Dynamic Harvest Ministries

Dynamic Harvest Ministries Making disciples for Christ with clear and accurate Biblical teaching. We are created by God, called by Christ, and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Based on the whole counsel of God, we seek to pattern all we do after the example of Christ and the pattern described in the New Testament. We are to be living examples of Christ: His love, His care, and His Word. Not only to reach the lost ourselves, but to engage other Christians into the pursuit of the Harvest. To perfect the Saints, to do the work of the ministry, and to edify the Body of Chri

st. Beyond just the spiritual needs, we are to reach out and assist in every area of human life at every level including:
1. the needs of individuals, marriages, and families
2. the needs of church leadership and local church bodies

10/31/2024

It’s time to discuss the origins of Reformation Day vs. Halloween. We must consider the truths vs. tradition. A lot of questions have come up lately about several religious holidays, so I think it’s time to clear up some things.

The term ‘Halloween’ is actually Celtic known as ‘Hallowed Evening’, but the ritual practices originated in Mexico, traced back 2,500 years ago, to Aztec rituals celebrating the deaths of ancestors. Skulls were commonly kept as trophies and displayed during the rituals to symbolize death and rebirth. It was originally observed during the ninth month of the Aztec calendar, roughly the beginning of August and was celebrated for an entire month. The festivities were dedicated to the goddess ‘Mictecacihuatl’ known as the "Lady of the Dead", corresponding to the modern Catrina. This ritual morphed into the modern ‘Day of the Dead’.

MAKE NO MISTAKE! ALL of these ideas and practices ARE at the door of ‘idol worship’! Be aware that whether ancient or modern these traditions ‘violate’ God’s 1st and 2nd commandments!

The beliefs of this ‘Pagan’ ritual were embraced by the early Catholic Church and eventually moved to November. In most regions of Mexico, November 1 is to honor deceased children and infants, and November 2 was to honor deceased adults. Generally referring November 1 mainly as ‘Día de los Inocentes’-Day of the Innocents, later termed ‘Día de los Angelitos’-Day of the Little Angels. November 2 was called ‘Día de los Muertos’ or ‘Día de los Difuntos’-Day of the Dead!

These beliefs held that the children make an altar and place favorite foods and other items of the deceased upon it, to invite the spirits of dead children-‘angelitos’ to come back for a visit on November 1, and in like manner, the adult spirits will come to visit on November 2, on November 3 they would celebrate ‘the family coming together, known as ‘All Souls Day’. This is when families go to the cemetery to decorate the graves and tombs of their relatives. It became a three-day fiesta filled with marigolds - ‘flowers of the dead’ and mu***os - ‘the bread of the dead’; sugar skulls; cardboard skeletons; tissue paper decorations; fruit and nuts; incense, and other traditional foods and decorations.

Very similar rituals spread into many Central and South American Countries, in Haiti, Indonesia, Fiji, Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, and Europe. BTW, this is also where the idea of ‘zombies’ comes from.

ALL of these rituals strictly FORBIDDEN by God’s Word!
*Deut.18: 9 “When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.”

MAKE NO MISTAKE! These things are the very root of ‘necromancy’, which is a form of witchcraft!!! And they are an abomination to God! And because many Israelites learned to do after the same things, they came under God’s judgment! He specifically told them
*V10 “There shall not be found among you any one that…”

Whether we believe it or not, whether you think you are justified in such activities or not, when you participate in such things there is a great possibility that you are opening the door to ‘evil spirits’ and demonic influences!

In 1517, Martin Luther had received a fresh revelation of truth from the Word of God, which began the whole ‘Reformation’ era. The Catholic Church had become corrupt, with the observance of these rituals, including the additional beliefs that they could buy and sell positions, forgiveness and places in heaven.

Luther, as a Master of Arts and Lecturer at Wittenberg University, wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Magdeburg, protesting the sale of indulgences (liquor) by the Catholic Church leadership to the poor, taking advantage of their ignorance, to rebuild St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Within this letter were 95 points of contention he had against the Catholic Church doctrines and beliefs.

It was the custom of the Wittenberg University to POST any disputation upon the door of the ‘All Saints Church’, also known as ‘Castle Church’. Hence what is now known as ‘All Saints Day’, as opposed to ‘All Souls Day’ – the pagan ritual embraced by the Catholic Church!

