VESPERS: At The End Of The Sabbath - Bait And Switch!

Bait and Switch

Satan would have us all to believe 

That God did a bait and switch!

That He substituted Evil Jesus as Lord

And tossed Good Satan into the ditch!

Satan would have us all to know

That he is the deliverer

That he is the one that set us free

From bondage in the Garden of Eden!

Satan insists that it is he who set us free

From Jesus and his mind-slavery

By giving us knowledge so we’d recognize

Jesus, and tell him to go away from us as

We need him not, for he’s a liar!

For Satan as good god 

Gives us godhood too

So that we can do what feels good

And take what’s desirable too!

Okay, my Friend, enough with this fairy tale

That Satan keeps sell/telling!

He, Satan, is the Liar, Deceiver, Purveyor of Sin

And you need your Book of Decodering!

Great the Bible - front and back

Joined together pushes back any attack

Precept and Promise, line upon line

Teach defense against Satan

His false prophets and their rhymes!

Trust the Book! It is God’s will for us on show!

Please confess, repent and pray

To receive you your share

Of the Kingdom Restored

For our King is at the door

Of your heart - He is knocking!

Open you unto Him for

He won’t just barge in

Like some beings I know!

Shore up your defenses!

Watch unto prayer!

Call Jesus Christ - the Redeemer

Almighty to save!

He is your true assurance

Against Satan’s sneak attacks

Hold Jesus up now I tell you

He is soon coming back

To give you Final Victory

To put Satan in chains

One thousand years long!

And then, for the Ultimate Show of the Age

He’ll release that Old Satan

For Armageddon’s Battle Stage

You don’t want to miss that

You want the best seats in the House!

Come on, and get ready!

Jesus' House must have a Spouse!

Gold, gold all around you!

You’ll walk on gold, too!

The River Water of Life

Is also there running through!

And guards - those Mighty Angels

Who excel in great strength

Are there as companions

No dogs they’ll let through!

So sit back, and relax,

And enjoy you the Show

Enjoy, too, this lil’ spoiler!

Satan ain’t returning no mo’!

Happy Sabbath Happy Rest!

Happy Sabbath!

Happy Rest !

God invites each one

To come and be blessed

To set all work aside

To give a relieved sigh

And abide

In King Jesus!

Happy Sabbath!

Happy Rest!

All our work has been done

We worked unto rest

And we have been blessed

For our hope is here placed

In Him who won the Race

On King Jesus!

Happy Sabbath!

Happy Rest!

So gracious

How blessed

Calls us to desist

From care, work and stress

To turn our hearts and our eyes

To God who sanctifies

With truth from on high

To Our Father!

Come now, please draw nigh

Lift your voice to the sky

Praise Him who can't die

And on whom we rely

Praise King Jesus!

Got any Peas?

The modern church is thus defined
By three single peas
No! Not the peas you put in the pot
But the ones that so the people please!

First up is the Popularity P
Oh, how the brethren just love it
If you have reach, access and a strong grip
They’ll grab you for their fob pocket!

Second is the P of Personality
How the people love themselves a winner
They don’t fret, nor yell, as long as the rhetoric’s swell
Even if it’s leading them past heaven and straight on into hell!

And lastly there’s the P of the panache that is Prosperity
That prefers the riches of the earth - not the riches of God in heaven
But the Bible plainly says “use it here - you’ve had your pay!"
So what’s left when you’ve thrown Glory far away?

Dear Ones:

The Early Church also had P’s but they bore not even a passing
resemblance to the P’s in this Modern Church movement.

We have lost our sense of self as Children of the Master,
and we have been miscued on the direction and mission of the Church -
not the various denominations - the Church of The Living God which
Jesus Christ died to save unto Himself.

The Early Church lived as they believed, and chose poverty, peace-keeping
and proselytizing, suffered persecutions, powered on through
prayer, and many went to prison.

They achieved their Crown through the borne Cross!

We want to wear our crown without bearing our cross! Hmmm?

Time to change

Time to rearrange

Time to get out of the range

Of that old Devil!

