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Answer
Over the past few
years I have said that if you want to see what is the state
of the church you
just need to look at the physical world as I feel that one
mirrors the other.
During this period we
know that the American armed forces have
developed stealth
bombers, stealth fighter aircraft and stealth ships.
The idea is that they
can sneak up on the enemy unawares and accomplish
their missions
whatever that might happen to be, and vanish before anyone
knew what had
happened. They would have succeeded in avoiding the
all important enemy
radar which would have alerted the missile batteries
to destroy
them.
Today the very same
thing is happening to the family and the church.
I am meeting with
people who do not have the slightest idea that their
family unit is under
attack. For one reason or another no one mentions
anything to the
parties concerned either family or friends, so that by the
time the attack is
noticed it is too late. It is not defeat in a battle but rather
that a war has been
lost. You are defeated before you even realise that
a war had been raging. Some do realise that
their family is under attack
but feel
helpless to act. Sometimes some have resigned themselves with
the logic, well if
that is what God wants for me fine. Once I give up my mate
I will really be able
to serve God properly.
They do not realise
that such a thought would be from the enemy and not
from the Eternal.
They need to
fight.
They have seen the
enemy aircraft but they feel that they are flying too high
and too fast to take
any evasive or counter measures.
Often relationships
are purely tolerance and endurance tests,
where partners lead
separate lives. Depression, hurt, and the feeling
of abject failure and
uselessness, as well as frustration and
unforgiveness take
their toll as our relationship with God comes under
immense pressure and
praying becomes a chore and not a joy.
Home is the last
place that any members of the family really want to be.
Home is a place of
manipulation and control and hostility either open
or concealed. It
is not a place of love and peace although many little
plaques about ‘love’
and ‘peace’ may adorn the walls.
I keep meeting people
who feel that if it was not for their husband
or their wife they
could do so much more for God’s work.
Their partner is a
hindrance and a burden. One person said after
twenty five years of
marriage with a grown up family,
I should not have
gotten married in the first place and walked away.
Though superficially
everything seemed fine.
A core issue when it
has all been analysed is ‘Self-centredness’.
If you remove this
single factor most problems will swiftly vanish.
Sometimes I meet
people whose jobs seem to be coming to an end
for one reason or
another and they feel, well I could now give up work
and work for God full
time and without a family it would be easier.
I am not at all
certain that God is looking for workers who are turning
to Him as a last
resort to earn a living when everything else
they have tried
to make money has failed.
Working for God is
seen as a way out.
The same applies to
turning your back on your family.
This is just a
personal opinion, but I view it almost as an insult to God.
It is like marrying
someone because no one else would have you.
We serve God and give
him praise and honour because that is the great
privilege for which
we were created. Our families are given to us as
a blessing. Often a
family is blessed because of the activity of just one
of the partners but
this also works in reverse.
A family can be
cursed because of the activity of just one member.
Many authorities have
stated that the family is the building block of society.
It is also the
building block of the church. If the family is messed up the
church and society
will be dramatically affected and messed up.
There is absolutely
nowhere to run and hide as Jonah found out.
If your words do not
match your deeds, you will be an unprofitable servant.
Every thought, every
word, every deed is known and recorded by God
and we will all be
held accountable. There are no secrets from God.
You can fool your
partner but you cannot be so foolish as to feel you can
fool God who says:
Matthew 12: 36 But I say to you, that every idle word,
whatever men may
speak, they shall give an account of it in Judgment Day.
Matthew 10:30 But even the hairs of your head are all
numbered.
This means that
literally each hair has a number and a record is kept
of each one and when
one goes missing in the bath it is noted.
There is a law in
operation which affects us whether we know about
it or not.
There is no way
around it. If individuals or nations paid attention to this,
the world would be a
completely different place.
Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked.
For whatever a man may sow, that he also will reap.
Job 4:8 As I have seen, the ones who plow iniquity
and sow misery reap
the same.
Hosea 8:7 For they sow the wind, and they reap the
whirlwind.
