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  • Allison’s Sandwich

    During the coffee meeting this morning, Allison mentioned her JESUS sandwich: Jesus in the morning and a little more Jesus in the evening and life‘s obligations, work and chores all throughout the day.  It’s like a sandwich. smiley long eyes

    As we walked home reflecting on that, I blurted out, “Yeah, there’s so much of our lives wrapped up in the middle of the sandwich, it’s nice that He’s the two pieces of bread on the top and bottom. Well, He IS THE BREAD…of LIFE!” Smiley tongue

    Allison’s metaphor is perfect.  And whether Jesus is gluten-free or not is irrelevant.  I’m glad we can eat of that sandwich every day!!  It’s delicious AND nutritious.  Let’s live our lives the way we have to, on this earthly journey, and at least keep Jesus—the bread of life—at the beginning and at the end of each day.  (He’s the Alpha & Omega of our lives.) 

    Happily,

    Brad

  • The Fire 

    https://www.pioneertract.com/unclejoe/abaptismoffire.html

    Whew, this is really good! It left me so thankful for the purity and the sincerity Jesus has given us in you and the body. I was praying for all of us yesterday morning and I had the sweetest feeling pour down in my car as I talked to Jesus about the hearts he has here that love him and his Father. Hearts that really want them. What a holy gift from Jesus to be placed here among those hearts.

    Reading this I thought about how you were translating and studying the bible long ago, looking up definitions and searching,  just because you loved it. Look what zeal Jesus put in you. Jesus was burning up everything else and putting that in you. I love that.

    Uncle Joe wrote “We must have this baptism of fire within us and it burning or we will be burned with the chaff. Fire will not burn fire. Neither will it burn anything that is purged by fire.”

    Beth

  • YouTube Numbers

    Pastor John,

    l saw the ^You’re Still God” video on Gary Savelli’s YouTube channel.  Wow!  Over 18,000 views a year on average, over the last 13 years.  It’s an honor to be a part of this work.  Makes me want to pray more than ever to be able to “walk worthy”.

    Billy M.

  • Revelation Book Reading Tonight

    Pastor John,

    What a wonderful feeling in the room tonight as we all were reading Chapter 9 together.  I love the simplicity and truth of these statements from your book, below: 

    “What God did have in mind was to sacrifice His own dear Son, who had been by His side from the beginning, for God was not subject to the law He gave to man.” 

    Talking of the disciples after Jesus died, “There was not an ounce of faith left in them that Jesus was the Messiah.”

    Footnote 7: It really touched me that you started this footnote out with, “A dear friend…”

    It was very humbling to read the paragraph with excerpts from Isaiah 53.  , And then at the end, you summed up the Jews’ thoughts, “…it was absurd [to them] to suggest that a crucified man would be Israel’s Messiah.”

    About envy, you wrote, “But envy is always ashamed of itself, and it hides behind causes that appear noble.”

    The whole paragraph you wrote about Galatians 4:17, and then you summed it up with, “Hope of supreme earthly glory overwhelmed the Gentiles’ faith in Paul and his gospel.” 

    And then the above leads into my favorite quote that Michael also mentioned, “But what makes any truth hard to understand is a heart dulled by what it thinks it knows.”

    Thank you for all the work you have put into this, into us!  I love the precious truths you have taught us and are still teaching us.  It is beautiful, healing food in my soul, and I love learning, loving, and eating it all up with us all in one accord.

    Donna

  • The Father and the Son*

    Hello and blessings,

    Is the author still around?  Have a question, why does he use the word “created” in respect to the Son?  Because by context it appears author believes Christ is BEGOTTEN, ie PSALM 2:7.

    BEGOTTEN is much different from Created, creating implies design by active use of mind to fabricate, but BEGOTTEN is not that.  I see it as a budding off and becoming a separate person and is the reason john 1:18 says begotten Theos, and by the way i am NOT a Trinitarian.

    I believe Jesus is Theos because His Father who begat him is Theos, just as my son is man since im man but Jesus said: “The father is Greater than I” which fits right in with correct non kjb translation of Philippians 2:6

    Anyway I only skimmed couple minutes of writings here but i don’t have time to read all. I just wanted succincr short answer what authir believes on Christ and God tge father abd holy spirit.