Time to reassess

Time to confess

Time to get clean from the mess

That is modern religion!

Time to look at the Cross

Time to think of the cost

Time to know what will be lost

And do a 180!

Sinning Is No Pleasure

Sinning is no pleasure

It gives the body no ease

It comes through the heart of man

And gives one “Lost Kingdom” disease!

Sinning is a false profit

It gives the soul no rest

It nags, and gives the conscience fleas

Until the soul repents and confess!

Sinning is an act of rebellion

It’s as witchcraft is what God says

It is better to let Christ guide your life

So that you may have eternal days!

Turn your loss through sin
Into a Jesus Christ win!

Professors of the Bible

Why are you a Professor of the Bible
When you don’t believe in the God of the Book?
Don’t you know that if you’re a chef, that
You should joyously eat whatever it is that you cook?

Who, would you tell me, is this Historical Jesus?
Who is this man that stands an inanity on your pretty page?
Who is this person you derisively call just a goodman -
Whom you say turns people into automatons lacking a regulatory gauge?

How can you life study the Bible, that book so precious and holy
And it not make any redemptive impression upon you
Who indulge in pithy diagnostics and diatribe
And preach half truths, and beautiful, and whole, and white lies?

Is the God of the Bible real or, perhaps, imaginary?
Is the God of the Good Book really the Almighty?
Or is he the little god who just sings an old story
Fit only for a head full of the fairy story of living way up in Glory?

Why, Prof., have you left your first love?
Why, Doc., have you lost your faith?
Where, then, did you meet with the Dark Lord
Who would love to spit in our King Jesus’ face?

The Bible that you so calmly disparage
Tells a beautiful story of the blessed marriage
Between the Lord and His white-dressed Bride
But, just in case you don’t know it, just let me tell you
He is taking her to His Paradise Home in the sky!

We who believe make up she who is the Bride that
The Lord Jesus has redeemed and justified purified!
She has kept her garments white, and her lamp ever at the ready
And her claim to life in Glory won't/cannot be denied!

Repent, you apostate teacher, of your dreadful heresies
Repent, for our Lord will by all be glorified
You may refuse to praise Him, and give Him His due here
But you’ll bend your knee - and confess Him - before your eternally die!

The Bible is the Holy Word via the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
The Bible no private interpretation allows
Deny all you want - that changes not even one thing
Our God is coming - and He is on His way even now!

Faith overcomes!

Overcoming is victory!

Therefore, faith is victory!

Pursue faith!

Father, This is Just a Short Note

Father, this is just a short note to say that 

I love You!

I need You!

I trust You!

Father, I bless You for Your Hand of provision, and my deliverance, each and every day.

The trials are many (no cross no crown!) - that's not so bad - but it's the petty comments

against my chosen lifestyle that are a bit hard to take.

"Come and have fun!"

I don't want to have their idea of fun!

" You're going to die anyway!"

Lord I'll die in You - not without You, 

and definitely not regretful!

I know that I'll live again for You know my name, 

and it's written down with those of the saints of all ages!

Glory be to Jesus - I'll see Him as He is, with nothing between!

Home, home, my heart is beating!

Home, home, is all it says!

Home, home to be with my Jesus

Father, help me count the ways!

My transport to heaven is coming and

Yes! It's already on the way!

Thank You!

Movie Trailer: The Grinding Down of America

Greetings, Dear Ones!

Here is the trailer for the movie entitled The Grinding Down of America!

Approximately 20 minutes long, it is a hard-hitting, open your eyes, get your Bible, and trust God for deliverance show. It is, in my estimation, a must-see not-tv show. There is a link within the trailer to see the movie in its entirety.

FYI: Some of the stars in the movie are: Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Lucifer, Hitler, President Obama, The Bible, The Family, The Home, The School, Communism, Socialism, and more.

Enjoy in the hope that our God will come, and will not keep silence.

BJ

LINK FOR FULL MOVIE:

The Grinding Down Of America (Full Movie)

Need To Prove God Exists?!?!

