Hi Pastor John;

Our reading last night, to me was very sobering (Section 2: HYPOCRISY).*

  .  For years, a lot of us have thought that being “lukewarm” was being in the middle, to one degree or another cold and hot.  But when we read that lukewarm is past hot or cold, and being a worse condition than cold, it makes you want to check your heart and see what and who you are.  Not looking to what we see but to what God sees about us.  Only then can we really go to God in prayer for ourselves and for others. 

We truly are in a special place to learn these things that Jesus has been teaching you.  I feel very much loved and cared for by God and you.  It’s like the Pearl this morning that said, “God plans to save you.”  And, like Stuart says, “. . .if you let me.” 

Thank you, Bro. John! 

Billy

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Morning Pastor John!

Wow, Luke 10 is really something. I have been up searching scriptures on healing and stopped to read Luke 10. To slow down and read what is being said here made me want to read it with you. I didn’t want to read it and feel it all by myself!

Beth

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Thank you, Beth.  I was blessed by slowing down and reading this chapter with your comments.  I love how you think.

Pastor John

Luke 10

¶1. After these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others and sent them out in pairs before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to go.

I didn’t realize that he sent 70 others to go out. 

2. Then he began to tell them, “The harvest is certainly great, but the workers are few. So, pray to the Lord of the harvest, that He might send workers out into His harvest.

This part touched me. We are His workers.

3. Be on your way. Behold, I am sending you away as lambs in the midst of wolves.

Jesus saying they were going out as lambs among wolves. To really think on that is something. What would happen to a lamb sent in among the wolves.

4. Don’t take along a money pouch, or a bag, or sandals, and greet no one along the way.

They went out humbly with nothing to take but what Jesus sent them with. 

5. Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’

6. And if a man of peace be there, your peace will rest upon it, but if not, then it will come back on you.

And they were full of peace even when they were rejected.

7. Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they have, for the worker is worthy of his pay. Don’t move about from house to house.

8. And into whichever city you enter, and they receive you, eat what is set before you,

That part struck me. Made me think of Paul and not being a stumbling block but being free enough to get past whatever their custom was and just serve the Truth. Jesus wanted these 70 to go out as free as Paul was going to be. 

9. and heal those in that city who are sick, and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is come upon you!’

They were sent out with healing power. To heal is to take away a disease or sickness. That is exactly what the holy Ghost does. 

10. But into whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

11. ‘Even the dust of your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you! But know this, that the kingdom of God is come upon you!’

12. I tell you, for Sodom in that day, it will be more tolerable than for that city.

13. Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have long ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

14. Nevertheless, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the Judgment than for you!

15. And you, O Capernaum, the city exalted up to heaven! You shall be brought down to Hades!

16. He who hears you, hears me, and he who rejects you, rejects me. But he who rejects me, rejects Him who sent me.”

This made me tremble. What will happen to those who have seen the kingdom of God right in front of them and rejected it. My family saw a great miracle . They saw the real Jesus bring me back to life and restore me to more than I ever was and not one has even asked about what happened. Or Who happened.

¶17. And the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Master, even the demons are subject to us through your name.”

18. But he said to them, “I watched Satan falling like lightning out of heaven.

Just Amen! 

Wow, he told them he watched Satan falling like lightning out of heaven. 

 19. Behold, I am giving you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will by any means harm you.

 Amen! 

20. Still, do not rejoice in this, that spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

 Amen! 

¶21. In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the learned and intelligent, and revealed them to babes. Yes, Father! For such was pleasing in your sight.”

22. And then he turned to the disciples and said, “All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and he to whom the Son may choose to reveal Him.”

That is us! 

23. And then, turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see the things you’re seeing.

24. For I tell you, many prophets and kings wanted to see the things you’re seeing, but didn’t see them, and to hear the things you’re hearing, but didn’t hear them.”

¶25. Then a certain expert in the law rose up, putting him to the test, and saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

26. And he said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

27. And he answered and said, “Love the Lordyour God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

28. And he said to him, “You have answered rightly. Do this, and you will live.”

29. But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

30. Then Jesus took up on this and said, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, but he fell among thieves who, after they had both stripped and beaten him, went away, leaving him as he was, half dead.

