthly ministry. Jesus gave Judas chance after chance, continual sermons, warnings, teachings, observation of miracles upon miracles, along with love and affection, washed Judas’ feet with the rest of the disciples, and Judas still did not believe.  It is through the perspective of God’s mercy, love and long-suffering patience, that we gain a comprehensive understanding of the wrath of God against evil and why He will destroy evil out of His kingdom forever at the appointed time. While God is patient and long suffering with all men this absolutely never indicates indifference, tolerance, or the approval of evil in any way or manner whatsoever. Some might find it mind blowing that Judas heard the gospel directly from Jesus the Son of God all that time and still did not believe. Jesus knew that there were others that did not believe in Him, but only Judas betrayed Him:  Jhn 6:70 - Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? Jhn 6:71 - He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve. I.Devil: prone to slander, slanderous, accusing falsely 1. a calumniator, false accuser, slanderer, II.metaph. applied to a man who, by opposing the cause of God, may be said to act the part of the devil or to side with him. We know that Judas didn’t suddenly just jump up and betray Jesus, the seed of his greed, unbelief, hatred and distain for the Lord was already simmering in his heart by choice not by force, which Jesus indicates indirectly referring to one of His disciples meaning Judas as a devil: Mat 13:39 - The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. We know that Jesus directly referred to other people in scripture as Satan, and also children of the devil. Why did Jesus never directly confront Judas, as He had done with others as in the case of Peter, Mar 8:33?The apostles Matthew and Mark write nothing about the devil or Satan entering Judas, but the apostles Luke and John clearly state that the devil entered Judas. This is not a contradiction of scripture but a 360 degree view of Judas that he by choice, even before the devil entered him was willing to do anything necessary to get a final windfall of money out of Jesus, seeing that Jesus would suffer death and His ministry would end on earth. Both apostles Matthew and Mark make it clear that after Judas realizes the death of Jesus means the end of easy money, and not getting access to Mary’s ointment Judas goes straight to the chief priests to betray Jesus: Mat 26:14 - Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, Mar 14:10 - And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them. Luk 22:3 - Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. Jhn 13:2 - And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; Jhn 13:27 - And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly. Dearly beloveds, as horrific as these verses are that the devil first put it into Judas’ heart to betray Jesus, than entered Judas the question some might ask is why didn’t Jesus cast the devil out, as He had done many times with those who were possessed. Jesus certainly knew the devil was in Judas. Instead, what did Jesus do? He gave Judas communion with the rest of His apostles, a final warning and a last chance to believe on Him and escape eternal damnation. Lke14And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. 15And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: 16For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. 17And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: 18For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. 19And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 20Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. 21But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. 22And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed! Jesus, the good Shepherd, showed love and mercy even to a man in such a state as Judas. Jesus loved and didn’t want to lose any of His disciples, including Judas. Jesus gave Judas chance after chance and a final opportunity to be saved, and Judas rejected the final and last opportunity to be saved. Some might say in error, it was already too late because Judas was possessed by the devil. Stay tuned. love and truth forever, serola

