Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!( John 19:5).


Yet he was more than a man, he was the son of God, who came to take our sins upon himself, he who knew no sin became sin for you and I. Behold the man, who did for you and I want we could not do for ourselves. Behold the man, Jesus wept is perhaps the shortest verse in the scripture but yet its so powerful.(John 11:35) The son of God, felt our pain. Behold the man, who is the lamb of God. Behold the man, who is king of kings. Behold the man who is our redeemer. Behold the man, who loved me first, in him I can do all things without him I can do nothing. Behold the man who is the Good Shepard, Behold the man who hanged on that cross and suffered so that we could be considered the children of God. Behold the man, who left glory to and made himself of no reputation, for he came to glorify his father and do the works that the Father sent him to do.
Behold the man that we are to tell the world about, that even after he had been beaten and battered and bruised he ask the Father,  to grant  them forgiveness for they know not what they have done. Behold the man whom loved those that murdered him. Behold the man that through his suffering and pain we were granted eternal life and right to be called sons and daughters of the king.
 Behold the man, that I want my son to see in me, Behold the man that i want my daughter to say I will marry a Godly man like my Father because she see's Christ in me. Behold the man, that  will grant me the perfect love to give to my wife that I can love her with God's perfect love for his daughter. For she is the daughter of the king, therefore I want to love her with a royal love that only the Father has.

"For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written. That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." (Romans 3:3-4)

Many Christians are so intimidated by the arrogant unbelief of the supposed intellectuals of the world that they either reject or compromise or ignore the difficult teachings of Scripture. This is a grievous mistake, for all of God's "sayings" are "justified" and He will surely "overcome" all those who presume to "judge" Him and His Word.

The only reason to believe in evolution, for example, is the fact that most such intellectuals believe it. There is no real evidence, either in the Bible or in science, for evolution or any other form of unbelief, yet many professed believers in Christ seem to have "loved the praise of men more than the praise of God." Therefore they assume that God does not really mean what He says in His Word, thereby making faith in His Word "without effect."

"But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings" (Hebrews 2:9-10).

Christ is referred to in this passage as the captain of our salvation. The word translated captain implies one who is first in line, the beginning, or the originator. So Christ is discovered to be the first in line of an endless procession of the saints of all ages resurrected from the grave and marching to the ultimate realization of their salvation. 
He wants to be the captain in your life,are willing and ready to grant him that ability, like in the book of Revelation Christ says that he stands at the door knocking, we but have to open the door and let him in. How many times have you run around trying to steer your life in the right direction.

Are you a Christian

Are you a Christian

Yes you read it right!!!! I ask the question again for those that might not realize how serious of a question this is.

I start off with opening myself up to you, so that you know that I do not judge any of you for I can only speak of myself and my faults. Mine is in the hopes that each of us will self examine our believes, and bring our selves before the Lord and that select group of brothers or sisters that God has appointed in your life for this season.

This question was asked of me in 2001 by my brother Steve Miller AKA my Nathan. He and I were stationed together back when I was in the Navy in San Diego. He approached me and informed me that his computer was not functioning..I told him I would have one of my staff members look at his computer, and returned to my office, shortly after, Steve appeared again, this time he asked me "Willis are you a Christian?" at that moment I thought to my self 5 lbs of pressures, applied properly, can kill a grown man. I wanted to apply it right then and there. For you see I had been ordained Pastor in 1997 at Mt. Maria Baptist Missionary Church in San Diego, I grew up in Christian family sang in the church choir. I came to this church with a friend to sing in their choir. To later become a Sunday School Teacher the Sunday School Supervisor,the to becoming an ordain deacon and to becoming an ordain Minister and a Pastor. Sound like I had it all together with my walk??? If I did I was about to loose it. For about the same time I got the call to be a Pastor and was happy. Little did I know my ex-wife had allowed the deacon to sleep with her. The same deacon I had sought wisdom from because he was older. Had plotted to sleep with my wife because he wanted to know what it was like to sleep with a white woman. I thought I could weather this storm. Forgive and forget, yea I couldn't forget. So I went to my senior Pastor with this issue and both the Deacon and my ex-wife denied it. My ex later confessed the truth to my senior Pastor and claimed she as afraid of the deacon's wife. I left that church, I got invited by Pastor Chuck Murphy to be his assist Pastor and youth Pastor at Brothers Keeper. But soon my ex-wife would not be able to remain together. So finally I left the church with shame and the thought that God had done this to me... Though I had sin also, before my divorce was final I slept and now am married to the wonderful woman I call my wife. Most of you know her as Dee, still not sure why she married me except perhaps a chemical imbalance. For give me as digress for a moment there.

