Do we truly heed and repent?

My friends, how often do we claim the name of Jesus the Christ and yet our lifestyle makes a different claim? Or how many stand and preach the word yet live a secret life of idol worship and other sin? Almighty God, in times past has set forth Israel as a warning. Before our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ came in the flesh Israel stood in the name of the Lord. We need to only look at the troubles of Israel when they turned their back to God, look at their scattering throughout the world for centuries.

Look and see how Almighty God dealt with a false people and a false priesthood. Israel said they belonged to the Lord, Israel said they were Abraham’s descendents and yet the Lord said that he did not recognize them. Is it different today through Jesus the Christ?

 

 21 Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in Your name, and cast out devils in Your name, and done many miracles in Your name? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

Jesus is Lord. I send this warning; as priests, as a people, as a nation, as nations on the earth, as governments that rule nations, to all who claim the Lord, we must understand the transgressions, we must learn from ancient Israel who is there as a guide so that those who claim the Lord do not make the same mistakes. Read and understand that Almighty God will cast us off if we do not continue in His commandments. Understand and then repent, ask for mercy and forgiveness before it is too late.

1 Let there be a trumpet in your throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have violated my law. 2 They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know you. 3 Israel has cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him. 4 They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver, and their gold they have made idols to themselves that they might perish.

11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin. 12 I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign. 13 They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 14 And Israel has forgotten his Maker, and has built temples: and Juda has built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. 2 Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusts in you. And in the shadow of your wings will I hope, until iniquity pass away. 3 I will cry to God the most High; to God who has done good to me. 4 He has sent from heaven and delivered me: he has made them a reproach that trod upon me. God has sent his mercy and his truth, 5 and he has delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 6 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and your glory above all the earth. 7 They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it. 8 My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and rehearse a psalm. 9 Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early. 10 I will give praise to you, O Lord, among the people: I will sing a psalm to you among the nations. 11 For your mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and your truth unto the clouds. 12 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens: and your glory above all the earth.

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Save me, O God, by your name!

My friends, how unworthy are we to face Almighty God? We deem ourselves worthy and yet we sin. How often in a day do we sin against God without even noticing what we have done? We have become callous and cold individually and as nations of people. Hear the warning; heed the warning and repent.

1 Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land. 2 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery have overflowed, and blood has touched blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together. 4 But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be rebuked: for your people are as they that contradict the priest. 5 And you shall fall to day, and the prophet also shall fall with you: in the night I have made your mother to be silent. 6 My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you, that you shall not do the office of priesthood to me: and you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

3 Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me in your strength. 4 O God, hear my prayer: give ear to the words of my mouth. 5 For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes. 6 For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul. 7 Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in your truth. 8 I will freely sacrifice to you, and will give praise, O God, to your name: because it is good: 9 For you have delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye has looked down upon my enemies.

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The Fool has said in his heart!

Often times when things go well we forget God, we believe that we are good and can do all things ourselves and in no need of God. We become fools in this line of thought and forget that without God we can do nothing. If we abandon God then we have taken up with the Devil. There is nothing else to say on the matter. Our corruption will increase until we have removed ourselves from the hand of God. My friends, be the fool, but not the fool who says there is no God, but as the apostle St. Paul said; we are fools for Christ.

1 Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said in his heart: There is no God. 2 They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that does good. 3 God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God. 4 All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that does good, no not one. 5 Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread? 6 They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God has scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God has despised them. 7 Who will give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when God shall bring back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

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Do you trust in God or in Riches?

What or who do you put your trust in? Regardless of the times; good or bad, there is only One to place your trust in. Where is your trust? 

1 Unto the end, understanding for David, 2 when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech. 3 Why do you glory in malice, you that are mighty in iniquity? 4 All the day long your tongue has devised injustice: as a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit. 5 You have loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness. 6 You have loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue. 7 Therefore will God destroy you for ever: he will pluck you out, and remove you from your dwelling place: and your root out of the land of the living. 8 The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say: 9 Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity. 10 But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever. 11 I will praise you for ever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name, for it is good in the sight of your saints.

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Trust not in your own strength or riches!

1 Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core. 2 Hear these things, all you nations: give ear, all you inhabitants of the world. 3 All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together. 4 My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding. 5 I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery. 6 Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me. 7 They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches, 8 No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom, 9 Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour forever, 10 and shall still live unto the end. 11 He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers: 12 and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names. 13 And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them. 14 This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth. 15 They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory. 16 But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me. 17 Be not afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased. 18 For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him. 19 For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise you when you shall do well to him. 20 He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light. 21 Man when he was in honour did not understand: he has been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.

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Shout unto the Lord with joy.

The time will come when all nations and people will know the true God. For many it will be too late, far too many have wasted their time and their life on gain here while turning their backs on Almighty God. Now is the time, why do you hesitate? As the Psalmist says in the Psalm below; shout unto the Lord with a voice of joy. The time will come when all will be restored as it should have been from the beginning.

 1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core. 2 O clap your hands, all you nations: shout unto God with the voice of joy, 3 For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth. 4 He has subdued the people under us; and the nations under our feet. 5 He has chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which he has loved. 6 God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet. 7 Sing praises to our God, sing you: sing praises to our king, sing you. 8 For God is the king of all the earth: sing you wisely. 9 God shall reign over the nations: God sits on his holy throne. 10 The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

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Be still, God is with us!

My friends, we know that the church will suffer persecution as it has from the beginning. We must have patience, prepare spiritually, be prepared for the battle that is already here, it is already within us, everyday we must fight even our own mind in order to do good. Seek the peace of god through Jesus the Christ. All of these things, this turmoil and the wars will end.

1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden. 2 Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly. 3 Therefore we will not fear, when the earth shall be troubled; and the mountains shall be removed into the heart of the sea. 4 Their waters roared and were troubled: the mountains were troubled with his strength. 5 The stream of the river makes the city of God joyful: the most High has sanctified his own tabernacle. 6 God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early. 7 Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled. 8 The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector. 9 Come and behold the works of the Lord: what wonders he has done upon earth, 10 making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire. 11 Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth. 12 The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.

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+William