Mon, Apr 20th - 6:27PM

DO NOT BELIEVE THE LIE THAT GOD HAS NO FURTHER NEED FOR A HIGH PRIEST Brothers and sisters, let us priests give continual offerings of fervent love, praises and thank offerings to God our Father through Jesus Christ our Saviour, great High Priest, Mediator, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Potentate, invincible in power, and mighty in love and mercy for He is worthy. Therefore, holy brethren let us always continue to assemble together as God commands, yet let us look no more to temples made by the hands of men for God Has declared: 1Co 3:16 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?1Co 3:17 - If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 1Co 6:19;  Act 7:48 - Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Act 17:24 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Holy brethren, I pray that we shall always remember who we are as priests under our Eternal Absolute High Priest, Jesus Christ, serving as His representatives and ambassadors on earth, therefore let us all act accordingly knowing that everything we do reflects on Him for the good or otherwise. We know that God is absolute eternal love and truth, He is a discerner of the intents and motives of the heart. The Levitical Aaronic high priest under the Law had to accept whatever was offered by the people. He had no way of knowing what was in the hearts or minds of the givers. He didn’t know whether they gave willingly or begrudgingly. He didn’t know if the people gave out of love cheerfully or out of fear of punishment by God if they failed to give. He had no way of knowing if what the people gave was from honest labor, or from thievery or some other illicit act. He had to accept what the people gave on face value and all of it went into the treasury. The Levitical priesthood is done away in Christ, God the Son of God whom God the Father has anointed as the Eternal Asolute High Priest of the New Covenant after the order of Melchizedek. Because Jesus is fully man and fully God, equal with God the Father and also omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent He is able to know what is in the hearts, minds intents and purposes of His people when they give or do any works dedicated to Him. No works or offerings of any kind not given to Jesus out of love and trust in Him is accepted.  This is why God warns in 13 chapter of Corinthians vs 1 that we can have gifts, give all our works, money to the poor, even give our bodies to be burned etc., but without charity or agape love we are nothing to Him, we have no relationship nor kinship with Him, for God is love, and truth. Most certainly as we return to our study, dearly beloveds, in every sense we look at a scene of two mourners one whom John our brother and apostle reveals as the repentant Mary who had sat at Jesus’s feet intensely attentive to His teachings the few times He was in her home, who believed in Him realizing the great sacrifice that Christ would give of His life, in love, worship, and mourning anointed his feet with the valuable ointment knowing that Christ was the true value beyond all treasures of the present evil world. The other mourner, Judas Iscariot heard Jesus’ preaching publicly and privately, saw all the miracles, received the love and encouragement from the God Man, received all the warnings to turn him away from betrayal, knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. Judas saw Jesus as worthless, Jesus’ death as the cruel end of the gravy train and easy money that he stole from the money bag, his hopes of a cushy position and power under the ministry of Jesus evaporated. Judas Iscariot who had lived, slept and ate in the presence Jesus during His entire ministry on earth, still didn’t believe in Him and never called Jesus Lord. Likely, Judas thought when Mary appeared with her precious ointment, he would gain possession of it and secure a final windfall from stealing from it. He mourned the loss of it and seems to have gone over the edge at the loss of this last hope of financial gain when he saw Mary putting all of her ointment on Jesus. 4Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, 5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? 6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. 7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. 8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. Jesus is protective of Mary, and reveals that her anointings of Him were not random acts out of the blue. Instead, Jesus revealed she heard the gospel and believed. she understood Him as Man and God, His mission, message and the meaning of His coming death and had obtained her ointment in advance for the sole purpose to lavish it upon Him in love, worship and gratitude and mourning for the world changing sacrifice He would give of His life to pay in full for the sins of the world to save all who believe in Him.Some would have been outraged at Judas knowing he was a thief who was going to betray them Some would have called Judas every bad name in the book to display their utter disgust at this dog who’d bite the hand that fed him. Some might have become physical and thrown the ingrate, sneaky thief Judas out of the house.  However, Jesus does none of that. Jesus is always in control, and here we get a deep understanding of our Lord as Good, Great Shepherd, who protects and lauds the repentant Mary and rebukes yet still offers Judas Iscariot as it were the last chance to stir up in him some type of human feeling of love for Him, that he might miss Him or long for Him after His passing. We cannot fail to note the great love patience, long suffering, and mercy of Lord Jesus in His dealing with Judas Iscariot. John gives us the final rendition of the Story of Mary and her precious ointment here, reminding us that repentance is more than a word or a one time event, and that those who hear and believe the gospel are led by God in repentance to love and show gratitude to the Saviour that made heaven possible for all who believe in Him. We must look further at Judas Iscariot this evil man and what the Bible means by the horrific occurrence that satan entered him. Stay tuned. Love and truth forever, serola

