This Is How Our Society Is ACTIVELY Rejecting God

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The Coming World Role of Israel by Harold Long

Frank Hunting on the left and Harold Long on the right.

Is Jesus a stranger to you? by Harold Long

"The Spirit of the Lord is now Upon Me". Harold Long

The Impostor Syndrome! or maybe the Impostle Syndrome!

Rachel Kyriazis: How A Young Women Overcame Crippling Anxiety & Learned ...

In watching this video I would recommend that as soon as an ad comes up to use the skip option. In my opinion some of the ads popping up while I was watching were likely to recommend you going down a path other than "the Way the Truth and the Life". Seemingly harmless but there is a battle going on for people's minds.

Pilgrim's Progress: Journey To Heaven | Full Movie | Based on John Bun...

"Chosen" Reflections on John 17

Today’s message comes in the time between the last supper of Jesus and His disciples and prior to them all going to the garden of gethsemane.He had been giving instructions to the disciples and telling them what lies ahead.In this time He prays this amazing prayer in John 17 to His heavenly Father.I am now going to share some thoughts on this. Jesus had been discussing with His disciples what was going to happen to Him. That He was leaving and going back to His Father in heaven and that the Holy Spirit would come to them as their comforter and guide.It took a while for them to actually get this but they finally believed Him. We read this in John 17 17 When Jesus had finished saying all these things he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Reveal the glory of your Son so that he can give the glory back to you. 2 For you have given him authority over every man and woman in all the earth. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him. 3 And this is the way to have eternal life—by knowing you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth! 4 I brought glory to you here on earth by doing everything you told me to. 5 And now, Father, reveal my glory as I stand in your presence, the glory we shared before the world began. 6 “I have told these men all about you. They were in the world, but then you gave them to me. Actually, they were always yours, and you gave them to me; and they have obeyed you. 7 Now they know that everything I have is a gift from you, 8 for I have passed on to them the commands you gave me; and they accepted them and know of a certainty that I came down to earth from you, and they believe you sent me. “Jesus acknowledges the time has come for Him to go back to His Father,as he prays to Him, and asks for the ongoing care and protection for those He has chosen and given to Jesus while He was on earth. God knew and knows who will and won’t believe in Him even though everyone will be given that opportunity. God wants us all to be with Him. He’s asking His Father to show us,both the Glory of God the Father and Jesus the Son as it was in the beginning. We are God’s glory-His creation- and He intended for us to have an abundant life and beautiful relationship with Himself. But we messed it up and after the fall of man it wasn’t possible. So God had to allow Jesus His son to leave His glory with His Father and come to earth to fulfil His plan of redemption. We will sing about that now. Hymn: “God sent His Son-because He lives”. (Announce this) “Jesus goes on to plead with His Father in His prayer to keep safe in His care all those that belong to Him and also belong to Jesus so that we can all be re united with the Father and son and share in their glory. He doesn’t want anyone missing.” John 17:9-12 (show on screen) 9 “My plea is not for the world but for those you have given me because they belong to you. 10 And all of them, since they are mine, belong to you; and you have given them back to me with everything else of yours, and so they are my glory! 11 Now I am leaving the world, and leaving them behind, and coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your own care—all those you have given me—so that they will be united just as we are, with none missing. Hymn: “Now I belong to Jesus” “Jesus continues praying to His Father as He consecrates Himself to meet all our needs,not all our wants, but our need to grow in truth and holiness so that we can show others God’s amazing love and faithfulness. (show on screen) John 17 13 “And now I am coming to you. I have told them many things while I was with them so that they would be filled with my joy. 14 I have given them your commands. And the world hates them because they don’t fit in with it, just as I don’t. 15 I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from Satan’s power. 16 They are not part of this world any more than I am. 17 Make them pure and holy through teaching them your words of truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world, 19 and I consecrate myself to meet their need for growth in truth and holiness. 20 “I am not praying for these alone but also for the future believers who will come to me because of the testimony of these. 21 My prayer for all of them is that they will be of one heart and mind, just as you and I are, Father—that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me. 22 “I have given them the glory you gave me—the glorious unity of being one, as we are— 23 I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one—so that the world will know you sent me and will understand that you love them as much as you love me.” “I have given them the glory you gave me—the glorious unity of being one, as we are” Let’s sing about that. Hymn: “Father make us one” 2v Each one of us was created and chosen by God our Father to have fellowship with Him,to speak and listen to Him,and to live with Him forever. Lesley has the following written on a piece of paper which she reminds herself all the time. I am blessed, chosen, adopted, accepted, redeemed and forgiven. This applies to us who love Jesus. Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love Romans 8 31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. 35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”* ) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. 38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,* neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. We are part of God’s amazing family.And as we sing our benediction think about how we are presented faultless to God through all Jesus has done and He now reigns in Glory with His Father and we are on that journey. “Now unto Him”

