BY: J.FARRELL FISHER, OCTOBER 1-2, 2017

Try to imagine among fallen humanity, alienated and separated from Holy God and His eternal purpose for them, choosing to live as if Holy God didn’t exist! How long could that state of ‘life’ exist before it totally disintegrated or fell apart or came to a meaningless existence? Not very long, if at all!

Lawless living is no substitute for the blessing of the presence of God in one’s life! Willful living for ‘self’ alone IS “No Law – No Order”! Willful living for one’s ‘fleshly’ purpose alone is “godless existence” with eternal tragedy as its reward! If there is no law, if there is no order, whether in the universe or a life, there is no meaning for the universe or for one’s life purpose – but there is meaning, there is purpose! It’s why Holy God promised the coming of His Son to, yes, bring “the law of eternal love and Holy Purpose and Presence out of “disorder”!”

Do you remember Isaiah called by God to be a prophet? In Isaiah 6:1-3 the prophet wrote: “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!” But because of Satanic deception and godless living, “No Law – No Order” became daily darkness across the world and in the hearts and minds of deceived lives!

But, having encountered the Lord, something happened in Isaiah and he responded: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

Hear me! Because there is no law, because there is no order, unless Holy God manifests Himself to men, you and I would be in deep, deep trouble! In Isaiah 9:2 the prophet wrote: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.” Walkers in darkness? Dwellers in the land of the shadow of death? But, yes, the “hopeless in the shadow of death” have the grace and mercy of God “in Christ” unveiling to them “The True Light”!

Oh, and King Jesus revealed for Israel, for a needy, lost world the reality of “light” that exposes their existence and ours in a land of “no law and no order” which is spiritual darkness! In Matthew 5:16-17 Jesus first quoted Isaiah 9:2, then said, “upon them..light has dawned.” Christ Jesus is God’s Light to a dark and deceived world, with Matthew 5:17 telling us, From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

But what ‘kingdom’ have you chosen to be a part of? Do you ever sense a ‘kingdom’ of self-will or self-pleasure? Are you aware of the ‘kingdoms of darkness’? Are you aware of the end result of the ‘heathen raging’, manifesting, and unveiling’ their ‘kingdom idols’?’ Are YOU ever shamed, shocked, and, yes, sympathetically removed from a ‘love of the world around you’ to a passionate turning to the God who has exposed to you another “Kingdom-Rule” under the Lordship of Christ? What ‘kingdom’ does Satan unveil to you?

In Matthew 4:7 Jesus said to Satan, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ Verses 8-11 follows: Again, the devil took Him (Christ Jesus) up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if you fall down and worship me.”

Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.” Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.”

Question! “Has the kingdom of God been established in you through the shed blood of the Lamb of God, or are you still bound by the realm, the rule, the regulations in the ‘religious activity’ of the world, the old sin-nature, or the, yes, powerful influences of the devil himself?”

I hate to be the one to tell you, but apart from being redeemed by the blood of the Lamb of God, “new-born” in Spirit, and raised up to be a representative citizen of the Kingdom of Christ, you are bound, blinded, and belittled by Satan as one of his ‘captives in the “kingdom of darkness”, where there IS “no law and no order” because, ruled by your ‘flesh’, you’ve determined what you want to be ruled by, and your ‘law’ and your ‘order’ is all you desire! In 1 Timothy 3:7 Paul alerted us about “lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.”

In 2 Timothy 2:24-26, as he was instructing young, new believers, he wrote: “And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.”

“No law – no order”? Why is that? Because godless men and women are bound to the fleshly demands of, yes, the world, the flesh, and Satan himself, and not recipients of Holy God’s presence in them, His promises for them through Christ, and His power abounding in and through Christ’s Resurrection Life in them! “No law – no order”? Because Christ Jesus is not automatically born into every birthing across the world of fallen humanity but is birthed by ‘flesh’ with the nature of mankind that must willingly become “Spirit-birthed” as God the Father calls them to Himself through the loving service of Christ at the Cross!

“No law – no order”? Because the fallen world fell away from God willfully, sank into sinful shame, and, as the “Fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’”, there still is a world of indifference to the love of God for every man: “God so loved the world”, but the same cannot be said that “all men love God!” Sadly, fallen men are so bound to their conception about what earthly life is all about that they do make ‘common sense’ strides to laws of nature but remain, many, to be bound, blind, and indifferent to the eternal wisdom of the Creator and Savior of the world, yes, void of the spiritual wisdom the Lord Jesus unveils!

