Jesus prayed we'd be 'ONE' with each other in Him that the world will know! (John 17)

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Francis Chan Freedom Quotes: Lukewarm People — "Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of ALL His followers." — "Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican…" — More…

These are quotes by Francis Chan, probably all taken from chapter 4 of Crazy Love. I’m listening to the wonderful audio version, read by Francis, himself!
I thought Francis’ lukewarm list to be so exceptional that I’d share some of his points with you even if I had to transcribe them myself. Thankfully, I don’t have to.
This is my favorite:

Lukewarm people are moved by stories about people who do radical things for Christ, yet they do not act. They assume such action is for “extreme” Christians, not average ones. Lukewarm people call “radical” what Jesus expected of all His followers.

We don’t want to be among those whom our perfectly holy Father whom we can TOTALLY trust spits out of His mouth having squandered away our inheritance (Rev. 3:14-22). We want to safely and JOYFULLY rest in Him!
Life in the Son!

jeff

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaidsEzynWw]Ch 4 – Crazy Love by Francis Chan

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Excerpts from: markartrip.wordpress.com, emphasis mine

LUKEWARM PEOPLE-FRANCIS CHAN

3. Lukewarm people tend to choose what is popular over what is right when they are in conflict. They desire to fit in both at church and outside of church; they care more about what people think of their actions (like church attendance and giving) than what God thinks of their hearts and lives (Luke 6:26; Rev. 3:1; Matthew 23:5-7).

4.  Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin. They don’t genuinely hate sin and aren’t truly sorry for it; they’re merely sorry because God is going to punish them. Lukewarm people don’t really believe that this new life Jesus offers is better than the old sinful one (John 10:10; Romans 6:1-2).

5.  Lukewarm people are moved by stories about people who do radical things for Christ, yet they do not act. They assume such action is for “extreme” Christians, not average ones. Lukewarm people call “radical” what Jesus expected of all His followers (James 1:22; James 4:17; Matthew 21:28-31).

8.  Lukewarm people say they love Jesus, and He is, indeed, a part of their lives. But only a part. They give Him a section of their time, their money, and thoughts, but He isn’t allowed to control their lives (Luke 9:57-62).

9.  Lukewarm people love God, but they do not love Him with all their heart, soul, and strength. They would be quick to assure you that they try to love God that much, but that sort of total devotion isn’t really possible for the average person; it’s only for pastors and missionaries and radicals (Matthew 22:37-38).

10.  Lukewarm people love others but do not seek to love others as much as they love themselves. Their love of others is typically focused on those who love them in return, like family, friends, and other people they know and connect with. There is little love left over for those who cannot love them back, much less for those who intentionally slight them, whose kids are better athletes than theirs, or with whom conversations are awkward or uncomfortable. Their love is highly conditional and very selective, and generally comes with strings attached (Matthew 5:43-47; Luke 14:12-14).

15.  Lukewarm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God (1 Timothy 6:17-18; Matthew 10:28).

16.  Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican, or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel that they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label Christian or because some people persist in calling us a “Christian nation” (Matthew 7:21; Amos 6:1)

Entire Article Here
Related:
Francis Chan Freedom Quotes!
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God at Amazon [paperback, Kindle, and audio editions]
Francis Chan left his 1600 member church to reassess. “There’s a LACK OF PEACE in so many people … WE PRETEND.” “There is this NARROW ROAD … FEW will find it.” “Let’s go back to what THE TRUTH has always been…and has NEVER BEEN POPULAR.”

Joan Baez: We shall overcome!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNsEH1GD7Q]Joan Baez – We shall overcome

[video] Francis Chan: The Awe Factor Of God

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ya12I036lg]The Awe Factor Of God – Francis Chan

Uploaded by on Apr 28, 2008

I was truly amazed when I saw this video, seriously it shows how God’s creation is just indescribable, just amazing, just AWESOME!

Speechless? Amazed? Humbled?
When I first saw those images, I had to worship. I didn’t want to speak to or share it with anyone. I just wanted to sit quietly and admire the Creator

Reality Check

I just expanded the title of this important post on deception and the times we are in:

Baruch: “Not only is DECEPTION of the church possible, it was PROPHESIED TO HAPPEN!” — Jesus said “IN THE LAST DAYS THE MAJORITY WILL BE DECEIVED, take heed that it doesn’t happen to you” — “FALSE TEACHERS are actually SPEAKING SPELLS with the words of their FALSE DOCTRINES!”

So we really shouldn’t be surprised when we discover that so much of what we hear in the ‘church’ and in the media isn’t true at all.
And much of this involves James-3 cursing, which hardly anyone is talking about, but I have an entire category on this key factor.
Deception this effective and this universal cannot happen without evil spirits affecting people directly. Most people (including ‘Christians’) are lead by familiar spirits that drive them to believe and do all kinds of stuff.
Let’s be free so ONE can happen!
We may not have much time to even speak freely over the web. The U.S. government is waging psy ops on us. Much of what we’re being told isn’t even true [See what I’ve been reporting on at ToBeFree], but most people (and most ‘Christians’) are buying it.
We must be vigilant to live holy, so we only hear one voice — the voice of the HOLY Spirit who wants to lead us into all truth so we can be ONE!
…then the world will know.
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Are you liking the Francis Chan posts?

Jeff : )

[video] Francis Chan: "Crazy Love" (chapters 2-4 illustrations)

On his scooter[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRP4jZ6KMFI]Crazy Love – Chapter 2

Uploaded by on Apr 25, 2010

Chapter 2 of Crazy Love for LifeGroup

At the market[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12MKToWNb8Q]Crazy Love – Chapter 3

In Cornerstone[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdrizzZIvUA]Crazy Love – Chapter 4

“What we call sanctification
they [Iraqi Christians] call prerequisite.”

Gandhi?: “I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

“I like your Christ;
I do not like your Christians.

Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

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Since posting, I have found that some dispute that Gandhi said this. I found the following:

I can’t find any source for him stating the quote as such. I did find a book, The Knights Templar & the Protestant Reformation, which states that when Stanley Jones, a missionary met with Ghandi he asked him:

Mr. Gandhi, though you quote the words of Christ often, why is that you appear to so adamantly reject becoming his follower?

Gandhi replied:

Oh, I don’t reject Christ. I love Christ. It’s just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.

The book seems to have a reference, although I can’t check what it is as the references page is not on Google Books.

