SERVANTS OF THE ONE TRUE GOD?”

BY:J.FARRELL FISHER,JUNE23-24,2019

I REMEMBER A PHRASE OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING WHEN SHE WROTE: “THE BLUE OF HEAVEN IS LARGER THEN THE CLOUD”; & IT’S SO TRUE THAT “SLAVES OF WORLD CULTURES DO LIVE IN ‘DARKNESS’, OR ‘THE CLOUD OF SELF-INTEREST ONLY’,REGARDLESS OF THE PRICE TO BE PAID TO KEEP ONE IN THE ‘DARK WORLD’ OF THEIR SELF-SERVING LIFE, BUT THE SERVANTS OF THE ONE TRUE GOD LIVE IN THE “LIGHT” THAT NEVER CEASES TO SHINE, EVEN WHEN THE WORLD, THE OLD SIN-NATURE, OR THE ‘FLESH’ WOULD LIKE TO OVER-RULE THE “LIGHT” SO THEY CAN CONTINUE IN THAT ENSLAVING WORLD CULTURE OF ‘DARKNESS’!

BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD, THERE ARE, EVEN IN THIS 21^ST CENTURY, MILLIONS & MILLIONS OF PEOPLE CHOSEN BY GOD HIMSELF TO BE HIS SERVANTS, “FOOT-WASHERS OF KING JESUS”, &,YES, WILLING SERVANTS OF THE “SLAVES OF WORLD-CULTURES” SO THAT THE ‘SLAVES’ CAN AT LEAST ‘SEE THE LIGHT’ WHETHER THEY CHOOSE TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS A WILLING SERVANT OR NOT!

SLAVES OF WORLD CULTURES ‘LIVE’ UNDER THAT ‘CLOUD OF DARKNESS’ THOUGH THEY THEMSELVES INTERPRET ‘DARKNESS’ AS ‘light’ FOR THEIR WORLD! SLAVES OF WORLD CULTURES SEE NO NEED OF GOD ABIDING WITH THEM SINCE IN THEMSELVES THEY’VE DISCERNED THE ‘FLESH LIFE’S’ “WISDOM” (?) TO THRESH OUT FOR THEMSELVES WHAT THEY ‘SEED’ IN THEIR SIN-NATURED SOULS!!

YET, SINCE THE BEGINNING OF EARTHLY HUMAN EXISTENCE, THERE HAVE BEEN INDIVIDUALS WHO DISCERNED, BY THE GRACE OF GOD EVEN THEN, THAT ‘THEY’ ARE ON THIS EARTH WITH ETERNAL PURPOSE INTENDED, &,YES, LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY NEITHER SHEDDED OR THREADED THE “NEED” OF THE “BLOOD ATONEMENT” THROUGH THE ‘COMING’ SACRIFICE OF THE KING OF KINGS & LORD OF LORDS, BIRTHED BY MARY, THE MOTHER OF JESUS, WHO THEN FACED THE “CROSS”, “DEATH”, & “RESURRECTION” TO REIGN SUPREMELY FOREVER AS THE VICTORIOUS CONQUEROR OVER THE ‘FLESH’, THE ‘WORLD’, & YES, OVER SATAN HIMSELF! “JESUS IS LORD OVER ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER”!!!

IN THE OLD “BROADMAN HYMNAL” OF 1940, (PUBLISHED BY “BROADMAN PRESS”, NASHVILLE, TENN.”) IS A HYMN WRITTEN BY FANNY J.CROSBY & ROBERT LOWRY ENTITLED, “ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME.” IT SAYS: “ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME; WHAT HAVE I TO ASK BESIDE? CAN I DOUBT HIS TENDER MERCY, WHO THROUGH LIFE HAS BEEN MY GUIDE? HEAVELY PEACE, DIVINEST COMFORT, HERE BY FAITH IN HIM TO DWELL! FOR I KNOW, WHATE’ER BEFALL ME, JESUS DOES ALL THINGS WELL.

ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME, CHEERS EACH WINDING PATH I TREAD, GIVES ME GRACE FOR EVERY TRIAL, FEEDS ME WITH THE LIVING BREAD. THOUGH MY WEARY STEPS MAY FALTER, & MY SOUL ATHIRST MAY BE, GUSHING FROM THE “ROCK” BEFORE ME, LO! A SPRING OF JOY I SEE.

ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME; OH, THE FULLNESS OF HIS LOVE! PERFECT REST TO ME IS PROMISED IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE ABOVE. WHEN MY SPIRIT, CLOTHED IMMORTAL, WINGS ITS FLIGHT TO REALMS OF DAY, THIS MY SONG THRO’ ENDLESS AGES: JESUS LED ME ALL THE WAY.”

BUT! “SLAVES UNDER A WORLD CULTURE”, WARPED, NOT ONLY BY THE ‘FLESHLY’ REIGN OF ONE’S OLD SIN-NATURE, NOT ONLY BY THAT WARPED, GODLESS CULTURE, BUT ALSO BY SATAN HIMSELF? IN LUKE 22:31-32, THE LORD SAID TO SIMON PETER, “SIMON, SIMON, BEHOLD, SATAN HAS DESIRED TO HAVE YOU, THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT: BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU, THAT YOUR FAITH FAIL NOT: & WHEN YOU ARE CONVERTED, STRENGTHEN YOUR BROTHERS (IN THE FAITH!).” AT THE SAME TIME, THERE ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THE “UNCHANGING, ETERNAL, REDEMPTIVE TRUTH” FOUND IN THE “SHED BLOOD”, THE “BURIAL”, & THE “RESURRECTION OF THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST”!

