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HAVE FAITH

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 12:12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

There is no faith that is objective and non-changing apart from faith in Jesus. All others are relative and in time will “crash and burn” when put to the test of time. Faith is an assurance and trust held that cannot be changed, altered or scrapped for another. The key to the strength of this faith in the face of alternatives, if here is an option, viable option to believing it, you will eventually succumb to the other, it’s just our nature as sinners.

You can count on the fact that doubt, the opposite of faith, is a sin that must be repented of. All of us have experienced doubt from time to time. There is no limit to the reasons the devil can come up with that will turn our heads from the truth and the faith that is inherent in it.

Are you a sinner seeking a way out? Has everyone let you down or really don’t care what happens to you? Well, don’t feel like you are the only one. But it can change big time if you will get to know those who one walked in your shoes who now have faith to follow Jesus’ bloody foot-prints.

Are you a trembling believer who has lost the faith of your first conversion? Is your faith flat-lining and your emotions tanked? Then rise in faith at least up to the survivors of like kind. Miracles happen when you hang out with those of like needs and wants. Follow the leaders in our fai th!

The Christian in front of you is probably being tempted and the Lord knows you are. We all fall short and need to pray for more faith and trust in Christ. Doubt and fear will drag the biggest Christian to hell if solid faith is evaporated.

Life isn’t fair and sometimes Jesus wants to take those we love home sooner than we would like Him to so we become bereaved sufferes and that lock of faith shows up in our employment.

A discouraged worker won’t last very long without faith in the employers. I didn’t have faith in any of them. My boss is Jesus and my life is for Him. He has never let me know and my faith grows greater every day.

HARD HEART

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.

A hardened heart may at times never soften to the good news. You may tag this reprobate with all the excuses you can dream up making him a victim of society or the church he attends carnal because of weak leadership. But the bottom line is that too many will explore the option of Christ, look around and say, “This is not for me.” Satan puts a mask on, gets into the pulpit and runs off those who have a high expectancy that results in the cold, hard shame of sinners pretending they are Christians in good standing while living in open, known sin. They make all the right moves for an hour on Sunday morning but the mask comes off through the day and the truth prevails through the smoke and mirrors of hell.

Their talk is nowhere near their walk. Many call them phony Christians but they really should be labeled condemned. Not it doesn’t take long for a sincere inquirer to notice that there is no discipline in what is soon to be obvious, an entertainment center, not a church.

Many so called churches have even eliminated the sermon. They may have 10 minutes of inspirational encouragement and many illustrations, but the Bible is only for the more mature Christians at a later date to explore under the guidance of the demon they inadvertently hired to be their teacher.  I once wrote editorial titles “Meet Father Lucifer.” I still get major flack from Roman Catholics but I am determined that the truth will prevail. I respond to their rants quoting their own Popes word for word. I’m letting their own words condemn them.

So this poor soul who wandered into this synagogue of Satan leaves determined that Christianity is nonsense and for good reason. He is left dry, cold and emotionally and intellectually indifferent to what has once been called the “opiate of the low-lifers.” Another one bites the dust and the beat goes on!

I have a wonderful idea for those who have a real Christ-centered Bible church, why don’t you go out of your way to seek out the seeker who did not return and ask them why? Don’t you want to know why your church was rejected? Are you afraid to learn the truth from an unbeliever?

HALF EMPTY

By Rick Mathes

Romans 2:6 (NASB77) ⁶ who will render to every man according to his deeds:

Worldview and attitude determine much of one’s lifestyle and Christian walk. So many professing brethren automatically respond to problems or challenges with reasons why it won’t work or can’t be done. The gears shift to neutral or reverse with little effort. This mindset permeates every strata of society from the top down.

Take for instance our Constitution. The court battles are in the arena of restrictions not opportunities. And as a result, our liberties are cannibalized to feed the void in liberal and permissive society until it can be said with some honesty, the constitution is old and obsolete. Why? The courts have rewritten it with “what we can’t do” instead of what our founders wanted us to do.

How about what passes for church? The attempt to organize an organism fails times and again because man won’t let go of what belongs to the Holy Spirit. We make rules and rituals while we choke on our own vomit of self-gratification. And all the while, the shepherd shakes in his boots for fear of violating the do’s and don’ts the sheep have demanded of him. This then leads to violating the gospel that now “contains the Word of God” when it suits the restrictions of religion that was birthed in the bowls of Hell.

Let’s not forget the family unit. Can you believe that we need to define it as a male father, female mothers and heterosexual children? Where have the boundaries of the gospel gone? Demons dictate from the pulpits, seats of government and at the head of the dinner table relativity instead of objectivity. What is right to you who are in power means more than what is right to me from the Lord’s own words.

So right is wrong and wrong is right and we are in a desperate situation which is clearly half-empty and hopeless. Let’s just throw in the towl and let others define our world, church and family. It’s much easier this way.

Or we can stand up for the truth and let all know that the glass is half full and we are going to fill it up to the top, so help us God. And He will!

 

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

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

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.