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FILTH

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FILTH

By Rick Mathes

2 Timothy 2:21 (NASB77) 21  Therefore, if a man cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

The world as it is today has traded creed for greed. There isn’t a government on this planet, including the Vatican that wouldn’t sell out biblical principles for worldly gain. It is happening as we speak, has always happened and will so happen until the Lord returns. I’m reminded that a wolf will eat his leg off when caught in a bear trap. Worldly affairds are the consequences of the demon of principalities, Satan. He is reaping what he sows in disease, crime, murder, war, starvation, and so much more.

Unbelief is at the root of filth as the container is a cesspool to a sewerage system. It all lands on those who confess anyone or anything as a god but the true God. The darkness is where all evil things breed crawl and infect. Just today Pope Francis declared that atheists and agnostics don’t need to confess god to be saved! All they need is good deeds and a clear conscience. He is even pro-homosexual and I wouldn’t be surprised if he endorses the marriage of homosexual priests’ shorty. It’s almost a done deal; he will declare Mary equal to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as co-matrix of heaven. How low can it go?

In order to back-slide you need to be forward. All too often, just professing you are a Christian certifies your salvation and then any sin that follows is backsliding: not true. When dirt leaves dirty footprints is doesn’t mean it was clean to begin with: it was dirt and dirty prints are what naturally follow. If the fruit is rotten, so is the tree so you haven’t back-slid, you have just done what is natural for a sinner: to sin.

It all stems from false teaching and sad to say, hell has permeated most of what were once Christina seminaries. Profane doctrine is being accepted as holy and true. It has finally happened. Bad is believe to be good and good is punished as bad. Logic has been totally thrown out with all absolutes. Circular reasoning and rrelativity has become the norm of the day. All forms of disorder are rampant in communities across all the continents throughout the world. It seem s through man and religions are at the root of all moral filth and the light and truth of the gospelhas been flushed from the pulpits!

FILL’ER UP!

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FILL’ER UP

By Rick Mathes

John 10:10 (NASB77) 10 “The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.

You can rest assured that while you are asleep tonight the devil will be doing push-up! His entire focus is to steal, kill and destroy anything and everything the Lord wants to bless you with. He wants your life: every moment of it. But Jesus wants you to have all your heavenly treasure now because you are His and He doesn’t want to hold any good thing back. He wants you to have His blessings to the full. What can you expect to enjoy?

Let’s start with the mercy you certainly don’t deserve. Thank you Jesus my friends, family and faor that matter the police don’t know the sins I’ve committed and laws I have broken. By His grace I am saved!

We’ve been redeemed and that could not ever have been done by any effort on our part. Apart from Jesus, there is neither redemption nor freedom from sin and the punishment we deserve.

It took a full pardon to clean the slate of all our wrong doings. Just a little sin would spoil holiness. No darkness can be in the light of God. We must be purely holy so no sin could go unpunished.

For most of us, our salvation was the result of answered prayer. When we finally said, “I can’t!” you could hear the heaven thunder the Lord’s response, “I CAN!”

It’s all by the unmerited gift of stooping grace God became man to take your punishment and die on the death stake in your place. What more can He do? All you have to do is accept His sacrifice worthwhile.

How can we ever thank Him for assigning us to the care of His Holy Spirit? Through Him we receive understanding as the words in the Bible come alive and leap off of the pages to us. Oh how great it is to have His blessing to the full: to the brim and over the top.

Lastly, the gift of eternal living with Him in glory is a benefit that only believers will ever enjoy. We will see and enjoy Him as He is and never return to the emptiness we hated without His fellowship.

 

FEAR IS MISSING

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FEAR IS MISSING

By Rick Mathes

Philippians 2:12 (NASB77) 12  So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;

Words that you will rarely hear from the pulpit are sin, death, hell, repent, believe and obey. The fear of God’s wrath and the need for your salvation has become old fashioned. Our post-modern, post-Christian era has nothing to offer but relativism. “Thou shalt not” is lost vocabulary.

The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge. Whether you fear His wrath or you fear offending Him out of your love, fear of God is very healthy. You are not getting what you deserve and you should praise your Savior for that. You’ve got to get past the guilt of past sins. Ifyou feel guilty, that is telling you that you haven’t repented that sin. Guilt means the sin is still glaring you in the face and you haven’t let go of it. It’s like dragging anchors off the back of your boat. You need to cut the lines and move on without the drag of guilt.