31. Now, by chance, a certain priest was coming down that road and, when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.

32. Likewise, a Levite also came to that place, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.

33. But a certain Samaritan on a journey came upon him, and he was moved with compassion when he saw him.

34. And going to him, he bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. And putting him on his own beast, he took him to an inn and cared for him.

35. And as he was leaving the next morning, pulling out two denarii, he gave them to the innkeeper and said to him, ‘Take care of him, and whatever else you might spend, I will repay you on my return.’

36.  Now then, which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell among the thieves?”

37. And he said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Then Jesus said to him, “You go, and do the same.”

¶38. And it came to pass, as they went on their way, that he entered into a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.

39. She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, listening to his message,

40. but Martha was distracted with much serving. Then she stopped and said, “Master, don’t you care that my sister has left me alone to serve? Tell her that she should help me!”

41. But Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you worry and get upset about many things,

42. but one thing is necessary, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken from her.”

Amen! Oh, let that go down deep Jesus! 

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Pastor John,

I just felt like thanking you for teaching the truth when you receive it, especially teaching the necessity of the holy Ghost baptism.

I just heard a man online tell his congregation that when the Hebrews in Egypt spread the blood of the slain lamb across their door posts to cause the death angel to pass them by, it was meant to be “a shadow of the blood of Jesus, once we apply that to our lives through faith.”

What that man said to those folks will do no one any good.

I did not apply the blood of Jesus to my life through faith or otherwise.  It was not mine to apply, and I am not required to have faith that it has been applied.  I feel what Jesus applied to me.  It spoke through me when it came into my heart, and it speaks through me now.  It often speaks to me, and it always guides me.  It completely overwhelms me at times and is always changing me.

That man told his congregation that the relationship with Jesus he has described is their finish line, and they will miss it all if they don’t receive it.

I know the words he said can be taken to mean better things, but I know what he meant.  He just told those folks they are saved if they just believe it.

It made me appreciate the spirit of God that I can feel in me right now.  It made me appreciate you and everyone who has told it plainly, just the way it is.

Jerry

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Hi Pastor John.

I hope you are all sitting by the fire this morning!

I read these this morning and was amazed because you could put all three together and it is just what we have been reading! 

A whole day of Amen!

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Hi John,

This morning I saw a comment from a man I follow on X, in which he started out saying that he’s not going to vote and that it’s all rigged.  But then he made the statement at the end of his post that “the Roman Empire never fell, it became Catholicism.”  I responded to his post agree i ng with staying out of politics  ( but adding that it is “rigged” by Jesus for our good), and agreeing with his statement about the Roman empire.  He liked and followed us, and has liked several other of our posts.

Well, this got me thinking about Catholicism and what you have taught us about her daughters, the harlots of the Great Whore (the Protestant churches).  I came across this broadcaster from 1999 about Martin Luther (below), and I tell you what, this was so GOOD to me!  It is so good that Jesus has given these things to us, and we understand them! That is amazing! This is a great summary of how Christianity, with all of its denominations, came about, and what the common denominator between them is.  I have heard you say this many times before, but something about this really let it sink in more.  This really felt good to me.

Vince

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Martin Luther: The Midwife

John David Clark, Sr. – August, 1999

“Mystery, Babylon the Great, Mother of Harlots.”

Revelation 17:5

One of the most talked about men in all of world history is a monk named Martin Luther. In 1517, this courageous Roman Catholic professor nailed ninety-five comments (called “Theses”) on the door of the chapel in the castle at Wittenburg, Germany, concerning what he considered to be important matters of faith. At the time, in Western Civilization, the Roman Catholic Church was the only choice Christianity gave to those who wanted to be a Christian. In Eastern Europe and parts of Asia, Christianity was mainly the Greek Orthodox Church, but in the West, Roman Catholicism was virtually all that Christianity offered – until Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the chapel door.

Martin Luther was protesting some of the excessive doctrinal claims and some of the wild money-grabbing tactics of high-ranking ministers within the Catholic Church; he was not trying to start a new brand of Christianity. In particular, Luther was disgusted with the selling of pardons and “indulgences” by some church leaders. It was a lucrative business that had grown to absurd proportions in his time. Some of these “hawkers of pardons”, to use Luther’s phrase, persuaded souls to believe that “as soon as the penny jingles into the money box, the soul flies out [of purgatory].”