Luther’s letter became known as ‘Luther’s 95 Theses’. It was quickly translated from Latin into German and printed, and widely copied, making the controversy one of the first in history to be aided by the printing press. Within two weeks, copies of the theses had spread throughout Germany; within two months Luther's writings had circulated throughout Europe, reaching France, England, and Italy as early as 1519. People thronged to Wittenberg to hear Luther speak about these disputations.

A ‘New Church’ was established in Regensburg and an order was posted stating ‘the reformation of the city’ is to be observed on the first Sunday after Oct.15. Churches in the Pomeranian states issued an order to observe reformation on St. Martin’s Day on Nov. 11. All the Protestant areas of Germany observed ‘Reformation Day’ on Nov. 11, on the 100th year of reformation in 1617.

The Lutheran Church then began regular annual observance of ‘The Festival of the Reformation’ on Oct.31, which was the day Martin Luther nailed His 95 Theses to the door of the All Saints Church, and they moved ‘All Saints Day’ to the first Sunday after Nov.1, to keep the days separate.

Martin Luther’s intended purpose for choosing Oct.31 was because He knew that thousands of Catholics would attend a mass the next day to worship the relics of dead-included in the Aztec ritual. These disputations would be read to all those in attendance.

A parallel concept arose in1745. Scottish and Celtic beliefs marking the end of harvest, celebrating the darker part of the years when spirits or ‘fairies’ would come back to their homes, termed as ‘Hallowed EVENING’, shortened to ‘All Hallows EVE’ and then supposedly to ‘Halloween’. These Celtic beliefs were extremely similar to those of the Aztec rituals. And where much of the confusion of the name of the holiday started! Obscuring the Reformation Day in 1517!

MAKE NO MISTAKE! These Scottish and Celtic beliefs and rituals ARE still directly associated with ‘idol worship’! And when you participate in such things there is a great possibility that you are opening the door to ‘evil spirits’ and demonic influences!


In any case, for the Christian believer, I personally believe if we honor anything in Oct. it should be honoring the significance of REFORMATION which brought about the REVIVING of ‘true Christian values and beliefs’ that had long since been forgotten. We should be worshipping God who made this revival possible! Because it’s not about Catholic, Luther or Calvin or any other person! It’s about CHRIST who made eternal salvation possible in the first place!

So with that said, we need to understand the difference between consciously accepting and believing in Christ, which is ‘foreign’ to our carnal nature, AND blindly following human traditions whether it’s Halloween, Christmas or Easter, or any other holiday.

The devil is a Master of deception, the ‘father of lies’ and he subtly uses tactics of normalization to desensitize our conscience; blurring the lines that GOD has already drawn! We don’t have to officially invite him in, or formally open the door for him, because there are plenty of pit-falls, snares, hidden dangers and deceptions floating around out there!

Many are struggling with the moral dilemma of what’s right and wrong on the issue. I talked to a lot of students and parents, on the bus and out in the community. Some undecided, some confused, some stuck in tradition, some judging others for doing or not doing certain things, and some in stubborn defiance! And some getting ‘bent out of shape’ because I’m telling the truth to people! Regardless of where you might stand concerning these things, we ALL need the TRUTH about the issues so that we can make the ‘right’ decision on all the levels of our life. Especially concerning our relationship with God and our eternity!

There’s an old story about putting a frog in a pot of hot water and he’ll jump out, but put him in lukewarm water and gradually turn up the heat and he won’t even realize that he’s been cooked! And it works the very same way with the spiritual issues that we can’t see or put in our hands! And many people are getting trapped in their own trap because they will not take heed to God’s truths and they simply make their own choices based on their own ‘common sense’ and ‘human reason’, which causes us to set up our own moral standard and reject God! THAT puts us in a dangerous position; because we exalt our own selves above God! You may not think it’s such a serious issue, but I assure you, IT IS!!!

In this day that we live we need to, “Keep it REAL! Keep it CHRIST!!!”

For The Harvest,

10/30/2024

What does the ‘Great Commission’ say? Go into all the world, and do ‘what’? Get people saved? NO! Cast out demons? NO! Go and teach! Make disciples! What is it that we are to be teaching?
*Mat.28:19 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

> ‘teach’ - G3100 – from G3101, be a disciple of one, to make a disciple.
> G3101 - a learner, pupil or disciple.

