“BLAZING BULLETS, WILD WORDS,
& MINDFUL, SINFUL INDULGENCES!!”
BY:J.FARRELL FISHER, MAY 28-29,2019
INTERESTING WORDS IN 2 TIMOTHY 2:24-26 WHERE PAUL WROTE TO HIS YOUNG DISCIPLE,SAYING, “AND THE SERVANT OF THE LORD MUST NOT STRIVE; BUT BE GENTLE UNTO ALL MEN, APT TO TEACH, PATIENT, ‘IN MEEKNESS’ INSTRUCTING THOSE THAT OPPOSE THEMSELVES; IF GOD PERADVENTURE WILL GIVE THEM,REPENTANCE TO THE ACKNOWLEDGING OF THE TRUTH; AND THAT THEY MAY RECOVER THEMSELVES OUT OF THE SNARE OF THE DEVIL, WHO ARE TAKEN CAPTAIN BY HIM AT HIS WILL.” HOW SAD BUT SURE! “INSTRUCTING THOSE THAT OPPOSE THEMSELVES”? AND, WITH GOD’S HELP, “THEY MAY RECOVER THEMSELVES OUT OF THE SNARE OF THE DEVIL”? OH, & HAVING BEEN “TAKEN CAPTIVE BY SATAN AT HIS WILL”?
TO THE CHURCH AT CORINTH PAUL ALSO WROTE, SAYING, 2 CORINTHIANS 11:3, “BUT I FEAR, LEST BY ANY MEANS, AS THE SERPENT BEGUILED EVE THROUGH HIS SUBTILTY, SO YOUR MINDS SHOULD BE CORRUPTED FROM THE SIMPLICITY THAT IS IN CHRIST.” AND TO THAT SPIRITUAL SON, TIMOTHY, AGAIN, IN 2 TIMOTHY 2:24-26, PAUL COMPASSIONATELY WROTE TO HIM, SAYING, “AND THE SERVANT OF THE LORD MUST NOT STRIVE; BUT BE GENTLE UNTO ALL MEN, APT TO TEACH, PATIENT, IN MEEKNESS INSTRUCTING THOSE ‘THAT OPPOSE THEMSELVES’; IF GOD PERADVENTURE WILL GIVE THEM REPENTANCE TO THE ACKNOWLEDGING OF THE TRUTH; & THAT THEY MAY RECOVER THEMSELVES OUT OF THE SNARE OF THE DEVIL, WHO ARE TAKEN CAPTIVE BY HIM AT HIS WILL.”
AND IF ONE LIVES ‘ENJOYING’ “BLAZING BULLETS, WILD WORDS, & MINDFUL, SINFUL INDULGENCES”, ONLY BY THE DEEP, DEEP CONVICTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ONE CONVICTED, CONVINCED, & COMMITTED TO TURN TO THE COMPASSIONATE SAVIOR & LORD WHO WAS, IS, & FOREVER WILL BE THE CONQUEROR OVER THE LAW OF SIN & DEATH AUTHORED BY SATAN! IN 2 TIMOTHY 3:1-7 PAUL, CONFRONTING THE ‘SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS OF MANY RELIGIOUS JEWS’, WROTE: “THIS KNOW ALSO, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS (LAST DAYS OF HISTORIC JUDAISM BLINDED TO THE PROMISED MESSIAH”(?),PERILOUS TIMES SHALL COME (70AD?), FOR MEN SHALL BE LOVERS OF THEIR OWN SELVES (HASN’T CHANGED MUCH, HAS IT?), COVETOUS, BOASTERS, PROUD, BLASPHEMERS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION, TRUCEBREAKERS, FALSE ACCUSERS, INCONTINENT, FIERCE, DESPISERS OF THOSE THAT ARE GOOD, TRAITORS, HEADY, HIGHMINDED, LOVERS OF PLEASURES MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD;
HAVING A ‘FORM OF GODLINESS’, BUT DENYING ITS POWER; FROM SUCH TURN AWAY. FOR OF THIS SORT ARE THEY WHICH CREEP INTO HOUSES, & LEAD CAPTIVE SILLY WOMEN LADEN WITH SINS, LED AWAY BY DIVERS LUSTS, EVER LEARNING, & NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE “TRUTH”.” HAVE YOU EVER READ FAITH FORSYTE’S WORDS IN HER “TIT-BITS”? “ADVERSITIES DO NOT MAKE THE MAN EITHER WEAK OR STRONG, BUT THEY REVEAL WHAT HE IS.” AND THAT’S EITHER “SELF-SUFFICIENT” OR FIRMLY CONVINCED OF THE NEED OF “TRUSTING” THE SAVIOR & DELIVERER FROM THE LAW OF SIN & DEATH!
