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Monthly Archives: September 2014

Haiku: Gripping Tiny Images

27 Saturday Sep 2014

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Poetry

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Haiku Poems

•Fighting against walls
ignorance and hatred build –
peace dismantles wrongs.

•Just tattered soldiers
staggering in lifeless fields –
mint! Death restored them.

~ September 2014 (NOTE: This was my first time composing Haiku verses.)

Great peace have those who love your law;
     nothing can make them stumble. ~ Psalm 119:165, ESV

Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:8, ESV

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“Many Went But Not All Were Sent” / Today’s Sabbath Message

20 Saturday Sep 2014

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Praise God. This is some “real” TRUTH! Amen!

“Rediscovering YHVH'S Authentic Ekklesia"

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It sure is funny how the disciples and apostles of Christ preached and taught the mysteries of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God without any formal education, training, license, ordination or sanction from a body of judicial jurisprudence or ecclesiastical oversight.

It sure is peculiar how the born again Holy Spirit endowed believers in Christ wrote sermons, taught lessons and preached salvation without the benefit of formal training in hermeneutics and homiletics.

In these modern times, we must now acquire a ministerial license and/or ordination papers in order to be accepted, respected and recognized as a divine messenger from Father God. If we are not sanctioned by some mainstream denomination or religious sect and if we don’t have at least an undergraduate degree, then our message and our ministry aren’t taken seriously.

In this end-time generation and culture, it has become popular to attain academic and ecclesiastical titles of…

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Go Viral

10 Wednesday Sep 2014

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Spiritual

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Go Viral

Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All ·power [authority] in heaven and on earth ·is [has been] given to me. So go and make ·followers [disciples] of all ·people in the world [the nations]. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach them to obey everything that I have ·taught [commanded] you, and I will be with you always, even until the end of ·this age [the world; time]. ~ Matthew 28:18-20, EXB

 

Contrary to popular opinion, God by way of His Holy Spirit didn’t “call,” give an inner conviction that both the Word of God and fellow Body of Christ members confirm, nor did He give His subsequent appointing, anointing, and ordaining with the power of transformation to His Household of Faith men and women just so these believers in Christ could entertain religious crowds (i.e., “churchgoers”; pew sitters). Without doubt, God calls, appoints, anoints, and ordains His sons and daughters for the purpose of sending them out to fulfill the theology of biblical prosperity—His scriptural seedtime and harvest doctrine, which ultimately pertains more to reaching lost souls for Christ, whom He saves, than it concerns receiving financial and material blessings.

Now the way that these God called, appointed, anointed, ordained, and sent men and women fulfill the theology of biblical prosperity (Great Commission) is primarily by confronting the realm of darkness through spreading the Full Gospel of Christ (evangelizing and discipling), and by accomplishing the kinds of great works Christ Jesus did (healing, resurrecting the dead, casting out demonic spirits, feeding the multitudes, and so forth). Furthermore, those men and women who effectively are fulfilling the theology of biblical prosperity will be contributing to the eradication of at least four major satanic strongholds: religion, pride, deception, and greed. These strongholds, as well as others, have caused a breach in the man-made spiritual walls of the organized religion referred to as Christianity (also known as the institutional “Church”).

In the case of organized religion, the biggest problem with today’s institutional “Church” is that most of the men and women in their local communities’ churches and ministries, who profess to be born again, saved, and filled with the Holy Spirit, have settled for their Fire Insurance—settled for just knowing that they have been immunized (protected; saved; shielded) from going to Hell when they die, or from going through the prophesied last days’ hellish Tribulation Period on Earth. As a result, they also have settled for a form of godliness, while denying the REAL power behind being genuinely godly. Sorry to say, but the majority of worldwide “church” members don’t realize that the fullness of Grace they have received from Christ Jesus is way more than forgiveness of sin, salvation, and an indwelling Holy Spirit.

The Divine Truth is that the fullness of Grace (Grace that regenerates, Grace that pardons, Grace that saves, Grace that sanctifies, Grace that gives peace, Grace that calls workers for God—Grace upon Grace upon Grace upon Grace…; see John 1:14-16) always has been, and always will be, in God’s Spirit, which also is the Spirit of Christ Jesus. In other words, the fullness of Grace not only has been forever FREE but also will be forever FULL (bountiful, all-inclusive, and inexhaustible), because the fullness of Grace is God’s well-stocked storehouse of immeasurable riches that He freely gives to His sons and daughters. Thus, when Christ Jesus not only died in believers’ place but also now lives for them, advocating for them, His atoning sacrifice and constant interceding caused, and continue to cause, the abundance of Grace God deposited within the Spirit of Christ Jesus, as well as the fullness of Grace, which God gave Christ Jesus complete custody of, to be released in believers’ lives via the infilling of the indwelling Holy Spirit. Put differently, the Holy Spirit’s Baptism (infilling) is what supplies EVERYTHING followers of Christ need to be dynamic holy and righteous witnesses for Christ.

For sure, God always knew that human beings would need to grow in the fullness of Grace. He also always knew that before they could grow in the fullness of Grace; that is, before mankind could live Christlike, His Household of Faith sons and daughters would have to be reborn by Grace and the power of His Holy Spirit, saved by Grace and the power of His Holy Spirit through Faith in Christ Jesus, and led by Grace and the power of His Holy Spirit. In essence, it is the Holy Spirit whom born again and saved followers of Christ also would need to depend on for sanctification, transformation, instruction, intercession, enlightenment, strength, direction, spiritual gifts, and so forth.