The quote seems to be from the book Mr. Gandhi, the man by Millie Graham Polak although the book is not viewable online.

Searching the book for the first part of the passage quoted in the knights templar book, “Is Mr. Gandhi a Christian?” returns a hit, although searching for “stanley jones” or “reject christ” does not.

In The Christ of the Indian Road by E. Stanley Jones, Stanley Jones asked Gandhi how to naturalize Christianity into India. Gandhi replied in part:

I would suggest first of all that all of you Christians, missionaries and all begin to live more like Jesus Christ.

This could be in part where the quote came from, if it was never said directly by Gandhi.

Given the amount of consistent references to the quote being said in reply to a question from Stanley Jones, I think it is likely something very similar to the oft quoted passage was said. I can’t find anything online that shows this for certain and don’t have access to the books where the quote may appear to check, so it’s hard to say for sure.

Dave A. responds in a comment to this post (below):

The information I have so far attributes the proximate statement in Stanley’s book to Bara Dada and not to Gandhi. I have a first edition copy of “Mr. Gandhi the Man” by Polak (1931) and I assure you that the Gandhi quote is NOT in that book. He speaks to his friend about his attraction to Christianity and the possibility of becoming Christian himself. His reasons for not doing so, he explains, have to do with his sense that he has found, in his “native” Hindu religion, all of the essential values that Christianity promotes. He is in a sense a universalist, believing that a path to God can be found in every major religion. There are no disparaging remarks about Christians in the book. Gandhi’s history is one of reconciliation and marshalling people from many faith communities to promote freedom and justice. That work began in earnest in South Africa, where he brought Christians together with other adherents for his social justice work.

Related:
Gandhi Used His Position To Sexually Exploit Young Women
As a teacher of nonviolence, Gandhi advocated the right to bear arms; use of ‘violence’ to defend innocents against bullying, oppression
Gandhi on Forgiving: “Nobody can hurt me without my permission”

The Golden Mean/Ratio: The Divine Proportion

[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7179950432887640376#]Fibonacci and the Golden Mean

This piece uses illustrations ranging from contemporary studies in biology to ancient Greek architecture to describe how, in 1202 A.D., the Italian mathematician Fibonacci uncovered a mathematical link between science and art.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOhVzvcFerk]Golden Mean

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A pictorial illustration of the Golden Mean and the Fibonacci sequence through use of artistic imaging. Natural beauty of botanical subjects used to demonstrate the repeated use of the Golden Mean in earths ecosystems. Created by http://geosage.net

[video] 2 Tests: Can you see the difference between what Francis Chan taught vs what he now teaches about salvation? | Can you see the 3D horse at 15:50?

More of Francis’ current teaching on salvation can be seen in the links at the end of this post.

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Francis Chan
05/02/10

Conditional Security

[Teaching the true-freedom truth
just before leaving Cornerstone
with clean hands!

Notice how much happier
he now really is!]

See the 3D horse at 15:50[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUoPsNfiu8E]Salvation by Francis Chan

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Compare above message to
what Francis spoke
2.5 years earlier

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Francis Chan
11/04/07

Unconditional Security

[This is actually diabolical —
the greatest deception,
leading so many astray and ruining America.

This is probably some of what Francis was trying to undo
in the message above —
so he could be clean
and so he could see many of them in heaven.]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6HJGzA7dNM]Francis Chan – GRACE GRACE GRACE

Related:
Francis Chan’s ‘Last Sermon’ — There will be no cowards in heaven
Francis Chan left his 1600 member church to reassess. “There’s a LACK OF PEACE in so many people … WE PRETEND.” “There is this NARROW ROAD … FEW will find it.” “Let’s go back to what THE TRUTH has always been…and has NEVER BEEN POPULAR.”
Francis Chan Freedom Quotes!
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
The Low-Cut Top Epidemic: May We Be Holy

Dan Corner: What's wrong with today's gospel — Eternal security is false, no matter how popular! Actual audio quotes from big name teachers

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbZYcRE-Fs]What’s wrong with today’s gospel Pt 1 (Eternal Security is false) No once saved always saved

Uploaded by on Mar 28, 2008

http://www.dancorner.com

http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/eternal-security.htm
Dan Corner exposes and refutes the false gospel and counterfeit grace of eternal security. Hear actual audio quotes from big name teachers and a sound biblical refutation of the devil’s lie of once saved always saved aka eternal security
http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org
or
http://www.EOMin.org
or
http://www.noeternalsecurity.com

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Related:
[Video] Dan Corner Interview: The Believer’s Conditional Security
 
Dan Corner’s 801-page book: “The Believer’s Conditional Security”
 
How Many Will Be in Heaven? How Many Find the WAY? Only 1 in 40 — 2.5%!?!!
 
[Video] Joe Schimmel: The Great Deception—Once Saved, Always Saved
 
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God? (what the Bible really says about who goes to heaven)
 
(video) Dan Corner: True Grace Vs False Grace — Charles Stanley’s security in sin: “You cannot out-sin the grace of God” Vs Jesus: “He who endures to the end will be saved”
 
(video) Dan Corner: Prodigal Son — “My son was dead, and is alive again! He was lost, and is found!”
 
(cartoon) The Prodigal Son
 
(audio) Dan Corner: “If you’re lusting in your heart, you are an adulterer, and you won’t inherit the kingdom”
 
John Calvin Had Servetus Burned at the Stake for Having Doctrinal Differences — His Ashes Cry Out!
 
(audio) Dan Corner: The parable of the sower — “Bringing forth fruit is a salvation issue”
 
(video) The Grace Changers: Calvinist Mark Driscoll Exposed — “Mark Driscoll’s popularity is proof that we are in a deep dark church apostacy now!”
 
What about the thief on the cross? He wasn’t required to do works | ‘Sweaty ministry’ VS “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me…”
 
Father of Calvinism, Augustine’s Prayer To Mary For His Salvation

[Biblically disqualified to lead] Chuck Missler laughs about his intentional lie — Has eternal security seared his conscience? Dan Corner thinks so.

Could it be that once-saved-always-saved
is at least partially searing church leaders’ consciences?