There is the genuine clarion ‘call’ of God to ALL of us, to GO and ‘teach’. Then there is an unconscious ‘zeal’ that’s rooted in the flesh that desires to simply convert others to ‘our way’ of thinking or believing. Making them disciples of ‘us’ rather than disciples of Jesus Christ, 1Cor.3:4-7! While trying to convince yourself ‘it’s really of God’. WHY???
*Mat.23:15 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”

We must FIRST KNOW Jesus Christ personally ‘in us’, having His heart, His mind and His discerning so that we can distinguish whose ‘call’ we are actually following!
AND be secure enough in who we are ‘in Him’ to know that it’s NOT ‘about us’. AND be OK with Jesus Christ getting all the attention, even if it means us being totally overlooked.
AND being content with that, knowing that we are servants of the Master, simply doing our job!

IF it’s ‘your’ call from your own zeal, then you’re really teaching people to think and believe what ‘you’ believe personally. This is a sign of immaturity, and actually the in-security in what you believe. It’s an attempt to draw support and encouragement to yourself, in order to cover up that nagging conviction that you may not ‘be right’ in what you’re doing, OR what you believe. There are many who sound, smell and look like the real thing. But in truth, they are:
*2Tim.3:5 “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

MAKE NO M ISTAKE! IF you have ‘no desire’ for others to truly know Christ, then there is reason to question whether ‘your salvation’ is REAL or not, not to mention ‘your calling’! Reason to go back and RE-examine your ‘first works’, to see whether there was an actual ‘heart-transaction with God!!!

In order to effectively teach the nations, we must ALREADY be a ‘true disciple’ of Jesus Christ ourselves! AND that the words we speak are truly ‘HIS words’! Not ‘our words’. We as well as our words should be quickened and empowered by the Holy Spirit which will do the changing. The changing IN us first and then IN others!
*John6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

So that those that hear the words spoken will know of an absolute certainty that ‘those words’ did NOT come from ‘us’, but as a witness they came from God. We were simply an instrument in His hand. HIS tool, in HIS hand, to convey what HE wants others to know, 2Pet.1:21!
*1Cor.2:4 “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”
*Col.2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

Yes, there will be signs and wonders and all the others things He said would ‘follow’ them that believe. Don’t get the cart before the horse! Don’t go seeking or trying to generate miracles in order to validate ‘who you are’ and/or ‘what you’re doing’. That’s another clear sign of in-security because you are not going under the right authority.
*Mk.16:20 “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.”

IF you unconsciously know in yourself that you ‘have a following’, and you’re enamored by the adoration and gratitude of others, which puts you on that pedestal, THEN it also puts you in danger of ‘deifying’ yourself as ‘a god’ and you can’t see it because of pride which blinds you from the truth. Your own ‘self’ becoming your own idol! You might be saying, “Oh no, that’s not me! I would never allow that to happen!” Don’t sit there and deceive yourself! It can happen even on FB! Are you more concerned with how many ‘likes’ you are getting, that you’re doing something ‘good’? OR the fact that lives are being changed by Christ?

Come on church! WAKE UP! This IS happening in many of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, Independent, Full-Gospel, Non-denominational, Inter-denominational, Contemporary ranks, all across the board, more than what people care to admit or address.
~ IF you get frustrated that you’re overlooked and undervalued?
~ IF you feel like people should ‘notice you’?
~ IF you can’t simply point people to Christ and get out of the way?
~ IF you can’t teach them the ‘straight’ commands and truths and teachings of Jesus Christ without throwing in your 20cents worth of opinion and personal beliefs, or without receiving a word of praise or compliment or even acknowledgement, THEN I can tell you right now, you are doing it from a self-centered motivation/call; that fleshly zeal.

Ask yourself, If ALL the appreciation, ALL the compliments, ALL the thanks, ALL the acknowledgements, ALL the titles and positions and ALL the compensation WERE TO STOP RIGHT NOW, would it change who you are? Would it change what you do? Would your attitudes change? Would you still do what you do? Could you survive without that attention? IF NOT, then go back and renounce those selfish motives and repent. Crucify those fleshly/selfish desires once again, Gal.2:20!

