PRAYER: Father, You Warned Us!

Oh, Lord, Our Lord

How Excellent Is Thy Name In All The Earth!

I Come Before You, Lord

With A Heart That Is Burdened!

Lord, Please Hear My Prayer!

Why Are We, Lord

So Willing To Trust The Polished Person

Who Has A Microphone

Pinned To The Chest Or Held In The Hand?

Why Do We Choose To Believe In One

Who Moves Like An Eel

And Speaks In Dulcet Tones Of Tempered Steel?

Why Cannot We Accept

That Your Word

The Word Of The Living God 

Is Eternally True

And Stop Listening To The Learned Ones

Who

Even Among Themselves

Hold Contrarian Views?

Why Do We Trust The Words

Of Those Who Cannot Trust Themselves 

To Trust Their Own Word

And Then Walk Around Mooing

In The Wilderness

Like A Thirsty Hungry Cow Herd?

What Is There

In Our Blind Eyes, Lord

That Causes Us To By-pass The Plain Truth

And Avidly Reach

For The Exotic Lie

Proffered By He Who Calls Faith

The Panacea Of Those Who Love Pie In The Sky?

Father, You Warned Us:

Make No Man Your Strong Arm!

Put Nor Your Trust In Princes!

Father, In Your Holy Writ Is Plainly Written:

Not By Might

Not By Power

But By Your Spirit, Saith The Lord Of Hosts!

So, Why Are We Putting Our Faith 

In The Soiled And Shaky Hands Of

Corrupt

Corruptible

Corrupting

Satan-Inspired

30-Pieces-Of-Silver-Is-The-Fee

Three-Trillion-Dollar-Church-Is-Business Men?

Father, You Offered Up

Your Precious Gold - Your Son

For Us!

The Cost To Us: Free

And Wicked Men Chose

To Buy Gold With Silver

To Become The Power Elite!

Jesus Christ Died Once

For All

But ... He Cannot Make Us Love Him 

For His Sacrifice Of Love!

We Must Go To Him

Of Our Own Will

Bearing The Flag Of Surrender Bold

And Yet ... And Still

Our Hearts Remain Stone Cold!

Father,

I Hang My Head In Shame

For Crucifying The Lord Christ

Time And Again

And Plead For Daily Grace

To Help Me To Never

Pound In The Nails Again!

Have Mercy On Me!

I Don't Want To Face Your Justice

As Jesus Christ Had To Face Himself

Without An Intermediary!

Oh, Lord

I Have My Own Cross Taken!

Please Carry Me And It Along!

I Love Thee

And I Need Thee, Lord

For

Fit Me For Heaven

Is My Heart's Burden

Cry

And Song!

Lord,

When You Shall In Your Holy Kingdom Come

Please Remember Me

And All The Holy People

Who Fear And Reverence Thy Name!

AMEN.

HAPPY SABBATH: The Message In The Grave Clothes

The Savior Was Dead
BUT
The Sheep Had Been Fed
AND
It Is Now The First Day Of The Week!

Mary Has Spoken
To Hearts Not Long Broken
AND
Off
Ran Simon And The Beloved John
To The Tomb ... Unsealed Opened
To See If Mary Has Truth Indeed Spoken!

John Has Run Ahead
At The Entrance He Is ... Stopped Dead
BUT
Peter ... Coming From Behind
Went Inside
To See The Grave Clothes That Had 
Wrapped Their Jesus
Set Aside!

John
Now Grew ... Brave
AND
After Simon
He Entered The Tomb
Grave
AND
Saw The Grave Clothes
Just So Arranged
AND ... At Last
Heart Lifted In Joy
Did Believe
The Words Of His Lord
That He Would Come Again
His Faithful To Himself Receive!

In Those
Carefully Folded Grave Clothes
The Message Delivered
Is The Message Joyously Received
For
The Believer
- By His Dead Living Beloved Master -
Has Not Been Deceived!

Death

Is Swallowed Up

In Jesus Christ's Victory!

Death

Is Finished!

The Lord Of Life 
With Grave Clothes
Is Eternally Finished! 
Death And Grave Clothes
For God's People
Hold No Fear
For Him Who Is Their Master
Is Alive -  That Is Clear! 

Jesus Christ 

Is 

Coming Again!

So, Tell This True Story
To
This World Made Up Of Sinful 
Unbelieving Men!


King Judge Jesus
One And The Other Must Face!
One By The King ... Elevated!
The Other By The Judge - Through Righteous Judgment
In Mortal Disgrace
Eternally From The Presence Of The Great God Displaced!

So ...

Dearest Believer
No Matter What 
The Desperate Deceiver
At You Throws
Please Don't Let Go Of Your Grace
That Jesus Christ's Death Bought 
So That Heaven Can On You
Freely Bestow
Joys Unimaginable ... FOREVERMORE!

Friend!

Are You A Part 

Of 

The Brotherhood

Of

The Message
In
The Carefully Folded Grave Clothes?

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.