If you leave just a smidgen of an option to sin, you will take it. You can count on it. Satan will hound and nag you and tempt until your weak moment. The only defense it to fear offending God with that sin enough to resist it.

It you walk in open unrepentant sin in blatant refusal to repent, God’s wrath will fall on you. Now understand that there is a major differene between wrath and judgment. Wrath is the warning. Judgment is the punishment. So to avoid the future wrath of God and His final judgment, you need to not only fear his displeasure but be terrified of the consequences of Him giving you over to depravity into the flaming paws of the devil.

You must combat this apathy with a firmness of faith with no doubts about the truth of God’s Word. You must hate the sin that crucified god’s only Son. Your major objective must be to believe and obey. God so loved the world He didn’t send a committee. Jesus is not interested in your opinion. He only wants you to obey.

You need to reverse course from selfishness to selflessness without delay because otherwise you ae contemptuous of His glory. That crown of thorns says it all. How can you not love God and the Son for what they did and do for you in the future through the Holy Spirit?

 

FEAR GOD

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FEAR GOD

By Rick Mathes

Romans 5:9 (NASB) 9  Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

Washington Gladden: But what can mortal man do to secure his own salvation? Mortal man can do just what God bids him to do. He can repent and believe. He can rise and follow Christ as Matthew did.

The divine wrath is slow indeed in vengeance but it makes up for its tardiness by the severity of the punishment.

Salvation takes us from ourselves to His virtual reality in glory. It is a breath of fresh air that clears away the fire and brimstone of His wrathful nostrils. It is an aroma of love. It is an avoidance of His fearful wrath. This is what is missing in many lives, the fear of God.

In Him we are saved from the wrath to come. This is real serious. The Word warns that it will be a horrible nightmare that will even crush the elect if He didn’t hold it back a little. It will be worse that you’re most satanic nightmare. Your worst hallucination doesn’t come close. No more “T” ball. This is time for hardball!

His curse that didn’t fall on His Son for the unbeliever will come crashing down on those who refuse His offer of salvation without mercy. Our sin killed His Son! Get a handle on that. If you don’t confess Jesus as Lord, that selfsame wrath will crush your very soul.

We once lived in bondage to sin but in Him we “broke cuffs.” The pollution of sin, however, like a virus gone viral will obliterate those who give Him the finger.

The world seems to be a rubbish pile of corruption but I know there’s a pony in there somewhere. Cream always surfaced on the top and you will too if you are His. Don’t let selfishness take you down. Don’t just rise to your level of incompetence but rather rise to His level of excellence.

Fear God and the Holy Spirit will guide you to your salvation.

FATHER OF BOTTOMS

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FATHER OF BOTTOMS

By Rick Mathes

Philippians 2:8 (NASB77) 8  And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross

.As a former alcoholic, drug addict and criminal I know personally what it means to hit the “mother of bottoms” I have been there and Jesus knows it like I do because He hit His also. Those He loved to come and die for shamed and rejected Him. There was a contract on His life that began in the stable when the Imperial Emperor of the known world knew enough about Him to seek and kill Him. Jesus escaped that close call even though He was born to die, the timing wasn’t right. But when it all came together, His very darling creation turned on Him in a most shameful manner to treat Him as the lowest of vial creatures that did not deserve another breath of oxygen: the scum of the sewer. He was distained by swine and the demons rejoiced.

Jesus went voluntarily to the cross: it was an afterthought. I believe He did His real soul searching and anguish in the garden. It was there that He suffered the full weight and horror of Hell. This was all predicted throughout the Old Testament by all the prophets that God breathed the words to write and truth of the Suffering Servant to illuminate. The substitutionary death of the Son of God for the sons of men was the only way God’s judgment could be appeased and His name upheld. What genius!

So His life’s work was to prepare us to understand the significance of His crucifixion. His incarnation was the greater miracle; for God to stop and take on manhood is inconceivable but His birth had to precede His death. That cross was the culmination of the prophesies fulfilled and the seal of our redemption was His resurrection.

How bold can you get! He said, “I lay down my life and I have the power to pick it up again” and He did. That is the hinge of my faith in Christ. He said He would and He did. Three decades plus now of intense daily study and I am still astonished by my hero the risen King of Kings!

And to top it all off, if it could be, was His ascension into heaven. Over 500 disciples witnessed His feet leave the ground and His body rise and disappear into a cloud that carried Him home. I’m breathless just writing this!