Once again, even though all true believers have received more than their Fire Insurance, most of these believers don’t know what the fullness of Grace affords them, primarily because, for example, most of The Powers That Be in neighborhood churches and ministries rarely recognize their congregants’ Christ-given gifts—those supernatural heavenly assets (NOT offices), which help apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors (undershepherds), and teachers function as such. Then too, the majority of today’s so-called spiritual leaders frequently fail to encourage their members to use within or beyond “their” churches or ministries’ walls those Christ-given gifts that once in a blue moon do get acknowledged. As a result, there only is a small amount of this world’s professed to be born again, saved, justified, and being sanctified believers who are using their individual fivefold human gifts to build up, train, and endow the Lord’s Body of Christ for service.

Let there be no doubt about it. Wasting any bit of the fullness of Grace is such an insult to God! Whenever His filled with the Spirit of the resurrected Christ sons and daughters do not put their Baptism with the Holy Spirit and with Fire (power of transformation) to use, they are throwing away a specific supply of God’s fullness of Grace. The main way those believers who are filled with the Spirit of the resurrected Christ waste the power of transformation, and therefore also are wasting some of God’s fullness of Grace, is when they do not have any evangelistic interest—are NOT concerned about going viral, being contagious, with the Gospel of Christ, which their Holy Spirit Baptism gives them the power to do. Thus, this lack of evangelistic interest (unwillingness to fulfill the Great Commission) is the second biggest problem in today’s churches and ministries.

The following verses describe the Great Commission:

Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All ·power [authority] in heaven and on earth ·is [has been] given to me. So go and make ·followers [disciples] of all ·people in the world [the nations]. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach them to obey everything that I have ·taught [commanded] you, and I will be with you always, even until the end of ·this age [the world; time]. ~ Matthew 28:18-20, EXB

 ~and~

Jesus said to them, ‘Go everywhere in the world, and ·tell [preach; proclaim] the ·Good News [Gospel] to ·everyone [all creation]. Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved, but anyone who does not believe will be ·punished [condemned]. And those who believe will be able to do these things as ·proof [signs]: They will use my name to ·force [drive; cast] out demons. They will speak in new ·languages [tongues]. They will pick up snakes and drink poison without being hurt. They will ·touch [lay hands on] the sick, and the sick will ·be healed [recover]. ~ Mark 16:15-18, EXB

Currently, what keeps most of the professed believers in Christ from going viral, from answering God’s “call” to fulfill the theology of biblical prosperity or the Great Commission, is their inoculation. By inoculation, this blogger means the majority of professed believers in the 21st century have been given a manageable dose of religion; that it to say, they have been given a shot of just enough conviction and just enough theology to keep them from being contagious with the real thing, which is the fullness of God’s Grace or the Full Gospel of Christ (Grace upon Grace, regeneration, new nature, righteousness, salvation, justification, calling, Holy Spirit’s indwelling, Holy Spirit’s infilling, spiritual gifts, sanctification [empowerment, authority, holiness, transformation], evangelism, discipleship, miracles, signs, wonders, perfection, glorification, and etc.).

It is sad but true. A vaccination shot of organized religion just gives believers enough religious belief and religious doctrines for them to say they have “religion.” However, if these professed believers don’t have any spiritual authority and power in them to help them share confidently with others what they have (if they cannot articulate what the Lord has done for them and in them, or if they don’t have a desire to witness to others), then they don’t have enough of what they need to be contagious with the REAL THING, which once again is the fullness of God’s Grace/the Full Gospel of Christ.

More explicitly, what especially would be missing from believers’ lives who just have “religion” is genuine godliness (the Holy Spirit’s power of transformation), as well as a true relationship with God and an enthusiastic on-fire for Christ Jesus intensity. These godly characteristics and Holy Spirit power are what would cause contagious believers to be courageous and confident enough to share what they have with others. Therefore, the professed believers who do not have a strong enough relationship with God, and who are not fully surrendered to Christ Jesus’ Lordship, would not be able to go viral—to swiftly spread the Gospel of Christ throughout the world—because these believers would not have been prepared and equipped by God with the Holy Spirit’s authority and power viruses (the fullness of Grace and the Full Gospel of Christ “good” contagious infections). Basically, believers inoculated via an organized religion shot would NOT have any of the authority and power of the Holy Spirit in them to be fully ready to evangelize and disciple a sin-sick world.

Even though the Full Gospel of Christ teaches there are times when neighborhood evangelism and discipleship are just as necessary as fulfilling the global Great Commission, as previously mentioned, there are very few local wannabe pulpit giants who, upon the rare occasion of recognizing their members’ Christ-given human gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher, would be willing to make room for their spiritually gifted congregants to function in these alleged spiritual leaders’ community churches or ministries according to “their” congregants’ individual calling. The sad truth again is that these so-called clerics who are not using the human gifts Christ has given to His entire Body of Christ are hindering the growth of the Kingdom of God on Earth, and are doing so usually because they either are jealous/envious of others’ gifts or because these alleged called of God pastors, bishops, elders, and so forth, are the epitome of the biblical spiritually proud and extremely greedy blind guides who are powerless to see that Christ Jesus is the Great Shepherd example all the people in leadership “offices” in every local church or ministry should be emulating.

