Bro. John,

The love of God is truly so wonderful and tender. He is showing me more and more just how much He loves His people. Its a love so tender and soft and gentle but yet so pentrating to the very soul, piercing the very heart. There is no greater love than that from anyone that I have ever felt or known. As I listen to the tape again last night and this morning I could feel Jesus just crying out to his people, “let me love you, let me love you.”

That song you sang, “though your sins be as scarlet and though your robes be worn with the sins they’ve born,” He was talking to his children, not the world. God has children who need a cleansing touch from Jesus. They need their robes washed in the blood of the Lamb, and what He was saying last night was, “I don’t care about your sins, let me wash you, let me cleanse you, let me love you. Trust me and I’ll take care of that. I love you. I want to make you happy. I want you to be satisfied with me. I want you to trust me, trust me with your whole heart. Let me love you.”

He wants to hold his children near and comfort them, give them hope, take away the fear and doubt and learn to trust their feelings, because He put those feelings there to guide them, and its okay to listen to and obey those feelings. He’s tender to their needs and hears their cries. He sees their hearts and wants so desperately to help them, but they have to be willing to let Jesus help them. They have to be willing to obey that “Voice” that they hear, but maybe don’t understand. They have to be willing to trust and lean not to their own understanding. He wants them to come out from dead works of christianity to serve Him and be happy and to have enough fear of Him to know its the right thing to come out when they hear that voice and not suppress it as if it were some other wrong thought or idea. They are wanting to trust and wanting to be helped, but they are so abused that they are so afraid, so afraid, John.

I could feel last night how tender the voice of Jesus was and how afraid his children are to listen. They don’t know who to trust. And Jesus with such compassion was saying, “Trust me, you can trust me. I love you. No one will hurt you. I won’t let anybody hurt you.” I can see now that sometimes it may take many tugs of the heart by Jesus to get His children to trust him, but that’s how it felt last night.

John, he is so patient, so loving, so forgiving, that if it takes that tuging, He is willing to do it. How many times has He dealt with us on things to get it across to us how much He loves us? He hasn’t dealt with us according to our sins, thank God. And each time one of hischildren feels that touch from God, it draws that person closer to God and puts that love deeper into their hearts. Every time that love hits your heart John, its like a dagger that explodes and spreads the love of God all through your being. You feel like your heart is going to burst. You don’t know what to do with yourself. Last night I saw the shadow of Jesus come before me and I obeyed and stood up and Jesus danced with me. I felt like a young girl dancing with the “love of my life”, and I was, and we were going round and around the dance floor, snuggly held in his arms. He was mine and I was his. There was nothing but love, no fear or thought of fear, no doubt or thought of doubt, nothing but the love of God.

When you sang the lines “though your sins be as scarlet, and your robes be worn from the sins they’ve borne”, Jesus would twirl me around and his love would engulf me letting me know that that didn’t matter to him. He loved me, and He was there to protect me from any further harm or danger. I was safe, safe and loved. That’s how I felt He wanted to do all His children, those broken hearted, bruised, hurt, those whose hearts had drifted away from him, he was wanting them to be close to him, encouraging them to “come on, I can make it right, just be willing. Be willing to let me help you. Be willing to see things the way they are so I can fix them for you. Be willing to open up your heart to me. I can’t do anything until you are willing for me to help. You must be willing. Be willing to be wrong if that’s what it takes.”

We have to be willing for whatever God wants. Its not about our wants, its about God and what He wants for us. Its so good, John, its so good. “Trust God” Two simple words so full of truth, for they work, you see, because they do for me and I know they’ll work for you.

Sis. Betty

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Amen, Betty. It was so good to see the many blessings that people received last night. I am looking forward to more.

jdc

JOE wrote:

Hello Pastor,

This morning OFS and I had a bible study on the book of Matthew chapter 1 verses 18 to 25. After reading through those verses we did not see anything there to talk about that we have not see before. But as we were about to move ahead and start to talk about other things, some thoughts, questions and answers started to enter into my mind.

We discovered that the birth of Jesus was as prophesied. We saw God playing out His plans for humanity through Joseph and Mary. We asked ourselves how was Joseph able to believe the angel when he was spoken to that the child in his wife’s womb was of the Holy Ghost. God just put the child in the womb of Mary without sex being involved. This has not been heard of for a virgin to conceive. In answer to that we discovered that Joseph was a just man. His being a just man to us means that he would have had some understanding of God and maybe God would have been walking with God to know when a message is from Him. We noted that if it were the first time that God is sending an angel or communication to him, it would have been very difficult for Joseph to believe it was God.