My response to Steve question was. "Look Steve I will get someone to look at your computer!!!!" He repeated his question "are you a Christian?", now everyone in my office is now staring at me. I quickly turned to him and said yes I'm a Christian now leave me alone. Still with full calmness he said then come to church with me.
He did let go till I attend church at Maranatha a Calvary Chapel. I found that as soon as starting to go there life got better. (but look out cause the story is about to get better)

My truck broke down on the side of the freeway, a brother from the church Mike came and picked myself up and Dee and my ex-wife was also attending the church at my invitation.
and offered to pay the bill. So he picked me up on base the next time and drove me to pick up my truck. The cost was over 600.00, it seemed for a while after that attack after attack was happening to me. " The closer you draw to the Lord the more the enemy wants you died." Now if there be any among you who said I don't like this whole suffering thing for Christ. Then do this block my emails get ride of your bible and never call on God 's name again. The enemy will leave you alone. But the moment you step out for Christ you become a marked brother or sister.

OK now back to my question, I feel after I have shared with each of you where I have been that I can ask this question of you and I would like for you to think about and then email me back.

1. Are you a Christian?
a.. Does love abide in you ?

If someone at your job need to find a Christian would they know that you are one?
Have you ever been called out in public about if your a Christian?
Would you and can you put the needs of others before yourself?
Are you willing to be uncomfortable to please God?

I ask you the same question that has been posed to me over the last 8 years, and I find myself going No I'm not but I'm working on it.
For you see, I can not lie love does not always abide in me. I have had brothers call me but I didn't want to talk at that moment. Oh selfish man I was, for how did I know if God sent that brother to me as His saving grace. How would I have felt if tomorrow I found out that brother took his life, I was his last hope but I didn't want to be bothered. I wanted to rest because I worked a 14 hour day. Or the kids and my wife were driving me crazy, maybe my back was hurting. Or the moon and the stars weren't lined up properly for me to speak to him etc.... Does someone know I'm a Christian yes the other hiding Christian know because we all hide in the same fox hole together, to afraid of what men think of us??? Good questions since this email is going to some co-workers you tell me. The Last two question most of the time I would say no. Because as human beings we tend to want life to be about us. We say we care about others, as long as it does not require us to get outside our comfort zone.

So am I Christian, some of you tell me I am yet I do not do all the things that Christ did. Christ told his accusers that questioned him about why he healed on the Sabbath day. He told them he did those things which he saw his Father do. Yet I know that Christ forgave sins, he was a healer, blessed man, he was a friend to the friendless. He puts the needs of this brothers first. He was consistent in his duties,I am not. Flawed, that I am yet I do I give up? nay I say I do not for I know that if I'm to be like Christ I must first die to self. Meaning I must be willing to put the needs of others before mine..

 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the
members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is
Christ (1Corinthians 12:12).

Each individual believer IS also part of the Body of Christ,
which is composed of all believers.

(This is the work of God. Not something we "join.")

Think how insane it would be for you to allow your hand to
attack some other member of your body. It's just as crazy for
us, as members of the Body of Christ, to attack other members.
For as we have many members in one body, but all the members
do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually
members of one another.

Other members have different callings -- different functions.
But your job is not to oppose them -- even though you may not
understand them, or why they do what they do. Just leave that
to the Head of the Body -- and do what He tells YOU to do.

