Kirk: 'They want something ancient'

The more this Charlie Kirk assassination sets in, the more I see it for what it is. It REALLY does represent a turning point.

Basically, I've seen in an undeniable way how controlled the conservative mainstream media is at this time.

So far, they are not giving you the true story on Kirk. It's astounding how they are not telling you about his Catholic and Mormon ties, not to mention his direct connection to the Jesuits.

I just read another article on Erika Kirk about 15 minutes ago, this one posted to The Hill website, and they don't tell you anywhere that she is a devout Catholic who attends Mass daily and went to the Jesuit school Regis University in Colorado!

I have to say I didn't know much at all about Charlie Kirk, except that he had a radio talk show that I could take or leave very easily if I was in my car visiting Chicago, meaning close enough in Indiana to pick him up on the AM dial.

Of course, I come from the old-fashioned days of Rush Limbaugh, although I wasn't a regular of his by any means. Mostly just when I was in my car or, as a matter of fact, doing chores like cleaning the floors at Shorewood, my church in the Chicago suburb of Rolling Meadows.

In my days of living in the suburb of Palatine (2015-2020), I developed an interest in Dennis Prager which, if I had to measure it, was both good and bad. I fell for him even though I knew he was egotistical, snobby and sometimes bad at Bible commentary (especially from the dispensational KJV fundamentalist understanding and knowledge that I had gained at Shorewood).

There's no question in my mind that this assassination was a "ritual" event by the powers that be. Like the "truthers" on YouTube all pointed out yesterday, the investigator made a special point of saying at the press conference that it was 33 hours after the shooting that they captured the suspected assassin.

Listen to this one podcaster:

"I just want to document that the Utah Governor Spencer Cox just reported that it took 33 hours to capture the shooter. If you missed it, just go look up Spencer Cox's speech about the suspect; he made it very clear it took 33 hours.

"This is the number that they put in front of our face all the time.

"Don't forget just recently out of NYC (July 28) you had the shooting on the 33rd floor of the NFL headquarters (and Blackstone) and that was 33 days after the shooter's road trip began in Las Vegas. There's just so many of these stories.

"Of course, I just did a podcast on why the Masonic cabal uses the number 33. It's an inversion of what it was meant to be.

"For people who don't know, it's federated by the Masons. The feds got the assassin after 33 hours. In Masonry, 33 is symbolic of the vertebrae on the human spine and it's related to something called Kundalini, which is about spiritual ascension.

"But remember everything can be inverted. The opposite of ascension is descension. What you see the cabal doing all the time with the number 33 is encoding it on scary stories.

"For example, the actual manhunt was going on all day on September 11th. Remember, 2001 was 33 years after 1968. That was the year George W. Bush graduated from Skull & Bones, also known as the 'brotherhood of death,' and the alumni called 'Bonesmen' equals 33 in gematria.

"1968 was the year 911 was made the national emergency dialing code. I wonder how many 911 calls were made the other day with the FBI putting out the phone number and the images of the suspect: 'Call this number if you think you know where the suspect is.'

"1968 was also the year World Trade Center construction began in NYC. It was also the year Boeing introduced their jumbo jet. All the planes on 9/11 were Boeing.

"The list goes on. It's even the year the New York Jets won their only Superbowl and, again, it's all fixed. NFL Football is tied to Masonry, too.

"There's a lot of important words that equate to 33, including the words people, personage and society. Thirty-three is the master teacher number in numerology (hence 33rd Degree Scottish Rite FreeMasons). The word teacher equals 33 and with all these 'news stories,' they are trying to teach us a lesson."

More YouTube commentary from the same man:

"What Kirk, the husband, was trying to do is kind of turn this nation more into a theocracy; very religious, very biblical. He wants women to submit, go get the Mrs. Degree. He wants people to bypass education and pursue religion.

"Again, Kirk promoted ideas that were very un-American, but somehow people saw him as some great American patriot. He promoted the kind of ideas that the Catholic Church wanted for the people it ruled over, which caused the Protestant Reformation, which caused people to cross the Atlantic and create this nation."

I find it ironic that on September 10th, the same day as the shooting, I had a post on this site about how Protestants and heretical "off-shoots" of Christianity, like Mormonism and Jehovah Witnesses, will be taken back in by the Catholic Church as we get closer to the Antichrist system.