OH, THEN ONE READS ISAIAH 30:20-26 WHERE THE LORD SAID, “AND THOUGH THE LORD GIVE YOU THE BREAD OF ADVERSITY, & THE WATER OF AFFLICTION,YET SHALL NOT YOUR TEACHERS BE REMOVED INTO A CORNER ANY MORE, BUT YOUR EYES SHALL SEE YOUR TEACHERS: & YOUR EARS SHALL HEAR A WORD BEHIND YOU, SAYING, THIS IS THE WAY, WALK YOU IN IT, WHEN YOU TURN TO THE RIGHT HAND, & WHEN YOU TURN TO THE LEFT. YOU SHALL DEFILE ALSO THE COVERING OF YOUR GRAVEN IMAGES (YOUR PERSONAL IDOLS THAT YOU BOW TO!) OF SILVER, & THE ORNAMENT OF YOUR MOLTEN IMAGES OF GOLD; YOU SHALL CAST THEM AWAY AS A MENSTROUS CLOTH; YOU SHALL SAY UNTO IT, GET YOU HENCE.
THEN SHALL HE GIVE YOU THE RAIN OF YOUR SEED, THAT YOU SHALL SOW THE GROUND WITHAL; & BREAD OF THE INCREASE OF THE EARTH, & IT SHALL BE FAT & PLENTEOUS; IN THAT DAY SHALL YOUR CATTLE FEED IN LARGE PASTURES. THE OXEN LIKEWISE & THE YOUNG ASSES THAT EAR THE GROUND SHALL EAT CLEAN PROVENDER (DIVINE SUPPLIES!), WHICH HAS BEEN WINNOWED WITH THE SHOVEL & THE FAN. AND THERE SHALL BE UPON EVERY HIGH MOUNTAIN, & UPON EVERY HIGH HILL, RIVERS & STREAMS OF WATERS IN THE DAY OF THE GREAT SLAUGHTER, WHEN THE TOWERS FALL. (JUDGMENT FROM HOLY GOD HAS,DOES, & WILL COME AGAIN!). MOREOVER THE LIGHT OF THE MOON SHALL BE AS THE LIGHT OF THE SUN, & THE LIGHT OF THE SUN SHALL BE SEVENFOLD, AS THE LIGHT OF SEVEN DAYS, IN THE DAY THAT THE LORD BINDS UP THE BREACH OF HIS PEOPLE, & HEALS THE STROKE OF THEIR WOUND.”
THE ‘STROKE OF THEIR WOUND’? HOW ABOUT “THE LAW OF SIN & DEATH”? AND ‘PHYSICAL MAN’, UNBELIEVING, INDEPENDENT OF GOD & HIS BIBLICAL TRUTHS, BLINDED TO THE LOVE, GRACE, & MERCY OF GOD, WILL,HAS, DOES REJECT ANY REVELATIONAL TRUTH THAT SAYS: “YOU, SIR, NEED THE SAVIOR & LORD & MASTER OVER YOUR SIN-NATURE & YOUR SPIRITUAL DILEMMA!” AND, AGAIN, “THE LORD GIVES “YOU” THE ‘BREAD OF ADVERSITY & THE WATER OF AFFLICTION?” THAT, MY FRIEND, IS A ‘BLAZING BULLET’, AIMED AT YOUR DECEIVED MIND & BLACKENED HEART, TO LEAD “YOU” TO CRY OUT FOR THE MERCY & GRACE OF LOVING GOD WHO IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT HE LONGS FOR ALL TO COME IN REPENTANCE & FAITH, “TRUSTING” IN THE LAMB’S SHED BLOOD & HIS VICTORIOUS “RESURRECTION”, GOD BEING AVAILABLE TO ANY REPENTANT SOUL & TRUSTING MIND & HEART!! IT WAS SENECA, IN HIS WRITING, “DE PROVIDENTIA”,V, THAT WROTE: “GOLD IS TRIED IN FIRE, & ACCEPTABLE MEN IN THE FURNACE OF ADVERSITY.”
