The Great Day of Reckoning for the Whole Church

August 28, 2018

The Great Day of Reckoning for the Whole Church

My friends,

So it seems that most of the world is watching Rome right now. How do you feel about what is going on in the church? Before I start I need to remind everyone that I am not a Roman Catholic Priest. I speak to defend truth regardless of where it is. My Lord Jesus is truth, He is wisdom, He is salvation, He is hope. Defending the truth is defending Jesus.

So let me now say this; if you are gloating over Rome, your day is coming like a thief in the night. Does corruption in the church need to be stamped out? Of course it does. Everyone knows this but is corruption spread throughout the whole Body of Christ? Of course it is and that includes inside of the gloaters.

What does Almighty God say regarding those whom He loves? Does He not say that He will chastise them? Chastisement does not mean hatred. It means love. If you are not chastised perhaps then you should take a full account of your standing with Almighty God. If you are great and/or perfect in your own eyes, you may be standing outside of God.

If you have survived untouched regardless of your own sins, you may be standing outside of God. No one is sinless. Where is it said that God will chastise His own rather than give to them all of their desires and riches in this life?

Amos

⁹  For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

I Peter 4

¹⁷ For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

These are just two examples. God judges and chastises those who are written in the Book of Life. Are you praying for those who love the Lord Jesus and are a part of the Roman church? If not, why not? If what we see is the beginning of the Great Day of Reckoning, then God is beginning with the House of the Lord. Rome is the biggest. If it is the beginning of the Great Day of Reckoning, everyone else will have their day in some way, shape, or form. Do not gloat if you do not have your day here in this life;

It may be that you are standing outside of Almighty God and your day will come on the Dreaded Day of Judgment, it will be worse on that day for you and me if we do not confess, repent, and pray not just for ourselves but for the whole Body of Christ.  The Chastisement may just be beginning.

Be blessed and be a blessing, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

We must live our faith in spite of those who make the statement that they do not need God in their life to do good. We who believe still need our Savior because we sin everyday whether in thought, word or deed. There is no amount of good that we can do that will erase our sin once we have committed it. There is only our faith in Christ Jesus, our recognition of our sin, our confession, and repentance. This is our faith.

God can do all things; there is no situation that we get ourselves into that God cannot help us out of. Don’t think though that if there is some earthly penalty that we must pay that we will escape this because we suddenly come to God for help. We simply must have the faith and believe. Keep in mind however; God's plan is far above ours. We suffer and we have plenty coming based on what God Himself has in store for us whether it is for purging, for testing, or for reward or necessity for our life. God is in control.

We do not know when this will end and the new beginning will be, in spite of the many modern prophets who make a living selling Jesus and the destruction of the world; we have no clue when it will be. In the meantime, it rains on us all, haters and lovers of Jesus. The sun shines on us all, haters and lovers of Jesus. We remain together in this world until that day. So take a lesson from the readings. Continue to praise and worship Jesus the Christ and the Father through Him. Never cease to pray and live according to the gospel. Allow the Holy Ghost to guide you. Love God with all of your heart, with all of your soul, with all of your mind, and with all of your strength; love your neighbor as yourself. You never know whose life you will change because of this love of God in you.

The light has entered the world and the times; they are a-changing. 

If one does not have love for the soul of mankind and the desire that all come to the truth than one does not have Christ in them fully.

Little children, love one another; because this is our Lord’s command and if you fulfill this, nothing else is needed. Through love and because of love we will follow all of the commandments that we have been given. They are written on our hearts by the hand of Almighty God. We simply need to see them within us and follow.

Remember; if we confess our sins and repent, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

May the peace of our Lord Jesus the Christ be with you throughout this day and the rest of your life. May the Holy Spirit fill us all to overflowing so that everyone in whose path we cross may receive a blessing from our Lord Jesus the Christ.

In Christ.

   

Member of theAutocephalous Orthodox Catholic Churches of the Americas

St. Michael’s Monastery and the New Warrior Ministries Videos:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8XyPtkmtu6a1vVg6MEiNg

Many Blessings!