The Scriptures are very clear. GOD ALWAYS prepares (trains, grooms, coaches) and equips (endows, gifts, supplies,) those whom He has called, before He sends them out. This biblical Truth is very evident in the life of Christ Jesus, the Great Shepherd. Before Christ Jesus spoke the global Great Commission, and before He ever sent His original 12 to the local lost sheep of Israel, He first prepared and equipped (taught, discipled, empowered, and authorized) His 12 disciples so that they would be able to evangelize, disciple, and perform miracles in and around Jerusalem, as well as throughout the whole nation of Israel.

The following verse supports the God always prepares and equips those individuals He calls, before He sends them out, statements:

Jesus called ·the twelve apostles [L the Twelve] together and gave them power and authority ·over all [to cast out] demons and the ability to heal ·sicknesses [diseases]. ~ Luke 9:1, EXB

Additionally, the Gospel According to Luke records the following instructions the Lord gave to His the 12 disciples He was sending to the people of Israel:

He sent the ·apostles [L them] out to ·tell about [preach; proclaim] God’s kingdom and to heal the sick. He said to them, ‘Take nothing for your ·trip [journey], neither a ·walking stick [staff], ·bag [or beggar’s bag], ·bread [food], money, or ·extra clothes [L two shirts/tunics]. When you enter a house, stay there ·until it is time to leave [L and depart from there; C probably to avoid temptation to move to better accommodations]. If people do not welcome you, shake the dust off of your feet [C a sign of rejection and coming judgment] as you leave the town, as a ·warning to [testimony/evidence against] them.’ So the apostles went out and traveled ·through all the towns [from town to town], ·preaching [proclaiming] the ·Good News [Gospel] and healing people everywhere. ~ Luke 9:2-6, EXB

Furthermore, it is evident that, just as Christ Jesus did with His earliest 12 disciples, He also did with His later 72 disciples; that is to say, He first prepared them (awakened in them an evangelistic interest—stirred within them, via the Holy Spirit, a passion [hunger] to go where the lost souls are so that they could share the fullness of Grace and the Full Gospel of Christ with them, baptize them, and make disciples of them). Then Christ Jesus equipped them with His AUTHORITY or the right to act (exousia) and with His POWER or supernatural ability to perform miracles, signs, wonders (dunamis).

In the below cited verses, also from the Gospel According to Luke, the author gives another account of the Lord’s instructions, this time, to His additional 72 disciples, whom the Holy Spirit no doubt nudged, like He did the original 12, for the purpose of getting them out of their comfort zones so that they would answer their individual “call” to evangelize and disciple. Luke writes:

After this, the Lord ·chose [appointed] ·seventy-two [C the number may reflect the 70 nations listed in the ‘table of nations’ in Genesis 10 (the Greek text of which reads ‘72’) and so foreshadows the mission to the Gentiles] others and sent them out in pairs ahead of him into every town and place where he ·planned [was about] to go. He said to them, ‘·There are a great many people to harvest [L The harvest is great/large], but ·there are only a few workers [L the workers/laborers are few]. So pray to the Lord ·who owns [who is in charge of; L of] the harvest, that he will send more ·workers [laborers] ·to gather [L into] his harvest. Go now, but ·listen [L look; T behold]! I am sending you out like ·sheep [lambs] among wolves. Don’t carry ·a purse [money bag], a ·bag [traveling bag], or sandals, and don’t ·waste time talking with people [greet anyone] on the road [C because of the urgency of the task]. ·Before [When] you go into a house, [L first] say, ‘Peace be with this house.’ If ·peace-loving people [L a son/child of peace] live there, your ·blessing of peace [L peace] will ·stay with [rest on] them, but if not, then ·your blessing [L it] will come back to you.  Stay in the same house, eating and drinking what the people there give you. [L For] A worker ·should be given his pay [deserves his wages; T is worthy of his hire; 1 Tim. 5:18]. Don’t move from house to house [C to avoid the temptation of constantly seeking better accommodations]. If you go into a town and the people welcome you, eat what they give you. Heal the sick who live there, and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is near you.’ But if you go into a town, and the people don’t welcome you, then go into the streets and say, ‘Even the ·dirt [dust] from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you [C in protest and as a warning of judgment]. But ·remember [know; recognize] that the kingdom of God ·is near [has come near; is at hand].’ I tell you, on ·the Judgment Day [L that day] it will be ·better [more bearable/tolerable] for the people of Sodom [C a city God destroyed because the people were so evil; Gen.19] than for the people of that town.’ ~ Luke 10:1-12, EXB

Luke also writes:

‘·How terrible for [L Woe to] you, Korazin! ·How terrible for [L Woe to] you, Bethsaida [C towns in Galilee where Jesus ministered]! If the ·miracles [powerful deeds] ·I did [L that occurred] in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon [C cities in Phoenicia notorious for their wickedness], those people would have ·changed their lives [repented] long ago. ·They would have worn rough cloth and put ashes on themselves to show they had changed [L …sitting in sackcloth/burlap and ashes; C signs of sorrow and deep remorse]. 14 But ·on the judgment day [L at the judgment] it will be ·better [more bearable/tolerable] for Tyre and Sidon than for you.  And you, Capernaum [C a town in Galilee where Jesus lived and ministered], will you be ·lifted up to [honored/exalted in] heaven? No! You will be thrown down to ·the depths [the place of the dead; hell; L Hades; Is. 14:13-15]!’ ~ Luke 10:13-15, EXB