IN 1 SAMUEL 2:2-9 WE READ, “THERE IS NONE HOLY AS THE LORD; FOR THERE IS NONE BESIDE “YOU, LORD”, NEITHER IS THERE ANY “ROCK” LIKE OUR GOD. TALK NO MORE SO EXCEEDINGLY PROUD; LET NOT ARROGANCE COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH; FOR THE LORD IS A GOD OF KNOWLEDGE, & BY HIM ACTIONS ARE WEIGHED (‘WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES, & FOUND WANTING’?). THE BOWS OF THE MIGHTY MEN ARE BROKEN, & THEY THAT STUMBLED ARE GIRDED WITH STRENGTH. THEY THAT WERE FULL HAVE HIRED OUT THEMSELVES FOR BREAD; & THEY THAT WERE HUNGRY CEASED; SO THAT THE BARREN HAS BORN SEVEN; & SHE THAT HAS MANY CHILDREN ARE WAXED FEEBLE.
THE LORD KILLS, & MAKES ALIVE; HE BRINGS DOWN TO THE GRAVE, & HE RAISES UP. THE LORD MAKES POOR, & HE MAKES RICH; HE BRINGS LOW, & HE LIFTS UP. HE RAISES UP THE POOR OUT OF THE DUST, & LIFTS UP THE BEGGAR FROM THE DUNGHILL, TO SET THEM AMONG PRINCES, & TO MAKE THEM INHERIT THE THRONE OF GLORY: FOR THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH ARE THE LORD’S, & HE HAS SET THE WORLD UPON THEM. HE WILL KEEP THE FEET OF HIS SAINTS, & THE WICKED SHALL BE SILENT IN DARKNESS; FOR BY (‘FLESHLY’) STRENGTH SHALL NO MAN PREVAIL.” WHAT A SOLEMN, SERIOUS, SEPARATING, OR SECURING BY HOLY GOD!
OH, HOW WISE WAS KING DAVID, AS THE HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRED HIM TO WRITE PSALM 119:67-80!! HE SAID: “BEFORE I WAS AFFLICTED I WENT ASTRAY: BUT NOW I HAVE KEPT YOU WORD, OH GOD. YOU ARE GOOD, & YOU DO GOOD; TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES. THE PROUD HAVE FORGED A LIE AGAINST ME: BUT I HAVE “KEPT YOUR WORD, YOUR PRECEPTS, WITH MY WHOLE HEART. THEIR HEART IS AS FAT AS GREASE; BUT I DELIGHT IN YOUR LAW ( OR GOD’S HOLY WORD!). IT IS GOOD FOR ME THAT I HAVE BEEN AFFLICTED (CHASTENED, ADVERSELY IMPACTED BY THE SERIOUSNESS OF ONE’S OLD SIN-NATURE!); THAT I MIGHT LEARN YOUR STATUTES. THE LAW OF YOUR MOUTH, GOD, IS BETTER TO ME THAN THOUSANDS OF GOLD & SILVER.
YOUR HANDS HAVE MADE & FASHIONED ME (WITH A RIGHT TO CHOOSE ‘ALLEGIANCE TO SELF’ OR “ALL-OUT ALLEGIANCE TO GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, & GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE BLESSED ‘THREE IN ONE’.”).GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, THAT I MAY LEARN YOUR COMMANDMENTS. THEY THAT FEAR YOU WILL BE GLAD WHEN THEY SEE ME: GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, THAT I MAY LEARN YOUR COMMANDMENTS. THEY THAT FEAR YOU WILL BE GLAD WHEN THEY SEE ME; BECAUSE I HAVE HOPED IN YOUR WORD.
I KNOW, O LORD, THAT YOUR JUDGMENTS ARE RIGHT, & THAT YOU IN FAITHFULNESS HAVE AFFLICTED ME. ( NO UNAFFLICTED MAN HAS EVER SOUGHT HOLY GOD ON HIS OWN!). LET, I PRAY YOU, YOUR MERCIFUL KINDNESS BE FOR MY COMFORT, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD UNTO YOUR SERVANT. LET YOUR TENDER MERCIES COME UNTO ME, THAT I MAY (TRULY) LIVE; FOR YOUR LAW (OR YOUR WORD) IS MY DELIGHT. LET THE ‘PROUD’ BE ASHAMED; FOR THEY DEALT PERVERSELY WITH ME WITHOUT A CAUSE: BUT I WILL (CONTINUALLY) MEDITATE UPON YOUR PRECEPTS. LET THOSE THAT FEAR YOU TURN UNTO ME, & THOSE THAT HAVE KNOWN YOUR TESTIMONIES. LET MY HEART BE SOUND IN YOUR STATUTES; THAT I BE NOT ASHAMED.” (I DATED VERSE 80, JAN.4,1983!).
