Here is my favorite quote today from last Wednesday’s meeting “The Wise and the Foolish Virgins”:

“The Wise Virgins acknowledged the Bridegroom’s absolute freedom to do what He wanted to do all the time in every circumstance – and this is the key – regardless of what he previously said he would do!  They recognized his liberty to do something other than what he said he would do if that’s what pleased Him.”

If I could transcribe this whole thing, I would!!  Every sentence has something valuable in it.

Debbie T.

Pastor John,

I just finished reading “The Perfect Law of Liberty”, and I think it may be the best thing I have ever read!  It’s the best thing I have ever read because it was what God was saying to me right then.  I’m going to try to put into words what this email did for me!

Firstly, this email was an answer to a sincere question that I had in my heart.  You had explained to us that the difference between the wise and the foolish virgins was that the wise virgins knew God.  I really thought about that yesterday, and it made me examine myself and ask myself, “Do I know God?”  “How do you know if you know God?”  I told Jesus, “I want to know you!”  I mean, really know Jesus, and He know me.  I wrote to you that I didn’t want to stand before Jesus one day and have him say he never knew me.  

So tonight, I sat down and began reading this Perfect Law of Liberty and I came to this line:  

“God wants you alive right now to what the Spirit is saying!  That is knowing God!”

When I read those words, the Spirit inside of me leaped for joy!  That was my answer!  Being alive right now to what the Spirit is saying is knowing God!  I felt so happy and encouraged because I knew the Spirit was saying something to me right then, and I was alive enough to hear and understand what it was saying!  Tears began to flow, and I had to stop reading and praise God!  It’s a wonderful feeling to be alive in the Spirit!  Remember when Preacher Clark said about Sis Edna, “She’s awake!  I believe she’s awake!”  And Sis Edna said, “I’ve been awake all the way.  All this time, I’ve been awake”.  They were talking about more than physical sleep!  Sis Edna was alive in the Spirit.  Her spirit was awake, and that’s how I feel!  I am awake!  My spirit feels alive!  I understand your prayer for us when you lay hands on us and say, “Live!”  What you are really saying to our spirit is, “Wake up!”  It feels so good to be awake because when you are awake to what the Spirit is saying to you, then that’s when you are living!  That is knowing God because God is alive!  He is Now!  Whatever the Spirit is saying right now is all that matters!  Keeping up with what the Spirit is saying to you right now is knowing God!

You wrote: “The only Truth that exists in heaven or earth for you is the will of God that the Spirit of God is revealing to you right now.  That’s all.”

This brought tears to my eyes, and I could feel the spirit run through me when I read the following:

“If you really take this in and drink the pure milk of the word of God, you will be connected with the Truth, the Spirit of life.  When you are led by the Spirit, when you have feelings and thoughts from the Spirit, you are living, living with God.  That’s communion.  That’s fellowship.  That’s when you are eating and drinking of the Father and the Son.  You are living because you know what God’s thinking right now.  You feel what He is feeling right now.  You’re living.  Everything else is death.  Everything else is death.  Glory to God!”

I know you preached this sermon 12-13 years ago, but if you take this into your heart, it is alive!  Those are not just words on a page.  I know they look like words, but when you eat them up, they are life!  This is a sermon that you can eat!  Praise God!   

I am thankful tonight.  Jesus heard that question in my heart and he answered it.  He didn’t leave me wondering what it means to know God.  I am thankful beyond words for the privilege of getting to read this sermon, and better yet, to feel it!  I am thankful to have God’s life inside me, talking to me!  I am thankful for a spirit that is alive to hear it!  I am thankful for the powerful touch Jesus gave me tonight.  

“You are free to please God.   You are free to know Him.   You are free to receive what He says.  Whatever it is.  Wherever it takes you.  However He wants to use you.  Free!”

Thank you for sending this!  It freed up something in my Spirit and I love it!  Thank you, Jesus!

Lee Ann

THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY | Going to Jesus.com

Do you realize that on August 23 of this year, it will be 40 years since the Spirit spoke to you that “It tickles the Devil for God’s people to blame their troubles on him?”* It hit me this morning that He spoke that to you in 1981, and I thought “Wow! That message has saved me from so much heartache and bitterness,” and I’ve seen it do the same for so many others I know.  I’m so thankful for it!  

