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Introducing AutoBibleCorrect, the killer app of tomorrow

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I know most of us are familiar with AutoCorrect. This is an application installed on cellular phones which automatically corrects misspelled words when the user sends a text. The AutoCorrect application takes it upon itself to correct items it believes are wrong, removing the user as thinking mediator.

Well now there is a new app! AutoBibleCorrect! Yes, all one needs to do is overlay the app on their online version of their Bible, whether it is on your phone or on your favorite website like BibleHub or BibleGateway, or on your tablet or even Kindle. AutoBibleCorrect works for all digital versions of the Bible.

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False teachers dishonor the mighty name of God

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“The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.” Leonard Ravenhill.

We are living in a plague now. It is a plague of false teachers. False teachers bring a different Gospel, or meld the true Gospel with a false one, and they try to make the people forget the True and Living God. Jeremiah had complained to God about the false prophets and their message.

“But I said, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! The prophets keep telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.’” (Jeremiah 14:13)

He was concerned that the falsely positive messages would dampen their fervor and alertness of the people. Any message that a person accepts that is not from God is inherently damaging. Paul referred to this process as gangrene. (2 Timothy 1:7). This is why we must insist on proper interpretation of biblical messages from our pulpits, read books that have proper representations of the Gospel and God, it is why we must study for ourselves so when a TRUE message of peace does come, we can rely on it.

Later, God answered Jeremiah, Continue reading “False teachers dishonor the mighty name of God” →

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The Language of Death: Obituaries

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Death, the final frontier. These are the lives of the starbaby Humans. Their 7000-year mission: to explore strange new hearts, to seek out new life and new religion, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

OK, a thousand pardons for re-writing that famous opening line from the original Star Trek television series.

Death IS the final frontier. All humans are eternal, death is just a passing over of the line between this life and the next. However, the life in the next is permanently and eternally fixed. One will either pass over the boundary into the final frontier into hell, or into heaven.

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, (Hebrews 9:27) Continue reading “The Language of Death: Obituaries” →

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It was an ordinary day, and the woman was thirsty

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The woman was a harlot. There was a moral code and the woman fell far below it. So far below that she couldn’t even see the underside of it anymore. Jumping from husband to husband, bed to bed, with or without benefit of divorce, man after man. She was a slut. Her sins were monumental, public, known to all, and she was regarded with disgust and hatred. She knew it. She didn’t care. She did care.

She was loathed, and also lonely, marginalized, and excluded. The other women in town didn’t talk to her, so that her taint wouldn’t infect them. There were cliques, all right, and she was definitely not part of any of them. She wasn’t invited to baby showers or to weddings or to sewing circles. She wasn’t even welcome at the well, at dusk when the other women went to draw in the cool of the day. The looks…the turned backs… the whispers. Once, even that fight when they said those nasty things. She never went back.

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Truth is the inseparable ally of love

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Have you noticed that satan has co-opted another word from our Biblical culture and twisted it to suit his own ends. We lost gay, rainbow, hate, tolerance, judge, and now love.

  • Orlando vigils: ‘We will conquer that hate with love’
  • US Attorney General Loretta Lynch calls for ‘love’ in aftermath of Orlando massacre
  • Social media shows outpouring of love for Orlando massacre victims
  • Thousands Attend Orlando Vigil To Prove That Love Wins
  • After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

The last one on the list is a ‘Religion Dispatch’ from Huffington Post, whereupon the author asks aloud how God could let such evil happen, and calls those who had been killed inside the homosexual nightclub martyrs of freedom. The inference is that they died for the cause of freedom, but it’s only the world’s definition of freedom… he meant freedom to live in sexual sin, which is abominable before the Lord.

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The End is still Near, Still Sharing the Light

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I can’t wait to see what you all look like when you are glorified! I can’t wait to see the glassy sea, the angels who have helped me, the face of Jesus! I can’t wait to be free from pain and shed of my sin nature. I can’t wait to be in eternity! However, I will await His timing. We all must await the number of our days to be up and His determination of when we enter glory.

