HAPPY SABBATH + If God IS...!!

If God IS The Lord

Worship Him!

If God IS The Captain

Obey Him!

If God IS The Refuge

Abide in Him!

If God IS The Shepherd

Follow Him Faithfully!

If God IS The Savior

Go To Him -  He Will Save You!

If God IS The Redeemer

Give Thanks To Him!

If God IS Your Friend

Confide In Him!

If God IS Coming Again

Wait and Watch For Him!

If God IS Worthy To Be Praised

Sing Hallelujah To Him!

If God IS Almighty

Tremble At His Majesty

If God IS All Knowing

Defer To Him!

If God IS All-Seeing

Trust His Vision!

If God IS Ever-present

Rest In Him!

If God IS Eternal

Be At Home In Him!

If God IS Your God

And Your God IS Holy

Trust In Him Solely

AND

Live For Him Only!

If God IS Your God

His Holy Spirit IS In You

Making Your Body His Holy Temple

A Place For Worshiping The Sacred

Not Playing With The Thing That Profanes You!

If God IS Your Father

Trust Him And Obey

He Will Guard Guide

Heal Hide and Protect

AND

He Will Never, Ever You Reject!

If God IS Your Creator-God

He Knows Well That You Are Weak!

Don't Try To Schmooze God -

Don't Be Pathetic!

Honor Him!

Be Humble Bold and Meek!

Speak Humbly and With Boldness

Approach God's Throne of Grace

Love and Mercy Are At The Ready

Reach Out And Grasp Them

AND

Let Your Faith Be Rock Steady!

AND

Since God IS Our God

AND

God Can't Never Lie

Trust Him In Life's Battles

He Offers No Pie In The Sky

FOR

His Holy Word IS The Transcript

Of His Holy Character Plain!

He Changes The Abominable

By Faith - To Him Your Sin Proclaim!

Jesus Christ's Blood Has Been Shed For You

So That Your Living Shall Not Be In Vain!

Please Do Not Let God's Loving Be In Vain!

God IS Waiting For His Children!

Let's Go Home To Him Today

So That For Personal Sin

We Won't Have To Eternally Pay!

Come From Wherever You Are

From Under A Rock

From Sitting In A Bar

From Rolling in Filth 

From Loafing Around On The Dock -

Walk Through The Door

Now Standing Ajar

FOR

We Are Loved!

Come NOW!

and

Let US 
from 
SIN 
RUDELY 
and
ABRUPTLY
RETIRE!!

"Fraudian" Speak!

"Greed IS Good!"
"Greed IS God!"
Greed Gonna Getcha
Compliments The Friendly Lying Fraud!

Self-Preservation is
The Order Of The Day!
Self Before Other
Is What The Fraudster Says!

Me, Myself and I is
The Only Way to Fly!
Think Self - Forget Other!
Believe The Lie, and in Lovely Sin Die!

My Story - My Truth!
I'm Sticking To It - Standing Aloof!
Got A Problem With That?
Don't Matter To Me for
The Lord Of Lies Is My Ultimate Camp Buddy -
Not A Boring Old Christian Fuddy-Duddy!

BUT

There Is A Chink In The Armor ...

Ding Dong! - Something Wrong!
Look About - Big-Able Snake Slithering Along!
Wanted to Run - Feet Nailed To The Ground!

SUDDENLY ...

A Plaintive Cry Is Heard:

"Lord Jesus, Help Me

Before I'm Swallowed Headlong!"

As Always, Men Brag
Of Their Vaunted Prowess
Until All The Chips Are Laid Down
And 
They Are Facing
King Flawed, The False God!

Stop Acting Like a Chump!
You Can't Win That Game
Until The Lord Jesus Christ
Becomes Your Captain!

"Fraudian" Speak
Bolsters Only The Dishonest Weak!
No Matter How Strong They War
No Matter How Loud Their Clothing Speaks!
Do Not Be Intimidated - They Really Emit Squeaks!
Get Our Your Good Book!
Say Your Prayers to The Heavenly Father
And, Friend, Deny The Call and 
Dump That Crock From The Crook!