Lee Ann

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That precious truth has saved us ALL from much heartache and bitterness. What a wonderful anniversary to celebrate – by believing it and trusting God, that “all our times are in His hands”! 

Pastor John

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John, I could not count how many times knowing all things has rescued me from something: bitterness, impatience, wackiness, wrong responses, anger, etc. and so much more.  

Next to the truth about the new birth, I think “all things” has to be right up there with it.  

Thank you, and thank you Jesus.

Gary

* Going to Jesus.com – Suffering and the Saints

Be anxious for nothing!  I’m gonna write you again because it’s too good not to share it with somebody.  Well, some spilled out on Lee Ann this morning too! 

We really are made after the image of our Father.  God created Jesus and Jesus created us to be just like him, just like Him, just like them!  That’s so good to me.

We spend time down here in the flesh, just like Jesus did, but we have been loved since before the foundation of the world.  Just like Jesus.  When we testify, we tell of how it is all Him/him.  Jesus is the good, not us.  The same way that Jesus said there is but One who is good. 

To many, I am Beth Ann from Fern Creek, Ky.  They do not understand the things I talk about or post on Facebook, wanting so much to share heavenly things with them.  Or that I want to make Jesus happy, just like Jesus only wanted to make his Father happy.  We are created that way.  I didn’t do that!  I couldn’t!  That’s not the Beth Ann anyone knew!

Jesus created our hearts to want to make him happy, just like the Father created his heart to do His will.  Just to sit and marinate in how much we were created to be like the Father and the Son is good to my soul.  Jesus created us as a shadow of them! 

That is just chapter one, and I feel like it is a story about the Father, the Son, and us! 

Beth D.

All God’s children have been given the same gift (holy Ghost), but it’s like I’ve heard pastor John say, some people never open their gift to know what’s inside.  They don’t value their gift enough to open and use it.  It just sits on the shelf and becomes a dust collector.  I don’t generally make formal New Year’s Resolutions, but I did pray at the beginning of this year for Jesus to help me to value my gift more.  To use it more!  To tell about it when I get the opportunity.  

When I had Anna, it touched me so deeply that God would give me a beautiful baby girl, and I said within myself, “I want to know the God that gave me this precious baby.”  That’s how I’m feeling about the precious gift of my holy Ghost!  I want to know the God that gave me this gift!

Amen!  Help us to know you, Jesus!  Put that desire in our hearts to open our gifts and get to know the Giver!  

Lee Ann

Hey Pastor John,

Wednesday night’s message and songs were so good. I loved all of it! I have been re-watching the meeting and trying to take in all the goodness. What you said last night about the parable in Matthew 25:14-30 reminded me of the “Pearl of Wisdom” from October 23, 2021*.  Preacher Clark said,

“Jesus told a parable about a rich man entrusting some of his servants with money, called ‘talents’. Everyone has at least one talent, one gift. He gives you one to start with, and you’d better have at least two talents when he returns if you want to be saved.”

I remember reading that and thinking, “What, is a talent and do I have at least two?” The next day, I found the answer to my question in the “Thought for the Evening ,10-24” titled “The Word of Their Testimony”!** In this you wrote, 

“There are two essentials to overcoming the Devil, and John told us what they are when he wrote, “they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and through the word of their testimony.” Satan has beguiled the whole world, as John noted in the verses above, and without these two essentials of spiritual life, we cannot hope to escape the suffocating spiritual darkness that covers mankind.”

You explain that the blood of the Lamb is the holy Ghost and that the word of their testimony is confessing Christ and what he has done, by doing that we can overcome the world. You summed it up by saying, “Don’t be found at the coming of the Lord with a testimony never told. You do not want to be condemned by the Lord for hiding the talent he gave you and then offering it, unused, to him when he returns.”

Last night you said that in the end the only thing the unprofitable servant in the parable had was the holy Ghost (that one talent/gift he was given) but he never grew in grace and knowledge (he hid his talent, he didn’t tell his testimony). You told us, “Use what Jesus gave you. You want to testify to what he’s done, it might bear fruit and you might not show up empty handed! But you will show up empty handed if you never use it!”

