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So, because the first word is made up I could only define the second word but in doing so I am sure it will get us there:

 Transparency

1. Also transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
2. something transparent, especially a picture, design, or the like on glass or some translucent substance, made visible by light shining through from behind.

Nope, not enough depth when applied to the heart.

          Transparent:

1. having the property of transmitting rays of light through its substance so that bodies situated beyond or behind can be distinctly seen.

Synonyms: crystalline, limpid, pellucid, clear

Antonyms: opaque

1. admitting the passage of light through interstices.
2. so sheer as to permit light to pass through; diaphanous.
3. easily seen through, recognized, or detected.

transparent excuses.

1. manifest; obvious.

Antonyms: secretive

1. Obsolete.,  shining through, as light.

Nope, not so much either. Allow me to define as per the way I think it applies specific to human behavior. And I know but there is probably a better word for it that I do not know as it applies to human behavior but I am not a word smith in the sense that I will understand word application. I just say what fits in my head and if I have to explain it, so be it. 

Transillusidental Transparency simply means that you share your current reality without verbose obstruction as if you were using other words to hide the true meaning or phrases to deflect so that you retain some sort of perceived judgement protection. It’s essentially an all open, and not to draw attention to the issue or to myself, but to confirm that, although I am not in your shoes, my shoes too also have issues and this is what it is like to walk in them.

Hopefully I didn’t make that too complicated.

On with my shoes.

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If anyone thinks that they can out produce God without the Holy Spirit, or if you think that you can compete with someone who does operate, rely, trust in, and depend on the Holy Spirit as it pertains to anything in life, even and but especially if you are a believer, then you have bumped your head on the corner stone of stumbling and if you are not careful to carefully examine your non-Holy Spirit experience comparing your ill-gotten beliefs to the Word of God then you stand in jeopardy of goating your way though heaven. 

But Podcast Preacher my religion is not performance-based, I do not believe you can earn salvation (2 Tim 2:20, 1 Cor 3:12-15, Matt 12:36-37, Rom 14:12, John 12:48, 2 Cor 5:10, Rom 2:6, Matt 16:27, Rev 22:12, Ps. 62:12; Prov. 24:12; Jer. 17:10; 32:19; Rev. 2:23). 

So Boink on you for in thinking that way, you just hit your head on the corner stone again with such a statement. Why do we come up with excuses for walking in the flesh thinking that we are supporting a spiritual position? Look my friend the Pharisees did this and went to hell. Ok so I thought I would just wake you up. Your fight is not against the sinful preacher who teaches scripturally supported lies. It is not against the false preachers, teachers, prophets, apostles, or christs (Matt 7:15, 24:11, v24, Mark 13:22, 2 Peter 2:1-18, 2 Cor 11:5, v13, Luke 6:26, 1 John 4:1). It is against the devil always so don’t think by defending your non-Holy Spirit Christian existence is in anyway protecting the sensitive flesh of any person (Eph 6:10-18). You are defending the devil when you agree with such nonsense. Did not the devil convince Eve that Gods words originally spoken to her from His own Spirit were incomplete and possibly full of deception? Yes. You could say that if there was a bible at that time that satan used it to draw Eve and Adam into sin. And what to say of satan trying to deceive Jesus by the use of scripture in the desert? Did not Paul say that we are not unaware of the devils schemes (2 Cor 2:8-11)? 

Yes, that’s a bang opener right there and it is because active authentically born-again Christians need all hands on deck in today’s battle field and upon the harvest field, and more so, because we are not as focused on praying for the harvest in which, in the correct circumstances, that is when we are doing church Gods way, He is adding to the church daily those in which are being saved, we focus more on the deficit of today’s church, which as it was back in the days of Jesus and so it is today, we pray for laborers. The following scriptures support the totality of what I just stated right there as well as the battle (2 Cor 10:4, Eph 6:10-20, 2 Tim 2:3-4, Matt 9:35-38, Acts 2:41, 47, 4:4, 5:14, 9:31, John 6:44, 15:16).

I am going heavy on the scripture references so that you also see how the Holy Spirit is right in the mix of these things. 

And so but, for example, if you show up to a prayer meeting which is unlikely without the Holy Spirit, and decide you are going to move heaven and earth with your non-Holy Spirit inspired prayers you might just as well stay home and watch the Emmys, because you would have to put on a performance to convince anyone that you are at the feet of Jesus without the aid for getting their, the Holy Spirit, living inside of you.

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Well I decided to read the book of, no I wont go through each of them as it includes all of the New Testament books. This means I have read and submitted to the Deep Waters Podcast the entire New Testament with the exception of the book of Revelation. That is this message, the final book in the New Testament, in which John the Apostle was the personal scribe for Jesus. Oh yes John was still under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit otherwise 2 Timothy 3:16 would be incorrect, but the coolness of this is that Jesus scribed the book of Revelation through John. 