For now though, the Tribulation is still to come according to the Divine schedule.

The Tribulation is prophesied to be a period where many things will happen. One of them is that the earth and heavens themselves will be wildly disrupted. Landforms disappear. Weather patterns evaporate. Orbits cease. And more.

The outline of what Jesus will be doing at that time is presented to us in Daniel 9:24. The Lord will do 6 things:

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Encouragement: How many will be in heaven?

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I’ve looked at the numbers and have been discouraged by the seeming few that will be in heaven. The proportions of saved to lost seems wide. All the world died in the flood…except for 8. All four cities of the plain were smote …  only four people escaped … and one of them turned out to be false. The road is broad and many are on it, while the path is narrow and few find it.

I’ve written about that proportion here

I’m looking at the numbers and they don’t look good

and here

Many ‘Christians’ will be left out of heaven

I’ve also been discouraged by the lack of solid churches and the difficulty in finding them. Many of you have written to me about the same thing.

In listening to Justin Peters last night teach about child conversions, he said the encouraging regarding both topics. In his lesson he also named off a list of many solid churches he is personally familiar with.

It is easy to get discouraged when looking at the broad swathe of Christianity, and it is easy when we see so much heresy, so much compromise even from the supposedly good guys. It’s rampant. But there are good churches out there God does have His people everywhere. They’re not in the limelight, they’re not in the spotlight.  … There are good churches, it’s just that they’re in small places. They’re hard to find, but they’re out there.

He said this about numbers in heaven. I’m glad to know I wasn’t the only one who gets discouraged. I’am also glad to know that I overlooked something. Children who have died will massively add to the number in heaven-

I believe that the best understanding of scripture holds that when a baby, toddler, young child dies, that little one goes to heaven. … Have you ever thought about this? have you ever been discouraged at how few people go to heaven? When you look around the world, there’s 7 billion people on this planet and I think it is safe to say that well under and only probably less than 1% of truly born again, there’s a lot of people who say they’re Christians but they’re not. It can get kind of discouraging can’t it? But you know what? Have you ever thought about how many hundreds of millions or billions of children have died? In a miscarriage, before they were even born? Or how many children have been killed in abortions? Or how many children have died at early ages? Do you know where all those young ones are? They’re in heaven. There’s going to be a lot of folks in heaven! It’s going to be a busy place, with a lot of people in it! (Source)

In the lesson, Peters had previously explained from scripture why he and most others believe that infants, toddlers, and children will be in heaven. There was a biblical context for his statement.

In the United states alone, there have been 60 million abortions in the last 40 years. All those aborted children are in heaven. The worldwide infant mortality rate due to natural causes is also very high. It always has been.

The infant mortality rate (IMR) is the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country. The infant mortality rate of the world is 49.4 according to the United Nations and 42.09 according to the CIA World Factbook. The under-5 mortality rate of the world is 73.7 according to the United Nations. (Source)

Praise the Lord, the numbers of departed children I’d overlooked when thinking of heaven massively increases the number that will be there. Bless the Lord, and bless the children waiting for us there (whatever age they will be upon heavenly entry).

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VBS season, Child Conversion, and Baptisms

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The visible church today is seeing a flood of false Christian adults. They profess Christ, but either by lack of fruit, a sinful walk, or outright eventual repudiation, in many sad cases it becomes obvious they never possessed Him.