He has no stalk; the bud shall make no flour.
If it does make it, strangers will swallow it up.
It is worth
meditating on the above verses because you can have
a very exact idea of
where you are heading without any doubt
whatsoever.
These are as certain
as tomorrows sunrise.
The clouds may hide
the sunrise but it still will rise whether you see it or not.
Unity is
strength.
Luke 11:17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them,
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation;
and a house divided against a house falls.
We can see from this,
that it is a matter of “when” will the desolation
be, and not “if”
there will be desolation.
To be brought into
desolation is to become a victim, to lose.
It seems to me that
we do not appreciate what happens when people
get married and what
a disaster takes place when people get divorced.
I speak from
experience.
I have told several
people that we should not be complacent,
and just do our own
thing as God can allow events to take place,
which will
remove from us the things or people that we take for granted
in order to get
our attention. I have heard it said that one of the worse
things that can
happen to someone is that God grants them the thing
that they keep
nagging Him for. We will then be brought to our senses
when we find that
what we thought was night was not a night at all
but just an afternoon
and a real dark night descends on,
and overwhelms us.
Man was made to need
God and to have a mate, in that order.
The critical factor
is to have a close relationship with God.
If this happens you
can quite happily get along without a mate,
as Christ is
everything. However, the alternative is not true.
If you have a mate
and do not have God, in the process of time,
you will fail utterly
and completely.
We cannot ditch a
mate and claim that we do not need a mate because
we now have God.
That is simply
unscriptural.
God is our first
priority our mate second.
God looked at Adam
and said
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man
should be alone;
I will make him an help meet for him.
Then God made a woman
using a rib from Adam
Genesis 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam,
and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof;
Genesis 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken
from man,
made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones,
and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.
We can see from this that Adam
thought that this was an incredibly
close relationship. The very
first thing we read is that this union
was very important indeed.
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and
his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Adam and Eve did not
have a physical father and mother,
yet we see that right
at the very beginning of creation,
the great Creator God declared that that when
people marry they are to leave
their father and
mother. At this time we are not told that Adam and Eve
did not have any children
as yet.
It would be several
years before they had children who had grown up,
and were in a
position to marry. A major change takes place as a married couple
becomes one flesh in
the sight of God.
This is more than
just sleeping together. It is a spiritual union which is bound
in heaven and created
by the sleeping together.
To leave father and
mother is more than a geographical separation.
You could live next
door and have left your father and mother
or you could live
thousands of miles apart and still not have left your father
and mother. It is a
separation when the parents do not interfere in the affairs
of their children.
Most times parents know how to bring up your children better
than their children
do, but they had their turn, now it is your turn.
I am sure that you
have seen countless times when the in-laws are really destroying
marriages. It is quite a common feature of comedy programs.
We may laugh and be
amused but it is no laughing matter.
In order to
understand ‘One flesh’, I like to consider it like a child,
the result of the
physical union. It is totally impossible to separate half of a child
and say that this
half is from the mother and that half is from the father.
It is one child. Just
like a husband and wife becomes one flesh.
The implications of
this are profound. God regards a husband and wife as one,
two people comprising
one indivisible team. Regardless of the outward appearances
when one is
affected the other is affected whether they acknowledge it or recognise
it or not. If you
lie, cheat, steal, commit adultery etc., your partner will suffer.
When a child hurts
his arm, he cannot say that the part of my arm that is from dad
hurts but the part of
my arm from mum does not hurt.
When the arm hurts
the arm hurts.
This union is
regarded very seriously by our Father in heaven and thus fornication,
and adultery is
forbidden.
The seventh
commandment is against adultery.
If our Father
commands that other people do not destroy marriage relationships,
He would hardly
promote this course of action Himself.
We have to recognise
that the primary function of the ten commandments
is to show us the
character of God.
We can delude
ourselves into thinking all sorts of reasons why it would be better
for us not to be
married, of course this is after we have been married.
We did not think so before we were married, in
fact we just could not wait
to be married. The
enemy is quite happy to seduce us into thinking absolutely
anything about our
own marriage relationship or the marriages of our children.