IN EPHESIANS 2:12 PAUL WROTE: “THAT AT THAT TIME YOU WERE WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL, & STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE, & WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD.” HAS THAT CHANGED? IS THERE STILL THOSE IN THE WORLD TODAY WHO ARE “STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, WHO (IN THEMSELVES) HAVE NO HOPE OF A BLESSED, ETERNAL LIFE, WHO, SADLY, LIVE WITHOUT HOLY GOD IN THEIR EVERY-DAY LIVES”?

“SLAVES UNDER A WORLD CULTURE”? IS THAT THE “SPIRITUALLY UNCLOTHED”? HOW CLEAR WAS JOHN WHEN HE WROTE IN 1 JOHN 3:10 HE WROTE: “IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, & THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL: WHOSOEVER DOES NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD, NEITHER HE THAT LOVES NOT HIS BROTHER.” IS IT CLEAR TO YOU THAT TRUE UNBELIEF IN GOD HAS MORE TO DO WITH WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY DONE FOR YOU THROUGH CHRIST AT THE CROSS & EMPTY TOMB, READY, UPON YOUR WILLINGNESS TO OPEN YOUR HEART’S DOOR & ALLOW HIM TO COME IN? (HE’S KNOCKED BEFORE – HE’S STILL KNOCKS TODAY UPON EVERY LIFE, EVERY PEOPLE, EVERY NATION, EVEN EVERY MODERN-DAY ‘CHURCH GATHERING’, ASKING TO COME IN!) BUT: “SLAVES UNDER A WORLD CULTURE” LIVE BOUND UNDER THAT ‘CLOUD OF UNBELIEF’! MAY 10, 2016, I WROTE THE FOLLOWING WORDS:

“UNBELIEF IS THE ROAD TO SUPERSTITION WITH THE DEVIL’S INTENT OF GOD’S ELIMINATION. TO HIM, TRUTH IS A LIE, AS SOULS TO HIM EASILY DENY THE ONE TRUE GOD & SAVIOR OF MEN, TO BE DECEIVED BY SATAN’S DECEPTIVE SPIN.

“YOU WON’T DIE” WAS HIS VOICE TO EVE, AS HE CAME TO EASILY DECEIVE, TO TURN HER FROM GOD TO THE FLESHLY SOD, SELDOM EVEN GIVING AN INCH OF ‘A FLESH NOD TO GOD’!

‘WISE MEN’ ARE THE DEVIL’S ‘DUMBED-DOWN’, EVENTUALLY CHANGING THEIR SMILES INTO FROWNS; ‘PLEASURE-SEEKERS’ ARE HIS MAIN TARGETS, “PLEASING GOD?”, NOT EVEN A NOD!

“SIN IS GOD’S TERM,” SATAN SO EASILY SPOUTS, BLINDING MEN TO WHAT GOD’S ALL ABOUT. SEPARATION FROM “TRUTH” IS HIS MAIN OCCUPATION: “QUIT LISTENING TO THOSE WHO SPEAK OF “GOD’S RESTORATION”!”

SATAN WANTS YOU BOUND, SPIRITUALLY UNSOUND, INDULGING THE ‘FLESH’ TO YOUR OWN SATISFACTION. TO HIM, GOD’S INTENT HAS NO RELEVANCE TO A DEVIL’S PROGRAM OF ONE’S PERSONAL DEVASTATION.

“ME, MY, MINE” ARE HIS THEMES OF PERSONAL PRAISE, WITH NO DESIRE OF HEAVENLY ANTHEMS RAISED” – ‘DENY YOURSELF’? WHAT A RIDICULOUS REQUEST! GIVE ME YOUR ‘WILL’ AS YOUR MOST BELOVED BEQUEST!”

BUT THE SAVIOR OF MEN, CHRIST JESUS IS HIS NAME, NEEDS NO ‘HALL OF FAME’, BECAUSE ACROSS OUR VAST WORLDS IS HIS SIGNATURE STAMPED, & ESPECIALLY IN THE LIVES OF MEN WHO WITH CHRIST HAVE CAMPED.

FORGIVENESS OF SIN IS HIS DIVINE APPOINTMENT & RENEWAL OF TRUE FAITH IN THE SAVIOR’S ANOINTMENTS – “FREE AT LAST” IS THEIR HOLY CRY AS UPON THE SAVIOR THEY FAITHFULLY RELY.

“SET APART” TO HIS GLORY, TRANSFORMING MEN HIS EVERLASTING STORY, WITH REPENTANT MEN BECOMING WITNESSES OF HIM, EXTENDING HIS KINGDOM, YES, WITH REDEMPTIVE HYMNS.

SPENDING THEIR LIVES IN HIS GLORIFICATION, DAILY DESIRING HIS CONTINUOUS EXALTATION, TRUE MEN OF FAITH WILL HONOR THE SON, AS DAY BY DAY, PERSON BY PERSON, THEY SHARE CHRIST’S TRUTH OF DIVINE RESTORATION.

THERE COMES A TIME WHEN ONE EXAMINES HIS LIFE, & BEGINS TO EVALUATE, “HAVE I ENDED SOME STRIFE, AS I POINTED OTHERS TO THE SAVIOR OF THEIR LIFE?” “HAVE I SHOWN THEM THE DOOR TO THE FRUIT OF HIS SPIRIT,” FULLY DESIRING HIS HOLY BLESSING AS I SHOWED THEM “THE DOOR” TO HIS PRECIOUS RESTING”?

“COME UNTO ME”, IS STILL HIS CALL, AS REPENTANT MEN FAITHFULLY FALL, RESTING IN HIS ‘FINISHED WORK’, THEY RISE TO DUTY & CALLING THAT THEY’LL NEVER SHIRK!

BUT IF YOU’RE NOT PREPARED FOR THE DAY OF DEATH, WHAT WILL YOUR FLORIST HAVE TO POST ON YOUR DOOR? DEAD FLOWERS FOR A LIFE POORLY LIVED, OR A WELCOMING WREATH TO GOD’S HOLY PRESENCE, BECAUSE YOU AT LEAST BOASTED IN HIS FINISHED WORK & YOUR RESTORATION?

