Lucifer, The Mentor of Saul Alinsky, Who is the Mentor of Obama

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Does the title to this post seem crazy, over the top and radically charged to you? Well my friend, it isn't. As a matter of fact, it is right on in light of the current agenda of President Obama and his secular administration. President Obama and many on the Left have made no small qualms about being disciples of Saul Alinsky and applying his tactics in their ever-growing quest for power and control .

A great many Leftists in America today including Hillary Clinton follow the radical teachings of their mentor Saul Alinsky - including Obama. Little do they know that they are following in the very footprints of Alinsky's mentor and master, Lucifer (John 8:44).

Rules for Radicals is a book by Saul Alinsky which is dedicated to the original radical, Lucifer - also known as Satan, the Devil, The Old Serpent, and The Dragon (Rev. 12:2; 20:2). All other dinky despots have their roots in this arch-villain. In this book is found the following:

"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer."

The Master Politician

Today, Lucifer (i.e., Satan) and his Satanic "Spin Machine" are well oiled and more powerful then ever. The Media outlets at his disposal greatly abound. From the Internet to TV and Radio Networks, from Hollywood to the Music Industry, from College Campuses to the Federal Courthouses and the Supreme Court, from Cultural Ideologies to the Fashion World. With this powerful arsenal at his disposal he has the might and authority to sway public opinion and multitudes "24/7" at a moments notice. Never in the history of mankind has this Fallen Cherub been so powerful.
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Never in the history of mankind has this Fallen Cherub been so powerful.

Lucifer has the power and authority to erode moral and traditional values, to influence and affect elections, to cause politicians to rise and fall, to change the social climate and to push global causes and crises. The Bible states: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" (Ephesians 6:12). In his vain and never-ending quest for power and worship, his sole desire and passionate goal is the total eradication of Almighty God from Time and ETERNITY (ref. Isaiah 14:12-17 and Ezekiel 28:12-19). With the rise and exaltation of the "mainstream" media outlets in the last 100 years, just look at how God-less and decadent our culture and society has become. Generations have been brainwashed and have drunk the Satanic "Kool-Aid," i.e., that we do not need Almighty God or His Absolutes in our culture and society. As the former "One Nation Under God," we have sadly and tragically reaped God-less and horrific consequences. The Bible states for all to read about the great deception that has taken place in this nation and in our world about Lucifer's deceptive agenda: "In whom the god of this world [Satan] hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." (2 Cor. 4:3-4)(

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2The names Satan and the Devil were given to Lucifer, Son of the Morning by Almighty God (ref. Job chapter 1). These respective names mean Accuser and Slanderer. He was so named because of his attitude and actions. Lucifer (Satan) is not the fictional "boogy-man" or Frankenstein's monster, as some have believed. Satan is The Puppet Master, The Master Politician and The Prince of the Power of the Air. His Masterful tactics of deceit, cunning craftiness, calculation, manipulation, politics, flattery, pawn-playing and prideful ways are truly unrivaled in light of all God's created beings. He uses his God-given brilliance for one purpose and one alone: a mad attempt to discredit his Creator and exalt himself above Him.

He uses his God-given brilliance for one purpose and one alone: a mad attempt to discredit his Creator and exalt himself above Him.

Lucifer's (Satan's) Minions abound everywhere today in the American Mainstream Media. They unknowingly do his will. He knows how to maneuver and appeal to our carnal (fleshly) fallen nature which is governed by the five physical senses (i.e., sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing). The secular liberal mindset is the most open to Satan's suggestions for a godless trend-setting agenda. They are easily bent to do his will because they are the most susceptible to it.

Jesus stated to the scoffers in his day: Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it (John 8:44-45).

The Bible also states: Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2).

Conservative sources continually try to counteract the godless liberal secular "spin," but they have not been able to stop the flood of the Lefts secular agenda. Whether Conservative, Moderate or Liberal, the vast majority in the political spectrum are unbelievers of the Absolute Authority and Sovereignty of Almighty God and His Word. They posses an unregenerate heart and mind which is blind to the reality of the truth of the True Gospel message (ref. 2 Corinthians 4:4). You can almost hear the subtle hiss of the Serpent today as these secularist unbelievers seek to destroy our historic Judeo/ Christian values and push for a secular, godless state and world.
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You can almost hear the subtle hiss of the Serpent today as these secularist unbelievers seek to destroy our historic Judeo/ Christian values and push for a secular, godless state and world.