+William

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

Greetings in Christ Jesus!

The Great Cloud of Witnesses!

August 15, 2018

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

My friends, the state of the world and the church, straight across the board is in shambles. I know that many of you don’t want to hear this but it is in fact true. The same problems affect and infect both the state and the church; pedophilia, homosexuality, greed, lust for material objects, indifference to Jesus Christ and His teachings, no belief in Almighty God, the Creator of all that is seen and unseen. This is a spiritual warfare. We are filming our latest video on this subject; Spiritual Warfare, this is video number three, titled; The Great Cloud of witnesses. Sadly we are not even close to the worst of it yet.

What the world sees as freedom is in truth slavery, the world is a slave to all of its evil desires. We’ve all been there, none of us are innocent. No one is holier than thou. We have sinned, there is nothing to do except turn to God through Jesus the Christ and repent, on your knees confess before Almighty God and turn to Him, the only hope and help for salvation. It is the spirit of evil behind everything that is the cause of all things evil. Not that the spirit has any power at all to command but only the power to deceive, to influence us through our own greed and desire. That is the control. Whatever is gained here is temporary, it will not last, the idea that one has that one will live like a king here with complete power and control and have a great life before one dies and then that is the end is only being deceived.

Once we leave this body it is only a new beginning.  We will answer for everything that we have ever said, done, and not done that we should have done. Don’t believe it now if that is what you choose but you in fact will remember these words in that day and you will have no excuse, there will be no defense because you were told and did not heed.

We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses as has been stated before. Yet we choose to not ask for help. One day, quite a number of years ago I was headed to work, I was at the time still employed in the construction industry. I was working in the downtown area of Washington D.C. I parked my truck in a parking lot and was headed to the subway station because there was no parking onsite. As I left the lot where I parked and headed across the street a man standing down on a corner began to cross and head towards me. As I picked up my pace he picked up his pace and we were on course to collide as I reached the opposite side of the street.

I looked around and saw that we were the only two in the area so since I did not see that he had help I decided that he must be armed. I was carrying a large cooler where I stored food and drink for the day at work. As he was approaching from my right side I moved the cooler which was pretty heavy to my right hand as a barrier and weapon. Suddenly down the road there appeared another man, a very, very tall man. I immediately thought; great now there are two but the new one was so far away I determined that I may be able to dispense with my first attacker with plenty of time to prepare for the second very tall one if indeed he turned out to be an attacker as well.

At about six paces from one another my first attacker reached into his upper breast pocket inside of his jacket and began pulling his hand out. I immediately lunged at him driving my cooler into his chest, blocking his hand and throwing him off balance. Immediately I was shoving my left claw hand to his eyes, it was him or me, I was determined it not to be me. When suddenly, this very tall man was there, leaning down on my left side at my claw hand and glaring at my attacker with his head between us. He shot a glance at me and asked; excuse me sir, do you have the time? Then he immediately returned his glare back to my attacker eye to eye.

Wow, Adrenalin was pumping through me but I stepped back three paces and lifted my forearm to my eyes so that I could see the two of them as well as my watch, I gave him the time, 5:15 in the morning. I could see my attacker physically shriveling up before my eyes. He turned and took off back to where he had come from. The very tall man stood straight up and began walking past me, he thanked me for the time and I said; you’re welcome, thank you for what you just did. I shot a quick glance back to my attacker to see if he had left completely and turned back but the very tall man was gone.

Just like that he disappeared silently and without a word, away. I did truly not understand what had just taken place other than the facts of what I just stated. I didn’t even know if I should believe or not believe what had just happened.  So, again my friends, we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. We all have a guardian angel as well and we can ignore him or understand that he is there and that we should not do things that will grieve the Holy Spirit or the one that is meant to guard and guide us. Almighty God will provide for us as He sees fit to do so.