You are not the Head of the Body of Christ -- Jesus is. He is
responsible for, and capable of, coordinating all we do so our
actions will accomplish His plan. Members of a body have
different functions, but all are necessary for the body to
function properly.

When you don't obey Jesus, the Head of the Body, you are a drag
on the rest of the members.

Think what a difficult time you would have accomplishing
anything if each member of your body did whatever it felt like
-- instead of obeying orders from your brain.

You might wander why does he always talking about the same old things, love and support and unity? The same reason you wouldn't have a child and leave it in the woods for he/she to survive on their on. For not one among us is self sufficient. Lord God it is my prayer that something in what has been said here will be a blessing or seed planted. God bless each of  us and let us keep our focus on you Lord.  Remember to keep your brothers and sisters in prayer, who are standing on the front line in ministry. I want you to be a blessing to someone that you never thought about blessing before. See how beautiful it can be.
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Man shall not live by bread alone

Man shall not live by bread alone

Ever have some one make you a promise and then later break or it? Or just forgot Ever had to depend on someone who fell through and left you hanging because you trusted that they would come through for you? There is but on whom you can always trust on and his word is forever and never chaning.

MATTHEW 4:3-4 
3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, "If You are the
Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
4 But He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth
of God.' "


When tempted, Christ did not use any supernatural powers to
resist the devil. Christ simply quoted the written Word of God
to the devil.


You must do the same thing. Christ was our example, showing us
how to overcome the attacks of our enemy.


Notice how the devil came to tempt Christ -- with a thought -- a
thought contrary to the written Word of God.


Then after Christ quoted the Bible, the devil also quoted the
Bible but twisted the meaning. Christ responded only with
another verse from the Bible.


MATTHEW 4:6-7
6 and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself
down. For it is written: 'He shall give His angels charge over
you,' and, 'In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you
dash your foot against a stone.' "
7 Jesus said to him, "It is written again, 'You shall not tempt
the LORD your God.' "


If you read the whole passage in Matthew 4:1-11, you will see
that quoting the written Word was the only defense Jesus used
against the devil. Nothing else.


If you would overcome temptation and walk in victory, you must
follow Jesus' example and quote the Bible to the devil. There
is no other way.


God's Word in your mouth is your spiritual weapon. If you
neglect to use it, you will be overcome instead of walking in
all the victory and blessing Jesus has provided for you.


EPHESIANS 6:17 
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God;


Obviously you must know what the Bible says to quote it to the
devil. So it is evident how important it is to read and study
the Bible for yourself.


Yet it is not enough to just read the Bible or study it. When
thoughts come that are not in agreement with the Bible, we must
speak the Word to the devil who is behind those thoughts.

Jesus Jesus Jesus

Jesus Jesus Jesus

Everything I need is in the Name of Jesus

We go and we look at vitamins to ensure that we get what our bodies need daily.

Yet Jesus is truly what we need, there is nothing more than him.

Whether it be alcohol, drugs, sexual addiction, depression.

The bible says no weapon formed against you shall prosper.

Jesus is all we need, no body else can give site to the blind.

Jesus is the only one we know that walked on water.

Jesus is the only one who could pay the price for you and I.

Jesus I want to say thank you for came down from glory.

Jesus you became a man of flesh and blood and suffered much for me.

You saw that field and sold all to have us.

Christ left glory to have not even a pillow to lay his head upon.

So next time when you start thinking about what your going through.

Remember Christ paid the price that you and I can could not pay.

So let each of us die to ourselves and be a blessing to someone else.

Let us remember this when a brother or sister has a need.

Christ saw our need and realize that we could not pay it ourselves.

He is more than my savior, he is my redeemer, he is my will .

He is the only friend I have in the middle of the night.

He is the only one who will love me even when I fall short of his will.

He is the only one who loved me for me regardless of how messed up I'm.

Oh precious is the blood of Jesus, that was shade for a sinner like me.

Lord God I want to thank you for son's blood that gives me eternal life.

Because of Christ I live, because of his blood I have hope.

Because he loved me so much I'm redeemed and so are you.

So tonight join me in saying Jesus, thank you Jesus.