Mon, Mar 30th - 3:54PM

DINNER WITH JESUS CHRIST

Brothers and sisters, we know that we can do nothing without Jesus. We can’t even know God without Jesus or know Jesus unless He reveals Himself and the Father to us through faith in His name. The Bible clearly teaches that No one can know God on the basis of human effort, intellect, or obtaining a degree, denominations, institutions, organizations, doctrines of men, or works of any kind or manner whatsoever. When the gospel is preached and over time when one is taught- it is Jesus who opens up the scriptures-God giving all men a measure of faith in believing; the goodness of God leading men to repentance, albeit not all are willing to receive the truth:  Rom 2:4; Rom 12:3; Eph 1:18; Mat 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Luk 24:45; Eph 1:18; Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. Dearly beloveds, as we sit together at the Lord’s table to be fed and nourished of Him through His word, in the presence of God our Father, the Holy Ghost our teacher helps us to learn of Him and to reveal His will directly, and through the gifts of the Holy Spirit, to the church  that we might grow over time from milk to the maturity of the meat of the Word- established and stable in faith, service, living and sharing the word to encourage one another and to witness it in this present evil world. Dearly beloveds we know that the Study of evil people can cause some to shudder, feel uncomfortable, or even not want to think about evil people. Some may think it is rude, impolite or even hateful to describe another human being as evil. However, God commands you, me, us, to faithfully uphold comprehensively the eternal truth of the whole Word of God whether men agree with it or not is irrelevant. God commands us all to fully understand comprehensively both good and evil: The Bible teaches: Heb 5:14 - But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. God commands that His people be taught the word of God to grow from milk to meat in our understanding of His eternal, absolute, inerrant truth. We know, holy brethren, that we don’t have to reinvent the wheel for God has taught and laid out in His word explicitly, exhaustively, exclusively, absolutely throughout scriptures from the beginning to end clearly teaching us and providing many examples of the evil fruit of the impenitent unbelieving natural depraved/corrupt hearts and minds of those without/devoid of the Spirit as well as the good fruit of the penitent spiritual believer- Spirit filled having good hearts and minds who trust and obey God, through whom they bear the eternal good fruit of the Spirit: Luk 6:43. We know that Judas didn’t believe anything that Jesus continually taught. Jesus had taught His disciples that He came to die yet would rise again in victory. Judas knowing that Christ would die and therefore, his meal ticket would be lost didn’t believe Jesus would rise again in victory from the grave. Therefore, seeing the loss of his meal ticket, and a cushy position in an earthly kingdom he would cut his losses and get the last bit of money possible from Jesus by betraying Him. Some might say didn’t the other disciples want to know what was the payoff for serving the Lord? Jesus found nothing wrong with His disciples’ request to know what rewards they would receive on earth and in heaven by serving Him. Jesus reveals to them and to us also the rewards He delights and has prepared to richly reward all who love and obey Him in heaven and on earth: Mar 10:30; Heb 11:6 - But without faith it is impossible to please him: for hethat cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. We are commanded to understand evil from God’s perspective: Judas was there only for the money and power. Judas cared nothing for the kingdom of God, and would not have even consented to be a disciple without the opportunity for great gain. Dearly beloveds we know that there are some even now like Judas who serve God only for gain, and would never serve Him without it. To be clear God doesn’t teach it is evil to be rich or have money, it teaches that it is evil for this to be the only reason one serves God. See  1Ti 6 that addresses these issues and there are many more teachings on this elsewhere in scripture. Now scriptures go even further, one can have many good works, even sacrifice their lives and still be an impenitent unbeliever whose works mean nothing to God. To some this might seem incredulous, shocking, puzzling, cruel and perhaps lead some to think that the scriptures are conflicting with itself. After all, doesn’t the Bible teach God won’t forget our good works? And what about a good tree cannot bear corrupt fruit directly From the mouth of our Lord Jesus Christ? We will of necessity need to understand this from God’s perspective, the only perspective that counts. The Word of God is inerrant, absolute truth and never contradicts itself in any way or manner whatsoever. stay tuned.  Love and truth forever, serola