Wed, Mar 5th - 4:22AM

Tue, Feb 25th - 8:22PM

Brothers and sisters, we know that there is no way we can truly serve God outside of His word. We know that the Bible is not merely words on a page but is the spiritual food from God to His people. We have the deepest intimacy with our God and one another through trust and faith in His love, truth and power.

Raise your hand, holy people, if you thank God for His servant officers and brothers and sisters in the general body for ministering/teaching and preaching the word to us to apply and walk in it, held us when we cried out for help, admonished us and kept us walking on the right path in the word of God, and matured us to go on and mutually minister to others in the body. I raised mine a few times holy brethren.

God commands you, me, us, not to be lone rangers disconnected from the body- walking by ourselves living by ourselves- and making up our own personal interpretations of scripture as we go along, which is absolutely forbidden by God: 2Pe 1:20

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

 2Pe 1:21

For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Mar 1:8

I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

 Mar 3:29

But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:

The Bible teaches us that there is but one gospel and it must never be added to or taken away from:

Gal 1:8

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

We need our God and our brothers and sisters to live out God’s love faithfully in relationship to Him and one another, while sharing the gospel in the world, which is pleasing to Him:  1Jo 3:14

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

1Jo 3:10

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

We know that God commands us, brothers and sisters, say it with me-to test all teachings and whatever we believe by scripture. It cannot be said often enough that scripture interprets/teaches scripture, proves, , authenticates, and backs up scripture within the context of the whole of scripture from beginning to end without error AND WITHOUT ANY CONTRADICTIONS WHATSOEVER. The word of God fully defends itself by scripture and corrects those in need of correction by scripture. We can have full confidence in the authority and absolute truth of the Bible.

MORE PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST

AND GO TO HEAVEN THAN THOSE WHO WILL

REJECT HIM AND GO INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE

Mat 7:13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Mat 7:14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 

Some interpret Mt 7:13-14 TO MEAN IN ERROR that Jesus teaches that most people will go into the lake of fire and not be saved. However, the scriptures make it clear that a false doctrine has been made out of these few verses.

Jesus was addressing unbelieving Jews of the flesh, under the Law, who boasted of being righteous based merely on human genetics, along with those who claimed to be righteous on the basis of said faith with no evidence of love and obedience towards God. See  Mat 8.

it's not uncommon for the ignorant to mistakenly misinterpret scripture, likely due to poor or no teaching. however, the righteous will receive sound teaching and correction, but the wicked never will.

It is blasphemous for anyone to willfully/unrepentantly teach the lie that Lord Jesus came to die on the cross, to leave most people lost and condemned to the lake of fire. The children of the devil sneak in amongst the saints in vain to pervert God’s word and turn the good news into toxic bad news that salvation is unachievable for most persons so most will die in the lake of fire: Luk 6:45. The righteous will receive and believe the truth but the wicked never will.

The everlasting absolute truth is found in the whole scripture; therefore, the correct interpretation is that there will be too many people to count that will believe and enter into heaven. See and believe the truth of the inerrant absolute authority of scripture in the verses below, and many more than I can put here.

Mat 8:11And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus puts forth God His Father’s promise of the New Covenant to Abraham to save people without number in the Old Testament:

 Gen 15:5

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Is fulfilled in the New Covenant:

Rev 7:9

After this I

beheld, and, lo, a GREAT MULTITUDE, WHICH NO MAN COULD NUMBER; of ALL nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

We know the New Covenant is established by God from its beginning to save not just a handful of persons, but multitudes of every nation both Jew and gentile, and is permanent, not temporary: Gen 17:7

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

There is only one Saviour, High Priest Mediator of the New Covenant: Mat 26:28

For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. The Bible teaches us that the gospel stands forever on the New Covenant of Jesus Christ and has absolutely no connection to nor is mixed with the Mosaic Covenant. Jesus is our Jewish Lord and Saviour. He did not come to root us in Judaism, He came to root both Jew and gentile as one in His New Covenant with Himself.

Lord Jesus is faithful; He will never leave nor forsake any of His people. He will never cast away those who come to Him in faith. He will never allow anyone or anything to take us from Him. In the Mosaic Law the High Priest went into the temple to do service to God. In the New Covenant our Savior, Lord and High Priest goes into His people the temple of God to serve and indwell them forever with God the Father and God the Holy Ghost:  Jhn 6:56

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

2Ti 2:15

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Why God commands us to trust and believe in Him absolutely is simple: God is absolute truth, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE:

Not addressing heretics, but there are believers who are clueless that we are under the New Covenant and see the gospel as a list of optional  to do or don’t messages. Then there are some who in error believe that they can mix somethings from the Mosaic Law with the New Covenant of Jesus Christ, which is forbidden by God. For this reason, dearly beloveds, it cannot be said often enough we should not assume because someone is saved new or long-time believers that they have been taught/understand the New Covenant. 

