Showing posts with label Bible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bible. Show all posts

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Tickets On The Old Ship Of Zion Are Free!




Heads Up! 
When We  Accept That 
There Is Security In Almighty God's Protection
We Will
- With The Confidence That Resides 
Within Our Daily Gift Of Faith Received From 
Our Savior, Lord, God, And King -
Ask Him 
- Who We Love Because He Loved Us First -
To Hear Our Heartfelt Prayers 
And
To Be Our Defence, Our Guardian, And Our Guide
And
To Deliver Us Not Just From The Devil, Evil Diseases, And Disasters
But From The Blackness And Darkness Of  The Second Death! 

Beloved, 

Our Relationship With Our Blessed Jesus 
Involves Relations And A Ship! 

If We Are Walking, Living, Being In Accord With King Jesus
Our Relations, Interactions, Involvement With Each Other 
Will Be Related To The Agreed-Upon Goal: 

Together Forever!
Heaven-Bound
At The Sound Of The Last Trumpet! 

This Is Where The Good Ship Of Zion Comes In! 

Dear Ones, 

To Get On Board The Ship
We Have To Know About The Ship 
And
Have A Desire To Get On Board! 

We Have To Know Where The Ship Is Going 
And 
Have A Desire To Go There! 

We Have To Know The Ship's Operator 
And 
Their Reputation For Service And Support
Their Performance Record
And
Whether They Stand Behind Their Product! 

Lastly, 
We Have To Decide By The Available Public Evidence
Whether We Are Willing, Ready, To Go All In 
And 
Accept That Tickets Are Free 
And That 
Our Desire Will Take Us Into The Presence Of 
The Only One Divine! 

Please Read Your Bible: 
Jesus Christ Delivers You! 

Are You Going!?! 

Peace!













Monday, January 29, 2018

Time To Do A Judas On Satan!

Satan Is No Man's Friend!
Satan Is The Master Manipulator!
He Deceived Angels 
Who Were Made A Little Higher Than Man
So It Is Sure That He Can
Will
Does
Deceive Mere Man!

Satan Deceived Eve
Who
At Man's Beginning
Was Of Perfect Intellect In The Creator God
So
It Is Stands To Reason
That With Man's Present
Known-Degraded By Sin Intellect
A Walk-Over By Satan
Is Indeed In The Cards!

But ...

Let It Be Made Known
That Jesus Christ The Lord
The God Of Creation
The Known Lover Of Man
Made Provision
So That Man Does Not Need To Fall
For Satan's Well Known Scams!

Our Gift Is ...

The
B eautiful
I nstructor For The
B est
L ife
E ver

Which Provides To All Readers
To All Listeners

B asic
I nstructions
B efore
L eaving
E arth!

Know This ...

The Bible Is Your Road Map
Your Compass
The Temperature Gauge! 

The Bible Is The Word Of Life
The Means To Know
How
Into The Eternal God's Kingdom
You May Forever Be Saved!

The Bible Provides Living Water
Living Food
The Means To Know
How
To Live In This Present Life
AND
The Means To Recognize
The Only One
Who Will Protect Us Against Satan
AND
Through The Earthly Strife!

The Bible Calls Satan By His Real Names
Dragon
Devil
Deceiver
Father Of Lies
Belial
Beelzebub
Lord Of Dung
Murderer
Accuser Of The Brethren!
Learn Them!

The Traps Of Satan
Are Known Legendary:

Appetite
Presumption
Worship
AKA
The Lust Of The Flesh
The Lust Of The Eye
The Pride Of Life
AND
The Ever Available
Accessible Always
The Love Of And Making The Lie! 

AND

The Doing Of Evil To Get ... Good
Get Gain
Get Glory
BUT
That Ever Always Results In Shame
AND
The Good Lord's Name Profaned!

Man Is Without Excuse
When He Loses In The Battle With Satan
Because He Refused To Use
The Weapons Almighty God Provided
For The Known Warfare
That Is ... The Word Of God!

