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LOVELESS LAW EQUALS LAWLESS LOVE

MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
April 20, 2022

LOVELESS LAW EQUALS LAWLESS LOVE

Earth is the only inhabited planet in rebellion. In a parable it is symbolized as the “one lost sheep” whom the good shepherd went in search for in the dark and dangerous places at the risk of his life, leaving the ninety nine sheep in the safety of the fold. Matt. 18:12-14; Luke 15: 3-7.

In God’s kingdom in heaven and throughout the endless expanse of the universe,the unfallen worlds (Heb. 1: 1-3) and its sinless inhabitants “live, move, and have their being” in freewill freedom, license-less liberty (the opposite of licentious liberty) liberating love, perfect peace, unalloyed happiness, uninterrupted unity, and flawless harmony—-all adoringly worship in praise and thanksgiving to the one and only God Creator, on the only day He blessed, sanctified and set aside exclusively for this weekly purpose, “in spirit and truth.”

All because all are of “one heart, one mind, and one spirit (or attitude). And all are voluntarily, willingly, and spontaneously “compelled” in their hearts by Christ’s indwelling LOVE and infilling Spirit, to love God first with “all their heart, all their mind, all their soul, and all their strength (or might),” and then like the first, their eternal “neighbors as themselves.” In thought, word, and deed, this indeed is “love divine, love excelling.”

Only Paul among all of Christ’s first disciples and apostles, was granted the exclusive privilege of being “taken up in vision to heaven, verily the third heavens, paradise itself, and heard words that cannot be lawfully spoken on earth (see 2 Cor. 12: 1-10). With this kind of highly advanced experience came corresponding far deeper spiritual insights (and greater responsibilities and accountability, of course).

Thus, on the subjects of love anrd law (and others as well) Paul brought forth profound spiritual insights and deep eternal truths connected with each. On LOVE, called “charity” in the KJV, the apostle elucidates on it in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 like none of the other Bible writers did. Read and contemplate upon it in comparison with David’s Psalms 119, and you will be impressed to see and learn how God’s perfect love and His perfect law intersect and intertwine with each other, forming a perfect tapestry of the spiritual seven colors of the rainbow “surrounding God’s great white throne,” which is also the material foundation of the “robe of righteousness” and “fine, white linen of the saints,” the “wedding garment” that all must have who will sit down with the Bridegroom at the “wedding supper of the Lamb.”

This, and infinitely more, describes the “place” that Christ went “to prepare” for His faithful followers through the ages. John 14: 1-3. Our only fair share of work, as “co-laborers with God,” is to love Jesus by keeping and obeying all His commandments in its most comprehensive spiritual sense by His empowering grace imparted through the Holy Spirit. Only thus can we truthfully and honestly say, “I can [and will] do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Without His law, love becomes lawless; lawlessness, strife, perversion, bloodshed and wretched lives and death reigns. Without His love, His law is made an abomination by apostates who replace and counterfeit it with their own man-made religious laws which they use to enforce worship and exact allegiance and obeisance to these counterfeit laws, denying the individual his sacred God-given right and freedom to worship God according to the dictates of conscience only.

Until next week’s MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.

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GOD IS LOVE: SO IS HIS LAW

MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
April 6, 2022

GOD IS LOVE: SO IS HIS LAW

Among many others of original precept and principle in the Sacred Word, the following few attest to this eternal truth: God is Love, so is His Law.
First, petition the throne of grace for the presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit. Then read from your Bibles (preferably the KJV) the following:
1 John 4: 7, 8. 16. Speaking through David of Himself, Christ declared (emphasis mine): “O how I LOVE THY LAW! It is My meditation all the day.” Ps. 119: 97. The invisible God the Father of love is revealed in His visible (readable) written Word but more so in His visible “only-begotten Son” “by whom the worlds were created by Him and FOR Him” (Col.1: 16, 17; cf. John 1: 1-3, 10; Heb. 1: 1-3, 8, 9, etc.).

Of Christ Jesus, “the EXPRESS IMAGE of the glory of the presence” of the INVISIBLE Father of LOVE, life, light, and truth John declares: “That which was from the beginning, which we have HEARD, which we have SEEN with our own eyes, which we LOOKED UPON, and OUR HANDS HAVE HANDLED, of the Word of life”(1 John 1:1).

The reason why HATRED is worsening in the world in all its myriad forms and expressions whether unfeigned, overtly expressed, or physically demonstrated aggressively or is sly, suggestive, or implied but just as virulent, evil, corrosive, and destructive, is because the LOVE of God, who hates all evil and unrighteousness, including hatred for His law which enjoins love for our fellow men and fellow sinners is because God’s love does not abide and control the heart and mind (as was the experience and thus the expression of John and his fellow disciples!).