For without him we would not be here. For justice had

already demand that we should die for our sins. But

thank God Christ had already told the Father that. when

man sins, I will go down and die for him.

What a love for his creation,

Love Means Giving

Love Means Giving

 John 3:16  16 For God so loved the world, that he gave . . .  You cant give without loving, but you can't love without giving.  When you love you will give of your time, you will give of yourself, and you will give of your resources. Those who truly love, hold nothing back.  The measure of your giving reveals the measure of your love.  Love is something we can't see, but we can see the evidence of love in the action it produces, which is giving.  If you love someone you will also give them forgiveness. Love causes you to be merciful, understanding, and forgiving.  Where you give your time and resources also reveals what you love. If we think we love someone, yet never give to them of our time or resources, then we are just deceiving ourselves.  There are many people in each of our lives who need and deserve our love.  Christ is the most deserving of all! Christ proved 

that he had love for us all, because he gave his life for you and I.

It is said there is no greater gift than a man to lay down his life for another.

Well Christ did that for you and while we were  still yet his enemies.

Are you tired of being a closet Christian??? Who at your work could say

that they know your Christian not because you have a bible on your desk

 or because you smile a lot or listen to Christian music. Can you say

that others know you are a Christian because of the love that give to others???

    Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.

 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up (Daniel 3:15-18).

    I've always love the boldness of these three Hebrew boys, for they looked the king in the face and said our God is able to deliver us from this but even if he does not we will not worship your god's.  Are you bold for Jesus? Have you taken a stand like these three young men?  or as Joshua said as for me and my family we shall serve the Lord God, Oh men of God its times we begin to be bold in our home, its time we tell the enemy he has  place in our homes, no place in our children's lives, that he will not enter our home via the television or the music that our kids listen to. That we will guard our children s eyes  their ears and their hearts, we start with us being the example, by us being bold and standing up for what is right even when the world says we are wrong for doing so.

   Tim Tebow announces to the world with pride that he is a christian and that he is still a virgin, yet the world finds it funny, when half of the NFL players have children out of wedlock  and are in the news media being shown going in and out of court for  child support issues. So the world see's their behavior as being okay but a young man wanting to remain pure for Jesus as being a weirdo or some have called him gay. How sad is this, that laying in a pig pen is considered better than sitting at the right hand side of the king. For we are the children of the king which means we have no business laying in a pig pens aka sin.  Its time oh men of God to be bold and be the example for our children and our wives, for our neighborhood, for our co-workers and other brothers in Christ who might be straddling the fence.

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From Conception to Birth

Explore and uncover the miraculous story of a new life forming.

Conception begins when a male reproductive cell (sperm cell), successfully fuses with the female reproductive cell ( egg cell. ) After the fusion of the sperm and egg is the fusion of their genetic materials. Cell division follows. The zygote ( cell formed by the fusion of the sperm and egg ) divides into two, four, eight, and so on.

Changes happen in every stage of embryonic development. At 25 days, the embryo curves into C shape and the arches that form the face and neck are becoming evident under the enlarging forebrain. The primitive heart is beating. The development of the limb buds are also visible, and the hand plates are noticeable in day 44. At 56 days, the circulatory system is given an emphasis as well as the developed organs of the embryo: the brain, heart, umbilical cord, vertebrae, stomach, kidneys, lungs, and liver. At this stage, all the major organs are in place.

The genitalia of a 56 day old fetus inside womb is visible. Though the indifferent penis is visible, the sex of the baby is not clear from external appearance until week 12. At 7 months, it is noticeable that the fetus is in fetal position where the legs are drawn up, because of the limited space in the uterus. The arms, legs, and toenails are fully formed. At 9 months, the skull can be seen showing the unconnected bony plates called fontanels. These fontanels are significant for fetal brain's protection and they allow the head to elongate and mold during childbirth, then return to a rounded shape.

At 9 months, the baby is ready for delivery. The baby in position for birth, the baby then rotates down, pushes out and comes out headfirst. In order to squeeze the baby through the pelvic canal, the mother's bones pop open in the middle. 