Where today’s institutional “Church”—organized religion—is concerned, the unfortunate disturbing truth is that too many of the purported spiritual leaders in local churches and ministries are NOT invested in pouring into others; namely, too many pulpit wannabe giants are not trying to increase the maturity of their spiritually gifted congregants, by discipling and equipping (training, authorizing, and empowering) them. Once again, Christ Jesus gifted to the Body of Christ five human gifts—His supernatural Structure for His spiritual Ekklesia—so that the entire Body of many members would become ONE spiritually mature Bride. As stated earlier, these human gifts are NOT “church” offices! These human gifts are spiritual functions (divine descriptions of what each human gift does), and these spiritual functions are supposed to be in operation throughout the Body of Christ. Once again, these spiritual functions are: APOSTLES (builders, empowerers, and supervisors); PROPHETS (consolers, discerners, and encouragers); EVANGELISTS (messengers, motivators, and warriors); PASTORS (caregivers, engagers, and undershepherds); and TEACHERS (explainers, feeders, and interpreters).  

However, instead of being concerned with having the Body of Christ’s human gifts function as empowerers, encouragers, engagers, enlighteners, and exalters who, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, bring about a mature Body of believers who achieve the ONE (unity) status, The Powers That Be in most of the worldwide churches and ministries are more concerned with promoting “their” own Brand. For this reason, God has made it a waste of time for these alleged spiritual leaders to try to change any part of this secular world, including the various cultures in which most of their congregants live, as long as these wannabe pulpit giants neither are using all of “their” fivefold spiritual human gifts nor encouraging these human gifts to do the miraculous great works like those supernatural acts Christ Jesus did. In other words, evangelistic windows and all of the top-of-the-line available technological gadgets, motivational tools, and excellent amenities used as hooks to draw the secular world into local churches and ministries will never make any permanent spiritual changes to either the lost souls or the professed Christians sitting on pews.

The Divine Truth is believers never were commissioned to just sit on pews in churches or ministries and let their evangelistic windows and other accoutrements draw the secular world in, while their spiritual leaders sold “their” own brand of organized Christianity to their believing and unbelieving congregants. For sure, ALL spiritually born again, saved, justified, and being sanctified believers were commissioned to introduce Christ Jesus to the secular world, BUT not by choosing to bring the unsaved world into community churches or ministries, primarily because this kind of evangelism is easier and provides fewer chances of having to deal with people who would be confrontational or who would outright reject what believers would be saying. Instead, genuine followers of Christ are supposed to boldly take the Full Gospel of Christ to the secular world.

In the first century A.D., true believers in Christ not only were commanded to go viral—to courageously take the Gospel of Christ to the world as they knew it, with the help of the Holy Spirit—but also they were instructed to be wise as serpents. By the aid of the Holy Spirit, they were to be clever enough to be aware of the fact that the individuals who rejected whomever God has called, appointed, anointed, ordained, and sent out to evangelize, disciple, and do miraculous deeds are NOT rejecting the sent followers of Christ, but rather they are rejecting Christ Jesus, who is the One who sent them, as well as rejecting the One who sent Christ Jesus, who is Father God. The writer of the Gospel According to Luke agrees, for he writes that Christ Jesus says:

Whoever listens to you listens to me [Matt. 10:40; John 13:20], and whoever ·refuses to accept [rejects] you ·refuses to accept [rejects] me. And whoever ·refuses to accept [rejects] me ·refuses to accept [rejects] the One who sent me. ~ Luke 10:16, EXB

It is crucial to reiterate here that without doubt the “call” to go viral—to spread the Full Gospel of Christ throughout the whole world—is still a command that is in effect today! However, the funny thing is that this century’s pulpit wannabe giants are the very ones stopping nowadays’ believers from keeping the Lord’s Great Commission! It is unfortunate that these hope to become pulpit bigwigs and megachurch major players continue to fail to harness the human spiritual gifts’ functions that the Lord already has given to the whole Body of Christ for building up, training, and endowing His Ekklesia. Instead, these assumed to be called of God pulpit clerics claim to be “their” institutional churches and ministries’ numero uno spiritual leaders, as well as proclaim that the functions of the fivefold human gifts are “their” do-it-all pastoral responsibilities! As a result, these wannabe pulpit giants have been, and continue to be, looking for solutions to “their” churches or ministries’ problems to come either from branding “their” churches or ministries (instead of from branding believers’ hearts with Christ Jesus), or to come from “their” reliance upon “church” administrative and managerial offices (instead of relying on the Holy Spirit to reveal Christ Jesus’ spiritual human gifts to them, for them to consult).

In closing, because this century’s aspiring to be well-known spiritual leaders have pretty much inoculated “their” congregants with a small measure of organized religion, most of today’s believers are far from being contagious—a long way from being fully infected with the Holy Spirit’s Baptism (power and authority). It’s so strange that instead of thinking that going viral means a “good” thing, like being susceptible to the Holy Spirit’s supernatural riches (the fullness of Grace), which help followers of Christ fulfill the theology of biblical prosperity or the Great Commission, when most of the modern-day believers think about things that have gone viral, at the top of their individual list would be those BAD infectious viruses that either have reached epidemic or pandemic proportions (e.g., Ebola, Marburg, SARS-CoV, Rift Valley Fever, and so forth). That’s why to these individuals, professed Christians included, inoculated usually means received a vaccination—got a small dose of the disease they are hoping to produce immunity to.