The Mainstream media and Washington D.C. are dominated today by this Leftist, Secular and Godless mindset. That isn't any secret. Not even the unregenerate (unbelievers) will disagree with that. As Satan controls more and more of the Media today - with these godless surrogates and talking heads - his agenda is moving along quite rapidly and increasing EXPONENTIALLY. Never before in the history of this nation has the Mainstream liberal media pushed and supported a President's leftist agenda as we are seeing today.

Never before in the history of this nation has the Mainstream liberal media pushed and supported a President’s leftist agenda as we are seeing today.

Today Lucifer is ram-rodding, bulldozing, redefining and tilling the worldly ground for the future "grand reception" of his ultimate agenda presided over by his Ultimate Minion, the Anti-Christ (2 Thess. 2:3-12, Rev. 13). This is all gearing towards placing this one who is evil incarnate over a God-less and Secular World Government (Rev. 13). At that time he will totally control all of the world's media and vigorously push his godless agenda to the point of total world destruction.

My dear friends have and ear to hear and HEAR ME!! Listen to what God's Word states about this time:

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2 Thessalonians 2:3-12).

The Bible states further: "And they worshipped the dragon ( Lucifer) which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" (Revelation 13:4-8).

While we see Lucifer's (Satan's) grip squeezing tighter and tighter, and his godless agenda being established right before our very eyes, there is still great hope for all who place their trust in Almighty God and His NEVER changing Word! In the end, Almighty God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ will - at His second coming -destroy Satan's anti christ and confine Satan to the abyss for a thousand years and then to his doom (Luke 11:2; 2 Thess. 2:8; Daniel 7:13, 14; Rev. 19:11-21, Rev. 20:1-15)!

These are indeed very troubling days that will only get EXPONENTIALLY worse! For us who know the Savior we must ALWAYS remember the great wondrous truths that apply to us found in Almighty God's Word to those who know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he (The Lord Jesus Christ) that is in you, than he (Lucifer) that is in the world" (1 John 4:4).

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

DJP I.F.

Are You Brainwashed?

A man I know who was one of the biggest scoffer's of biblical fundamentalism (A B C's), the Bible and God's people, finally after years of pride, arrogance, subjective reasoning, spiritual relativism, beating his vain drum and the horrific consequence of alcohol addiction came to know Christ as His Savior! This man tried everything under the sun to help himself and his demons but in the end the very last thing that he tried was the very thing that saved his life and his soul (Psalm 19, Acts 4:12, 2 Cor. 5:17-21). The very things that he scoffed at for years; the Savior (in Spirit and Truth), the Bible and its RIGHTEOUS truths, righteous absolutes, precepts and moral absolutes had done what nothing else could do... it set him absolutely free (Matt. 11:28-30, John 8:32,36, 2 Cor. 5:17-21)!

 It was when this individual was at the bottom of the abyss in his personal life that he finally turned to Almighty God's saving grace and mercy in Spirit and Truth and found that God the Son was waiting for him there with nail pierced hands.

This man had beaten every drum that this nasty fallen world has to offer. He had tried every solution for his addictions and in the "name" of Almighty God sought justification for his godless actions and ways (Prov. 14:12, Matt. 7:21-23, Rom. 10:2-4, Jude 1:10). Religion, spiritual philosophies and subjective fallen solutions always are bankrupt in themselves and are vanity at best in the end (Prov. 14:12, Eccl. 1:1-3). It was when this individual was at the bottom of the abyss in his personal life that he finally turned to Almighty God's saving grace and mercy in Spirit and Truth and found that God the Son was waiting for him there with nail pierced hands (John 4:24, 8:32,36, 17:17, Gal. 1:4, Eph. 2:1-13, Rev. 1:5)!