IS THERE A “PASSION” IN YOU TO KNOW HOW TO BE RECONCILED TO GOD, HOW TO LIVE THE “OVERCOMING LIFE OVER SIN, SATAN, & A REBELLIOUS WORLD”? WHEN MOSES CONFRONTED ‘RELIGIOUS ISRAEL’, IN DEUTERONOMY 32:28-29, HE SAID: “FOR THIS IS A NATION VOID OF COUNSEL, NEITHER IS THERE ANY UNDERSTANDING IN THEM. O THAT THEY WERE WISE, THAT THEY UNDERSTOOD THIS, THAT THEY WOULD CONSIDER THEIR LATTER END.”
TELL ME ABOUT “YOUR” ‘CONSIDERATION OF YOUR LATTER END’! THERE IS ONE: THE WORLD, THE OLD SIN-NATURE, OR SATAN’S DISGRACEFUL REFUSAL TO TURN TO CHRIST;SO, HE LED CHRIST’S CRUCIFIXION, AS WELL AS THE “DECEIVED CROWD OF JUDAISM THAT HAD NO ROOM FOR CHRIST JESUS”!! YOUR LATTER END? THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS OR THE KINGDOM OF “LIGHT”? THE KINGDOM OF SELF-RULE OR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF HOLY GOD? THE KINGDOM OF SATANIC INFILTRATION OR THE KINGDOM OF THE SAVIOR’S REIGN, HIS BLESSING, & HIS ETERNAL PRESENCE THROUGH YOUR GRAVE TO “FOOT-WASHING” OF THE FEET OF JESUS AS HE SITS ON HIS ETERNAL THRONE?!?
IT WAS GARDINER SPRING WHO WAS QUOTED IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS QUOTATIONS, (EDITED BY FRANK S. MEAD IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA PUBLISHED BY FLEMING H.REVELL COMPANY,P.378), WHO WROTE: “IT IS ONE THING TO MOURN FOR SIN BECAUSE IT EXPOSES US TO HELL, & ANOTHER TO MOURN FOR IT BECAUSE IT IS AN INFINITE EVIL; ONE THING TO MOURN FOR IT BECAUSE IT IS INJURIOUS TO OURSELVES, & ANOTHER THING TO MOURN FOR IT BECAUSE IT IS WRONG & OFFENSIVE TO GOD. IT IS ONE THING TO BE TERRIFIED; IT IS ANOTHER THING, TO BE HUMBLED.” & THAT’S “HUMBLED” BEFORE HOLY GOD!! DID YOU EVER READ ST. AUGUSTINE’S WORDS WHEN HE SAID: “IT WAS PRIDE THAT CHANGED ANGELS INTO DEVILS; IT IS HUMILITY THAT MAKES MEN AS ANGELS.” AND “ANGELS” WERE & ARE “MESSENGERS OF GOD”!!
ON THE NEWS TODAY I HEARD SOMEONE SPEAK ABOUT “THE CAPITALISM OF SOCIALISM”, & THOUGH THEY DIDN’T SAY IT, I KNEW THAT IT WAS, IS, & FOR A BIT LONGER WILL BE THE CONTINUING ‘ADAMIC-BIRTHING’ OF “NO NEED OF GOD”, BUT “CAPTURED DISCIPLES, BY THE CONVICTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT & HIS UNVEILING OF CHRIST AS THE “ONLY WAY, TRUTH, OR LIFE”, WE THEN LEARN THERE IS NO HEAVEN-INSPIRED BLESSING TO ONE’S LIFE APART FROM “BLOOD REDEMPTION” THROUGH CHRIST’S WILLING SACRIFICE ON THE CROSS – YOU NEVER CALL A NATION OR A PEOPLE OR A PERSON “GREAT” WHO IGNORES CHRIST JESUS’ KNOCK ON THEIR HEART’S DOOR!
1 JOHN 2:16 SAYS, “FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD, THE LUST OF THE FLESH, & THE LUST OF THE EYES, & THE PRIDE OF LIFE, IS NOT OF THE FATHER, BUT IS OF THE WORLD.” HOW MUCH CLEARER DID JESUS NEED TO BE WHEN YOU READ IN MATTHEW 16:26, “FOR WHAT IS A MAN PROFITED, IF HE SHALL GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, & LOSE HIS OWN SOUL? OR WHAT SHALL A MAN GIVE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS SOUL?”