The New Covenant of Jesus Christ absolutely does not teach that believers are still called sinners by God after they are saved: Heb 8:12

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

 Heb 10:17

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 

Jesus saves believers from all sins not just some or certain ones. A dear young lady told me that God only forgives some sins, according to her understanding of 1 John 1:9; therefore, after salvation she thought that believers need to confess these other sins to God or lose fellowship with Him or even their salvation.

I encouraged her to read/scrutinize- look carefully at what the verse taught:  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.

After she read it she rightly noted that the ALL in the verse meant that all sins are taken away through faith in Christ. She gladly repented and concluded that John, therefore, was never teaching that Cristians had to maintain their own salvation by confessing sins daily nor was he contradicting the New Covenant but agreeing to its absolute truth, Jesus paid God in full for our sins. Through Christ the believer is forever forgiven, and God keeps no remembrance of our sins seeing they are done away forever in Christ.

John goes even further and leaves no doubt that he agrees with and preached the finished forever atonement of Christ for all believers in his teachings: 1Jo 3:6

Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

1Jo 3:8

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

 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.

Act 10:43

To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

Release from the penalty/punishment of sin-Remission of sins: release from bondage or imprisonment; forgiveness or pardon, of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty.

For those who impenitently claim to be saved but still call themselves sinners after hearing the truth there is no more covering for their apostasy. God commands every believer:  1Pe 1:15

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

Rom 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

 1Pe 2:9

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

 1Pe 2:10

Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

 1Jo 5:5

Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

 Rev 2:7

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God

The believers know that everything that Jesus commands them to do is because He has already empowered them to do them without fail by His power.

Scripture interprets, teaches, proves, defends scripture, and corrects all in need of correction within the context of the whole of scripture without error and absolutely without contradiction: No born again believer according to the New Covenant of Jesus Christ can ever be charged by God as an unrepentant sinner after salvation and die and go to hell: the absolute truth and promise of the New Covenant:

What is the promise of the New Covenant? It is absolutely plain:  

Heb 8:12

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

 Heb 10:17

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Brothers and sisters, we know that we are forgiven of all sins forever, through faith in Jesus Christ and God keeps no record of them. After salvation the Christian is taught to live holy lives, and to repent and resist practicing any sin.

GOD HIMSELF CANNOT ABOLISH NOR BREAK HIS NEW COVENANT:

Heb 6:17

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

There is no power nor strength that can remove us from God.

1Pe 1:5

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1Pe 1:23

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Jde 1:24

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

From the mouth of Lord Jesus Christ: Mat 7:18

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

THE GOOD TREE STAYS GOOD AND THE BAD TREE REMAINS BAD. There is not one verse in the Bible that teaches a believer can sin and go to hell.

 1Jo 3:9

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

TEACHING THAT SALVATION IS CONDITIONAL AND NOT PERMANENT IS THE DOCTRINE OF DEVILS PROMOTED BY HERETICS: This is not addressing the ignorant/unlearned who will gladly receive correction/instruction when the truth is shared with them.

Tue, Feb 18th - 9:36PM

Brothers and sisters, we know that the Bible is clear, we can do nothing without Jesus, we cannot say this often enough. He is His word: Jhn 6:51

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Jhn 6:58.

We know that initially we do not automatically know or understand fully how to live and to serve God. lately I have come across some Christians who felt that people grow spiritually instantly once they are saved. The truth is that we are saved instantly, but the Bible teaches us that growth takes time for everyone. God has given us the gifts to the church- guiding/guarding servant officers and the body general to teach and build up His church through the gospel message. Over the course of time the believer is taught the word and through obeying and practicing it gradually comes to the full understanding of the New Covenant.

God commands every believer to aid other believers in learning the gospel as well as to share the gospel message in this present evil world to save all who will believe in Christ. NO BELIEVER, NO CHURCH CAN OR WILL GROW WITHOUT THE TEACHING OF THE WHOLE GOSPEL MESSAGE. Feel free, brethren, to study further on your own the benefits of teaching the whole gospel and the dangers of failure to do so.

We should not be surprised to find some long-time believers, some even in the pulpit who do not understand or know the gospel, because they have never heard it. We do not have to go out hunting for them, we know they are ignorant from what they believe and teach. God isn’t angry when a believer is ignorant and we should not be either, but instead gladly share the gospel with them as it was shared with us.

We know, holy brethren, that the more we eat and apply the word out of love and trust in God the more we grow to attain full spiritual maturity and stability in living and understanding the gospel message. It's important for us to also be involved in regular private Bible study and Bible study with others. Interactive Bible study with many others promotes the most and quickest growth, there is no reason to rely only on one teacher, which limits growth. Listening to the Bible is encouraged, and there are many online websites where one can listen without cost.