I quoted my pastor Richard Jordan saying: "My point is, the Catholic position is, 'We can welcome them in as erring brothers.' You watch the ecumenical movement where they’re going to bring the Protestants back in and so forth. They look at it as being able to assimilate them back into Holy Mother Church and there are some events that will take place before the tribulation period that will bring that to pass. That’s what God’s Word says about those things."

When Kirk, as I pointed out yesterday, said we need to venerate Mary more, he argued, "Mary was clearly important to early Christians. There’s something there.”

From Crisis Magazine:

"Here Kirk displayed a historical awareness, pointing to the central role of Mary in the earliest centuries of the Church. For him, this was not a matter of Catholic excess; but of returning to a fullness of Christian witness.

"It is hard to imagine a more countercultural claim; at a time when feminism is often framed in terms of power, assertion, and defiance, Kirk instead held up the Virgin as a model of strength in gentleness, dignity in humility, and beauty in obedience to God.

"He concluded with a phrase that revealed his deep admiration: 'Mary is a phenomenal example and I think a counter to so much of the toxicity of feminism in the modern era.'

"Such words, spoken by a high-profile evangelical, were both daring and refreshing. They reveal a longing for models of sanctity that transcend modern ideology, pointing instead to figures who embody holiness.

“ 'Young men are going back to church, that is legit,' he observed. 'That’s happening because honestly it’s the only thing that they can find…it’s a life raft in this just tsunami of chaos and disorder.'

"In these words, Kirk captured something deeply true. Our age is marked by disorientation, broken families, and a loss of meaning. For many young men, the (Catholic) Church has become the one stable refuge—a place where eternal truths anchor them against the shifting tides of the world.

"But Kirk did not stop there. He recognized that what these seekers longed for was not novelty but tradition: 'They want something that is ancient and that is beautiful. Something that has stood the test of time; something that’s not going to change.' 

"This insight revealed his growing appreciation for the Catholic instinct toward continuity. In a world obsessed with innovation and reinvention, Kirk understood that permanence and beauty are what truly draw souls."

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From Houseandwhips.com:

"Insiders describe (Erika Kirk) as a daily Mass attendee, often bringing her kids along, and her public gestures, like raising a rosary during the somber transport of Charlie’s body this week, underline a devotion that’s active and unapologetic. No whispers of Protestant leanings here; Erika’s baptized Catholic heritage is front and center, complete with a recent convalidation of her marriage in the Church just before the tragedy, ensuring her family’s spiritual unity under Catholic rites."

Notes missed in Kirk coverage

“I think we as Protestant evangelicals under-venerate Mary. She was very important. She was a vessel for our Lord and Savior,” Charlie Kirk declared. “I think that as evangelicals and Protestants, we’ve over-corrected. We don’t talk about Mary enough. We don’t venerate her enough.”

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Here are just a few things you're not hearing from FOX News in its glowing coverage of Charlie Kirk's "Christian faith."

From houseandwhips.com:

"Kirk’s work through Turning Point Faith brought him into close contact with various religious communities. The organization collaborated with more than 3,700 congregations to encourage what it termed 'biblical citizenship.' Interestingly, despite his generally Catholic-skeptical views, Kirk acknowledged the significant conversion trends from Protestantism to Catholicism, noting that 'millions are converting to Catholicism from evangelical and Protestant sects.'

"His organization also had significant connections to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—reportedly, half of the well-dressed Gen Z employees at Turning Point’s Phoenix campus were Latter-day Saints. This diversity of religious influences in his immediate circle likely contributed to his ecumenical approach to conservative politics."

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In August, Charlie Kirk invited Charismatic preacher Daniel Kolenda to be a keynote speaker at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held in Tampa, Florida’s Convention Center.

In an article entitled "False Teacher of the Day: Daniel Kolenda," Christian Research Network reports, “Daniel Kolenda is more than just a false teacher—he is a dangerous wolf in sheep’s clothing. He needs to be warned about and to be avoided at all costs.”

"Daniel Kolenda is a popular New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) false teacher who calls himself a 'missionary evangelist, pastor, author, and teacher, who has led tens of millions of people to Christ face-to-face through massive open-air evangelistic campaigns in some of the most dangerous, difficult, and remote locations on earth.' Kolenda is the president and CEO of a 'ministry' called Christ for All Nations.

