Stubborn As Mule

11 Wednesday Dec 2019

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Poetry

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I composed this poem on December 8, 2019, after seeing so many Christmas postings in my Facebook newsfeed that professed Christians posted. It is hard to believe that – in this twenty-first century – so many who declare they are Christians are still kicking against the goads (are still refusing to hear YeHoVah’s Voice about not following/not keeping the traditions of men). They have closed their souls and their ears to His Truth – choosing to be unfaithful to His Will and His Ways. Perhaps the real problem is that they are Christians instead of Netzarim (faithful servants/disciples/saints of Yeshua).

By stubbornly refusing to obey YeHoVaH, Christmas celebrators and believers are driving their individual goad in deeper and deeper. Choosing to be unfaithful to YeHoVaH’s Divine Truth, by rejecting the Holy Spirit’s teaching/revealing, causes the necessary pain that comes from His Discipline, which eventually will happen to them, if it hasn’t already begun. Selah . . . .

Why would you be so stubborn as to close your hearts and your ears to me? You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just like your forefathers! – Acts 7:51, TPT

05 Thursday Apr 2012

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Reblogged

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I first posted this entry on April 3, 2010. As this 2012 Holy Week continues, I am Holy Spirit led to reblog this entry. For sure, what I wrote back then is even more important today, because we are drawing ever-so close to the “in the twinkling of an eye” moment when the Rapture will take place.

Gone Fishin'

He Is Risen

The first thing I did was place before you what was placed so emphatically before me: that the Messiah died for our sins, exactly as Scripture tells it; that he was buried; that he was raised from death on the third day, again exactly as Scripture says; that he presented himself alive to Peter, then to his closest followers, and later to more than five hundred of his followers all at the same time, most of them still around (although a few have since died); that he then spent time with James and the rest of those he commissioned to represent him; and that he finally presented himself alive to me. It was fitting that I bring up the rear. I don’t deserve to be included in that inner circle, as you well know, having spent all those early years trying my best to stamp God’s church right out of…

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The Great Getting Up Morning for Christ’s CHURCH Is Near

03 Saturday Apr 2010

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Faith and Wisdom

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Many of us prefer not to recall the events that lead to Christ’s crucifixion, because He is treated so inhumanely. Nevertheless, try as we might, we cannot get through any Easter Season without remembering how Jesus is relentlessly punished (scourged), unmercifully flogged with a cat o’ nine tails, viciously beaten beyond recognition, repeatedly mocked, coldly spat on, unconscionably lied on, condescendingly given a crown of thorns to wear, forced to carry His cross to which He is nailed, given to drink sour wine mixed with bile and myrrh, and punctured in His side! The good news is that this description of the Passion of Christ (His altruistic-love act) reveals this remarkable fact: In spite of everything the Lord suffers, Christ willingly sacrifices His life for us!

Thankfully, the greatest love story that ever was, or ever could be, does not end with Christ’s crucifixion (His torturous death), which is why during every Easter Season we also are compelled to think of our Lord’s burial and resurrection. That His tomb is empty because He is resurrected speaks volumes about His triumph over the grave. Indeed, because Christ is our resurrected Lord—the firstfruits of every person who falls asleep (dies)—we can shout hallelujah, and we can take comfort in this Divine Truth, which is, we who are in Christ might also suffer a physical death, but we too will be raised from the dead so that we will be with Him forever more!

So, this Resurrection Sunday, let us joyously bear in mind ALL that our Lord suffered for us, knowing that nothing and no one can stamp out His CHURCH. For sure, Christ’s resurrection not only establishes Him as the Son of God, but also His resurrection becomes the cornerstone of our Christian faith. Moreover, since the same power that raised Christ from the dead is in us sanctifying us, we can become that CHURCH (Bride) our Lord (Bridegroom) is returning for in the very near future.

Thus, just like we rise from spiritual death when Christ calls us to be His CHURCH, those of us who have fallen asleep before Christ returns for His sanctified Bride will rise from physical death, when Christ once again calls us. After that, “…the rest of us who are still alive at the time will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet the Master. Oh, we’ll be walking on air! And then there will be one huge family reunion with the Master. So reassure one another with these words” (1 Thessalonians 4:17-18, The Message).

This great getting up morning is on the horizon. Hallelujah!

For the Potential Graduate: Why Not Experience New Life After Death In 2009?

10 Saturday Jan 2009

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Faith and Wisdom

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Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again. They are given eternal life for believing in me and will never perish. Do you believe this, Martha?“ (John 11:25-26, NLT; cf. John 3:16)

Nature and mankind have much in common, and God planned it that way. Indeed, nature not only depicts how this old Earth renews itself but also nature reflects how humans renew themselves through their natural nightly sleep and restoration, and daily waking patterns. Nature also mirrors the supernatural (spiritual life). For sure, humanity’s spiritual and physical deaths, new birth/second birth or resurrection, salvation, sanctification, and eternal life phases also can be seen through nature’s four seasons.

Although we don’t like to think about death, death is a fact of nature, which is why Hebrews 9:27 reminds us that we all are born to die at least once. Because of the first Adam’s disobedience, we all are born spiritually dead, which is why we all not only must face a physical death but also must experience a second death (i.e., an eternity in the Lake of Fire)!

But hold on; there is GOOD NEWS. The GOOD NEWS is that God promises us that He will give us new life after death. Once again, this resurrection promise is seen best in nature. Just as the Earth dies each Fall, sleeps throughout Winter, awakens in Spring, and ripens during Summer, we who have been born again and saved from the wrath of God yet to come upon this old Earth not only must die daily, but also we must face many dying, resting, blossoming, and maturing seasons in our own lives.

Let there be no doubt about it, the true Gospel of the Grace of God in Christ puts the cross of Christ before us and then commands us to undergo our own death, burial and resurrection—to die to our mortal flesh in order to be resurrected unto eternal life in Christ. God’s Holy Spirit also teaches us that unless we experience an abrupt end to everything we are by nature, unless we have the shackles of sin completely broken off of us, God cannot raise us up into our new life in Christ (cannot justify, sanctify, or glorify us).

Now, for those of us living today who have experienced the new birth/second birth and become those saved and sold out for Christ believers who die daily, God’s GOOD NEWS also is that we neither will face a physical death nor the second death! We instead will be caught up (raptured) to meet Christ in the air, and forever we will be with Him. This last GOOD NEWS is why our earnest prayer in 2009 is for the unregenerate, unsaved people to not risk falling asleep one more night without having experienced God’s new life after death (being born again, saved, justified, and sanctified).

We do not want anybody to die a physical death (don’t want anyone to never awake again to a brand new morning), if he or she hasn’t been born again and accepted Jesus the Christ as Lord and Savior, because Hebrews 9:27 not only tells us that humans are born to die at least once but also that humans will face God’s judgment that will come after their deaths! God’s final irrevocable judgment for the ones who died with their sinful natures still intact is a resurrection unto damnation—an eternity in the Lake of fire!

Time is running out for this old Earth, and for the people who live on it. God’s soon to come wrath (judgment) will usher in a dying season unlike none that mankind has ever seen before. For the unregenerate, unsaved people there very well could be no more chances to awaken, bloom, and ripen in Christ through the Holy Spirit. Therefore, now is the time to take God up on His new life after death promise and graduate from being a sinner enslaved by sin to a sinner saved by Grace!!!

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