God will not remember your sin!

^{Isaiah 43: 25} I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Satan is out to Steal,  Kill and Destroy all those that will listen to his lies.  He will remind you of every little or big thing you have ever done in your life and tell you that God will not love you when you stand before him.  He will try to make you believe that God will turn you away, that you have just done too much.  Let me tell you that we serve a big God.  We serve a God of LOVE and FORGIVENESS.  We serve a God that loved us so much that he gave his only son to die for our sins!
As he spoke to Isaiah, so he speaks to every Christian that comes to him in humility asking for his forgiveness.  He doesn't forget our sins to help us to feel better, if that were the case he would take them from our memory. He forgets them for himself so that he doesn't have to see them.  He will remember our sins no more after we confess them and ask him to forgive us.

Sin is UGLY, it tears apart families, it destroys lives.  God hates sin so much that he does not want to  look upon it.  He sees the evil of man but he has given him freedom of choice and sin is a choice, therefore, God sees the sin, but turns away from it and allows man to make his mistakes in life.

^{Habakkuk 1:13} Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?


David said it best in Psalm 103 when he said that God will cast our sins as far as the east is from the west.  

^{Psalm 103: 10} He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

¹¹ For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

God is full of MERCY and GRACE.  There is no room for the ugliness of sin in his presence!  I urge you today to become more like him.  Jesus taught us that if we rebuke the devil he will flee.  When Satan tries to bring back memories of your past, rebuke him in the name of Jesus.  Remind him of his future.  Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels, he just wants to take you with him if you allow it, but God loves you.  He said he will not remember your sins so any thoughts that you have done to much to stand before him forgiven are of Satan. 


^{James 4:7} Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Submit yourself to God.  Begin to live daily in his presence by developing a prayer life where you spend time just the two of you in your prayer closet.  Read his word daily and bury it in your heart.  Go to church regularly.  There was a reason why he said fail not to assemble together.  When you gather with others of like faith, it builds your faith and strengthens you.  Remind yourself daily that you are a child of God.  Jesus loves you so much.  His death was not in vain, it was for you and me.  One day we will stand before him and hear him say well done, my good and faithful servant.  

Jesus or Hell, which will you choose?

Modern day pastors who call themselves men of God may stand in a pulpit and tell you that you don’t need Jesus Christ to escape going to hell. That rejecting JESUS WILL NOT SEND YOU TO HELL. These men who say such things are the spirit of anti-Christ and your blood will be upon their hands. Jesus told us that there is only one way to get to God, the Father. He also told us if we reject him, that his very words would judge us!! Let that sink in.

John 4:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Phillipians 2-9:11 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Salvation is free, it’s a gift from Jesus Christ to the world.  A sacrifice had to be made and the blood had to be shed for the remission of sin.  The blood of bulls and goats was not getting the job done.  It had to be repeated year after year.  Jesus stepped out of his diety and into the body of a man to suffer and die for you and me.  His blood was shed for the world and without his blood being applied to your life, your sins will remain.  When I was a young Christian, I recall our pastor and many old saints, myself being one pleading the blood of Jesus.  As we prayed, we would plead the blood of Jesus over our children, our homes, our family and friends.  I don’t see that happening in churches today.  The church has become to much like the world.  We can’t become like the world and draw the world to Jesus.  We must be like Jesus to draw the world away from sin and into his arms.  We need to seek out the old path and walk therein.  

Jeremiah 6:16 Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Born for Adversity

Proverbs 17:17 says:  A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

This scripture speaks volumes to my heart.  Why, because the bible teaches me that there is a friend that will stick closer to me than a brother.  In Hebrews 13:5 Paul reminded the children of God that Jesus said he would never leave them nor forsake them.  

Jesus himself said it best in Mathew 28:19 when he said:  lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Friends are wonderful and true friends indeed love you at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.  You see a brother is born to be there in the good times and in the bad.  A brother is one that will lift you up above the storm and hold onto you through it all as the winds rage and the rains fall.  If you have been born again, that makes you a brother of Jesus Christ.  In all the adversity in your life, he will be there, right beside you, lifting you up.  But you see there is more to it than just letting Jesus be your brother, you must now be his!  The bible teaches in Romans 8:17 that if we are children of God, then we are joint heirs with Christ!  We are his brothers and sisters.  We must also lift him up!  We must never forsake him nor deny him but must be ready at all time to tell others of his saving grace.  When trials and troubles come upon us, then we must lift up his name and trust in him as our brother and know that he will never leave us.  The definition of adversity is that you are in a state of misfortune, a state of serious or continued difficulty.  What a wonderful thing to know that when we were born again, that Jesus became our brother and brothers are born for adversity,  When those troubles come, he will be there and as long as we put our trust and faith in him, we will have a brother that will lift us up.  Saints of God, you were born for adversity.  You were born to never deny nor forsake his holy name.  Just as Jesus Christ said he would never leave nor forsake us, we are never to leave nor forsake him. We are brothers and sisters, born for adversity, born to stick together through good times and through bad times.  Born to weather to storms of life together!  