That was just so good to me I wanted to share 🙂

Amy F.

* https://pjhpearls.blogspot.com

** https://goingtojesus.com/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=tfe10-24

Hi, Pastor John.

As you were teaching about the wise and foolish virgins, I had a thought.  If you were in the flesh, it would like as though the foolish virgins were frugal by not carrying anything in excess on the persons, but in fact it is the wise virgins who were the frugal ones because they valued the “Who” instead of valuing the “what”. 

Also, there are no commissaries in Heaven.  You cannot purchase anything for your soul over there; you either have in this life what you need to make it on Judgment Day or you don’t. There is not one thing that you can buy at that time (not that we would have anything to buy with) that can be purchased for anything lacking in our hearts.  Mercy, Hope, Faith, Love, Relationships, etc., are only to be gained while we are on this earth, and God has given us time while we are living on this planet to obtain it.

Just some thoughts,

Billy

John,

Good Morning,

None in her (Babylon) are going to escape God’s judgment. I wonder if since a significant amount of governments on fiduciary currency are broke now, how God will use that. I saw an atheist on You Tube proposing separation of Church and state, which is a way for governments to get more money. (Glad you got us out of that issue, and glad I was for the move.) This guy, claiming to be an atheist, had an unbelievably harsh spirit.  It was the first time I have seen that much harsh hatred in a person, (maybe one other time when a guy was defending the saved doctrine). Most atheists just act like they are intellectually superior.  This was different, and with censoring power of the media, it is now easy to get a movement going, since opposition can be silenced.  Watching first hand the Covid saga has taught me how easily that can be done. 

Jesus help us be all the way “out of her” and help us see Christianity the way he does!  I believe saying it verbally (“giving it a name”) is part of the exodus. 

“For all nations have drunk of the wine of her whorish passion, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich on the strength of her luxury.”

Wendell

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Good morning, PJ.

I was reading Bro Wendell’s email this morning, and it is so sad how that harsh spirit, whether atheist, unbeliever, or wants-to-be an unbeliever, or Christian who wants to hold onto to the saved doctrine and beat you down with it, is just so determined to persuade (if that’s even the right word) people to believe the way they believe.  I have had thoughts lately about what you said about “giving it a name”, and it feels good to just know and hear/feel the safety in that we “know” there is a name for that thing.

I have prayed and talked to Jesus about my feelings that came with that message, to keep me humble and compassionate towards those who don’t know what we know because the holy Ghost is still being given to some who are still in Christianity and who don’t know or haven’t been shown yet “to come out of her”.  And I’ve thought about what you’ve said about it’s not for everyone to be here with us, and I thought, where will they go when they come out?  They may never come out, but I sure hope to meet all my brothers and sisters one day and live forever with them.  It makes me sad that they aren’t with us now to hear these wonderful things.

I’m so thankful for what we have been taught, and I pray to continue to hear and feel what is to come because there is so much more, I’m sure, that Jesus has for us!  That’s exciting!

Thank you for all you give us. 

Tracey

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Thank you, Tracey.  That is the other side of the “come out of her” coin.  How are we to feel toward and treat children of God who do not hear the call of their heavenly Father to come out?  That is an important question because God loves all His children, even those (and there are very many) still entangled in the vain religious system called Christianity.  And as you say, He still gives His Spirit to souls in Christianity who believe in His Son and obey him.

May God help us to have an humble, loving attitude toward others, whoever they are and wherever they may be.

Pastor John

Pastor John,

The past week or so I’ve been reading in Jeremiah and listening to the Old Testament cds*.  It really has touched me how good God is!  Even when his people were rotten he would tell them REPENT and I will bless you forever!

You said, “it doesn’t matter what situation you’re in, God has a jubilee for you!  None of Gods people are hopeless!”

God told his people, if they repent and confess their iniquity then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, Isaac and Abraham.

God is good!

All I keep thinking is it’s the same way now!  God is still good!  If you’ve made a mistake, if you’ve wobbled off the right path REPENT, confess your iniquity and LIVE forever with Jesus!

God really has made it that easy. God really is that good! (more…)