Jesus Is The Captain
The Master Of The Meek
The Humble
The Lowly
And, Yes, The Honest Weak!
Self-Sufficient Don't Need Him
For Self-Love Don't Care
For Self Is Its Own God, and
It Has Its Own Lively Cheer!

Self Sits On The Chair
Decorated and Carved
With Fine Writing
Meaning Loud
Best Rest For Its Own Eyes
Capturing Real Lies:

Seeing
Everything
Lovely and Vaingloriously
Fabulous


Soaking up
Every
Lusciously Sinful
Feeling


BUT ...

ULTIMATELY ...


Soberly
Experiencing the Burn of The
Lake of Brimstone and
Fire

Drop The Fake Love 

from 

The Real Fraud!

Call Out 

to 

Jesus Christ

and

Experience The True Love Of God!

The Author AND Finisher of Our Faith!

My Always Available Companion

My Forever Faithful Friend

My Happy Hope For Heaven

Constant

Stable

Immovable

To My Life's Journey's End!

This Well-Describes My Jesus

The Author and

The Finisher of My Faith!

By God's Grace

My Faith Will Be Faithful

AND

He Will Carry Me To His Home

When Earth's Travail Shall End!

SERIOUSLY THINK ON THIS POINT:

Jesus Walked His Path Alone

BUT

I Will Walk Only If Jesus Carries Me! 

They Are Calling God A Liar!!

I Have No Sin!
God IS A Liar!

I Have Not Sinned!
God IS A Liar!

What Did You Just Say?
God IS A Liar!

Why Would You Say Such A Horrible Thing!?
I am Just Repeating What YOU Said!

I Said No Such Thing!!
So What Did You Say, Then?

I Said That I Have No Sin!
God IS A Liar!

Stop Saying That!

What Else Did You Say?

I Have Not Sinned!
God IS A Liar!

Stop Saying That!!

Why Should I?!

You Are Blaspheming God's Name!
So Are You!

No,  I Am Not!
Are, Too!

This Is Total Rubbish!
I Am A Bible-Believing God-Fearing Christian!
I Would Never Call God A "Liar!"  -  That's Satan's First Name!

You Did Call God A Liar!

Come On!
How Did I Do That?!


1 John 1:8 and 10

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 

10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.


Is Your Name Jesus Christ?

Did You Become Sin For Mankind?

Did You Die On The Cross?

Are You Human?!

Weren't You Born In Sin?!

Weren't You Shaped In Immorality!?!


No!  No!  No!  Yes! Yes! Yes!


So Why Do You Say You Have No Sin
and
That You Have Not Sinned?


Well, ....

A hmm...

Because,  well ...  Ahhm


Good Answer!!


Don't Be Cruel!


Me?  Cruel?!
I Am Simply Pointing Out To You The Error In What You Are Saying About God! <<>>

Dear Ones:

This Scenario is The Result of Believing in "The Other Jesus Gospel" wherein One is - in essence - told to 

"Be as You are and 

Continue Doing What you are doing 

FOR 

God Knows YOU and Accepts YOU as YOU are 

THEREFORE 

YOU Cannot be a Sinning Sinner because 

YOU Are Saved 

In YOUR Sin now Christened Salvation!"

Please ... Deny The Liar and Accept The Good Lord and His Truth that He Loves The Sinner BUT He Hates The Sin!

Please ... Accept Jesus Christ at His Word in 1 John 1:9:

• Confess YOUR Sin for
• God IS Faithful and
• God IS Just and
• God WILL Forgive OUR Sin! AND
• God WILL Cleanse US From ALL Unrighteousness!

There Are NO Shortcuts To Acquiring YOUR Soul's Salvation, and The Person - Pastor, Priest, Prophet, Pope, President, Poseur, Prognosticator nor Parasitic Personage - who Claims Otherwise is THE Satan-Motivated-Actuated Liar!

