Month: July 2020

There are a lot of people these days who are “cherry picking” scriptures which support their lifestyle choices, while they often ignore the context, as a whole, from which those scriptures are drawn.

This first verse here in Romans 8 is one of those scriptures. For, these people assume they are “in Christ Jesus” merely because they made a profession of faith in Christ, or merely because they made some acknowledgment as to who he is as the Lord, the Christ, the Son of God. Or, perhaps it was because they repeated some words after someone in a prayer where they were then congratulated that they are now in God’s family.

But, is that all there is to it to be “in Christ”? Or, is there more to it?

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life…

An Original Work / July 10, 2020

Teaming, steaming,
Idols gleaming,
Whirlwind, whirlwind,
What’s your thinking?

Soap box! Soap box!
All are actors.
Truthing, lying
Are the factors.

Myst’ry! Myst’ry!
All is a ruse.
True objective
Is to confuse.

Pageant! Pageant!
All are on stage,
Hoping we’ll turn
The foll’wing page.

Captive! Captive!
Take them alive!
We will see who
Will now survive.

Wake up! Wake up!
Now is the call
So, from your faith
You do not fall.

Philippians 2:1-2 ESV

“So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.”

We are living in some difficult days now. I believe the signs are everywhere that we are not that far away from Jesus’ return. I know not everyone agrees with me on this, though. You don’t have to. Still I must share with you what the Lord lays on my heart to share, because the time is near.

If you, like me, are on the front lines of this spiritual battle against our enemy Satan, and if you are exposing his lies, and if you are proclaiming the truths of God’s word in opposition to the lies of Satan, then you should also be experiencing…