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 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

Sat, Mar 21st - 2:55PM

DINNER WITH JESUS CHRIST

Brothers and sisters, much love, peace and blessings in the name of God the Father who has bestowed upon us and all who believe and obey Jesus Christ, God the Son of God and raised Him up above the highest heavens, and all principalities and powers, giving Him every honor and praise and a name above every name in heaven and 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. The Bible takes us back in time, and we remember that Jesus wants us to remember what Mary had done for Him, which is her act of worship in thanks and understanding that He would sacrifice His life on the cross to pay IN FULL for the sins of all who believe in Him. She understood the Man God, His death, His mission and His message to the whole world. Jesus wants you, me, us to remember Him also in this same heart felt intense deeply personal way in faith without doubting: The solemn remembrance of the Lord’s communion supper reminds us that we should participate in understanding of our Christ’s sacrifice of His sinless body and blood that brought forth the new testament that could not have been brought forth without His body and blood Heb 9:17 - For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. Christ’s blood: Heb 9:22 - And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. We know and understand therefore that the gospel of the New Covenant of Jesus Christ is absolute, eternal, explicit, exhaustive, exclusive, complete/final and finished forever: Jhn 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. God has no alternatives, no plan bs, multiple choices, compromises, deals, excuses, exceptions to being saved other than through faith in Christ. Jesus is equal with Father: Phl 2:6. Jesus is to be worshipped just as the Father is Worshipped: Jhn 5: 23That 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. In our study of Judas Iscariot, the image of evil people as somehow being detectable by their looking nefarious, shady, manner of speech etc is dispelled. The Bible warns that even the devil can appear as an angel of light. Dearly beloveds, we know from scripture that Jesus knew Judas was a thief; knew he was going to betray Him, knew he was a devil. Nevertheless, and despite knowing all this about Judas Iscariot, Jesus never withdrew His love from Judas. Jesus never publicly exposed him to the disciples, except at the last supper, although the other disciples did not understand this. Again saints (G40 hagios) we know from scripture that over the entire course of His earthly ministry Jesus gave Judas the same love, the same truth, the same gospel and the same power as all the other disciples. Jesus even washed Judas’ feet the same as He washed the other disciples’ feet. Jesus even gave Judas the money bag even though He knew Judas was a thief. The Bible tells us: Mat 5:45; Mat 5:46; 2Pe 3:9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Oh the great faithfulness, mercy and love of the Son of God to all who trust in Him! Judas Iscariot looked like a regular person, he lived, ate, with the other disciples who did not suspect what he was, he fooled them, but never Lord Jesus who said of Him:    Jhn 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? 71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.While the repentant Mary was anointing Lord Jesus with her costly ointment, in worship and thankfulness of His coming sacrifice of Himself, we recall what Judas Iscariot said:  Jhn 12:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? 6This 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.Holy people, we can see the evidence of his greed and anger in that he had calculated already the sum of money he had lost the opportunity to steal, and never had any intention of sharing or giving any of it to the poor. Even today among true believers there are those who even though they may attend church services, and fellowship with other Christians speaking churchianity  and bragging on their so-called good deeds for a long time, it is on a mere social level and/or for worldly gain, remaining unbelievers to the end, to their damnation. While it is possible to fool men God declares in His Word:2Ti 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his, And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. love and truth forever, serola 

Fri, Mar 13th - 8:23PM

New Testament Christians can never lose their salvation

Scriptures absolutely interpret, teaches, corrects, confirms/validates, backs up, proves, and defends Scriptures absolutely without error nor contradiction of any kind nor in any manner within the whole context of both the New and Old Testaments. We know that it is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost to teach unrepentantly that Christians can sin and fall away, because The New Covenant of Jesus Christ teaches that all who believe in the final finished atonement of Jesus Christ are forgiven of all sins past present and future, made a new creature joined with-made one with Christ who lives in the believer with God the Father and sealed with the Holy Ghost. Under the New Covenant God Himself declares that He will no more forever keep any record of the believers’ sins, nor any remembrance of them forever: 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.Taught directly, absolutely from the mouth of the Saviour Jesus Christ, Mediator, High Priest, Sower of the New Covenant: Mat 7:18 - A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.Incorruption of the believer confirmed: Scripture interprets and proves scripture: 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.By seed this means Jesus Christ is the seed.The seed, again meaning Jesus Christ Himself, who is incorruptible and lives in every believer with God the Father and sealed by the Holy Ghost who also lives in the believer.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.Anyone who unrepentantly teaches the lie that Christians can fall away is a heretic and calling God for whom it is impossible to lie a liar. Rom 3:4 - God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.The absolute eternal truth is that it is impossible for God to lie, deceive, make mistakes or contradict Himself in any way or manner whatsoever. Therefore the heretic commits the unpardonable sin: BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST: Mat 12:32 - And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. 1Jo 5:10 - He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. Thank God we believe and have His record of His Son Jesus: 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.Tit 3:10 - A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; Tit 3:11 - Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.The agenda of the heretic who is evil in perverting scripture is to turn people away from God by in vain trying to undermine the eternal truth, power and authority of the New Covenant established forever through the sinless Blood of Jesus Christ. God never condemns His people. God condemns the heretic liar who is an unrepentant unbeliever:  Jhn 3:18 - He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Anyone unrepentantly claiming to have found scriptures that contradict the promises of the eternal truth and Blood of the New Covenant is of the devil, because it is absolutely impossible for God to lie, deceive, make mistakes or contradict Himself.The bottom line is that Lord Jesus defends His gospel teaching us that anyone claiming to be saved who falls away shows proof positive that he came not from God, but from the devil in the first place: Mat 13:38 - The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 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. Mat 13:40 - As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. Mat 13:41 - The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, an d them which do iniquity; Mat 13:42 - And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.Mat 13:43 - Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. love and truth forever, serola