BIRTHED TO “NEW LIFE” – & IN HIM YOU NEVER DIE, BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE, YOU ETERNALLY RELY – FROM THE DOOR OF DEATH TO HIS THRONE ON HIGH, YOU GIVE EVIDENCE: “ON HIM, I’LL NEVER DENY”, BUT CONSTANTLY HEAR HIS FAITHFUL REPLY: ‘YOUR WALK OF FAITH HAS FINISHED ITS COURSE – WELCOME HOME, SON, TO YOUR MERCIFUL REWARD.”

EXAMINE FOR YOURSELF EPHESIANS 2 WHERE HOLY GOD INSPIRED PAUL TO EXPOSE THE SINFUL CONDITION OF ALL MEN, TO UNVEIL SALVATION THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD, & TO UNVEIL THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF GOD FOR JEW & GENTILE! “GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD!”

SLAVES OF WORLD CULTURES OR SERVANTS OF THE ONE TRUE GOD? IN 1 KINGS 18:21 ELIJAH CHALLENGED MEN THEN & NOW WHEN HE ASKED, “HOW LONG HALT YOU BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? IF THE LORD BE GOD, FOLLOW HIM; BUT IF BAAL, THEN FOLLOW HIM.” AND THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD.”

YES, “SLAVES OF ‘RELIGIOUS’ WORLD CULTURES FACE THE SAME ETERNAL JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD’S DETERMINED OPPOSERS OF GOD’S MERCY, HIS GRACE, & HIS LOVE – THEY WANT TO ‘PROVE TO THEMSELVES’ THAT THEY DIDN’T THEN NOR NOW DESERVED ‘CRUCIFIXION WITH CHRIST’!

SEVERAL THINGS YOU MUST BE AWARE OF RELATED TO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ‘FLESH-RELIGIOUS-CULTURES’ & THE ETERNAL TRUTH OF THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST JESUS! WHAT WAS IT THAT ELIJAH WAS INSISTING UPON?

FOR ONE THING, PROPHETIC MINISTRY DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN ‘RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY –LIKE THE WORSHIP OF BAAL OR ANY FALSE GOD’ & THE TRUE WORSHIP OF HOLY GOD APART FROM ANY COMPROMISING MIND HEART, & SPIRIT!

SECONDLY, PROPHETIC MINISTRY DOESN’T WASTE TIME WITH FOLKS WHO WANT TO ‘THINK’ ABOUT BOWING BEFORE GOD OR NOT! WHAT DID THE PROPHET SAY? “HOW LONG HALT YOU BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? IF THE LORD BE GOD, FOLLOW HIM: BUT IF BAAL, FOLLOW HIM.” AND THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD.”

HOW LONG HALT YOU? HESITATING ELDERLY MEN STILL SHAKE WITH A CANE IN HAND, BUT THEY STILL CAN’T DECIDE ABOUT THEIR ‘GRIT’ OR GOD’S GRACE! IT’S NOT MORE TIME THAT YOU NEED, BUT TRUE TRUST IN THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD TO SEEK YOU OUT, EXPOSE YOUR STATE OF MIND & HEART, & UNVEIL FOR YOU HIS BLESSED FINISHED WORK THROUGH THE WILLFUL YIELDEDNESS OF CHRIST TO TAKE YOU TO THE CROSS WITH HIM & GET RID OF THAT SATANIC, SIN-CONTROLLED MIND & HEART!

IN THE THIRD PLACE, SLAVES OF WORLD CULTURES, THOUGH ON THE SURFACE, APPEAR TO ‘BE RELIGIOUS’, WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH YIELDING TO AN ALREADY “FINISHED WORK”? DOES “LIMP-LUSTER” ALLEGIANCE DEFINE TRUE DISCIPLES? IT WAS SPURGEON, IN HIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY SERIES, (VOLUME 3,P.183-184), WHO SAID: [IT’S AWESOME! GET READY!!], “I SPEAK NOT, THIS MORNING, TO THE THOROUGHLY WORLDLY; WITH THEM I HAVE NOTHING NOW TO DO; ANOTHER TIME I MAY ADDRESS THEM. BUT NOW I AM SPEAKING TO YOU WHO ARE SEEKING TO SERVE GOD & TO SERVE SATAN; YOU WHO ARE TRYING TO BE CHRISTIAN WORLDLINGS, TRYING TO BE MEMBERS OF THAT EXTRAORDINARY CORPORATION, CALLED THE ‘RELIGIOUS WORLD,’ WHICH IS A THING THAT NEVER HAD AN EXISTENCE EXCEPT IN TITLE. YOU ARE ENDEAVORING, IF YOU CAN, TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHICH IT SHALL BE; YOU KNOW YOU CAN NOT SERVE BOTH, & YOU ARE COMING NOW TO THE PERIOD WHEN YOU ARE SAYING, ‘WHICH SHALL IT BE? SHALL I GO THOROUGHLY INTO SIN, & REVEL IN THE PLEASURES OF THE EARTH, “OR” BECOME A SERVANT OF GOD?” NOW, I SAY TO YOU THIS MORNING, AS THE PROPHET DID, ‘HOW LONG HALT YOU?’ SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN HALTING UNTIL YOUR HAIR HAS GROWN GRAY; THE SIXTIETH YEAR OF SOME OF YOU IS DRAWING NIGH. IS NOT SIXTY YEARS LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE YOUR CHOICE? ‘HOW LONG HALT YOU?’”