Is this why these grace changers won’t repent,
and won’t get right with those they’ve hurt,
believing their own lie —
a doctrine of demons?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATaCt9IgwqA]CHUCK MISSLER EXPOSED Eternal Security Conscience Seared Liars

Uploaded by on Aug 26, 2009

http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/chuck_missler.htm Powerful and shocking expose of Chuck Missler, a very popular teacher of our dark day. Check the web site for much more info refuting the false gospel and counterfeit grace message of eternal security.
http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org
or
http://www.EOMin.org
or
http://www.noeternalsecurity.com

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This grace changing, false teacher at work,
saying the statement Corner addresses above,
and that the alternative to ES is to be under the law.

Hogwash:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC_zEGJoE_Q]Eternal Security

Related:

[WordPOWER] Jesus: Where ‘all liars’ go (pastors included) — Revelation 21:8

Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
Paul’s Elders’ qualifications revisited: What does ‘BLAMELESS’ mean? — Most pastors are biblically disqualified

Lutheran Infant Baptism is Unscriptural and a False Gospel

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VL95TDK9o4]Lutheran Infant Baptism (Original Sin) Is Unscriptural And A False Gospel

Uploaded by on Jul 1, 2010

http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/infantbaptism.htm Lutherans have a false gospel which is shown through their infant baptism. Do not be deceived by this practice.
http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org
or
http://www.EOMin.org

Can this one false doctrine be stopping revival? Absolutely!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBatOP6Q7E]Form of Godliness – Social Gospel

Uploaded by on Jul 9, 2009

http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/form-of-godliness.htm Why No Revival? Why are there no evangelical pentecostal church revival fires? Many want genuine revival but do not see or comprehend the underlying problem.
http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org
or
http://www.EOMin.org
or
http://www.noeternalsecurity.com

Related:
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?

[video] Francis Chan: Is Suffering Optional?

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

Francis Chan

“Let’s be extremely careful with the word of God…, because…we all have things that we just naturally want. Let’s be careful to not just do what we want and then justify it Biblically.”

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“How did John 3:16 get so popular? … Why don’t we make some of these other ones a little more popular?”

Related: [WordPOWER!] John 3:16 Means What?? 3:21,36 show that ‘BELIEVE’ means OBEY — “He who DOES the TRUTH comes to the light, that HIS WORKS may be REVEALED, that they have been DONE IN GOD.”

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“How come that didn’t make it into The 4 Spiritual Laws? How come when I became a Christian no one read that to me? How come it was all happy-verses that try to talk me into joining this church thing?”

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“All true followers of Jesus Christ will suffer.”

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“I don’t believe for a second that we don’t get persecuted because we live in America. We don’t get persecuted because we know how to dodge persecution.”

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“During this time of communion only take of the bread and the cup if you really believe that Jesus suffered for you and you’re ready to do the same in His name’s sake.”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niELvHvbR6U]“Is Suffering Optional?” Part 01 – Francis Chan

Uploaded by on Nov 11, 2009

“Is Suffering Optional?”

As a “Christian” is suffering optional? Can we exist at peace and at ease with the world around us?
Francis Chan – Teacher Pastor
Author of “Crazy Love”
Cornerstone Simi Valley, CA
http://www.cornerstonesimi.com/

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[4-minute video] Francis Chan: The Balance Beam

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_uwWPE6lQ]Francis Chan – Balance Beam

Uploaded by on Oct 2, 2008

Francis Chan challenging us to do something with our lives.

[video] Francis Chan: When Sin Looks More Enjoyable Than God — Choosing sin (a broken cistern) over Him (The Spring of Living Water)! "There has never been a person in the history of this planet who has made the exchange and is thankful for it."

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

Francis Chan

“We know it’s not going to fulfill. We know we can’t be happy outside of God. But everything in us is pulling us that way. What do we do?”

“There has never been a person in the history of this planet who has made the exchange and is thankful for it.”

“This has always been about relationship. It’s always been about love.”

The blame game…

“We can’t just keep running our whole lives [from temptation]. We have to run toward Jesus, the author and perfector. We have to fix our eyes on Him so that all these things are dangling in front of our face but we don’t even notice it — because we’re so focused. Understand that is the key to resisting temptation is running toward the love of God.

That’s why the Bible says if you love God everything is going to be fine. If you love your neighbor as yourself you can’t sin against them.”

Sin, the [Greek] word there is for missing the mark. I used to think, ‘okay, it’s like aiming this arrow at the bullseye. Oh, I just missed the bullseye.’ But the reality of what he’s talking about here: it’s not that you just missed the bullseye. It’s that you started aiming at something else. You took your eyes off of the goal, the target, and you started looking at someone else. That’s why you missed the mark.”

Sin is like giving birth to a still-born baby. “It looked so good. I thought everything was developing…. I left the Spring of Living Water. I left my Love, the One who loved me and provided, and that inheritance. I left all of that for this [empty cistern]? … And that’s why he says ‘Don’t be deceived.’ … God’s going: ‘I love you so much. Don’t take the bait.'”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszVTWUGQQM]When Sin Looks More Enjoyable Than God

Uploaded by on Nov 27, 2006

Francis Chan’s sermon @ Cornerstone Simi Valley 10/26/06
Very Good Illustrations for Temptations

[video] Francis Chan's 'Last Sermon' — There will be no cowards in heaven

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fayWA5TZm0A]Francis Chan’s Last Sermon

Uploaded by on Jun 7, 2010

This is a clip from the end of Francis Chan’s last sermon at Cornerstone Church, the church he founded sixteen years ago. He is stepping down voluntarily to pursue a ministry in the inner city — possibly Los Angeles. These are the parting words that he did not want to leave his church without saying.

The full sermon and previous sermons can be seen here:
http://www.cornerstonesimi.com/

Related:
2 Tests: Can you see the difference between what Francis Chan taught vs what he now teaches about salvation? | Can you see the 3D horse at 15:50?

[video] Francis Chan's Wife, Lisa Speaks On Change

From: Wikipedia

On Sunday, April 18, 2010, Chan announced to his congregation that he felt called to resign at Cornerstone in Simi Valley to pursue what God had laid on his heart. He is not sure yet as to which city exactly God is calling him to.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1UGS_tQBK0]Francis Chan’s Wife Speaks On Change.3gp

[music video] Lisa Chan: "Think of Me"

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDPW7nQuV-8]Think of Me

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Think of Me by LISA CHAN

Remember The Titans: Motivation to Become a Team! — "Take a lesson from the dead. If we don't COME TOGETHER right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were."

“You listen,
and you take a lesson from the dead.

If we don’t come together right now on this hallowed ground,
we too will be destroyed,
just like they were.”