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After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram a vision, saying : 'Fear not, Abram, I am they shield, thy reward shall be exceeding great.' (Genesis: 15:1)


Why is that we fear? Is it because we fear that which we do not understand? Or is that we fear because our faith is not strong enough? For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but instead power and love and a sound mind  (2 Timothy 1:7). 
 Yet we see that Abram did not listen for if you look when Abram went down into Egypt because there was a famine in the land. he lied to because he was filled with fear, told Sar'ai  his wife  to say she was his sister, for he feared that Pharaoh would have him killed and take Sar'ai for his on because she was a very beautiful woman.
When the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, he-asses, menservants, maidservants, she-asses, and camels. But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sar'ai, Abram's wife. So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, 'What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? Why did you say, "She is my sister," so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone.' And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had." 
Let us not fear but trust in the Lord, for he has not brought us this far to leave us, for with fear comes doubt like Abram we must not doubt the Lord God. We are soldier in his army and we must not fear but stand and fight.




Heavenly Father grant us your perfect peace that we should believe the lies of the enemy but trust that you did not bring this far to leave us, as you delivered Abram so can you deliver us. 

"And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Luke 5:31-32


Until we as brothers/sisters accept Christ as our Lord and savior we do not realize just how sick we are. We do not realize that we are the walking dead. Paul himself admits that until he became saved that he did not realize it was sin. Christ came to set the sinner free to offer him/her a chance to be redeemed.  As Christians our job is to share the good news, with those that are sick and are in need of the great physician which is Jesus Christ. My son Yordon  walked out the house one day headed for school, I asked him if was aware that he had food on his face. He replied no dad I did not, once he was made aware of the truth he then sought to fix the issue. The issue here is sin, as long one remains in it. Eternal damnation is what awaits that person  eternal pain gnashing of teeth and much suffer. We have the chance to keep many from heading down a road that leads directly to hell.  Lord grant us your perfect words that we might speak into the lives of those lost, to those who have been deceived by the ruler of this world.  Let us be a reflection of you that your marvelous light would shine into the darkness and they would not fear the light but be drawn to it. So that we might share the good news with them.

Oh men of God here is another favorite of mine from 2011


Stand up oh men of God
Stand up 
Stand up oh men of God
For where are our Courageous men of God????
Where are they???

Oh men of God, hear me today we battle not against  flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. The battle that rages on daily is for your soul, though he uses the desires of the flesh as his weapon against you oh men of God. Rise up oh men of God and fall down upon your knees daily humbling yourself before the Lord your God and confessing our great need to be healed of sexual immorality.  If your a brother who does not battle with this issue praise God for you. Now lock arms with a brother who does battle with sexual immorality, stand in the gap for him in prayer and encourage him in the word and be there for him lean upon.

2 Chronicles 34:

¹⁹And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
 ²⁰And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
 ²¹Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.

Now notice that Josiah didn't say, it just human nature,he didn't say come on let not be legalistic about all of this. Instead he was outraged and tore his clothing realizing that he and his people had been displeasing to God.

Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the land belonging to the Israelites.
Oh men of God what is in your life right now that you have made an idol of?
What things are your eye's seeing that are harming your walk with God?
Men deal with their sexual nature, women may not or can not always understand it. Perhaps there are some sisters among us that are also dealing with their sexual nature.  Search yourself and find out what things have you put before your worship of God. 

JOB 31:

 ⁹ “If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
      Or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door. Job speaks about allowing our hearts and our eyes to wonder.  Paul speaks to us about our sexual nature, yes if it were just a switch that men could turn on and off or the wife could turn it off till she desires you to have it on.  That would perhaps be easier, but instead it is always on.  So we must guard our hearts, if the Lord has provided you with a wife then give thanks and look upon her and see the glory of the Lord in what he has given you seek your joy no place else.
I know, I know that Television, movies, billboard and even women in your work place or the mall etc... dress and act in a manor that temps many of us.  But we are not dogs nor are we tail of the ass, we son of the Living God. Take up your authority in Christ and stand up against these things that would become idols and steal your heart and eyes away from God and your spouse.
Oh men of God gather about yourselves 2 or 3 men of good reputation to stand with you in the gap, as you over come the idols in your life.  Perhaps in your house the Television need to be removed for a season, or parental controls or just watch Christian DVD's, or spend that time in fellowship with your spouse and family.  Maybe that computer needs to be turned off or removed, there is software that can block those site that divert your heart and eyes from God and your spouse.  Anything that comes between you and God and your spouse  is an idol. For God your spouse and you are 3 strands cord and must remain that way if your marriage is to remain firm and strong and fruitful as the Lord God desires it to be, then you must live holly as our Lord God is holly.

Matthew 15: 19 tells me that out of the heart of a man comes evil  Sexual immorality and a list of others issues but we are speaking on man's sexual issues. Sexual issues with man kind is not new, most women might want to believe that but from the moment Eve showed up man has been dealing with sexual issues.  So sisters instead of rebuking your man and causing him to crawl deeper into his sin cave, let him know that you might not understand what he is feeling or why he is feeling it,  but that you are there to support him in prayer let him that your arms are wide open for him come and feel your loving embrace and know that you are the Godly woman that Christ gave to him to stand with him and if need be in front of him in this battle. Key is that knows he is no longer alone and he can come out of that cave. That he can stand up again no longer cowry down and hide in the darkness in shame, cause sisters Lucifer has marked your marriage for destruction. Will you stand by and let him do that ? While most men may be foolish enough to think it is only effecting them, the truth of the matter is Lucifer's wants to destroy your home your children and your marriage. Simply because he knows that God ordained marriage.

Sisters I want to speak to you for a second, do not use sex as a reward or a punishment for your husband. For your body is not your own but his and his yours.  Do not become a stumbling block to your husband.  Be his comfort and his helpmate, he may not understand now but he needs your love more than he can ever understand or know.

Like a roaring lion going back and forth looking for whom he might devour, men do not become Lucifer's next meal. Stand tall oh men of God, wives love your husbands and support them in prayer daily. Men girt up yourself in the holly garments of the Lord, that you might resist the sins of the flesh.

I encourage you men to get a copy of Every man's Battle, women  read it also. If you know of brother or sister that has issues dealing with sexual immorality then this books is a good book to read and be encouraged by it.

I call  it the 2011 rehash, because there will be many remixes for 2012 things I really need my brothers in Christ to  take it as more than just words on a blog. Sister these words perhaps might be helpful in aiding your husband or brother or even father in his struggle. TO often men of God hide in their sin caves, buying the lies of the devil that, God does not care, that your spouse does not care, your heavenly Father's cares, He created you and that purpose was not to follow into the hands of the evil one and be destroyed. You were created for his pleasure and his joy to worship the creator not to worship the creation.

Be not like the Unsaved

What is adultery?  extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations. Which often leads to divorce,  the Greek word moicheia. Its primary meaning was sexual intercourse between a married woman and any man other than her husband.  Adultery destroys marriages. The adulterer shows total disregard for the marriage vows and for his or her spouse. In this passage, Jesus reminds us that not only should we always be faithful, we should also avoid the lustful fantasies that can cloud our judgment and tempt us into actual adultery:   Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. (Hebrews 13:4)

"Thou shalt not commit adultery" Exodus 20:14  Not only has God forbidden adultery, but the son of God himself said, "Whoso looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart" Matthew 5:28. If the adulterous thought is sin, surely the adulterous act is sin. The Holy Spirit through the inspired apostle has told us plainly that adultery is a sin. Peter described some sinners of his day as having "eyes full of adultery, that cannot cease from sin" II Peter 2:14. 
We are living in an age where sin is portrayed as a mere illness of the body or mind; when sin is denied or laughed off, when sin is rationalized as merely doing one's own thing, or doing what comes naturally. But a belief in the Holy God and respect for the authority of his word demands that adultery be recognized and acknowledged for what it is . . . sin.
The seriousness of the sin of adultery can be seen in several ways. Under the law of Moses the penalty was death by stoning. (Deuteronomy 22:21).  An impenitent adulterer cannot  enter the kingdom of heaven.