"Kolenda is known for his conference appearances as he regularly appears with such other popular false teachers as Francis Chan, Todd White, and Lou Engle and is also associated with the most heretical NAR church in the world, Bethel."

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From an article posted today by Crisis Magazine:

"As the conclave was unfolding during the last papal election, Charlie Kirk expressed his admiration for the Traditional Latin Mass. He noted:

I think what would be really helpful to the church in the next pope is to have a pope who is not hostile to tradition, to the traditional liturgy…There is so much beauty in this Mass that endured substantially unchanged.

"He continued, emphasizing that the beauty of this enduring form is drawing people back: 'There’s so much beauty that…It’s attracting a lot of people back to the church.'

"Taken together, these reflections reveal a man who, though firmly rooted in evangelical Protestantism, had begun to glimpse the treasures of the Catholic Faith. He saw in Mary a remedy for modern confusion. He recognized in the Church a haven for restless youth. And he acknowledged the need for a beauty and stability that only an ancient tradition can offer.

"Beyond liturgy, Kirk spoke more generally about his respect for Catholicism and the possibility of conversion. In an interview reported by Crisis Magazine, he said: 'Some of my greatest friends in the world are Catholic…I go to Catholic Mass every once in a while. I don’t take the Eucharist…but I’m open-minded, but I’m not there yet.'

"He added that he holds 'so much respect for the Catholic Tradition and Church.'

"In mourning Kirk’s passing, we might also reflect on the bridge he was building between evangelicals and Catholics. He was not a theologian or a churchman, but he was willing to say out loud what many evangelicals quietly feel: that the Catholic Church, with her witness of beauty and continuity, has something indispensable to offer in this age of cultural disintegration."

Conscious of internal things

I had a friend call me this evening and say, "I thought maybe you'd write something about Charlie Kirk." Well, I definitely do have some thoughts regarding Kirk and the news coverage and so I will share tomorrow. In meantime:

"'The more you grow in grace, there are these moments where you become conscious of, 'That was me. That wasn't Christ. That was my action; that was me trusting my resources,' " explains Richard Jordan.

"As soon as you realize that, you become aware of your own sinfulness; of the sin that dwells in ME. You become aware of what a long way you still have to go as a Believer.

"A quote from an old preacher I always remember is, 'The closer you get to the light the better you see the dirt.' The closer you get to 'It's Christ,' the more you realize, 'It's not me, because I don't have the capacity. I still have a long way to go and it seems like it's taking me forever to get there.'

"You become conscious of your pride, your impatience, your selfishness, your unrighteousness, your irritability, your laziness, your vanity, your complaining, your unbelief, your envy, your greed, your ingratitude. All those things, and you begin to see them in yourself, and you say, 'Woah.' That's what happened to Job.

"Those fiery dart are designed . . . I Timothy 4:2: 'Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.' Fire burns and it leaves scar tissue. It makes you insensitive. It kills the feeling. You become like Ephesians 4, 'past feeling.' You come to the place where you're insensitive to who you really are in Jesus Christ. That self-centeredness, that self-will, is an internal thing.

"Satan is literally seeking to get you to identify yourself with him and not with the righteousness you have in Jesus Christ. These darts assault you so you think of yourself more in the light of who you were in Adam than who you are in Christ--more when you were under the power of darkness than in the kingdom of His dear Son. That's the goal of these fiery darts.

"The shield against that is the constant, personal application of the truth of God's grace to you in Jesus Christ. You say, 'This isn't really who I am; it's the transformed life I have in Christ that's the real issue.'

"How can you say, 'I'm crucified with Christ nevertheless I live'? The way you say it is by faith. God's Word says that's the reality of who you are. The shield of faith says, 'This is my real identity; not the actions of me, the actions of Christ. Not my faithfulness, or lack of it, but His faithfulness.'

"The shield, the protection, is me trusting who He is and who He's made me in Him, and then personally applying that to my life in whatever the circumstance or situation I'm in. By the way, that transforms your view of the circumstances and situations, because now they're opportunities for your faith to trust who God has made you. They're growing moments.

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"The only one of the 10 Commandments that is not visibly obvious to the sight is covetousness. Everything else, you see whether you're doing them or not by watching your conduct. Covetousness is something in the heart; it's something you can't see. What Paul realized is, 'It's not what I'm doing; it's who I am.'