FOURTH, SERVANTS OF THE ONE TRUE GOD? OH, THAT WALK OF FAITH IS SO FAR BEYOND ‘MENTAL ASSENT’ – IT’S FOUNDATION IS RESPONSE TO JESUS’ CHALLENGE IN LUKE 6:46-49 WHEN HE SAID: “ & WHY DO YOU CALL ME, LORD, LORD, & DO NOT THE THINGS WHICH I SAY? WHOSOEVER COMES TO ME, & HEARS MY SAYINGS, & DOES THEM, I WILL SHOW YOU TO WHOM HE IS LIKE:

HE IS LIKE A MAN WHICH BUILT A HOUSE, & DIGGED DEEP, & LAID THE FOUNDATION ON A ROCK; & WHEN THE FLOOD AROSE, THE STREAM BEAT VEHEMENTLY UPON THAT HOUSE, & COULD NOT SHAKE IT: FOR IT WAS FOUNDED UPON A ROCK. BUT HE THAT HEARETH, & DOEST NOT, IS LIKE A MAN THAT WITHOUT A FOUNDATION BUILT A HOUSE UPON THE EARTH; AGAINST WHICH THE STREAM DID BEAT VEHEMENTLY, & IMMEDIATELY IT FELL, & THE RUIN OF THAT HOUSE WAS GREAT.”

I MUST SHARE PAUL THE APOSTLE’S WORDS IN 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-4:21!! (READ ALL!)

I WANT YOU TO HEAR WORDS FROM “THE AMERICAN HYMNAL” OF A HYMN BY DANIEL C.ROBERTS & GEORGE W.WARREN ENTITLED, “GOD OF OUR FATHERS, WHOSE ALMIGHTY HAND.” IT SAYS: “GOD OF OUR FATHERS, WHOSE ALMIGHTY HAND LEADS FORTH IN BEAUTY ALL THE STARRY BAND OF SHINING WORLDS IN SPLENDOR THRO’ THE SKIES, OUR GRATEFUL SONGS BEFORE YOUR THRONE ARISE.

YOUR LOVE DIVINE HAS LED US IN THE PAST, IN THIS FREE LAND BY YOU OUR LOT IS CAST; YOU BE OUR RULER, GUARDIAN, GUIDE & STAY, YOUR WORD OUR LAW, YOUR PATHS OUR CHOSEN WAY.

FROM WAR’S ALARMS, FROM DEADLY PESTILENCE, YOU BE OUR STRONG ARM OUR EVER SURE DEFENCE; YOUR TRUE FAITH IN OUR HEARTS INCRESE, YOUR BOUNTEOUS GOODNESS NOURISH US IN PEACE.

REFRESH YOUR PEOPLE ON THEIR TOILSOME WAY, LEAD US FROM NIGHT TO NEVER-ENDING DAY; FILL ALL OUR LIVES WITH LOVE & GRACE DIVINE, & GLORY, LAUD & PRAISE BE EVER THINE. AMEN! OR “SO BE IT!!” CAN “YOU” SAY AMEN TO THAT?

IS YOUR ‘LIFE OF FAITH IN CHRIST’ LIVED VICTORIOUSLY BECAUSE OF HIS ABIDING PRESENCE IN YOU, OR ARE YOU STILL HELD BACK FROM HIS ETERNAL VICTORY BY THE “BEST” YOUR ‘FLESH’ HAS TO OFFER? OR, UNDERSTANDING, MY OLD SIN-NATURE WAS CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, AND WHEN THE RESURRECTED CHRIST KNOCKED ON YOUR HEART’S DOOR, DID YOU WILLFULLY OPEN THE DOOR FOR HIM TO COME INTO YOU, EXTENDING HIS LOVE, EXPRESSING HIS POWER, & YOU, ‘DEAD TO SELF’, INVITED THE KING OF KINGS & LORD OF LORDS TO BE HIMSELF THROUGH YOU, REIGNING SUPREMELY AS “VICTOR OVER THE WORLD, YOUR SIN-NATURE, & SATAN HIMSELF”?? AND,DO “YOU” ‘DIE DAILY’, TAKING THE SENTENCE OF DEATH UNTO YOURSELF IN ORDER THAT HIS RESURRECTION PRESENCE WILL BE MANIFESTED IN YOU & THROUGH YOU MOMENT BY MOMENT, DAY BY DAY, YES, ETERNALLY IN HIS EVERLASTING KINGDOM RULE OVER THE LAW OF SIN & DEATH?

IN “THE AMERICAN HYMNAL” PUBLISHED IN 1933 BY BROADMAN PRESS, NASHVILLE, TENN., IS A HYMN ENTITLED, (P93), “YOU SERVANTS OF GOD, YOUR MASTER PROCLAIM”, (BY C.WESLEY & F.J.HAYDEN.). IT SAYS: “YOU SERVANTS OF GOD, YOUR MASTER PROCLAIM, & PUBLISH ABROAD HIS WONDERFUL NAME; THE NAME ALL-VICTORIOUS OF JESUS EXTOL; HIS KINGDOM IS GLORIOUS, HE RULES OVER ALL.

GOD RULES ON HIGH, ALMIGHTY TO SAVE; & STILL HE IS NIGH- HIS PRESENCE WE HAVE; THE GREAT CONGREGATION HIS TRIUMPH SHALL SING, ASCRIBING SALVATION TO JESUS OUR KING.

SALVATION TO OUR GOD, WHO SITS ON THE THRONE, LET ALL CRY ALOUD & HONOR THE SON; THE PRAISES OF JESUS THE ANGELS PROCLAIM, FALL DOWN ON THEIR FACES & WORSHIP THE LAMB.

THEN LET US ADORE & GIVE HIM HIS RIGHT, ALL GLORY, & POWER, & WISDOM & MIGHT; ALL HONOR & BLESSING WITH ANGELS ABOVE, & THANKS NEVER CEASING, & INFINITE LOVE.”

DO “YOU” HONOR HIM & BLESS HIS NAME FOR THE ETERNAL SALVATION HE BOUGHT & BROUGHT TO YOU THROUGH HIS “BLOOD SACRIFICE”?

