LET'S TALK ABOUT MONEY . . . DO OUR FINANCIAL DEALINGS LINE UP WITH SCRIPTURE ?

OWE NO MAN ANY THING . . . but to love him.

How many times Christians say ,

“ Yes, we are following CHRIST”

 or

“ Yes, we believe the BIBLE and we keep all the Scriptures” ?

Do we indeed  keep the Scriptures in spirit and in truth . . . and with our money? One SURE measure of how closely we follow The LORD is to measure our money dealings by Scripture. 

 

Here is measure #1:

The InCarnated LIGHT

.  .  .  has dawned upon Mankind.  

Advent Meditations 2014

JOY to the WORLD ! 

In HIM+ was LIFE;  

and the LIFE was the LIGHT of Men.  

And the LIGHT shineth in darkness

and the darkness comprehended it not. 

PUT ON THE ARMOUR OF LIGHT+ ! 

O Children, why walk ye longer in darkness ? 

Why have ye not cast off the works of the flesh, of sin, of the devil that are clinging to you and making you non-effective ?   

Do ye not know there is a battle RAGING for your souls, and for the souls of all men?  

Have I+ not given you MY+ LIVING, power-filled Blood to cleanse you of yourself and to grant you power to deliver others  ?

Why have ye not renounced the hidden works of darkness? 

The night is FAR spent, the day is at hand;  let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of LIGHT.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.  Romans 13:12-13

Not in rioting ~ ~ ~ Do not run with the crowd and do anything that the natural-minded crowd does, even if they are church-attenders; stay away for your own safety. 

Not in drunkenness ~ ~ ~   Do not  drink the same cup of "spiritual" spirit-water that the natural-minded drink, even if they are decent fellows, neighbors, or relatives. Their water is poisoned. It will not refresh you.

Not in chambering ~ ~ ~ Do not lay about with worldlings, mingling your seed with theirs, in ANY and in EVERY sense of the word.  If you lay with the world, you will be one body with THEM; I+ will cast you from ME+. 

Not in wantonness ~ ~ ~ Do not do excess of anything. Do NOT toss off limitations in any area of your life. Stay sober; you have no license to indulge in gluttony... of any sort whatsoever. 

Not in strife ~ ~ ~  Do not concern yourself with "your civil rights."  As followers of ME+, you have NO CIVIL rights. . . in any land.  Those who do not know this will find this out shortly, like many others of My+ children. 

Focus rather on living TOTALLY for ME+; I+ will then be able to use you against the powers of darkness swarming the habitable world now.

Not in envying ~ ~ ~  Bury it ! Put it to death ! Temporal things are just that: temporary !  They are worse than temporary; they hinder you from walking in My+ Spirit. They hinder you from hearing My+ Voice. Casting your eye upon the things of this world makes you useless and ineffectual in My+ Kingdom.  

Come OUT OF HER, My+ people and touch not the unclean thing.  

PUT ON THE ARMOUR OF LIGHT+  !

Let us cast off the dark works through the Blood of JESUS CHRIST, WHO+ was born to set us free from these yokes of darkness.  

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Such BLOOD !  

Such LIGHT ! 

   Such LOVE !
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BE PREPARED TO PAY 
FOR YOUR CONVICTIONS.
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O Gracious SAVIOR+ , WHO+ came to over-come darkness, prepare me to stand for THEE+ in the time of trial, in the time of darkness. Let Thy+ Light rest upon me in this dark and dying world, so that in Thy+ LIGHT+, we may see LIGHT+ . Strengthen me with Thy+ Divine Body and Blood, so that dying, I may live with THEE+; and by living, I may die for THEE+, 

O Holy JESUS.

Amen.

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Awake Out of Sleep ! CHRIST the KING+ Ever Reigns on High +

O Come, Let Us Adore HIM+ !

Advent Meditations for 2014

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Scriptures selected from the listings in the  Three-year Cycle of Readings, Year A, New American BIBLE; Scripture portions quoted from KJV courtesy of Biblegateway.com .

ROMANS 13:11 

And that, knowing the time, 

that now it is high time 

to awake out of sleep: 

for now is our salvation

nearer 

than when we believed.