I don’t need to prove that God exists

By any word from the brilliant scientists

I open my eyes and can list all His Works

Without their much hissing and twists!

There's flowers and trees, green grass and leaves

And wind - who can explain the wind?

There's man like myself - sea mountains and shelves

Oh, why bother listing? Try talking to God and forget your self!

I’m alive because the Great I am

Holds me in His hand

I live in hope because Jesus Christ, the Lord

Died at the hand of  Satan-inspired cruel man!

I walk because my Jesus walked

Down the lonesome road

I talk because the Lord of Life

Is sitting upon the Throne!

I see because the King of Love

Showed Himself the Light of the World

I breathe because Jesus molded my lungs -

He created me - and said that I can!

Now, you vain creature

Look at yourself, and know that God is your maker

Stop riding in clouds and talking loud

As if you’re The Good God’s adviser!

You’re a worm - a little puff and some dust

And it is time that you realize it

For if the God you despise should squeeze your nose

All that’s left is your shell in some open-back clothes!

Bless the Lord! Change your ways!

Become chaste! Give God praise!

Yes! Give to God what you know is His due

For He sees - and knows - whatever you do!

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GEM:

Jesus is the Word

And the Word is Truth

Therefore, Jesus is the Truth!

Trust Him!

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Your Best Life Now?!?

You do not want your best life now

In this old world of woe

For when all is said and done here below

Where, friend, will you go?

My Jesus has prepared a place for me

In the Father’s House

In a land fairer than the day -

And there is no night there!

Eye hath not seen nor ear heard

The plans that God has for His people

So think twice, friend, lest you should end

Up like those that are now called sheeple!

Don’t follow that great multitude

Who deny the Lord His right

To govern over all their lives

Though He has the might!

Don’t let Satan influence you to deny the Lord

As you well know that he has done

Reject him and his minions

And reach gladly for the Son!

Jesus, the Son, sacrificed Himself for you

Upon that shameful tree

Accept His death, His life raised on high

For He loves you mightily!

Study to show yourself approved

A watchman worthy of his hire

Bear your burdens and trials now

And tomorrow there won’t be any yelling about the fire!

Things don’t satisfy the soul!

Things, my friend, benight the soul

Of those who trust in the goods/gods of this world

And try to keep our Jesus under the sole!

Don’t be deceived! God is not mocked!

Know well that there is a reckoning

Coming for all mankind

Both the good and those unbecoming!

King Jesus is coming! All Heaven is coming!

Jesus’ rewards He is bringing in His hand

To give to each as he has worked -

I pray that you worked according to His Plan!

Work now! Night comes!

Live life for Jesus! Don’t live like a sow!

Look to the Light!

Make now your vow:

Heaven! I am going! And how!

Prayer: Lord, Make My Pathway

Lord, make my pathway up the mountain rocky

So that I may have something to grip

For if the way is smooth, Lord, 

You know that I will surely slip!

Lord make my way straight and narrow

And help me walk like the proverbial arrow

For You know, Lord, that anything less

Will find me in hell's bar playing faro!

Fulfill my needs, Lord, don't give me my wants

For my eyes are bigger than my stomach

'Cause if my wants are wantonly met

The end result is much throwing up and sorrow!

Lord, keep contented ever my heart

Whether with little or much

Keep my hand in Yours, Lord,

For this world's cup is surely filling up!

Help me, Lord, to keep my eye on the Son

And my heart on the Holy Spirit

Help me to love You as I ought

For Beloved Jesus my lost life bought!

AMEN.

Vespers at the End of the Sabbath of The Lover of Your Soul

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He GAVE His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.

In this word from the disciple whom Jesus loved, and to whom He gave the greatest Revelation of the Ages, is the greatest love note ever written.

We, as Christians, must not go with the world in the belief that there is a "day" set aside for celebrating love! No!

Our Almighty God gave us the example of what the true celebration of love really is! Sacrifice!

God gave His best for us, so that we might be saved!

Love is not an emotion. Love IS!

Love is not acting. Love is action!

