Mini Sermons: Preach, Sister, Preach!

01 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Spiritual

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so proclaim the Message with intensity; keep on your watch. Challenge, warn, and urge your people. Don’t ever quit. Just keep it simple.

You’re going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food—catchy opinions that tickle their fancy. They’ll turn their backs on truth and chase mirages. But you—keep your eye on what you’re doing; accept the hard times along with the good; keep the Message alive; do a thorough job as God’s servant. ~ 2 Timothy 4:2-5, MSG

The above four illustrated uncomfortable truths (a.k.a., inconvenient truths, or hard-hitting truths, and so forth) are rarely preached these days. Most churchgoers believe they are Christ’s Wheat—meaning, they believe that the end-time Bride of Christ or Body of Christ is symbolized as the Wheat Harvest. Nothing can be further from Father God’s Divine Truth.

Christ’s Bride is vividly described in the Holy Bible as Overcomers, and ONLY the Overcomers will be the fully sanctified Bride of Christ who is made spotless and free of any blemishes. This Bride of Christ always is symbolized in the Word of God as the Barley Harvest’s firstfruits. Selah . . . . .

It’s Taught

02 Sunday Oct 2016

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Poetry

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So love GOD, your God;
guard well his rules and regulations;
obey his commandments for the rest of time.

…

Place these words on your hearts. Get them deep inside you. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder. Teach them to your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning until you fall into bed at night. Inscribe them on the doorposts and gates of your cities so that you’ll live a long time, and your children with you, on the soil that GOD promised to give your ancestors for as long as there is a sky over the Earth. ~ Deuteronomy 11:1, 18-21, MSG

Point your kids in the right direction—
when they’re old they won’t be lost. ~ Proverbs 22:6, MSG

Up the
down escalator
they ran;
two children:
Night – Day,
playing tag—
you’re it!

Laughing loud
disturbing nothing,
no one;
loving life,
each other,
the game,
time together,
in public!

Eyes stared,
heads shook,
brows creased
mouths canceled
the joy,
the fun,
good time
rushing up
the down
escalator produced!

Shamefully stunned
by the
name Night
was called,
two children
stopped and
turned toward
each other.

Faces reddened—
one visible
the other
not noticeable.

Worried they
ran to
labeled parts
of store
where their
mothers instructed:
Play here!

~ from My Spirit’s Musing manuscript

The True Holy Week

22 Tuesday Mar 2016

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Devotional

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It is scary how so many professed Christians think God’s Holy Week is from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday—with a Good Friday thrown in there. That week is not holy to God, because He never establishes any week that consists of a Good Friday and an Easter Sunday.

The week that begins with God’s beloved Son entering Jerusalem—riding on a donkey—is indeed a holy week, even though the palm branches do NOT symbolize victory, or peace, or love. Ironically, those palm branches symbolize Jewish nationalism—a desire for political freedom. The only problem with desiring this political freedom at that time is that Christ does not come as the Jewish people’s long-awaited King who is to deliver them from the Romans. Christ comes as the Lamb who takes away the sins of the entire world—the sins of Hebrews and Gentiles.

Now the biblical truth is that it is Palm Sunday to First Fruits that creates the holy week. This week is holy because of the Feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits or Resurrection Day. These holidays or feast days and the holy convocations or Holy Days are God’s appointed feasts and Holy Days He says have to be observed forever.

God’s appointed feast days are the reasons why, for the Jewish people, there are no such days as a Good Friday and Easter Sunday. In fact, neither Good Friday nor Easter Sunday is found in the Scriptures. Emperor Constantine and his bishops are the creators of Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday holidays. Erasing the Jewish feast days and customs off the Church calendar is the main reason for these man-made holidays.

God’s true Holy Week goes like this: The Lord enters Jerusalem on the day that we call Palm Sunday, dies as the sacrificial Lamb on Passover, and is in the grave the first three days and three nights of the Unleavened Bread Feast. He arises on Feast of First Fruits, which is the first day of the week, after the regular weekly Sabbath. Shalom.

“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord’s Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.” ~ Lev. 23:5-8

Keep it real…Live it out…Watch it work!

~ a devotion from my book – Keeping It Real: Daily Renewing the Mind

NOTE: The holiday of Pesach, or Passover, falls on the Hebrew calendar dates of Nissan 15-22. Passover 2016 actually begins at sunset on Nissan 14. Gentiles’ coinciding secular dates for Passover Week (Holy Week) 2016 are as follows:

April 22-30

Passover Week or Holy Week actually has three sacred Feasts in it: Passover day (when Christ was crucified), days of Unleavened Bread (the first day is when Christ was buried), and the day of First Fruits (or Resurrection Sunday, when Christ arose).

[All I can do is share the truth with people who say they are believers in Christ. The rest is up to them—that is—whether or not they want to believe the truth and act accordingly. Selah!]

The Dragnet

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. ~ Matthew 13:47-48, ESV

The Dragnet parable definitely is a picture of the Work of Christ and His Disciples, who invite people to enter God’s Kingdom through faith in the Gospel of Christ—the dragnet. The Lord’s main point in this parable is that the Great Commission eventually reaches many people who say they are His, but the hard-hitting truth is that myriads of them do not belong to Him. Put differently, just like the dragnet catches all kinds of fish—regardless of their usefulness—Christ’s Gospel draws all kinds of people, including the multitudes who never repent and/or never follow Christ.

The above spiritual truth and Divine Truth are why in The Dragnet parable Christ warns us about the false teachers, false preachers, and false church members who masquerade as Christians. He also teaches us that—just like the caught fish cannot be sorted until the fishermen pull their net ashore—all of the pretend Christians are not known until the end of the Age of Grace. The Lord communicates these hard to swallow truths through the bad fish in the net symbolism. This parable’s bad fish in the net symbolize the seeds of God’s enemy that are planted in the net to disrupt and discredit God’s Kingdom—much like the tares planted in the field of wheat in Christ’s Wheat and Tares parable. Then too—like in The Wheat and Tares parable—this Dragnet parable refers to the end of the Age separation of righteous Christians and unrighteous pretenders.

Once the separations are completed, both the bad fish and the tares are judged and then thrown into the Lake of Fire. Moreover, like the wheat, the good fish enter the Millennial Kingdom as mortal believers in unglorified bodies—the people who repopulate the Earth.

The Lord’s moral lesson in His Dragnet parable is this: There is a day of reckoning coming—the day when the Lord separates true believers from pretend unbelievers. Christ also teaches us that being caught in the net in no way means that every fish is a good catch. These Divine Truths are why we need to realize that people’s weekly church attendance and weekly participation in church activities are not signs of authentic Christianity. The sobering truth is that there are way more bad fish than we know who attend church services and participate in church activities, while the born again, saved, blood-bought and Holy Spirit-filled believers are fewer.

A word to the wise should be sufficient. Shalom.

Keep it real…Live it out…Watch it work!

~ from my manuscript – Keeping It Real: Daily Renewing the Mind