By J.Farrell Fisher, Jan.17-18, 2017

A “reject” in our modern day? For some, a “reject” is someone that should just be thrown away, because, in a sick society’s opinion that ‘person’ is unqualified, even for life, and should be discarded, useless to the ‘public good’, unsatisfactory when evaluated by the ‘super smart,’ ‘highly qualified’, or ‘self-sainted’ and certainly able to discern a “reject’s” usefulness to an elite society or not!

Some who become ‘judge and jury’ of a society’s ‘qualifications’ for admittance are certainly adept, professional, and determined not to have anything to do with the “low-lifes,” the “outsiders,” the “uneducated,” the “visibly weak and insignificant”, the “foreigners” to a society’s usefulness in making a nation great, and certainly determined that “these have no part with us”!

And, sadly, my question is: “Does it ever happen in church life that there comes a place in a church’s ministry when “life’s rejects” should be rejected and utmost care given to who it is one gives his/their attention to”?

But be assured of one thing: In the darkest shadows of human existence, Holy God has His eyes on the “least” a modern-day society or “self-serving ‘church’” thinks ‘worthy’ or ‘needy’ of their time, consideration, or witness, because “God so loved the world that He gave His own Son” for their redemption, reconciliation, re-birth, and eternal ‘rest’ in the Holy Family of God!

There’s a quote in Acts 2:21 from Joel when Peter said: “And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved” (delivered, escaped, freed)!” But today, some refuse ‘ministry’ to rejects?

I don’t know if you’ve sensed it or not in your reading of the Bible, but even Christ Jesus, THE ONLY LORD AND SAVIOR of all mankind – there is no other Redeemer – is considered by many, religious or not, as a “reject” worthy only of the Cross! In Acts 2:22-25 Peter preached to “the men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem,” ( and ultimately Holy God extended that message to all of Israel and to every corner of the globe!), Peter declaring, “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know – Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; WHOM GOD RAISED UP, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.”

Question. Do you see it, as Christ Jesus was taken by, yes, ‘lawless hands’ and crucified by them, that those who crucified Him were a part of the whole of fallen humanity who needed blood redemption? “God so loved the world!” Even a world of “lawless hands”, ‘religious activity professionals’, the ‘mockers’, lives enslaved to the old sin nature that separates them from God, the promiscuous, the profane, the perverted? “There’s hope for them?” Absolutely!

But in the midst of a “fallen-away world” from Holy God you find ‘life’ primed by self-importance over Sovereign-intent, ‘flesh’s finest’ in place of the fullness of redemptive faith, passionate indulgences in the place of Prince of Peace birthing and blessing, the ‘preyed-on’ by the powers of darkness rather than the ‘prayed-over’ by the conquering King of liberty and freedom from sin’s chains and bondage, internally in the heart satisfied with their ‘self-importance’ more than eternally joined by repentance and faith to the King of kings and Lord of lords!

And, I speak of the ‘good folks’, decent but deceived, productive but paralyzed spiritually, warped in the ‘spirit-realm’ but ‘winsome’ in a sinful society, marred but adaptable, playful but perverted in a ‘people’s world’ of pleasures and perversions and ‘pass-times’ that have forgotten Holy God and majored on the promotion of “satisfying the flesh’!

I’ve often wondered and, yes, examined if what took place in ‘religious’ Israel has any significance of ‘modern-day’ participants as they attempt to adapt their world, their flesh, AND their devil to a ‘desire’ to be a part of God’s family at the same time.

If you were to examine Ezekiel 36 you’d find a true picture of ‘old religious devotees’ and, yes, the true hope of “new covenant blessings”! In Verses 22-27 we find an awesome picture of loving God’s eternal intent! It says, God speaking through Ezekiel to us in the 21^st Century: Therefore say to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God: ‘I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went. And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord,’ says the Lord God, ‘when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.”

[Would it be important to examine what it means to “profane God’s holy name among the nations”? What is one’s ‘filthiness’ or one’s devotion to idols? And do you grasp and understand “hearts of stone”?]