In his 95 Theses, it is clear that Martin Luther was willing to be a loyal, obedient servant of Christianity and of the Roman Catholic Pope and that he believed that the Roman Catholic priesthood was the priesthood ordained by God for the Church. Of the Pope, Martin Luther wrote in Thesis #9, “….the Holy Spirit in the Pope is kind to us…” And in Thesis #53, he insisted that those who were engaged in false teaching were “enemies of Christ and the Pope”.

In using such flattery, Martin Luther may have been hoping merely to win the Pope to his theological position on the sale of indulgences; still, if the Pope had agreed with Martin Luther (which he decidedly did not), it appears that Luther would have willingly continued to submit himself to the Pope and Catholicism.

In his Theses, Martin Luther endorsed whole-heartedly the Catholic myth of “Purgatory”. Purgatory, according to Catholic doctrine, is the place believers go when they die if they haven’t done enough in this world to prepare their souls to stand in the presence of God. In Purgatory, Catholics are taught, imperfect believers are purged from all sinfulness by suffering torment. (For a fee, Catholic clergymen promised to secure the release from Purgatory of your departed loved ones!). This doctrine is nothing short of lunacy, but Luther endorsed it. As I said, in writing his 95 Theses, he was not rebelling against the basic doctrines of Catholicism nor against its claims to be the true body of Christ.

As matters developed, Luther’s unyielding rejection of some of the most repugnant claims of Catholic priests in his day led to a division of Christianity in the West, a division that led to other divisions whenever there arose doctrinal controversies of sufficient gravity to seize upon the hearts of men. So, today, we have Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, and many others. Catholicism, the “Mother Church”, has produced many daughters, although she never intended to have any of them and hated every one of them when they were born. (Whores don’t want children.) And the fact that all her daughters have historically hated their Mother does not mean that they are not her offspring. It means only that members of the Christian family just do no love one another.

The spirit of Christianity is the spirit of Catholicism; Catholicism is the original and purest form of the Christian religion. And that spirit of Catholicism is the source of every Christian organization, and every Christian home prayer meeting or Bible study group. Every Christian sect in Western Civilization owes its existence to Roman Catholicism. Appropriately, Roman Catholicism is called the “Mother Church”; and because Protestant sects are of their Mother’s unclean spirit, they are rightly called “harlots”.

Martin Luther was instrumental in giving birth to forms of Christianity other than Roman Catholicism; therefore, I call him the midwife who first served the Great Whore when she began to bear her ugly children.

The Mother is the Great Whore, and her daughters are the harlots. And even though at times there has been much blood shed in their feuds with each other, there is an undeniable bond that unites all the family of Christian sects. But what is this mysterious bond they have? What is this basic similarity between the Mother and her daughters? In other words, what is the underlying, fundamental harmony that exists between the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Orthodox Church, and all other Christian sects?

The answer is simple. Christians share in misunderstanding of the meaning of “church” that is so fundamental to their faith that they cannot deny it without rejecting the entirety of the religion of Christianity. The daughters received this faith from their Mother; it is as precious to them as life itself. It is their life, in fact, because without this doctrine, Christianity would not have come to exist. This doctrine brought it into existence and still sustains it.

This foundational doctrine of all Christianity, the one unifying element of Catholicism (the Great Whore) and of Protestant sects (her daughters) is that one can become a member of the body of Christ without being baptized with the holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues.

NO ONE IS BORN AGAIN UNTIL HE IS BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST WITH THE EVIDENCE OF SPEAKING IN OTHER TONGUES.

Jesus said, “I am the door.” In other words, Jesus alone can take someone into the body of Christ. “All that climb up some other way”, said the Lord, “are thieves and robbers.” Only Jesus has the power to make someone a member of the body of Christ. But how does the Lord do this? Paul told us, “By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body” (1Cor. 12:13). Yes, the baptism of the holy Ghost that Jesus personally gives is the door to the real family of God.