“BLAZING BULLETS, WILD WORDS, & MINDFUL INDULGENCES”?? IN 1 JOHN 2:12-17, THE BELOVED JOHN, INSPIRED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, SO LOVINGLY CHALLENGES US ALL AS WE READ HIS WRITING! HE SAID, “I WRITE UNTO YOU, LITTLE CHILDREN, (AN 85-YEAR-OLD- MAN, SADLY, ARE OFTEN ‘LITTLE CHILDREN’ TRYING THEIR BEST!), BECAUSE YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN YOU FOR CHRIST’S NAME-SAKE. I WRITE UNTO YOU, FATHERS, BECAUSE YOU HAVE KNOWN “HIM” SINCE FROM THE BEGINNING. I WRITE UNTO YOU, YOUNG MEN, BECAUSE YOU HAVE OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE. I WRITE UNTO YOU, LITTLE CHILDREN, BECAUSE YOU HAVE KNOWN FATHER-GOD.
I HAVE WRITTEN UNTO YOU, FATHERS, BECAUSE YOU HAVE KNOWN HIM THAT IS FROM THE BEGINNING. I HAVE WRITTEN UNTO YOU, YOUNG MEN, BECAUSE YOU ARE STRONG, & THE WORD OF GOD ABIDES IN YOU, & YOU HAVE OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE. LOVE NOT THE WORLD, NEITHER THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE WORLD. IF ANY MAN LOVE THE WORLD, THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS NOT IN HIM. FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD, THE LUST OF THE FLESH, & THE LUST OF THE EYES, & THE (BOASTFUL) PRIDE OF LIFE, IS NOT OF THE FATHER, BUT IS OF THE WORLD. & THE WORLD PASSES AWAY, & THE LUST THEREOF: BUT HE THAT DOES THE WILL OF GOD ABIDES FOREVER.” IN THE “BROADMAN HYMNAL” OF 1940,PUBLISHED BY THE BROADMAN PRESS IN NASHVILLE, TENN., IS A HYMN BY H.F.LYTE & W.H.MONK THAT SAYS: (SUNG TO THE LORD HIMSELF!), “ABIDE WITH ME: FAST FALLS THE EVENTIDE; THE DARKNESS DEEPENS; LORD, WITH ME ABIDE; WHEN OTHER HELPERS FAIL, & COMFORTS FLEE, HELP OF THE HELPLESS, O, ABIDE WITH ME.
SWIFT TO ITS CLOSE EBBS OUT LIFE’S LITTLE DAY; EARTH’S JOYS GROW DIM, ITS GLORIES PASS AWAY; CHANGE & DECAY IN ALL AROUND I SEE; O, YOU WHO CHANGE NOT, ABIDE WITH ME!
I NEED YOUR PRESENCE EVERY PASSING HOUR: WHAT BUT YOUR GRACE CAN FOIL THE TEMPTER’S POWER? WHO LIKE YOURSELF MY GUIDE & STAY CAN BE? THROUGH CLOUD & SUNSHINE, O, ABIDE WITH ME!
HOLD YOU YOUR WORD BEFORE MY CLOSING EYES; SHINE THROUGH THE GLOOM, & POINT ME TO THE SKIES; HEAVEN’S MORNING BREAKS , & EARTH’S VAIN SHADOWS FLEE – IN LIFE, IN DEATH, O LORD, ABIDE WITH ME!” IS THAT YOUR FAITHFUL, TRUSTING HEART-CRY BEFORE HOLY GOD WHO KNOWS YOU THROUGH & THROUGH MUCH BETTER THAN YOU KNOW YOURSELF? IN THE OLD “THE BROADMAN HYMNAL”, PUBLISHED BY ‘THE BROADMAN PRESS’ IN NASHVILLE, TENN., IN 1940, IS A HYMN ENTITLED (P.82), “I SURRENDER ALL.” IT SAYS: “ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER, ALL TO HIM I FREELY GIVE; I WILL EVER LOVE & TRUST HIM, IN HIS PRESENCE DAILY LIVE.
ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER, HUMBLY AT HIS FEET I BOW; WORLDLY PLEASURES ALL FORSAKEN, TAKE ME, JESUS, TAKE ME NOW.
ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER, MAKE ME, SAVIOR, WHOOLY THINE; LET ME FEEL THE HOLY SPIRIT – TRULY KNOWING THAT YOU ARE MINE.
ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER, LORD, I GIVE MYSELF TO THEE; FILLME WITH YOUR LOVE & POWER, LET YOUR BLESSING FALL ON ME.I SURRENDER ALL, I SURRENDER ALL; ALL TO THEE,MY BLESSED SAVIOR,I SURRENDER ALL.” TRUE OF YOU?0