God has graciously provided -for the sexual desires of men and women to be satisfied only in marriage. It should be made clearly noted, however, that the sin of adultery, as serious in God's sight, and as hateful as it -is to those who commit it, it is forgivable! The story of Jesus and the woman who was taken in adultery  shows that adultery may be forgiven when God's conditions of pardon are met.
When sexual immorality of all kinds surrounds us on every side, may all of us desire to be, and strive to be, pure in heart and life. Like Joseph, when tempted by Potiphar's wife, can say "How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?" Genesis 39:9.

Adultery kills, it often times leads to divorce, because the wounded party is not able to heal from the pain that was cause by the unfaithful spouse's selfish actions for self pleasure.
Did you know this?

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Discovered that among  Baptists that they have the highest divorce rate of any  Christian denomination, and are more likely to get a divorce than
atheists and agnostics, according to a national survey.   The survey conducted by Barna Research Group in Ventura, Calif., found that 29 percent of all adult Baptists have been through a divorce. Among Christian groups, only those who attend non-denominational Protestant  churches were more likely to be divorced, with a 34 percent divorce rate.  Barna Research Group interviewed 3,854 adults from the 48 continental tates, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percent. The surveys found that while just 11 percent of the adult population is currently divorced, 25 percent of all adults have experienced at least one divorce, the survey showed. 

Twenty seven percent of those describing themselves as born-again Christians are currently or have previously been divorced, compared to 24 percent among other adults.   Major Christian denominations, Catholics and Lutherans have the lowest divorce rate at 21 percent, according to Barna. People who attend mainstream Protestant churches have an overall divorce rate of 25 percent. 

The levels vary among non-Christian groups, Barna reported. Jews have a divorce rate of 30 percent, while atheists and agnostics have a relatively low rate of 21 percent, according to the survey.

The survey found that Mormons, who emphasize strong families, are near the national average at 24 percent.   The study found that the South and Midwest had 27-percent divorce rates, while the rates were 19 percent in the Northwest and 26 percent in the
West.

Whites are more likely to have had a divorce, at 27 percent, than Blacks (22 percent), Hispanics (20 percent) and Asians (8 percent), Barna found. 

Adultery has had  a major effect on Christian marriages, we can blame it on the internet, we can blame it on Television, but bottom line is that as Christians we have forgotten our first love which is Christ. Instead many among us are willing to trade our spiritual walk with Christ, for the pleasures of the flesh.

Adultery makes the vows you have made before the Lord God and friends and family none valid.  Adultery is a tool used by the enemy to destroy that which God has put together.  Oh men of God stand up and girt up your loins. Oh women of God, guard your hearts and let no man put asunder, that which God. Bottom line, the man God has given you in marriage is the man you are to have sex with, men of God rejoice and taste the sweetness of the fruits in which your wife has to offer you. 

My Redeemer Lives (Bring it back one more time)

My Redeemer Lives (Bring it back one more time)

Yes  for those of you that noticed this is a rehashing of devotional already written, and if you didn't notice then either you didn't read it the first time or it didn't do anything for you. Does not matter here it is again. Read it study and believe in him for he is our redeemer.

To redeem someone requires something valuable as a ransom. Silver and gold and precious metal. However, we were redeemed with something even more valuable--the precious blood of Christ.  He is not just a redeemer; he is our kinsman redeemer. 



My redeemer lives, Matthew 28: (v 6)The followers of Christ are told he is no longer in the grave for he has risen. Redeemer is define as :  deliver: save from sins or restore the honor or worth of.  Christ did exactly that for you and I. We  are reminded in  Isaiah 64; that our righteousness was like filthy rags. Meaning we needed a redeemer, God choose his only begotten son to be that kinsman redeemer.

