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CORRECTION REGARDING BATHSHEBA: She was David's 8th wife and had a total of 13 children.

Whenever Proverbs 31 is read, it is understood to be a prophecy in reference to the New Testament church of today. Perhaps it is. We understand that King Solomon wrote it, but it was a word spoken to him by his mother Bathsheba. The greater attention to this Proverb is largely relegated to women. How they can become better wives, mothers, and workers in the body of Christ. I have wrestled with this all my life.

I do not want to be stuffed into a corner with the understanding it is just for women's groups. It never rested well with me. There is something more costly, more beautiful, and rich than just earthly born again women learning to be virtuous. After all Bathsheba was telling her son, the would-be king what to do and how to do it right. She was not talking to women.

I cannot reckon this chapter to be the center point of a "women only" concept and perception. Bathsheba knew what destroyed kings, and giving over their ways and strength to things and people that would bring them down to the ground. She was the wife of King David after all. Her own beginnings with that King was the beginning of her instruction of wisdom that she passed onto Solomon. She taught him something his father David could not teach him.

The modern day thought of well meaning people claim that there is no one that can keep these ways Bathsheba, by the Holy Spirit spoke of. I beg to differ. If the Holy Spirit gave these ways to keep, then they are keepable. But they are only keepable to those who choose to keep them. And not in a religious mechanical act, but from a yearning heart to obey. In fact, all of these things that the Holy Spirit said to do were not suggestions, nor were they recommendations. They were commanded, and not to everyone, but to her son who would be a great king.

A person truly born of the Holy Spirit has all within themselves to do it, being empowered by Him to perform it. A day will come when we will reign with Christ on earth in the Millennial Reign as "kings and priests." This is a prophecy that will come to pass. During your life, do not give yourself and your strength to ways and things that destroy kings. But give yourself and ways to Jesus Christ who is your everlasting "King of Kings and Lord of Lords," and this will be be your success now in this life. And in the world to come....everlasting life. Contact:

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When the Israelites stood on the shores of the Jordan getting ready to pass over, Joshua instructed twelve men to pick up stones. They were to place them in the middle of Jordan when they passed through, "where they are to this day." After they crossed over they built a monument to God with twelve stones. These stood as hard lines they crossed over forever. God did not want them going back. Those twelve stones were to also inspire the next generation following. Those same stones stand as memorial for all time, and they have the same direct meaning for us.

We need to have markers that remind us of what God is doing in our lives and how God is leading us to cross a particular line and never go back. He is leading us and does not want us to go backward, but forward in the power of the Holy Spirit. There must be clear evidence in your life that you can look back on. There must be stones of memorial along your life's path. Like the day you surrendered your life over to Christ in being born again, or the day you consecrated yourself, or the day you were filled with the Holy Spirit.

There are many hard point crossings that must stand out as that memorial of twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, and on the shore, marking where they had crossed over never to go back again. God only moves forward never backwards, like rushing mighty rivers, seasons in their courses. Like day and night that goes ever forward on and on. If you are getting ready to cross over a Jordan in your life, then begin to sanctify yourself before the Lord, and let Him go ahead of you.

Keep your eyes on Him, and though perhaps that crossing over might be hard, keep in mind that He will do wonders for you. He will dry up mighty rivers for your sake. The first marker is faith, the next is when you plant your foot in the brim of Jordan, the rest is His. He will carry you over, never to go back again.

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We are all familiar with the words of Jesus that says in John 14:2-3, " In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."  What comforting words those are, which also bring wonderment and thrill. However, I believe that there are also other prepared paths and places for all of the children of God that He wants to bring them into.

The body of Christ at large has been wandering in a present day spiritual wilderness of religion. They go from one watering hole to another, from well to another well. Yet there is no end of the wandering. The Church Age shadows are growing longer now than ever.   Jesus Christ has prepared an eternal place for you and me, yet there are some prepared places He wants you to personally to enter into in this life. They are already prepared but you must surrender everything to Him.

The Israelites had no idea where they were going. They needed the Angel of the Lord to go before them, to keep them in the way to bring them into the place God had prepared for them to go to.   There were conditions through. " Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries."