I have not added any commentary or narrative nor any chapter or verse references. Because they have been liked by quite a few listeners I decided to record the entire New Testament. Now including this message you have access to the entire New Testament on my Podcast. 

I do think it is a good idea because you can get the entire book in just a few minutes. Front to back without interruption. Now I say that but just reading the bible is not sufficient for learning, so God gave us teachers as well. This is however one way of getting through the books of the bible. Your spirit, new man, inner man, the Holy Spirit, and your heart depend on your getting the word down inside of you. If your Christianity is a dead work, it is because of a lack of bible reading time as well as a lack of bible doing time.    

So this message is not about teaching by breaking down the Book Of Revelations but about allowing you to seek the nuggets for yourself. This message, my friends, is about listening. Listen to the words, to the sentences, hear in your very spirit what marvelous things are being said. 

Now before move on listen to this little section from Revelation. No other book in the bible opens with this kind of opening. And it is of course so strange as to why todays churches do not camp in this book until each member is an expert in this book. Listen:

Rev 1:1-3 - 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

I know right. Do you see it? No where does it say to ignore the book because it is too complex or difficult to understand. If Jesus tells us to read it, he must be prepared to also give us the revelation of it. Last thing look. He stated the time was near 2000 years ago. When I say we haven’t must time left, am I lying? No right!

We are in the last church age which is the Laodicean church age and have been for about the last 110 years. A lot of the Book of Revelation has already happened. We are nearing the end of the 2000-year-old gentile church age, in which the 1st rapture will take place shortly after the seven-year peace treaty is signed by Israel. The war to prompt that signing is taking place right now. The 1st 3 1/2 years of the tribulation which begins after the rapture will be the Antichrist continuing to set up his system and to make it public. The next 3 1/2 years of the tribulation is going to get rough because satan is going to go on a rampage. The millennial reign will begin after the rapture and tribulation and will last for 1000 years.

Hosea 6:3 – “…Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord…”

1st Tim 5:17 - 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.

2nd Tim 2:15 - Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Well, get your notepad ready and get ready to be astoun

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What, a message on Evolution be it true or false? But I don’t believe in evolution. No right but remember others that you run into might, and so you would want to know some basics, as this is not an in-depth study of the topic, to be able to walk them around to the truth. You see this Podcast has duality purposes in that it can help you to grow and develop into all that God has placed within your heart to be, and but it is also a teaching mechanism for you to use to assist others in whom you are trying to win. It’s a Sunday morning preach, a bible study, a life or cell group message. You see that’s the beauty of having access to a teacher who has been given a teaching gift who is anointed and called to be a teacher. I am gifted by God just like each and everyone of you. We together function as the body of Christ at large. 

Think about what we could do for Christ with agreement, unity, being of one mind, in one accord. These traits make the mightiest militaries on the planet. We have yet to see the fullness of what the church could be and in these very days the opportunities for the church to prove what she could be, what she was intended to be, will be present everywhere. Are you ready? The devil will be turning this world upside down and the majority of people will not have any idea as to what is happening. The level of fear will allow the antichrist to have his way. We, you we, no but yes you and I are the only ones standing in the antichrists way to thwart his plans of complete and total destruction, through their own submission, of the entire human race that is unprepared for these days. We are the lifeline to a very lost group of people. You have the answer to eternal life, yes you are the answer to eternal life. Do not stand to be ashamed at your meeting with Christ as He examines what you have done for the kingdom of God and for Him and Father God. They have invested everything in you and given you all the power to move heaven and earth to accomplish that end. Leave nothing on the table. Leave no sick behind, no diseased person in your wake, leave a branch that will bear fruit long after you go home.

Ok so we can thank God for His encouragement. 

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Ok so this is a shorty revelatory nugget. Kind of like eating a small bag of Moose Munchy snacks. The bag used to be, when I was all about sugar but thanks be to God I have been set free from sugar, alcohol, cigars, these are sugarless, beer, and most all foods that contain sugar or turn into sugar in your body. 

Ah but you see how I start to go in one direction and then pow God says speak a bit on that for a minute. Ok so let’s go to the stats.

Google A.I. states in a couple of articles the following:

Nearly 1 in 3 adults (30.7%) are overweight. More than 2 in 5 adults (42.4%) have obesity. About 1 in 11 adults (9.2%) have severe obesity. 

Continuation of these trends would see overweight and obesity prevalence among adults (age-standardized to allow comparisons between states and over time) rise from an estimated 75.9% in 2021 to around 81.1% for men and from 72.6% to 82.1% for women.