And one does that knowing also that Holy God declared in Ezekiel 36:26-27, which I want to repeat: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.” Life’s ‘rejects’ received, beginning the journey of ‘royalty’ in the Holy Family of God and found faithful because of the Spirit God puts within us!

LIFE’S REJECTS RECEIVED? Let’s look to John 4 where Holy God unveils the receiving of life’s rejects! It doesn’t take long there to see and sense Holy God’s overseeing and, yes, His determination of one who NEEDS Him! It’s about a Samaritan woman who meets Christ Jesus! What thrills and touches my heart and mind so deeply? John 4:4 states, “But He (Christ Jesus) needed to go through Samaria.”

What was “the need”? What was pressing in on His spirit to ‘go through an area that most Jews considered being defiled by one’s presence there’? Does ministry to the ‘unclean’, the ‘foul’, the ‘dirty’, the ‘polluted,’ the ‘tainted’ automatically corrupt the true saints of God? That thought is so foreign to the nature, the character, the eternal intent of Holy God! “God so loved the world that He gave His Son” to come and rescue the rejects! That has never changed and has stood even before the world was formed and man had been created!

It was Bernard Iddings Bell in his writing “Argosy” who said: “I should like to see Christian leaders disregard their timid followers and, like Francis of Assisi or John Wesley, go out of the church buildings, shake the dust of denominationalism from impatient feet, and appeal to the folks generally. Americans will listen to religion if and when it claims to have relationship to real life. Let the churches recognize that their job is not to nurture the pious nearly so much as it is to rouse, convict of sin, convert, a pagan nation.” Amen?

But notice in Verse 7 of John 4 that a ‘woman of Samaria’ came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” The Samaritan woman said to Jesus in Verse 9, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

Verse 10, Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” She’s dumbfounded! She responded in Verse 11, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?” In Verse 13 Jesus said to her, “Whoever drinks of this (well) water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” She said to Jesus in Verse 15, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to drink.” Verse 16? Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” Verse 17, The woman answered Him and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ for Verse 18, you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

The ‘religious defense’ is intensified as the woman, in Verses 19-20 said to Jesus, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” Jesus then said to her in Verses 21-24,

“Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.” This woman at least professed an awareness of the “Messiah coming (who is called Christ). When He comes, He will tell us all things.” Jesus then said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” She “rested” in Christ and became a “rest-teller”!

Life’s rejects received? It’s so interesting to me, and heart and mind gripping, when I come to John 5 and see Jesus going up to Jerusalem. He went to a pool that had five porches. John 5:3 says, “In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.” [Are there ‘porches’ today where ‘sick people’ scurry about hoping for a ‘stirring’ and ‘healing’ of what ails them?].

John 5:5 says, “Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. WHEN JESUS SAW HIM LYING THERE, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, Jesus said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” What a question! But so legitimate because many settle in to what a ‘fleshly life’ offers and have no ambition for “healing grace and mercy”! In Philip Bennett Power’s book, “The ‘I Wills’ of Christ”, [The Banner of Truth Trust, 1984,pps.51-52], Power spoke of “the one great truth that is all powerful everywhere,” then sharing , “There was once a caravan crossing to the north of India, and numbering in its company a godly and devoted missionary. As it passed along, a poor old man was overcome by the heat and labours of the journey, and sinking down was left to perish on the road. The missionary saw him, and kneeling down at his side, when the rest had passed along, whispered into his ear, “Brother, what is your hope?” The dying man raised himself a little to reply, and with a great effort succeeded in answering, “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin!” and immediately expired with the effort. The missionary was greatly astonished at the answer, and in the calm and peaceful appearance of the man, he felt assured he had died in Christ. How, or where, he thought, could this man, seemingly a heathen, have got this hope? And as he thought of it, he observed a piece of paper grasped tightly in the hand of the corpse, which he succeeded in getting out. What do you think was his surprise and delight, when he found it was a single leaf of the Bible, containing the first chapter of the first Epistle of John, in which these words occur! On that page the man had found the gospel.” “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin!” Has He cleansed you?