I did not verbally ask for help at that moment from God using my tongue but in the back of my mind I have an almost constant dialogue going on with Him. I am usually asking for forgiveness for something or strength and faith at that moment, or patience for some circumstance or singing a praise or a psalm. Asking for help is immediate in the mind if one stays on track with God and keeps the world out of one’s head.

When we are at Eucharist or Communion which is also called Holy Communion, we are standing in the company of the heavenly realm, the great cloud of witnesses, the saints and angels are there worshiping and praising with us. In the church there is no alive or dead. There are those who have left the body and worship in the spirit with us who are still in the body. There are also those fallen ones who choose to attempt to disrupt us in our worship and in our daily life. Whether you like it or not they are there. There are non believers, those who say that there is no God or spirit but yet believe in aliens. They believe these aliens exist but choose not to believe that they are created beings who have left their place where they were created.

Friends, this world is not new. What was old is here again. What is new is from old only re-packaged. Science is all abuzz over gene splicing and creating a new humanity and they gloat among themselves for their higher intellect in getting rid of the superstition of a god. They convince themselves that they are achieving the power of a god through their genetic and technological engineering. Well, Genetic manipulation is not new my friends. It has been here before, if we are so brilliant why are there things in the material world that were constructed many, many centuries ago that we cannot construct now nor understand how they were built. Time moves on for us in the physical body and erases many things. This earth has been flooded. But even before that there was a great calamity and mass destruction. There was a spiritual war and a great division in the heavens.

Those who have fallen continue to fall. Those of mankind who listen to the promises of the fallen ones because of our own lust in the flesh are merely repeating what once has already happened. Many people are concerned with opening doors into new dimensions through technology but my friends, these doors already exist. The spiritual world, the spiritual battle is ongoing only now mankind is involved in the flesh. This is our battle ground. This is where we choose sides. This is where we determine who we hear and follow and how we spend eternity.

Do not throw your life away for some fulfillment that is here today and gone tomorrow. Live for that eternal life of fulfillment. The fulfilling of that life will far exceed what we can only imagine while in the flesh. The lusts and desires of the flesh are nothing in comparison to life in the spirit. Stand strong in the Lord, obey the commandments and live to God. This is the true way. I will give this to you from the Lord, when the time comes and the earth is once again overwhelmed with the diseased in the spirit, when those who deny God and live after their own lusts and persecute those who follow the Christ are in complete temporary control of the world, the believers will suddenly learn to cling to one another.

Those who confess the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; those who declare like Peter; “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Those who believe in the Real Presence in the Eucharist or Bread and Wine as our Lord spoke these words; “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.…

Those baptized into the Holy Trinity who follow the commandments especially these commandments as Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is One Lord, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”…

These that I have mentioned will seek one another out and find strength and solace with one another and renew one another’s faith. It is sad that it will take the end times for this to happen. It doesn’t have to but even now there will be those who read or hear these words and mock because they are part of the elite church that is the only true one, regardless of the faith of those who follow what is written and spoken here, far too many will not heed the Lord.

It is up to you. Call on the Lord with faith, ask the witnesses who surround us for help and see for yourself. Do not think that if trials come when we seek that we are on the wrong path; the trials are meant to test and strengthen our faith. This is the only way. This is how we learn, how we overcome. Expect them, praise God in them, struggle through them asking for the help that is needed and then you will see.

Be blessed, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

We must live our faith in spite of those who make the statement that they do not need God in their life to do good. We who believe still need our Savior because we sin everyday whether in thought, word or deed. There is no amount of good that we can do that will erase our sin once we have committed it. There is only our faith in Christ Jesus, our recognition of our sin, our confession, and repentance. This is our faith.

God can do all things; there is no situation that we get ourselves into that God cannot help us out of. Don’t think though that if there is some earthly penalty that we must pay that we will escape this because we suddenly come to God for help. We simply must have the faith and believe. Keep in mind however; God's plan is far above ours. We suffer and we have plenty coming based on what God Himself has in store for us whether it is for purging, for testing, or for reward or necessity for our life. God is in control.