A Fresh Start

Life is short. Some food for thought.

Henry Olonga sings and tells his story

Put God First by Oswald Chambers

Put God First By Oswald Chambers Jesus did not commit Himself to them…for He knew what was in man. —John 2:24-25 Put Trust in God First. Our Lord never put His trust in any person. Yet He was never suspicious, never bitter, and never lost hope for anyone, because He put His trust in God first. He trusted absolutely in what God’s grace could do for others. If I put my trust in human beings first, the end result will be my despair and hopelessness toward everyone. I will become bitter because I have insisted that people be what no person can ever be— absolutely perfect and right. Never trust anything in yourself or in anyone else, except the grace of God. Put God’s Will First. “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God” (Hebrews 10:9). A person’s obedience is to what he sees to be a need— our Lord’s obedience was to the will of His Father. The rallying cry today is, “We must get to work! The heathen are dying without God. We must go and tell them about Him.” But we must first make sure that God’s “needs” and His will in us personally are being met. Jesus said, “…tarry…until you are endued with power from on high” (Luke 24:49). The purpose of our Christian training is to get us into the right relationship to the “needs” of God and His will. Once God’s “needs” in us have been met, He will open the way for us to accomplish His will, meeting His “needs” elsewhere. Put God’s Son First. “Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me” (Matthew 18:5). God came as a baby, giving and entrusting Himself to me. He expects my personal life to be a “Bethlehem.” Am I allowing my natural life to be slowly transformed by the indwelling life of the Son of God? God’s ultimate purpose is that His Son might be exhibited in me.

Most Christians Don’t Know THIS About Babylon

More from Oswald Chambers "always be willing to go “outside the camp, bearing His reproach”

Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you… —Luke 10:20 Worldliness is not the trap that most endangers us as Christian workers; nor is it sin. The trap we fall into is extravagantly desiring spiritual success; that is, success measured by, and patterned after, the form set by this religious age in which we now live. Never seek after anything other than the approval of God, and always be willing to go “outside the camp, bearing His reproach” (Hebrews 13:13). In Luke 10:20, Jesus told the disciples not to rejoice in successful service, and yet this seems to be the one thing in which most of us do rejoice. We have a commercialized view— we count how many souls have been saved and sanctified, we thank God, and then we think everything is all right. Yet our work only begins where God’s grace has laid the foundation. Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God’s sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others’ lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God’s testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others. Unless the worker lives a life that “is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3), he is apt to become an irritating dictator to others, instead of an active, living disciple. Many of us are dictators, dictating our desires to individuals and to groups. But Jesus never dictates to us in that way. Whenever our Lord talked about discipleship, He always prefaced His words with an “if,” never with the forceful or dogmatic statement— “You must.” Discipleship carries with it an option. share this devotional with a friend Wisdom From Oswald Chambers We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation. What God looks at is what we are in the dark—the imaginations of our minds; the thoughts of our heart; the habits of our bodies; these are the things that mark us in God’s sight. The Love of God—The Ministry of the Unnoticed, 669 L