And in eternal things, there exists no void of neutral grounds. There are only two masters in this fallen, sinful world: Christ the Savior of mankind and Redeemer of the world He created, or Satan the master usurper, pretender, deceiver, “the enemy of God and man” and destroyer of souls.

By the knowledge and light of truth made available to us individually during our conscious and rational lifetime, as free moral agents, we choose whom we worship and serve (obedience
is the highest form of worship) whether God in Christ unto eternal life, or Satan, pretending to be God or Christ through his main agencies, unto eternal death.

The reason why LAWLESSNESS, which invariably breeds and results in all manner and degrees of disruptive disunity, confusion, unbridled passions, gross intemperance, mayhem, anarchy, revolts, bloodshed, pain, suffering, and death is because the LAW of God has been, for so long derided, trampled upon underfoot, called a “burden” and a “curse” and then blasphemously replaced by counterfeit, man-made religious laws by the apostate churches and denominations and blindly embraced by their sincere yet gullible votaries and adherents who have been taught from childhood to implicitly trust their religious leaders, honor the decretals of church councils, venerated traditions and long-held superstitions over the “Thus saith the Lord,” and “It is written” of the the sacred Bible.

Until next week’s MWM, God bless all, NMF.

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THE ‘LOVE’ THAT WILL FAIL

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THE ‘LOVE’ THAT WILL FAIL

Matt. 6:21-23, KJV. “Not everyone that saith to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father who is in heaven [not on earth].

Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not PROPHESIED [also preached and taught] in Thy name? And in Thy name have CAST OUT DEVILS? And Thine name done many WONDERFUL WORKS? And then I will process to them, I NEVER KNEW YOU: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity [sin].” Matt. 7: 21-23, KJV.

“There is a SPURIOUS EXPERIENCE [it is felt!] that is prevailing NOW everywhere in regard to the LOVE OF JESUS—-that we must dwell in the love of Jesus, that FAITH in Jesus IS ALL WE NEED—-but these souls must be INSTRUCTED that the love of Jesus in the HEART [not in the lips or mouth only] will lead to HUMILITY OF LIFE AND OBEDIENCE TO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS.

For ‘He that saith I KNOW Him, and keeps not His commandments, is a LIAR, and the the truth is NOT in him’ 1 John 2:4, KJV). The love of Jesus that GOES NO FARTHER THAN THE LIPS, will not save any soul, but be a GREAT DELUSION.” – Manuscript 26, Oct. 17, 1885.

“Some who claim to love Jesus are DECEIVERS and all their religion is LIP SERVICE. IT DOES NOT TRANSFORM THE CHARACTER [only a change of ‘form’ and ‘religion’]. It does not reveal the INWARD working of GRACE.

They do not show that they have EVER LEARNED in Christ’s school the lessons of MEEKNESS and LOWLINESS OF HEART [not appearance]. They do not show by LIFE or CHARACTER that they are wearing ‘Christ’s yoke or lifting His burdens.’

They are not reaching the STANDARD given them in God’s Word, but a HUMAN standard. Their life is not PURE as Christ’s life. They are not being REFINED and ENNOBLED by His Spirit, THE WAY OF TRUTH THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN, AND THEY ARE OF THAT NUMBER WHO WILL SAY, ‘Lord, Lord, open unto us. We have taught in the streets. We have done many wonderful works.’ But Christ will say of them, ‘I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.’ (Matt. 7:23).” – ibid.

“Those who reject the truth of the Bible [regarding this unpopular testing truth] do it a a PRETENSE of loving Jesus. Those who LOVE JESUS will REVEAL that love by being OBEDIENT CHILDREN. They will NOT be continually pleading, ‘ALL THAT WE HAVE TO DO IS TO BELIEVE IN JESUS.’ This is true in the FULLEST SENSE, but they do not COMPREHEND, they do not take it in its FULLEST SENSE.

“To believe in Jesus is to take Him as your Redeemer, your PATTERN. All who love Jesus must FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE. They must connect with Jesus AS CLEARLY as the branch is CONNECTED with a living [not dead] vine. They are ABIDING in Jesus and Jesus is abiding IN them and they are DOERS of His word [James 1: 22-25], partakers of His divine nature [2 Pet. 1:4, 2-12].” Ibid/ TDG 298.

Our obedience to God’s law is the only measure and standard of our love for Him. Anything outside of it is spurious and Satan’s counterfeit. Jesus said it in words that even a child can understand, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” John 14:15.

But do we even know that all these untampered commandments are?
Bless all, NMF

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MY PERSONAL PRAYER AND DESIRE FOR YOU

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

MY PERSONAL PRAYER AND DESIRE FOR YOU

This prayer and desire embraces all the law-abiding, law-loving living saints of God, because we can only pray for the living, not the dead saints, for “the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward [such as “posthumous rewards,” etc.]; for the memory of them is forgotten.”…. “for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, wither thou goest” (Eccl. 9: 5, 10).