Almighty God Is Love
AND
Almighty God Sacrificially Loves Man!

Satan Hates!
Satan Killed God's Son
AND THEREFORE Satan Murderously Hates Man
Who The Living God Loves!

Almighty God IS!
Almighty God Is The Truth!
Almighty God Is the Light!
He Is The Giver Of Life!
He Is Salvation!
AND
He Is Man's Only Way To Eternal Life!

Satan Is The Liar!
Satan Makes Himself Into An Angel Of Light!
Satan Deals Death!
Satan Is Damned!
AND
Satan Paves The Way To Damnation!

Bottom Line ...

Get To Know Your Savior ... Intimately
So That You May 
Expose Your Adversary Openly!

Be Jesus-Saved Bold!
Make HEAVEN With Jesus Christ
Your Soul's Only Goal!

COME To Jesus NOW 
AND
Do A Judas On Satan!
Sell Out The Deceiver
AND
Get Almighty God's Imperishable Gold!



Sunday, November 9, 2014

Balaam's Ass Required



BALAAM'S ASS REQUIRED




I wish I could be a Balaam's Ass
To some of these modern-day preachers
Who seem activated by a Balak spirit
Seeking to make God's people act like they're illiterate


By clothing, ritual, word and deed
These preachers seek to enrich themselves with speed
By putting great price to the teaching of the Word
Which does not edify and makes spirits curd



Plant a seed, buy an oil, purchase a miracle
Preacher man is begging, he needs a new toy
Congregations, they then come out to pray, and pay
Satan's advocates big money to be led astray



Cry shame! Oh, Lord, have mercy, come and defend
Your people who go church for a good word and to pray
To You, by the Spirit, in Jesus' name
Come, Thou, Dear Lord! Defend! Defend!


They teach for doctrine the commandments of men
They have willingly departed the faith
And sold their souls for a pot full of stew
Whilst giving up heaven's reward and refusing it to believers, too


One of these preachers I, myself, heard say
That the shepherd's prosperity has first to come into play
Since the shepherd leads the sheep, he should get his first
Because if he walked behind, all he'd get is some poo in the purse
(emphasis added!)


We warn you now, you apostate preacher
We are servants of the Galilean Teacher
Change your ways, amend, oh, root out
The behaviors that cause a dumb donkey to speak out!


Fear not, I tell you, believer in the Lord
Our God, the Almighty, He will supply a sword
To the angel who will cut them off if they don't turn back
And return to teaching, and preaching, the Lean Word – not fat!


First they took our money, then they stepped on the truth
Followed by our souls they seriously imperiled to boot
But, thankfully, some of us knew the dear Creator's voice
And that was enough to make our hearts rejoice


Our Lord had no mansions, no diamond cellular phones
No bodyguards, no choppers and definitely no cars
He preached the Message – it was UNDILUTED!
No color, no spin, and certainly it was not trimmed convoluted!


Sola Scriptura. The Word! The Word!
A “Doth saith the Lord!” should be heard, you cur!
Preach conscience, repentance, new birth, that sin's a stain
And only Blood can remove it, or on the soul it remains!


Oh, preacher, God forgives! So please repent!
Confess! He's faithful! Oh, won't you relent?
Confession and repentance are good for the soul
Give your burden for false riches to Jesus, He'll take it in control!


So, Dear Ones, I beseech you
Don't idly sit by
And let the preacher betray his calling
And lead you to die
Become Balaam's Ass
Open your mouth and speak
Stop swallowing the nonsense
That some of these preachers teach


Don't give up real gold
For this earth's deadly dross
That rusts, and gets stolen
Stop playing with the fluff!


Hold on to King Jesus
His Word – it will guide
To mansions on gold streets
Water of Life running by!


Read your Bible for your self
Compare text with text
Demand that your preacher
Preach in context even if he gets vexed!