And in another:

Almost three-quarters of the adult population (172 million adults aged 25 or older) in the USA were estimated to be living with overweight or obesity in 2021. The prevalence of obesity rose especially rapidly, doubling between 1990 and 2021 in both adult men (from 18.6% to 41.5%) and women (from 22.8% to 45.6%; see table in Notes to Editors)

The estimated prevalence of adult overweight and obesity was high across all states in 2021. In men, levels ranged from 80.6% in North Dakota to 65.3% in Washington DC; while in women, levels ranged from 79.9% in Mississippi to 63.7% in Hawaii (see figures 1C and D in paper.)

And in one more:

Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation states:

Continuation of these trends would see overweight and obesity prevalence among adults (age-standardized to allow comparisons between states and over time) rise from an estimated 75.9% in 2021 to around 81.1% for men and from 72.6% to 82.1% for women. This would mean an estimated 41.4 million additional adults living with overweight or obesity by 2050 (raising the total to 213 million, of whom 146 million will have obesity).

Concerningly, the prevalence of obesity is projected to increase at a more rapid rate than overweight, and faster among adult men than women. Between 2021 and 2050, the highest rise in obesity prevalence among men is expected in Colorado (up 44.2%) and New Mexico (up 41.2%), and among adult women in Kansas and Colorado (both up 34.9%).  

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So, before I get into the why I am getting into this message I thought I would open it up with a simile comparing iron swords with steel swords one to another. At large they look the same to most people and but it isn’t until you need to put them to use that you discover that the iron sword is of a way lesser quality and durability than the steel sword so if you ever used an iron sword in battle against one who yielded a steel sword, your weapon would be insufficient for the victory and you would suffer loss. Keep this story in mind comparatively speaking as we discuss the wide variety of bibles and some, oh so very few of the changes that they have gone through ever since we had a supposed lock on the word of God being that it was considered at one point in time to be the infallible Word of God inspired by the Holy Spirit written through men in which some actually saw and walked with Jesus Himself. And since God cannot lie even if by chance or by the ignorance of mankind including some things which are just off of the nature of God. More on this in the message.

Consider, for this message that the King James or New King James Version represents the steel sword and many of the rest, perhaps not all, but many of the rest represent an iron sword. Hopefully, by the time we get to the end of this messages you will have discovered why I said this.

Ok so before I get into this you should stay with the entire message as this is hot of the revelation presses, meaning that I tripped over it in my studies. As you know this is the year of study for me beginning February 2025 and ending end of January 2026. Over 500 books and still plugging at it. Please don’t be impressed as it is God who anoints us for His work. I only tell you as a teacher what it looks like in the event you are called to teach. Before I was saved I was not a reader of any quality books. After I got saved boom the strange appetite hit me and nearly 30-yrs later I am heading into 2000 books. None of this matters other than I am doing what I have been given to do. If I was called to be a Ninja fighter I would have been given the anointing to be that. I would practice 16-hrs daily to develop the craft so that I could win to God other Ninja fighters. Ha so it’s a funny example but that is how the anointing works. If you want to test it, you can simply try and read. The caveat is that you cannot be called to be a teacher. Oh we all as believers should read but you will not be reading like I am reading unless you have been called to the same position. And no doubt others have surpassed the number of books that I have read yearly. Charlie Kirk averaged around 100 books yearly and his life reflected it. 

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This could also be titled, “Christianity In A Nutshell.” And well but I did think about changing the title considering the content, but then I thought no it really is more about guarding yourself. And but the way to do that is to be sure you are busily active in your Christianity as per Gods will both using your God-given talents, personality, and the spiritual gifts and if called to be in them, getting equipped for a spiritual office.

Now for some good news and some great news. It is good for my listener who may from time to time get a message that I am teaching on Sunday’s or Wednesday’s at Arise Paradise. If you are a consistent listener then you know that I just thru in some new information which is that I am now doing an “Equipping & Activation Workshop” at my new church in Paradise California. I have just taught one class so far and we cruzed  through 3-hrs of awesome teaching guided and anointed by the Holy Spirit. We are ever so intentional about doing church Gods way in which we will be primarily focused, at least in this season of equipping the saints for the work of ministry. 

Now so why is it great news for others Podcast Preacher? Because for those who live locally they can attend live and in person. Yup, I know it sounds like I am full of myself in thinking anyone should be listening to me at all and but will extremely benefit if they do. Pride? Ego? Fame? Nope, without the holy Spirit I would that I would be dead as dirt. Ken Shelton has nothing to add to your lives without the anointing of God, and if He doesn’t show up when I am speaking you have my permission to ask me to sit down and be quiet until He gets in the room. In fact you are spiritually obligated to do so. My confidence comes in the fact that God has chosen to use me. Rejected by almost all in whom I have known be it in school, family, churches, business, I have had to overcome the fact that for more than 30-years I was a worthless individual and that maybe all these knuckle-heads were right. 

