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DYING OF THIRSTY

By Rick Mathes

John 4:15 )) The woman •said to Him, ” Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw.”

The Word of God is a fountain of Living Water. In this metaphor Jesus is the form and the Bible is the essence in every word. A shower of blessings is yours as you step into the fountain of youth. Just what does this amazing spiritual water do? Let’s investigate together.

Thirst Removing: You can drink any beverage when your throat is parched and dry but what do you look for when your spirit turns to dust?

Life Preserving: Your body is 80% composed of water of the earth. Your spiritual, born again soul seeks the refreshment only Jesus has. He is live giving.

Filth Purging: There is no better way to do your spiritual laundry but to step into the shower of blessings our Lord has stored up for you in heaven.

Softening: You can’t continue in life with a hardened heart, dry of emotions if you will bath and soak your soul in the Psalms, the balm of Gilead.

Fire Quenching: Your fire-insurance premium was paid in full by our Lord, the Suffering Servant. The gates of Hell cannot prevail against you.

Spring Creating: Once you fill up with the Living Waters you will overflow with springs of righteousness. You will accomplish God’s commands and not know it.

Fruit Producing: When you are filled with the Word and the Spirit, the Logos and the Rhema, wonderful blessings happen in every direction.

Heaven Producing: The essence and form of this Living Water returns to the clouds of glory, the very place our soul will return to it’s first estate.

Have you ever cried so hard that your ribs ached? A place where the tears wouldn’t come anymore? A dry desert inside with no life nor reason to live? Good news!

When Jesus wants you, He has you! You can wiggle like a worm on a hook but your are hooked. So, surrender and take a Holy Ghost shower!

The woman at the well was astonished that He was the Messiah. Let Him seep into your soul and don’t just slash in it, get out of the boat and walk on it. Peter proved that this could be done.

DRY DUST

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DRY DUST

By Rick Mathes

Mark 4:4 and it came about that as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

My heart aches for those who come to church for all the wrong reasons. They sometimes are coerced by Christians that love them. Curiosity or possibly clean entertainment or excitement draws them to us. There is a love of lonely people who really want to do well and they aimlessly go from church to church seeking what I call “Holy Ghost bumps.” They follow the fun people at the expense of seeking the true gospel according to Jesus.

In these seeker friendly churches, the sermon is a minor part of the activities and “whatever you want” is highlighted. Consequently all the “turn-ons” of clubbing are sanitized and exploded in concert to blow your mind and indeed it does. You wind up attending a counterfeit church that I call “Kentucky Fried Christianity.” A fast-food outlet with just enough salt to have you thirst; for more and come back next week. They have convinced themselves that if they can get you into the building your heart and checkbook will follow.

Well if you are like most serious thinking inquirers you look around in disgust at what you see, hear and experience.

I personally saw the Jim Baker helpers rent wheel-chairs and then have old people in the waiting line sit in them with the promise that they would be on television and all they had to do was get up on queue and walk at his healing service.

Anyone with half-a-brain can see the scandalous shameful scam they are trying to pull over on you. You can’t help but turn away disgusted with Christianity especially when their shows and falseness is exposed.

And if that isn’t enough for you to give up on Christianity, the famous TV evangelists are caught hiring prostitutes, embezzling or as the Roman Catholic priests are fond of exposed active homosexuality. How many will be sent to hell because of Satan with a mask on!

 

DISCIPLE

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DISCIPLE

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

We are called to make disciples, learners. It is the Holy Spirit who will teach these students the gospel according to Jesus. This is an invitation for world persecution because unbelievers go ballistic when we demand that if they won’t confess Jesus only as Lord, they will burn in the furnace of hell forever! Jesus said, “No one comes to the Father but through Me.” No one means just that, no one. So it takes fearless consecration when a newly ordained minister gets up from his knees to combat the evil one for Jesus?

Just try to get even a bold confession from anyone claiming to be born-again. It can be a hopeless task to find those with enough spiritual “T” to share the gospel out loud to anyone who will listen. Where can you hear a bold confession in the world’s marketplace? It might put you in jail!

It’s all about putting Jesus first way before anything or anyone Satan may put in our way to glory. Satan doesn’t care what you plan to do just don’t put Jesus first in your life today. What’s the rush? Enjoy life while you have life within you. You can always get religious when you are old.