– Coach Boone (Denzel Washington)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StIBPiMQQ28]Remember The Titans – Motivation to Become a Team!

Uploaded by on May 20, 2010

Col. Bob Bowman: The immorality they're foisting on this country — We haven't been the good guys for a long time. The countries we've invaded happen to be the few countries in the world that are not part of the Rothschilds' banking cartel.

This is the kind of thing I prove at ToBeFree, if you’re interested. I brought this over, changing the title.
Jesus said: “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called children of God.
Where does this leave the ‘Christians’ who have been supporting these truly immoral wars? Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
We need to come out from them and be separate — and repent from our wicked ways to be holy.
Life in the Son,
Jeff Fenske

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Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

“Take a look at the countries we’ve invaded, like Iraq, like Libya. And what you find with all of these countries: they happen to be the few countries in the world that are not part of the Rothschilds’ banking cartel. They are independent of them. They do not take money from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. They print their own money, like we’re supposed to do under our Constitution.”

We haven’t really been the good guys for a long time. And it’s about time the American people understood that — understood what the politicians and the banksters are doing to this country, and the immorality that they’re foisting on our country through its policies.

And it’s time that our brave young men and women in the armed forces understood that they are not on a humanitarian mission. They’re not being the good guys. They’re working for the bad guys. They’re part of empire.”

“We have to understand that the entire war on terror is phony…, not just because 9/11 was a lie…. But beyond that, the real reasons for Iraq and for Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11. Those wars were planned way in advance before 9/11, planned in detail, pushed for by the PNAC crowd, Wolfowitz and Pearl, Zelikow and Cheney. All of the traitors.”

– Colonel Bob Bowman

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIrnfg-TqDg]Dr. Bob Bowman: Stop Securing The Empire for Multinational Corporations and Banks 1/2

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former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, and a former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions, Bob Bowman.
Dr. Bowman campaigned nationwide for the nomination of the Reform Party of the United States of America for the presidency in 2000.
www.thepatriots.us/
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/
http://www.infowars.net/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/

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Ron ‘Blessed-are-the-PEACEmakers’ Paul: U.S. War On Libya Totally UnConstitutional | Jesus: Peacemakers = “Children of God”
EXCELLENT! Cynthia McKinney: Obama’s So Called Humanitarian Aid to Libya is A Disaster: “The American people are being lied to.” Kadafi was standing in the way of a globalist, Mediterranean states alliance with Europe.

Nicky Cruz: David Wilkerson 'Never Lost His Heart' — "I almost killed him then because I really was totally full of hate. That was when he told me that Jesus loved me.”

David Wilkerson
1931 – 2011

From: New American

Teen Challenge Founder David Wilkerson Dies

David Wilkerson, who pastored the 5,000-strong Times Square Church (left) in one of New York City’s seedier red light districts, and who founded the highly successful faith-based Teen Challenge drug treatment and Christian mentoring program, has died at the age of 79. As reported by the Associated Press, Wilkerson was killed April 27 “in a car accident in East Texas, Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said. Wilkerson’s car smashed head-on into a tractor-trailer rig after veering into oncoming traffic on U.S. 175 west of Cuney, about 95 miles southeast of Dallas, Mange said.”

Entire Article Here

Nicky Cruz: David Wilkerson ‘Never Lost His Heart’
Gang leader-turned-evangelist misses his spiritual father.

Nicky Cruz remembers the David Wilkerson he met on the streets of New York in the 1950s—the “skinny preacher” who walked a message of Jesus’ love into gang-owned neighborhoods that police were afraid to enter and faced, without flinching, people most gangs didn’t dare mess with; people like Cruz, who back then led the feared Mau Maus of Brooklyn.

He remembers the forceful pastor who led ministries with worldwide influence like Teen Challenge and Times Square Church, a “straight shooter” who “never danced around anything. He was very straight, and always you said, ‘Wow, Dave, he’s hard.'”

But over the last 15 years, the man who counted Wilkerson as a close friend and spiritual father for half a century says what he gradually came to understand: “All these years … Dave Wilkerson was a teddy bear.”

“Always when I see him and I hug him … I say, ‘I love you.’ Even on the telephone, ‘I love you.’ And Dave is not expressive, [but] whenever we were alone, always he told me ‘I love you, son,'” Cruz told Christianity Today in an interview Thursday.

The last time Cruz saw Wilkerson, some weeks ago, they spoke for three hours. Cruz told him about Thousand Pieces, a film in the works about Cruz’s life, including the encounter with Wilkerson that led to his transformation. Wilkerson related his side of that story in the classic book The Cross and the Switchblade (which later became a film starring Pat Boone as Wilkerson and Erik Estrada as Cruz). The new film’s name comes from something that Wilkerson said to Cruz after the gang leader threatened to kill him: “You could cut me in a thousand pieces and lay them out in the street and every piece would love you.”

“New York in that time was bombarded by gangs, and we were the prime leaders of the gangs,” Cruz said. “Even Frankenstein and Dracula were afraid to walk in that neighborhood. And he’s a skinny preacher! Came from nowhere. There’s no way that a type of guy like this can be so strong to stand [on] his own and to really really really take it.”

“He can take a bullet, he can be killed, but he stood because [he was] obedient to Jesus. Jesus sent him there to bring the message to the gangs. … I almost killed him then because I really was totally full of hate. That was when he told me that Jesus loved me.”

Entire Article Here

[WordPOWER!] 2 Timothy2:15 | Acts 17:11 — "Truth?" Look Closer… Make Sure — "I get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again!"

“STUDY to show thyself approved unto God….”

– 2 Timothy 2:15

Now these [the Bereans] were MORE NOBLE than those in Thessalonica,
in that they received the word [Paul’s teaching] with all readiness of the mind,
EXAMINING the Scriptures daily TO SEE whether these things were so.

– Acts 17:11

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“I get on my knees and pray
we don’t get fooled again!”

– The Who

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE]

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Let’s get serious!

Related:

Rethinking Matthew 24: “…then the end will come” — after the Pete Townshends “know”?

Paul’s Elders’ qualifications revisited: What does ‘BLAMELESS’ mean? — Most pastors are biblically disqualified

Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?


Brandy: Review of "Crazy Love: Overwhelmed By a Relentless God" — Francis Chan has put his finger on the problem in American Christianity.

Thanks, Brandy, for sharing your discovery!