A Word (of Truth) To The Wise Should Be and IS Enough!

Be Well, and Be Gloriously Blessed,

BJ

TRUTH SPEAKS: Every Day Is Not As Today! + PRAYER: Let My Hope In Jesus Ever Hold Sway!

Truth Spoke Her Piece: "Peace Is In Jesus Christ!"
Hearer Did Not Listen!
Hope Called a Vote, and
Courage Called for Action
Who Knew Not The Way
Nor Knew How to Pray, and
Behaved As If
Every Other Day Is As Today!

Pride Is Aggressive
In The Face of Humble Hope!
Courage Is Amazing
For He Is - By Faith
Learning to Cope!

Hunger Is Hampering
The Walk Into Truth, and 
Necessity is Dealing
With The Intense Pain
Found in The Loose Tooth
That Demands
Total Attention, and 
Won't Hear
Of The Facts
The Fabrications nor
The Outright Lies in The Air
Where True Truth and
Long Lies are  Compared, and 
One Has The Need
For Spiritual Ears!

Truth Speaks!
Hearer Listens
AND
There is Now-Known Fear
BUT
Among The Assembled
Grace - Herself - Appears
AND
Pointing To Hope
While Looking At The Strife
She Holds Out 
Redemption
Leading to Eternal Life!

Truth Speaks!
Stony Heart Creaks!
Deaf Ears Waste Leak!
Blind Eyes Peak
AND
Weary Legs ... Though Weak
Find Courage in The Spirit
AND 
Humbly Speak:

Dear Lord, Most Holy

I Bow Before You and Pray

That My Hope in King Jesus

Will Forever Hold Sway!

My Courage is Faltering, and

My Body is Near to Break!

Lift Me Up and

Protect Me,  Lord

From The Petty Pretty Snake

Who Preys on My Weakness

Who Tries to Hinder Me From Pray

Who is Always Underfoot

Telling Me That Partying Pays -

Not Abstention

Not Rejection

Nor Refusal To Play!

Please Tell him, Dear Father

From Me to Get Away!

I've Been There!

I've Done That, and

I've Got The Tee-shirt and The Scars!

Father, Please Save Me for

I want to Live With You and 

Travel Through The Vastness Of Space

Amongst The Myriad Stars!

Please Give My Hope Courage 

To Act On Your Unfailing Love for

I Truly Love You, Lord!

Amen.

TRUTH FOR TODAY: "They" Say That God IS GRIM!!

I know that you are trying to teach me about The Love of God but, ooh mama, 
Your God IS Grim! Grim, I tell you! GRIM!


Amen!


Amen!?!


Yup!


Are You Mad!?!


Nope!


But, but, I just told You That That God YOU Believe in IS Grim!!


Uh huh!


Grrrrr!!


I'm Sorry!
I could not Resist!
It's a Longstanding Joke among Believers,  and I Forgot Myself for a Moment!


Okay! Okay! So what is "The Joke?"


Heather!?!


Yes,  Frannie?!


Can you tell our dear Tina, here, where in The King James Bible it says that Our Almighty God is Grim?!


Sure!  That is easy!
Psalm 116 Verse 5! Shall I recite it as well?!


Please do!!

"Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; 

yea, our God is merciful."

Okayyyy ...?!?
I think ...
I don't get it!


One More time,  Ms.  Heather!

"Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; 

yea, our God is merciful."

Come on! Be serious!
That text does not say one earthless thing about God Being GgrriiMMM!! ....
Waait! 
Waaiiit!
Wait a cotton-picking Minute!!

Graci ...
Right ...
Merc ...

Gracious!
Righteous!
Merciful!

G R M
GRIM!
GOD IS GRIM!

God IS Gracious!
God IS Righteous!
God IS Merciful!

God IS GR-M!

I got it! 
I got it!! 
I REALLY get it!


