Seeking Salvation

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Seeking Salvation….

When I put this design together I was thinking of the scripture, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33

Do you know what is supposed to be added? The scripture above it refers to an answer to our spirit…he knows that we all have needs. So he says if you keep coming to me in all that you do…I will meet the need in expedience according to the journey. That means everything. Did you know that many of us would rather disobey God for our sexual needs than to obey and receive all things? Many of us will and have in the past disobeyed God for our instant monetary needs than obey to receive all things. Many of us refuse to tell spouses or people in relationships that we cannot do something to satisfy a idol with them and compromise ourselves to meet their standards. In as much, disobey God.  I ask the question, “did you know” because some people aren’t even aware to the fact they do it let alone the reasons behind it. Did you know many of our disobediences to God is an attempt to please ourselves, someone else, so we can be accepted, or keep peace? Jesus said “I came not to bring peace, but a sword.” I am not saying to fight or just be selfish, but the denial of this world draws the line of those of Christ and those who are children of hell. The integrity of holding your christian values resists the enemy from stripping away the strength of identity within them. If you can’t say no the devil you give him room to do whatever. It’s is better to be rejected for the name of Christ than anything else, infact Jesus said you’re “Blessed” when it happens. -Well, there goes Dr.Phil

I was having a conversation with my wife one time and I explaining to her the differences between the lies of the world and the truth in Christ. I said, “It’s hard trying to be accepted into a lie because; you would have to lie to yourself and change your identity to blend in with the lie, completely.”I remember seeing many undercover cop movies, where they take on drug dealers to catch the bad guy. That’s how most people are and some are called to be pastors, prophets, and teachers. Yet, they are not undercover to catch the enemy they are undercover doing the dirt and trying to avoid being spotted by the church, church members, and family. But, you can’t fool God, Jonah. If you are a Christian, why lie and be at a club. Or is the club the truth about you and being a Christian is the lie? -I don’t know what to say, yet the word of the Lord in these situations was this:
1 Kings 19:20– “Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I (God) done to you?”

Solomon, who was one of the richest and wisest man that ever lived called all that we can ever do under the sun, Vanity!. Watch this:
Ecclesiastes 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
       2 ” Vanity^[a] of vanities,” says the Preacher; ” Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
       3 What profit has a man from all his labor
      In which he toils under the sun?
       4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes;
      But the earth abides forever.
       5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down,
      And hastens to the place where it arose.
       6 The wind goes toward the south,
      And turns around to the north;
      The wind whirls about continually,
      And comes again on its circuit.
       7 All the rivers run into the sea,
      Yet the sea is not full;
      To the place from which the rivers come,
      There they return again.
       8 All things are full of labor;
      Man cannot express it.
      The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
      Nor the ear filled with hearing.
       9 That which has been is what will be,
      That which is done is what will be done,
      And there is nothing new under the sun.
       10 Is there anything of which it may be said,  ” See, this is new”?
      It has already been in ancient times before us.

 

 Man cannot ever totally satisfy the needs of another person. The earth is not big enough to satisfy the greed of one man. Neither is time fast enough to bring to pass the wants of a rebellious and impatient person. So why try as if we are God to fulfill the expectations of all God’s creation without God to help you fulfill your part with it it. The earth is not all to one person but to Christ and God, yet we share this entire Kingdom with all Christians as the body. Not specifically you. As a Christian, it’s in my ability to pour out all the love God fills me with. Yet, if I keep pouring out without directing that person to the source(Jesus), or teach them how to get the source themselves through salvation and relationship. I’m trying to meet the need of a person from a human aspect of provision to the point I become the deity. That’s not God. Furthermore, in the end I will sit in the judgment seat just like everyone else. So that mentality of trying to meet everyone’s need outside of God is insane.

Well, what was added to Jesus? He denied his earthly riches; the book of first Corinthians says he did. He denied having an earthly wife, yet will receive the bride of the church in the end.
He denied sex; this is the life of abstinence and consecration. He never taught what he hadn’t practiced so; he never even lusted after a woman with his eyes. In 33 yrs.
He denied his own will, to fulfill the purpose he was appointed. 

How many different stories by so many so called theologians and authors about Jesus have we seen though? Some saying he was married. Some saying he had children. Some say he was Gay. I so disagree… let me try to explain it.

 Do you remember what God said? “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.” (John 3:16) So if he so loved the world, he would give it all as a father would do to his kids. Right! So why would he deny us a way to come to him if he didn’t love that in which he created? So if a son with the very image of God walked this earth yet, humbled himself in the flesh to give identity of the same struggles we face. In order to unveil the very image of him in us for us to understand we too can rise above in all. For what man means for evil God means for good and all love overcomes evil because, God is love (1 John 4:8). So if any love that exerts from us is Christ, then we overcome only by Christ. By the love and obedience to God we avail in all temptations and overcome just as Christ did. 