As this man began to receive Almighty God's Word by faith and began to apply its RIGHTEOUS formulas to his life he began to have victory in all areas of his life and people began to see it (Psalm 40:2-3, Phil. 4:13). He still struggled with things (as we all do) but as he grew as a believer he became more free each day and victorious. He began to immerse himself in God's Word and found the liberty that He had always sought and shared with me the heart of his personal testimony; "Look what it took to get me to this place. If I wasn't such a fool and had only listen years ago." My dear friends, isn't it tragic that we as human beings have to beat our godless drum and go through the mill of unbelief and pride in our rebellion against Almighty God until God's Word teaches us how vain we are and how dead our logic is in light of all ETERNITY and the RIGHTEOUSNESS of Almighty God (1 Cor. 1:18-31).

My dear friends, isn't it tragic that we as human beings have to beat our godless drum and go through the mill of unbelief and pride in our rebellion against Almighty God until God's Word teaches us how vain we are and how dead our logic is in light of all ETERNITY and the RIGHTEOUSNESS of Almighty God.

What is most amazing to me is that out of all the people I knew this was the last individual I ever saw coming to Christ! I saw Almighty God being super-abundantly gracious and merciful to him for years, for he should have been dead countless times, however God saw in him something that I and others could not. He saw a heart that in all of his self inflicted pride was truly searching to know God (Jer. 29:13).

In all of our walks with the Savior we as individuals have to relearn to think and to see things the way Almighty God does (John 17:17, Phil. 3:8, Heb. 11:1,6). We as believers need to rightly understand our fallen makeup and reckon or count on the fact that the blood of Christ has and will cleansed us on our journey home and let our past failures FOREVER go (Rom. 7:14-25, Phil. 3:8,12, 1 John 1:8-9). We need to always be looking forward and pressing on comprehending our earthly assignment in Christ until we meet the Savior face to face in the air (Phil. 3:8-12, 1 Thess. 4:13-18, 1 John 3:1-4). This world's demonic system is set up 180 degrees contrary from the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS absolutes and moral principles given by Almighty God in His Word (John 8:44, Rom. 1:18-32, Eph. 2:1-2). This fallen world has redefined absolutes with demonic euphemisms and excluded Almighty God from all of its thoughts (John 3:19-21, Rom. 1:18-24, Eph. 2:1-2). We need the light of His Word to help us see ourselves and this world as they truly are (Psalm 119:105, Prov. 6:23, John 3:21, 17:17). As we by faith apply Almighty God's Word in our lives in any situation it will give us all the answers we seek and all the formulas we need to have a successful and victorious walk in time for God's glory. As we grow and know we will be able to by our lives point people to the Savior of the world and let them know that there is a Savior and a God who truly cares for all in Spirit and Truth (Matt. 5:13-16, 2 Cor. 2:15-16, Eph. 5:8).

This fallen world has redefined absolutes with demonic euphemisms and excluded Almighty God from all of its thoughts. We need the light of His Word to help us see ourselves and this world as they truly are.

What I find always amazing is that when an individual turns to Christ from ones godless past existence and addictions (whatever they might be) and gives their lives to Him the world always ends up despising that man or women (1 Peter 4:4). It is by our application to the Word of Almighty God and our life lived for Him that demonstrates what Christ and God's Word has done for a son of Adam (Psalm 40:2-3, 2 Cor. 5:17-21). This world always disdains and scoffs at a life changed for Christ, for this world cannot handle the freedom and liberty that God has provided for the man or woman Christ has liberated for that testimony of life is very convicting to the world and they have no other choice in their godless self preservation to mock and scoff at it to protect their darkened hearts (Jer. 17:9, John 3:19-21, Matt 13:19, 1 Peter 4:4).

One day a friend of this individual came up to him and started asking some questions about his new way of thinking and living. He was a friend of his past who in times past he use to run with in the course of this world (Eph. 2:1-2, 1 Peter 4:4). After talking with this individual for a while this man finally stated, "What have you become brainwashed?" This individual was thrown off guard by this inquiry but reply, " Yes I have." The man looked at him funny and this individual stated, "I need my brain washed from my thinking so that my thinking will be Christ's thinking." It was after this concluding statement that these two men went on their ways. When this individual told me of this account I thought to myself, "Wow! the wonders and marvels of the grace and mercy of Almighty God in an individuals life to bring about this radical change." To God be the glory! In it I praised Almighty God for being a Savior for all men especially those who have received His saving grace and have let Him do a great work in one's heart and life.

It is by our application to the Word of Almighty God and our life lived for Him that demonstrates what Christ and God's Word has done for a son of Adam.