As long as the
relationship is destroyed the adversary does not care who mashes
it up, or how it is
destroyed. We might well want out of a marriage situation
but we cannot use God
as the excuse to run away and to get out of a marriage.
1 Corinthians 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short:
it remaineth,
that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
1 Corinthians 7:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not;
and they that rejoice, as
though they rejoiced not; and they that buy,
as though they possessed not;
1 Corinthians 7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing
it:
for the fashion of this world
passeth away.
Now some men can use
this verse to say well we do not have to worry
about the fact that
we are married we can now just do our own thing.
Is that
what the scripture means?
Really, the women
could really say the same thing, why can’t they?
This is utter
nonsense. God is certainly not condoning immorality.
The King James
Version in the Scofield study bible heads up chapter 7
with the following
‘Because God has established marriage’.
This is a very
revealing heading and truly sums up God’s view on marriage.
As it is a heading,
we can expect that what follows is NOT going to be destructive
to the marriage
union.
The whole chapter
deals with different aspects of relationships.
God does not in one
breath create something, say that it is
very important and in
the next breath say don’t worry about it,
it does not matter
anymore, you can smash it up.
What we see in this
chapter is that Paul says that he feels that the best thing
for Christians is
that they are not married then their focus will be on Christ completely.
There will be no
divided loyalties. He then shows quite clearly that husbands
and wives must
really be concerned about the needs of each other.
What we are seeing is
that our first focus must be on Christ, anything else is,
should, and must be
secondary.
That has always been
the case.
This is simply an
application of the first commandment,
God must be first in
our lives whether we are single or married.
In case anyone thinks
that they could use God as an excuse to do a runner,
1 Corinthians 7:27 says
If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her:
if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.
So what is 1 Corinthians 7: 29 speaking about?
It says the time is
short, this is for the worlds system.
Some say well Paul
wrote that around 2,000 years ago that is not a short time.
Humanly it is not,
but in the view of God a thousand years are as a watch
in the night that is
past, a mere moment. Humanly we also need to consider
that even if you are
50 years old and you live another fifty years,
that period can
vanish and you would not even have noticed it.
The time for all of
us is indeed short.
Time truly flies.
We should never
presume life and that we will sort things out tomorrow.
What we are being
told is that don’t worry too much about your current situation
because very soon it
is going to pass away. If you are weeping you will soon be as someone
who is not weeping. If you are rejoicing with physical things that will
soon
also cease. If you
are buying things you will be like those who are not buying things.
If you are married
you will be as if you had not married.
All of these things
are going to be replaced by something far greater,
the manifest presence
of Christ. At that time all of these things will no longer
be the great priority
in your life that they are, because the former things are passed
away and replaced
when all tears are wiped away permanently.
Physical marriage
would have been replaced by marriage to the Lamb.
The rejoicing about
things that perish will be replaced by joy unspeakable
which will not perish in the manifest presence
of Christ.
Yes we are to enjoy
life and the many blessings that we have been
given but we are to
realise they are temporary and will soon pass away
with the restitution
of all things to how they should have been in the first place
before sin entered
the world. Therefore we are not to get too caught with these
things which are only
of limited duration. However, we are to cherish and care
for our wives and
families who are our responsibility.
1 Timothy 5:8 If anyone has no care for his
family and those in his house,
he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.
This is a clear scripture that
requires no further explanation.
We can see the
seriousness of this even between a believer and an unbeliever.
1 Corinthians 7:12 But to the rest speak I,
not the Lord:
If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased
to dwell with him,
let him not put her away.
1 Corinthians 7:13 And the woman which hath
an husband that believeth not,
and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
If this is the case
between an unbeliever and a believer how much more binding
must the situation be
between two people who regard themselves as believers.
I know countless situations where either party
feels that they can do whatever
they feel like
doing. This is certainly not supported by the ‘Word of God’.
These very same
couples will be walking around, or going to church services
here there and
everywhere with large bibles under their arms.
