Where Is Our Confidence In Christ!?!

Brethren, 

Be Not Afraid To Use Your Words

- The Words Of Our Lord Jesus -

With Confidence, Caring, And Compassion! 

How Is It That Bold Sinners, Idolaters, Deceivers

Users, Abusers, Mockers, And The Scorners Of 

All Things Holy, Good, Clean

And 

Perfect To Save Our Souls From Sin, Self

Death, The Grave, And Certain Hell 

Use Their Unwise Words With Pointed, Practiced Precision!?! 

Christians, What Is Our Problem!?! 

Where Is Our Holy Boldness!?! 

Where Is Our Confidence In Christ 

Who Has Called Us To Service

Equipped Us For Our Various Assignment

And 

Is Accompanying Us Into The Lions' Dens

The Fiery Furnaces

And 

The Enemy Encampments!?! 

Is The Damned Destroyer Stronger Than Our Creator-Savior!?! 

Is The Lord's Peace Less Than The Liar's War!?! 

Dear Ones, 

We Are Travelling Citizens Of 

The Kingdom Of The Eternally Blessed 

And 

We Are Truly Nearing Our Forever Home! 

This, Therefore, Is Not The Time 

To Be Bar-Room, Kitchen-Counter

Politically-Correct, Kissing-Cousins Friends With The World 

To Offend And Be Enemies Of Our Blessed Jesus 

Who Alone Saves! 

Let's Get In ... And Do Our Work! 

Let's Tell The Gospel Story 

And 

Get Out Of Where We're Not Welcomed

And 

Let's Go Up To Glory As Obedient And Faithful Stewards! 

Let's Bless Others With The Lord's Wonderful Words Of Life! 

Peace! 

THERE'S ONLY ONE KIND OF CHRISTIAN: Committed!

Strange, Isn't It!?! 

We Boldly Sin Like Sinners 

But

Roundly Despise Being Called Sinners! 

We Desire To Be Christians 

But

Don't Want To Live Like Or Be Called Christians In Public!

 

People, Please Pick A Position 

And 

Publicly In Your Place Participate!

Beloved, 

We Must  Positively, Passionately, Live As Believers Privately 

And

Publicly! 

There's Only One Kind Of Christian: 

Committed! 

We Pray Before We Eat:

If That Offends Your "Friends" 

They Can Find Another To Be As They Are! 

We Talk About Jesus Christ 

And

His Grace And Mercy Towards Us 

And

How Blessed We Are To Not Be What We Once Were! 

If That Offends Our Traveling Companions

Then They Are Not The Company 

With Whom We Should Be Spending Time! 

If Your Choosing To Live By The Faith Which Cannot Fail

Depending Upon The God You Cannot See 

But

Who Sees You Always ... In All Ways

Is

A Cause For Laughter Even Unto Derision

Insult

And 

Bold Acts Of Cruelty

So Let It Be: 

Jesus Christ Saves! 

Jesus Christ The Lord, The King, The Judge

Is 

The Author And The Finisher Of Our Faith 

Aka The High-Performance Vehicle Which He Built

Builds

And 

Is Building Special For Each Of Us Drivers 

Aka Committed Christians 

As We Daily Grow In His Saving Grace 

Aka His Mechanic Shop 

Aka His Saints Development Academy! 

Here's An Open Secret ... 

Jesus Christ Is My Boss: 

He Is Loving, Kind, Good

True, Faithful, Giving, And Forgiving! 

He Loves Me 

And 

I Love Him! 

If This Bothers You, That Is Just Too Bad 

Because 

It Infinitely Pleases Me! 

I'm Moving Into His Father's House Of Many Mansions 

So That We Can Be Together Forever 

In A Custom-Built Place That 

He Is Preparing Just For Me! 

Please Join Us: 

He Always Has Room For One More Person! 

Be Firm In Your Faith! 

(Flint Breaks But It Always Leaves A Mark!) 

Your Body May Break But Your Lived-Life In Christ 

Is

The Open Bible That Someone Always Reads!

Embrace Your Blessed Privilege!

Peace!

SIN: Saintly Sinners!?!

Sin Was 
Sin Is
Standing
Arrogant
Proud
Aggressive
Bold
Apparently Needing No Cure
... Disguised ...
In A Robe Of Spirituality
Last Week
Yesterday
This Morning 
Right Now ... For Sure!

The Scripture That Lent Sin Its Standing
- Not In The Street
But Inside The Church Door -
Is 
Being Judiciously Suppressed
And
Human Laws And Traditions
Ideas Ideals
Speculations Suppositions
What If's 
We Need

And

I-Feel
Are Correspondingly Elevated
And
Aggrandized
And
Glorified
With The Sorry Outcome Being That
Man, Himself
Is Supreme
And
Almighty God Is Not The One
On Whom Fallen Man For Redemption
Should Lean!

