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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.

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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     

                                  

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.                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.

                              

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