This is the question we need to personally ask each one of ourselves. Is our thinking lined up with Almighty God's Word? Beloved, there is absolute freedom and liberty and never  tyranny to all who truly trust in and exercise Almighty God's Word in ones personal life (John 8:32,36). This scoffer and mocker had personally come to know that truth and reality and is now celebrating victory in his life looking forward to the Savior's coming (Phil. 4:13, 1 John 5:4).

My dear friends there is absolutely no shame in being labeled brainwashed or thinking contrary to the way this fallen world thinks, for the ways of this world in the end are death and wrath (John 3:16-17, 36, Rom. 1:18-32, 1 John 2:15-17, Rev. 20:11-15). As a matter of fact the world calls us ignorant, brainwashed, deceived, gullible and fools and understands us not for it did not understand Him either and crucified and murder the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 17:14-17, Acts 3:14-15, 1 Cor. 1:18-31, 4:10).

My dear friends may we all continue to let Almighty God's Word change us and help us to think rightly and to see things rightly from Almighty God's ETERNAL perspective. For the TRUTH will indeed set us free from the bondage of the tyranny of this fallen world! I rejoice that I can have my brain washed by the blood of Christ and the ETERNAL absolutes and realities of His Word for in doing so i am FREE (John 8:32, 36)!

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

DJP I.F.

The Believer's Starting Point for Outworking Victory!

In our ever increasing lawless day the believer in Jesus Christ better be working from a position - by faith - that will help one see the ETERNAL or that individual will be swept away in Satan's deceptive tsunami with the rest of the world. No matter what comes our way daily in this fallen world the blood bought believer in Jesus Christ is to always work from our position and standing in Jesus Christ the ETERNAL Son of Almighty God (Rom. 8:1, 26-39, Eph. 1:3, 7, 2:6, Col. 3:1-4, 1 John 1:8-9, 2:2,12, Rev. 1:5). Today one has to wonder how many "Christians" who do know the Lord as their personal Savior pray from this position of AUTHORITY AND POWER?
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We MUST see the temporal things of this world (time) in light of our wondrous ETERNAL position!

It is from here my beloved, from the ETERNAL position of pardon, redemption and seated position at the Right Hand of Almighty God the Father's throne in Christ with ALL spiritual blessing where all ETERNITY bows that we are to engage in our warfare here in time against the wiles of the Devil (the slander Eph. 6:12), our fallen nature (Rom. 7:14-25, 8:1, 1 John 1:8-9, Rev. 1:5), and the lawless consequences of godless men and women (Rom. 1:18-32). We MUST see the temporal things of this world (time) in light of our wondrous ETERNAL position! No wonder countless believers today are ship wrecked, depressed, discouraged and distraught as they try to work out "their will" and call it "God's will" in the subjective confines of time with ZERO ETERNAL perspective and light.in which to work from. Satan and his fallen angelic minions are having a well executed field day today over the ETERNALLY redeemed of Almighty God, dividing, suppressing, discouraging, distracting, misleading, oppressing and imprisoning the Heirs of ETERNAL LIFE (Rom. 8:26-38, Eph. 1:1-23) with the subjective realm of time's prison bars and the limited confines of this world (Eccl. 1, 3).

We MUST see the temporal things of this world (time) in light of our wondrous ETERNAL position! No wonder countless believers today are ship wrecked, depressed, discouraged and distraught as they try to work out "their will" and call it "God's will" in the subjective confines of time with ZERO ETERNAL perspective and light in which to work from.

Beloved, can an elephant fit in a small box? Can the moon be placed in your back pocket? Can the Titanic fit in your drinking glass? Can the trillions of galaxies of Almighty God's glorious universe fit inside Fenway Park? Then how can a redeemed child of the Savior and heir and possessor of ETERNAL LIFE, who is seated in Christ Jesus at the pinnacle of ETERNITY (John 1:12, Rom. 8:28-39, Gal. 4:7, Eph. 1:1-23, 2:1-6, Col. 3:1-4, 1 Peter 2:9) be contained in this little physical realm called time? We MUST see things from our ETERNAL position and standing BY FAITH and it is there that our VICTORY is found and our TRUE liberation from Satan's subjective strangle hold and oppressive reign (1 Cor. 1:29-31, 15:57, Gal. 1:4). No wonder Satan wants us out of it, for if we as the Bride of Christ possessed such WONDERS we would be unstoppable (1 John 5:4)!!