    Myself i think holy spirit is not just some power force of God but Literally the SPIRIT of God since God is spirit and of course spirit is powerful. But i dont holy spirit is not a Separate person from God the Father who is also God Almighty himself ie as the self contradicting trinity claims.

    Anyway hope someone can reply with summary of authors beliefs since im curious but cant read all. Thanks and Gid bless! 

    BC

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    Greetings, BC.

    Thank you for writing and asking your question.

    The fine distinction between “created” and “begotten” is an old one which comes from a pagan philosophical mind set.  Christians used it from the beginning of their Trinitarian religion to get around the simple truth that the Son of God was created.  The fact that the Son was created does not prevent him from being made God over the universe which he created at the command of the Father (cf. Heb 3:4).  Nor does it negate the fact that God the Father is God over him (cf. Jn. 20:17).

    The word “God” is a simply title, and God the Father has at times granted that title to others when He gave them authority over a place or people.  He granted that title to Moses (Ex. 7:1), to the judges and rulers of Israel (Ex. 22:8–9, 28), and to angels (Ps. 8:5) in order to signify the authority He had given them.  Much more, then, should we expect in the Scriptures to find such verses as this, from Hebrews 1:8 “But to the Son [God said], “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.  The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness.”

    Your analogy of your son being a man because you are a man is a perfect picture of what I am teaching.  Those who are born of God, as was the Son, are also gods, as Jesus said in John 10:34–35.  And those who are gods can say, as Jesus did (Jn. 14:28), that God is greater than they are, even though they are gods.  In Philippians 2:6 (the scripture you mentioned), we are told first that the Son of God existed “in the form of God” before he came to earth, which is true because the Son was created as “the exact representation of His being” (Heb. 1:3).  But then, in that same verse, we are told that the Son “did not consider equality with God as something to be grasped after.”  So, you see, the Son is God, and yet, his God is greater than he is.  Likewise, those who are born of God are gods, and yet the Father and the Son are greater than they are.

    Lastly, the Spirit of God is God’s Spirit.  That is all there is to it.  The Spirit is God’s life, just as your spirit is your life.  Without it, you are dead, and without God’s Spirit, you are dead even if you are still walking around on earth.  Jesus said so (Mt. 8:22, et.al.).  And Paul suggested as much when he said, “If any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him” (Rom. 8:9b).

    So, the real issue is, BC, do you have the holy Ghost?  While I am willing to discuss with you such matters as you brought up in your email, the real issue is whether or not God Himself has borne you witness, that you have truly believed and repented, by baptizing you with His Spirit as He did Cornelius and those in his house (cf. Acts 15:8).  I hope that has happened to you, or that it will soon happen, because if not, you will be condemned in the end for not submitting to the Son’ and his baptism, regardless of what scriptures you think you understand or what you believe about anything.

    Thank you again for writing.  I have explained the truth of the matter as well as I know how, and I hope that helps.

    May God bless you and yours is my hope.

    Pastor John

    * https://goingtojesus.com/gtj_books.html?tname=fands

     

  • Pioneer Tract Website

    https://www.pioneertract.com

    https://www.pioneertract.com/broadcasters/notme.htm

    Good morning,

    Wow! I feel like I opened up a treasure chest of gold this morning. Bess told me about the broadcaster ” It Isn’t Me” and when I opened up and began to read the Pioneer Tract Society page,  I got excited! It really feels like I opened a chest of gold! We have so much. I can’t wait to read more! Just seeing the pictures of old saints filled me with faith. 

    And Bess was right, the Broadcaster, “It Isn’t Me”, is wonderful!

    Beth D.

  • What I Feel from the Meeting

    “Everything except the holy Ghost is not right.  Be of good cheer, the holy Ghost is here!  It’s the only thing in this world that is right, pure, and clean.  It’s the only thing that will take you out of the grave.”

    To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: ~ Colossians 1:27

    While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. ~ 2 Corinthians 4:18

    The holy Spirit living in me is eternal, and it’s the only thing that I can take with me when I die.  Thank you, Father, that you sent your Son so that those who believe in Him may have life.  Pure, right, and clean life.  Thank you, Jesus!