Do you grasp it, rest in it, rely upon it? In Christ, one is translated, by faith, from darkness into Eternal Light, from bondage to liberty, from sin to sanctification, from ‘flesh-realm’ to the “Spirit-world”, from chains of Satanic bondage to the freedom of the character and nature of Christ, from a world of the flesh and hellish existence to the kingdom of the Spirit and heavenly blessings now and forever, from a consciousness of sin-bondage to an abiding confidence in His presence within the repentant heart, and the true recipient of His pleasure, and power! I close with Jesus’ words in John 6:51-58, and notice, Jesus said these things in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum!

Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven – not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.” Reject, renegade, or re-born?

By: J.Farrell Fisher, AUGUST 16-18, 2017

I know, after college and seminary training, that in church life there are “pastors” who are called, trained, and equipped in that ministry, but I also truly believe that every “born-again disciple” also has a pastoral ministry, whether in family, in social relationships, in school training, in neighborhood outreach, or in the business world.

Some say, “I’m trusting God,” when in reality they are “trusting” what their ‘flesh’ is dictating but with a “spiritual twist”, which is them deciding for themselves “how best I can please God”! They ‘trust’ their wits rather than His wisdom, their “best” which Christ crucified with their “worst”, rather than “Christ in me, my hope of glory”; they ‘trust’ what ‘fleshly men’ inspire within them rather than “guided by the Holy Spirit.”

But, sadly, ‘flesh’ sees ‘dead to one’s self’ to be a ‘hell of renunciation’ because of the all-consuming passion of doing what the ‘flesh’ dictates rather than what God “gifts” through the Holy Spirit! When it comes to ‘life significance, life purpose, life ministry’, it is never resolved through the personal self and one’s own wits, but in the secret chambers of the soul and heart that chooses only to serve on the marching orders of Holy God! “Lord, what would YOU have me to do?”

And be assured, ‘life ministry’ is never resolved in the light of one’s conscience, but in hearing, receiving, and walking in the words of the lips of Jesus as He tells you what He wants you to do.

There is a powerful passage of Scripture related to our subject found in Luke 18:18-27. It says: Now a certain ruler asked Jesus, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal’, ‘Do not bear false witness’, ‘Honor your father and your mother.’” And he said, “All these things I have kept from my youth.” So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him,

“You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But when he heard this, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.

And when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, He said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” And those who heard it said, “Who then can be saved?” But He said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

Then Peter said, “See, we have left all and followed You.” So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life.”

If the Lord Jesus says, “Come, follow Me”, and He has, the question for you and me today, right now, is: “Have I forsaken all to see that the eternal will of God in Christ is being manifested in this day and time in my life and family, “leaning not to my own understanding, but in my present walk through life giving Jesus His rightful place as Savior, Lord, and Administrator of my position in the, yes, PRESENT KINGDOM OF GOD?”

I was reading an E-Mail recently from Rev. Pierre Bynum as he introduced John 13:35, “By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you love one another,” and he wrote to his “Praying Friends,” the following: Norman Grubb (1895-1993), British missionary, writer, and Bible teacher, wrote dozens of books, including:… “Howells was a Welsh coal miner who founded a Bible college and taught his students to pray. When the clouds of World War 11 gathered over Europe, Rees led his students in prayer over the Allied and Nazi air, naval, and land troop movements. These excerpts highlight their prayers that contributed to the Miracle at Dunkirk:

‘During the four years, previous to the outbreak of World War 11…the Lord was changing the burden on Mr. Howells from local concerns, centering on the development of the College, to national and international affairs. As he said, ‘The world became our parish and we were led to be responsible to intercede for countries and nations.’ We have also seen how the Lord was preparing in the company at the College a special instrument of intercession for the coming world crisis…

It was in March, 1936, that Mr. Howells began to see clearly that Hitler was Satan’s agent for preventing the gospel going to every creature. As he said later, “In fighting Hitler we have always said that we were not up against man, but the devil…

On the day of the declaration of war, he published the following statement: “The Lord has made known to us that He is going to destroy Hitler and the Nazi regime, that the world may know that it was God and God alone who has scattered the dictators..He will deal with the Nazis as He dealt with the Egyptian army in the time of Moses, God will cause Hitler to fall…!” AND HITLER FELL!