"Paul writes in Romans 7:8: [8] But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
[9] For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
[10] And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
[11] For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

"All of a sudden sin is alive because there's something down inside of me. You can put a guy in handcuffs and he can't murder or steal, but you didn't deal with what's down in the heart.

"Paul said, 'I discovered there's something down inside of me that's crooked, that's sinful, that works all kind of sinful thing.'

"Here's the conclusion. Verse 14: [14] For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
[15] For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

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"A constant struggle Believers have is to apply the truth of God's Word in denying ungodliness and worldly lust and living soberly, righteously, godly.

"The struggle is do what faith does, do what God says, regardless of our opinion or viewpoint about it, our emotions, our ego, our desires, our reasonings. What preachers call the Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11 says in verse 6: [6] But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

"When you think about your faith in God's Word, your persuasion that God's Word is true, your confidence that it is, your Christian life will never be a life that is well-pleasing to God except it be a life lived by faith. You must understand that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him; it's more than just believing God exists.

"People ask the question, 'Can God really help me in my life? Can He really work to transform my life? If I trust Him, will it really pay off? Is there a payoff for trusting Him?'

"That's what faith is; it's what produces the reward of God working in your life. The transformation is in our faith trusting what Jesus Christ has accomplished for us as it's revealed in His Word.

"Faith and discouragement are polar opposites. They don't exist together. The attempt of the Adversary to discourage someone comes about with the assault of the fiery darts.

"It's easy when you're talking to other people to say, 'Here's what the Bible says,' but what happens when it comes to you?

"Galatians 2:20 says, [20] I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

"What you have to do to lay hold on eternal life--get a grip on the life God's given you in Christ--is come through some of these 'not I' moments, where you realize again what you realized when you got saved. You said, 'I can't do it.' You were conscious of your sinfulness, failure, bankruptcy, brokenness. You said, 'Lord, I can't; I'll trust you because YOU can.' "

Muslims to be assimilated back into Holy Mother Church

In 1931, a famous Roman Catholic historian wrote a very compelling book about the five heresies of Catholicism and said, and this is the official position of the Roman Catholic system, that Islam is a heresy of Christianity. It’s a break off.

You think about Jehovah's Witnesses; they claim to be Christians but it’s a heresy. Mormonism claims to be Christian but it’s a heresy.

This guy was saying that Islam, because Mohammed was raised among some heretical Christians and had that contact in his upbringing and so forth . . .  that that's their position, says Richard Jordan.

My point is, the Catholic position is, “We can welcome them in as erring brothers.” You watch the ecumenical movement where they’re going to bring the Protestants back in and so forth. They look at it as being able to assimilate them back into Holy Mother Church and there are some events that will take place before the tribulation period that will bring that to pass. That’s what God’s Word says about those things.

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"It's always the female in the Bible. Her, she, her, she. God identifies an enemy as being a female deity. Historically it's the mother-son cult. With the Phoenicians it was Ashteroth and her son Tammuz. In Egyptian history she's called Isis. In Greek culture she's Aphrodite and in Roman culture she's Venus.

"Today she's called Mary. Is Mary an issue in the land of Shinar today? Is she a prominent figure in Islam? Mary is mentioned 34 times in the Koran. She's called 'the greatest of all women.'

"No other woman in the Koran is named except Mary. In fact, Sura 19 in the Koran is actually named after Mary. You see how culture will adopt and absorb?" says Alex Kurz.

"People argue, 'We don't worship Ashteroth!' Well, if you're worshipping Mary, where did it come from? Do Muslims really venerate Mary?

"The Koran teaches that Mary 'was born without the touch of Satan.' There are two people that's said of: Mary and Jesus, momma and son.

"Jesus is always called the 'son of Mary' in the Koran. He is never called the son of God. Why? Those two people are said to be born without the touch of Satan.

"There are Muslim theologians who say that term means she was born sinless. We know the religious system that believes Mary was born without sin. Out of the Koran they believe she 'kept her chastity.' In other words, she's a virgin.

"The Koran teaches that Mary is a sign to mankind. Mary, in Islam, is called the 'queen of saints.' She's called 'our lady.' There is in the land of Shinar in the Middle East--Mary, after the death and burial of Jesus Christ, moves to Turkey. There is a shrine called the 'House of Mary' in Ephesus in Turkey. According to tradition, this is where Mary spent the last years of her life.