And We See On The News Reel:

Fraud

Murder

Abounding Debasing Iniquity

Manifest Corruption

Necromancy

Necrophilia

Pedophilia

And

Peotr Is Cecilia!

SCORE:

Almighty God Given The Rout!

Satan In Triumph Giving The Shout!
A Win For Sin!
Hell In View!
Repentant Sinner: Look Out!

But ... 

The Truth Must Be Told! 

Lying Eyesight Is Bold!

Prophecy

- History In Advance - 

Must 

- On Schedule -

Plainly Unfold!

Truth Cannot Lie! 

Wisdom Cannot Die! 

Sorrow For Sin Must Cry! 

The Redeemed To Heaven Will Fly!

We Have Options ...

Jesus Christ Made A Way! 

Man Must Make A Choice:

Heaven For Free

Or

Hell To Pay!

Satan

Or

The Savior!

Only One Will Rejoice! 

The Good News ...

Sin Is Standing Tall

But

Not For Long!

Jesus Christ
Is 
Coming! 

There Will Be The Harvest Ball!

Judgment Is Coming! 

Please Don't Miss The-Way-To-Freedom Call! 

Note Well ...

No Matter For Whom You Stand

All Mankind
- Redeemed And Accursed -

Shall Before Jesus Christ The Righteous

- In Willing Worship -

Fall

Because

The Sin Problem 
Is 
Already Solved!

Sinners In Saintly Garb

Cannot The Creator Fool!

All That They Are Doing

Is

Presenting Themselves

As Satan's Tools!

Look To The Lord

All Ye Who Trust The Word

And

In Jesus Christ Believe

And

Walk In The Straight Way

And

Do Not Give Unto Satan

Any Free Play!

From Willful Sin

And

Proudly Bold Sinners

Please, Please, Please

Stay Far Away!

Faithful Man?!

In The Tribe Called Mankind
In The Family Called Friend
In The Household Called Christian
In The Man Called Faithful
Was Sin!

Bold Sin
Willful Sin
Death-Dealing Sin
AND
All Without Justification!

Come On!
There Is Never Any Justification For Sin!

You Know That 
And I Know That
BUT
There Is A Point To Be Made Here!

Okay. I Await Edification!

Those Old Hebrews
- The Christian Family Of Today -
Had A Work To Do
AND
They Were Given Instructions Most Clear:

Go To Jericho
The Abominable Estate
Where Gross Challenge
To The Eternal God
Is Wittingly Exercised
AND
Level It!
Level It!
Level It To The Ground!
And Don't Mess Around!

Only Rahab 

The God-Believing Helpful Harlot
- For True-Hearted Help -
AND
Her Family In Her House
Would Could
Walk Through Safety's Promised Door!

Everything Else Breathing
Was Marked For Death!
Everything Else Was Marked 
For Burning's Hot Breath
AND
What Could Not Be Burned
- Gold Silver Copper Iron -
Was To Be Dedicated
To The Use Of God's Temple
As A Sacrifice To The Holy God!

In Short,
No Man Shall Grease His Own Palm!

Yes! That Was The Specified Plan!

But ...

As We Too Often Hear And See
Some Greedy Gus
Is Always Stealing
And Hiding The Loot Under Stuff
Inside And Under The Floor Of His Canopy
AND
Causing The Apparently Innocent
To Pay For The Temporarily Concealed
Guilty!

But Know This ...

The Living God
Is The Keeper
Of ALL Doors!
AND
You
Me
Nor We 
Can Build A Sound House
With Level Floors
IF
We Are Building On That Other Foundation
That The Living God Will Not Secure!

So Much To Do! 

So Little Time! 

If Man Will Take In Wisdom's Education

Life On This Earth

Following The Faithful Shepherd
The Holy God

Will Be Perfectly Sublime! 

But ...

What Is Your Point, Again!

Go Bold
AND
Do As YOU Are Told!
No Arms In Disobedience Should YOU Fold!
No Steps Taken
Should Be Other Than Those Prescribed
AND
YOU Will Achieve Heaven's Tried Gold!

I Feel You, Man!
I Feel You!
Give Me Your Hand!

Wrong Doing

May Be Hidden From Man ... For A Time!

BUT

The All-Seeing Ever-Present God

Sees What You Are Doing 

Every Single Time!

DUD and FOB!