The Christian Hope a pod cast featuring the late Pastor Frank Hunting

"If you had known". from Oswald Chambers,

“If You Had Known!” By Oswald Chambers If you had known…in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. —Luke 19:42 Jesus entered Jerusalem triumphantly and the city was stirred to its very foundations, but a strange god was there– the pride of the Pharisees. It was a god that seemed religious and upright, but Jesus compared it to “whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness” (Matthew 23:27). What is it that blinds you to the peace of God “in this your day”? Do you have a strange god– not a disgusting monster but perhaps an unholy nature that controls your life? More than once God has brought me face to face with a strange god in my life, and I knew that I should have given it up, but I didn’t do it. I got through the crisis “by the skin of my teeth,” only to find myself still under the control of that strange god. I am blind to the very things that make for my own peace. It is a shocking thing that we can be in the exact place where the Spirit of God should be having His completely unhindered way with us, and yet we only make matters worse, increasing our blame in God’s eyes. “If you had known….” God’s words here cut directly to the heart, with the tears of Jesus behind them. These words imply responsibility for our own faults. God holds us accountable for what we refuse to see or are unable to see because of our sin. And “now they are hidden from your eyes” because you have never completely yielded your nature to Him. Oh, the deep, unending sadness for what might have been! God never again opens the doors that have been closed. He opens other doors, but He reminds us that there are doors which we have shut– doors which had no need to be shut. Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you. God will turn what might have been into a wonderful lesson of growth for the future.

A Thorn in the Flesh a message by Geoff Thompson

A THORN IN THE FLESH Reading: 2-3 Fourteen years ago I[a] was taken up to heaven* for a visit. Don’t ask me whether my body was there or just my spirit, for I don’t know; only God can answer that. But anyway, there I was in paradise, 4 and heard things so astounding that they are beyond a man’s power to describe or put in words (and anyway I am not allowed to tell them to others). 5 That experience is something worth bragging about, but I am not going to do it. I am going to boast only about how weak I am and how great God is to use such weakness for his glory. 7 I will say this: because these experiences I had were so tremendous, God was afraid I might be puffed up by them; so I was given a physical condition which has been a thorn in my flesh, to hurt and bother me and prick my pride. 8 Three different times I begged God to make me well again. 9 Each time he said, “No. But I am with you; that is all you need. My power shows up best in weak people.” Now I am glad to boast about how weak I am; I am glad to be a living demonstration of Christ’s power, instead of showing off my own power and abilities. 10 Since I know it is all for Christ’s good, I am quite happy about “the thorn,” and about insults and hardships, persecutions and difficulties; for when I am weak, then I am strong—the less I have, the more I depend on him. Introduction: My actual thorn. We might say how does Paul’s experience of his “thorn in the flesh” have anything to do with us? Have any of us had a direct experience like the Apostle Paul. Probably not. We may have some medical conditions that won’t go way and some that have troubled us for years. So what can we learn from Paul and why is this story include in the Bible? “One of the greatest test of any Christian’s faith is the problem of sorrow and suffering ,tragedy and disaster.These things are real,,they hurt, and they cause doubts and questions.” Not only for us but for others. Have you ever had an actual thorn in the flesh? When I was a teenager(teenacher) I had a run in with a thorn bush. A thorn seriously lodged in my right forearm and it was initially very painful. It went in quite deep and I think the consensus by a dr was it eventually would find it’s way out. So I had this in my arm for a number of years. I learned to live with it and it was painful if I pressed the spot but it was bearable in daily living. I will come back to my thorn later. In Paul’s case it was not an actual thorn he had been given, but an ailment of which no clue has been given to what it was. Many people have conjectured what it was over the years. In any event it troubled him. And yet Paul was such a source of comfort and inspiration to many but his “thorn” did not hinder his work. No one likes to live in pain. Paul sought the Lord three times to remove this source of pain from him (2 Corinthians 12:8). He probably had many good reasons why he should be pain-free: he could have a more effective ministry; he could reach more people with the gospel; he could glorify God even more! But the Lord was more concerned with building Paul’s character and preventing pride. Instead of removing the problem, whatever it was, God gave Paul more overwhelming grace and more compensating strength. Paul learned that God’s “power is made perfect in weakness” (verse 9). He says it made him stronger .In his weakness. 10 Since I know it is all for Christ’s good, I am quite happy about “the thorn,” and about insults and hardships, persecutions and difficulties; for when I am weak, then I am strong—the less I have, the more I depend on him. Many explanations about the “thorn” have been put forward, but whether Paul is referring to a physical, spiritual, or emotional affliction—or something else entirely—has never been answered with satisfaction. Since he was not talking of a literal thorn, he must have been speaking about something esle. Some of the more popular theories of the thorn’s interpretation include temptation, a chronic eye problem, malaria, migraines, epilepsy, and a speech disability. No one likes to live in pain. Paul sought the Lord three times to remove this source of pain from him (2 Corinthians 12:8). He probably had many good reasons why he should be pain-free: he could have a more effective ministry; he could reach more people with the gospel; he could glorify God even more! But the Lord was more concerned with building Paul’s character and preventing pride. Instead of removing the problem, whatever it was, God gave Paul more overwhelming grace and more compensating strength. Paul learned that God’s “power is made perfect in weakness” (verse 9). So let’s get back to us. Some of us might feel challenged by the fact we are no longer able to do the things we did in our youth. Most of us here, I think, have that problem. We also have trouble with our thinking , our ability to remember things, we have trouble also some of us relying on other people to care for us. To bring us to Church, to shower us, to feed us and all the normal things we once did. To take us on outings. So if we have all these problems how is it helping us in our weakness. Well for a start it helps us to let go of our pride and boastfulness that Paul was struggling with. We have heard that saying “Pride goes before a fall”. A similar proverb expands the message: “Haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor” (Proverbs 18:12 NLT). While pride sets us on an ill-fated course, the opposite of pride—humility—leads to honor. To choose pride is to set oneself up for a fall; the pedestal we make for ourselves proves a precarious foundation. So pride and being full of our own importance is never going to win us any friends or enable us to have a relationship with God that can sustain us. When we humbly accept the help being offered to us as we get older it has an impact on those who care for us. They are more likely to enjoy helping us if we are full of gratitude and not complaints. In turn we are helping them to learn from our graciousness as one day they will be old like us. When you care for, or mix with humble people, that Grace rubs off on you. We can if effect show or carers and friends by our behaviour that our God is worth knowing. Also we are providing a job for them that helps them to feed their families. By us showing grace and co operation it makes it a pleasure for them to come to work, especially when there are such challenging things happening in our world. So ,while we might feel weak because of some ailments we have, like Paul, we are also strong in our weakness. So what happened to the thorn in my arm. Well one day, years later, I felt some soreness and irritation where it had gone into my arm. Within a few hours it worked it’s way to the surface and we were able to remove it. I had been able to live quite ok for some years even though I had a thorn in the flesh. So let’s rethink what ever is troubling us and trust God to resolve our fears and worries. We will now sing our closing Hymn. Please note the photograph is my arm a few years ago when I had some internal bleeding after a medical prpcedure.