Life’s ‘wars’ today involve YOU, and YOUR victory in the world, flesh, and Satanic attacks, and I have no desire to minimize those wars at all, but to challenge you that just as Holy God dealt with Hitler, He still desires to be your Conqueror over the battle-fronts you face! And YOUR response? “Lord, what would You have me to do?” Or, I’m sure more consistent with Scriptural intent: “Lord, I need You, I surrender to Your Presence within me – in and of myself, I’m hopeless, but You in me, for me, through me, ARE MORE THAN CONQUEROR!”

Again, Luke 18:27, Jesus said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” Then, in Verse 29, Jesus said to His disciples then and NOW, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life.”

And, for you in your walk “for the sake of the kingdom of God”, I want YOU to examine YOUR calling relating to “Pastoring, Discipling, Evangelizing, Equipping, and Reflecting Christ Jesus.”

FIRST, IN THE “PASTOR’S CALLING”, UNDERSTAND THAT I’M NOT SPEAKING OF LEGITIMATE PASTORS OF LOCAL CONGREGATIONS, BUT OF SERVANTS OF CHRIST SET APART FOR THE CARE, SPIRITUALLY, OF A COMMUNITY OF THOSE THEY’VE PERSONALLY BROUGHT TO FAITH IN CHRIST !

In Matthew 5 Jesus began to equip His disciples in “Kingdom Character”! And following those first eleven verses, Jesus then said: Verse 13, “You, disciples, are the SALT of the earth…Verse 14, You are the light of the world…Verse 16, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” Oh, and then Christ Jesus “nailed” the pretenders when in Matthew 5:20 He said, “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” IS THAT CLEAR TO YOU! Paul followed, in Romans 14:17, saying, “For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” [Would it shock you that the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven are one and the same?].

And the “Pastor’s Calling”, true born again disciples, born of the Spirit and the Word, are commissioned by Christ as, yes, His caretakers, overseers, messengers to the citizens around them of His desire to see them living in His Kingdom now! Do you just, maybe, might consider what Paul was saying when and what he said in Acts 26:22-23 that it has no relevance, meaning, or understanding to any ‘true’ disciples today? “Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come – that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”

What did Jesus say in Matthew 28:18-20? “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen?

In fact, before His Ascension, in Acts 1:8 Jesus said in Acts 1:8, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” And that’s individually to our personal limitations or callings bodily, but corporately together united in “mission outreach”, we have responsibility to the ends of the earth! When a ‘pastor’ never mentions evangelism and missions locally, nation-wide, and world-wide, well, you’re in a dangerous place!

SECOND, ONCE CONVERTED, EQUIPPED, AND TRAINED, ALL PASTORS, CHURCHES, AND, YES, INDIVIDUAL DISCIPLES ARE TO SEE THAT THE “NEW-BORN” ARE EQUIPPED, TRAINED, AND DISCIPLED! Interesting verse in Colossians 4:1 when Paul wrote: “Masters, (Introducers of the “lost” to “servant-hood” in Christ!), give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven,” to Whom I believe all disciples MUST give an account of their “equipping ministries” of those that they lead to faith in Christ!

It’s so similar to mothers and fathers in the natural who, having given birth, have the responsibility of caring, nourishing, feeding, cleaning and changing “messy diapers, guarding, teaching, training, and equipping, yes, children, with the necessities of a God-honoring life of growth and glory in Him!

“Making, equipping, training, preparing” new Christians is a holy and high calling, not only to pastors and assemblies, but especially the “spiritual fathers and mothers” who “plant the seeds” and witness the miracles of “new birth”!