Now is the time for fearless faith. What can man do to me? Nothing that I can’t take for Him compares to His sacrifice because He took the cross for me. I’m ready to bear my cross daily to follow Him. Let my feet step in His bloody footprints and go about His business for His glory and honor.

It’s all a matter of following Him: nothing more, nothing less. WE must be the anvil that takes many blows and has the perseverance to press on. He knows the way if we stay right on His heels. It’s His purposes we live for and it’s His power and presence that urges us on to deny ourselves. The more we realize how little we are in His scheme of things the easier it becomes to become lesser to as top increasingly so display His greatness. Teach me Lord, I am a willing learner!

DIABOLOS

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DIABOLOS

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

The forsaken one, Lucifer, reached beyond his grasp in pride and fell like a rock to depths of the abyss of hell. Satan has been a raging explosion of insanity that devours all within his damning reach. Like unleashed lightening, he strikes at the most vulnerable pressure points of any spirit he happens to target for eternal dying. Yes, I said “dying.” Those hopeless demons who would not pledge allegiance to our King Jesus are never consumed to death. Their torture for rejecting salvations call to humility is a sizzling death on a skewer of endless flames.

Beware! These fallen angels attack unexpectedly. We tend to drop our sword when we are prospering and our weakest point is most vulnerable. Our resistance in the flesh is useless and powerless against the devil’s allurements of lust, money and power. The devil keeps his prey in sight and on friendly terms until his appetite of destruction is awakened and an entry level is provided by the victim. His favorite perch to strike you from is the pulpit of your house of worship. It’s really a synagogue of evil and you are blind-sided. He is a polished and persuasive speaker that knows the Bible verses backwards in Hebrew. You are no match for our Lor’s arch-enemy, the whore of Babylon.

Satan’s most effective weapon is doubt and fear: the keys to hell’s gate. When your faith and trust are conquered diabolos will misuse his power by destroying the church from the inside out as he does to you. It all boils down to spiritual pride and selfish ambition.

The nail that seals your coffin and eternal terror is self-gratification. When it’s all about you, there’s nothing left for Jesus. You can see the end from the beginning as your life crumbles before your eyes. All and eternal terror is self-gratification. When it’s all about you, there’s nothing left for Jesus. You can see the end from the beginning as your life crumbles before your eyes. All you thought you were you find out was just an illusion. Nothing real remains. It’s all smoke and mirrors. All you thought was wasn’t; Nothing to hold on to and no reason to press on. How sad!

DEVOTED

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DEVOTED

By Rick Mathes

Acts 2:42 And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

How simple can it get?

  1. Teaching
  2. Fellowship
  3. Breaking of Bread

I ache to step back in time to the Primitive Church before 325AD when Constantine ruined it all until Martin Luther raised the true faith from the ashes and the Puritans brought it to our shores. It was a time when correct doctrine was not optional and the gospel still had the ring and memory of John the Revelator.

The fellowship was as much a struggle then as it is now but restoration was mandatory and love was unconditional. They had the problems as we do but their world view was fresh from the forty day seminar the Lord held with His disciples before He went home to the Father. We don’t have to like each other but we must love each other.

Our communion is unbreakable because our body is one: it is in unity with the Triune Godhead with our own trinity of mind, heart and soul. We can sense the spirits in our midst and the love that flows between us. We are only one heartbeat and one glimpse away from all of glory before us.

The communication that seals our security is prayer. It is a fragrance of praise to take to our Daddy (Abba) and tell Him how much we love Him. The fuel of faith is the prayer of a righteous saint and the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The Baptist of believers makes us one in the Spirit and faith. Oh there are denominational distinctives yet to be agreed upon, but the basic fundamentals of Protestantism are unified and cannon. There is the rock solid agreement of Bible only, Jesus only, Grace only and Faith only. Any deviation from Calvinism is heresy. We believe that everyone else has a God given rightr to be wrong or too stupid to understand that TULIP is the only gospel. (I’m in trouble now!)

So let’s praise Him with joy in true worship. It can only be found at the feet of the Master. Just a look in His eyes will cause you to be devoted to Him to the end of eternity.

DEVIL’S CHILD

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DEVIL’S CHILD

By Rick Mathes

Acts 13:10 (NASB77) 10  and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

A living abortion of the whore of Babylon is deceit, the root of lies. As you well know, Father Lucifer is the father of lies. His commitment is to hinder all forms of objective true knowledge. This infection of the terminal disease of unbelief will keep you from God, the Great Physician. The doctor of death will persuade you that pride is the cure. When you are secure in your confidence of handling it one more time, you will prove as you have many failures before that you can man up on your own and handle life’s problem without any major change in your life-style.