One person might go
to one church and the other party might go to another church.
Each somehow feeling
superior to the other.
They feel that
somehow if they carry around their bible that gives legitimacy to their
conduct. It does not. It would be a good idea if they read what it says and
apply it to themselves.
Romans 2:13 For not the hearers of the law are just
before God, but the doers
of the law shall be justified.
Anything that God says is law, and
it will happen every single time. It is unstoppable.
The Bible in Basic English
Isaiah 55:11 So will my word be which goes out of my
mouth:
it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give
effect to my purpose,
and do that for which I have sent it.
The bible is full of instructions
for us and we ignore them to our peril.
As a Christian, our bodies are not
our own.
They are first of all the temple of
God.
1
Corinthians 6:19 What?
know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Secondly a married couple have to
consider their partners.
The ‘Word of God’ is very clear
regarding sex.
1
Corinthians 7:1 ¶ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote
unto me:
It is good for a man not to
touch a woman.
1
Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every
man have his own
wife, and let every woman have her own
husband.
1
Corinthians 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due
benevolence:
and likewise also the wife
unto the husband.
1
Corinthians 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but
the husband:
and likewise also the husband
hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
1
Corinthians 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be
with consent for a time,
that ye may give yourselves to
fasting and prayer; and come together again,
that Satan tempt you not for
your incontinency.
1
Corinthians 7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of
commandment.
Paul says that this
was not a commandment from God but a spirit led opinion.
Sex is a main area
which partners use to control and manipulate each other.
This is utterly
wrong.
Often we have the
silent or the shouting treatment or as the politicians put it ‘frank
discussions’. When
our ego takes over we can have the fighting and destructive
scenario. Then there
is the selfish situation, after me you are first.
This is utterly
devoid of care and concern for the other person.
There is the financial
situation when the wives are supposed to feed the five
thousand with an
allowance for a few loaves and fishes.
You cannot have a
neighbour any closer than your partner.
There will be many
times when there will be sacrifice that has a very real cost
but you are happy to
do whatever it is anyway.
1
Corinthians 13
the ‘Love chapter’ should be our constant companion.
That is a message in itself.
Christ Himself referring to the
second commandment said:
Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, You shall
love thy neighbour
as yourself.
This applies to every
human being on the planet, regardless of their ‘religious’
persuasion.
This is an eternal
instruction.
Whatever we do has to
fall under the microscope of loving God and our neighbour.
If it does not we are
in serious trouble regardless of what we think.
Husbands are told to
love their wives and wives are told to love their husbands.
In a sense that is a strange
command as when the man and woman and man
got married in the
first place they supposedly loved each other.
Men tend to like the
chase ,
but often in time
tend to become bored after they have captured a prize.
We also need to pay
attention to what our partners say:
Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being
evil, speak good things?
for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Far too often we get
into all sorts of difficulties misled by the packaging,
and not the real person.
It is like the ‘lucky dip’ you find at school bazaars
or Christmas
crackers. Have you ever found anything worthwhile in a lucky dip
or in a cracker.
Christmas crackers can look very attractive but the little piece
of useless plastic or
paper hat that is ejected, bears no relationship to the
packaging. Unfortunately we are such good actors that it can take a
period of time
for the real person
behind the packaging to surface. It is no wonder that Christ
will not judge us by
our appearance or what we say.
If He did you have to
admit some of us would have a really rough time.
Isaiah 11:3 To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah,
And by the sight of his eyes
(Referring to Christ) he judges not, Nor by the hearing of his
ears decides.
We are told that what
was and is important are our hearts and not our garments.
Joel 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments,
And turn back unto Jehovah your God, For gracious and merciful is
He,
Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness,
And He hath repented concerning the evil.
Often we are told
things because things are not operating the way that they should do.
Marriage
based on emotion is not going anywhere.
Marriage
has to be based on commitment.
Of course there will
be emotion, however, it cannot be based on emotion.
Obviously something
can take place that will take away the gloss of marriage.