This personal prayer and desire for you during these most solemn, dwindling hours of probation, are inspired by, contained in, and expressed through a personal emphasized, reading of Colossians 1: 9-14, KJV. Please open your bibles and join me as we establish and reinforce our church family fellowship connection and interrelationships, and electrify the loop and enrich the content and substance of our communications and interactions. So here it is:

“For this cause (“the word of the truth of the gospel,” “the knowledge of the grace of God in truth,” and our “love in the Spirit,” vs 5, 6, 8) I also, since the day I heard it, do not cease to PRAY for you, and to DESIRE that you might be FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WIlLL IN ALL WISDOM AND SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING.

That you might walk (live the course of your life) WORTHY OF THE LORD unto all, pleasing, BEING FRUITFUL (not barren or “reprobate”) IN EVERY GOOD WORK (for “faith without works is dead”), and INCREASING (daily) in the KNOWLEDGE of God, STRENGTHENED WITH ALL MIGHT, according to CHRIST’S GLORIOUS POWER, to ALL PATIENCE AND LONG SUFFERING WITH JOYFULNESS.

Giving thanks (“without ceasing,” meaning having the attitude of) unto the Father, who has made us meet (fitted through sanctification) to be PARTAKERS of the INHERITANCE [justification is our title to, and sanctification is our fitness for this] OF THE SAINTS.

For Jesus, through the workings of the Holy Spirit in our hearts and minds has delivered us from (not in) the power of darkness of the prince of darkness and his HOSTS of evil into the KNOWLEDGE of His dear Son:

In and through whom we have REDEMPTION [purchased through HIS BLOOD not by our good works], even the forgiveness of our sins [that have been repented of, and turned away from].”

In the only name under heaven by which and whom we are saved from sinning, Jesus Christ, first, the Son of God, then the Son of man. Amen.

Remember to overcome one day at a time progressively, and one prayer at a time, hence the need to pray daily! NMF

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THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST IS NOT THE ‘MISSING LINK’ BUT THE GOLDEN LINK THAT UNITES HUMANITY TO DIVINITY

October 1, 2020
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THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST IS NOT THE ‘MISSING LINK’ BUT THE GOLDEN LINK THAT UNITES HUMANITY TO DIVINITY

“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed in in the world, received up into glory.”

1 Tim. 3:16, KJV.

“It will be profitable to contemplate the DIVINE CONDESCENSION, the SACRIFICE, the SELF-DENIAL, the HUMILIATION, the RESISTANCE the Son of God encountered in doing His work for fallen men.

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HATRED, NOT LOVE FOR SIN IS CENTRAL TO THE PLAN OF SALVATION

September 4, 2020

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HATRED, NOT LOVE FOR SIN IS CENTRAL TO THE PLAN OF SALVATION

“But unto the Son He saith, Thy throne of God is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Thy kingdom. Thou has loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore Thy God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.”

Heb. 1: 8,9, Authorized Version.

God the Father addresses His only-begotten Son as GOD! And the Son like the Father, as in like father like son, LOVES righteousness and HATES iniquity (sin, the transgression of the law).

“Because of their SIN, God had to exclude Adam and Eve from the home He had prepared for them. It must have been with great sorrow of heart that the two left the place where they had first met, which held such blessed memories for them.”

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DO CHRISTIANS TODAY UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND LIBERTY?

July 27, 2020

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DO CHRISTIANS TODAY UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND LIBERTY?

Maybe not. Because the brothers James and John, two of the first Twelve disciples did not, even after they had the special privilege together with Peter to witness the transfiguration! See Lue 9: 28- 36, 51-56 first.

“James and John, were GREATLY ANNOYED at the insult shown to their Lord. They were filled with INDIGNATION because He had been insulted by the Samaritans whom He was honoring by His presence. They [James & John] had been with Him in the mount of transfiguration, and had seen Him GLORIFIED by God, and honored by Moses and Elijah. This manifest DISHONOR by the Samaritans, should not, THEY THOUGHT, be passed over without marked PUNISHMENT.”

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THE CHRISTIAN’S PILGRIM, NOT PRINCELY LIFE ON EARTH

July 2 2020

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THE CHRISTIAN’S PILGRIM, NOT PRINCELY LIFE ON EARTH

“Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through MUCH TRIBULATION enter into the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:22, KJV.

Like his Master and Savior’s life on earth: “The Christian’s life is a strangely mingled scene of sorrows and joys, disappointments and hopes, fears and confidence. There will be much dissatisfaction with self, as he views his own heart so deeply stirred, surged with passion that seems to bear all before it, and then follows remorse and sorrow and repentance, followed by peace and deep hidden joys, because he knows, as his faith grasps the promises that are revealed in God’s Word, that he has the FORGiVING LOVE OF A LONGSUFFERING SAVIOR. And that Savior, he seeks to bring INTO his life, WEAVE into his character.

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