 Can an elephant fit in a small box? Can the moon be placed in your back pocket? Can the Titanic fit in your drinking glass? Can the trillions of galaxies of Almighty God's glorious universe fit inside Fenway Park? Then how can a redeemed child of the Savior and heir and possessor of ETERNAL LIFE, who is seated in Christ Jesus at the pinnacle of ALL ETERNITY be contained in this little physical realm called time?

We must FULLY comprehend and possess that our war is NOT with flesh and blood (the physical tangible things of this physical fallen world) but with the arch fallen angel Lucifer and his demonic disciples who ARE working from an ETERNAL position and his godless fallen sheep of this age (Rom. 1:18-32, 2 Cor. 4:-34, Eph. 6:12). My dearly beloved may I say it again, we MUST FULLY comprehend and posses that our standing and position in Christ is SURE and REAL (Eph. 1:1-23, 2:1-12, Col. 3:1-4). Beloved, it is as sure as two plus two equals four and water is wet! However... Until we FULLY allow Almighty God the Holy Spirit to teach us and lead us in the Father's will for our lives here in time (John 16:13, Rom. 8:26-39, 1 Thess. 5:19) and apply the wondrous sound ABSOLUTES (spiritually and morally) which are found in Almighty God's INFALLIBLE Word we will NEVER possess these wondrous REALITIES and TRUTHS and be subject to the chains and shackles of this physical temporal world and it's god (2 Cor. 4:3-4, Eph.2:1-2, 1 John 5:19).

Until we FULLY allow Almighty God the Holy Spirit to teach us and lead us in the Father's will for our lives here in time and apply the wondrous sound ABSOLUTES (spiritually and morally) which are found in Almighty God's INFALLIBLE Word we will NEVER possess these wondrous REALITIES and TRUTHS and be subject to the chains and shackles of this physical temporal world and it's god.

Dear Christian friend, do you personally possess these wondrous TRUTHS and REALITIES in your life that pertain to you? Dearly beloved, it is an absolute tragedy if we as believers today do not. OH, how we will be ETERNALLY missing out and ashamed when we finally see Him face to Face (1 John 3:1-4). Our lives are ETERNALLY greater than the temporal vain years of our existence in this fallen world and time. Beloved, we ought to be possessing and walking in our ETERNAL position by faith with an ETERNAL perspective as we cross the busy street of this vain life knowing and possessing that it is NEVER in vain to serve the Lord, that the Day of the Lord is at hand and the establishment of His 1000 year kingdom here in time is very nigh (Isa. 2:1-4, Isa.11, Dan. 2:44-45, 7:13-14, Mic. 4:1-4, Zech. 14, Rev. 20:1-10)! The trumpet is about to blow my beloved and may we ALL be found FULLY occupying and possessing in Spirit and in TRUTH Almighty God's WONDROUS TRUTHS and REALITIES until our Savior meets us in the air (John 14:3, 1 Cor. 15:51-58, 1 Thess. 4:13-18,1 John 3:1-4)! Even so come Lord Jesus!

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!!

DJP I.F.

The Rejection of the "American" Reality

Here is where we lose many conservatives and individuals because of their subjective and godless unbelief in Almighty God’s Word and His prophetic truths… Countless Americans are willingly ignorant to the "new" American reality of our hour. They DO NOT want to hear it and have clung onto a demonic optimistic delusion. America HAS TO BE and finally WILL BE removed from the world stage in Satan’s (yes...Satan's) overall plan to SET THE STAGE for the unifying of the nations of the world ONLY AFTER horrific global war and environmental disasters (Rev. 6-9). He will seek this unification under his “lawless one” and finally will achieve the worship of he has so desired (Isa. 14:12-15, Dan. 7, 2 Thess. 2:3-12, Rev. 13).

This is all part of Lucifer's game plan; to marginalize American Christian believers (within America) as exceeding ultra extremists and to reduce our once Judeo/Christian culture to a pile of ashes.