Christianity claims that it is the family of God. But I say that it is not. How then can YOU know whether multiplied millions of Christians are telling you the truth when they say that Christianity is the family of God or whether that I am telling you the truth when I say it is not?

Fortunately, there is an easy way to determine whether or not Christianity is the family of God. That way is to find the answers to these two simple questions: First, how does one become a member of Christianity? Second, how does one become a member of God’s family? If the answers to those two questions differ, then Christianity is not the family of God.

As earlier mentioned, Paul said that we are baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ. So, when Jesus baptizes a person with the holy Ghost, does he baptize a person into Christianity? Obviously not. One becomes a member of Christianity by his own will. People join Christianity; they are not baptized into it by Jesus. Becoming a member of a sect in Christianity is of the will of man; it is not a work of the Spirit of God. But those who are baptized with the holy Ghost become members of the body of Christ by the operation of God; they are born into God’s family “not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” This simple truth exposes the claims of every Christian sect to be false when they claim to be the family of God. Jesus baptizes no one into any sect of Christianity. Therefore, Christianity is not his family.

The underlying, uniting foundation of all Christian sects is that one may become a member of the family of God by his own choice instead of simply repenting and being baptized by Jesus into God’s holy family. My friend, how did you become a member of the congregation to which you belong? If you became a member of your congregation by joining it, you are in the wrong one. If you have joined any of the churches of Christianity, then you have become a kinsman of the Great Whore, and the Pope is your father, even if you hate him – and many of his children do! Listen to me, my dear brother! If you are a Christian, the Pope is your father, whether you know it or not, for he is the head of Christianity.

Historically, most conservative Christian groups have understood and taught that the Great Whore of the book of Revelation is Catholicism. I have heard that truth taught many times by a number of conservative Christian teachers. What these same Christian teachers have never been able to see, however, is that the daughters of the Great Whore are the Protestant denominations to which they themselves belong!

When the Spirit cries, “Come out of her, My people”, God is telling us to come out of Christianity in its entirety. “HER” is not only the Great Whore; it is also her daughters. “HER” is the spirit of false religion in the name of Jesus.

The Great Whore claims to be a queen (Rev. 18:7), but whom does she claim as her husband, the king? Jesus, the King of kings. She also claims that she “is no widow”. That means that she teaches that her husband is still alive. Isn’t this what one hears in Christian places of worship, that Jesus lives today? (The Whore must tell some truth; otherwise, she would deceive no one!) Moreover, she claims that she will “see no sorrow” because she, as the bride of Christ, will be spared from the coming wrath of God. But because she makes false claims in the name of the true Lord, her destruction shall come suddenly and without remedy (Rev. 18:8).

No, my friends, the famed theologian Martin Luther did not provide a way of escape for God’s children from the Great Whore (despite his great reputation to the contrary). He merely helped deliver the first of her many daughters. That first daughter (and later, the others) angrily rejected some of the “Mother Church’s” ways and doctrines, but none of them rejected the most wicked of all her doctrines. The false claim to be God’s family is the foundational lie upon which all Christianity is based. It is the most successful lie Satan has ever persuaded men to believe and to tell.

All of the Great Whore’s daughters have hated some of their Mother’s ways and teachings, even as they followed her perverse example in offering to men the opportunity to join a church instead of teaching men to repent so that Jesus would baptize them into the body of Christ. But the daughters must claim to be the family of God because that is their inherited nature. It is the distinctive family trait of Christianity to lure men with promises of eternal pleasures (they are harlots, remember) to join the church.

Protestants speak in glowing terms of the man they esteem to be the original Protestant, Martin Luther, but those who walk after the Spirit are neither Protestant or Catholic. They have NO part in Christianity. They take no sides in Christianity’s family disputes. The wise “touch not the unclean thing”. They keep themselves pure. Concerning Christian sects, the wise understand that THEY ARE ALL WRONG and that the only people right with God are the ones who are hearing and obeying His wonderful voice RIGHT NOW.

My brother, my dear sister, do you know what the Spirit is saying to the family of God RIGHT NOW? If not, get alone with God and seek Him and you will hear in the deepest recesses of your soul a still, small voice pleading in most earnest tones, “Come out of her, My people!”

And when you hear it, obey.