“No law – no order”? Oh, yes and no – there are ‘laws’ and there is ‘order’ because Almighty God set it all into motion, and fleshly men can learn to ‘fly to the moon’ and yet know nothing about being “reconciled to God”! In fact, in 1 Corinthians 3:19 Paul was inspired to write wisely: “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” In the same letter, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Paul said: “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and By the Spirit of our God.”

“No law – no order”? You are aware that there are ‘profound minds intellectually’ who are sadly void of any spiritual understanding. It was William Cowper, in his writing “Light Shining Out of Darkness” who said: “Blind unbelief is sure to err, and scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, and He will make it plain.” And He has! “God so loved the world!” God so loved the world that He GAVE His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in (trusts in, relies upon, adheres to) Him should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16). John 3:17 then enlightens us more as we read, “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world THROUGH HIM MIGHT BE SAVED.” But ‘unbelieving men and women live contented in their spiritual blindness’!

“No law – no order”? In “The Cry of the Human”, written many, many years ago by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she wrote: “There is no God,” the foolish saith, But none, “There is no sorrow”; And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow. Eyes, which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, “God be pitiful,” Who never said, “God be praised.”

Without a doubt, there are those who deny God for themselves literally as the one true and living God in their minds and hearts, but others will acknowledge His reality without any leaning toward Him because in themselves they sense all they need or want , for them, “I can live a good life without God’s help,” which may be true for their ‘flesh’ but live bankrupt, empty lives in His Spirit-realm – and that decision determines one’s eternal destiny, Heaven or Hell, even a “blessed life” or a life under the “curse” with its eternal consequences or a life blinded in Satanic deception, content to be satisfied in the kingdom of darkness, deception, and, yes, death apart from, even resentful of those who walk in “the Kingdom of the Light of the Lord Jesus”!

“No law – no order”? That choice of life introduces one early to the reality of eternal barrenness, to a life void of spiritual Fruit and fruitfulness, and to a life with a high, proud opinion of ‘self’ but unsympathetic to the need of the Savior! To live ‘godless’ or ‘faithless’ or ‘needless’ of the Redeemer, is to unveil a life, heart, and mind that, yes, exposes a criminal mind easily exposing the inner man: godless, in ‘love’ with one’s self and his/her destructive sin-nature, and certainly revealing a ‘superficial thinker’ who expresses no need of reconciliation with Holy God through Christ alone – he’s determined he’s able and doesn’t need God’s help! Listen to them! For what they say reveals a darkened heart or a “new life”, a blinded mind or a “new mind”, a fleshly intent of self-indulgence or the eternal intent of gladly being the “tabernacle” where the Resurrected Christ lives to be Himself in them and through them, or a successful-appearing lifestyle but absent of any True Faith and open to any lawless deed, like the Las Vegas murderer!

But if one, convicted by the Holy Spirit, convinced by the Holy Spirit, then confesses and surrenders and yields to Christ by the Spirit and opens their hearts’ doors to His presence, what HAPPENS? “CONVERSION”: “born again”, “raised to new life”, “commissioned by the Lord and Savior”, “releasing rivers of living water”, “birthing a true babe in Christ hungering for the milk and meat of the Eternal Word of God”, “understanding they are the vessel now – He’s the content”, not ‘my way’, but His Way, not ‘my desires’, but His eternal purpose and plan, His will, not our fleshly ways any longer!

Cecil Frances Alexander, in his writing “All Things Bright” wrote: “The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.” And, it doesn’t matter – rich man or poor man; the man or woman who has yielded, trusted, and surrendered to Christ’s Lordship becomes the true wealthiest and most eternally significant man or woman on the face of the globe, and willfully lives to extend Christ’s “Kingdom-Rule” through them!

But around you, because they “choose” to live apart from His Kingdom-Rule, men and women, denying the need of God as their Lord and Savior, many enraged by a sense of injustice, “I deserve better than what I am and what I have,”, many gripped in the fleshly state of meaninglessness, others gripped in anger with the ‘right’ to make things ‘right’ for themselves, others suffering from loneliness and the motivation to be recognized, even if it’s criminal activity, will choose ‘dark paths’ rather than the “Highway of Holiness”!

Look at fallen humanity that surrounds you every day! Examine the ‘closed minds’ even to the reality of Holy God! Have you ever been astounded by those around you who treat the reality of God with a spirit of irreverence, living in those closed minds without a thought of His Calvary sacrifice to set them free from their bondage to sin and Satan, living captive to their sin-blinded minds rather than receiving the free gift of divine grace, mercy, and love in Christ that sets the captives free, breaks the chains that binds them, and floods the heart and mind with holy reverence of being graced as the tent, the tabernacle, the earthly abiding place and residence of the King of kings and Lord of lords?