SERVANTS OF THE ONE TRUE GOD?”

BY:J.FARRELL FISHER,JUNE23-24,2019

I REMEMBER A PHRASE OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING WHEN SHE WROTE: “THE BLUE OF HEAVEN IS LARGER THEN THE CLOUD”; & IT’S SO TRUE THAT “SLAVES OF WORLD CULTURES DO LIVE IN ‘DARKNESS’, OR ‘THE CLOUD OF SELF-INTEREST ONLY’,REGARDLESS OF THE PRICE TO BE PAID TO KEEP ONE IN THE ‘DARK WORLD’ OF THEIR SELF-SERVING LIFE, BUT THE SERVANTS OF THE ONE TRUE GOD LIVE IN THE “LIGHT” THAT NEVER CEASES TO SHINE, EVEN WHEN THE WORLD, THE OLD SIN-NATURE, OR THE ‘FLESH’ WOULD LIKE TO OVER-RULE THE “LIGHT” SO THEY CAN CONTINUE IN THAT ENSLAVING WORLD CULTURE OF ‘DARKNESS’!

BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD, THERE ARE, EVEN IN THIS 21^ST CENTURY, MILLIONS & MILLIONS OF PEOPLE CHOSEN BY GOD HIMSELF TO BE HIS SERVANTS, “FOOT-WASHERS OF KING JESUS”, &,YES, WILLING SERVANTS OF THE “SLAVES OF WORLD-CULTURES” SO THAT THE ‘SLAVES’ CAN AT LEAST ‘SEE THE LIGHT’ WHETHER THEY CHOOSE TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS A WILLING SERVANT OR NOT!

SLAVES OF WORLD CULTURES ‘LIVE’ UNDER THAT ‘CLOUD OF DARKNESS’ THOUGH THEY THEMSELVES INTERPRET ‘DARKNESS’ AS ‘light’ FOR THEIR WORLD! SLAVES OF WORLD CULTURES SEE NO NEED OF GOD ABIDING WITH THEM SINCE IN THEMSELVES THEY’VE DISCERNED THE ‘FLESH LIFE’S’ “WISDOM” (?) TO THRESH OUT FOR THEMSELVES WHAT THEY ‘SEED’ IN THEIR SIN-NATURED SOULS!!

YET, SINCE THE BEGINNING OF EARTHLY HUMAN EXISTENCE, THERE HAVE BEEN INDIVIDUALS WHO DISCERNED, BY THE GRACE OF GOD EVEN THEN, THAT ‘THEY’ ARE ON THIS EARTH WITH ETERNAL PURPOSE INTENDED, &,YES, LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY NEITHER SHEDDED OR THREADED THE “NEED” OF THE “BLOOD ATONEMENT” THROUGH THE ‘COMING’ SACRIFICE OF THE KING OF KINGS & LORD OF LORDS, BIRTHED BY MARY, THE MOTHER OF JESUS, WHO THEN FACED THE “CROSS”, “DEATH”, & “RESURRECTION” TO REIGN SUPREMELY FOREVER AS THE VICTORIOUS CONQUEROR OVER THE ‘FLESH’, THE ‘WORLD’, & YES, OVER SATAN HIMSELF! “JESUS IS LORD OVER ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER”!!!

IN THE OLD “BROADMAN HYMNAL” OF 1940, (PUBLISHED BY “BROADMAN PRESS”, NASHVILLE, TENN.”) IS A HYMN WRITTEN BY FANNY J.CROSBY & ROBERT LOWRY ENTITLED, “ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME.” IT SAYS: “ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME; WHAT HAVE I TO ASK BESIDE? CAN I DOUBT HIS TENDER MERCY, WHO THROUGH LIFE HAS BEEN MY GUIDE? HEAVELY PEACE, DIVINEST COMFORT, HERE BY FAITH IN HIM TO DWELL! FOR I KNOW, WHATE’ER BEFALL ME, JESUS DOES ALL THINGS WELL.

ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME, CHEERS EACH WINDING PATH I TREAD, GIVES ME GRACE FOR EVERY TRIAL, FEEDS ME WITH THE LIVING BREAD. THOUGH MY WEARY STEPS MAY FALTER, & MY SOUL ATHIRST MAY BE, GUSHING FROM THE “ROCK” BEFORE ME, LO! A SPRING OF JOY I SEE.

ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME; OH, THE FULLNESS OF HIS LOVE! PERFECT REST TO ME IS PROMISED IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE ABOVE. WHEN MY SPIRIT, CLOTHED IMMORTAL, WINGS ITS FLIGHT TO REALMS OF DAY, THIS MY SONG THRO’ ENDLESS AGES: JESUS LED ME ALL THE WAY.”

BUT! “SLAVES UNDER A WORLD CULTURE”, WARPED, NOT ONLY BY THE ‘FLESHLY’ REIGN OF ONE’S OLD SIN-NATURE, NOT ONLY BY THAT WARPED, GODLESS CULTURE, BUT ALSO BY SATAN HIMSELF? IN LUKE 22:31-32, THE LORD SAID TO SIMON PETER, “SIMON, SIMON, BEHOLD, SATAN HAS DESIRED TO HAVE YOU, THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT: BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU, THAT YOUR FAITH FAIL NOT: & WHEN YOU ARE CONVERTED, STRENGTHEN YOUR BROTHERS (IN THE FAITH!).” AT THE SAME TIME, THERE ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THE “UNCHANGING, ETERNAL, REDEMPTIVE TRUTH” FOUND IN THE “SHED BLOOD”, THE “BURIAL”, & THE “RESURRECTION OF THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST”!