When I was growing up
my mother used to say
“come see me and come live with me are two
different things”.
This is very
true.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 And if one
prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not
quickly broken.
God
Man
Wife
We can see from the
above that a man and his wife are different but equal on the
same level at the
bottom line of the triangle. God is above at the top but both
the man and the woman
are equal and also have equal access to God.
It is easy to see how
the three strands link together, there is strength and permanence
when God is included by both parties.
A rope maker has
stated that a rope with two strands is weak and one with four
strands is not any
stronger than one with three strands.
The reason given is
that all three strands touch together. In the above illustration,
if you take out the
triangle, you will see this clearly.
One of the biggest
problems we have today is control and manipulation of individuals,
in churches, groups
and even nations.
This is abhorrent to
God. Man was put on the earth to have dominion over the
physical creation and
Satan, but not over other human beings.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image
of God created
he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them,
Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that
moves upon the earth.
Adam and Eve were created equal but
different. It is only after sin entered
that we read
Genesis 3:16 he shall rule over Unto the woman he said,
I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
in sorrow your shall bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to
thy husband,
and he shall rule over thee.
Over and over the word of God
preaches equality,
the priesthood of believers are
called brethren.
Matthew 23:8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your
Master,
even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith
in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into
Christ
have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither
bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
How dare we use
positions of service to promote ourselves to lord it over others.
Leadership courses
need to be changed to ‘Service Courses’,
or some other such
function not just name.
The only problem with
that is that is the attendance might drop to zero.
It is part of our
very nature to control others.
1 Corinthians 12:28 And God hath set some in
the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after
that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of
tongues.
These are positions of service to
edify and build up the body of Christ.
The same applies to our families.
Christ Himself, the great Creator God gave up His position to become a
mere man, a servant.
We all claim that we are following
His example, but are we?
John 13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well;
for so I am.
John 13:14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your
feet;
ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
John 13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye
should do as I have done to you.
John 13:16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant
is not greater than his lord;
neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
John 13:17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do
them.
This is not just an annual activity
but a daily spiritual activity.
Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or
vainglory;
but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than
themselves.
We all can benefit
from applying this more to each other.
We really have to
move from being intellectual Christians, to ones that practice
what we preach,
otherwise everything we do is futile and hypocritical.
This all has to start
in the home, love begins at home. It you cannot love at home
you certainly will
not be able to love anywhere else. You can put on a show
but it is only time before everything will be
made plain for all to see.
Many Christians are
excellent actors and could easily get Oscars etc.
What is certain is
that we do not fool God.
We can argue and
fight on our way to services in the car and by the time
we get out of the car
all is sweetness and light. In fact when partners hear
other people speaking
about their partners, they often wonder who on earth
they are speaking
about because they do not know the person that
they are hearing
about. It is certainly not the person with whom they live.
We can stand in
service as we sing with arms around each other and the reality
is those same arms
would dearly like to strangle the other partner.
Man was first of all
made to need God and secondly to need a mate.
Immediately the man
was made, he was put into a garden.
In this garden was
the tree of life, ‘Christ’ himself.
Adam was allowed to
partake of Christ if he so choose,
but he chose to do things
his own way, the way of independence,
away from God, the
knowledge of the tree of good and evil.
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in
Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow
every tree
that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of
life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good
and evil.
Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, you shall not eat of it:
for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.
This all took place even before Eve
was created.
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man
should be alone;
I will make him an help meet for him.
Put into the
beautiful garden and given access to eat of the ‘Tree of Life’,
Christ, only then was
he given a mate.
Genesis 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from
man,
made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones,
and flesh of my flesh:
she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Humanly a church is
just a collection of families.
Cooperation not
confrontation was the plan for man.
But today the
opposite thing is taking place everywhere.
Domination and
control of others has been the order of the day.
This has been an ongoing
situation for millennia in every area, governments,
the church etc. The
Roman Catholic church did this with priests, bishops,
popes and the
confessional. The bible was only for the priesthood.