You may have been living in “the cloud of conscious minds” that visualizes humanity as ‘god unto himself’, but the Holy Word unveils the awesome Holy God who created mankind in His likeness but with humanity having the, yes, ‘free will’ to choose His Lordship, His Will, His purpose, or to think, feel, and respond as they decide for themselves – Holy God has not, will not, does not force Himself on mankind apart from them “choosing for themselves whom they will serve”, ‘flesh or Spirit’, ‘wrong or righteousness’, serving ‘self’ or blessing others with the Redemptive Truth, maximizing ‘self-will’ or being “Master-ed by the only Savior and Lord”!

A very old hymn is entitled “Crown Him With Many Crowns”, speaking of course of Christ and His gracious, merciful crown. It Says: “Crown Him with many crowns, The Lamb upon His throne; Hark! How the heavenly anthem drowns All music but its own! Awake, my soul, and sing Of Him who died for thee; And hail Him as your matchless King thro’ all eternity.

Crown Him the Lord of love! Behold His hands and side, – Rich wounds, yet visible above, In beauty glorified; No angel in the sky Can fully bear that sight, But downward bends his wondering eye At mysteries so bright.

Crown Him the Lord of life! Who triumphed over the grave; Who rose victorious to the strife For those He came to save; His glories now we sing, Who died and rose on high; Who died eternal life to bring, And lives that death may die.

Crown Him the Lord of Heaven! One with the Father known, One with the Spirit through Him given From yonder glorious throne! To You be endless praise, For You, Christ, for us did die; Be Thou, O Lord, through endless days Adored and Magnified.”

Have YOU crowned Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of your life? Have YOU yielded to His Lordship as King of your heart? Have YOU crowned Him as Sovereign King over you, your family, your calling and ministry in life? Are YOU the “CHOSEN OF GOD” to be His tabernacle of the Holy Presence of His Son and our Savior? Do YOU receive Christ Jesus’ word about those of Redemptive Faith being “salt and light” in a deceived, self-centered, self-serving world, but you are contented blinded to His Kingdom of Light, Liberty, and unending love, grace, and mercy?

I’d say it’s time to look to the God who made you, lost you, but bought you with a price. Consider that the Resurrected Christ desires to make His personal home YOUR heart! He so desires to extend His Kingdom-Rule through the “new creations” bought by the blood of the Lamb of God and, yes, ready to be the “vessel” for His Resurrection-Life-pouring out through YOU! Why not now?

By James F. Fisher, June 25-27, 2017

It is so good and gracious that God inspired Psalm 103:19 saying, “The Lord has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all.” And that “reign of the Lord God” is over the kingdom of Satan and the kingdom of darkness AND the Kingdom of the Savior and “Light of the world”!

It’s interesting to read Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 7:10 when he wrote: “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but THE SORROW OF THE WORLD PRODUCES DEATH.” How clear is that to you?

“The world of darkness” is a Satan – authored and inspired song- and- life-situation of enslavement to the world, the old sin-nature, and Satanic rule, or at least, an attempt at deceiving and darkening your God-ordained life and eternal purpose! We just read, “godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted,” but there is a “cloud of sorrow” that most men have no understanding about why it hangs over them!

But at the same time, as the world of darkness reigns over and in a fallen man’s existence, so does the “world of eternal Light “ shine to unveil Christ Jesus as one’s only hope!

Jude was described in Scripture, his letter inspired by the Holy Spirit, as “a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, (writing to) those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ.” [Does that include you?]. And HE certainly contended against and opposed those who walk in darkness, even in ‘religious’ darkness! Jude contended “earnestly for the True faith”!

In Verse 4 he described ‘certain men’, no doubt deceived by Satan, who “crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only God and our Lord Jesus Christ.” Oh, and then in Verses 5-7, Jude instructs us wisely to be aware of spiritual darkness and spiritual blindness in the world around us today! He wrote:

“But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but LEFT THEIR OWN ABODE, He (God) has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange gods, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

I pray you saw “the world of darkness and the kingdom of Light” colliding! Jude went on in Verse 12 speaking about “those who are spots in your love feasts”, describing some as ‘trees without fruit, twice dead’, ‘raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame’, ‘wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever’.