"Where's Satan's seat in the Book of Revelation? Turkey. You've heard of 'Our Lady of Fatima.' Fatima is in Portugal. Did you know the Muslims dominated Portugal for centuries. You know where the name comes from? Mohammed's favorite daughter was Fatima.

"This site in Portugal is one of the most visited sites among Muslims. They believe in signs, wonders and miracles. You've heard of these Marian apparitions where supposedly signs, wonders and healings occur. You know that Muslims believe that?

"There are sites all over the Middle East that are believed to have this connection with Mary; they're called Marian sites and they're in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt.

"There's a book written by Monsignor Luigi, a diplomat for the Vatican who spent years in the Muslim world and believes 'Mary is the bridge and the link between Islam and Christianity.'

"He writes: 'Further proof is found in the pilgrimage that Muslims have made for centuries to Marian shrines in the Middle East.' Damascus, Morocco, Algeria, Casablanca, Algiers.

"There was a site in Egypt where supposedly Mary appeared over a few weeks period of time to perhaps 2 million Muslims.

"Ultimately, Revelation 17, there's this fascination with a woman connected to Baal worship that manifests itself in different shades and flavors in human history. Is Mary going to be the bridge that brings together East and West?"

Easiest verse in Bible says all

(after a six-day stretch at my job, glad to report I was able to purchase a new laptop late this afternoon and will install tomorrow--I have to be at work extra early tomorrow morning, filling in for employees being moved around as others have departed for good)

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"Jeremiah has been labeled the 'weeping prophet' and, though there is hardly any Old Testament character about whom we have more biographical material, this totally unworthy phrase constitutes his entire biography for a majority of people," explains a Bible commentator from 1925.

"He did weep, and for good cause. God laid on him a tremendous burden, and once when he cried out because he was carrying every bit he possibly could, God's answer to him was, 'Cheer up, Jeremiah, the worst is yet to come,' or in Jeremiah 12:5:

[5] If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

"Only a courageous spirit could stand a message like that, and Jeremiah was, on the whole, the bravest figure in the Old Testament."

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The word "wept" appears in the KJV 71 times. One very famous verse that's even been turned into song is Psalm 137:1: [1] By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Of course, Bible students, even the youngest, know the shortest verse in the entire Bible is John 11:35: “Jesus wept.”

In Luke 19, Christ wept over Jerusalem: [41] And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it.

"Every time you see Christ weep it’s in connection with the effect and consequences of sin," explains Richard Jordan. "In John 11, Lazarus has been claimed by death and Christ has come to vanquish death. When you read verse 33 there where ‘he groaned in the spirit and was troubled,’ the plain fact is He wept for the same reason that we weep. Death is an enemy; it’s a horror of great darkness, not a friend.

“It was the fullness of His grief and His sympathy. 'A man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.’ Of course, verse 37 kind of shocks you back into reality: [37] And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
[38] Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

“There are always going to be some people in the crowd just absolutely determined not to believe anything good about Him. They’re going to find fault if there’s any way to find it and, if not, they’re going to make up something.

“The healing of that blind man on that Sabbath day stuck in the craw of some of these guys and it’s still an issue in John 11. They’re still perplexed by it; it’s still in the air.

“In verse 37, even at the graveside, is lurking that spirit of unbelief and antagonism. This time Christ’s not groaning because Lazarus is dead--He’s groaning in response to the unbelief; the capacity to not believe.

“There’s a great verse in Hebrews 12:3: ‘For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.’

“Jesus Christ felt the antagonism. My point to you is that when Christ went through these things, it wasn’t just stoic passivism. You know, sometimes we just harden ourselves against resistance and just gut it out. He wasn’t doing that; this stuff struck at His heart and He FELT it! He endured the contradiction of sinners against Him."

Depths of reality of who you are

(new article this evening)

“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father,” says Paul in Romans 8:15.

“To me that word ‘cry’ is one of the most important words in that verse and there are a lot of important words in that verse, but that one gets overlooked,” says Richard Jordan.

“Paul doesn’t say, ‘Whereby we make the statement, Abba, Father.’ He doesn’t say, ‘Whereby we logically deduce that it’s the Father.’ He doesn’t say, ‘This is a doctrinal affirmation that we make and proclaim.’ He says, ‘Whereby we CRY out of a heart that understands I’ve reached the Father’s heart!’

