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  • The Only Sinless Sacrifice

    John,

    It is so good to read the Blog on “The Only Sinless Sacrifice” and feel inside that “yes, that’s right.”  With what we have learned through the journey of the Father & Son book, that Blog instantly feels right when you read it.  Even if it was never a conscious thought before, when you hear/read a truth through the lens of the Holy Ghost, you just feel it. 

    That one statement, that Mary’s son had the same sinful nature of man before God’s son took his abode inside, would be blasphemy among most of God’s people.  Yet, knowing when a person is born again, and what happened at the Jordan river with Jesus, and that God had a son before Mary did, and . . .  [It’s hard to sum up in one paragraph all we have taken in and learned during the Father &. Son book 🙂 ] . . . helps us to see how true it is.

    To hear and understand something that would be blasphemy to most, and to feel the Holy Ghost echo “yes that’s right” – what a treasure that is!  

    Richard

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    The Only Sinless Sacrifice

    I thought you might be interested in reading this and giving it some thought.

    I asked my father one time, “Was Jesus sinless before the Son of God came and took up his abode in Mary’s Son at the Jordan River?”  His reply?  “It doesn’t matter.”  Amen!  It doesn’t matter what you or I were, either, or how we lived before the Son of God took up his abode in us!  Thank God!

    Here is the comment I added (as a footnote) to the Father and Son book today:

    Even if a man had offered up his son as a sacrifice for the world’s sins, it would have been unacceptable to God because all humans, including Mary’s son Jesus, are sinful by nature, which would have made the sacrifice unacceptable.  Only God’s Son was sinless, both before he came to earth and afterwards.

  • Missing Spirits

    Thanks John,

    The Blog on “Missing Spirits” refreshed my soul and heart. I love truth when I hear it. I love truth about Jesus and his Father. I can see more every day how this world could “wear out the saints of God”.  But Jesus will give us faith in our last days.

    Jimmy T

  • 1000 Year Reign

    Hi John,

    When the righteous reign with Christ during the 1000 yr reign, who will we be reigning over?  Doesn’t the 1000 years start after cataclysmic events that kill most everyone?

    In regards to current state of our world, I have been comforted knowing that God is in control, and everything that is happening is happening under his control. Is that true? When you prayed the other day for Obama and our government, I was confused about how we should feel.

    While I pray for my babies and their babies and their spiritual condition and future, are we to pray for the direction that our country takes? I have felt that God is using Obama to do exactly what he is doing.

    Would love your correction on this.

    Hope all is well!

    Patty

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    Hi, Patty.

    Good to hear from you!

    According to the prophets, though billions will have been killed by the plagues and disasters that precede Jesus’ return, there will be nations still on earth after he comes.  Ezekiel even says that 1/6 of the Beasts’ army will survive the gruesome Battle of Armageddon (Ezek. 39:2) at the end of which blood flows about five feet deep for two hundred miles (Rev. 14:20).  Those nations and surviving soldiers are the people over which the Lord and his saints will reign for a thousand years.

    As for praying for the leaders of the nation, we are commanded to do that, for God is the One who puts those people in office, the best ones as well as the worst ones.  He uses them all for His inscrutable purposes, and we had best not interfere with His work.  We pray for our rulers because, according to Paul, we may have peace in our time by doing so (1Tim. 2:1-2).  Other than that, God’s obedient children stay out of politics and pray for whoever is cursed by God to be made a ruler of this world before Jesus returns.

    Pastor John

  • Wednesday Night Meeting (11/4/2015)

    Pastor John:

    Loving the truth no matter what, that is loving the Father and the Son. My, my!  Thank you Jesus!  I love the words of Darren’s song, Give Me All of You: “and what we have inside will last for ever more.” It is overwhelming how much he really cares for our hearts.  And Gary’s testimony, “God’s way’s are thrilling” – Amen Gary!!!  For God to give Gary 9 songs in one day!  What an honor and blessing it is to be a part of what God is doing with us, this body.  I loved what Earl said about God touching us.  Out of all the people on this earth, we are here in this blessed place! 

    As I was watching tonight, I kept looking at every face in the room and thanking God and Jesus for being allowed to know such wonderful people.  This is not a light thing.  It does not have to be this way.  It makes me value each and everyone more then ever, each person I would look at and think about I could feel and see ever price each one of us have paid.  Each one has loved the truth more then anything else and made choices to keep the love of the truth alive in them to be here right now.  It is beautiful to be a part of it!! This is not normal in this world, it comes from above.

    Thank you John.

    Stuart  

  • Thankful!

    Hey Brother John,

    Had my 2nd infusion today and all went well.  No side effects at all.

    Also, I was blessed so much last night.  I felt so much love from everyone.  I don’t know that I could count on two hands the number of people that asked me how I was doing.  And when I went up for prayer, I don’t know who all prayed for me, but it sure felt good.  It made me love all of them even more and I never want to let that go.  I pray that Jesus never lets me forget those feelings.  Those are the kind of feelings that I anticipate having on the new earth.  What a wonderful life Jesus has given us.

    Billy H.

     

  • The Impossible New Way

    Very powerful encouragement.  ​God bless you for all this.

    Amen pastor.

    ​Denish O.​​

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    The Impossible New Way 

    Jesus did not suffer and die for something we already possessed or could already do.  If man had it or could do it before Jesus came, then what need was there for the Lamb of God to die to make it possible for us?  The “new and living way” that Jesus made for us was impossible for ​men before he came.  And that new ​way of life includes nothing that the flesh can do; it is entirely of the Spirit and in the Spirit.  This is why Paul said that if we live after the flesh, we will die, but if after the Spirit, we will live. 