Deceit and all its offspring gives birth to fraud which is nothing new. Nothing is as it appears to be and everything is broken. This is the reality when your knee bows to the angel of light and his fallen demons.

Diablo conceal hate in counterfeit love. Flaming, smoldering embers from hell are the nest of counterfeit relationships and self-serving love: narcissism. I love me and I will take down anyone who thinks differently. It’s all about me and everyone else are just tools for me to use to my advantage. Those that resist are disposable and are of no consequence anyway.

Lies grow on lies and the offspring of the whore conceive one evil plan after another hammering the cross to splinters. What a wonderful fire it will kindle to celebrate the death of truth. Everything is relative so condemnation of sin has been eliminated because there is no law.

Everyone is encouraged to exercise their freedom to sin because there is no opposition unless you allow it. So the children of Esau and Ismael will stand together, God’s truth will never prevail.

Islam and Roman Catholicism are the right and left hands of Satan. Just a touch by either will pollute your soul to eternal death and your hardened heart will never recover. Finally, with lies and deceit ruling, Jesus will bow before Lucifer and worship the darkness that has conquered the light when you ae a child of the devil. He’ll love you!

DEEDS OF DARKNESS

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DEEDS OF DARKNESS

By Rick Mathes

Ephesians 5:11 (NASB77) 11  And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;

The darkest deed Satan ever had in his arsenal was to kill the Son of Man on the death stake. This victory overGod caused the fallen angels to rejoice that Lucifer was the prevailing king of the universe. How could He have gotten that low in His miserable existence.

For starters his only weapon is sin. Sin murdered our Savior in the worst manner ever conceived by man: crucifixion. Sinning results in death and that death results in an eternal dying in the flaming furnace reserved for those who have not stepped out of darkness into life.

The only action worse than sinning is teaching others to sin; you can do this by actual one on one lessons for sure. But many more learn by watching you allow others to sin without our intervention. When you do not rebuke and correct an active sinner, your absence of remedial correction endorses the sin and absolves the sinner. It’s a silent green light to go and likewise sin.

Akin to teaching others to sin is tempting them to sin. Nothing tempts more than a successful sinner flaunting the treasure of his evil deeds. Just seeing a fallen man basking in the glory of his plunder provokes others to go and do likewise.

A hidden deed of darkness is when you know someone is up to no good and everyone else doe also and you don’t rebuke or correct the sinner, especially if they are professing believers. This lack of correction, this apathy toward the evil deed is perceived as an endorsement. Not doing something is something indeed. It’s joining you to the sin because you wouldn’t take acts against them.

So your sinful examples of hurting people, places, damaging things and burning bridges behind you has a  debt to pay and you will be the beneficiary of its consequences: a cross to carry. This consenting to sin is literally giving Jesus the finger! This includes tolerating the sin. How many lives have you destroyed because of your personal example?

Will you then put on the armor, lift up the sword and defent sin or pledge your life and fortune to the service of the King of Kings? The God of light not darkness: stop, stand still, turn around and come back to Jesus your Lord. Welcome home!

DEEDS OF DAWN

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DEEDS OF DAWN

By Rick Mathes

Romans 13:12 (NASB77) 12   The night is almost gone, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

The darkness of days is rapidly being overcome by the dawning of our Lord’s glory and His coming kingdom. The long wait is almost over and the wait is certainly worth it. Our King is returning and the deeds of darkness will soon be exposed in the light of His searching righteousness.

All of our deeds are like weeds that can

Grow into flowers or grow into weeds.

The works of darkness can always be seen in the night because that’s where evil lives and grows. Mutant beings that have morphed into the gargoyle image and likeness of Lucifer and his fallen angels. Nothing pleases the former “morning star” more than for you to go about his damaging works and calling him your lord: certain hell!

All you’re present and former lusts rise up for battle and then comes the dawn and their flight to our Lord’s glory. His will is Divine in His elect and the gates of hell cannot prevail. The devil will drag your memory back to the sewer of every sordid affair you ever had and remind you of all the ugly details and sickening consequences.