“When you cry, you’ve reached down into the depths of the reality of who you are and all the other stuff is taken away. A cry is something that reaches down into the depths of your soul with the reality of the moment and that personal affection.

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“Paul says in Romans 5:2, “By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”

“You’ve got the future where we rejoice in hope and then the present peace with God. All that God’s provided for us in Christ Jesus you have access to. 

“You have the capacity to have the Holy Spirit take you by the hand and lead you right into all of those assets and make them real in your experience by faith. That’s by that deep consciousness that’s produced in your inner man simply by believing God’s Word.

“Faith isn’t you deciding something’s going to be a certain way. Faith is finding out what God’s Word says and believing what God’s Word says is true. ‘Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.’

“You find out what God’s Word says about it and you say, ‘That’s what’s real no matter what my experience says, no matter what my emotions say, no matter what the advice of others say, no matter what my reason says. What GOD says is true!’

“Now, maybe my circumstances and my reason and everything else lines up with what God’s Word says, but it isn’t true because of all of that; it’s true because of what God says!

“Most of the time, your senses and your experience want to go the other way, but you still stick with what’s . . . it’s ‘by faith we have access to this grace wherein we stand.’ The identity you have in Him, you access it by faith.

“First, the access is by faith that ‘comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God,’ and that accesses that consciousness; that confidence in your inner man that’s produced by believing God’s Word.

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“Listen, when you believe what God says, it has an impact in your inner man. Ephesians 3:12 says, ‘In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.’ Notice in verse 11, God’s doing some things ‘according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.’

“When you truly begin to understand what God’s doing, and this eternal plan He has in His Son—this cosmic reality God the Father has planned to be the reality for the universe in His Son, the one the Father’s going to use to do all of that—it's in Him we have BOLDNESS and access with confidence. Why? By the faith of HIM. Because of who HE is we have boldness and access with confidence.

“I don’t have to wonder whether God’s going to accept me. I don’t have to think maybe possibly He will. All of the questions anybody’s ever going to ask me about my access to God have been answered! And I can come with confidence. Yea, I can come with boldness.

“Now, that’s not brazenness where I’m coming because of me. I can just come with that bold confidence of one who has the access of the Father’s ear. Because every question that’s ever going to be asked of me has been answered in Christ.

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“There’s a real parallel between Ephesians 2 and what Paul talks about in Romans 8. Romans 8:31: [31] What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

“Somebody’s going to read down to this point in the Book of Romans and say, ‘But wait a minute?!’ and Paul says, ‘What should we say?’ 

"If someone comes along and they want to say, ‘Who do you think you are anyway?!’ and oppose you . . . if God is for you, WHO CARES WHO’S AGAINST YOU?!

“Here’s how God’s for you: [32] He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

“When religion rears its head and says, ‘Yeah, but, if you don’t do this . . .’ you just say, ‘Wait a minute, He that spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not freely give us all things?’

“When the world rears its head and says, ‘Yeah, but,’ you say, ‘You know what the reality is? The grass withers and the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever.’

“When the world out there comes along and wants to help you create your identity, and help you create purpose and meaning and acceptance and validation in your life, with a thousand things that are smaller than Jesus Christ, faith says, ‘He that spared not His own Son but delivered Him up . . . ’

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“Verse 33 says, [33] Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

"People criticize you. I learned a long time ago that it isn't so much what others criticize you about; it's how you criticize yourself. The hardest person on you is going to be you.

“You see somebody walking around like they never have a doubt, they just always come off as confident and knowing what they’re doing. But you see, you don’t hear that self-talk between their ears.

“The heart condemns you because your heart knows you. And written down in the nature of your heart, God put a conscience that accuses and excuses based upon the way He created you, not on the basis of the way you try to create yourself.

“The criticism arises. Verse 34 says, [34] Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

“Who can lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? If God justifies you, who cares what the charges are?! What’s the verdict? You’re righteous. ‘Who is he that condemneth; it is Christ that died.’

“You know, when your own sinfulness shows up, you need to remember those are the very things Christ died for. People say, ‘You teach people about grace and they’ll just go live in sin,’ but that’s somebody who doesn’t understand grace. That’s taking the doctrine of grace and not putting faith with it.