    ​We were all living after the flesh before Jesus came, but ​with his sacrificial death, he made it possible for us to live a new way, and in this way of the Spirit, there is no death.

  • Sunday Nov 1st mtg. . .

    Whew!  I began this morning on my face, before, during and throughout the meeting.  I felt a burden lifted by the songs: Donna’s, Sandy’s and Gary’s, and yours, pastor John.  But it felt good to be still and humble before the Lord, after a week of time spent with worldly cares and worldly conversation with relatives.  Wow, just feeling the emptiness that most people dwell in—day to day—puts a burden on a Spirit-filled heart.  

    It was good to be amongst my family this morning, to pray for those who are sick, and for those who are compromising the security of our nation.

    Coy was a joy, as always.  Everything felt good today.  A nice spiritual bath.  Good way to begin the new month.

    I am looking forward to Thanskgiving.

    God bless.

    Brad

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    Pastor John, 

    Sunday morning, during the reading of The Gospel of John, you spoke of the authority of Jesus, over all of His creation, and that- “It was no wonder the storm calmed when He spoke. It was His storm!”  You reminded us that every single element of all of the Lord’s creation on Earth, obeys its Lord.  Everything…..except men. Men are the only thing that resist its creator. 

    After you said that, I heard these words: “Men are also the only creation here on Earth that receive the reward of Glory, as joint heirs with Christ, when they do obey!”

    It made me think, no rain drop will ever be praised for falling when commanded to fall. It has no choice. Nothing has a choice here, but men. Only men have the choice to be wise and live forever in Glory, or to be fools and die. I believe that would mean that all foolishness that exists on this earth, exists solely in the hearts of men. What other creation can be charged with foolishness, when all of creation obeys its Lord?

    Men are the only creation on Earth that can, and do, move outside of the will of God.  I pray not to be numbered with them in the end.

    What a reward is in store for those who choose wisely!

    Jerry

     

  • The Gospel of John, etc.

    Dear Bro. John:

    I am still thinking on what we read Sunday morning about John the Baptizer.  Particularly, this part:

    “And John testified, saying, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven in the form of a dove, and it remained on him.

    And I did not know him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whomever you see the Spirit descend and remain on him, he is the one who baptizes with holy Spirit.’

    And I have seen, and I have testified that this is the Son of God!”

    When we read that today, it touched my heart thinking how John must have felt when “that moment” occurred just as God had said it would.  Though we don’t know exactly when God spoke that to John, and though John did not have the understanding of what God was saying to him, he believed God and held on to what God gave him.  All he could have known that day was that the Word of God that came to him prior to this event was fulfilled before his eyes!  What a moment that must have been!

    As in many of the prophets, when God spoke to them, the thing to be fulfilled had not yet occurred.  They had to believe and hold on to what He had spoken.  Jeremiah and the captivity of God’s people came to mind:

    “For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

    Whew!  It took great faith in God to wait 70 years for His Word to be fulfilled.  Some probably lost hope and became disheartened.  But those who held on got to see how much God loved them – – that beautiful “moment” when the Word of God is fulfilled and the heart is made glad.  I pray that we can hold on to whatever God says long enough to see what He has in store for us – – the “moments” of His fulfillment, however long it may take.  For surely, with every promise of God, there is a performance of His good word! 

    I loved the feelings in the reading today. Thank you for all you do to teach us and stir up the Gift of God in us!  There is so much more of God to learn than what we will know in this short life, but I am so completely satisfied with the beautiful things He is showing us thus far.  We are so richly blessed . . . . 

    Sandy

     

  • A Place Like Your House

    Pastor John,

    I loved the feelings of Brother Gary’s song and playing with him.  I watched you and others honor God during Gary’s song and it really touched my heart. I loved singing the older songs that you sang, too.   Nothing has changed with the Father and the Son over the centuries; they are still giving those feelings out to those who love Them, like what we felt last night.  And we know They still feel burdens for their wayward children because God (through His Son) lets us feel them.

    When we felt the Spirit last night in our bodies, and people started dancing and praising God, it’s because those feelings were already with the Father and the Son and were sent from above; we were feeling what was in God’s heart for us at that time.  I am so glad Sister Kathy was touched!  When she went up for prayer, Judy turned her oxygen up a notch.  I looked at Judy and said, “Did you crank Kathy up?” Judy replied, “I sure did” (with a smile).  The air Kathy was breathing and feeling wasn’t from that tank, but from above; it was so wonderful to watch her get touched from Jesus.

    I loved Lou’s testimony, Venice’s, Sister Willie’s.  And I love understanding that it is the love of the Truth that brought us together, not just the knowledge of it, as you said, and it will be the love of the Truth that keeps us together.

    I love my little place in Jesus.  I never imaged during my childhood or even as a young adult that there was even a place like your house.

    Thank you, Brother John, for loving us.

    billy

  • The Meeting Tonight (October 28, 2015)

    Thanks be to Jesus for touching and taking care of Lou!! Sweet Beulah land!  I love what God did to you when you where in the seminary with the lesson from Hebrews.  God did it!!!  Look what he has done for us since!

    We are willing to change anything he wants us to, anything to help us and his people.  We just want to be like him!!  Let it go on before us, Lord!!  Wow!  I loved Gary’s song: “Oh, Jesus, we will bring you are praise.”  May God help us honor you and your Son!

    I love how free we are to follow his thoughts when he speaks them.  We are free to let loose of anything that he shows us to let go of by his spirit, and to change and to grow in his knowledge.  We are really living life in him and his ways.  This is the way of life!!!  My, my, how sweet to see the power of God all over everyone dancing in the spirit tonight.  So sweet!!  Powerful!

    Stuart

     

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