This is all part of Lucifer's’ game plan; to marginalize American Christian believers (within America) as exceeding ultra extremists and to reduce our once Judeo/Christian culture to a pile of ashes. The real goal behind this assault on America is getting to and eliminating the remnant of Christ’s people and putting out the Gospel light which has been a burning light in Satan's dead and darkened world system (Eph. 6:12). It is then, when America, which has been a beacon of light for Gospel outreach for the last 300 years to this world has finally be reduced by the adherence of lawlessness to a violent and lawless third world country that Satan CAN THEN seek to unify the world under his lawless one and bring an end to the nation Israel (Zech. 14:1-4, Rev. 12, 16:13-16) and thus discrediting Almighty God and His promises for Israel and the world and establishing his lawless and godless delusional utopia and worship. The Word of Almighty God is ABSOLUTELY crucial for insight into our present day and reveals who exactly is behind the orchestration of this world’s present course (Eph. 2:2-3, 6:12). To exclude its DIVINE AUTHORITY ETERNALLY will be fatal for any (conservative or liberal - Matt. 7:24-26, John 3:36, Rev. 20:11-15).

The Word of Almighty God is ABSOLUTELY crucial for insight into our present day and reveals who exactly is behind the orchestration of this world’s present course. To exclude its DIVINE AUTHORITY ETERNALLY will be fatal for any (conservative or liberal).

My dear friend may it be that you as an individual abandon your subjective world view and assessment of our current dilemmas and receive the REALITY and ETERNAL TRUTH of Almighty God’s Word and love for you in these troubling days. Things are only going to get worse. Do not deceive yourselves otherwise. America, the Four Horseman are about to ride! And nothing will stop that ride from coming to pass! In these last months, days and hours may you come to trust Jesus Christ as your personal Savior for such is the crucial reality of our hour!

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

DJP I.F.

61 THINGS THAT WERE TRUE OF ME BEFORE I WAS SAVED

Contemplating what God has graciously done for hell-deserving sinners ought to encourage and thrill the soul of every blood-bought child of God!

As the hymn writer has said, "Oh to grace how great a debtor, daily I'm constrained to be!" (Robert Robinson). Paul, in referring to the redemption and forgiveness that believers have in Christ, spoke of "the RICHES of His GRACE" (Ephesians 1:7). Elsewhere he said, "But by the grace of God I am what I am" (1 Corinthians 15:10). God has given to every believer everlasting consolation (eternal encouragement) and good hope through grace (2 Thess. 2:16-17). "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that YE through his poverty might be RICH" (2 Corinthians 8:9).

Many believers fail to appreciate the RICHES that they have. The story is told of an aged silver miner who had spent his whole life searching for silver in the mountains of the Old West. He had become so involved with his search that his wife and children had left him. When he died, the handful of people who came to bury him found in his possessions a note instructing them to bury him under his cabin. As the shovels turned over the earth, a lustrous gray material began to appear. It was the famous Comstock Silver Vein, the richest in California history. That miner had been a billionaire all his life, but he did not know about the wealth that he had and he had never claimed it. He did not realize how rich he really was.

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In order to fully appreciate the riches of God's grace we need to contrast our present position in Christ with our former unregenerate state when we were outside of Christ and dead in sin.

Every true believer is a spiritual billionaire. The Bible says that Christ became poor (and died for us) that we through His poverty might be RICH (2 Cor. 8:9). The believer, who is a child of the King, often goes around living like a PAUPER rather than living like a PRINCE. God wants us to know how RICH we are because of His matchless grace: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ" (Ephesians 1:3). We have been blessed with every spiritual blessing!

We cannot possess our possessions if we do not know what they are. We cannot walk worthy of our calling (Ephesians 4:1) if we do not know what our calling is. The great facts and truths found in God's Word must be claimed by faith. We must see ourselves as God sees us in Christ. By faith we must lay claim to what has already been given to us in Christ. The grace of God teaches us and instructs us how to live (Titus 2:11-12). God's method of instruction is to first show us and teach us what He has done for us in grace, and then we are told to walk accordingly. Ephesians 5:8 illustrates this well: "For ye were sometimes [formerly, referring to our unregenerate state] darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light." We are to walk in light of WHO WE ARE. We are to "be what we are." Our actual CONDITION is to match our glorious POSITION. The more we, by faith, lay hold of the glorious facts of our POSITION in Christ, the more this will affect our actual state and CONDITION as we walk with the Lord in time.