“The only time anyone turns grace into lasciviousness and a license to sin is people who don’t attach faith to grace. Because grace teaches us that Christ put away our sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And if I believe that, what’s the reality in my life? That I should add sin or put it away?! Duh! How hard is that?!

“But when you just get a doctrine and detach faith, what did the verse in Romans say? ‘We have access by faith.’ To have grace work in your life, you attach faith to it; you believe it and then it works.

“So Paul finishes chapter 8 with, [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
[36] As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
[37] Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
[38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
[39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

*****

“You see, you can have confidence because of who HE is. If your confidence is going to rest in you, you’re going to have problems. But you can have confidence because your faith rests in the unwavering faithfulness of God Himself.

“That’s what access is about. Being able to come right into the 

presence of the Father and have that relationship. That’s WHY Paul can say that we ‘pray without ceasing.’ Because when you begin to realize you have this unfettered, uninterrupted access to the Father, based upon what Jesus Christ has done through the ministry of the Spirit of God, taking His Word and making it real to you as you believe it . . .  

“When you have that uninterrupted access that can be made real in your experience, you begin to realize that prayer isn’t, ‘Oh, Lord, I pray.’ There are times when bowing your head with both eyes closed works, but then there are other times when it doesn’t. The reason people do that is to cut out all the stimuli around you so you can concentrate simply on what you’re thinking, but that’s a baby way to pray.

“I’m talking about your personal communion with God. What your mind realizes is that when you have this instant, continuous access is, ‘Oh, what it is to pray without ceasing is just to be conscious constantly of this unfettered access I have to the Father and thus that He has to me!’ All of a sudden prayer is a quite different thing.

*****

“There’s an old Quaker saying, ‘Whomsoever carryeth about the temple of God with him may pray wherever he may go.’ The Holy Spirit lives in you in order to make your body the temple--the dwelling place--of God. You don’t have to go to a building somewhere to find Him. He’s right there. You’re His temple.

“There’s so many verses in Ephesians that have the trinity in them. Ephesians is full of the godhead. Father, Son, Spirit. That’s why this verse is such a delight to me. Ephesians 2:18 says, [18] For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

“On the basis of what Jesus Christ has done, I’m going to have access to the Father and it’s going to be the Holy Spirit that takes me and the Father by the hands and brings us together and introduces us and makes it real in my life.

“Ephesians 2:13 says, '[13] But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.' It's His blood; His work at Calvary."

Seed money

Trump had a meeting inside the White House this week with U.S. tech leaders. There were 13 billionaires in attendance, including Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sam Altman and the ever-popular Bill Gates.

Gates said in the televised meeting: “I think the thing that ties my first career, that I still spend some time on because AI is so phenomenal, and my second career is innovation in health and areas like vaccines and gene editing and the president (Trump) and I are talking about taking American innovation to the next level to cure and even eradicate some of these diseases . . . The U.S. has the seeds in the same way that Warp Speed took those seeds and put them together, I think something fantastic can be done.”

If you take the “p” out of Speed you have Warp Seed.

Think of the last verse in Revelation 12: [17] And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Of course, the passage that comes readily to mind is in Genesis 3:

[14] And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
[15] And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

(As I mentioned the other night, I am having lots of difficulty operating my laptop since the "mouse pad" has mostly quit responding to my finger clicks, etc. I am going to have it looked at tomorrow and regardless of whether it can be fixed or not I will have a new post in the evening)

Why you can't lose salvation

It’s actually grammatically inaccurate to say someone can lose their salvation because if you lose it, what was the person saved from to start with?!

“That’s why in Israel’s program they don’t talk so much about being saved; they talk about being saved out there in the future,” explains Richard Jordan.

“For Israel, the high percent of time the Bible talks about salvation, such as, ‘He that endures to the end SHALL be saved,’ it’s talking about salvation at the COMING of Christ—a future issue and not a present possession at that moment.

“The reason there are verses in the Bible that indicate you can lose your salvation is because in Israel, they had this physical program people could counterfeit, and the whole satanic program is to counterfeit the real thing.

“I John, for one, is written so people wouldn’t be seduced into being the counterfeit, but would be able to believe and be the real deal.

“I John gives Israel all the information they need to know so as not to be seduced by the Lie program. Not only did God put it in a Book, but He wrote it in their hearts, so that they not only knew better, they could do nothing but better if they were really born of God.