I must admit I was a little nervous about reading Francis Chan’s Crazy Love Overwhelmed By a Relentless God.  I had heard the hype and thought it might make me feel like a failure.  As a new true Christian, I am fully aware of my failures.  When I gave my life to Christ, I instantly began to question all the things I had been taught and told throughout my life about God and Christianity.  When I really began to read my Bible, I saw that things did not add up.  I began to deeply pray for wisdom and knowledge.

Francis Chan has put his finger on the problem in American Christianity.  He even states in his book that when he began to realize something was wrong and ask questions, people told him he was “good enough” or “godly enough”.  I have heard those same things as well.  This book made me “test myself to see if I was in the faith”.  Just like Paul says we should.  Some of the content wasn’t easy to hear but I didn’t feel discouraged, I felt like there was hope.  God calls us to a higher standard.  He has given us so much.

If every person who has read this book, including myself, would take it to heart, we could make a great change in this world.  It would be a better place.  The way God intended for it to be.  I don’t just want to go out and do something good, I want to make a life change.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to grow closer to God and follow Christ.

Thanks Francis Chan, but to God be the glory forever!!

Related:
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God at Amazon [paperback, Kindle, and audio editions]
Francis Chan Freedom Quotes!
Francis Chan left his 1600 member church to reassess. “There’s a LACK OF PEACE in so many people … WE PRETEND.” “There is this NARROW ROAD … FEW will find it.” “Let’s go back to what THE TRUTH has always been…and has NEVER BEEN POPULAR.”
John Tesh & Friends [including Francis]: How Important is FORGIVENESS in a Relationship? | FORGIVING: Our GREATEST OPPORTUNITY to SHOW the LOVE of Christ!

[PEACE amongst the Storm – HD video!] Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir – ‘Lux Aurumque’

Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold)

Light,
warm and heavy as pure gold
and angels sing softly
to the new-born babe.

— Edward Esch
(Translated to Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri)

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Eric describes the project in
THIS VIDEO

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Recording Instructions & Conductor Track
for Virtual Choir 2011

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs]Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir – ‘Lux Aurumque’

Uploaded by on Mar 21, 2010

COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY:
Eric Whitacre

PRODUCED BY:
Scott Haines
TEXT BY: Charles Anthony Silvestri
Representing 12 Countries:
Austria
Argentina
Canada
England
Germany
Ireland
New Zealand
The Philippines
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
United States of America
Love this? Watch Virtual Choir 2.0 featuring 2052 people from 58 Countries singing Eric Whitacre’s “Sleep” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhWDCw3Mng&hd=1

[Christians BEWARE!]The TSAs paid to view Americans’ naked bodies: Airport passenger screener charged in distributing child pornography

From: philly.com

A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show.

Federal agents also allege that Transportation Safety Administration Officer Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, who routinely searched airline passengers, uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform.

Entire Article Here
Related:
Americans Are Just As Likely to Get Struck By Lightning Than Killed By Terrorists — So why are why are pastors saying nothing as the people line up to get strip searched?
What does God say? Women, children and men exposing themselves to TSAs in NAKED BODY SCANNERS!
The Low-Cut Top Epidemic: May We Be Holy

David Bercot’s CD teaching: Separation from the World — What the Early Christians Believed About Separation from the World. D. Bercot. The Bible exhorts us: “Adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” So…
David Bercot’s CD teaching: Modest Dress and Cosmetics — How literally did the early Christians take Peter’s exortation?
Wes Hall: It’s Not Just Porn! “You’re asking for power and there are areas of hidden compromise in your life. … I’m not talking about the R-rated movies. I’m talking about the PG-13s … certain sitcoms, TV shows where your spirit is being defiled.”

A Nation ‘Bewitched’: Farrah Fawcett — “When the show [Charlie’s Angels] got to be No. 3, I figured it was our acting. When it got to be No. 1, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra”
1942 Minnesota: Bathing beaches prior to the low-cut top epidemic
All of my Lust Freedom! posts
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way
A privacy rights advocacy group told appellate judges that the use of full-body scanners as a first line of defense at airport security checkpoints is an “unreasonable search” in violation of passengers’ civil rights.
Radiation scientists agree TSA naked body scanners could cause breast cancer and sperm mutations
PROBLEM > REACTION > SOLUTION: FBI manufactures terrorism to cause fear so public will accept the naked body scanner police state
Paul Craig Roberts: TSA is a far greater threat to Americans than are terrorists. There has not been a successful terrorist act since 9/11, and thousands of independent experts doubt the government’s explanation of that event. The very fact that the FBI has to orchestrate fake terrorism proves the absence of real terrorists. If Americans were more thoughtful and less gullible…
IMPORTANT! Alex Jones: Another Clueless Patsy Set-up by FBI in Christmas Tree Bombing Plot — “…so they can sit up there on the news and say: ‘We’ve got terrorists everywhere. We’ve gotta have naked body scanners!’”
Naked body scanners: You can see the bones in people’s fingers. They’ve been giving the public de-rezzed images.

The real purpose of naked body scanners: Using phony terrorist scares to bilk Americans out of millions in tax dollars and rob them of their privacy and dignity

Paul Craig Roberts: TSA is a far greater threat to Americans than are terrorists. There has not been a successful terrorist act since 9/11, and thousands of independent experts doubt the government’s explanation of that event. The very fact that the FBI has to orchestrate fake terrorism proves the absence of real terrorists. If Americans were more thoughtful and less gullible…

RON PAUL: Crotch Groped by TSA, Calls for Boycott of Airlines — “If we tolerate this there’s something wrong with us” ~”SHOWING OUR PAPERS, we’ve capitulated on that a long time ago, because we show our social security number, but NOW THEY WANT US TO SHOW OUR GENITALIA!”

Naked body scanners will be everywhere! Napolitano: Next step for body scanners could be trains, boats, metro

Gerald Celente on naked body scanners and full-body pat-downs: They freaked the whole country out over the underwear bomber who didn’t even have an igniter!