MAKE NO MISTAKE! This truth is NOT just directed to ministers, or just to those that officially preach and teach under some ‘church covering’! This is to EVERY born-again believer! EVERYONE who claims the name of Jesus Christ, who claims His salvation! And is addressing speaking His truths and His gospel in every word and every conversation that we have in our daily lives!


GO BACK! RE-ESTABLISH the right ‘calling’ for the right ‘reason’! Remain humble and sensitive and ask God to constantly keep you under the scrutiny of the Holy Spirit. So that by His constant vigilance, He can instantly reveal to you even the slightest seed of pride or a haughty spirit. Ask Him to consume you! Ask Him to give you ears to hear! Ask Him to open your eyes of understanding! BEYOND what you think you know~!!! Ask Him to make you humble enough to obey, humble enough to change when He says you need it. Humble enough to ‘recognize’ when you need to change.

~ When you feel ‘comfortable’ with others complimenting and thanking you, BEWARE you are in danger!
~ When you are ‘not willing’ to CHANGE what you believe when there is clear and undeniable truth of God’s Word presented to you that contradicts your personal beliefs, BEWARE your relationship with Christ is already compromised by pride!

You may be offended right now reading this.
~ IF you will take it to God and truly lay yourself open to Him ask Him to reveal to you what the Holy Spirit is saying to you. To open up that conviction to you! To make it REAL to you! Get off your high-horse long enough to truly LET HIM be your teacher! And you actually BE a true student with a ‘teachable spirit’. Because right now there are TOO MANY believers who are:
*2Tim.3:7 “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Keep it IN CONTEXT! Read the chapter without getting all defensive! And ask Him, and ask yourself, “Am I honestly guilty of any of these things?”

~ IF you’re not offended at this, then still go before the Lord and ask Him to guard your heart from any prideful deception in your life, to guard you from any pretense!

So many believers today are afraid or unwilling to touch these issues! Many times because of the fear of ‘rejection’ they might face, and some times because they have grown ‘addicted’ to its influence. Regardless, we MUST address these things, within ourselves and in church.

Immediately acknowledge the Lord in ALL of our ways. Quickly GIVE HIM the credit, the honor and glory! Stop and RE-direct all the praise and gratitude to Him!

Some have brought up:
*Phil.1:18 “What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.”

Jesus and Paul talked about both aspects of ‘others preaching Christ’, and others doing things 'in His name'.
*Mat.12:30 "He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad." (And Lk.11:23)
*Mk.9:38 "And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. 39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. 40 For he that is not against us is on our part. 41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward."

Do we TRULY know what this means??? Because BOTH aspects are in the Word, we must allow the Holy Spirit to teach us the truths about why BOTH are there. And HOW to apply them to our lives! And to recognize where our heart really is!

But one of the truths that STOOD OUT to me, was this. Paul even spoke about this truth separately in:
*1Cor.1:10 "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?"

AND in:
*1Cor.3:1 "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour."

In these passages we see that Paul was dealing directly with the strife and divisions among the brethren that were pointing towards ‘men’ rather than to Christ. Through the wisdom and discernment of the Spirit we SHOULD understand the difference between someone else preaching the 'genuine gospel' of Christ, with 'impure motives' AND those who preach an 'impure gospel' that causes strife and division within the Body. That 'impure' gospel does NOT emphasize CHRIST as the Head. But sadly emphasizes man's beliefs and doctrines OVER that of CHRIST!

It is the LACK of discernment that is creating the GAP, the RIFT between so many different factions and groups, these camps and tribes that are out there today! That sadly put more stock in their ‘labels’ than they do of the ONE TRUE unifying FACTOR-Jesus Christ! These are the ones preaching a 'corrupted gospel of men.'

IF someone may actually preach the genuine gospel of Jesus Christ and IF it TRULY leads people TO CHRIST, while having ill motives, or pretense, that might be okay because, in the end they will stand before God and give account for the personal state of their own hearts.

I personally believe that when I have taught or preached the gospel of Jesus Christ, and His truths,
~ IF they forget my name, that's fine! Because it's not about me. As long as they remember Jesus! As long as their attention and their affection is directed towards Christ!