“So the ones who followed the Lie and went out, what was there problem? They weren’t really born of God, but who could tell by looking at them or listening to them? Nobody, because they could ‘fake it ’til you make it.’ That’s why God sends the strong delusion--so they would ultimately identify themselves as the rebels and be purged out.

“That’s why you read all the passages in the Hebrew epistles and Hebrew writings about people losing their salvation. It’s because they're able to outwardly demonstrate one thing and have a heart attitude of another. And it’s why He says that they who ‘endure to the end shall be saved.’ "

*****

In revealing God’s future intentions for the wicked through Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, Daniel writes about the stone “cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold.”

“What the mountain represents is God destroying the Gentile nations and setting up His kingdom to run the earth. In Scripture, a mountain often is a metaphor for a kingdom and it’s that way in Micah.

“In Zechariah, you see it again and it’s one of those symbols used to try to tie things together throughout the Scripture.

"So when Micah writes, ‘But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it,’ he’s talking about how God’s going to establish a kingdom that’s going to be the top kingdom of all the world.

“That’s why God promises in Micah 4:7-8, ‘And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
[8] And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.’

“The last thing God says, in verse 13, is [13] Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

“Messiah is going to be the king of kings and his kingdom is going to be exalted above all the other kingdoms, and all the earth is going to flow, come to Him for blessings.

“Verse 2 describes what the kingdom is going to be like; the extent of it. ‘[2] And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

“You have a political kingdom headquartered in Jerusalem where the Word of God comes out because the Messiah is not simply a king; He’s a priest sitting on the throne. He’s the Savior, He’s the Redeemer and He will teach us of His ways and we will walk in His paths for the law shall go forth out of Zion.

*****

“Imagine somebody saying that passage is about the gospel going around the world! That’s the way you hear that verse taught all the time!

"Is the gospel of grace the law? No. Again, that’s how you get the Galatianism; that mixing of law and grace everywhere you go. It comes from trying to take a verse like this and make it into something it’s not!

“But it’s going to be a universal kingdom. Isaiah 11 says the knowledge of God will cover the earth as the water covers the sea. It’s going to be a day when the Word of God is taken to the nations and the nations are open to it.

“When you read about the Messiah judging, He doesn’t judge with His eye. As He sits on that throne, He judges impartially, and it’s going to be a kingdom of righteous judgment. We live in world today where that doesn’t exist much.

“Think of the kid the alligator took off with from the Disney property. The salvation for that is not getting a gun or running somebody out of town.

“There’s a billboard, ‘Cain killed Abel with a rock.’ The problem is not guns; it’s a heart problem.

"The characteristic of Christ’s kingdom is one that gets rid of all the turmoil. It’s going to bring peace. The first thing going to be done is eliminating all the violence, including the cultural violence.

“As Isaiah 2:4 says, ‘And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.’

“Think again about the kid snatched by the alligator. Isaiah 11:6 says that in that day, ‘The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.’

*****

“I saw a thing on the news this week about how in India they arrested eight lions and were charging them with endangering human life, and they were going to have a trial and see if they should execute them. What?!

“I mean, that’s an instinctive thing. An alligator sees a little dog on the side of the water, or a child-- they don’t know what it is. They’re doing what they do naturally.

“People talk about how wonderful nature is. You know where Darwin got his idea of the survival of the fittest? Watching nature.

“You know how nature operates? It’s the survival of the fittest. It’s when you get among humans that that rule goes out.

“In all of creation, all of nature . . . you start with the ants, a little bug down on the ground, up to the biggest mammal, it’s the survival of the fittest, and when you’re weak, they take advantage of you. All that will go away. There will be peace even in the creation.

“Like Isaiah 11 says, [7] And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
[8] And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
[9] They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

“In Acts 3, Peter talks about ‘the time of restitution of all things’—that’s what we’re talking about! When the Bible talks about the kingdom Jesus Christ is going to set up, it’s not talking about some ethereal, mystical, Utopian idea that we seek for, hope for, want to have happen but don’t really have much prospect of it happening.

“The Bible’s talking about a real, literal, physical, visible, transformation on this planet where the curse of sin is removed and all nations are united together under one head in peace and harmony. It’s going to be a time of great prosperity.”