We do not know when this will end and the new beginning will be, in spite of the many modern prophets who make a living selling Jesus and the destruction of the world; we have no clue when it will be. In the meantime, it rains on us all, haters and lovers of Jesus. 

The sun shines on us all, haters and lovers of Jesus. We remain together in this world until that day. So take a lesson from the readings. Continue to praise and worship Jesus the Christ and the Father through Him. Never cease to pray and live according to the gospel. Allow the Holy Ghost to guide you. Love God with all of your heart, with all of your soul, with all of your mind, and with all of your strength; love your neighbor as yourself. You never know whose life you will change because of this love of God in you.

The light has entered the world and the times; they are a-changing. 

If one does not have love for the soul of mankind and the desire that all come to the truth than one does not have Christ in them fully.

Little children, love one another; because this is our Lord’s command and if you fulfill this, nothing else is needed. Through love and because of love we will follow all of the commandments that we have been given. They are written on our hearts by the hand of Almighty God. We simply need to see them within us and follow.

Remember; if we confess our sins and repent, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

May the peace of our Lord Jesus the Christ be with you throughout this day and the rest of your life. May the Holy Spirit fill us all to overflowing so that everyone in whose path we cross may receive a blessing from our Lord Jesus the Christ.

In Christ.

   

Member of the Autocephalous Orthodox Catholic Churches of the Americas

St. Michael’s Monastery and the New Warrior Ministries Videos:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8XyPtkmtu6a1vVg6MEiNg

Many Blessings!

+William

 

VIII Pentecost. 8th Sunday after Pentecost. Western Rite

VIII Pentecost!

8th Sunday after Pentecost.

Western Rite

                                      

Greetings in Christ Jesus,

 

VIII Sunday after Pentecost

(Second Sunday of the cycle of six Sundays)

During this week:

At the Beginning of Night read the Gospel of St. John throughout this week.

Matins: Week VIII throughout this week, (St. john 20: 19-31) for the verses before the

Second Canticle of Moses, the Song of the Three Youths, and the Matins Resurrection

Gospel.

The Divine Liturgy:

Old Testament: Jer. 16:19-21 [S] (“O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge

in the day of tribulation: to You the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and

shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which has not profited them.

Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? Therefore behold I will this

once cause them to know, I will show them my hand and my power: and they shall know

that my Name is the Lord.”)

Epistle: II Corinthians 12:20-13:2 (St. Paul warns that he will judge those who cause

 strife in the Church.) “For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I

 would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps

contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings,

seditions, be among you. Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you; and I

mourn many of them that sinned before and have not repented for the uncleanness and

fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed. Behold, this is the third time I

 am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand. I

have told before, and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned

before, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare.”

Gradual and Alleluia: Psalm 86 (Heb. 87) The foundations thereof are in the holy

 mountains: The Lord loves the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob. (Verses

6-7 may be used as the Alleluia.)

Gospel: Mark 4:24-34 (Measure for measure: we will get what we give. Also, the seed

in the earth, and the mustard seed. Jesus explains everything in parables.)

Friends,

In today’s prophecy we see the body of Christ. The gentiles have come to God through Christ because we have seen that the idols or gods man made are indeed false. What false gods exist today? Science and money are honored and revered and worshiped as gods. People in science, people who are rich, entertainers also are worshiped as idols. In spite of Jesus, man knd has not changed very much.

Oh friends how pitiful we are as Christians, in the second epistle to the Corinthians St. Paul was defending himself from among the accusations against him from the legalists, one of the accusations he had been accused of was skimming money from the contributions, in today’s epistle he went on from defending himself to begin pointing out the sins of the Corinthian church that he may still find there when he arrives. How easily do we fall while raising ourselves in our own mind? How easily are we blinded by our own sins and yet accuse others?