D oubt!
U nbelief!
D isobedience!
The Unholy Triumvirate
Are Poised
Dressed 

Positioned
AND
Practiced Past-Masters
At Sending The Seeking Sinner Man
To The Not-Necessary Fate!

F aith!
O bedience!
B elief! 
The Holy Triumvirate
Stand Pristine

Alert
Urging Mankind
To Take The Path Of The Truly Blessed
For Known Godly Success!

DUD And FOB 

Are 

Two Three-Legged Stools
Two Paths

AND
Two Thought Schools

With
One Successfully Leading The Unrepentant Sinner 

To Damnation

AND
One Successfully Leading The Repentant Sinner 

To Salvation!

One Is Led By The Holy!
One Is Driven By The Profane!
One Lifts Up The Fallen!
One Ties The Fallen With Chains!

One Blinds The Eye To Truth!
One Lightens The Eye Through Truth!
One Runs Wild

AND
One Stands From Sin Aloof!

Look And See ...

Two Three-Legged Stools
Two Deliberate Sitters-Down
One Sits And Falls
AND
In His Own Filth He Crawls! 

The Other One Sits ... Having Believed Trust's Call
AND
Is Succored
By The Maker Of Us All
The Creator Of The Blue Ball
AND
Is Renewed Day By Day
Urged On By The Holy 

No More With Sin To Play!

Behold Two Three-Legged Stools

ABND

Observe That One Two-Legged Man
Standing Betwixt Two Thoughts
In The One Valley Of Decision
Listening
Because He Hears
Thinking
Because He Has Real Fears
AND WATCH
As He Deliberately Makes His Choice
Because He Harkens To The One True-To-Him Voice!

    Which Voice?!
                          Which Voice?!            
Is It DUD?!                                     Was It FOB?!

He Chose The Choice
Where His Freight Is Off-Boarded
Where
Doubt Unbelief Disobedience
Are Egregiously Expelled
AND
The Still Viable Expressive Faith Of The Fathers
Is Wittingly Willfully
Wisely Expressed
Not To Impress Doubting Shouters
But So That The Soul

Is By The Holy God
Blessed!

But ... What Of The Other ...

The Other
That DUD
Was Steamrollered
By The Bold Beelzebub
Who Takes Pleasure
In Acts Of Unrighteousness
Who Encourages Hard-hearted Men
Against The Living God
To Be Continuing-Sinners

With
Love-Of-God Cold
Waivering ... Ever Waivering
Like A Wave Of The Sea Tossed
Until
Until Time Runs Out

Because
The Cup Of Iniquity Is Filled Up
AND
The Soul ... Most Precious
Is
For Eternity ... Lost
Because
- Unlike The Convicted Converted Thief -
He Did Not Trust 

The Evidence Of The Lamb Of God
On Calvary's Cross!

I Choose To Be A FOB 

In The Not-A-Pocket

Of

The Eternal God!

How Now Choose You?

A Picture (Bible/Life) Book!

I Had Two Copies Of The Same Book
AND
I Have Read Them Both!
Both Gave Instruction
BUT
Problem
Big Problem
The Instruction Between Them Diverged!

The Beginning Was Good:

• Acquire A Meek And Quiet Spirit!
• Walk And Work For God!
• Confess The Lord Christ!
• Tell The Truth For The Times In Which We Live!
• Get Wisdom!
• Get Understanding!
• Do What The Word Says!
• Be Instant In Prayer!
• Do Not Fear!
• Trust And Obey!
• Grace And Mercy Abounds Each Day!
• Honor Your Father And Mother!
• Keep The Sabbath!
• Bless God!
• Walk In The Light!
• From Evil-Doers Keep Away!
• Don't Follow A Multitude To Do Evil!
• Give Your Back To The Devil!
• From The Good Shepherd - Don't Stray!

And On!
And On ...!

BUT ...

When I Read About
Putting Christ First In One's Life's Dealings
THAT
Is Where My Antennae Perked
Rose Up!

I Had No Problem
With The Word Of The Good Book
BUT
I Had Me A Real Problem
With The Book Of The Lived Life
For
When The Lived-Life Book
Diverges From 
The Good Book Of Life
Of The Life To Be Lived
It Can Be Seen Of A Surety
That
The Good Book Of Life
Has No Part In
The Life Book
Of The Life Lived!

Tongue Twister Alert!!

Mind Bender Is More Like It!

People Read The Bible
AND
They Believe The Word
BUT
Then They See The Lives Lived
By Practicing Real-Life Christians
AND
Their Belief Gets Treated
As One Would A Dog Turd!