IN EPHESIANS 2:12 PAUL WROTE: “THAT AT THAT TIME YOU WERE WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL, & STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE, & WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD.” HAS THAT CHANGED? IS THERE STILL THOSE IN THE WORLD TODAY WHO ARE “STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, WHO (IN THEMSELVES) HAVE NO HOPE OF A BLESSED, ETERNAL LIFE, WHO, SADLY, LIVE WITHOUT HOLY GOD IN THEIR EVERY-DAY LIVES”?

“SLAVES UNDER A WORLD CULTURE”? IS THAT THE “SPIRITUALLY UNCLOTHED”? HOW CLEAR WAS JOHN WHEN HE WROTE IN 1 JOHN 3:10 HE WROTE: “IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, & THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL: WHOSOEVER DOES NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD, NEITHER HE THAT LOVES NOT HIS BROTHER.” IS IT CLEAR TO YOU THAT TRUE UNBELIEF IN GOD HAS MORE TO DO WITH WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY DONE FOR YOU THROUGH CHRIST AT THE CROSS & EMPTY TOMB, READY, UPON YOUR WILLINGNESS TO OPEN YOUR HEART’S DOOR & ALLOW HIM TO COME IN? (HE’S KNOCKED BEFORE – HE’S STILL KNOCKS TODAY UPON EVERY LIFE, EVERY PEOPLE, EVERY NATION, EVEN EVERY MODERN-DAY ‘CHURCH GATHERING’, ASKING TO COME IN!) BUT: “SLAVES UNDER A WORLD CULTURE” LIVE BOUND UNDER THAT ‘CLOUD OF UNBELIEF’! MAY 10, 2016, I WROTE THE FOLLOWING WORDS:

“UNBELIEF IS THE ROAD TO SUPERSTITION WITH THE DEVIL’S INTENT OF GOD’S ELIMINATION. TO HIM, TRUTH IS A LIE, AS SOULS TO HIM EASILY DENY THE ONE TRUE GOD & SAVIOR OF MEN, TO BE DECEIVED BY SATAN’S DECEPTIVE SPIN.

“YOU WON’T DIE” WAS HIS VOICE TO EVE, AS HE CAME TO EASILY DECEIVE, TO TURN HER FROM GOD TO THE FLESHLY SOD, SELDOM EVEN GIVING AN INCH OF ‘A FLESH NOD TO GOD’!

‘WISE MEN’ ARE THE DEVIL’S ‘DUMBED-DOWN’, EVENTUALLY CHANGING THEIR SMILES INTO FROWNS; ‘PLEASURE-SEEKERS’ ARE HIS MAIN TARGETS, “PLEASING GOD?”, NOT EVEN A NOD!

“SIN IS GOD’S TERM,” SATAN SO EASILY SPOUTS, BLINDING MEN TO WHAT GOD’S ALL ABOUT. SEPARATION FROM “TRUTH” IS HIS MAIN OCCUPATION: “QUIT LISTENING TO THOSE WHO SPEAK OF “GOD’S RESTORATION”!”

SATAN WANTS YOU BOUND, SPIRITUALLY UNSOUND, INDULGING THE ‘FLESH’ TO YOUR OWN SATISFACTION. TO HIM, GOD’S INTENT HAS NO RELEVANCE TO A DEVIL’S PROGRAM OF ONE’S PERSONAL DEVASTATION.

“ME, MY, MINE” ARE HIS THEMES OF PERSONAL PRAISE, WITH NO DESIRE OF HEAVENLY ANTHEMS RAISED” – ‘DENY YOURSELF’? WHAT A RIDICULOUS REQUEST! GIVE ME YOUR ‘WILL’ AS YOUR MOST BELOVED BEQUEST!”

BUT THE SAVIOR OF MEN, CHRIST JESUS IS HIS NAME, NEEDS NO ‘HALL OF FAME’, BECAUSE ACROSS OUR VAST WORLDS IS HIS SIGNATURE STAMPED, & ESPECIALLY IN THE LIVES OF MEN WHO WITH CHRIST HAVE CAMPED.

FORGIVENESS OF SIN IS HIS DIVINE APPOINTMENT & RENEWAL OF TRUE FAITH IN THE SAVIOR’S ANOINTMENTS – “FREE AT LAST” IS THEIR HOLY CRY AS UPON THE SAVIOR THEY FAITHFULLY RELY.

“SET APART” TO HIS GLORY, TRANSFORMING MEN HIS EVERLASTING STORY, WITH REPENTANT MEN BECOMING WITNESSES OF HIM, EXTENDING HIS KINGDOM, YES, WITH REDEMPTIVE HYMNS.

SPENDING THEIR LIVES IN HIS GLORIFICATION, DAILY DESIRING HIS CONTINUOUS EXALTATION, TRUE MEN OF FAITH WILL HONOR THE SON, AS DAY BY DAY, PERSON BY PERSON, THEY SHARE CHRIST’S TRUTH OF DIVINE RESTORATION.

THERE COMES A TIME WHEN ONE EXAMINES HIS LIFE, & BEGINS TO EVALUATE, “HAVE I ENDED SOME STRIFE, AS I POINTED OTHERS TO THE SAVIOR OF THEIR LIFE?” “HAVE I SHOWN THEM THE DOOR TO THE FRUIT OF HIS SPIRIT,” FULLY DESIRING HIS HOLY BLESSING AS I SHOWED THEM “THE DOOR” TO HIS PRECIOUS RESTING”?

“COME UNTO ME”, IS STILL HIS CALL, AS REPENTANT MEN FAITHFULLY FALL, RESTING IN HIS ‘FINISHED WORK’, THEY RISE TO DUTY & CALLING THAT THEY’LL NEVER SHIRK!

BUT IF YOU’RE NOT PREPARED FOR THE DAY OF DEATH, WHAT WILL YOUR FLORIST HAVE TO POST ON YOUR DOOR? DEAD FLOWERS FOR A LIFE POORLY LIVED, OR A WELCOMING WREATH TO GOD’S HOLY PRESENCE, BECAUSE YOU AT LEAST BOASTED IN HIS FINISHED WORK & YOUR RESTORATION?