The cost now is too high. The body of Christ has mingled with the inhabitants of the land and have lost their way. The vast majority of ministers, pastors and bible study leaders are not prepared, hence they are not preparing their people. However, if you are feeling that there is more. That there is a strong and powerful stirring in your heart that is causing restlessness, I tell you it is the Lord.

Jesus is calling you. He is calling you to fully surrender your life to Him, and He will prepare all paths for your feet. But you have to leave and forsake the desert and go to Him now in this life. Then ultimately He will take you to the "place He has prepared for you" in eternity. Lay your life down in exchange for His. You will enter into a new prepared places that will change your life forever...."world without end."

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Modern Christians put nearly all their confidence in individuals of great notable degrees in theological sciences. Their information and multi-syllabled words give an air of spiritual attainment of power, knowledge and understanding into the word of God. These scholars become god-like in knowledge to many. Therefore their learned pedigrees dominate the simple who are searching, growing and learning.

There are other believers who love the purity and simplicity of the word. They take it in its fullest, literal meaning, staking their whole hearts and eternal lives on it. They are not interested in the lettered men, but in the Lord, in powerful, steadfast faith. "Once He hath spoken shall He not do it?" is the stamp upon their hearts.

Over the vast millennia there were no scholars and doctors of theology. People did not own Bibles, they owned their unshakeable faith to their deaths. They might have had a couple of missionaries who showed up on foot to their little villages to proclaim the gospel of salvation. These missionaries would remain there for a while until they knew the people understood the gospel and felt confident in their new found faith in Christ. Then they left to other parts of the countries spreading God's great light.

Time progressed into people being allowed to own Bibles which were a household treasure, and thousands lost their lives for it under the brutal Inquisition. Time marched on again until this present time where now there are hundreds of versions of the Bible in the English language alone. Modern textual critics argue that the word is fallible, not inspired and preserved by the miraculous hand of God.  Instead they continue to look for any hidden divine evidences in the already printed word of God. They "stumble on the stumbling stone."

As I write this, there are over four million people without power in seventeen states that are in record breaking, historic sub zero weather. The elderly having no power for their oxygen machines. People are dying being frozen to death. I heard that a whole family of four died last night. They were found in their car all passed away from carbon monoxide poisoning trying to keep warm. People starving and livestock are perishing and more.

I thought of these people all night and in the morning I thought about the chapter in James about "faith by works." "For He shall do exceedingly, abundantly, beyond all that you can ask or think according the power that worketh within you." What power? The power of believing by faith in the vehicle of prayer to the Faithful God Jesus Christ. Really, when it all boils down to it, none of that higher learning and doctorly wisdom helps anyone, not even them. Jesus Christ is the helper, the Savior, the Deliverer. "He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him" by raw, simple faith.

None of these people right now are thinking about any theological debates and sciences. Instead, I would picture certain of them who own whole libraries of these books using them for kindling to keep their families warm and alive.  In the end, they have no better purpose. Remember that the One who inspired the Bible is the One who preserves it and you for His namesake. He is the preserver of life. He will answer us in prayer, for "He has never forsaken them that seek Him." Amen.

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The temptation of Christ is one story everybody is familiar with. Even unsaved people know all about it. It has now in a way become a bygone lesson in the religious world that seems all meaning has been strained out of it. Yet, that moment when Satan came to Jesus in the wilderness was more than just a long ago, historical account. There is much more to it than that.

Jesus stood that test not as some might think. A man weakened from starvation who was bedraggled and limping along, barely able to resist Satan's power. Jesus withstood Satan's three temptations face to face, and from those three responses to him, came forth the Lord's Prayer later on. Jesus did this for every born again believer in the ages to come who will have the same experience as Him. Those three temptations might not seem powerful to the reader in modern day Christianity, as they see it only as an account in long ago antiquity.

Nevertheless, those same three temptations are the same ones Satan tempts believers all over the world with.  If Satan cannot tempt people to misuse power for self gain, then he will move them onto the holy city of religion, and set them up on a pinnacle of pride. He will choose out certain people that he has studied for this very special temptation. He will speak to them in God's own words, but add his own seemingly, undetectable words which turn the truth of God into a lie. He will then use them to preach another gospel. After which comes a sure spiritual death to themselves and their listeners.