Love is caring enough to do enough to save the beloved.

Jesus Christ, the Lover of our souls, loved us enough to give the very best - His Life - for us!

How is that for love?

Now go and love someone ... in Jesus' Name!

CLOSING GEM:

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God is Love

And Love is Life!

Therefore, God is Life!

Seek God for Love in Life!

AMEN.

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Believe and Behave!

Believe and Behave

Bless God and don’t be a slave

To the world and its beckoning caves

Of sin where the soul decays!

Believe and Behave

Bless God and don’t be a slave

To the emotional highs and lows

That carry you to Satan through its flows!

Believe and Behave

Bless God and don’t be a slave

To neither money nor men

Nor carnality in the den and glen!

Please, Friend, believe that this life is ending

For your soul there’s contending

Satanic Forces are offending and

Jesus Saves is defending!

Stop and look and listen and STOP

To choose the right side - not the suicide

For there’s either Life with the Loved Glad

Or Loved Life with the Lost Sad!

A decision then must now be made

For even a “no decision” card is the decision played

And the wrong decision equals eternal death in spades

Eternal separation - no Life in Bright Glades!

Believe and know that Christ Jesus Saves!

Behave now as you have for so long prayed!

Pray, pray, and sing His praise in oh so glad song

And you will indeed Live Forever ... e’er long!

New Life Is FREE!

Don’t lose your life over a penny

Don’t give up New Life for a pound

The Master is bringing His rewards for all with Him

And, believe me, there is going to be a throng!

The things in this world loud call you

The call of New World is still, soft, see

And if old world’s joys are what fills your eyes

New World for you won’t hold glee!

No jangling, no murmuring

No grasping, no pretty no petty besetting sins

No warmonger, whore-master, fornicator

Will find welcome when he beholds the King!

Think once, think twice you who are traveling

The path that offers no return

On your investment of time, talent, love and labor

Save filthy lucre and whirl around this dark world!

Our Master, the King of all Creation

Our Savior, Redeemer, our Friend

Is gently calling all to faith - and a life of fulfillment

Through repentance, and forsaking the ken of men!

The picture I hold in my heart of the coming Kingdom

Of love, joy, peace, and rest forevermore

Is not even a shadow of all the Master has

For those who are His children

Eyes, ears, have never seen or even heard the whole!

I have chosen to believe in Jesus Christ for salvation

I have chosen not to set my heart on this common world

I have lifted my heart to behold the Promise

And I know, thank God, I’ll not be marked for a stubborn goat!

I’m a sheep, a woolly sheep -  and thankful for it!

I won’t be stubborn - you’ll find no goat parts in me!

I’m trusting Jesus to deliver on the Promise of Calvary

Eternity’s the Place! - come along, please join me!

It’s beautiful, and wonderfully duty free!

Prayer: Father, Keep Me

Father, if experiencing all my trials

will keep me in Your care, give me trials.

If misfortune and earthly woes

will keep me praying at Your Door, Lord,

I will take them.

And, Lord, since living for Jesus

guarantees me a bright crown,

help me to live, to love, and

to give a helping hand -

not a snub, to Your children.

Bless me, Lord, so that I 

may bless another.

I love You.

AMEN

Lord, Where's My Soup?

Lord, where’s My Soup?
You said cast your bread upon the water
And this I gladly did
You said it would soon return to me
And, yes, I am eating my fill!

But, Lord, there must be some mistake
For in my understanding
Putting bread in water to soak
Should give me soup upon the landing!

Bread on water multiplies -
Soup is the resulting
And I know when soup is made
Inclusions make for great-tasting multiplying!

Soup does not one ingredient make
I know for I made some the other day!
There was chicken, sweet potato and English, too
Carrots, beans, cabbage, an onion or two
Sweet pepper, marjoram, thyme and parsley galore
And Gran’other dumplings
Lord, a treat was in store!

My soup even had in Split Peas and more
And a dash of sugar so the peas wouldn’t make my stomach sore
Lovely pumpkins, and a few dried pepper flakes
And a dash of sea salt, for old savory’s sake!