TSA Tactics Find Ominous Parallel in Nazi Germany — It took Hitler and the Nazis nearly a decade to impose a murderous police state on the German people. In the wake of the staged burning of the Reichstag…

IRRATIONALlY FEARFUL: Why are people so willing to show their naked bodies? “More people die each year from honey bee stings than from terror” — Alex Jones

More Proof! Photo: Naked Body Scanners Really Can Show Naked Bodies — and Even Bones!
Photo/Video: Naked Body Scanners Really Do Show Naked Bodies
Benjamin Franklin on naked body scanners: “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”

Paul Craig Roberts: “People have forgotten the warnings of the founding fathers that you can’t trade your rights for safety, because the minute you don’t have your rights anymore you’re not safe”

Naked Body Scanners, Michael Chertoff and NPR

Airport Naked Body Scanners: Experts Now Warn X-ray Devices “could give you cancer” “because the beam concentrates on the skin — one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the human body — that (the) dose may be up to 20 times higher than first estimated”

Excellent! How to opt out of the TSA’s naked body scanners at the airport — “They all just lined up like cattle to have their bodies scanned with ionizing radiation”

Feds Caught Storing Naked Body Scanner Images at Florida Courthouse Security Checkpoint

Katherine Albrecht: Nakedizing Machines — “Would you get naked for Big Brother?” Katherine won’t.

Biochemist: ‘Naked’ scanners may increase cancer risk — “While the dose would be safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body, the dose to the skin may be dangerously high”

Miami airport security guard attacks colleague over ‘manhood’ jokes after walking through full nudity body scanner

Full-Body Airport Scanners May Not Have Thwarted Alleged Christmas Day Bomber, GAO says.

Airport security guard was given a police warning after he was caught staring at images of a female colleague in a body scanner. — Their solution is training and monitoring to ensure that TSAs will only be able to lust “lawfully, with fairness and without discriminating.” Where is the outcry from women, from fathers — from the pastors???

Transportation Security Administration is misleading the public (lying). Body scanners can store, send images, group says.
Airport Worker Caught Ogling Image of Woman on Naked Body Scanner — called “perv scanner” in Europe
Pornographic Scanners: The TSA has been trying to turn airports into peep-shows courtesy of these strip-machines since 2002. Then along comes Umar Farouk Abdullmutallab and his burning britches, and bingo …
Exposed — Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff
Aussie TSA on ‘naked’ full-body scanners: “It will show the private parts of people, but what we’ve decided is that we’re not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities.”
It’s Official: A Majority Of Americans Would Give Up Liberty In Order To Be Safe From Terrorism. Almost 4 out of 5 Americans are perfectly fine with letting airport security officials gawk at their naked bodies just so they can feel a bit safer from terrorists.
Breaking The Will Of The People: The Real Purpose Of Body Scanners
FBI LIED 5 TIMES about the underwear bomber. Full-body scanners were scheduled to be installed in hundreds of US airports BEFORE incident! PROBLEM > REACTION > SOLUTION. But body scanners wouldn’t have stopped incident anyway?

Jeff Fenske: 13 Common Misconceptions About the New Covenant — and 13 Truths including "If you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law"

Grace. It’s now all about grace — we hear over and over and over.
But what does the Bible really say? And what is grace?

There is so much misunderstanding about how the new covenant is different than the old covenant. Much of this is due to the misinterpretation of the word ‘grace,’ and it’s way deeper than that.
Here I’ve compiled a list of the false statements I’ve been hearing from the grace changers (the false teachers of our day), who are teaching these as being the truth — ruining the church.
And this is what is destroying America.
I may add to the list if I think of more. Please comment with your suggestions too.
– Jeff Fenske
onecanhappen.com

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13 Common Misconceptions About the New Covenant

[FALSEHOOD] The requirements in the new covenant are less than in the old.
[THE TRUTH] What did Jesus say in Matthew 5, and what did Paul say in Acts 17?

[WordPOWER!] Jesus Ups the Ante – Matthew 5:21-22: “YOU HAVE HEARD that it was said…, ‘You shall not murder’…. BUT I TELL YOU, that everyone who is ANGRY with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment”

[WordPOWER!] Jesus Ups the Ante – Matthew 5:27-30: “YOU HAVE HEARD that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ BUT I TELL YOU that everyone who GAZES at a woman to LUST after her has committed ADULTERY with her already in his heart. …your whole body to be CAST INTO GEHENNA.”

[WordPOWER!] Acts 17:30-31 God Upped the Ante when He Sent the Holy Spirit — “The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent…”

[FALSEHOOD] Abiding in Christ doesn’t require us to actually abide in Christ. We’re legally in Christ merely because of what Jesus did — Romans 1a without the 1b (without verses 4 and 12-17 too)
[THE TRUTH] “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
What did Jesus say in John 15 about abiding — the opposite of the song, “Never Let Go”? Read in Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
[FALSEHOOD] If born-again ‘Christians’ feel condemnation, it’s really only conviction. Condemnation is a lie from the Devil because: “There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus — Romans 1a without the 1b
[THE TRUTH] “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
[FALSEHOOD] People in the old covenant were under the law, but we are under “grace” — so they had to obey the law but we don’t have to obey anything (or Anyone).
[THE TRUTH] See: The meaning of “Grace” (χαρις) in the Bible: It’s not what you think?
[FALSEHOOD] The 10 Commandments were replaced by “grace + nothing.” Now we don’t have to do anything.

[THE TRUTH] Jesus superceded the 10 Commandments with the Greatest Two — a greater requirement, not less.
Matthew 22:

36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

AND

Romans 13:

8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not give false testimony,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

AND

John 15:1-14

1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. 2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. 5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. 8 “In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. 9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. 11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

[FALSEHOOD] Paul rebuked the Galatians for thinking they had to do works.
[THE TRUTH] Paul rebuked the Galatians for thinking they had to do the works of the law. In Galatians 5:13 – 6:10, Paul clearly explains what we now have to do in the new covenant. Read in Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
[FALSEHOOD] In Romans 7, Paul couldn’t overcome sin as a born-again believer — so if we don’t overcome sin that is normal.

[THE TRUTH] Romans 7 was the struggle that Paul had before he was born-again, before he had the Holy Spirit in him to empower him to overcome as he says we must do in the following chapter to even be called children of God. People don’t read far enough — or just read what they want to read.
[FALSEHOOD] Paul didn’t get right with those he hurt so we don’t have to either.

[THE TRUTH] See: Can ‘Christians’ use Paul’s “Forgetting the things which are behind…I press on” statement as an excuse to not get right with those they’ve hurt? Paul also said: “I also practice ALWAYS having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.”
[FALSEHOOD] The fear of God isn’t supposed to be fear but just reverence.

[THE TRUTH] Paul said “work out your salvation through fear and trembling. We should fear and tremble in what God will do to us if we don’t work out our own salvation by making sure we abide in Him.
Mt. 10:28 — “Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.”