THIRD, AND THE “NEW-BORN”, PERSONALLY TRAINED AND EQUIPPED, ARE TO BE MOTIVATED BY, ENCOURAGED IN, AND CONSTANTLY SEEKING TO BROADEN THE “HORIZONS” OF THEIR OPPORTUNITIES TO BE WITNESSES and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For each one shall bear his own load.”! It begins in the personal heart, of having met Christ and repented, to be fully trained in personal growth, but, at the same time, instilled with the calling personally, “You shall be My witnesses, My ambassadors, My messengers to all the needy around you.”

But, I often wonder how many ‘Christians’, in their redemption, see their present positioning as the opportunity of extending Christ’s presence to others, knocking on their hearts’ doors, and challenging them to follow Christ who loves them more than they love themselves!

In 2 Corinthians 13:5-6 Paul wrote: “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? – unless indeed you are disqualified. But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.”

Paul wrote in Galatians 6:2-5 “Bear one another’s burdens (how ‘burdening’ to do you find in the lost conditions of those around you? Does it really concern you? And do you DO something about it?), and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For each one shall bear his own load.”

FOURTH, THERE IS THE AWESOME RESPONSIBILITY OF DAILY TAKING THE SENTENCE OF DEATH UNTO ONE’S SELF SO THAT CHRIST MAY BE MANIFESTED IN THEM AND THROUGH THEM! Sad to say, I don’t know if much training and equipping takes place today about “the redeemed life unveiling Christ through them, and them taking personal responsibility, like Paul, “I die daily”, so that His resurrection Life may be manifested in and through my mortal flesh”. You “in Christ” are the temple or tabernacle, but “Christ in you is the hope of glory”!

Some ask about certain Christian friends apart from examining themselves, “Is Christ truly living within them?” It was Oswald Chambers who wrote: “The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.” Choose to die daily to self, to the old sin-natured man, until the perfect presence of Christ finds full expression in YOU! We who are “in Christ” have nothing to boast about EXCEPT “CHRIST IN US” – and by dying daily to our old man, Christ is being honored as He expresses Himself through us!

In Bill Johnson’s book, “The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind”, (Published By “Destiny Image Publishers, Inc., PO Box 310, Shippensburg, Pa. 17257-0310), Pastor Bill wrote in his Introduction: “This book is an attempt to address a very abused subject – “the mind of the believer”. On one hand the mind has been cast off by some creating a mindless gospel that is emotionalism at best, and cultic at worst. They delight themselves in doing things without reason, thinking that only then is God pleased by their great faith. On the other hand there are those who have elevated the mind above its rightful place, creating gospel that has reduced God to the powerless image of man. This group lives in the illusion that they are spiritually safe because they only accept the things they understand, raising cultural Christianity to an elite status. They unknowingly embrace the very deception they hoped to avoid. The challenge before us is to give ourselves completely to the full purpose of God for the mind of man through the model Jesus gave us, thereby giving us access to His supernatural life style.”

Isn’t that Paul’s scriptural explanation in 2 Corinthians 1:9-10 when he wrote: “Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and (still) does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us…”, unless, or, of course, you no longer CHOOSE to live by His Indwelling Life because your world, your flesh, and your demon desires the ‘flesh existence’ rather than the “Overcoming Life of Christ”! Are YOU living the life “Reflecting Christ’s Presence” or the ‘thankless life’ that no longer has any desire, discipline, or determination to “live by the Life of Another, even Christ alone”? Is your present life of faith a life with the “living epistle written in your heart, known and read by all men”, written “not with ink but written by the Spirit of the living God” firmly inscribed in your heart, mind, and body? It’s time, my friend, BEFORE the end of your earthly time comes. And, remember, it’s Hell or Heaven, unbelievers bound or believers blessed, Satan’s chains or the Savior’s freedom! It’s time to settle your present and eternal “residence” in Christ or Satan! Amen?