Your gaining heavenly life depends
On your personal understanding
That Jesus is coming soon
He's even at the door
Prepare now – get ready!
Don't get a surprise when He shows!


Only those who are unprepared
Will be caught unawares
So put your spiritual house in order
So you won't be dismayed


My braying is over for now
I have said my piece
Until I see you next time
Go thou in peace!


CORRUPT DOCTRINE
CORRUPT WORSHIP
CORRUPT PRINCIPLE
CORRUPT PRACTICE
&
CORRUPT CONVERSATION
GREATLY
DISPLEASE GOD!!









Sunday, October 5, 2014

Man's Favorite Pursuits



Man's Favorite Pursuits



She is ever the sensualist
He lives by all his greed
They are so very ambitious
And very proud indeed!


She is ever so puffed up
He is a stuffed-shirt by his creed
They complement each other
Love of money is their speed!


She's selfish, he's miserly
Both dishonest to boot
They fear no law nor justice
Will not fear to shoot!


Prayer? Bible? Believer? Jesus who?
When did you say we were introduced?
Then Put Him on the speed dial
We'll call Him if we need a boost!


Pride! Greed! Gluttony! Sloth!
Lust! Envy! And Wrath!
They indulge in them all
And, yes! Then they laugh!


Who cares what others think!?
We live for ourselves!
Why must you always butt in?
Who let you through our chain link?


They lived their lives like hedonists
Nothing to recommend them
But like the rich man with Lazarus
They're only fit to condemn!


It was only when in review
Their lives looked back in
That they recognized with horror
How foolish they'd been!


Those that they'd ill-treated
Those they'd robbed blind
Those they'd had wrongly punished
They now begged to be kind!


Alas, it's too late
You're no friend of ours
You despised us and you cursed the Lord!
Yes! THAT King Jesus!


No! We cannot help you!
There's enmity, there is envy, no love between
You sinners and the Savior
Oh, look! The opening scene!


The sky is unfurling
Rolling back as a scroll
Look! There! Upon a white horse,
With many crowns, is the Lord!


The graves are opening wide
Saints alive with the dead-in-Christ rise high
To meet our Savior in the sky!
Sinners, prepare to die!
I'm sorry!
Goodbye! **BJC**


Dear Friends:
Lest you think that Christians will gloat at the loss of the wicked, think again!


The Lord has said in His Word that it is not His wish that any should perish. So, far be it from the truth for us as HIS children – who choose to obey – to rejoice over those who are, or will be, lost. Let us, therefore, redouble our efforts to help prepare a people to meet the King.


Let us, if we can't preach, pray for, cook, feed, clothe, visit,
and love our brothers and sisters into the Kingdom.



Friday, October 3, 2014

Marston 'n Marcelle's Marriage



Marston 'n Marcelle's Marriage


Marston looked at the rising sun and saw
Another challenge waiting to victimize!
Marcelle looked at the same rising sun and saw
Another blessing – oh praise Him who supplies!


Marston looked at the mirror and there he saw
Miserable weariness on the face of years!
Marcelle looked in the same mirror and saw
Happy tiredness on a face with no fears!


Marston looked at the old horse and saw
Just another drain upon their oft' meager supplies!
Marcelle looked at the same old horse and saw
A faithful laborer who never gave a surprise!


He looked at Her and She looked at Him
Each looked at the other, and saw deep within
He saw the peace that she held most dear
She saw anger, bitterness, and much despair!

They both spoke at the same time!
Both wanted to be heard!
She said: “You go first!”
He said: “Don't be absurd!”


This, my friends, is how it is
When unequally yolked two partners be
She says: “It is an 'A!'” He says: “Oh, you mean 'Z!'”
And so, Dear Ones, they can never agree!


Darkness and Light, Blackness and White
She means By Faith, He means By Sight
She holds her Bible dear, He won't ever come near
He won't go to Bible Class, They are ever at an impasse!