Spiritual Vision Through Personal Purity By Oswald Chambers from My Utmost for His Highest

Spiritual Vision Through Personal Purity By Oswald Chambers Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. —Matthew 5:8 Purity is not innocence— it is much more than that. Purity is the result of continued spiritual harmony with God. We have to grow in purity. Our life with God may be right and our inner purity unblemished, yet occasionally our outer life may become spotted and stained. God intentionally does not protect us from this possibility, because this is the way we recognize the necessity of maintaining our spiritual vision through personal purity. If the outer level of our spiritual life with God is impaired to the slightest degree, we must put everything else aside until we make it right. Remember that spiritual vision depends on our character— it is “the pure in heart” who “see God.” God makes us pure by an act of His sovereign grace, but we still have something that we must carefully watch. It is through our bodily life coming in contact with other people and other points of view that we tend to become tarnished. Not only must our “inner sanctuary” be kept right with God, but also the “outer courts” must be brought into perfect harmony with the purity God gives us through His grace. Our spiritual vision and understanding is immediately blurred when our “outer court” is stained. If we want to maintain personal intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ, it will mean refusing to do or even think certain things. And some things that are acceptable for others will become unacceptable for us. A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!” share this devotional with a friend

"All at Sea"

"100 Days of Love" by Thomas Albert Carruth

Baptism by Frank Hunting. Recorded in 1970's