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March 15, 2009
I Cannot Do Anything
Greetings everyone in the name of our lord Jesus Christ, who loved us and gave Himself for us, not willing that ANY should perish.
I'm sorry I left the last message up so long but I needed to do it to show the importance between religion and the Body of Christ.
If there is one thing I am not, it is religious, Praise God, I have something that is so much more than religion, I am Justified, Forgiven, Saved, and translated into God's Kingdom by His Dear Son. That is my Standing in Christ.
My state; I am still in a body that has sin in it, I am still unable to keep the law perfectly, (it was removed at Calvary) (and no one ever did but Jesus), (and confessing your sins for salvation doesn't get the job done) I am still unable to live a "perfect" life as so many religious people think they are doing today. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. So as long as you have blood in you (for the life is in the blood), you cannot go there. This is exactly why you must be "changed" when the dead in Christ shall rise first and we shall be "changed" and caught up to meet the Lord in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord; or you die and sleep in Christ until that day comes. Paul says; Absent from the body is present with the Lord. Amen!
I know a lot of people are in churches and they are saved, but your church membership won't help you, and if you are in a church that does not teach the Word of God rightly divided as you are told to do in 2 timothy 15, then you are being handed a guilt trip to keep you walking the aisle and putting money in the plate. So you go down to the front and re-dedicate your life, have a good cry and actually feel better, but what happens next week when that euphoria wears off, you are right back where you started. It is good to repent, don't get me wrong, if you've done something wrong and it burdens you then pour it out and get it out of your systems, tell God your sorry, but that will not get you saved. As a matter of fact you are told to come out of there (religious system) unless you receive of her plagues, in Revelation. It is a religious system, political system, or both. Get out of there. If your church has idols or priests in it, get out of there, if it is a "free" church, meaning you can worship anyway you want, Get out of there, or maybe you attend a church that says all paths lead to God, wrong again, Get out of there. Why do I say this? Thank you for asking, the answer is this:
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is the lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Now I want to ask you a simple question. Do you believe the Bible? Do you believe words mean what they say in the Bible? Then why are there several thousand different denominations in churches today? Because men don't read their Bible.
Do you want to know where the Lord is? Right now he is seated at the Right hand of God. So how do you worship him? You PRAY. Then if you are saved, you have been sealed by the Holy Spirit (not empowered by Him) as most believe. Then if you are saved you still can't pray correctly, why is that?
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
This does not exclude all the great prayer preachers out there today, they can't pray any better than you can. God reads your Heart by the Holy Spirit, if it be the Spirit is in you. You cannot pull the wool over His eyes, you can make a beautiful prayer and if you're not saved, I doubt if it ever makes it through the roof of the building and I don't mind if this upsets those "Greats" of our day who think they're the only ones that have a direct path to the Lord.
So Michael, how do I get my prayers answered? You pray, just like the Bible has told you. Want to have the presence of the Lord with you? If you're saved you do anyway, the Holy Spirit. If you have a severe problem and there is much help needed, I believe this next verse will sum it up: This was spoken to the apostles but I believe it applies to us today, all the people who need help should gather around themselves saved people and all pray the same thing, when the Body of Christ comes to its fullness, Christ will be the head and we will be his Body, making one perfect man. Which is what we should be doing now, all praying and teaching the SAME thing. Read this and remember it in times of need, Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, thare am I in the midst of them.
Over the past few weeks there were several people that wrote in and had some serious problems, one of them had an aneurism, and his brother-in-law asked me to pray for him. I told him this verse and get as many as you can praying about the same thing. the man went from coma to speaking and can move most of his body now and is improving daily. This was not caused by anything I have done, It comes from the Lord. I don't not know about people who claim to be faith healers, if they are then why don't they go to the hospitals and get those cancer patients out of there? The standard line when they don't get healed is "they didn't have enough faith" there is a lot of truth in that. Still if they can really do what they claim they would have a line circling the globe to get to them.
This was Not what I was going to write about today, I got my mind overruled, this came to me after the greeting, I had asked God what to write you today, maybe there is someone out there that has been waiting just for this message, I don't know. If so believe it, it's right out of the Word.
Most of you know the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, or at least I hope you do. When the Lord came down to Earth to destroy those cities, Abraham pleaded with the Lord to spare them because he knew Lot and his family were there. If you haven't read it it is in Genesis 19. I encourage you to read the whole Book. The Lord did not tell Abraham to take 20 years and go evangelize those people, He came down to see whether the cry that was coming up for those cities was true, he had already made up His mind, they were going down. As the story progresses the 2 Angels that came with the Lord proceeded to Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot recognized them right away and pleaded with them against their will to stay in his house that night. They did because the Lord was merciful to Lot in this matter. Then the men of the city drew near Lots door and cried out for the 2 men to come out so they could "KNOW" them, soddomites, that's where the word comes from.
I won't keep you much longer, please bear with me.
The men almost killed Lot before the Angels pulled him back through the door and then blinded them men around the house. Then the 2 angels of the Lord asked whether there be any other of his family there. Genesis 19:14 And Lot went out and spake to his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get ye out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. (They didn't go).
15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
The angels basically had to lay hands on them and pull them out of the city. Then Lot pleaded to go to a smaller town, and the Lord had mercy and let him do it although later he had to escape from there because of the people's wickedness.
My point: The angel says to Lot;
21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
22 Haste thee, escape thee thither; for I cannot do anything till thou become thither.
As the morning rose the angels had told Lot and wife and daughters not to look back. The wife did and was turned into a pillar of salt.
I learned something in this, that God will take us out of here before he pours His judgment on this world, there cannot be one hair of your head harmed in God's Judgment if you are saved, that is why I do believe in the rapture or call it whatever you want. I also do not believe that we could stand to see the sight of God's judgment as in Lots wife as human beings.
The angel could do nothing until lot was out, because as liberal as Lot was he was righteous, and the Lord cannot destroy the Righteous with the wicked. When God's judgment is poured out on this world we that are saved have to be gone. I believe it with all my heart. this very truth right here does away with half of the denominational doctrines in churches today.
I urge you to leave.
Special thanks to the Malone Family for sending in some money to Help Sister Uyi, I call her sister, and the 17 orphans. I had some doctors (supposedly) contact me to get her information, they said they had everything they needed, they have not been heard from again. They were either liars or not who they said they were, Uyi only received the gift from the Malones, I'm sure our Lord has smiled on them for this. What they have done is called charity, when you give up something that you don't have to to someone you don't know that is on the other side of the planet. God I pray bless that family richly.
I am a sinner saved by Grace. I also love you all, no matter who you are or what color you are or what you were before you got saved. That is why I pound away at this to bring you to the Lord. Two more things, I found out a long time ago there is no money in teaching the Word of God rightly divided and I would like to say hello to a special friend of mine Bob McDaniel and his family who work tirelessly at sending clothing, food, bibles and other things to the starving 3rd world countries. I'm so certain that family has the Blessing of the Lord. Servingthepersecuted: I cannot contact him by his email because so many people have sent porn and viruses that they have destroyed his site. They send it to me too. I ask you to pray for this ministry and the Malones and McDaniels.
Posted by michael at March 15, 2009 08:06 PM