One place that false conversions caneasily happen is with children. And VBS is the most dangerous season of all. Wikipedia gives a history of VBS, known as Vacation Bible School:

Vacation Bible School (VBS) is a specialized form of religious education which focuses on children. Churches usually hold the week-long events during the summer, though the lengths of such programs may vary, and they are sometimes held during other times of the year. he origins of Vacation Bible School can be traced back to Hopedale, Illinois in 1894. Sunday school teacher D. T. Miles, who also was a public school teacher, felt she was limited by time constraints in teaching the Bible to children. So, she started a daily Bible school to teach children during the summer. The first Bible school enrolled forty students and lasted four weeks. …

Today, many churches run their own Vacation Bible School programs without being under the umbrella of a national organization. Some churches opt to use themed curriculum programs from their respective denominations or independent publishing houses which provide easy preparation and include marketing tools. Modern programs usually consist of a week-long program of religious education which may employ Bible stories, religious song, arts and crafts, skits, or puppet shows which cater toward elementary school-aged children.

However either in sincere love for Christ and a desire to see people saved, or due to outright deception due to worldly church growth strategies, some churches are quick to accept a child’s profession in Christ and they quickly baptize them thereafter- declaring them saved. Many VBS volunteers, without knowing the devastating consequences of a false profession, at the end of a VBS session with children, simply ask a few superficial questions such as “Do you want to go to heaven when you die?” or “Do you accept Jesus into your heart?” and then declare the child converted and even write the date into the Bible. Baptisms quickly follow, with pastors trumpeting the “success” on social media such as Facebook with lots of Woo-hoos, PTL’s, and exclamation marks.

These children grow up believing they are truly saved, yet by the time they are adults, have not borne fruit, aren’t growing in knowledge of the grace of Jesus Christ, have no godly sorrow over sin, care not for personal holiness etc. Some of them go away from the faith when they become teens or young adults, only to come back in their late 20s or early 30s to “rededicate their lives to Christ.” As Peters says in his new teaching, he believes for most of these people, the rededication is actually the conversion.

Here is a wonderful teaching from Justin Peters on the “A Biblical and Theological Understanding of Childhood Conversion”. He admits that the teaching goes against the grain of common practice. However, when he shows from scripture why it’s wise to wait in declaring a person saved, especially children, the clarity of the teaching becomes apparent and foundationally attractive.

Many of you have sent me messages and emails concerning your children, asking questions about baptism, home devotionals, and VBS. I’m grateful that the Lord led me to this wonderful resource and I happily pass it along to you.

Do Not Hinder Them: A Biblical and Theological Understanding of Childhood Conversion

The link is the first time Pastor Peters delivered this teaching, he said, and he has since honed it into a book, upcoming for publication. Be on the lookout for the book. The link brings you to an hour and 21 minutes’ teaching, but the first few minutes are recommendations of other books and the end is a Q&A. Peters as always is humble, kind, and delivers his teaching in a quiet but scripturally persuasive manner. If you as a parent have questions about the credibility of your child’s conversion, especially during this energetic VBS season when child conversion is at the forefront of church activity, then by all means please check it out.

 

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Consider the Supernatural: The invisible realms are busy

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Did you ever stop to consider the supernatural in your everyday life?

I’d like to write something that will hopefully open your mind to the teeming activity in the supernatural realms which our current eyes cannot see. However the bustling activity is all around us on earth  and extends into the second and third heaven.

151,600 people on earth die each day. Each death releases a soul that had formerly been imprisoned in a body. Upon death, this soul is immediately catapulted into the supernatural realms. The soul either goes up or goes down. So if the 6,316 people die each hour, there is a lot of traffic going up and down. (2 Corinthians 5:8).

Satan is the prince of the power of the air, Ephesians 2:1-2 reminds us, as does Ephesians 6:12 which says there are “spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” In 2 Kings 6:17 Prophet Elisha’s servant was cowed by the impressive number of enemy men encircling the camp. They were severely outnumbered. However Elisha prayed, ‘O LORD, open his eyes so he may see’. Then the LORD opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. The air was filled with blazing angels at attention and ready to fight for God against the human armies.