The surprising truth, though, is that when the Lord’s Great Commission command is seen today as an order to “go viral,” this going viral directive should come across as a “good” thing. In this Information Age, going viral means millions of people have heard, read, or watched something in a very short period of time. Thus, with all the bells and whistles that come with the top-of-the-line available technological gadgets and evangelistic tools used to make the Full Gospel of Christ attractive to the lost world and carnal Christians, it would seem that contemporary apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers should be exceeding the achievements of the first century’s vineyard workers. In other words, the command to go viral with the Full Gospel of Christ is way easier to do today than it was in the first century A.D., and yet with just a few first century apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers the world was turned upside down. In contrast, while there are way more apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers in the world in this century, sadly the “call” to evangelize and disciple this entire world isn’t going viral, and that’s because the present-day majority of professed believers have been given a manageable dose of religion—they’ve been inoculated with just enough conviction and just enough theology to keep them from going viral with a really contagious spiritual global pandemic.

According to D.L. Moody: “There is not a better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.” By God’s Grace, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the atoning sacrifice of Christ Jesus, believers have received the initial indwelling Holy Spirit and have access to the infilling Holy Spirit’s secondary experience. Still, it really is a shame that not very many contemporary believers understand that the only ways modern-day followers of Christ will be able to have the Gospel’s message go viral is when more believers stop trying to get on the same side as the secular world, and instead, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, become contagious—become filled with the Spirit of the resurrected Christ, which will give them the power and authority to be influential holy and righteous witnesses for Christ, doing those greater works the Lord said they would be able to do. To make this change, today’s followers of Christ also will need to start developing, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, a genuine passion for evangelistic work (being on fire for the Lord). To burn for the Lord, nowadays’ believers must stop settling for just mere Fire Insurance and instead seek everything that the fullness of Grace gives so that they are prepared and equipped to confront the spiritual realm of darkness. As Samuel Chadwick says:

Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.

God gave His sons and daughters His Holy Spirit to liberate them to become all that they were meant to be, which won’t happen if they are wasting (not using; ignoring) His nudge—not responding to His gentle prodding. The Holy Spirit is nudging believers, because He wants them to get out of their comfort zones (to accept His infilling) so that they can receive the power of transformation that will enable them to answer their individual “call” to evangelize and disciple this world.

Finally, it is time for all believers, whether “church” or ministry leaders or merely pew sitters, to do a much better job at reflecting Christ Jesus’ Grace, Love, Compassion, and Power than they have been doing! The 21st century’s believers can no longer keep trying to sell the secular world on an ineffective Christian religion. Instead they must introduce the secular world to a loving, forging, saving, supernatural Christ Jesus, by taking His Gospel to the masses of lost souls, just like the Great Commission instructs. Lastly, today’s believers must be about fulfilling the theology of biblical prosperity, which is God’s scriptural seedtime and harvest doctrine that ultimately pertains more to reaching lost souls for Christ (or the Great Commission), than it concerns receiving financial and material blessings.

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Religious Hypocrites Are Dangerous!

06 Saturday Sep 2014

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Heavenly Insights

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Pharisees & Sadducees' Leaven

Jesus said to them, ‘·Be careful [Watch out]! Beware of the ·yeast [leaven] of the Pharisees and the Sadducees [C yeast or leaven refers here to the dangerous permeating power of their influence].’ ~ Matthew 16:6, EXB

 

The Pharisees and Sadducees were the biggest religious hypocrites in Christ Jesus’ day, which was the reason why the Lord taught that these religious leaders’ outward religiosity was thoroughly fruitless, phony, and narcissistic. For these reasons, He warned His disciples to beware of the Pharisees and Sadducees’ leaven (their venomous attitudes), and why He advised His disciples to avoid judging other people with the same kind of hypocritical righteousness the Pharisees and Sadducees used.

For the record, the Pharisees were strict observers of the Written Law or Torah, as well as strict observers of the Oral Law. They adopted the “traditions of elders”—the interpretations of the Oral Law (unwritten laws) they claimed had been handed down from Moses. However, by placing more emphasis on the “traditions of elders,” the Pharisees made God’s written commands of no effect. Even though the Pharisees explained/taught the Law of Moses and enforced a strict adherence to said Law, they usually didn’t practice what they taught and enforced. Furthermore, they were nitpickers, but ONLY about SOME commandments; they actually ignored following many of God’s commandments, as well as many of the laws they themselves added. Because they were full of spiritual pride, they demanded to be greeted in public as Rabbi, Master, and/or Father, and they expected to be shown the proper respect. Then too, their deeds were constantly on display; they had a habit of praying, fasting, and giving alms in public, because they loved to be seen of men. They made sure that their phony religiosity and man-given honorable titles impressed the people watching them so that they (the Pharisees) could make money off of their religion, as well as receive praise.