~ IF it’s mixed with and corrupted by man's beliefs or doctrines, OR if it permits and tolerates the carnal error of man, then I personally believe we should address those issues.
*Eph.4:15 "But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:"

~ IF it's not founded on Christ!
~ IF it's not pointing people to Christ.
~ IF Christ is not the one who receives the honor and glory for what we do and say, and how we live, then it is the corrupted gospel of man. Eph.6:7, Col.3:23, and we lay a stumbling block before others! Not only the confusion and error, but the distraction from the REAL truth!

For The Harvest,

10/29/2024

Let’s take a really ‘hard’ look at SALVATION for a moment.
Let’s keep in mind the basic salvation scriptures of John 3:16 and Romans 10:9-10.
The most common danger here is putting the emphasis on the effect and not on the cause.
~ We are not saved BY believing.
~ We are not saved BY repentance.
~ We are not saved BY obedience.
~ We are not saved BY saying a prayer.

We are saved and born again, because prior to all of these things happening Jesus Christ lived, died and ROSE AGAIN! He Himself declared, “IT IS FINISHED!” We on the other hand simply realize ‘the need’ and acknowledge-YES, He is my answer. Immediately there is transformation that begins to happen within us.

We are instantly struck with the PAIN of guilt, (godly sorrow, 2Cor.7:10) knowing we’re doomed and we need His help. And it’s IN the midst of this ‘godly sorrow’, we willingly begin to pour out our ‘sin-sick soul’ to God in repentance! BUT:
~It’s not even BY us being ‘sorry’ for our sin!

~~Our ‘believing’ IN or ON Him is to ‘acknowledge the fact’ that He is the ONLY ONE who can and DID meet that need. HE made it possible for us to even be saved at all!
~~Our ‘confession’ is to openly/publicly declare that, “I accept” His offer, His invitation. As a witness that “I accept” His life, His nature, His heart into my life! ~~Our repentance SHOULD BE our heart’s reaction to such an overwhelming and supernatural love of God, knowing already that He did not HAVE TO do anything for us, 1John 4:19. He did all of that prior to our existence because ‘He KNEW us’ and yet in all our messed up, sin-cursed condition, He STILL loves us unconditionally!

IF that fact alone does not ‘move us’, to humble ourselves before the Lord and obey Him, then we’re really dead! Not just to ‘move us’ emotionally, but it’s the reaction that causes us to consciously decide to CHANGE. Consciously decide to surrender and yield ourselves to the Lord, and actually consider Him AS~LORD and MASTER!!! And NOT just as ‘savior’!

We find the ‘old carnal life’ is repulsive to us now, and we ‘turn from’ and refuse to live the way we have been living! We now desire to follow Him, to love Him, to please Him and to obey Him, because of who He is and what He has already done for us.

It is a spiritual transaction that takes place in the ‘spiritual realm’ by the SPIRIT of the ‘Living God’! That’s why learning to be ‘led by the Spirit’ and ‘walking in the Spirit’ is SO important!
*Rom.8:13 “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
*Gal.5:16 “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
*Gal.5:25 “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

Why do we see so many today that resist correction and guidance? It’s because, we’ve not only ‘lost’ our first-love, but we have spurned Him!

~ Many believers have actually fallen in love with the notion that we can save ourselves by repentance and or by obedience. Ref. Rev. 2:4, Gal. 3:1-4
This is the reason why many will keep asking forgiveness over and over and over again and never walk in Freedom and never know/understand the Victory we can have because of what He has already done! Because we’ve won’t actually go to Him and truly surrender!
~ OR people revert back to doing something – works, good deeds, a kind-of New Year’s resolution, empty promises/vows that we cannot keep without Him, because somewhere in the back of our minds we somehow believe that if we can only do the right thing, or enough right things then ‘that’ will fix it all. IT WON’T ‘fix it’! IT CAN’T! All-the-while never having the true power to follow through with those vain promises/vows because we’ve based our salvation upon our own abilities and goodness, rather than basing it upon Jesus Christ in us!

You cannot ‘fix’ a spiritual problem with physical action. Nor can you reproduce a ‘chain reaction’ unless you have the correct ingredients to begin with…a Savior who has already accomplished our salvation, and our simple realization that He HAS done so, which produces a ‘willingness’ to repent, submit and obey!

We must get our heart and mind set back on the ‘source’ of our salvation- Jesus Christ! By keeping our focus there, we will not have to experience the frustration, the worries and fears, the disappointments that come by trying to accomplish salvation on our own.

