Matthew 3:1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
3:4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
3:5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
In those days came a man sent from God-"preaching."
If there is true preaching, there will be a preparing of the way for the Lord!
2Timothy 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
True preaching isn't popular is this hour. It's called a lot of different things but it is the only thing that will prepare the way for the Lord to come into the heart of the lost soul!
Paul charged Timothy to "preach the Word!" He said to Timothy, "you be prepared at all times to proclaim the Truth! When people are willing to hear it or when they refuse to hear. You preach the Word!
We must do the same. We're not out to win a popularity contest! We're not like a politician, trying to get someone to vote us as being a great preacher. We have been given a charge by God Himself to preach His Word!
If there is true preaching there will be true repentance.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
THERE'S A CRAZY MAN PREACHING!
This is a message by Jeb Jennings that he gave to me and has given me permission to post. For more messages go to: Destiny Home Daily.blogspot.com
In waiting upon God, we often learn that He is the one waiting___on us. When it comes to gardening, we know that God supplies the seed and the season, but waits on you to sow the seed. In a natural and spiritual garden, nothing will be accomphished if you do not move in faith and obedience.
Luke 1:17 declares of John the Baptist: "And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." This was literally fulfilled when John preached in the wilderness and pointed the people to Jesus, who came to be baptized in water.
Consider the background of Jesus and John the baptist. Both of their births had been supernaturally announced by an angel of the Lord and were confirmed by the prophet Isaiah. In addition to this, don't you know that once they were old enough to understand, their mothers rehearsed to them the events of their births?
As John was waiting upon God, he found his ministry outlined in Isaiah 40:3: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God....And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." This is why he could declare with such assurance that Jesus was going to be revealed: "And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel" (John 1:31). John knew that the preaching of, "One mightier than I cometh," would be confirmed by the Lord coming to be revealed to fulfill what was written.
It is absolutely certain that Jesus, as the Son of Man, did nothing without first waiting on the word from his Father. This being true, Jesus was waiting on John's ministry of preparation to begin in the desert. Until John got the word from heaven to proceed, Jesus couldn't proceed! It's an amazing thought: Jesus, who was God in the flesh, was working in a carpenters shop, waiting on a man to begin his ministry. As soon as he got word that, "There's a crazy man preaching in the Jordan", he began his ministry, fulfilling everything John declared.
The church collectively is one man___one body made up of many members. As the scripture's teach, we will end in unity that it might be fulfilled that which is written in the gospel of John 17:21, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." God is waitng on us to stand in the wilderness of our day and declare with one voice, "Jesus is coming to rule and reign on the earth as the supreme King of the universe." As surly as we declare it, he will fulfill it: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." (Thessalonians 4:16-17). He is waiting on you!
In waiting upon God, we often learn that He is the one waiting___on us. When it comes to gardening, we know that God supplies the seed and the season, but waits on you to sow the seed. In a natural and spiritual garden, nothing will be accomphished if you do not move in faith and obedience.
Luke 1:17 declares of John the Baptist: "And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." This was literally fulfilled when John preached in the wilderness and pointed the people to Jesus, who came to be baptized in water.
Consider the background of Jesus and John the baptist. Both of their births had been supernaturally announced by an angel of the Lord and were confirmed by the prophet Isaiah. In addition to this, don't you know that once they were old enough to understand, their mothers rehearsed to them the events of their births?
As John was waiting upon God, he found his ministry outlined in Isaiah 40:3: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God....And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." This is why he could declare with such assurance that Jesus was going to be revealed: "And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel" (John 1:31). John knew that the preaching of, "One mightier than I cometh," would be confirmed by the Lord coming to be revealed to fulfill what was written.
It is absolutely certain that Jesus, as the Son of Man, did nothing without first waiting on the word from his Father. This being true, Jesus was waiting on John's ministry of preparation to begin in the desert. Until John got the word from heaven to proceed, Jesus couldn't proceed! It's an amazing thought: Jesus, who was God in the flesh, was working in a carpenters shop, waiting on a man to begin his ministry. As soon as he got word that, "There's a crazy man preaching in the Jordan", he began his ministry, fulfilling everything John declared.
The church collectively is one man___one body made up of many members. As the scripture's teach, we will end in unity that it might be fulfilled that which is written in the gospel of John 17:21, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." God is waitng on us to stand in the wilderness of our day and declare with one voice, "Jesus is coming to rule and reign on the earth as the supreme King of the universe." As surly as we declare it, he will fulfill it: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." (Thessalonians 4:16-17). He is waiting on you!
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Examine Yourself
2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Every person that calls him or herself a Christian today must examine their life and all that they are associated with. We must be a separated people, wholly given to God and His true body of believers in Christ.
No time for playing hide and seek. We must come out from among the world and be separate saith the Lord!
2Corintians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
What we do, who we worship , and where we are being led is important in the hour!
Listen to this short but to the point message video. Run if you must! It's that urgent! Examine yourself, whether ye be in the faith!
Jesus is Coming! Souls are dying, men are crying, won't you lead them to the Cross?