BIRTHED TO “NEW LIFE” – & IN HIM YOU NEVER DIE, BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE, YOU ETERNALLY RELY – FROM THE DOOR OF DEATH TO HIS THRONE ON HIGH, YOU GIVE EVIDENCE: “ON HIM, I’LL NEVER DENY”, BUT CONSTANTLY HEAR HIS FAITHFUL REPLY: ‘YOUR WALK OF FAITH HAS FINISHED ITS COURSE – WELCOME HOME, SON, TO YOUR MERCIFUL REWARD.”

EXAMINE FOR YOURSELF EPHESIANS 2 WHERE HOLY GOD INSPIRED PAUL TO EXPOSE THE SINFUL CONDITION OF ALL MEN, TO UNVEIL SALVATION THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD, & TO UNVEIL THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF GOD FOR JEW & GENTILE! “GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD!”

SLAVES OF WORLD CULTURES OR SERVANTS OF THE ONE TRUE GOD? IN 1 KINGS 18:21 ELIJAH CHALLENGED MEN THEN & NOW WHEN HE ASKED, “HOW LONG HALT YOU BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? IF THE LORD BE GOD, FOLLOW HIM; BUT IF BAAL, THEN FOLLOW HIM.” AND THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD.”

YES, “SLAVES OF ‘RELIGIOUS’ WORLD CULTURES FACE THE SAME ETERNAL JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD’S DETERMINED OPPOSERS OF GOD’S MERCY, HIS GRACE, & HIS LOVE – THEY WANT TO ‘PROVE TO THEMSELVES’ THAT THEY DIDN’T THEN NOR NOW DESERVED ‘CRUCIFIXION WITH CHRIST’!

SEVERAL THINGS YOU MUST BE AWARE OF RELATED TO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ‘FLESH-RELIGIOUS-CULTURES’ & THE ETERNAL TRUTH OF THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST JESUS! WHAT WAS IT THAT ELIJAH WAS INSISTING UPON?

FOR ONE THING, PROPHETIC MINISTRY DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN ‘RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY –LIKE THE WORSHIP OF BAAL OR ANY FALSE GOD’ & THE TRUE WORSHIP OF HOLY GOD APART FROM ANY COMPROMISING MIND HEART, & SPIRIT!

SECONDLY, PROPHETIC MINISTRY DOESN’T WASTE TIME WITH FOLKS WHO WANT TO ‘THINK’ ABOUT BOWING BEFORE GOD OR NOT! WHAT DID THE PROPHET SAY? “HOW LONG HALT YOU BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? IF THE LORD BE GOD, FOLLOW HIM: BUT IF BAAL, FOLLOW HIM.” AND THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD.”

HOW LONG HALT YOU? HESITATING ELDERLY MEN STILL SHAKE WITH A CANE IN HAND, BUT THEY STILL CAN’T DECIDE ABOUT THEIR ‘GRIT’ OR GOD’S GRACE! IT’S NOT MORE TIME THAT YOU NEED, BUT TRUE TRUST IN THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD TO SEEK YOU OUT, EXPOSE YOUR STATE OF MIND & HEART, & UNVEIL FOR YOU HIS BLESSED FINISHED WORK THROUGH THE WILLFUL YIELDEDNESS OF CHRIST TO TAKE YOU TO THE CROSS WITH HIM & GET RID OF THAT SATANIC, SIN-CONTROLLED MIND & HEART!

IN THE THIRD PLACE, SLAVES OF WORLD CULTURES, THOUGH ON THE SURFACE, APPEAR TO ‘BE RELIGIOUS’, WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH YIELDING TO AN ALREADY “FINISHED WORK”? DOES “LIMP-LUSTER” ALLEGIANCE DEFINE TRUE DISCIPLES? IT WAS SPURGEON, IN HIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY SERIES, (VOLUME 3,P.183-184), WHO SAID: [IT’S AWESOME! GET READY!!], “I SPEAK NOT, THIS MORNING, TO THE THOROUGHLY WORLDLY; WITH THEM I HAVE NOTHING NOW TO DO; ANOTHER TIME I MAY ADDRESS THEM. BUT NOW I AM SPEAKING TO YOU WHO ARE SEEKING TO SERVE GOD & TO SERVE SATAN; YOU WHO ARE TRYING TO BE CHRISTIAN WORLDLINGS, TRYING TO BE MEMBERS OF THAT EXTRAORDINARY CORPORATION, CALLED THE ‘RELIGIOUS WORLD,’ WHICH IS A THING THAT NEVER HAD AN EXISTENCE EXCEPT IN TITLE. YOU ARE ENDEAVORING, IF YOU CAN, TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHICH IT SHALL BE; YOU KNOW YOU CAN NOT SERVE BOTH, & YOU ARE COMING NOW TO THE PERIOD WHEN YOU ARE SAYING, ‘WHICH SHALL IT BE? SHALL I GO THOROUGHLY INTO SIN, & REVEL IN THE PLEASURES OF THE EARTH, “OR” BECOME A SERVANT OF GOD?” NOW, I SAY TO YOU THIS MORNING, AS THE PROPHET DID, ‘HOW LONG HALT YOU?’ SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN HALTING UNTIL YOUR HAIR HAS GROWN GRAY; THE SIXTIETH YEAR OF SOME OF YOU IS DRAWING NIGH. IS NOT SIXTY YEARS LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE YOUR CHOICE? ‘HOW LONG HALT YOU?’”

