The love of God

       is so rich and so pure

On His love I can depend

       of this I am sure.

The love with which

       He rules from His Throne

is a love I can forever rely on,

 but if I do not

  in heartfelt response 

       love others with like mind -

I am, of all men, most blind.

For to receive and not give

  is to die and not live,

for the only appropriate response 

       to the love of God

is to pour out His love on the lost.

- apostle Chris

 Oh my soul, take flight and go

                 to that mountain high

Where the air is clear

        and the only One near

is the God who answers your cries.

Clarity comes with the refreshing 

  of pure water to bathe the

      inside and the outside of you  -

Peace filled days full of whispered praise,

    learning His ways

so that when He sends you back down

   to the cities and the towns

     full of madness and pain  -

     you won't get sucked in again  -

You'll rise above             their    hate

held aloft by the breeze of His love  -

In the world  - not of it  -

Suffering because of their weakness, not your own...

Oh my soul  - this world is not your home!

Do not despise the chastening of the Lord, 

so when He sends you back out into the world, 

you won't be overcome or undone

because of the flesh  - which seeks to live

apart from Him  -  in sin.

Oh my soul  -

From time to time  -

withdrew to that mountain High 

where the angels draw near

and minister to your every tear

and your lover Most High 

breathes upon your every sigh

and gently takes upon Himself 

every scar and blemish given you

by the children of Hell...

 We must learn to develop our "spiritual taste buds". We must learn to (quickly) discern what is good for us and what is bad  - before we swallow it, as soon as it enters our mouth. We must spit it right back out, for if we swallow it,  it will make us sick and cause us all kinds of pain, some minpr, some major, but it may eventually kill us if we keep eating it  - though our hearts cry out to us  - don't eat it!  It's bad manna, rotten revelation - from Satan, not God.

Babies have no choice but to swallow whatever is fed to them, the good, the bad and the ugly - but as we mature,  we learn to tell the difference between bad spiritual food and good. The problem is, the devil knows this, so he'll feed babies bad food while continually calling it good, disguising his poison with good tasting pop confections,  junk food that is really bad for us but tastes great. So we must test the long term effects of what we're receiving but above all, we must learn to discern the voice of The Lord, the Holy Spirit's voice, and the Father's.  We do not rely on logic or our own understanding,  for the wisdom of man is foolishness to God. We rely on Holy Spirit to open the eyes of our understanding by revealing truth to us  - and leading us into "All truth".

 "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior: who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the Truth"

Sermon: "Qualifications to be saved"

1) You must be born of the flesh. You must be a man or a woman. "All men" means "All mankind". Are you a man or a woman? 

2) You must be a failure. A sinner. You must be unclean,  unholy,  unacceptable to God, apart from Him - neither knowing Him or His ways or wisdom.  Are you a sinner? "ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD" therefore "All" are eligible to be saved. The only ones ineligible are the ones who don't need to be saved  - in their opinion.  So how about you? Do you need saving? Are you a sinner? If you answered yes  - congratulations! God's word guarantees you can be saved! Believe this in your heart and confess with your mouth "I'm a sinner in need of a savior"! Ask Jesus to be your savior. Ask him to sit on the throne of your heart - ask him to baptize you in his holy Spirit. Dedicate your remaining days to Him. Rejoice  - now, and again I say rejoice  - you'll rejoice when you die.

 We all, from henceforth and forever,  will with one mind (the mind of Christ), seek together to find out what is acceptable and pleasing to The Lord. Scripture provides an outline, broad brush strokes as to what pleases Him but specific details within each gathering must be revealed by Him in the moment.  We are His canvas, we must allow Him to sketch whatever He pleases in each meeting.  We must prove what is specifically acceptable to The Lord (Eph:5:10) each time we gather and by so doing we must disapprove of what He does not accept  -  we must no longer have fellowship with, allow into our midst, the "unfruitful works of darkness" that many churches are full of today - religious rituals and endless ceremonies,  traditions of men and doctrines of devils that are the "fruits of darkness" not light, for the light of His presence in their midst, showing them the way forward, is missing. 

What is acceptable to God? "Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost". Religion seeks righteousness apart from God, without the Holy Spirit's presence in them and in their midst. As a result,  they end up with an endless series of do's and don t's, right doctrines and wrong, all meant to prove they're "right", with God and each other - and all are as filthy rags, unacceptable to Him - because it's all done apart from Him - the Holy Spirit,  who alone can imbue us with the living presence of THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

They also seek peace, with God and with each other, apart from the Holy Ghost.  Impossible! Why are denominations so divided? Because they are not of Him - His Spirit - who alone can bring to pass the unity Jesus cried out to The Father for  - only when we are one in spirit, His Spirit, each submitted to Him, will we achieve perfect unity - the "UNITY OF THE FAITH AND OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD, UNTO A PERFECT MAN, UNTO THE MEASURE OF THE STATURE OF THE FULNESS OF CHRIST". 

And so, finally,  at the last Trump, they'll lack joy, true, everlasting Joy, for there is an order here - without peace with God we cannot know joy, and without righteousness we cannot know peace and without truly repening of the unfruitful works of darkness (sins) we cannot know righteousness.  Without the Holy Spirit  - the key ingredient to a life pleasing and acceptable to the Father will forever be missing  - that is to say, Holiness. His Spirit is known first and foremost as "Holy" for good reason  - without Him, we can never be holt, for we have none of our own: Just as Jesus imparts His Righteousness to us, so too does the Holy Spirit impart the Father's holiness to us.

Apostle Chris