Yes!
Yes!
You've got it!


Alright, then!


Hmmm ...?


Sooo ...

The God "WE" Believe in IS The Almighty God AND ...

ALL TOGETHER NOW ...

"He IS Gracious, Righteous and Merciful!"

Do not ever Forget it, and do not Permit Anyone to Teach you Otherwise!!


Witness!


AMEN!!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: God Personally Contends for His People's Loyalty!

A Young Prophet
As Called Of God
Had Youthful Strength and Agility
BUT
Lacked The Experience and Authority
Which Came With The Passing Of the Years!

Time Travels On ...

This Prophet - As One Faithful
Lived An Honorable Life
BUT 
Often Fell Into Dishonor
For Calling "The Good Life" A Lie!

Said Prophet Fell Into Disfavor
With The Lofty and Lowly Alike
For Delivering The Message
That The Living God Has Eternal Sight!

Our Faithful True Prophet
Had - with His God - A Good Report
BUT
With The "Good" People
Who Choose Willful Ignorance
AND 
The Comfort Of The Ostrich's Head
Gave The Poor Prophet
A Very Bad Report Instead!

All Messengers and Ministers Of God
MUST
Maintain Their Personal Godly Integrity
FOR
God Personally Contends for His People's Loyalty!
Man - At This Time - Falls into The Hands of God
AND
With Continued Disobedience 
AND
Dismissal Of God's Word
The Living God Allows Us
To Fall into The Hands of Men
Who Become The Rod Of God!

REMEMBER THIS TRUTH:

The Rod of God Enforces

What The Word of God Explains!

And

The Holy Spirit Opens The Ear and Heart 

To 

Accept Instruction and Correction!

God Did Nothing Without Telling His Servants
Those Worthy Prophets of Old
Who Cried Lamented and Pleaded
For God's People to Remain With God 
Who Graciously Provided for Those who
His Precious Word Straightly Heeded!

Prosperity is No Indication of God's Favor!
Poverty is No Indication of God's Curse!
Problem is Like So Many Others
Man Believes Quite The Lying Reverse!

Have We Not Seen Oh, So Often
Outer Beauty Hiding An Internal Rotten Putrid Dead Core?
Have We Not Seen Runny Icing on Hot Ginger Bread
AND 
Bright Gold Covering Dead Lead?

So ... 

It Is Today With God's People!
Sumptuous Prosperity
Covering An Inner Dead Core!
Praise So Polluted It's Mind-boggling
AND
"Worship" Dressed-Up Like An Blousy Common Street Whore!

Have We Not Learnt Anything from Hosea?
Have We Not Been Counseled by Jeremiah's Lament?
Are The Only Lessons Relevant Those of Isaiah's Immanuel,  and
Ezekiel's Chariots with Wheels Not By Human Hands Bent?

Will We Not See?
Will We Not Hear?
Will We Not Learn
From Jesus Christ 
That The Holy God Cares
About His People
AND
That They Holy Remain
So That In The Coming Judgment
They Won't Go Down In Flames?!

THINK ON THIS TRUTH:

A Pig In A Palace

A Pig Still Remains!

A Pig In Pearls and Bouncy Curls

IS Still

A Pig which Always Returns to his Hole

To Wallow and To Rut

To Root and To Grunt Squeal!

Do The Wrong Thing 

AND

Pig's Wrath

You Will Surely Intensely Feel!

The Point Here is Simple:

• Dressing As A Woman Doesn't Change A Man Into A WoMan! (Truth IS Truth)
• Following Another Gospel Won't Make You A Christian Saved! (Lie IS Lie)
• Christianity Based On Felt Needs Will Not Lift Jesus Up (Flavor IS Feisty)
• Baubles and Beads Will Not To God Lift You Up! (You Lie AND You Die)

If You Call Yourself A Child Of God

Cut Off The Pair

And

Bow To God's Sovereign Will

And

He Will Your Lowly Life Fill!