There are others he sees that have great spiritual ambition and lust for great things in ministry. He offers world wide prominence and power, but there is a price.  The end result is the one who gave these counterfeit gifts of power will come back around for payment in the form of  sacrifice. The end result is costly.

There are those who do not want the kingdoms of this world or glory from mankind. They are those who love not their lives in this world to the death, because they love the ever lasting life of Jesus more. They cannot be tempted with temporal things. They want the eternal things, the treasures in heaven, the rewards of the endless life. Make sure who you are listening to, what doctrines you are accepting as truth. Keep in the word always which is your source of all truth that will make straight paths for your feet that lead to home in heaven.

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In the great march of religious humanity is the "striving for mastery" in intellectual knowledge of God. Great institutions of learning have produced great men and women of God through the centuries. There have been others who have sought for deeper esoteric insights through external disciplines. Yet the more they tried to know God, the further they went away from Him in heart.   We are grateful to God for many of these deeper insights that we could never know for ourselves as we set out to "understand and know" God.

I can honestly say for myself that I enjoyed deeper studies. I attained and acquired good, rich depths of understanding from theologians and other disciplines. I do not regret any of it. But after a long time, I missed God. I missed the simple dwelling in Him, in His word like a field of flowers and rich pasturelands.  There is a dark side to it though. I have seen people become so full of intellectual knowledge, sciences, disciplines, languages and doctrines, that there is only a cold dead heart in them. There is no heat or light in them.

They fight among themselves, trying to prove their doctrines. They "bite and devour one another." Ego and great pride become master. There is no life-giving flow, no evidence of the pure, rich, love and life of Jesus Christ. "The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords."  I say this to make a point. All that collective knowledge is fine, but it does not make anyone closer to Christ at all.

I think that those that are so full of His love and His Spirit are those whom the world looks at as uneducated and foolish. I think the higher learning becomes nothing at the end of a persons life but something more like an old storage shed filled with years of dusty clutter. I have heard of old scholars on their death beds who want nothing else than the presence of God embodied in eternal love. Like C.S. Lewis said on his death bed to one of his dearest friends, that his mind was tired and only wanted to talk and hear about Jesus.

During life when there there is a crisis how does higher learning help? How does any of that higher intellectual knowledge help the poor and needy? I think so much is lost in millions of lives of sincere believers because they deem themselves unqualified and unworthy to do anything. They live their entire lives in the shadows of the discounted masses.  What everyone needs to know right now, and the sooner the better, is that God KNOWS YOU. He has been with you all along. The reality of His living in you, surrounding you, and never ever leaving you should be the solid, beautiful rest to enter into. Time to let out a deep breathe. You do not have to earn it or be qualified for it. He is already with you simply because He loves you unfathomably and unsearchably. It is a simple beautiful truth you can rest your head upon like the pillow Jesus did on that stormy night. "Acquaint yourselves now with Him and be at peace."

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Betrayal will happen sooner or later to everyone in life, no one is immune. When we think about betrayal the first person that comes to mind is Judas Iscariot who sold Jesus out for money, and finally with a treacherous kiss. However, the first ultimate betrayer is Satan who betrayed God Himself.

Betrayal is spoken as one of the most grievous sins in the final days. "Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death."

There is a kind of betrayal Jesus speaks about which vivifies the total corruption and break down of last days humanity. It is not your garden variety betrayal, it is a deadly one. Betrayal is one of the key instruments of the weaponry of Satan. It is one of Satan's most destructive devices that do more than just hurt other people. It has revenge at it's razor's edge and strikes a deadly blow to it's recipients.

Typically the betrayal comes from those closest to people, which makes it all the more devastating and shocking. Jesus knew that striking pain, because it was not just that Judas betrayed Him. He already knew from the beginning that he would.  In a sense, it was the whole humanity that He created that betrayed Him in the end.   Just 24 hours before they were hailing Him, "Jesus Son of David, blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord!" Only to hear those same voices the next day screaming "Crucify Him!"

Satan put it in the heart of Judas to betray Him, then later on Satan entered into him to empower that egregious act of betrayal. Jesus told Pontius Pilate regarding Judas that "it were better for that man that he had not been born." Never did the Lord say that about any other sin.