Christian Lives Speak
More Loudly
Than The Book That They Bespeak
When The Christian Living
Eclipses
The Word Of The Lord
BECAUSE
The Living Of The Christian
SAYS
That Their Living IS Sinning
For They Take
What The Devil Is Giving
AND
Their Lived Lives
DENY
The Word Of The Only God Living!

Wait! Wait! Wait!
Enough With The Mind Bends!
Cut To The Chase!
Give Me A Plain Word
... If You Can!

Okay. Okay!
It Is Like This:

The Christian Life
Should Be Identical To
The Very Life Of Christ!
The Life A Christian Leads
Should Comport
With The Good Book They Read
AND
To Others Sell
AND SHOULD NOT BE
The Book Is Good
BUT
The Real Life Is Lived
As One Who Works
For The Very Devil From Hell!
That's A Hard Sell!

Strong Words ...!

... Nevertheless The Truth!

Shouldn't The Life Lived 
Say
That The One Reading The Good Book
IS
By The Good Book Daily Fed?!

Indeed!
Nevertheless
Too Many Of Us Christians
Live ... To Straddle The Fence!
We Want To Tell The World
What To Do
BUT
We Have No Time Ourselves
To Do What The Good Book Says To Do!

Preachhhhhh!

Do As I Say
AND
Not As I Do
IS
A Sure Fire Way
To Get God
To Let Go Of You
FOR
What We Will Be Doing
IS
A Little Good Living
AND
A Little Good Sinning
AND THEREBY
We Are Telling God
That He Is Not Good Enough
Nor
God Enough
To Get Us To Stop Sinning
So That The Saintly Life Lived
Is Our New Life Beginning!

Sounds Kinda Presumptuous, Doesn't It?!

It Is
BUT
We Still Do It Anyhow!

Isn't That Being A Bold Sinner?!

It Is!

Imagine This:

Cemetery

Grave

Grave Stone

Epitaph:

Here Lies Good Christian!

He Was A Good And Complete Fraud!

He Walked Good With The Devil

AND

He Preached Good For The Lord!

You Lie!!

No, I Don't!
If You See
How Some Of Us Christians Live
You Will Know Of A Surety
That For The Word Of The Living God
They Give Not A Single Fig!

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words!

Is Your Picture
A Picture Of Your Words
Or
Is Your Picture A Negative Of The Words
That Others
- From You -
Have Heard?

Something To Think About ...!

... Seriously!

PLEASURES: "Secret" Sin?!?

Humans Love A Good Open Sin

To Do

To Brag Of

To Drag Someone The Coals Over

BUT

When It Comes To Secret Sin

Hey! Hey!

When Caught Out

They Would A Duppy Roll Over!

Secret Sin

Is

Man's Favorite Kind!

"You Ain't See Me

So I Didn't It Do!"

BUT

Catch A Person

With His Hands In The Stew

AND

His Sinning Is Your Fault

That Bold Sinner Will Argue!

Just As For Open Sin

Confessing Secret Sin

Is Good For The Soul

AND

Making Repentance

Before The Lord

Gets One Out Of The Hands Of The Fraud

BUT

We All Need To Remember

Sin Can't-Never A Secret Be

Because

He Who Sees All

AND

Knows All

Done Mek A Record Of It

AND NOW

You've Got A Black Mark Against You!

I Know

'Cause I Had Me A Few, Too!

"Out Of Darkness 

Into Light!"

Is A Good Word To Remember 

AND

To Hold Onto

If We Will Win

This Life's Dread Against-Sin Fight!

God Is Watching!

Angels Are Watching

AND

Recording 

Good

AND

Bad Works, Too

So Think Twice

AND

Don't Permit Lying Satan

To Mamaguy You!

The Same One Who

Encourages You To Sin

Is

The Same One Who

About Your Sin

Will Be Rabidly Talking!

Trust Your Soul

To None But

Jesus Christ The Lord

Doing All That He Has Commanded Us

AND, THEREBY

We

Will Escape

The Strangulation Cord

Of

The Already-Damned Fraud!

*********

PRAYER:

Father,

I Am Sorry

Forgive Me, I Pray!

I Was Oft' Malicious

And

I Walked Right

In My Own Way!

I Repent Of My Sin!

I Am Sorry

That I Walked

However I Chose

Even Though The Walking

Was Nothing But A Pose!

So, Help Me, 

I Beseech You

To Set Aside Self

And

In Your Heavenly Love

From This Day On

To Abide!

Help Me, My Father

 Ever

In Your Love

To Confide!

I Love You, Lord

And

In The Name

Of

The Beloved Jesus

I Stand, And I Plead!

AMEN.