If you truly love someone you will be more than willing to ‘go out of your way’; go the extra mile for them, above and beyond the call of duty. Because our salvation goes FAR BEYOND ‘duty’! It goes to the point of true and living ‘relationship’ with the person of Jesus Christ, who we should be IN-LOVE with!!!

THEN it becomes a privilege and pleasure to stay focused, to stay sensitive, to stay humbled by His overwhelming and unconditional love for us.
~It’s a blessing when the Holy Spirit points out where we have gotten off course and why!
~We graciously accept His correction and gladly respond in humility and obedience because we know in our heart that it all comes right back to what He has done for us already!

It takes ‘humility’ to come back and start over!

For The Harvest,

10/27/2024

So shall they fear The name of the LORD from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.
Isaiah 59:19

10/26/2024

When was the last time you actually gave serious thought about your ‘wedding garment’? Do you truly know WHAT it represents? Or do we simply toss that bit of information into the vast pile of common knowledge that we have obtained in our Christian life?
Have we not understood the truth about:
*Mat.22:10 “So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”

SOMEWHERE within all of our human reasoning we have SOMEHOW come to believe that we cannot wear ‘armor’ and ‘wedding garments’ at the same time! We have chosen to lay aside our wedding garments and hidden them away in favor of ARMOR. HOW do we reconcile this issue of ‘armor AND wedding garments’?

When we choose to play around in our ‘loose living’, we give clear evidence that we have willingly laid aside our ‘godly standard’. AND YET, at the same time, when we DO focus on our ‘spiritual purpose’ we think in context of being in a ‘defensive or offensive’ posture, with “the ARMOR of God!” We do not understand what each represents!

STOP and think about some ‘basics’ for a moment.
1. Armor is something necessary for ‘battle’.
2. ‘Wedding garment’ is something used for a very sacred occasion.
3. Each one must be ‘put on’. OR we choose to put them off.
(Neither ‘just happen’ automatically!)
4. Many fail to see that BOTH require care and attention to maintain.
5. We are told to ‘put on’ BOTH, but NOWHERE in the Word of God are we told to ‘put them off’!!! NOWHERE!!! Meaning they are to be ‘part of us’!

It’s NOT strange Jesus would give a solemn warning to the very first church that He wrote to through John the revelator.
*Rev.2:5 “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.”

The candlestick is also metaphoric! Just as the wedding garment and the armor. And we would do well to take heed to what all of this means.
WHY do we fail to connect this truth?
*Mk.7:14 “And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. 16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.”

NOTICE: He says specifically, “Hearken…EVERY ONE OF YOU, and understand: …”

NO MATTER WHO was following Him that day! No matter who was there listening. He made it VERY CLEAR; this is for you and it’s for me. That it’s not about what goes ‘into’ us that matters as much as what comes ‘out of us’! STOP and let that REALLY sink in! It’s what comes out of our heart that matters most to Jesus!

You don’t lounge around on the couch, nor do you play in a wedding dress. WHAT does that garment represent??? BUT it’s NOT ‘JUST’ being concerned about what ‘external stuff’ gets on our wedding garment. It’s ALSO about our attitude, and how we care for that garment.
*Heb.2:3 “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;”


MAKE NO MISTAKE! Our wedding garment is NOT the ‘armor of God’. Our wedding garment reflects the very character of Christ within you. It reflects WHO ‘you’ are in Christ! A reflection of ‘where your heart really is’!
Our wedding garment is the ‘state of our heart right now’, and the armor is how we choose to value and guard that precious and priceless gift that He has given to us.
The Lord is NOT talking to UN-believers! He is talking to believers those who are born again. Giving them warning about their purity. Giving them warning about living holy lives; unspotted by the world.

TOO MANY are ‘playing around’ in their wedding garments! They are using those sacred holy garments for ‘casual and ordinary’ stuff. They disregard the seriousness of this Christian life! They have WILFULLY FORGOTTEN who they represent; whose life and Spirit abides within them! Our wedding garments REFLECT what is in our hearts just as the ‘fruits’ of our lives, Mat.7:20, and just as our words, Mat.12:34, Lk.6:45.