Now, Lord, You know that I speaking true!
Where de soup You promised, Father?
I’m depending on You!

Lord, I am not ungrateful for the bread
Some people don’t have any
And I know I could be dead!

But, Believer I am, Your’s is the word I trust
Maybe I’m getting anxious
Hence all this lotta fuss!
But, this my heart speaks -
I don’t covet nor lust
Cast bread upon water makes soup for certain sure
I have my bib, bowl and spoon ready
Lord, when You gine pour?

Stop with The Pleading! Jesus IS Alive!

Christian, please stop your pleading!

It is time for you to apply

The blood that Jesus shed, and

Remember -  for you - He was already crucified!

Live the life of an over-comer!

Live the life of the truly blessed!

Jesus gave you the perfect weapon

And on His Word you can rely and find rest!

Do you remember the story of

That long-ago Passover night

When the Angel of Death was to visit the land

And any not covered by the blood would permanently take flight?

The Hebrews were told how to avoid

God’s Executing Judgment Hand

For an unblemished, unspotted Pascal Lamb

Held the remedy to avoiding getting themselves 

On the list of the permanently damned!

Were they not instructed to kill Innocent the Lamb 

And how to use his blood for protection?

Did they put the blood in the basin on the floor

Or did they with hyssop apply the blood

To the lintel and the two posts of the door?

We are told in Revelation 12 how to overcome the flood

Of Satan, and his machinations

Accusations, charges and manipulations

By using our testimony and Jesus’ blood!

Having the Blood available to you

And using it are two different propositions!

Jesus provided the weapon - use it, Friend

It will keep you upright 'til the end!

Why plead for what has already been provided

And is readily available to God's children?

Apply the Blood to your heart - and testify - sing like a lark:

"Christ was clean! Innocent! Satan, in me, you have no part!"

Don’t plead! Apply!

By His Blood, you’re justified!

 Jesus Christ himself has rescued you

So lift your head high!

Jesus Christ’s Blood paid your cost

As He hung upon sin’s dread cross

So Satan has no place to accuse you!

You’ll overcome Satan - whenever he stops by

 If you apply the Lamb's Blood, always apply!

Lift up your head, oh Believer!

Look in the face of The Accuser!

And valiantly set your new heart to "apply!"

And, in the Light of Life abiding

For in Jesus you're confiding

Throw the Blood of Sin's Sacrifice

Squarely in Satan's deceiving eyes!

WE WIN!!

Forget what's between 

the WE 

and the WIN!

Those are just details!

QUESTION: Since God is for us, who could possibly be against us?

ANSWER: Nothing and his brother Nobody!

Vespers At The End Of The Sabbath

Joshus 24:14-15 (KJV)

 14 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.

15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Walking with the Lord Jesus Christ must be an act of the Will for we cannot inherit our walk with the Lord from our parents, nor can it be passed on to us by association, nor by associating with Christ-followers.

We must make the decision, out of the intellect, to, this very day, and each and every day hereafter, to walk in the Light of God's Love if we desire to be saved to Eternal Life.

We must come to the realization that we need to - every single day that we breathe - consciously make the decision to give over our will and our way, to the care and safekeeping of The Creator God who loved - and loves - us enough to have sent His Only Begotten Son to become sin for us, and to die on that shameful tree, so that we might have abundant life.

John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Jesus Christ stated that He had to be lifted up, as Moses' brazen serpent, so that by so doing, He would draw all men to Himself.

John 3:14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

John 12:32
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

It, therefore, must be understood, that as those who had been bitten in the desert by the vile serpent, because of sin, had to look upon the replica of the serpent to be healed, we, too, must look UP on the Crucified Jesus who became sin for us, and confess, and repent of our sin, so that we may be saved.

Jesus Christ is still calling, and drawing mankind to Himself. Won't you answer His call that you may be saved?