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May the eyes of our understanding be enlightened, that we may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe (see Ephesians 1:18-19).

In order to fully appreciate the riches of God's grace we need to contrast our present position in Christ with our former unregenerate state when we were outside of Christ and dead in sin. The glories of God's grace shine brighter against the black background of our past state and condition before we met the Saviour. God never wants us to forget WHAT WE WERE prior to our salvation: "Wherefore REMEMBER, that ye being in time past [formerly, when in an unsaved state] Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time YE WERE without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world" (Eph. 2:11-12 and compare Titus 3:3). Thus, before we consider our riches in Christ, let us consider...

61 THINGS THAT WERE TRUE OF ME BEFORE I WAS SAVED...

I was on the broad way (road) leading to destruction (Matthew 7:13).
I was lost (Luke 19:10; 2 Corinthians 4:3).
I was condemned already because of my unbelief (John 3:18; compare 1 Corinthians 11:32).
I was a lover of darkness (John 3:19).
I was under God's abiding wrath (John 3:36) awaiting God's coming wrath (Luke 3:7; Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6).
I was an ignorant worshipper (John 4:22).
I was an evildoer deserving judgment (John 5:29; compare 3 John 11).
I was of the world and from below or beneath (John 8:23).
I was yet in my sins (John 8:21,24; compare John 20:23).
I was a child of the devil (John 8:44).
I was a Christ-rejecter (John 12:48).
I was a Christ-hater (John 15:18) and a hater of those belonging to Christ (John 17:14).
I was under the power of Satan (Acts 26:18; 1 John 5:19).
I was unthankful, not giving honor to God (Romans 1:21).
I was unrighteous (Romans 1:29-31; 3:10; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
I was under sin (Romans 3:9) and sin-sick (Luke 5:31-32).
I was unprofitable (Romans 3:12; compare Philemon 11).
I was without the fear of God (Romans 3:18).
I was guilty before God (Romans 3:19).
I was a sinner (Romans 3:23; 5:8).
I was without strength (Romans 5:6).
I was ungodly (Romans 5:6; 4:5).
I was God's enemy (Romans 5:10; Colossians 1:21).
I was a servant (slave) of sin (Romans 6:17,20; John 8:34).
I was deserving of death (Romans 6:23; compare 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9).
I was in the flesh (Romans 7:5; 8:8).
I was in danger of perishing (1 Corinthians 1:18; 2 Corinthians 2:15; Luke 13:3,5).
I was a natural man who considered the things of God as foolishness (1 Corinthians 1:18; 2:14).
I was under God's curse (1 Corinthians 16:22).
I was blinded by the god of this age (2 Corinthians 4:4).
I was part of this present evil world (Galatians 1:4).
I was dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1,5; Colossians 2:13).
I was walking according to the course of Satan's world (Ephesians 2:2).
I was a child of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2).
I was a child of wrath (Ephesians 2:3).
I was without Christ (Ephesians 2:12).
I was an alien from the commonwealth of Israel (Ephesians 2:12).
I was a stranger from the covenants of promise (Ephesians 2:12,19).
I was one who had no hope (Ephesians 2:12) and no foundation (Luke 6:48).
I was without God in the world (Ephesians 2:12).
I was far off (Ephesians 2:13).
I was walking in the vanity of my mind (Ephesians 4:17).
I was one whose understanding was darkened (Ephesians 4:18; Romans 1:21).
I was alienated from the life of God (Ephesians 4:18; Colossians 1:21).
I was ignorant (Ephesians 4:18).
I was blind and hardened (Ephesians 4:18).
I was given over to unbridled lust (Ephesians 4:19).
I was corrupt according to deceitful lusts (Ephesians 4:22).
I was once of the darkness and of the night (Ephesians 5:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:5; 1 John 2:11).
I was in the realm and under the power of darkness (Colossians 1:13; Luke 1:79; Acts 26:18).
I was one who did not know God (1 Thessalonians 4:5).
I was foolish (Titus 3:3; Romans 1:22).
I was disobedient (Titus 3:3).
I was deceived (Titus 3:3).
I was one who served various lusts and pleasures (Titus 3:3).
I was one who lived in malice and envy (Titus 3:3).
I was one who was hateful and was hating one another (Titus 3:3).
I was a sheep who had gone astray (1 Peter 2:25).
I was one who lived in the flesh to the lusts of men (1 Peter 4:2).
I was one who walked in lasciviousness, lusts, abominable idolatries, etc. (1 Peter 4:3).
I was sensual, having not the Spirit (Jude 19).