Daniel also was given heavenly insight into the supernatural realms, specifically the second heaven. He prayed to God and God immediately dispatched an angel with a response. However one of the chief unholy angels of the nation of Persia caused a delay in the holy angels’ progress and there was a fight. Michael the archangel had to eventually be sent to help the angel burst through the opposition in order to reach Daniel. (Daniel 10:12-14). Angel wars not only occur in the second heaven of the air, but they go on in heaven, also. (Revelation 12:7)

In another case, Daniel was visited by a mighty angel on earth, which only Daniel could see, but the men with him felt the presence of heavenly glory and trembled. Some just ran away. (Daniel 10:7). The same thing happened with Saul when he was knocked down on the road to Damascus. (Acts 9:3-7).

Revelation 5:8 and 8:3 give us a hint of the prayers rising from the saints’ lips to the throne room of God, where much activity is performed regarding these prayers.

God sends His ministering angels from heaven to His people with tasks, messages, comfort, and other ministry. (Genesis 19:1, Hebrews 13:2 & etc.)

So we have recently released souls departing for their final destination, demons zooming around in the air, angel wars, chariots abounding, angels coming and going, and prayers rising…that is a lot of activity. We can’t see any of it. But it’s there.

When I sailed on the ocean, we were guided in navigation by a nautical chart. Cargo ships, cruise ships, pleasure boats…all adhered to the rules of the road. This what it’s actually called, the rules of the road. The chart lays out the comings and goings of ships so they won’t crash into each other, especially as they near the busy port. They are called shipping lanes. Every mark on the chart means something and ships obey them if they don’t want to crash. It’s all highly managed. It looks like this:

Chart mapping San Pedro Channel; Dana Pt. Harbor, Catalina Island, SoCal

The real sea in that area looks like this.

It’s much the same with the supernatural comings and goings.

Consider the supernatural. To that end, my exhortation here today is:

1. Revisit the amazing supernatural life that you have in Christ. Every breath, every moment, is driven by a series of continuing supernatural events in us and around us that propel us forward into the Kingdom of Light, and;

2. God is completely sovereign. His omnipotence extends from heaven to earth and every area, realm visible and invisible in between. He is directing an expansive and magnificent plan that will culminate in His glory shown through a renewed universe and a multitude of redeemed humanity, all in obeisance and worship of Him.

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Further Reading

When a person dies, where does his or her spirit and body go until the Second Coming?

Does the soul cease to exist after death?

Entertaining angels unawares

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“Study the Bible using stickers!”

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A female blogger named Rachel wrote about Bible stickers. She wrote that there were 4 reasons you ladies need stickers in order to study God’s word.

1. Studying a favorite passage using stickers provides quick visible images to help you memorize a verse
No, the verse is a visible image to help you memorize the verse. (1 John 2:27, John 14:27).

2. Using a tangible item that I can feel with my hands provides a sense of reality to relate to God’s Word.
If you don’t already have a sense of reality to relate to God’s word when you study, stickers are not going to help. (Romans 12:2).

3. Adding colored or designed stickers draws attention to how God is speaking to my heart.
No, obeying His word in life is how the Spirit draws attention to the Word He applied to your mind. Stickers are just stickers. (1 John 4:12, Romans 8:3-4)

4. Meditating on God’s Word while using stickers actually gives me a faith that sticks!
No, stickers don’t give you eternal faith. Jesus does. (Romans 8:30, Romans 8:38-39)

You see all the methods and reasonings that are designed to distract you ladies from studying the word in a credible, consistent, Spirit-filled way. In the earlier part of the blog, the lady had said that she needs to frequently vary her studying methods in order to remember what she had learned. Hmmm. This lady’s method is a method that turns you from the wordto a purchasable item.

Can you picture yourself telling an aborigine Kimyal from Papua New Guinea that they need stickers to study the Word? Tell these people their faith isn’t complete unless they buy stickers. Or maybe, they should tell us what it’s all about:

PS: The reason I discovered the sticker lady is that BibleGateway, who sadly claims they are the most read bible site, promoted it on Twitter. I’ve seen them lately promote some very uncredible teachers, sites, and ideas. I have to say now, of BibleGateway – use heightened discernment.