Look upon Jesus, sinless is He Author: Franklin E. Belden Look upon Jesus, sinless is He; Father, impute His life unto me. My life of scarlet, my sin and woe, Cover with His life, whiter than snow. Refrain Cover with His life, whiter than snow; Fullness of His life then shall I know; My life of scarlet, my sin and woe, Cover with His life, whiter than snow. Deep are the wounds transgression has made; Red are the stains; my soul is afraid. O to be covered, Jesus, with Thee, Safe from the law that now judgeth me!

Prayer: Dis Is De Trut'

Having money don' mek me a good parent

Having nuh money don' mek me a poor

I thank You, Lord, fuh de two pennies yuh does give me

And I glad dat Heav'n waiting when, fin'ly, I walk outta de door.

AMEN

and repeated in

HAPPY SABBATH! and Stop Making King Jesus Sad

Stop Making King Jesus Sad

Stop majoring in the minors

Stop majoring in the bad

All you’re doing by your behavior

Is making King Jesus sad!

He died to bring you victory

He died to give you new life

Yet for all of His sacrifice

You’re out there living in vice!

Beloved, the time is a coming

When all receive a share

Of what ever they cultivated

And I pray you won’t fall into despair

When you see what you’ll be receiving

For listening to one who was so deceiving

As that serpent who had long been achieving

An army full of the unbelieving!

To those who have trusted on Jesus

To those who love the Great Lord

Bright mansions await the over-comers

Who won victory through Almighty God!

Repent, repent, unbeliever

Repent you mockers of the Word

Repent now, for the night is soon coming

When all will receive their just reward!

Jesus Christ alone is able

Jesus Christ alone can save

Jesus Christ alone grants the victory

Over hell and death and the grave!

Where, Dear One, will you spend Eternity

I pray not out of the Eternal God’s light

I pray not in the lake burning with fire and brimstone

Prepared for Satan and the minions of the night!

Rejoice, sing praise, hallelujah

You children who know the Way

Home to life everlasting

Sing! Oh, how you’ll sing before the Great Throne!

Help Me, Lord!

Help me, Lord, to live for Jesus
So that I may live with Jesus!

Help me, Lord, to walk aright
So that I may walk right into the City!

Help me, Lord, to love the light
So that I may show the light of love to Your people!

Help me, Lord, to shine the Light
So that my light will shine and Your name will be glorified!

Help me, Lord, to speak Your truth
So that by my speaking, Your truth will speak to the people!

Help me, Lord, to hear the voice in the stillness
So that I may hear the Still Small Voice

Help me, Lord, for I cannot help myself.

Serve, Suffer, Sacrifice - A Statement of Truth

All Christians

By prayer and by practice

Are called to serve the Lord

In Godly fear, and faithfulness

All Christians

 Are called to suffering

Without murmur, or complaint

To take up, and bear their cross ...

In humility

Sadly,

Many Christians

Will also be called

To be the sacrifice 

On the altar

Of the Son of Perdition

Who hates anything

That Jesus Christ loves

Through it all

All faithful Christians

Will deem it a joy

For there is laid up for us

A crown of righteous

For we who endure until ...

The end

The battle is not to the swift

But to him who does all

And stands ... firm ...

Quaking ... but resolute

And ... unshakeable

Christ is our portion

And we will each receive

The hoped for crown

The white linen gown

White stone, new name

And harp, and,

In the earth made new

A plot of land

That no one

Can take away!

STAY THE COURSE!

I Want to Know THAT God!

If God could make a man

Who could move in a marked manner

Making methods to mature minds

Manipulating metals to make mines

Mapping minds

Mitigating meters

Meeting membranes

Mating in beakers

Monitoring molesters and militant madmen

In mobile machines of miniature mechanism

I want to know the God who made that man!

If God can make a man

Who flies without wings

Who leaves one in awe

Who can wire a broken jaw

And makes ice-cream that won’t thaw

Who can make a drone out of a hacksaw

And bend light against the law

And give a dog a bionic paw

I want to know that God!

If God can make a man

Whose true worth is in his Master

Who is longing for the laughter

Who can see Eternity

While waiting for the here-after

I need to personally know that God!