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In light of our former, unsaved state and condition, notice how important the little word "but" is in these precious passages:

"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" (Ephesians 2:2-5).

"For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost" (Titus 3:3-5).

"That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ" (Ephesians 2:12-13).

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Now that you know what was true of you when you were dead in your trespasses and sins, now see the things that are true for you - from God's Word - when you asked Christ into your heart and found God's pardon and forgiveness.

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215 THINGS THAT ARE TRUE OF ME NOW THAT I AM SAVED

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The Kingdom of heaven is at Hand!

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GWZ I.F.

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The Gospel of John Challenge

Who Will Hear the Savior's Loving Knock?

Indeed my friend, the Lord Jesus stands at the door and knocks with an EXPONENTIAL knock in this EXPONENTIAL age via the Internet, TV ministries, Bibles and Gospel messages and studies in every language and tongue etc.. etc... but who will open their heart's door to Him? Near none.. and thus the present world is ripe for global judgment, for they are unrepentant and zealous to work lawlessness against their ETERNAL Creator (Rom. 1:18-32, Rev. 6-16).

 What is wonderful to know is as our society and technology is moving at EXPONENTIAL speeds the GRACE and MERCY of Almighty God far exceeds those speeds allowing all to turn to Him.

What is wonderful to know is as our society and technology is moving at EXPONENTIAL speeds the GRACE and MERCY of Almighty God far exceeds those speeds allowing all to turn to Him (John 6:37, Rom. 2:4, Eph. 1:7). My friend now is the time of salvation!  Today is the day to do business with the Almighty! For tomorrow you might not be. The Day of the Lord is TRULY at the hand and you do not want to be one of those who is overtaken and mowed down by the EXPONENTIAL destructive forces of a world in a supersonic death spiral (Rev. 6-19).

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

DJP I.F.

Beloved, Stay Focused and Sharp!

In such days where we see lawlessness ever abounding and moral relativism making drunk the minds of men and women and God given common sense near vanished in our land there is only one place alone where one can find safety and surety in an unstable world. That place is found in the presence of Almighty God and in His infallible Word by faith in Jesus Christ (John 1:12, 3:16-17, 17:17). The believer today is to be a light and a vessel for the Savior (Matt. 5:13-16). As this nation and world grows ever darker we are to shine ever brighter for the Father's glory and redeeming the time to that end (Eph. 5:15-17). Beloved, stay focus and sharp in the Word and will of the Lord and do not let Satan and this world distract you from your Heavenly calling (2 Cor. 5:17-21, Eph. 5:16-17, Rev. 3:11). See the ETERNAL from your position in Christ where your are seated at the RIGHT HAND of the ALMIGHTY GOD the FATHER (Eph. 2:6, Col. 3:1-4, Heb. 1:1-2, 1 John 4:4, Rev. 4). The Savior's call for His bride is at hand my beloved and the Day of Almighty God's wrath at the threshold of the world's door (2 Thess. 2:3-12, Rev. 6-19). Do not try to seek to save this nation any for it is done and beyond critical condition, but look for the Spirit's leading for Almighty God's will for your life pointing souls to the Savior of the world for that is what this world is all about (Matt. 5:13-16, John 3:16-17, Rom. 8:26-39, Eph. 5:16-17, Rev. 1:18).
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 The Savior's call for His bride is at hand my beloved and the Day of Almighty God's wrath at the threshold of the world's door.
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My dear friends, our nations decline though very troublesome... totally pales when we look at our world where war pigs and madman reign and nuclear war and doom crouch just at our door (2 Thess. 2:3-12, Rev. 6-19). Do not be distracted and get caught up in the little things which when placed on a global scale are less than micro. Dear friends, the Day of the Lord is at hand in which the world will be thrown into global tribulation which will fully manifest mankind's lawless heart and their complete hatred for Almighty God and RIGHTEOUSNESS.

God speed for Almighty God's glory!

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

DJP I.F.

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