All for the simple fact to discover how much we are loved by God when we our unveiled to our own perceptions of who we are in this world. And in the faithfulness of trusting him he unveils every wicked thing for you to say no and every good thing for you to become of. Then all of us by no means can ever deny the mercy of Christ in our ignorance nor the love of God in our rejections to his sovereignty. But submit our ambitions to the wisdom of his love and righteousness of his judgments. For Christ alone deserves all the glory, for a sinner such as us saved by grace.

So when people say he had this child. He was Gay, he was married. They still can’t fathom the understanding of obeying authority for the love of someone else, the salvation of his father’s children. God gave to us the testimony of a son who would deny all to seek his heart. He didn’t have to fight, he didn’t have to bite. He didn’t go to divorce court….or sue someone in a quick rich scheme. He submitted to his fathers will in all things and in all things he was exalted above all. For all those who are looking for deliverance from the wicked one who chases after you with no regard for your life. Dont run. Dont fear. Submit to God, resist the devil…and he shall flee James 4:7. Seek the salvation of the lord whom shall set you free from all things.-RTW

In brotherly love,

 R.Williams
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Speaking against God’s people

            In my time as a Christian I have seen many things that I love and some things I dislike for the better of change. Have you seen a Christian fall from grace? Or have you seen a church in poor conditions physically or spiritually? What did you do about it? I have often asked my self or commented “that’s not right” or look at what this person did. I then get into a whole realm of disliking the person or place by opinion and judgment till I notice my whole being itself is ready for war. Am I right? In my anger, I speak at other people and get people to be on my side in opinion of the circumstances I have a case against. Still, am I right? This all depends on the topic for what I could be mad at. Well, according to this I have seen one of the biggest follies in accordance to the daily Christian life of brothers and sisters. That is: When it comes to the speech of another Christian or spiritual condition of a person or place our people resolve the issues in factions, words that put others down, and disputes that lead to broken fellowships than mending fellowships. You can go to churches, you can search the internet, the gossipers of the towns, on you-tube, and casual fellowship conversations with people and ask them the “what’s going on” within the Body of Christ. More or less you will here words from Christians discouraging ministries, speaking horribly against pastors, and judging people and places by the “natural eye” utilizing the wisdom of man and personal opinions against God’s people rather than the spirit of love, mercy, and life. The downside of what we do in pride, because I have been guilty, is to put down someone else in a resolution to disagreement or for position. This is the main tactics of politicians who battle for a position or for an influence among people.

            In the book of Samuel, there is the testimony of the first king of Israel whose name was Saul. Saul was anointed to be king over Israel after a period of time of having no king at all. Israel had judges to rule over the land and judge the controversies that would come about within the people. This is where Samuel the prophet comes into play because he was an “overseer” for God in it’s time period. Samuel is also the man appointed to anoint Saul, in accordance to the people request for a king. In his tenure, Saul is famously known for the disobedience to the Lord, and the tearing of the kingdom from him and giving it unto David. After that event, Saul was still king of Israel for a number of years. In as much, there are many situations where the King Saul did many horrible things before the sight of God which further justified God’s judgment. During the testimony of Saul, his character and behavior to the anointing of David and his acts as the following king of Israel increasingly made him very unpopular. One of the most amazing things about David though was the fact that almost every time he was given the chance to strike back in vengeance upon Saul he never struck him or killed him. In the scriptures it says:

 

·          4 David’s men said to him, Behold the day of which the Lord said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hands and you shall do to him as seems good to you. Then David arose [in the darkness] and stealthily cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe.

·          5 Afterward, David’s heart smote him because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.

·          6 He said to his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this to my master, the Lord’s anointed, to put my hand out against him, when he is the anointed of the Lord. (1 Samuel 24:4-6)

 

Furthermore,

·          7 So David and Abishai went to the army by night, and there Saul lay sleeping within the encampment with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the army lay round about him.

·          8 Then said Abishai to David, God has given your enemy into your hands this day. Now therefore let me smite him to the earth at once with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.

·          9 David said to Abishai, Do not destroy him; for who can raise his hand against the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless?

·          10 David said, As the Lord lives, [He] will smite him; or his day will come to die or he will go down in battle and perish.