Oh I thank my God that He is above His reckless humanity so bent on taking the short train to hell all the while mocking Him as if they actually knew what they were doing. 

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Well I decided to read the book of Ephesians, James, Colossians, 1st & 2nd Thessalonians, 1st & 2nd Peter, 1st & 2nd Timothy, the books of 1st, 2nd, & 3rd John, &  Titus, Philemon, And Jude. Like 1st, 2nd, & 3rd John they are in a single message, the book of Galatians, Philippians, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Hebrews, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts.

I have not added any commentary or narrative nor any chapter or verse references. Because they have been liked by quite a few listeners I thought I would try to do more of them with the remaining New Testament books of the bible. This way you have access to the entire New Testament on my Podcast. 

I do think it is a good idea because you can get the entire book in just a few minutes. Front to back without interruption. Now I say that but just reading the bible is not sufficient for learning, so God gave us teachers as well. This is however one way of getting through the books of the bible. Your spirit, new man, inner man, the Holy Spirit, and your heart depend on your getting the word down inside of you. If your Christianity is a dead work, it is because of a lack of bible reading time as well as a lack of bible doing time.    

So this message is not about teaching by breaking down the Book Of Romans, but about allowing you to seek the nuggets for yourself. This message my friends is about listening. Listen to the words, to the sentences, hear in your very spirit what marvelous things are being said. 

The book of Romans is written to believers.

Hosea 6:3 – “…Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord…”

1st Tim 5:17 - 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine. 

2nd Tim 2:15 - Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Well, get your notepad ready and get ready to be astounded at what you are about to hear.

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Every once in a while I like to present something a little less chatted about in our Christian world. I usually don’t shy away from a topic because it may come across as controversial or even divisive. I am not at all ever intended any bible topic to divide other than to identify the make believers, fake believers, non-believers, and those who are undecided from the UTHENTIC children of God. The word is described as a sword and if you ever did find the compunction to play with one you may find that it is in the business of dividing: 

Eph 6:17 - And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Heb 4:12 - For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The preacher is not the one who should be dividing but simply allowing the word, the sword to do its intended work least they be found to be the one who is intentionally dividing:

Pro 6:16-19 - These six things the Lord hates,
Yes, seven are an abomination to Him:
17 A proud look,
 A lying tongue,
 Hands that shed innocent blood,
 18 A heart that devises wicked plans,
 Feet that are swift in running to evil,
 19 A false witness who speaks lies,
And one who sows discord among brethren.

I know this is Christian to Christian, and but so how much more ought we not offend the other groups without a cause? We know the word states that in as much as possible get along with all people (Rom 12:18):

Heb 12:14 - 14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

How do we as the body of Christ handle someone who is bent on division:

Titus 3:10 - Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition,

So now but if they get offended at the word, then your hands are washed of any guilt. If they are open then the word has done its intended work, but if they harden their hearts then the word has still done its work because they are now exposed for where they stand. 

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Ok so I thought I would let you know that I have been attending a church for about a month or so and feel like it is where God is calling me. You can Read 1 Cor chapter 12 to see some church building architectural drawings. Specifically, as I want to just pull-out verses 18 & 24, we can just look at what I use to determine which church I attend, a process I have used for nearly 30-years as a Christian:

1 Cor 12:18 – 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.

1 Cor 12:24 - 24…But God composed the body…

Other determining factors is if the church is doing things Gods way or their denominational/non-denominational way. This church is and is willing to do so until revival breaks out. Oh, I know we have many asking God for revival but secretly they want Him to do revival their way in their style of church. Didn’t the Pharisees want nothing more from Jesus than for Him to express Himself in the way that they thought that He should. It was preposterous to them that if He were really God that He wouldn’t want to do things without so much disruption. Ha, oh boy he himself said:

Matt 10:34 - “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.

I have always had it in my mind that I would find a church that would want revival above all things. But oh, no, no this is not the case. Well, that is until now. I know we have some churches that are rockin it with God and thank Him that they are, but I needed something within my own town to do or to at least desire it. Arise Paradise is such a place that I believe we will see a great move of God and in fact we already have. 

Let’s touch on the revival element for a minute so that you understand my understanding of what it is and why it is so desired though many ask, few are willing to pay the price.

Revivals and great awakenings, in my biblically supported opinion, represent the normal flow of the book of Acts church most often carried out by normal Christians who discovered what it is to serve God with all their heart, strength, soul, and mind. 

The end of past revivals and awakenings events occur simply because of the absence of the unity of those within the events, and but also because of the neglect of equipping the saints for the work of ministry and making disciples. And well even the preposterous action of firing the Holy Spirit asking that he say in the lobby and expressing to Him in our secret places that we will take things from here. The result is that the end of what should be normal Christianity, the revival or awakening comes, and we once again find ourselves in need of the very things that made us spiritually normal.

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