And is this merely reverence? Great fear came on the people when Ananias and Sapphira were killed by God. The people didn’t want to be also zapped. And many were added to their number too. Consider also what God said he would do to Jezebel and her children if she didn’t repent (Rev. 1).

[FALSEHOOD] It’s hard to lose one’s salvation.

[THE TRUTH] Read Revelation 3:1-5 in Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God? And the church in Sardis actually had a reputation for being alive, unlike almost every church today.
[FALSEHOOD] Once our names are in the Book of Life they can’t be removed.

[THE TRUTH] See how only a few in the church in Sardis would not have their names removed from the Book of Life. Read Revelation 3:1-5 in Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God? And the church in Sardis actually had a reputation for being alive, unlike almost every church today.
[FALSEHOOD] We can be lukewarm and still go to heaven.

[THE TRUTH] Revelation 3:15-16 — “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.
[FALSEHOOD] But Jesus didn’t really mean that. A pastor recently said from the pulpit that he doesn’t believe a Christian can be deceived enough to lose his/her salvation.

[THE TRUTH] Paul said in Galatians 6:7,8 — “Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap. For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”
In Galatians 5, Paul gave two lists: those who are Christ’s have the fruit of the Spirit, having crucified their flesh.
And then there are those who are bound for Hell.

19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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Therefore Jesus upped the ante, increased the requirements for us who now have the Holy Spirit in us to help us overcome. And overcome we must:

“Those who are led by the Spirit are the children of God.”

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Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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“Remain in Me….”

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“Work out your salvation through fear and trembling.”

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“If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”

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“He who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”

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“Remain in me, and I in you.”

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“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit
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“The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked.
But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent
…”

[PBS video] Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate — Kathy Powers talks about living with the SHAME from running away and the FREEDOM from coming clean!

Forgiveness, reconciliation and apology

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“I think Kathy had to get past the ‘yes, but.'”

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“Very few people say they were wrong in a public way.”

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“The hardest work was to keep peeling back these layers of defensiveness —
the comfort of not looking at what I had done.”

“…why don’t THEY have to?
And suddenly these words:

‘FORGIVE US our trespasses
AS WE FORGIVE those who trespass against us.’

And that was it —
I FORGAVE….”

– Kathy Powers

transcribed by Jeff Fenske

Watch at PBS

: )

Related:
Asbury Revival, 1970: “‘Dr. Kinlaw, I am a liar. Now what do I do?’ … Three days later, she came to me radiant, and she said, ‘Dr. Kinlaw, I’m free!’”
The Welsh Revival of 1904-05 by J. Edwin Orr: A Countrywide Asbury-like REVIVAL! The 4 Points: #1 Confess any known sin, and put any wrong done to man right again. #2 Put away any doubtful habit. #3 Obey the Spirit promptly. #4 Confess your faith publicly.
Can ‘Christians’ use Paul’s “Forgetting the things which are behind…I press on” statement as an excuse to not get right with those they’ve hurt? Paul also said: “I also practice ALWAYS having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.” What if you don’t repent? And what will happen when you do? The Third Great Awakening can start with us!!! We can all be happy — ‘ONE’!
My 1990 Key-to-Revival Prophecy: “There is might and there is power and there is glory, but it is being withheld until these relationships are made right, until we love our brother enough to…”
“Let Us Be ONE” (A Prophecy)
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?

Photo: Now is our time to get our act together. Soon it will be too late.

Steve Quayle’s photo of the day:

[dream] THE SONS of THUNDER & the “NEW MUSIC” — The law officers were not allowing the Sons of Thunder (repentance prophets) to get anywhere near the church. Anointed music could open the door.

From: JohntheBaptistTV.com… (Andrew Strom)

THE SONS of THUNDER & the “NEW MUSIC”

-by James Ryle.

ANDREW STROM: When I heard the following dreams, they literally affected me more than any visions or prophecies I have ever heard…

Some people don’t like us publishing these things, but the Bible clearly says that “In the last days, says God, I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh… Your young men shall see visions. Your old men shall dream dreams.” (Acts 2:17). Dreams and visions from God can be important. They are all the way through the book of Acts. We dismiss them at our peril.

To continue – My wife and I are both musicians (-we now perform with our daughters who harmonize beautifully). For many years we have been strongly drawn to, and inspired by, the example of the Revival “street music” of the early Salvation Army. In 1989 we formed our first “street-band”, seeking God for the mighty ‘Repentance’ anointing that the early Salvationists had. We were real “Street Music/ Street Revival” type people. So when I first heard a tape of this ‘Sons of Thunder’ message years later in 1993, I just wept, as I had never before heard such powerful confirmation of all this. The anointing of God was so strong. May the following overview by James Ryle be as much of a blessing to you as it has been to me.

THE SONS of THUNDER – A SYNOPSIS of DREAMS -by James Ryle.

The following insight occurred to me in August 1990 as a result of three dreams. In the first dream I saw a flatbed trailer with a curtain behind it. This trailer was parked at a fairground, as if a concert was about to happen. There were two guitars on the mobile stage. The color of these guitars was the most vivid, electric blue that one could imagine. What impressed me most was that the guitars were not painted, but stained. It had obviously taken time to make them blue. The curtain was the same color as the guitars. Two men walked from behind the curtain with sheet music in their hands. They were very excited, and could hardly wait to play this music. One said to the other, “Wait till they hear this. Its going to be just like when the Beatles played their music!” In the dream I also became excited. I turned to see the crowd that was gathering at the stage and the scene changed before my eyes. The audience became a vast body of water, like a lake, and as the musicians played the new song I saw fishing lines cast out into the water. The dream ended. My waking thoughts were that God is about to release a new kind of song in the streets. It will bring a revelation of the truth and it will usher people into His presence. The anointing of the Lord will be with musicians who have spent time in God’s presence “behind the curtain” receiving a deep love for the lost. The lyrics of their songs will be as “fishing lines” cast into the hearts of men and women needing Christ.