If you have been betrayed, then take heart. Your life will recover from it. As long as you keep your eyes on Jesus Christ, He will keep you from going into deep into despair and long protracted sorrow. The pathway to healing from betrayal is the narrow path, in forgiving, and cleaving to Jesus. He will heal your life and you will shine once again in a brighter way in the kingdom of our Father and His Son. He will see to that.

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It seems that the true Believers always have a deep longing within them that nothing can satisfy. They may love to hear well rounded messages, read inspired writings. They may love to fellowship and "go with the multitude to the house of God with them that keep holy day." Yet there is something deeper, something more, that no human can give them.  The word "longing" in Greek means, to "wish, yearn, crave and desire." In Hebrew it means "roving, running, eager and thirsty." All of which describes the longing soul of a Crucified life in Christ while alive in this world. There is something that is never satisfied with the latest sermon, or theological exposition. 

There is something greater still, and it continues to deepen and deepen all throughout their whole lives. C.S. Lewis said, "If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world."  In this very deep longing for Jesus Christ, they find themselves walking alone on the narrow path because it becomes that. It is hard, painful and intense, and yet on the other hand it is full of the life, joy and love of the Holy Spirit  that intensifies. It is "the path of the just that that shineth more and more unto the perfect day" of eternity. Henry Drummond said it so beautifully, "It ought to be placed in the forefront of all Christian teaching that Christ's mission on earth was to give men Life. "I am come," He said, "that ye might have Life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." And that He meant literal Life, literal spiritual and Eternal Life, is clear from the whole course of His teaching and acting."  

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In this Koinonia session Fred gives us a breathtaking, beautiful insight into the penetrating voice of the Great Shepherd. He opens to us a leaflet in the book of Luke about the woman who went into the home of Simon the Pharisee to see Jesus. This lesson is like a door of heaving opening slowly to reveal the brilliant light of heaven. Flashing it's light into a moment in ancient time, upon a woman's life ravaged by sin, and a life controlled by Satan.   The unraveling, in depth imagery of this story by Fred allows us to see more clearly the holy, pure beauty of the love of Jesus Christ in the richness of His deep love. All are accepted to come to Him. Everyone is welcome to respond to that drawing-love in their hearts by the voice of "that Great Shepherd of the sheep." To the one "who can save them from death." Sit back and "drink of the river of His pleasures," and lean upon the breast of the Lamb of God.  

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At the close of the age both righteousness and wickedness will increase. Both will flourish. There will be great light and great darkness. Get used to the antithesis. The darkness will get darker and deeper, but the light will get brighter and brighter. There is no doubt whatsoever that we are standing on the precipice of the end of the age.   Yet vast multitudes of Christendom have little to no idea of the time they are alive in. Neither do they care to know it. There are even more that have a skewered view of what the end looks like. They have their own doctrines that empower their beliefs that things will grow better and better. The truth is that it is getting worse and worse.   

We are literally living in the days written by the prophets of old, and even the things told to us by Jesus Himself that are now coming to pass. The birth pangs are upon us, and these pains of birth are to get worse with intensity to birth about the Kingdom of Jesus Christ upon earth. The pain that the whole earth is experiencing will only increase exponentially. The contractions of this world will become very painful, very terrifying and sorrowful. In the book of Luke he writes, "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken."   

The following verses read, "And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."  So you see we are at this point that nation is rising against nation, and kingdoms against kingdoms. Great famines are now upon us, and coming upon our nation like we have never seen before  with certainty. The whole earth is reeling back and forth from a world wide deadly pestilence that no scientist can discover a cure for. Earthquakes are everywhere now, and happening in places that have never before experienced.   Time to start looking up, and looking for the "promise of new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness." 

What the world is afraid of, you do not need to be because if you are truly a follower of Jesus Christ, then that light of heaven should be reflecting brighter and brighter. You should be experiencing yourself getting stronger and stronger, and your praising Jesus Christ should be more and more robust and sound. We are soon to enter into eternity, and Jesus Christ is going to set up His Kingdom of Righteousness upon earth. Look for that beautiful heaven land in your heart and look away from this world slated for judgement. Rest in Christ and in His perfect, spotless, loving care for you. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself give you that perfect peace that only He can give, and be lifted up for your redemption is nearer than when you first believed. 

"He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."

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