We know, dearly beloveds, that just as we need to eat physical food daily to be healthy and strong, we need the spiritual food of the Word to continually be spiritually healthy and strong in the Lord: Eph 6:10.

In this study on Nicodemus, we find many parallels today of divisions in the body due to those drifting away from some degree of biblical truth to embrace the doctrines of men. God spares us nothing of the vile, heretical doings of the Levitical priesthood. Throughout their history, the thing is that even though the Levitical priesthood had rebelled and sinned against the Law, they did not bastardize it, and protected it from interlopers, or those seeking to pervert it.

However, God gives us a very disturbing detailed picture of what the Levitical priesthood had devolved into at the time of the earthly ministry of Christ, so that none of us should be tempted to think we can be justified in the sight of God by emulating the Levitical priesthood in any way shape or manner whatsoever.

They had become the greatest threat to the kingdom of God. Instead of protecting the purity of the Mosaic Covenant they had allowed sects with various bastardized versions of the Covenant to operate and make disciples in the temple as long as they paid their tithes. In addition, the priests were hypocrites themselves who did not obey the Law and bastardized it also for gain.

The Levitical priesthood had morphed from ministers of God to

MINISTERS OF FINANCE- they were all about

THE BUSINESS OF SELLING THE MOSAIC LAW,

squeezing the people and the cults or sects for money. The widows, poor, even the destitute had to tithe.

We find the High Priest greatly enriched and living in a palace-a place usually the dwelling of kings: Mat 26:3

 Again, they allowed the cults or sects willing to pay tithes to teach in the temple legitimized to make their own disciples or followers, and they were ripping their followers off too.

It’s not a coincidence that we find many Jews in severe poverty, some needing to beg for a living, and some resorting to prostitution. We know that under the Law prostitution was forbidden, and the poor, widows, strangers, and feeble were to receive a portion of the tithes to sustain them under the Mosaic Law.

Jesus showed up in the temple to teach and make disciples but never paid a tithe. Jesus being sinless came to fulfil the Law and had no need to serve the Law. Jesus showed up in the treasury to observe what was going on in there and was disgusted in what he found- poor widows tricked by the priests to think they pleased God by tithing what little they had.

Perhaps the Priests thought Jesus would admire them, instead they were greatly displeased when He did not elevate them but exposed them before the people for leading people away from God in their heresy, greed, abuse, and impoverishment of the people. The priests got boiling mad when Jesus frankly told them to their faces what they truly were: Mar 11:17. At this point the priests were resolved to put Jesus to death, and the Pharisees among others would conspire with them.

The Priests were bitter against God because He bypassed them to give great power to heal and do miracles to Jesus, which filled them with envy instead of Joy in seeing many sick being healed: Mar 15:10.

 Perhaps the priests thought they could have a peaceful coexistence with Christ if they just let Him do what He wanted in the temple, but Jesus declared:  Mat 10:34

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Jesus didn’t come to beg or bargain with the religious leaders for His kingdom, He came to forcefully rip it from their corrupt hands forever:  Mat 21:43

Therefore, say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you….

It's still night, and Jesus knows exactly who and what Nicodemus is. If we had to ask Nicodemus a question, would it be how long did it take him to kill his conscience to enrich himself by stealing the homes of poor widows? Or who taught him how to make those long fake public prayers to trick people into thinking he was ultra holy, while he was tricking them out of their money?  Mat 23:14.

Jesus had asked Nicodemus earlier one question which he never answered and does not ask him any further questions. Instead, Jesus throws out a lifeline to Him, as to one in so desperate a situation that he would not hesitate to catch it to escape peril or even death.

 Jhn 3:21

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Lord Jesus, still not addressing Nicodemus directly, but nevertheless profoundly presenting the absolute truth that any and all men and women too are commanded to approach God consciously in love of His absolute truth, so trusting in His will above their own to present their character, conduct, conversation, manner of life, intentions, thoughts, actions, motives and deeds whether public or private to be weighed and measured by the standard of Christ alone to be declared as righteous in the sight of God not men.

2Co 4:2

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

 Jhn 5:24

Verily, verily, I say to you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but hath passed from death to life.

Finally, Jesus directly addresses Nicodemus, extending His lifeline, Himself, and with great assurance that if Nicodemus would choose to take and believe His word without fear and doubting that He is the only vessel sent by the Father through whom all who believe will be saved, he will have everlasting life, escape the wrath of God and have passed from death through the one way entrance to eternal life Jesus Christ. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DEATH IN CHRIST, THEREFORE THERE IS NO DEATH EVER AGAIN POSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN CHRIST.

The issue for those who unrepentantly teach the lie that a believer can sin and lose their salvation, is to prove it by finding the Bible verses that Christ and the believer whom He indwells indivisibly can sin, lose their salvation, die and wind up in hell. Such blasphemy will never be found in the Bible.