For many years, Marcelle faithfully prayed ... to God!
For many years, Marston faithfully played ... the Fraud
Until one fateful day not too long past
He came very near to breathing his last!


And so it was that perspectives aligned
She asked to pray for him, and he ever so quickly replied:
"Dear Wife, I am sorry for all that I've done and been!
Pray to your Jesus! I need to be made clean!”


So after years of pleading and praying for him
Marcelle prayed to The Dear Lord, and asked Him to draw nigh
To her beloved husband along life's journey e'er long
And thanked the Almighty for His love so kind and true
For keeping this Dear One so that he, too
Could be welcomed into the Household of Faith
As he had now forsaken what was his great disgrace!


Oh clean him, Lord bless him, as he walks the narrow way
And by Your Grace, Father, we'll see You faith to Face!” **BJC**





Saturday, September 20, 2014

Through the Fire




THROUGH THE FIRE


Genesis 1: 26 - Let us make man in our own image and in our likeness.

Genesis 2:19 - Lord God formed all the birds of the air and the beasts of the field and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.


On any given day, Hilda, Carmen and Sybil could be heard preaching the Bible to any and all who would listen, and to even those who couldn’t be bothered to listen.
They could be heard boisterously uttering phrases like “Too blessed to be stressed!” “Thank God for Grace!” and “I’m glory bound!” and “Bless Jesus, I’m saved!”
You could hear them singing:
Pass Me Not, Oh Gentle Savior; Open my Eyes That I May See; I’m Climbing Jacob’s Ladder; Onward Christian Soldiers; and I am Delivered, Praise the Lord!
But, there was something not quite real about any of them.
If you passed by Sybil’s house on laundry day, you could hear her singing:
I don’t like work, and work don’t like me, and that is the reason that I’m so hungry. Hallelujah, I’m a bum. Hallelujah, a bum again. Hallelujah, give me a hand out to revive me again!”
If you passed by when Carmen’s husband had gotten drunk and beat and curse her and the children, you would know that she had completely forgotten all about the catch phrases that she loved to quote to people when she was on her “Jesus Juice!”
You could hear Carmen asking the Lord to let the day come when she would ask Him to give her five minutes to “out that cretin’s lights” permanently. And that was after she had used enough technicolor phrases to make even a sailor blush!
As for Hilda, when she left off her preaching stint every Wednesday morning outside Dolphus' Shop, she stepped inside for the requisite flask bottle of Cockspur Rum which she said was for when “King Arthur kicking in me old tail!”
Of course, after she had taken a liberal dose of her “medicine,” she set about doing her Christian duty to, as she said, “The poor, morally bankrupt and lost souls.”
Everybody knew that was Hilda-speak for “I am going to give and get the juiciest gossip on everybody in this neighborhood!”
And, of course, there was Ms. Daisy. The most devout of the neighborhood Christians.
Daisy could hardly walk during the week, and needed help to do even the most basic things to keep herself comfortable. But, when Church day came along, Daisy could outwalk and outrun everybody, rain or shine, to be the first one in the Sanctuary. She was the one to speak to if you wanted to know the 411 on “them deceitful people in this church!”
These women had forgotten their examples from the Bible: Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Job, King David, Nehemiah, Paul, Dorcas, and on and on.