It was generally kept
away from the laity until 1611.
The protestants
followed suit in similar manner with a learned ministry.
Although I am not for
a moment advocating ignorance,
Satan has been
allowed to have his seat right in the midst of God’s church
and the world’s
systems have been brought into the church instead of the church
taking the church
into the world. We let our homes our jobs our, our clothes,
our holidays
become the barometer of our success, whatever that means,
as our families fall
apart. Cars have become as an additional garment of clothing,
a status symbol, but
the person in spite of the make and type car is miserable
and wonders what is
the purpose of life.
Even scholarship and
education is used to smash families.
One person can think
I know more than the other partner therefore
I am better or more
spiritual than you, you poor unfortunate lost person.
The proof is not the
words that are spoken but the actual fruit.
John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my
disciples, i
if ye have love one to another.
The idea of control
is deeply entwined in the fabric of society.
In Britain the
current government is trying to take over some of the responsibilities
of the family because
of the failure of the family.
This is a nightmare
and a sad indictment on the family.
This issue is
addressed from Genesis to Revelation.
If we look at the
book of Revelation in the letters to the churches
All sorts of sins are
mentioned in these messages but regarding this topic,
there is what appears
to be an obscure statement about Nicolatans.
Who were the
Nicolaitans?
There was some type
of hierarchy of clergy and laity.
The word Nicolaitans
is an equivalent of the Greek word Nikolaos,
composed of two Greek
words – niko and laos. Niko means conquer
or above
others. Laos means common people, secular people, or laity.
So Nikolaos means
conquering the common people, climbing above the laity.
Nicolaitans, then,
must refer to a group of people who esteem themselves higher
than common
believers. This was undoubtedly the hierarchy followed
and established by
Catholicism and taken up by Protestantism.
This has also found
its way into the church. The Lord hates the works,
the behaviour, of
these Nicolaitans, and we must hate what the Lord hates.
Revelation 2:15 So hast thou also them that hold the
doctrine of the Nicolaitans,
which thing I hate.
If we truly loved God
and one another we would have no problems.
The point is we
cannot have this control and manipulation in the family
or in the larger family
the church. It is an abomination to God which He hates.
All Christians are
called to be a Holy nation, a nation of priests whose priority
in life is to serve
the living God. This is a tremendous honour.
We are all equal but
different. All have sinned, there are no exceptions,
regardless of what
our pride says.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither
bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision
nor
uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is
all, and in all.
The
letters in Revelation are addressed to the churches.
There
is no split within each church.
God
is not a respecter of persons.
A marriage will inevitably be an absolute nightmare, when there is a
third outside
adult involved in the marriage.
This is precisely the case for 1 billion Roman Catholics.
There is another human individual, in the person of the ‘Priest’,
who is involved in the marriage.
Through the abomination of the Confession, he completely controls the
marriage.
The reality is that the sad couple are not aware that this is what is taking
place.
It is a three in a bed situation.
The inner most secrets of the couple are known and exploited by many
priests.
His control over the couple is absolute.
The man was made the head of the woman in
order to prevent such situations
from arising. Unfortunately the man is
totally ignorant and deceived by this servant
of Satan, whom he welcomes as ‘an angel of
light’, into his home.
The destruction of his wife and daughters
then continues at great speed.
The priest replaces the husband as the
authority in the family.
Much Grace
p.j
Be Humble Repent Listen To The Eternal God Obey Him.
This is very easy to say, but
I assure you that it is physically impossible,
without the empowerment of the
Eternal God.
Attending some Church,
going up to an altar call, or isolating yourself,
in the hope that
somehow it will all be alright, will not do it.
What are you going to do about
it before it is too late?
See The Video: Obedience Is The Only Way Of Escape
. The only way out of
this dilemma is Jesus Christ.
. He
is the only way of escape.
. We have to be
under His Care and Protection.
. Salvation
by any other name or means,
. Simply does
not exist.
. Complete Obedience is
required
Praise
the Lord.
. Come soon Lord Jesus.
.
Amen.