FATHER LUCIFER

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FATHER LUCIFER

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 23:1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples,

The pulpits are full of Lucifer’s demons that are passing themselves off as ministers of the Word and are they ever convincing. Their sermons will hold you spellbound but words such as sin, hell, Satan and death never leave their blistered and parched lips. They will never preach that we must repent, submit and obey. Next Sunday, do a stick count on your minister’s sermons for each time he says, “I, me or mine.” and on “He, Him and His.” The side with the largest total is the center of his message.

The false, self-gratifying teachers demand respect and don’t practice what they preach. They don’t walk their talk and commit the very sins the Word teaches killed God’s Son.. They are hypocrites that demand a service to the church but won’t lift a finger to help anyone physically, emotionally or spiritually. All they want is the praise of men.

So Father Lucifer encourages his demon priests to draw attention to them and away from the Lord. Once they have you looking out and into their religion and not up seek Christianity, they “gotcha.” Now they parade their man-made religion and not seeker-friendly marketing plans to build a carnal worldly church of love, unity and forgiveness with no repentance or obedience to the Lord’s commandments.

They reject the truth. The world seats them at the head table because they need personal attention and glorification of their titles to support their high self-esteem and narcism.

The truth is that they are robbing their flock of ignorant sheep of the truth. They mesmerize sinners with the mysticism of long incantations that they palm off as prayers and supplications to God that really are targeted to Father Lucifer and the end-time whore of Babylon he is employed by.

By pretending righteousness the devils will call others to themselves outwardly while camouflaging the true need inside with expectations that are never heard but in hell. When you concede to their charms you have made your life nothing but moe filth and decadence. Can you smell the smoke awaiting you?

 

FATAL DISEASE

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FATAL DISEASE

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 3:2 (NASB77) 2 ” Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Sin is spiritual cancer that infects the core of our soul, the very seat of the Holy Spirit that Elohim breathed into our fleshly frame. It produces an immortal abyss of torture of which there is no known cure for except repentance, the very last thing you hear from the pulpit. The fatal blow can be quick or prolonged, obvious or subtle but always raging and deadly. What is there to do but to turn to the Great Physician for relief and healing?

In doing so, you automatically turn from evil and step out in faith to Him. The cause of your new health is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and the effect if your burning desire to know, love, enjoy and serve Jesus with all your mind, heart and strengthened life-force.

  • Stop
  • Stand still
  • Turn around
  • Return to Him

True repentance requires a change of mind (cause) that results in a change of action (effect). This is often a startling turn of events as you step out of the darkness and into the light. What a glorious experience it is to be transparent to both God and man! There is the special freshness of a virgin’s pride that sweeps over you and you know that you have restored on holy ground.

You see, when Jesus wants you He is going to have you. You can squirm like a worm on a hook but you are hooked. So it is futile to fight Him, don’t you think? It is a dumb effort to resist the conviction of sin and your torment of conscience over the sin that nailed your Savior to the cursed tree. Don’t even try it! The Holy Spirit will nag you beyond your ability to resist.

Jesus wants you, He will have you and He will bless you. Accept this!

I am convinced that if Jesus had not chosen me and died for my sins on the cross, I would never have chosen Him. I’ve learned through the repentance of my sins and the restoration of my soul that I can’t do it without Him and to my amazement, He won’t do it without me.

Do you hate the sin that murdered the Father’s Son? Or put another more challenging way, do you crave holiness as dearly as you once did your next drug or drink? (pause here and think about this).

Unleash the Holy Spirit and His power and repent of your sins. This will launch you on a life of experiences which will give you endless joy and Him the eternal glory He earned on the cross.

FALSE TEACHERS

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FALSE TEACHERS

By Rick Mathes

1 Timothy 6:3-5 If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4 he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5 and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

The sheep of today’s post-modern days are at the mercy of false shepherds that pose as legitimate pastor-teachers of the truth. The Father of lies knows exactly what He is doing to arouse confusion of vocabulary, doctrine and denominations. When the truth is trusted to be understood as a lie, rebellion and chaos of religions is sure to follow. Our languages were confused at the time of bable and our understanding of the Word is all confused in this post Christian era.

There liberal rebels from satanic seminaries have an inflated pride, the kind that was the fall of Satan. I wrote an editorial titled, “Meet Father Lucifer” as my backlash to this tsunami of false doctrine. You can watch public television and the history channel explain away all biblical truth with logical doubt and fabricated speculation. Even Billy Graham has said on a Larry King Live show that you don’t need Jesus Christ to go to heaven. All you need is love, I’m not kidding. He really said that with Pastor Schuler agreeing.