The Christian’s Lot
The lot of a Christian is hard, often bitter, and contentious. There is no minimizing that.
Look at the Master. He didn’t do anything wrong. He did all that was right in the sight of God and man, and yet, ultimately, he was brutally scourged and finally murdered.
However, with Christ as the only binding example of the Christian walk, we Christians are called upon
1. To be WISE, beyond education, training, situation or circumstance. We must remember that our current situation is NOT our final destination, and we must look beyond what is to what is possible.
2. To be temperate. We must do all things in moderation, including eat, sleep and work and play.
3. To seek to find our innate gifts. Think back to Genesis 2:19. God gives each of us gifts — we only have to seek for, recognize, accept and use, better yet, exploit them. If you want more gifts, remember, first, to use the ones with which you have been blessed.
4. To be our brother, and sister’s keeper. If your neighbor, your husband, or wife, mother, father, brother or sister hurts you, and you can help, even if he or she may have despitefully used you, you are required to assist that person. For, you are to heap coals upon that person’s head and let the Lord take vengeance, which He says is His, and which He will repay.
5. To surround ourselves with positive people, and to set a positive example for those who are otherwise. We must live up to our calling and project a sense of self that is worthy of our Christian calling.
6. To be rounded, a pie, if you will. A bible-thumper does not a Christian make, nor a slice a whole pie. We are to find the things that bring us and others joy, and stop sucking the air out of the atmosphere with our sour looks and pious expressions which only cover very shallow and one dimension beings.
         By way of analogy, I give you Life as told by the Rose:
Rose, that I am, while beautiful to behold and fragrant to the nose, is sheathed in protective thorns to keep at bay those who would mishandle or abuse me.

          As it relates to life, we are to observe, and enjoy, and handle said life wisely, or else the thorns

that are life’s prods to growth with tear us to pieces.
          I also give to you the analogy of the Redwood tree. That giant in nature which grows in community and toward heaven in all majesty.
A Redwood tree will never grow in isolation. It will never reach its potential if left to its own devices. At 1,000 plus feet of height, it needs the community of the brotherhood as support for its growth toward grace, as it cannot grow alone and be called by its real name.
           I also give to you the analogy of the Waterlily. The most fragrant and beautiful salve to the weary and wandering soul who gets life, and attains its regal stature and poise from growing where it is planted, in the dirtiest, dankest, smelliest, swamp imaginable.
In short, that Waterlily has learnt to “grow where it has been planted!” It has found its purpose in life and it lives above its surroundings while being a beacon to the lost, the weary and lone.
Finally, I want us to consider Samuel 16:7 - ... The Lord looketh on the heart.
We must not minimize people just because they are not like us in face, body, clothing, speech, education, living accommodation, financial acumen, bible mastery, or even in smell.
As Christians, we are to be as the Shepherd David:
David took his HARP and played for the soothing of his enemy King Saul’s soul.
David also played ,and sang unto his God of the desires of his heart and his personal observations of the Lord’s creation. David gave thanks and praise while seeing to the welfare of his parents, the displaced of the community; his followers; his army and the stranger within his gate.
David was not arrogant because of his elevation from the sheepfold. He accepted his chastisement when he was convicted of doing wrong in the sight of God and man, and he repented and became that beloved “Man after God’s own heart!”
David always sang of his faith in His Creator and TESTIFIED of His Creator’s saving grace and power.
David, that wise singer, songwriter, harpist, conqueror, builder, and King, after having found his purpose, and after having confessed and was forgiven of his sin, behaved himself wisely in all his ways, and the Lord, God, was always with him. **BJC**



Thursday, September 18, 2014

God's unConditional Love




GOD'S unCONDITIONAL LOVE


I heard a preacher speak about
God's unconditional love?!
I went cold because I knew
He was speaking anything but truth!


God's love is conditional
As shown from Holy Writ
But Satan's plan is applied and exercised
When you upon your Bible sit!


Please do not let your preacher tell you
What you should or should not believe
Unless he comes with a Doth saith The Lord!”
Do not his so-called plain word receive!


Open your Bible for yourself, friend
Read line upon line, and precept
God's word always explains itself
Upon that you can surely depend!

John 3:16 plainly states:
For God so loved the world That He gave His Only Begotten Son

That whosoever believeth in Him Shall not perish but have everlasting life.”


So, listen well now, Preacher Man
God is not a man that He can lie!
So don't you dare lie unto His flock
For, the Lord, He will not be mocked!



See here my friend, you must believe
That our God's love is true!
You MUST believe upon His Son
For THAT is HIS condition, for you! **BJC**