Jesus declared of Every believer: Luke 20:36 Neither can they die anymore...

Luke 20: 38 For he is not a God of the dead,but of the living: for all live unto him.

John 11: 25-26.

Rom 6:9 - Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

This chapter regarding Nicodemus seems to end abruptly. But the Bible does not leave us hanging. Ironically after the Jews took Jesus captive all of His disciples fled leaving Jesus alone out of fear of the Jews.  In later chapters, it is Nicodemus, and Joseph of Arimathaea who openly risked death and all that they had to openly get the body of Lord Jesus to honor His death and give Him a proper burial. They reached that place in faith that all that truly matters is Christ, regardless of the cost.

Mon, Feb 10th - 4:57AM

Holy people, God commands us to eat and drink into Jesus the Word of God unmixed with the world. He is the only spiritual food our Father has given us that can feed, grow and sustain the church. WITHOUT JESUS WE CAN DO NOTHING.

There is no unity outside of the inerrant truth of the scriptures and the scriptures do not ever conflict with the scriptures. At the time of Jesus’ earthly ministry, the Levitical priesthood was corrupted, and we find hyphenated Jews who identified more with their sect than their Jewish heritage. Every hyphen, Pharisee, scribe etc. was a willful heretical deviation from the Mosaic Covenant. Whether the deviations were major or minor none of it was acceptable to God who pronounced a curse on all who added to or took away from the Mosaic Covenant, without exception.

There are those who hyphenate the New Covenant of Jesus Christ, that is they deviate from the truth of scriptures. Some, although sincere, deviate in their understanding of scripture out of ignorance. As many have said we all come to Christ in ignorance of the full knowledge of scripture. However, the ignorant will receive correction/sound teaching, but the wicked never will regardless of how often they hear the truth. God pronounces a curse on anyone unrepentantly adding to or taking away from the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Brothers and sisters, its night, and the man who continues to speak to Nicodemus seems ordinary. Nicodemus is wealthy, a powerful ruler of the Jews. He likely has the soft hands of one who never has to do any harsh labor. His clothing is likely soft and of fine linen, his skin well oiled and perhaps smelling of costly perfumed ointment. In comparison, Jesus, so called Son of a carpenter, isn’t so well dressed, His hands, skin and clothing likely rough not smelling of perfumed ointments but smelling of that which has been amongst many poor and unwashed persons in ministering.

However, dearly beloveds, God gives us spiritual eyes and we see Nicodemus is spiritually poor, shabby, and reeking of sin that no amount of perfumed ointment could ever cover. In comparison, although He humbled Himself and took on the form of a man, we spiritually see the blinding light, and utterly pure holiness of Jesus Christ God the Son of God and Man, through whom God made everything that is made: Jhn 1:1-5.

Christ has no secret or hidden agenda. He isn’t concerned that if He speaks the truth Nicodemus might be offended. In His omniscience He confronts Nicodemus with point blank truth:

 Jhn 3:19

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Condemnation: justice; sentence of condemnation, damnatory judgment, condemnation and punishment.

God loves all men even His enemies. Nicodemus never said outright why he had come to Jesus. However, the Bible tells us: Jhn 6:44

No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Mar 1:17

And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. God is not passive about saving people and even gives us the command to partner with Him to go out and bring in all who will believe in Jesus.

Rom 2:4

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

 Rom 12:3.

1Ti 2:4

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Tit 2:11

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Jhn 1:9

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Therefore, no one can blame God for not saving them in light of His aggressive search and continual calling/drawing men to Himself and sending His people out in the world for the same purpose. No, the reason Nicodemus and anyone like him does not receive salvation is that they do not believe and love the darkness that covers the evil of doing their own will. We can also understand that God is neither passive nor arbitrary in His desire to save all men. Nicodemus is a part of a sect that is as dirty as they come, Jesus said of them:  Mat 23:15

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Yet Jesus still witnessed to him and states the truth about the irreversible consequences of unbelief in hopes he might repent.

We note too, holy brethren, Jesus makes no excuses for Nicodemus or anyone who unrepentantly rejects the inerrant truth of salvation. The gospel is not a debate it is an absolute declaration. God curses all who unrepentantly adds to or takes away from it and calls them His enemies:  Luk 11:23

He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

Jesus declares plainly that those who reject Him do so actively, purposefully and with evil intent in hatred of Him, His Father, and His people too. They choose the darkness and refuse to be exposed and held accountable for their evil deeds. Nicodemus was rich, and God is not against people having money, but not through exploiting, or robbing people: Mat 23:14.

  Jhn 3:20

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

No excuse, no justification for anyone rejecting salvation:  Rom 1:20;  Mat 15:9; Mar 7:7.

Love and truth forever, serola