Monday, October 1, 2012
First Church of the Converted Swineherds by A.W. Tozer
That prodigal son, look at him. A certain man had two sons and one of them said unto his father, "Give me the goods that falleth to me and he divided unto them, the two of them, the boys, his living. And after a few days the boy left - the younger - and went into a far country and there he spent his substance in riotous living. And when he became hungry and had nothing to eat he went and attached himself to a swineherd and
he fed swine. And he was there in the swine-pen and he got hungry because his wages wouldn't buy enough to eat. And it was a humbling thing for a Jew to feed swine.
And one day a man appears - and here I depart from the Scriptures. One day a young man appears and this young man says to this boy who had gone away from home and was feeding swine - he had a bundle of tracts, this young feller, he was just out of Bible school - and he had been taught how to win souls in nine easy lessons.
And he goes up to this prodigal son lying among the swine and he says, "I have good news for you!" And he looks up and says, "Thank God, I need it. I need good news. What is it?" "Your father is ready to forgive you!" "Well," the boy says, "thank the Lord!" "Your father is ready to forgive you; do you believe it?" And the boy says, "Yes, I believe it." "All right now, thank God now, let's bow our heads and you thank the Lord you're saved. You believe the father forgives you. Yes, well, Amen! Now, we'll thank the dear Lord that you're saved. And now goodbye! Don't forget to witness, and sometime I'll be around again."
So this swineherder stays right there in the far country and he gets zealous and missionary and he goes out and he starts to make converts among the other swineherds and pretty soon he has them all believing that the father forgives, and they all do, and say, "I thank God the father forgives." Alright, and then they build a little tabernacle call it the First Tabernacle of the Converted Swineherds. And they all stay right there in the far country; nobody goes home. And that boy is still ragged and dirty and smelly and the people -- the respectable people of the neighborhood - when they pass by elevate their nose and hurry by. And they say, "So persecuted they the prophets which were before us. It is the result of our holy living that they are giving us the cold shoulder."
Then one day while they are singing choruses in this First Church of the Converted Swineherds in the far country a young fellow comes along and asks permission to speak and he rises and says to them, "Put away your sins, ye wicked! Put away your sins! Learn to do good; cease to do evil, be righteous and follow the Lord and do good and you'll be saved." And they pick him up and throw him out and say, "He's a legalist!" and that he 'doesn't believe in grace.' "Why, we're saved by accepting the doctrine." But this young fellow wanders off and time goes on and the fatted calf gets old and dies and the father passes away and the boy stays on in the far country.
Now that's evangelism as it is preached a good deal today in America! It is, "Believe on Christ. Accept Christ and stay where you are!" Now that is excused and explained by a hundred different learned ways but it leaves the sinner in his sins! And the man in his sins will be damned as certainly as the sun rises in the east and goes down in the west!
he fed swine. And he was there in the swine-pen and he got hungry because his wages wouldn't buy enough to eat. And it was a humbling thing for a Jew to feed swine.
And one day a man appears - and here I depart from the Scriptures. One day a young man appears and this young man says to this boy who had gone away from home and was feeding swine - he had a bundle of tracts, this young feller, he was just out of Bible school - and he had been taught how to win souls in nine easy lessons.
And he goes up to this prodigal son lying among the swine and he says, "I have good news for you!" And he looks up and says, "Thank God, I need it. I need good news. What is it?" "Your father is ready to forgive you!" "Well," the boy says, "thank the Lord!" "Your father is ready to forgive you; do you believe it?" And the boy says, "Yes, I believe it." "All right now, thank God now, let's bow our heads and you thank the Lord you're saved. You believe the father forgives you. Yes, well, Amen! Now, we'll thank the dear Lord that you're saved. And now goodbye! Don't forget to witness, and sometime I'll be around again."
So this swineherder stays right there in the far country and he gets zealous and missionary and he goes out and he starts to make converts among the other swineherds and pretty soon he has them all believing that the father forgives, and they all do, and say, "I thank God the father forgives." Alright, and then they build a little tabernacle call it the First Tabernacle of the Converted Swineherds. And they all stay right there in the far country; nobody goes home. And that boy is still ragged and dirty and smelly and the people -- the respectable people of the neighborhood - when they pass by elevate their nose and hurry by. And they say, "So persecuted they the prophets which were before us. It is the result of our holy living that they are giving us the cold shoulder."
Then one day while they are singing choruses in this First Church of the Converted Swineherds in the far country a young fellow comes along and asks permission to speak and he rises and says to them, "Put away your sins, ye wicked! Put away your sins! Learn to do good; cease to do evil, be righteous and follow the Lord and do good and you'll be saved." And they pick him up and throw him out and say, "He's a legalist!" and that he 'doesn't believe in grace.' "Why, we're saved by accepting the doctrine." But this young fellow wanders off and time goes on and the fatted calf gets old and dies and the father passes away and the boy stays on in the far country.
Now that's evangelism as it is preached a good deal today in America! It is, "Believe on Christ. Accept Christ and stay where you are!" Now that is excused and explained by a hundred different learned ways but it leaves the sinner in his sins! And the man in his sins will be damned as certainly as the sun rises in the east and goes down in the west!
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