We saw Joseph and Mary though married being kept by God from knowing each other for the period of the pregnancy (9 months?). We also noted though it was not recorded there that both Mary and Joseph did not understand what God was doing through them. They were not able to comprehend it. But we discovered that because God was at work in their lives, they kept the baby and did not think of aborting it. We saw Joseph and Mary going through the pressures of friends and relatives whom they would possible have told about it, but who might not understand it and would have turned against them querying, accusing them and all that. God took care of that for them!

We saw that when it was said that Joseph was thinking, he actually was praying, thinking, reflecting and wondering over the matter. His situation was so much that God had to send an angel to consol him and explain to him what he is passing through. This shows that God was at work!

In verse 24, we discovered that before the angel spoke to Joseph, he actually had withdrawn himself from the wife. He must have been rejecting her food. In his heart, he had written Mary off as his wife but just waiting for an opportunity to return her to her parents for adultery (or fornication?)

In verse 25, we discovered that Joseph and Mary had other kids after Jesus (Mark 6:3). This was contrary to what some people believe and teach.

There is a great lesson for everyone in those verses. To the single. To the married. To the unbelieving. To the believing. If one can just read those verses with the Holy Spirit interpreting, questioning and answering our questions, we shall be more blessed to understand that God uses situations to bring His plan, purposes to pass. And when He is at work in our lives we can virtually do nothing but be controlled by Him. let us learn from Joseph and Mary. Ours might not be exactly the same situation but there are situations that “confuse” us about ourselves, God or anything. Let us wait until God shows up. When He does like Joseph we shall understand and rejoice knowing that all things worketh together for the good of them that love their Lord.

John tell me, what does it mean in the old times to be a just man. Also give me some insight on what happened in those verses above that we missed out.

JOE

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JOE:

I think that Joseph and Mary were not married yet, but were what we in the Western cultures would call “engaged to be married”. Had they actually have already gone through the Jewish marriage ceremony, she would not have still been a virgin.

The commitment to each other during that time of engagement, however, was clearly stronger than is the commitment among people here today. Broken engagements are fairly common now, but back then, to break off an engagement appeared to be the equivalent of a divorce. It was a very serious thing.

Being a just man means being a man who judges as God would judge. I have written a BROADCASTER on that subject titled, “On Being Just”. If it is not on line at our web site now, I will work on it and get it up ASAP.

Pastor John

Daisy C wrote:

Hi John.

I just have to reply to your email about Xty requiring people to pretend to believe they have the love of God when they don’t. Then, of course, as you say, “they are obligated to pretend, in order not to appear to be unbelievers.” That is so true! Xty is sad nonsense! I was in Xty for many years, always wanting more, and trying to believe I could get something from God, and wanting to love Him, and not being able to do so. What I always wanted and prayed for was to know His truth and how to love Him.

False doctrine is the saddest thing on earth, to me! It keeps people from hoping and trying to reach the real and living God! I know He will reach those whom He wishes to and His will is going to be done. I remember, while in Xty, the utter hopelessness I felt for many years. Those Xn “ministers” had no words of wisdom nor hope to give me. I would go to meetings and be the only one there to cry out of loneliness and despair. Thank God, Jesus had me picked and chosen way before that, knowing I would seek Him with all my heart. He know I would always wonder and want more than I had. I am eternally grateful and have never had a question about being really born again since I was baptized with the holy Ghost in 1994.

It is a miracle that my son, Paul is the one who first told me about the baptism of the holy Ghost being the new birth…and he did not have it at the time! And something made me get so excited and want to find out more! Within a few weeks, I became born again.

Daisy

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You have a wonderful testimony, Daisy. Keep giving it. This is how we “confess Christ”; by confessing what he has actually done in our lives. By do that, you will overcome the world.

jdc

Damien Callaghan wrote:

Pastor John:

Looking at that zodiac site and some others I found has shown me so clearly one truth that Satan will never allow his ministers to use. Different ones of them have certain pieces of truth; they have worked out prophetic stuff that appears quite amazing, they read the prophets with fine tooth combs, but you know they just cannot read [and understand] 1John at all [concerning the spirit of antichrist].