In contrast, the Sadducees believed in a strict literal interpretation of the Written Law or Torah, which was to them without any influence from their contemporary society or the Oral Law (unwritten laws) that had been handed down. Their main concern was maintaining the integrity of the Mosaic Law. They insisted that the Torah, the Law of Moses found in the Pentateuch (first five books of the Old Testament), was binding. The Sadducees believed that the oral regulations based on “tradition” misrepresented the Torah, and this is why they rejected the “traditions of elders.” They also didn’t believe in the resurrection of the dead, nor in angles or demons. Moreover, because they didn’t believe in Judgment, Heaven, or Hell (denied the afterlife and the immortality of the soul), they also did not believe in rewards or punishments at judgment day. The taught external cleanliness (modesty; clean clothing), but they didn’t teach about inward holiness or obedience to God. They were rationalistic and worldly minded, heavily influenced by Greek customs and culture, and were in favor of adopting them. They accepted human reasoning over Divine Revelation, believing that if they couldn’t conceive or comprehend something, then that “something” could not exist. Although they believed in God, they denied the supernatural. Lastly, they didn’t believe in God’s involvement in everyday life. In fact, the Sadducees were exceedingly self-reliant.

Even though the Pharisees are the ones who consistently are given a bad rap, the truth is that the Pharisees and Sadducees in Christ Jesus’ day were spiritually proud religious hypocrites, legalists, murders, and militants. Both groups/sects also were involved in political scheming.

What is important to note here, however, is that the leaven Christ Jesus tells His disciples to watch out for refers primarily to the Pharisees and Sadducees’ spiritual pride and religious hypocrisy, which Christ Jesus teaches God never rewards. Metaphorically speaking, Christ Jesus is saying that the leaven in Pharisees and Sadducees’ unregenerate inner spirit or heart has the same internal and external altering effects as does the little amount of yeast that is put inside a portion of bread dough. In other words, both the Pharisees and Sadducees’ sufficient amount of toxic attitudes in their individual spirit/heart and the accurate measure of yeast in bread dough modify internal and external characteristics as they spread or rise. Bottom line: The Lord is saying that sooner or later the Pharisees and Sadducees’ leaven (spiritual pride and religious hypocrisy) will spread from the inside – out, causing internal emotional, moral, and spiritual changes and external physical alterations to the people in their Jewish Temple community.

For the purpose of being very clear, let’s mix metaphors.  Pharisaical and Sadducean leaven is a rotten apple. That is to say, malicious leaven during the process of fermentation has the same internal and external poisonous effect on an infected person and the region of people he or she pollutes, as does the internal and external decomposing effect the overripe apple during the ripening process has on itself and the other apples around it. In the case of the one bad apple that spoils the whole bunch, the riper apple gives off a higher level of ethylene, which is both a natural gaseous hormone and a ripening agent. It is the ethylene from the overripe apple that speeds up the ripening process in the other apples around it, and eventually rots them.

Additionally, an apple that is infested with mold also will contaminate the other apples (or the different fruit) it is stored with, because the mold on the infected fruit spreads to more food sources, ruining or rotting them as well. Likewise, this same rotting principle is true of the Pharisees and Sadducees’ leaven. Just like one bad apple most definitely will contaminate the other apples its around and ultimately cause their premature rotting, the Pharisees and Sadducees’ leaven (spiritual pride and religious hypocrisy) also will corrupt everyone with whom their leaven comes in contact.

Today, as it was in Christ Jesus’ day, the Pharisees and Sadducees’ cancerous leaven (spiritual pride and religious hypocrisy) pertains to both our natural and spiritual lives. In the natural realm, the Pharisees and Sadducees’ malicious leaven represents the destructive power one person’s contaminative influence can have on his or her own natural developmental process—mental and physical maturities—as well as on other individuals’ natural developmental process. Likewise, in the spiritual realm, the Pharisees and Sadducees’ malicious leaven signifies the destructive power one spiritually unrighteous, unholy person can have over his or her own eternal life status and spiritual growth, as well as over other people’s eternal life status and spiritual growth.

Finally, the main thing to remember is that a spiritually proud religious hypocrite who is in the process of spiritually, emotionally, morally, and physically decaying his or her own life, both internally and externally, absolutely can emotionally, physically, morally, and spiritually decay the internal character traits and external behaviors of the people who are around him or her. For this reason, a spiritually proud religious hypocrite is a dangerous enemy to the Household of Faith children who are in the Kingdom of God on Earth, because a spiritually proud religious hypocrite swiftly contaminates the inward emotions and attitudes of others. Additionally, a spiritually proud religious hypocrite’s behaviors always dishonors, disrespects, and diminishes the “much good” that genuinely holy and righteous people do.  For these reasons, believers today still need to watch out for the Pharisees and Sadducees’ leaven, for it rots within and affects without.  AMEN.