In 1st Peter chapter 1 we are informed as to how we were redeemed, knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,  but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.  He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you and I. Again we needed him to set us free for we were bond by sin and enslaved to it.  Christ paid the ransom for us and set us free when he rose on that 1st day of the week we now know as Sunday we also rose with him.  He made us new creatures in Christ because of his ransom we are redeemed.

 He is not just a redeemer; he is our kinsman redeemer. Christ agreed from the foundation of the world to be our redeemer (Revelation 13:8). He came down from heaven as the bread of life (John 6:35). He took on the life of the flesh and was tempted in all points even as we are, and yet did not sin (Hebrews 4:15). He is our elder brother (Hebrews 2:11).

Leviticus 25:47-49 gives us a better idea of what the Hebrew bible says  a redeemer is and does.

Colossians 2:13-14 shows how Christ paid our debt for sin when he was nailed to  to the cross, as payment for our sins.

"And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross."

 Because the redeemer lives then does that not mean that the price was paid for you and I? You now have been made righteous before the Lord. Oh men of God stop trying to redeem yourselves through works, for they have failed you before you begun. Have faith in the Lord your God, that when he said it was finished he meant it.  So rejoice for our redeemer lives and so do we,  with him for eternity. So my brothers/sisters that is the good new, one day very soon the redeemer shall return and there will be no more crying or dieing  he shall wipe away every tear.  

May the Lord Keep and continue to bless and directly in your daily struggles.

And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 18:2-3)

 

Many adult Christians  find it hard to understand! They must become like little children before they can really comprehend the way of salvation and be converted. Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein, there is no ambiguity in that statement.  As a child I did not question the instructions of my earthly father I accepted and did what I was told. I trust his words to be true, though I did not always understand his actions or decision he was father. Now how much more am I  to trust our heavenly Father who is perfect my earthly father made mistakes. But God almighty does not. SO put your whole trust in him, not treasures that can be stolen away or rust. I asked my daughter once if she trusted me and she replied yes daddy so I asked her to jump and I would catch her and she did and by God's grace I caught and she was safe. Our father in heaven wants us to have that kind of blind trust that a child has for his/her parent. Jesus compared himself to a mother hen and us to the baby chicks and said how he would love to gather us under his wing and keep us safe but how could he when we do not believe or trust him.


Aren't you tired of trying it your way?  Want you come back home to your first love ? Want you return home to your father's loving arms? He has been waiting for you son/daughter to come home  submit to his perfect will and trust him with your very all. After all you trust that when you sit down  in that chair will support your weight, that your car will stop once you engage the brake.  He died for you, and all he asked is for you to trust him and believe in him.

 

"If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it." (1 John 5:16)

 

The "sin unto death" is, in context, a sin committed by a Christian "brother," not an unbeliever, and so is not the socalled "unforgivable sin," the blasphemy against theHoly Spirit. Christ said the latter sin cannot be forgiven, "neither in this world, neither in the world to come."  It is the ministry of the Holy Spirit to convict unbelievers "of sin, because they believe not on me." If a person irrevocably rejects Christ, even after he fully understands the evidences of His deity, His substitutionary death with its offer of salvation, and the awful consequences of eternity without Him, then he hath done despite to the Spirit of grace. In effect, he has put his faith in Satan rather than Christ, and there is nothing more that God's Holy Spirit can do. This is the truly unforgivable sin.

 

A true Christian will not commit that  sin. If he/she is deliberately continues to practice ungodliness in life or doctrine, however, refusing to repent, not even responding to God's chastening discipline we must question their walk with God and their comment to his word. Paul told the church of Corinth to remove a young man who was having relationships with his father's wife and many of the church members knew about and did or said nothing.


No one want to be chastened, but the love of the brothers is greater to chasten another than to let him/her go down the pit of hell where there is no return. If we love each other let us hold each other accountable in love. To deny Christ as Lord and savior, you are calling the word and the holy spirit a liar, if he was not who he said he was, why would he say  I go to prepare a place that I might return to receive you?  Why if he was without sin would he take upon him the sins of the world? What man among you would suffer for an unrighteous man?  Christ died for a man like me who was born in sin, without him I would have died in sin.