Our Lord Jesus Himself spoke out in parables so that those who thought that they could see and hear actually could not as they were blinded by their own pride, lust, envying, and arrogance as they believed that they already knew it all and yet knew little. My friends, we can never stop seeking, we must never become complacent in our intellect, this is when we begin to fool ourselves, we must prove all things, the spirit does not simply give but we must seek, do we not remember the story of the old woman before the judge when the judge granted her petition only because she appeared daily before him and would not let it rest?

Did not our Lord say that we are to be the same before the Father? (Luke 18:1-8). We must never stop seeking spiritual growth by the shedding of our own corruption and gaining the spirit of truth and love for one another. Did Jesus say; “forgive them Father for they know not what they do?” or did He say; forgive those whom you have given me because they believed me and should be saved? You know the answer. Love your enemies and pray for them, if your enemy thirsts give him water, if he is hungry give him bread.

Do you not ask a departed saint to pray for you while another Christian does? Do you accuse that one? The Christian church has done this from the beginning and nowhere was it condemned. The bones of the prophet Elisha brought a dead man back to life and yet while all call this scripture, there are those who bring accusation against those who still believe that this can happen. Why do we accuse one another? There is no law that says to believe or not to believe either of these things, so why accuse? Can either side prove either position?

Love one another, this is the command. If one says that Jesus did not come from the Father then this we know is untrue and this person is not truly Christian. If one says that Jesus did not rise from the dead then this we know is not true and this person is not a true Christian. From these things we stay away from and yet we pray for those who make these statements.

Today’s Psalm speaks of the gates of Zion and how the Lord loves them, it speaks of those who are born there and the Lord loves them. The new Zion, the New Jerusalem is being built, it is built by those who belong to the Christ Jesus, and we are all building blocks of the living Jerusalem. Do not remove yourself from the walls by hate and pride, arrogance and envy; keep yourself alive in Christ through the love of others and living the word of Christ in this world.

We must live our faith in spite of those who make the statement that they do not need God in their life to do good. We who believe still need our Savior because we sin everyday whether in thought, word or deed. There is no amount of good that we can do that will erase our sin once we have committed it. There is only our faith in Christ Jesus, our recognition of our sin, our confession, and repentance. This is our faith.

God can do all things; there is no situation that we get ourselves into that God cannot help us out of. Don’t think though that if there is some earthly penalty that we must pay that we will escape this because we suddenly come to God for help. We simply must have the faith and believe. Keep in mind however; God's plan is far above ours. We suffer and we have plenty coming based on what God Himself has in store for us whether it is for purging, for testing, or for reward or necessity for our life. God is in control.

We do not know when this will end and the new beginning will be, in spite of the many modern prophets who make a living selling Jesus and the destruction of the world; we have no clue when it will be. In the meantime, it rains on us all, haters and lovers of Jesus. The sun shines on us all, haters and lovers of Jesus. We remain together in this world until that day. So take a lesson from the readings. Continue to praise and worship Jesus the Christ and the Father through Him. Never cease to pray and live according to the gospel. Allow the Holy Ghost to guide you. Love God with all of your heart, with all of your soul, with all of your mind, and with all of your strength; love your neighbor as yourself. You never know whose life you will change because of this love of God in you.

The light has entered the world and the times; they are a-changing. 

If one does not have love for the soul of mankind and the desire that all come to the truth than one does not have Christ in them fully.

Little children, love one another; because this is our Lord’s command and if you fulfill this, nothing else is needed. Through love and because of love we will follow all of the commandments that we have been given. They are written on our hearts by the hand of Almighty God. We simply need to see them within us and follow.

Remember; if we confess our sins and repent, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

  

May the peace of our Lord Jesus the Christ be with you throughout this day and the rest of your life. May the Holy Spirit fill us all to overflowing so that everyone in whose path we cross may receive a blessing from our Lord Jesus the Christ.

In Christ.

   

Member of the Autocephalous Orthodox Catholic Churches of the Americas

St. Michael’s Monastery and the New Warrior Ministries Videos:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8XyPtkmtu6a1vVg6MEiNg

Many Blessings!

+William