WE ALL…SHOULD BE ‘purifying’ ourselves. There SHOULD BE a ‘new’ desire that comes with the ‘new’ nature; desiring and purposing to be pure even as Christ is pure! The ‘pressing towards’, Phl.3:14, and ‘striving for’, Phl.1:27, Col.1:29, Heb.12:4.
*1John3:3 “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” Ref.Jms.4:8, 1Pet.1:22
*Rom.8:13 “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”

NOT…I repeat, this is NOT done in order to ‘be saved’, BUT because we ‘ARE saved’, we should willingly be doing these things!
How easily, how quickly we forget, we ‘willfully’ ignore the truth. Like a pendulum we have ‘swung away from’ the extremes of ‘legalism’ of years ago, but now in our panic when we run legalism, and running towards ‘freedom’, we have shed our integrity, and dropped our desire to BE LIKE CHRIST! We’ve cast aside that ‘innate passion’ for Him; to BE…ONE with Him! And now we’ve given up our gratitude; that heart-felt appreciation and humility, and our willing submission towards God!

It’s time that we abandon this other extreme of ‘greasy grace’ and ‘loose living’, and come back INTO BALANCE!
~You CANNOT ‘be free’ without actually ‘serving Him’!
~You CANNOT be ‘in-love’ with Him without ‘obedience’.
~You CANNOT have TWO Masters! You can’t be master along with Him! It’s not just about money or the devil being ‘master’, because the TRUTH IS that IF… ‘you’ are master then you already serve the devil!!! But this is where many believers are right now!

Folks, we have been thinking far too much of ourselves! We are ‘created beings’; created by God! And the devil is a ‘created being’ as well! So, who do you think we should be serving? The devil? Ourselves??? The creature? OR the CREATOR??? We don’t know what we’re doing in this earthly life! Especially where it concerns eternity and the spiritual unseen realm! We stomp around in our ‘supposed’ authority, and stagger around in our ‘supposed’ freedom, like a drunken bully, when we have NEITHER!!! High on ourselves and our ideas!

How do we reconcile this truth within our own souls?
*Rom.5:8 “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” AND:
*2Cor.6:17 “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,”

HOW do we incorporate both of these truths into our lives AT THE SAME TIME? Both of them apply, AND BOTH are the Word of God to us! We talk of grace and faith, gifts and armor. We talk of power and authority, prayer and spiritual warfare. YET, personal purity, personal holiness, integrity and consecration are almost NON-existent in our lives! I repeat, NOT in order to ‘be saved’, but BECAUSE we ARE SAVED!!! I’ll keep saying it over and over again! Refer back to:
*Gal.3:3 “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
*Jms.2:26 “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”

IS ‘works’ all about the stuff we ‘do for others’ or even what we ‘do for the kingdom’, OR is it the ‘works’ that… HE has accomplished IN US, the changes that have been made IN US to make us more like Christ? Those things that are expressed outwardly by what we say and do, by how we live!?!?!?

YES, Jesus taught us about faith, BUT He ALSO taught us about holiness and purity! How many times does the Lord admonish us in His Word, about our ‘hearts’ and about living ‘holy’ lives? In virtually ALL the ‘red letters’ Jesus points us towards the ‘state of our heart’. Here’s just a small list of other verses:
*Mat.5:48 “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
*Lk.6:40 “The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.”
NOTE: You don’t ‘become’ the master. You simply become ‘like Him’.
*Eph.5:27 “That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
*Jude1:23 “And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.”
*Rev.3:4 “Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.”
*2Pet.3:11 “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
*Lev.20:7 “Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.”
*1Pet.1:15 “But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;”
*1Pet.1:16 “Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”
*2Pet.3:14 “Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.”

There are SO MANY MORE scriptures that affirm these very same truths! You may as well copy/paste the whole Bible here. WHY have we turned our backs on very things that Christ died for? Did He die simply to set you ‘free’ to do whatever you want to do? Did He die simply to make you ‘feel good’? You know the answer! We ALL know the answer is “NO”, but WHY then, are we living like holiness doesn’t really matter anymore? IT DOES MATTER!!! It HAS ALWAYS MATTERED to the Lord from the very beginning! AND IT STILL MATTERS TO HIM NOW!!!

Are we still running from anything that sounds and looks like ‘legalism’, OR have we simply become so ‘brazen’ that we just don’t care about holiness or obedience anymore? Either way, it’s time to repent! Time to STOP all this foolishness!

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear!

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