    Leika

  • Meeting Notes 

    Pastor John,

    I took some notes on the meeting of things that were said that stood out to me, and I thought they were so good! Sometimes I think it is helpful for it to sink in more if I read it, so I wanted to send them to you in case anyone else wanted to read them!

    “You don’t have to defend yourself, explain yourself… you just have to be in love with Jesus. Whoever that touches, then that’s who God wants, scripture or no scripture.”

    “The Holy Ghost is the spirit of truth, it has more authority in it than the scriptures do. The Bible is going to burn up, but the holy Ghost won’t.”

    “If the Son of God sets you free, then you are free indeed. Free to obey God all the time.  Free to be free, and to be happy about it.”

    “One thing we know is that God has loved us.  How entangled is your soul with this world?  You don’t want to have a yoke with this world.”

    “God prunes us from interest in things of this world that tug at us.  We need to fall so much in love with Jesus that we want to be pruned.”

    “Whichever direction you want us to go, God, pulls us in that direction.  Let us have an ear to hear it.”

    “God has an answer for us.  Everything that He has pruned on us, it’s Him saying He is going to save us if we just hold on.”

    “Go to God first, with any problem you have.  He will always be there, and we need to trust Him.”

    “We know that all things work together for our good.  If there is a correction, then praise God, it’s for our good.”

    “Everything except the holy Ghost is not right.  Be of good cheer, the holy Ghost is here!  It’s the only thing in this world that is right, pure, and clean.  It’s the only thing that will take you out of the grave.”

    “Everything that God has ever taught us has given us power to love Him more.  He is pure, and His word is pure, and it purifies us when we take it in and love it.  We want to see Jesus and love Him the way the Father does.”

    Thank you!

    Samantha

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    Thank you, Samantha!  That is so good of you to do that for everybody!

    Pastor John

  • Apocalypse Meaning

    Good morning, 

    I looked up the word Apocalypse, just curious as to what it actually means.  I found a few definitions that say it is “to reveal, or a prophetic revelation.”

    I never put that together, that the book of Revelation was simply God revealing to John what was going to happen.  In the past, what I took in about it was filtered through fear.

    I feel relief in that.  It feels merciful.  It changes how I feel about the book of Revelation, and it changes what I feel about the word Apocalypse.  It feels merciful for God to have revealed that to John and us.

    Beth

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    Amen, Beth.

    That’s why Jesus said for us to “be anxious for nothing.”  For those who love and serve him, it’s all good.

    Pastor John

    (Follow the link below to read Pastor John’s book: Revelation.)

    Going to Jesus.com – Revelation

  • I Believe

    Hi Pastor John,

    I’m reading in the GCC stories* tonight.  I read this poem your dad wrote.  I love it!  What a blessing it is to believe!

    I Believe 

    by George C Clark 

    I believe in the old time power which fell at Pentecost. 

    You may call it the Holy Spirit, but to me it’s the Holy Ghost. 

    I believe they were converted who tarried there for him. 

    I believe in the old time power, 

    from the beginning to the end.

    I believe that the spirit witnessed with cloven tongues of fire.

    I believe that the people heard him who came from the lands afar. 

    I believe they were confounded, while others said amen. 

    I believe in the old time power, 

    from the beginning to the end.

    I believe if you would enter the chosen bride of Christ,

    You’ll have to have his Spirit and make the sacrifice,

    I believe the Lord is saying, “Ye must be born again.”

    I believe in the old time power,

    from the beginning to the end.

    I believe that old Cornelius received  the Holy Ghost.

    I believe that the Spirit witnessed, just like at Pentecost. 

    I believe he was a Gentile, a Roman I contend. 

    I believe in the old time power,

    from the beginning to the end.

    I believe that Paul did enter, and passed the upper coast, 

    and came unto the Ephesians to give them the Holy Ghost. 

    I believe twelve men received it when Paul laid on his hand.

    I believe in the old time power

    from the beginning to the end.

    Michelle

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    Thank you, Michelle.  That is actually a song.  Maybe we’ll sing it soon.

    Pastor John

    * The Pioneer Tract Society – Burlington, NC

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