Lying and anger are the right and left hand punches the devil uses to drive away godly saints that want to turn your hands from fist to hands up in worship. If only you will surrender to truth the peace of God will follow you all the days of your life. The deeds of evil fade away as the dawn and it’s light breaks over the horizon of salvation.

As the sun rises, the light of the Son blots it out! Such is the Glory of the risen King. All filthiness flees and the darkness cannot overcome the Shekinah Glory of His resurrection. The remnant of  the night yielding to the day is the grey of malice.

You might not want to admit it but from time to time you secretly approve bad things happening to people you are not fond of. All this means is that you are not seeing them with our Lord’s eyes. If you were, you would grieve their fallen condition and not applaud their misfortune. Stay fast and continue from night to day and the bring morning star of Jesus will shine on in your life.

 

 

DECEIT

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DECEIT

By Rick Mathes

Acts 13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

The devil keeps his prey in sight and on friendly terms until the time is right to strike and make him a child of Satan. Jesus said, “I AM the way, the truth and the life.” Satan is the wrong way, a father of lies and an executioner of your soul. When you sin you are declaring, “Satan is my Lord.” Let that sink in a minute.

The sewer of truth is deceit and we all have a place for it in our hearts that we are not willing to give up. It’s this resistance to repentance that hinders knowledge. Didn’t the Word warn, “My people perish for lack of knowledge?” The lies you choose to nurture keeps you from God. Oh how He wants to hold you in His arms and love you but the slime of deceit, dripping from your soul makes God gag.

It’s buying the lies Satan throws at us that leads to pride. We have success with a little lie; get more things so we escalate our lies and deceit to get a bigger slice of the world’s toys and trinkets. We become like a decorated Christmas tree blinking and beautiful. But when the decorations are put away we notice that the tree is dead. It was all a false façade with no living substance to sustain it.

Everything contrary to truth is a fraud. When Pilate asked, “What is truth?” Jesus didn’t waste is breath explaining it to him because all Pilate was doing was concealing that hate that throbbed through his heart. Most inquirers are only conceiving evil plans and distracting truth by semi-truth twisting or circular reasoning. It’s all relative they claim because they don’t want the light to shine on their darkness.

Lies and deceit can only encourage sin. They have no other motive but to slash that whip on the Lord’s back one more time. The dirty-duo grinds that crown of thorns into His head again and again. They thrust the sword of death into His heart again and again all because you have polluted your souls with unconfessed sin.

In the last analysis your heart hardens I was shocked to learn I had four hardened arteries. Within two days I was on the operating table and my physical life was extended. But a hardened heart has no cure but to repent, submit and obey Him. Otherwise you are going to burn baby burn!

 

COREM DEO BEFORE GOD

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CORUM DEO – BEFORE GOD

By Rick Mathes

Hebrews 10:1 (NASB77) Heb 10:1 (NASB77)  For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Every instance in the Bible when someone came into the presence of God, their face hit the ground and they were horrified by how sinful they were in the face of God. It was a terrifying experience unlike the entertainment franchises with a cross on the roof we call churches. The majority of professing Christians are ignorant to what true worship really is: coming into the personal presence of God (in His face).

They are hindered by unbelief. Oh they may agree to the Westminster Confession of Fatih and have the right answers to the right questions but they stop short of believing that we must be Holy or we will never enter heaven. We form our own religion that suits our beliefs as far as we allow our heart to reach. Close but no cigar!

If this sounds like you, be honest: you have unconfessed sin that the Holy Spirit has been hounding you with. You have invented your own god who doesn’t really care about your minor sins. Your god is only interested in the big sins! How absurd. A Holy God demands nothing less than holiness.

Harboring what you believe to be a benign sin is a completely wrong attitude. It was sin that killed God’s only Son. All sin is lethal and you and I must be 100% sinless or we will never enter the glory-land. Well, you know well as I do that it is impossible. The only way to the Father is through the Son so face it. Anything you believe otherwise, no matter how small or insignificant you may thinkit is to be, if it is not wholly Jesus, it is wholly and fatally wrong: No sin period!

So if you keep placing your priorities around the edges, it won’t due. You are only fooling yourself unless you make your only goal in life the pursuit of holiness. Don’t hold anything back no matter how insignificant you may believe the sin to be.

You are advancing into the face of the enemy and Lucifer can be a formidable enemy. He only needs to would you with a small sin to cause a fatal blow. Stand boldly before God and don’t hold anything back. You’ve been warned!`