·          11The Lord forbid that I should raise my hand against the Lord’s anointed; but take now the spear that is at his head and the bottle of water, and let us go. ( 1 Samuel 26: 7-11)

In David’s reaction to Saul having a chance to take revenge upon a person that was doing him wrong. He never took it into his own hands to judge Saul by death. It is, the Lord and the Lord only who has the power to raise and destroy people, kings, nations, and kingdoms. He did this through his holy prophets and those who walked according to his ordinances to placate this type of authority. By David’s anointing this was given to him.

What is man on the other hand, to take matters into their hands according to their own judgments and the avoidance of the council of the Lord’s might? The Bible says that, “God’s mercies endure forever.” The way of the world is I have to power to do all, which is false. Therefore we as Christians can by no means take matters into our own hands to reject, refuse, repudiate, decline, deny, rebuff, repel, renounce, discard, throw away, exclude, eliminate and jettison any other people of Christ out of order with what Jesus taught. This is not God; it is a Lucifer based approach in judgment, elitism, and isolation. It’s speaking death more than life.

Through Saul disposition against his own son-in-law, David’s respect for the man of God still was impeccable, though another of God’s anointed was trying to kill him. The Lord did take severe judgment on Saul and it came by the death of him and his son Jonathan in war.  When the news was brought to David, he went into a period of weeping, fasting, and prayer. Why? Why, give a period of sorrow for a man who tried to kill him and his family. I could understand weeping for Jonathan, who was the son of Saul and help David escape death from his own father. That makes sense. However, I believe David wept, fasted, and prayed because of what was happening to Israel as a whole, including the king. That is an example of the heart of a King, from God. Did you know that further on David, who was still married to one of Saul’s daughters, Micah, was despised by her for his worship to God? So, David gives us an example of behavior to toil and trouble against people or families that are of God and anointed as well. He regarded them still as of God’s body.

·          7 When he looked behind him, he saw me and called to me. I answered, Here I am.

·          8 He (Saul) asked me, Who are you? I answered, An Amalekite.

·          9 He (Saul) said to me, Rise up against me and slay me; for terrible dizziness has come upon me, yet my life is still in me [and I will be taken alive].

·          10 So I stood up against him and slew him, because I was sure he could not live after he had fallen. So I took the crown on his head and the bracelet on his arm and have brought them here to my lord.^(A)

·          11 Then David grasped his own clothes and tore them; so did all the men with him.

·          12 They mourned and wept for Saul and Jonathan his son, and fasted until evening for the Lord’s people and the house of Israel, because of their defeat in battle.

·          13 David said to the young man who told him, Where are you from? He answered, I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.

·          14 David said to him, Why were you not afraid to stretch forth your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?

·          15 David called one of the young men and said, Go near and fall upon him. And he smote him so that he died.

·          16 David said to [the fallen man], Your blood be upon your own head; for you have testified against yourself, saying, I have slain the Lord’s anointed.

·          17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son, (2 Samuel 1:7-17)

David reacted totally different to the Amalekite than he did for Saul. In as much as his reaction was brute, he spoke of God’s anointed people in a way of defense and reverence for whom God chooses and calls his, no matter what. This was the mark of God’s King. There was another example of this type of zeal for the Lord from another King. This was Jesus in the dealing with the money changers.

·          12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

·          13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

·          14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. (Matthew 21:12-14)

What is the point? Love God enough to stand up for him in the midst of people and defend God’s people because they are still our brothers and sisters. Do we always regard a sinner as a sinner with a legalistic hammer? Mary Magdalene and Paul would have never been who they were after. So, we have a calling in the New Testament and an impartation of the Holy Spirit to comfort, edify, and exhort the body of Christ. Yet we use our language, our intellect, and our conversation to put down other people, ministries, and churches that God allowed to be here. It takes so much pride to put down someone for the exaltation of you. Rather, it is much greater in the eyes of God to remark in the forgiveness of the mistakes of men and the mercies of God. This is the fruit of love.

·          16 Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a [purely] human point of view [in terms of natural standards of value]. [No] even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, yet now [we have such knowledge of Him that] we know Him no longer [in terms of the flesh].

·          17Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!( 2 Cor 5:16-17)

Let’s further address people in love, mercy, kindness and fruitfulness. Let’s encourage the body of Christ to build more places that exalt God’s manifestation here on Earth. Let’s be Christians and fulfill what we are called to do and love our brother as we love ourselves. In conclusion, let’s be careful of negative words that come from an evil heart of judging people instead of the fruit that manifests. Can we use healthier scriptural ways of being able to kick out the money changers and heal the people according to the word of God. Let’s be life and not be death, especially in the same kingdom that we represent.

 

Your Brother in Christ,

 

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R.Williams
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