In defense of these poor misguided new generation ministers, they are just plain ignorant of the gospel according to Jesus. They learn to gie carefully crafted sermons that don’t offend anyone. In fact, many are provided approved homilies from their denomination or buy them from referrals. My gut aches and my heart breaks that these false teachers go uncorrected because to be politically correct we must be ecumenical not evangelical. In other words, do not dispute doctrine with other belief systems because we all worship the same God of Abraham we all jut get there by different roads.

Well I’m sorry Reverend Satan but no one comes to the Father but my Jesus and anyone who messes with one word of the Bible will burn in hell and that’s a fact worth remembering.

We are not under the Law and the best place to find the truth of what the Bible teaches is in the Westminster Confession of Faith. Do you really care? If you do you will check it out and reject the demons who are running around with their beads, lighting holy candles and worshiping statues and a Pope they think is Jesus Christ’s successor.

FALSE SHEPHERD

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FALSE SHEPHERD

By Rick Mathes

John 10:11 (NASB77) 11  ” I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

How can you tell who it is in the pulpit? Most that I have questioned have never sat down with their pastor and really nailed down what he really believe. Many ministers including myself estimate that seven out of ten are agents of Lucifer! This is a conservative guess. What are we to do?

First, look to see if your minister looks out for his self-interests above all else. He is inclined to be consumed with salary, days off, vacations, home, and retirement plan and other perks the wealthy believers are sure to spoil him with.

The false shepherd will shun those who don’t have the good looks, money, influence or skills to advance his personal goals. He ignores the sick as weak and useless and He turns His back on the questioning lost. It takes too much effort and time to argue with ignorant people about their salvation and the importance of tithing their wages to the church.

The only answer to those who rise up against him is to scatter the sheep any which way he can. If they are fighting among themselves that takes the heat off of him. This leaves him weak to his enemies instead of strong because the Lord is not with him. When you spit in the wind it falls back on you.

His day of accounting is when this self-serving phony will meet His Maker and have a whole lot of explaining to do. He will be punished severely here and later in the furnace of flames he made his reservation for. He should be removed from office immediately. The best way to fire him is to leave and join a healthy church. When his pews and the treasury are empty, he’ll get the message.

He must be constantly focusing on new members and preaching a watered-down sermon. He needs to be pumped up for as long as the devil in him has the energy and skill to keep the balls in the air at the same time: then the crash! But when he drops his arms, and he will, those not fed by the Word of God will be too skinny and worn to start over again. The church will die.

This scoundrel will be judged and destroyed in Go’s timing. If you take time with Ezekiel chapter 24, you will get into the Lord’s mind and realize what a serious matter this is as the church, as we know it, disintegrates before our very eyes!

FALSE ELDERS

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FALSE ELDERS

By Rick Mathes

1 Timothy 6:3 (NASB77) 3  If anyone advocates a different doctrine, and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness,

One of the most divisive sins that can destroy the best intents of the church elders is envy. Religion is looking out at man to size up what a relationship should be with the ideal god you have invented and accepted. Christianity is looking up to the real deal and modeling every move after His. When you look out you size yourselves up after with others that are looking at you and doing the same. Inferior modeling after inferiority; a bad copy of a bad copy!

To do so you then speak negatively about those who your sense is a challenge to your elevated self-image. Speaking evil breeds more evil and isn’t that exactly what the devil wants. Have you noticed how Lucifer has redefined Christian words and language? We can hardly talk to each other much less other in what was clear Christian English just a few years ago.

When others are saying lies about you, you soon join them in evil suspicions. Faith and trush soon degrade to doubt and fear, the keys to hell! How much easier can you make it? Just live your life to show the world that really cares that the lies are not true. Lies are the diarrhea of the soul.

Waling in a society that loves sin will raise up leasers of like kind. This also leads to evil suspicions. Paranoia sets in where no matter who you turn to may be from hell. If Jesus is not their Lord your suspicions will be validated by how they walk a different talk: strange fire!

This leads to van arguments that are not for reconciliation but for division of the Body. The old joke goes like this, “Whenever you have two believers you have a church. When you have three, you have two churches!” There is a devil in the leadership of every church hat is hell-bent on spitting it up and causing dissension.

What results is a doctrine of lies that always demands more than the Bible, Jesus, faith or grace. Two glaring examples are the Pope of Roman Catholicism and the second baptism that requires speaking in tongues to be valid. Both are inventions of man. The bottom line for false elders is the personal gain or prestige, power and material gain. Beware of false teachers by knowing the truth. The truth will set your church free!