[ A note from Sr. Judith Hannah  + + +  :   Not being Roman Catholic, I thought it odd that this passage was included in the readings for the year involved Romans 13. In pondering this before The LORD, I realized that HE+  is indeed speaking to His+ Body about the current season of humanity upon this earth. ]

May The LORD add His+ blessing to the reading of His+ Holy Word.  

Let me tell you WHO IS awake .... the 10 kings ( aka the 10 horns ) of Revelation 17:12 !

Yes, the enemy --- empowered by these 10 wicked beings --- is coming in like a flood.  

Yes, the days of Noah are upon us, but where is the Ark of Salvation going to be found during this flood?  

And yes again, this will be a WORLD-WIDE FLOOD of evil engulfing the globe. 

Salvation in Traditions ? 

Traditions will shatter with the first blast of persecution. They will cripple those whose security is based on traditions. Christmas traditions will not carry anyone through a beheading or the torture chamber. 

Awake out of sleep !  the Word says. 

Salvation in the Organized Religious Systems ?

Unfortunately, the organized religious systems have HISTORICALLY been in the forefront leading the persecution of followers of JESUS, turning traitor to extend its own life. 

They have done it in the past; they will do it in the future. Ichabod has long been stamped on these systems, easily identified by their ignoring, distortion, and avoidance of The Word of GOD  .... in practice .  

The Ichabod organizations include those 

• who never stand against abortion, 
• who tolerate same-sort marriages, 
• who promote women in the pulpit, and 
• whose elders "prudently" invest their funds in the Mammon-serving stock markets. 

Ichabod organizations are those who USE the Name of CHRIST, preach HIM+ on the street and across the air-waves, dissect, analyze, and study His+ Word in all the original languages. 

Yet, these same Ichabod religious systems --- knowing well the Word of GOD --- will not take a step towards non-resistance but rather honor the killing-machines of the uncivilized Western "civilization." 

And men loved to have it so ! 

Awake out of sleep !  the Word says.

From LUKE 21:28  

 And when these things begin to come to pass, 

then look up, 

and lift up your heads; 

your REDEPTION+ draweth nigh.

Yes, look up to JESUS+. Firmly fix yourself on HIM+. Firmly afix yourself onto His+ Cross. 

Finding Salvation in your house and land ?

Aha!  Do you think you own your "own" house and land? 

Better look at reality. 

Don't pay your taxes and you will discover the hidden truth about property ownership. 

If you cannot pay your property taxes because the money system fails OR you wisely refuse the mark of the beast ~  you will soon find out that certain agencies ( not "we the people") own ALL the land and property ! 

Owners are simply renters too,  ~ high-cost renters ~  renting their property from the tax collectors .... or rather, from agencies acting under higher agencies established years ago by those 10 kings in a well-oiled system.

And NO... you will not be able to pay your property tax in onions or chickens .

Awake out of Sleep, the WORD says !

But let us look up.  We cannot ~ we do not dare ~ look unto earthly men nor earthly religious organizations nor earthly civil systems for our security and Salvation. 

Yes, Eternity IS costly. It has cost Our REDEEMER+ His+ Life to bring it to us.  It will also cost us our lives, to obtain it. 

But, let us LOOK UP !  

JESUS told us, 

"There shall not an hair of your head perish ! "

O Precious REDEEMER+, WHO+ laid down Thy+ Head not only in a manger but also upon the Cross, we thank THEE+ for making a way out of the destruction of mankind for us. 

O Precious LAMB+ of GOD, slain from the foundation of the world, THOU+ didst come, knowing full well what awaited THEE+.  THOU+ knowest what awaits us ! 

We thank THEE+ for preparing us a place in Thy+ FATHER'S House.  

And by THY+ coming to be slain, THOU+ has made us Thine+ own brethren.

And by Thy+ coming to be slain, we can say, "Our FATHER WHO art in Heaven, " also. 

And by Thy+ coming to be slain, we live.

CHRIST The KING+ has descended from on High;

O COME, LET US ADORE HIM+  ! 

xxx