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Two Biblical Proofs Favoring Pre-Tribulation Rapture

04 Thursday Sep 2014

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Bible Study

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Proof Positive

Avraham approached and said, ‘Will you actually sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Maybe there are fifty righteous people in the city; will you actually sweep the place away, and not forgive it for the sake of the fifty righteous who are there? Far be it from you to do such a thing — to kill the righteous along with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! Far be it from you! Shouldn’t the judge of all the earth do what is just?’ ~ Genesis 18:23-25, CJB

For God has not intended that we should experience his fury, but that we should gain deliverance through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who died on our behalf so that whether we are alive or dead, we may live along with him. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10, CJB

In necessary things unity; in uncertain things freedom; in everything compassion. ~ Unknown Author; most often misattributed to Augustine

God help us all who call ourselves Christians, for even in a time such as this we still remain unable to become ONE. We primarily are divided by doctrines, issues, and practices. As a result, we who profess to be Your holy and righteous sons and daughters, joint-heirs with Your only begotten Son (Jesus the Christ), frequently end up treating each other like notorious enemies instead of like venerable brothers and sisters in Your Household of Faith.

There continues to be too much arguing among followers of Christ Jesus over doctrines, issues, and practices that neither are crucial to the Gospel of Christ nor to how anyone obtains eternal life (how someone is saved). Christians’ most commonly debated doctrines, issues, and practices include, but are not limited to: the Rapture, the Millennium, the Earth’s Age, Life on Other Planets, Food and Drink, Female Pastors, Observing the Sabbath vs. Worshipping on Sunday, Speaking in Tongues, Performing Miracles, and various legalistic Do’s and Don’ts (like going to the movies, dancing, smoking, drinking, playing cards, wearing makeup, and so forth).

How horrible our arguing with and our mistreatment of Body of Christ members must look to the unsaved world. No wonder the masses of lost souls in today’s world are not coming to Christ Jesus. Why would any of them want to be a part of this current 21st century body of believers who vehemently disagree with each other? These quarrelsome believers not only refuse to tolerate but also choose not to be civil to their brothers or sisters in Christ Jesus who think differently about things that usually have nothing to do with a person’s salvation nor with the Gospel of Christ!

If we agree on the essentials, yet disagree on the non-essentials, then let us learn how to agree to disagree without becoming/being disagreeable (unloving, compassionless, coldhearted, intolerable, argumentative, hostile, inhospitable, bad-tempered, grouchy, snarky, sarcastic, stubborn, nasty, offensive, unpleasant, unfriendly, rude, legalistic, insulting, disrespectful, and the list goes on). Let us learn how to remain loving, caring, and kind to each other. After all, one of the most crucial lessons Christ Jesus taught is this one: “This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other” (John 13:35, MSG).

Having said that, let me say this: Because I know that the Rapture is one of the most commonly debated doctrines, I would like to share, strictly from a general theological perspective, two biblical proofs favoring a pre-Tribulation Rapture. Not only do I find these proofs to be two of the best but also I agree with them, as do so many theologians, countless other followers of Christ, and even copious churchgoers. For this reason, I am certain that numerous individuals who will read this blog entry probably already know these proofs, and I equally am certain that various other individuals who will read this blog entry neither had read nor had heard of these proofs before now. My hope then is that the end result of having read this article will be that those readers who didn’t believe will have come to believe what so many present-day followers of Christ already accept to be true about the Bride of Christ’s pre-Tribulation Rapture.

Biblical Proof Number One—from the Old Testament:

Anyone who believes that there is a radical and ESSENTIAL difference between the righteous and the wicked should agree that God knows the difference, and  he or she should agree that God is the One who makes the distinction between those who are “righteous” and those who are “wicked.” Additionally, anyone who believes that there is a radical and ESSENTIAL difference between the righteous and the wicked also should agree that righteousness and wickedness are exact opposite spiritual (heavenly vs. hellish) characteristics, which is why God never wanted His righteous children and the world’s wicked persons to mix.

Furthermore, since God knew there would be a nonstop righteous vs. wicked battle taking place on this Earth, that is why He had some undeniable proof of His timeless pattern of Judgment placed in His Word. Biblical proof number one, therefore, is that God does not judge His truly righteous believers with the world’s very wicked unbelievers. This biblical pattern is most noticeable in the Scriptures describing the time of Noah, and it continues to become more evident throughout the rest of the Old Testament. God’s pattern of Judgment also is found in the New Testament, especially in end-times verses. That’s why there really can be no denying that God clearly is represented throughout the Holy Bible as a righteous Judge who pronounces Judgment that always is correct and fair.

For example, in the Old Testament, Abraham, who is one of Noah’s after-the-Flood descendants, knew quite well that God never would judge the righteous with the wicked, and that is why Abraham doesn’t shy away from reminding God of His existing Judgment pattern. Abraham says to God:

…Will you actually sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Maybe there are fifty righteous people in the city; will you actually sweep the place away, and not forgive it for the sake of the fifty righteous who are there? Far be it from you to do such a thing — to kill the righteous along with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! Far be it from you! Shouldn’t the judge of all the earth do what is just? ~ Genesis 18:23-25, CJB

The point here is that it had been established before Noah’s day that God is a just and righteous Judge who only punishes (pours out His Wrath only upon those whom He has judged as) the wicked, and then only AFTER He has removed (separated) the righteous from mingling with the wicked. Righteous Noah, his sons, and his sons’ wives were saved from God’s 40 days and 40 nights of the falling rain Flood Judgment, while God poured out His promised diluvial Wrath upon all of the Earth’s wicked inhabitants, as well as upon the Earth itself!

As already mentioned, this pattern of God’s Judgment runs all through the Testaments. Of course, there always is an exception, and the exception that must be noted here is that, although there are many New Testament verses that chiefly emphasize God’s Judgment, there is NO mention of God’s Judgment in the New Testament passages considered as Rapture passages. This observation leads to the second biblical proof.