There IS the reality of “apostates” who are “professors without possession of the Indwelling Christ”, but Jude 14b-15 speaks about “apostates” who are depraved and live in a doomed state though they “primp up” as if they were truly “stars in the production of Christ”! “Behold, (the day comes when) the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints (metaphorically speaking), to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Christ Jesus.”

And you don’t think “ungodly sinners” speak against Christ Jesus inspired by Satan? You’re not aware of a despicable meanness, inspired by Satan, in attempting, by the world, the flesh, and Satan himself to dishonor Christ Jesus and befuddle ‘disciples’ about their ‘empty gains in Christ’? Satan himself LIVES in a state of rugged, ragged, ruthless impatience, because, as hard as he tries, Christ Jesus gains more and more of what ‘he thought’ was his world!

Oswald Chambers, in his book, “My Utmost For His Highest,” (p.131), said, “The characteristic of the life to begin with is that it is maimed… There never has been a saint yet who did not have to live a maimed life to start with. But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God’s sight than to be lovely in man’s sight and lame in God’s,” but saying also that through the finished work of Christ, “You shall be PERFECT, even as your heavenly Father is perfect,” assaulted by Satan in the flesh, but resurrected into the fullness of Christ in the Spirit!

If “the Son sets you free”, free from what? And, of course, what a blessing to be freed from the law of sin and death! But you’ve never considered, since the Fall, all men, yes, have been enslaved under Satan and the powers of darkness? Though Holy God made us for Himself, He knew he wanted sons and daughters of faith, free to be His or not be His, when, at the same time, Holy God understood fallen men would face the onslaught of Satan and demonic armies! But, Holy God wanted us “free to choose” – and, praise God, after the tenure under demonic powers, some want to be free of their chains in spiritual enslavement, living as liberated sons and daughters of the Most High God!

If, “the Son sets you free,” understand, it’s the mind and heart of God to see you tired of your natural individuality and ready to be “raised into newness of life,” yes, ready to be freed from Satan’s deceitful darkness into the Lord and Savior’s “Kingdom of Light”! In Galatians 2:20-21 Paul wrote: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the live which I now live in the flesh (earthly body) I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God…”!!

The ‘world of darkness’, ruled over by Satan and his kingdom of darkness, is out to enlarge his kingdom numbers, enslaving people proud of that natural individuality but unaware they have no need of God and just living ‘satisfying’ their fleshly enslavement under the deluding influence of Satan’s army of deceiving demon powers!

Satan kindles “fires of deception” in fallen mankind for sure, and, at least, attempts to inflame deception and a falling away of disciples (like Judas) from “grace living” to “grit at its best” for ‘disciples’ (?) of Christ, totally avoiding the “Victorious Path” over sin, temptation, and self-centered living, promoting the carnal rather than Spirit-Truth and Spirit-Life in Christ alone, and ending up, yes, as ‘slaves of darkness’ though the sin-filled, Satan-dominated walk is darkness in his brightest ‘light’ (?)!

A few words of Satan’s deception: “Easily kindling without Christ’s presence, the dark fires of Hell are easily resident; souls of the flesh are easily deceived, and the dark spirits of Hell reside indeed. But souls of flesh and evil spirits, as enemies of Christ, are nailed in the world as insignificant ‘rivets’, holding hearts and minds to interests of darkness, slaves to the one who would give them a room, forever cursed by his torture and gloom! But here came Jesus, the Savior of men, and shed His own blood “to save us from sin”, plus putting nails in the coffin of our enemy, releasing us fully from Satanic dilemmas!” [By James Farrell Fisher.]

Did I say, “Worlds of darkness Colliding with the Kingdom of Light”? But a godless intellectual community, evidenced sadly in many school settings today, openly ridicule, resent, even reprimand anyone who promotes the Word of God, preaching salvation by grace and faith in Christ alone, or exposing Satan’s, yes, works of darkness, will confine Biblical Truth about Satan or the Savior, determined that the Truth be “hidden by invisibility”, not allowing any Biblical Truth: “Not in our schools!”, even though “Satan walks about seeking whom he may devour!” And though those “teachers or professors” have long tenures in their schools, the day will come, when escorted by the devil of darkness, they’ll “wake up in Hell’s classroom”, never to leave!

I had to laugh when I read Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s writing in “Aurora Leigh,” (Bk. V11, l. 105), “The devil’s most devilish when respectable.” And do you realize how “respectable men (who are unbelievers and totally deceived by Satan) but ‘wise in their own hearts’ toward God’s “saving Grace”, are like Elihu who at least said to Job, (Job 37:24), “Therefore men fear Him; He shows no partiality to any who are wise of heart.” It’s true! Some, most, of unbelieving men, ‘wise in their own eyes’, priding themselves with their own ‘superior wisdom’, will, at least, reverence God in their wise hearts, yet never turn from their thrones of self-importance, self-centeredness, and, yes, self-rule, not knowing they already have their own seat-assignments in the classroom of Satan’s “school of death under Satan’s eternal tenure of teaching his darkness of unbelief “!