Work the Fields!

The harvest is ripe but the laborers are few. As I look around me everyday, I do indeed see what is happening in this old world. Jesus told us of it over two thousand years ago. Today we need to pray for laborers to work the field. We need to understand that getting someone into the church and seeing them pray is not all our job is about. Seeing a soul saved is truly one of the best experiences in life but so often they let the worries and cares of this world drag them back away from Christ. This is where we as Christians are slacking in our jobs. Folks, we have a job to do and it doesn't end at the alter, it has only just begun. We need to begin praying for that soul that God will fill it with knowledge and spiritual understanding. We need to pray that the Holy Ghost grows stronger within them everyday and that they yield to his presence and allow him to teach them. We need to be their brother, their sister and even their mother. We need to call them if they miss church and let them know we love them. Check on them and make sure they are not in need. We need to start doing our jobs! This is what is on my heart this morning. We need to work the fields of life. Paul let us know that once we hear of someone's love for God that we should not cease to pray for them. It's the prayers of saints of God that lift sickness, pain and even death away from those in need.  It takes praying for one another to get us through life.  Prayer indeed changes things!

Colossians 1:8-13

8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Love not the World!

¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 John 2:15-16
As Christians, it's important that we understand that while we must live in the world, we are not part of the world. We are children of light.  This world is filled with darkness and sin.  We are not to partake of what the world has to offer.  Our father Abraham walked through this world and lived many places but he never built a home, he lived in tents.  Do you know what he did build?  Everywhere he went, he built an alter so that he could worship God.  He knew that he was not part of this world.  He was looking for a city not made by man.  

⁸ By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
⁹ By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
¹⁰ For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Hebrews 11:8-10

I am not saying we should give up our homes and go live in tents.  What I am saying is that our homes and none of our worldly possessions should ever come before God in our lives.  God loves his children and he wants to bless you and see you prosper.  In fact, Moses told the children of Israel to keep God's covenant so that they would prosper.   

⁹ Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. Deuteronomy 29:9

You can see that God made his people to prosper from Genesis to Revelations.  Having things is not a sin.  Putting those things before God is a SIN.  You can go trail riding six days a week and have all the fun you want, but when you skip church to go trail riding, it becomes a sin in your life.  We have all done it at one time or another without evening thinking about it.  Today, I encourage you to check your life.  Enjoy all the good things that God has blessed you with and then set aside a time to worship him and be thankful.  Set aside a time to let God know that he still comes first in your life.  I am so thankful this morning for his amazing GRACE.  

Obedience or Sacrifice?

Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

Deuteronomy 13:4 KJV

These words were to be obeyed thousands of years ago when Moses spoke them to the children of Israel and they are still to be obeyed today for God's children. The bible teaches us that to obey is better than sacrifice.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

Obedience brings forth one of two things. death or righteousness!! Which do you prefer?

Romans 6:16

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Perfect Peace

I wrote this October 7th, 2015 and posted it on facebook.  I just read it again and am reminded that only God can bring the peace that our soul is seeking.  He has given me peace like a river in my soul. He will do the same for you.  

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalm 63:1 KJV
David knew that seeking God was as important to the soul as water is to the flesh for survival. If we are going to make it through this world, then we need to be seeking God's face. He needs to be the first thing on our minds when we awake in the morning and the last thing before we go to sleep at night. We need ...to be doers of his word and not just hearers only.
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
God's word is nourishment for our souls. The more we read the bible and live our lives according to what Christ told us to do, the more satisfied our soul becomes. Have you ever seen someone that has tried everything that life has to offer and yet they can't find the peace and happiness that they are looking for. Drugs won't do it, Alcohol won't do it, Whore-monging and Fornication won't do it. You may find temporary pleasure in these and other things. God's word tells us that there is pleasure in sin for a season, but it's PEACE that the soul is seeking. Man's soul is forever searching for the PEACE that Adam knew when God first made him. The PEACE that he experienced when he walked in the cool of the day, talking with God before Satan deceived Eve and sin was brought into the world. Friend, let me tell you that nothing of this world will ever bring your soul the PEACE it is searching for, but there is one that is NOT OF THIS WORLD that will bring PEACE LIKE A RIVER TO YOUR SOUL. Isaiah 66:12 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river.....Jesus Christ is the only thing that will ever bring that PEACE that was lost through Adam back to mankind. When you accept Christ into your life and become born again, it will not miraculously make all your problems go away, but it WILL bring PEACE to your soul and those problems won't seem so important that they overwhelm you. You learn to deal with them on a daily basis with God's help and guidance. If you have ever known what a relationship with Christ is like and then walked away from him. Your soul will hunger just like David's did. You soul will find no rest until you return to Christ. I invite you to pray this morning. Talk things over with Jesus. He is always watching and waiting for you to simply turn to him so that he can help you. He will knock but you must open the door. Blessed be his Holy Name.