It seems all Christian ministers synonymise the Antichrist with the Beast. They, perhaps correctly, speak of New World Orders, the zodiac and other star signs and conspiracies and Satanic counterfeits [and from left field, pyramids on Mars!!!???] but none teach that the greatest counterfeit of all is Spiritual and involves “fake passports” to enter the body of Christ. These people so quickly read over the word “antichrist” [and John’s definition of it], substituting Satan’s attention-shifting redefinition that they miss it completely. And, of course, if you say something to them, you are part of Satan’s work against their “divinely ordained ministry”.

The day God gives you or whomever the power to really preach this to the world, “hell” will break loose. Satan will be furious to say the least when the truth about the body the Christ, and what it is, and how you get into it are made known widely and loudly.

Interesting days to come.

djc

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Damien:

Yes, I agree. The truth about the new birth will be the key to God’s children realizing that they must come out of Christianity, if they want to be united in the Christ, if they want to please God, and if they want to serve Jesus in spirit and in truth. Satan seems to be able to endure almost any of the blessings God gives His people except the truth. The truth is what makes us free, and the truth is what binds the prince of darkness.

Oh, God, help Your people! Trying to open their eyes, Jesus has, instead, infuriated many of his own children by sending them messengers with his truth for them. They do not recognize the love of God when they see it because love, too, has been redefined by Satan’s ministers. (Have you ever heard the first sermon that I preached, in 1993, after Jesus revealed the truth about Christianity to me? It is called “Destruction by Redefinition”).

Solomon said that the man who increases in wisdom increases in sorrow. How true that is! It is a precious blessing to have our eyes opened by Jesus to understand the truth of the gospel, but then, it hurts to see the condition of our brothers and sisters. But what can we do? Many of them will die defending Satan’s right to be in the body of Christ.

jdc

Damien Callaghan wrote:

Pastor John

Listening to the tape on 2Pet2. Thinking about speaking evil of dignities it occurred to me that Xtny doesn’t even speak true things about Satan let alone the things of God.

We are enjoying the food the Lord is providing right now!

Damien

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That is true. Satan lies about himself as well as God. It wouldn’t sake sense for him to do anything else.

jdc

JOE wrote:

Hello Pastor John,

I and OFS had some bible study on Sunday the 21/10/01. OFS told me he had some questions that he would like to ask, so when we had time alone at home we studied. We looked over 1 John 4 regarding the issue of Christianity being the antichrist and in addition to what we have heard from the you on tape, it was such a blessing when we could read them out from the bible ourselves. One part that really touched me was the explanation of the words “every spirit that CONFESSETH that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh”. We had some problem with the word confesseth as we have known that word to mean by Christian standard to verbalize something without being moved by His Spirit. The confusion and burden was lifted when we look up the word (confess) in the concordance and it says that it means to Acknowledge. Also we looked up the reference in the verse where the above quote was taken (1 John 4:2b) which was in 1 Corinthians 12:3, it showed us that to confess Christ means to “speaking by the Holy Ghost”. Again I am left with wonder where these Christians get their meaning to words like confess Christ and accept Christ from.

We also read Romans 10:9 which is the most popular verse that the Christians quote to say that if one confess his sins and accept Christ, he shall be saved. The first word that we noted there is the word SHALL (future tense). Does it not mean that even if their definition of confess is correct, that one does not get saved as soon as he confess (but shall be saved). As we dwelt on that Romans 10:9-10 thinking if the Christians were correct after all, the Spirit made us to read further down some verses. It was when we read it to verse 17 that we discovered that there is more to it than the eyes of the Christians could see. Verses 9-17 is like a ladder. The word Confess is at the top of the ladder. The Christians do not see the other items from the bottom of the ladder which one must climb (pass through first before getting to the top. They did not see that 1) sent from God, 2) to preach the Word of God not bible 3) the Word will be heard by people in other to believe; 4) believing then will make the person to call on the Lord (pray); 5) sincere call from the heart of the sinner will be answered by God’s righteousness 6) God’s righteousness (His Spirit) will then confess (acknowledge) to such a one that truly that It (Holy Spirit) has arrived in the soul of that person.

Among other things, we saw the true meaning of “and how shall they preach, except they be sent?” in verse 15. Christian ministers use that verse to collect money from people to send out some people whom they call missionaries to preach their denominational gospel and not that of Jesus. Here we discovered that “except they be sent” means that except the Father anoints on to preach His word, such a one is not sent.

J O E

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Brother J. O. E.:

You are learning much, and well. Keep it up.

You will be interested to learn that the phrase “calling on the name of the Lord” is a Biblical phrase that refers to something that man cannot do without God’s help. According to Zephaniah 3:9, the holy Spirit must inspire even that.

Pastor John