Individual self-importance and pride sadly missed God’s eternal purpose of human vessels who would give Him the place He desired to extend His love and prove His power, yes, over Satan who still says: “Has God really said…?”, but most, like Adam and Eve, didn’t and still don’t, have burning hearts to give God room to be Himself in and through them.

Satan, some unbelievers, some pastors, and some ‘church folk’, rather than taking the sentence of death unto themselves that Christ’s resurrection Life would be manifested in mortal flesh, never take the sentence of death to themselves but ‘accept’ that if they mindfully believe, the heart, the self-will, and the fleshly plans of self-importance will not be set aside but ‘religionized’ – and they can have, they think, “the best of both worlds”!

Satan thrives on unbelievers but also on pretenders! Satan rejoices that men call themselves “Christians” or “disciples of Christ”, but never receive “crucified with Christ”! Satan celebrates ‘emotional impressions’ without biblical Truth! Satan loves “high levels of emotions” that touch or impresses one’s mind but leaves the sinful heart unchanged! Satan gets excited when he knows, though never “born again”, that unbelievers often feed on their ‘imitation’ of Christ! Satan is uplifted when he sees “professing believers” in awe of their own honoring of their mortal flesh or sin natures without any concern at all of “Be holy, for I am holy” says God!

Satan, yes, encourages fleshly “grit” in all religious circles – while Christ Jesus celebrates the souls who rest only in His grace and mercy, and allow Him to establish His Holy Temple in their hearts! Satan will erupt in mindful pleasure when he sees “ believers who THINK ‘pure’ thoughts of ‘right’ or wrong”, but Christ Jesus said, “BLESSED are the pure in heart; for they shall see God”! A man can be ‘innocent’ related to civil law or innocent because he at least knows the difference between ‘right and wrong’ in the general public, but related to “the kingdom of God”, impurity shuts the door to the gates of Heaven because only the “blood bought” have an acceptable “pass” into Christ, the Holy Spirit, or to the Throne of God the Father!

Do you remember Christ Jesus “weeping over Jerusalem”? In Luke 19: 41-44 we read, Now as Jesus drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “IF YOU HAD KNOWN, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because YOU DID NOT KNOW THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION.”

It was Oswald Chambers who said in his famous book, “My Utmost For His Highest,” (p.67), “Jesus had entered into Jerusalem in triumph, the city was stirred to its foundations; but a strange god was there, the pride of Pharisaism; it was religious and upright, but a “whited sepulcher.”

Dare I tell you? Satan gloats over “whited sepulchers”, Satan is gleeful when ‘darkness’ in one’s walk takes precedent over the Light of Christ, Satan celebrates when even ‘seekers’ are easily turned away, blinded to the Truth that liberates, but they accept Satan’s bondage to the Lord’s liberating grace and mercy! Do you understand? Satan can ‘blind’ your seeing eyes, contaminate your mind and heart, imprison you to his ways, even ‘darken’ your eyes if you’ve seen in the past, and NOW, “Now you don’t see, now seeing only what you want to see, he uses your culpable carelessness and sinful, selfish choices, to live with the awareness you choice, your selfish ambition to satisfy the old sin nature, and, as a result, came to a dangerous stage of life with the heavy heartache of “What Might Have Been!” I want you to follow John 16:25-33! It says: (Jesus speaking),

“These things I have spoken to you in figurative language, but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about that Father. In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God. I came forth from (or out of) the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”

His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this, we believe that You came forth (or out of) from God.”

Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Darkness and Light HAVE COLLIDED in the hearts and minds of all men – even now, in our ‘modern day’, Satan is busy trying to insure many will love his darkness and refuse “The Light of the world” whose name is Christ Jesus! As Christ Jesus has come into your world, is He gathering you to Himself or, sadly, you are turning away to the dark world of your ‘flesh’, your sinful ambitions, or your ‘pride’ of being in Satan’s “Hall of Fame” of “disregarders” to the True Faith?

Christ Jesus’ one desire is that YOU and all men “may have My joy fulfilled in themselves”, but far too many settle in to the world, the sinful flesh, and Satan’s kingdom of darkness! Don’t let it be you and yours!