In the second dream, I was on the stage in a large church. There was an equipment room on the right side of the stage. It had microphones, cables, amplifiers and other kinds of things that collect in closets. In one corner of the room I saw a power amplifier covered with dust. The cord was wrapped about it, and it had not been used for a long time. When I looked closer I saw written on the front, “The Beatles Power Amp.” I knew in that moment that this box was the source of their sound and their power. I knew that anyone could plug into this box and, in effect, have what the Beatles had – an incredible ability to mobilize masses of people to a single thing. As I stood there holding the Beatles power amplifier, I asked aloud this question, “What is this doing here in the Church’s equipment room?” Suddenly I was out of the equipment room and standing behind the pulpit at this church, still holding the amp. The enormous church, throughout the main floor and all about the balcony, was packed with people from every nation. A very beautiful woman, radiant with a glow of glory, stood in the middle of the church and began singing a song from the Lord. A light shone upon her and her voice filled the auditorium. All she sang was: “In the name of Jesus Christ the Lord we say unto you, be saved.” She sang it over and over. She would turn to her right and sing, then turn to her left and sing; then she would turn behind her and before her and sing the same thing. As I watched her sing, it was like a wind blowing on a wheat field. The people began to swoon in the presence of God and then collapse in their seats — converted to Christ! God’s power was moving through the music. The dream ended.

My thoughts upon waking were clear. There is going to be a new sound and distinctive anointing from the Lord upon music that will turn the heads and capture the hearts of men and women for Jesus. The reason the Beatles power Amp was in the Church’s equipment room is because God meant for it to be a part of the church’s equipment in reaching the lost for Christ. Music does not belong to the world, but to the Church. Music does not belong to the Devil, but to Christ. Satan has indeed stolen the hearts of musicians and their gift of music to use for his own evil purposes. The Church in many cases has unwittingly surrendered this to the devil without any fight at all. Music was given to worship the Lord but Satan has turned it for self-worship, which is the reason people tend to worship musicians. But true worship and true music belong to Jesus Christ. They are given to His church to serve Him with. I truly believe the anointing the Lord will release on music is going to sweep the world in a manner like the Beatles did when they first performed. But instead of drawing attention to themselves (like the Beatles did), the anointed musicians of the Lord will draw attention to Christ alone and give Him all the glory.

In the third dream I was again in the large church where I had seen the amplifier. This time the church was empty except for one man. He was up on stage playing a keyboard and singing to the Lord. It was a beautiful song, and he was crying because of the tender exchange taking place between he and Jesus. He was writing the song right there, spontaneously making it up as he went. I was greatly moved by this song and the man’s pure worship. I had a camera with me and decided to take a picture of this to remember it. I took two Polaroid pictures that came out immediately. When I looked at these pictures I was stunned because both of them were glowing with a golden light. I looked up and then I could see it on the man. The entire platform around him was also glowing like gold. I knew that this was the anointing of God. I showed the man, but it startled him…He looked at the pictures for a second, putting his hands in his pockets he shrugged his shoulders and kicked the ground shyly. “Gosh, I didn’t know you were here, I’m so embarrassed” was all he could say. “You don’t have to apologize for the anointing” I replied. The dream changed. I still had the two photographs of the anointed worshipper in one hand, and in the other I held a parchment. I looked at the scroll and saw it was a letter written by an unknown soldier in the Salvation Army. It said, “The Lord will release into the streets an army of worshipping warriors known as the Sons of Thunder. They will bring forth a witness of worship and praise for the Lord Jesus Christ that will bring many people to God.”

The dream changed once more. I was floating over a wide and long highway that headed in one direction. All lanes were completely grid-locked, jam packed with motorcycle gang members, revving their engines and stirring up dust. It was a graphic picture of lost humanity. Then I saw a group of bikers moving in single file along the service road. They were headed for a field in the distance where there was a monolithic stone. This stone, I knew in the dream, represented the power of Christ and would empower those who touched it to go back to the highway and turn masses of lost people back to God. I looked closer at these motorcyclists as the sped toward the Stone, and saw on their jackets the words “Sons of Thunder.”

As the Sons of Thunder approached the Stone to touch it, a barricade of law officers stood arm to arm in riot gear, opposing the motorcyclists – assuming they were intent on defacing the Stone.

At that moment, I took the parchment in my hand and folded it like a paper airplane. I then placed the photographs inside it and tossed it sail over the heads of the officers. I knew that if the pictures and the promise were to touch the Stone, then the power would be released upon the Sons of Thunder. When the paper was one foot away from the monument, just before actually touching the Stone, my dream ended. I believe this portrays the role of intercessory prayer in helping the Church get past the barricades of legalism, and open the gifts of God for reaching the lost with the message of Christ. The Sons of Thunder, represented by motorcyclists on the service road, illustrate the servantheart of ministry. They also show the agility and decisiveness necessary in reaching the lost. The fact that they were in single file shows, in my opinion, the unity we must maintain as Christians in order for our message about Christ to have credibility

Now, I extend to you a prayer that God will capture your heart and bring you into full devotion to Christ Jesus. That your passion for music will be equaled by your love for the lost. I pray that you will receive an anointing from God to minister with artistic creativity that is so compelling in its quality, and in its message – that thousands of unbelievers who are lost in darkness will see the light and turn to Jesus to be cleansed and born again!

ANDREW’s COMMENT: In pondering these dreams, it struck me that the name “Sons of Thunder” was used by Jesus for a reason. To me, when he called 2 of his disciples the ‘Sons of Thunder’ it seemed to be because they had this piercing “John the Baptist”- type attitude. “Repentance prophets”. Notice in the dream that the “law officers” were not allowing the Sons of Thunder to get to the ‘Stone’. James Ryle once told me that this Stone actually looked like a long tall “monolith”. It struck me that this was probably the “church” as it has been built up today. The law officers were not allowing the Sons of Thunder to get anywhere near the church. Their message was “not welcome”. And yet somehow it seemed that this new “anointed music” and this “early Salvation Army” approach would somehow gain them access.

Again, I realize that there are some who dislike us publishing these types of dreams and visions, but after years of prayer and “wilderness”, our family is about to release an album of what – to us – is “New Music” unlike what we have ever done before. (More “harmonies” and hopefully ‘catchier’ songs). We have no idea what the reaction will be. Is it more “anointed” in some way? We hope so – but truthfully we do not know. However, I’ll tell you something that I do feel strongly:- Music can open doors and gain us an audience with people that might otherwise never listen. And that – at the very least – is something to look forward to. We have been on this trail for years – well before we even heard of these dreams. But hopefully they will serve as “confirmation” to many who are called into this area.

-Please comment on these visions of the “New Music” below-

God bless you all.

Andrew Strom.

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Greetings brethrens and sisters in Yahushua,

Another very good documentary about the New age and the false messiah.
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“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Ephesians 6:12

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