FOURTH, SERVANTS OF THE ONE TRUE GOD? OH, THAT WALK OF FAITH IS SO FAR BEYOND ‘MENTAL ASSENT’ – IT’S FOUNDATION IS RESPONSE TO JESUS’ CHALLENGE IN LUKE 6:46-49 WHEN HE SAID: “ & WHY DO YOU CALL ME, LORD, LORD, & DO NOT THE THINGS WHICH I SAY? WHOSOEVER COMES TO ME, & HEARS MY SAYINGS, & DOES THEM, I WILL SHOW YOU TO WHOM HE IS LIKE:

HE IS LIKE A MAN WHICH BUILT A HOUSE, & DIGGED DEEP, & LAID THE FOUNDATION ON A ROCK; & WHEN THE FLOOD AROSE, THE STREAM BEAT VEHEMENTLY UPON THAT HOUSE, & COULD NOT SHAKE IT: FOR IT WAS FOUNDED UPON A ROCK. BUT HE THAT HEARETH, & DOEST NOT, IS LIKE A MAN THAT WITHOUT A FOUNDATION BUILT A HOUSE UPON THE EARTH; AGAINST WHICH THE STREAM DID BEAT VEHEMENTLY, & IMMEDIATELY IT FELL, & THE RUIN OF THAT HOUSE WAS GREAT.”

I MUST SHARE PAUL THE APOSTLE’S WORDS IN 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-4:21!! (READ ALL!)

I WANT YOU TO HEAR WORDS FROM “THE AMERICAN HYMNAL” OF A HYMN BY DANIEL C.ROBERTS & GEORGE W.WARREN ENTITLED, “GOD OF OUR FATHERS, WHOSE ALMIGHTY HAND.” IT SAYS: “GOD OF OUR FATHERS, WHOSE ALMIGHTY HAND LEADS FORTH IN BEAUTY ALL THE STARRY BAND OF SHINING WORLDS IN SPLENDOR THRO’ THE SKIES, OUR GRATEFUL SONGS BEFORE YOUR THRONE ARISE.

YOUR LOVE DIVINE HAS LED US IN THE PAST, IN THIS FREE LAND BY YOU OUR LOT IS CAST; YOU BE OUR RULER, GUARDIAN, GUIDE & STAY, YOUR WORD OUR LAW, YOUR PATHS OUR CHOSEN WAY.

FROM WAR’S ALARMS, FROM DEADLY PESTILENCE, YOU BE OUR STRONG ARM OUR EVER SURE DEFENCE; YOUR TRUE FAITH IN OUR HEARTS INCRESE, YOUR BOUNTEOUS GOODNESS NOURISH US IN PEACE.

REFRESH YOUR PEOPLE ON THEIR TOILSOME WAY, LEAD US FROM NIGHT TO NEVER-ENDING DAY; FILL ALL OUR LIVES WITH LOVE & GRACE DIVINE, & GLORY, LAUD & PRAISE BE EVER THINE. AMEN! OR “SO BE IT!!” CAN “YOU” SAY AMEN TO THAT?

IS YOUR ‘LIFE OF FAITH IN CHRIST’ LIVED VICTORIOUSLY BECAUSE OF HIS ABIDING PRESENCE IN YOU, OR ARE YOU STILL HELD BACK FROM HIS ETERNAL VICTORY BY THE “BEST” YOUR ‘FLESH’ HAS TO OFFER? OR, UNDERSTANDING, MY OLD SIN-NATURE WAS CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, AND WHEN THE RESURRECTED CHRIST KNOCKED ON YOUR HEART’S DOOR, DID YOU WILLFULLY OPEN THE DOOR FOR HIM TO COME INTO YOU, EXTENDING HIS LOVE, EXPRESSING HIS POWER, & YOU, ‘DEAD TO SELF’, INVITED THE KING OF KINGS & LORD OF LORDS TO BE HIMSELF THROUGH YOU, REIGNING SUPREMELY AS “VICTOR OVER THE WORLD, YOUR SIN-NATURE, & SATAN HIMSELF”?? AND,DO “YOU” ‘DIE DAILY’, TAKING THE SENTENCE OF DEATH UNTO YOURSELF IN ORDER THAT HIS RESURRECTION PRESENCE WILL BE MANIFESTED IN YOU & THROUGH YOU MOMENT BY MOMENT, DAY BY DAY, YES, ETERNALLY IN HIS EVERLASTING KINGDOM RULE OVER THE LAW OF SIN & DEATH?

IN “THE AMERICAN HYMNAL” PUBLISHED IN 1933 BY BROADMAN PRESS, NASHVILLE, TENN., IS A HYMN ENTITLED, (P93), “YOU SERVANTS OF GOD, YOUR MASTER PROCLAIM”, (BY C.WESLEY & F.J.HAYDEN.). IT SAYS: “YOU SERVANTS OF GOD, YOUR MASTER PROCLAIM, & PUBLISH ABROAD HIS WONDERFUL NAME; THE NAME ALL-VICTORIOUS OF JESUS EXTOL; HIS KINGDOM IS GLORIOUS, HE RULES OVER ALL.

GOD RULES ON HIGH, ALMIGHTY TO SAVE; & STILL HE IS NIGH- HIS PRESENCE WE HAVE; THE GREAT CONGREGATION HIS TRIUMPH SHALL SING, ASCRIBING SALVATION TO JESUS OUR KING.

SALVATION TO OUR GOD, WHO SITS ON THE THRONE, LET ALL CRY ALOUD & HONOR THE SON; THE PRAISES OF JESUS THE ANGELS PROCLAIM, FALL DOWN ON THEIR FACES & WORSHIP THE LAMB.

THEN LET US ADORE & GIVE HIM HIS RIGHT, ALL GLORY, & POWER, & WISDOM & MIGHT; ALL HONOR & BLESSING WITH ANGELS ABOVE, & THANKS NEVER CEASING, & INFINITE LOVE.”

DO “YOU” HONOR HIM & BLESS HIS NAME FOR THE ETERNAL SALVATION HE BOUGHT & BROUGHT TO YOU THROUGH HIS “BLOOD SACRIFICE”?