Biblical Proof Number Two—from the New Testament:

Since there is no mention of God’s Judgment in the New Testament’s Rapture verses, then it is decidedly possible that the Rapture of the Bride of Christ happens at a separate time from when God judges and then punishes the Earth and the left-behind wicked, many who are followers of the Antichrist, with His fiery Wrath. The apostle John writes:

Then I saw another sign in heaven, a great and wonderful one — seven angels with the seven plagues that are the final ones; because with them, God’s fury is finished. ~ Revelation 15:1, CJB

Apostle John most assuredly is describing the last Judgments—the last of God’s judiciary righteous Judgments issued against the left-behind ungodly (His Wrath or Fury). The apostle also is describing God’s righteous Punishment for committed crimes His enemies are guilty of (His Wrath or Fury). Without doubt, these seven plagues (seven bowl judgments) are the last of all of God’s promised righteous end-times Punishment (His Wrath or Fury).

All the same, it must be noted here that apostle Paul says when Christ Jesus died on the Cross, His atoning sacrifice not only had made the gift of eternal life (Salvation) available, but also He had saved (rescued, delivered) believers from God’s end-times Judgments and Punishment (outpouring of Wrath). In other words, so that God’s righteous would not experience any of His end-times Wrath, Christ Jesus’ sacrificial dying absorbed it ALL. Thus, biblical proof number two is Christ Jesus already took the Wrath of God in place of God’s Household of Faith believers—bore the FULL brunt of God’s Wrath for the Body of Christ, also known as the Bride of Christ (both saved Christian Jews and Gentiles). Apostle Paul writes:

…you turned to God from idols, to serve the true God, the one who is alive, and to wait for his Son Yeshua, whom he raised from the dead, to appear from heaven and rescue us from the impending fury of God’s judgment. ~ 1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10, CJB

~ and ~

For God has not intended that we should experience his fury, but that we should gain deliverance through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who died on our behalf so that whether we are alive or dead, we may live along with him. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10, CJB

The point here is that it already had been established before Christ Jesus’ day that God still is a just and righteous Judge who only punishes (pours out His Wrath only upon those whom He has judged as) the wicked, and then only AFTER He has removed (separated) the righteous from mingling with the wicked. Therefore, it stands to reason that the Lord’s righteous Bride first will be saved (rescued, delivered) from any part of God’s seven years of the end-times Tribulation Judgments, after which God then will pour out all of His promised fiery Wrath upon all of the Earth’s left-behind inhabitants!

The bottom line is this: As it was in Noah and Abraham’s days, so will it be in these current last days. God will NOT have His spiritually renewed, saved, and reconciled back to Himself sons and daughters endure any of His prophesied end-times Judgments and Punishment that are reserved for His and Israel’s enemies. There is absolutely no way that God could explain or defend why He would let those individuals, whom the beaten and crucified Christ Jesus’ Blood has justified as righteous, and whom the mighty workings of the Holy Spirit completely has sanctified as holy (sinless), go through any of the seven years of the end-times Tribulation. That is why the Bride of Christ will NOT be in the Tribulation Period!

Once again, the two biblical proofs favoring a pre-Tribulation Rapture for the Bride of Christ are that God never would judge His righteous when He judges the wicked, and Christ Jesus already has emptied God’s full cup of Wrath so that born again, saved, justified, and fully sanctified followers of Christ would never have to experience any Wrath of God. AMEN!

For a detailed explanation about God’s Wrath, please read my blog entry Lost In Translation.

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Sexagenarian (NOT Rated X)

01 Monday Sep 2014

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Poetry

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Approaching Perfection

 

Old age is golden; that’s what some say;
Nothing golden about any day
The gift called life kindly wakes me up,
Reaching for teeth in my stoneware cup;
Next to eyes on my bedroom’s nightstand,
My ears near what I dub, no man’s land.

Before reading the daily “obits,”
I take my time dusting off my wits;
Confirming I’m not among the dead,
I then nibble on some buttered bread.

My get-up-and-go got up and went,
My va-va-voom sure enough is spent;
My forgetter oddly is better,
My rememberer lost reminder;
My postmenopause works like a charm,
My insomnia sets own alarm.

Still, thankful that:

Union with God’s indivisible;
Neither leg has life’s roadmaps visible;
Can cut a rug as body still bends;
Don’t yet have to wear women’s Depends;
Don’t have pain relieving creams to rub;
Haven’t joined Hair Color of Month Club!

If things get better with age then I’m,
Pleased to finally be at my prime;
Gaining on elusive perfection;
Gray hair shouts: graduated with distinction.

And yet:

My stuff done strutted off without me;
Seasons opted to speedily flee,
Leaving undesirable downswing—
“Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything”—;
But this fact won’t torture very core,
Like truth in Chinese sage’s name, Yung No Mo!

                                                                                            ~ September 2014

 

 

 

Gray hair is a mark of distinction,
  the award for a God-loyal life. ~ Proverbs 16:31, MSG

Don’t be harsh or impatient with an older man. Talk to him as you would your own father, and to the younger men as your brothers. Reverently honor an older woman as you would your mother, and the younger women as sisters. ~ 1 Timothy 5:1-2, MSG

                                    Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. ~ Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII, Lines 163-166

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