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Hebrews 12

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Gang Warfare from Matthew 20

“Now listen to this story. A man owned a few blocks in an urban area, so he built a set of apartment buildings there, rented them out and then set managers over each building to keep them up and to collect the rent. Month after month, he sent employees to the managers to collect the proceeds, but the managers shut one out, beat up another, and another disappeared and was never heard from again. Then the owner sent groups of employees to collect his proceeds, and this started a gang war, but it didn’t get him a single dime. So then the owner sent his son figuring that the sight of him would cause the managers to reconsider their actions. But seeing the owner’s son at the door, the managers decided quickly that if the son was out of the way, the owner, being old and feeble, there being no one to care for the property after him, would just wither and fade away. So they grabbed the son, took him out of the city and killed him, leaving his body exposed to the elements. So let me ask you, what do you think the owner will do to those managers?”

One answered, “He will call the police?”

Everyone listening to this laughed.

Then another said, “In his fury, he will do to those evil managers exactly what they did to him. He will kill them all and give the management to someone who will give to him what he deserves.”

Jesus replied, “You are correct. So what is your problem? Haven’t you read in the Word, ‘The one whom the leaders rejected as a criminal has been chosen as the king of them all—and this is an amazing thing to see’? God’s nation will be taken away from you and given to a people who will give Him the proceeds he requires.”

Labels: Matthew 20

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Letter To The Evangelicals (Rev. 2)

John, take this dictation.

To the Power which rules over the congregation of Jesus’ people, the Evangelicals:

This is from the King, who rules over God’s stars, the Powers that stand before God.
This is from the High Priest of the congregations, who brings the prayers of the people of God to God’s throne.

I know all that you have done for Me, all of your service. I know that you have upheld my name despite those who deny me. I know that you won’t put up with false teachers, but test every so called “apostle” or “prophet” or “teacher” that comes in my name. Some you have found to be untrue, denying Me, and you have rightly labeled them “heretics”. I know that some have attacked you because of your stand for me, and yet you are ready to continue to be standing on my behalf.

But there is a serious issue that I take stand against you: You have walked away from the love you initially lived out. You would be kind to all my brothers, helping the weak, and now you deny them, and so you deny Me. You have forsaken your love for the needy and so forsaken Me.

Correct yourself. Remember the acts you did previously and do them again. If you do not, I will take you from God’s presence and your prayers will not be heard. Heaven will become a ceiling to you, unless you renew your love.

Admittedly, you are opposed to the “Victorious People”, whom I am opposed to as well.
If anyone can hear, then pay attention to the Spirit’s word to the people of Jesus.
The conquering heroes will receive fruit from the tree of life and so obtain eternal bliss in the paradise of God.

Labels: Letters to Seven Churches, Revelation, Revelation 2

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Letter to the Underground Church In China (Rev. 2)

John, take this dictation:

To the Power of the congregation of God’s people underground in China:

I am the ruler of all things from the least to the greatest.And I am the one who was killed unjustly, but God vindicated me by raising me from the dead.

O My people, I know your great suffering and your poverty in the sight of all around you— Yet, here with Me, you have great wealth!

I know about the traditionalists, the so-called “congregation of God” who speak terrible slander about You. But they are not of God’s congregation, but Satan’s.
Don’t be afraid of your suffering—that which you have received nor what is coming. The Great Liar and Evil Prosecutor is going to throw some of you into prison for a limited period of time. This is done to test your faith.

If you remain true to me—even to death—then I will give you the reward of life that never ends.

If anyone can hear, then pay attention to the Spirit’s word to the people of Jesus.

The Victor may die, but won’t be touched by the death which comes at the judgment of all people.

Labels: Letters to Seven Churches, Revelation, Revelation 2

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Letter To The Church of Washington D.C. (Rev. 2)

John, take this dictation:

To the Power of the congregation of God’s people in Washington D.C.:

This is a message from He whose sword—the Word of Power—cuts both against the world and the people of God.

I know the difficulties you face, and that you live in the city of Satan’s throne, where people worship politics as the replacement of God. But you did not deny me, even in the days of Martin Luther King, my witness who faithfully spoke the truth, who was killed by Satanic forces.

But I hold these things against you:

The teaching of Balaam, who taught Barak how to compromise the people of God by seducing them and leading them into false worship, is rampant among you. I have taught to love your enemies and you teach that killing your enemies at times is justified. I have taught that the least shall be the greatest, but you uphold the boasters, not the humble. I have taught to seek God’s kingdom, but you teach to seek the kingdom of this world.

You also adhere to the teachings of those who advocate compromise with the government of the world, so that the church can have success in this life.
You need to turn away from compromise of all kinds. If you stand with the world, then when I come to judge the world, I will judge you as well. Only those who remain steadfast in me, in opposition to the ways and powers of the world, will remain standing on the final day, for I will cut down every compromiser with the word of my mouth.

If you have an ear, hear what God says to His people.

The steadfast, victorious one will receive the loaves and fishes from my hand. That one will receive the “not guilty” verdict from the jury of the council of heaven.

Labels: Letters to Seven Churches, Revelation, Revelation 2

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Letter To the Baptist Church (Rev. 2)

John, take this dictation:

To the Power of the congregation of Baptists:

This is what the Father of your country says who wears a white robe, bare feet and has the power of heaven:

I know how powerful your work for the kingdom is. I know your love for my people, your remaining in my ways, that you have served the community well and the fact that you’ve stuck by me in hard times. You are a great collection of my people!
However, I have something which I hold against you:

You have completely accepted the Jezebel in your midst, who comes to you as a teacher and has encouraged you to worship other gods. She encourages you to worship the god of Mammon, to find your security in your wealth. She encourages you to worship the god of Employment, to find your salvation in working for another. She encourages you to worship the god of Government, to find your hope in all that politics can offer you. And her servants openly worship these other gods.
I have given her an opportunity to repent, but she has refused—she still openly teaches and promotes these other gods. I will cause her to become sick, so she can mingle with the demons of judgment for a while. And everyone who followers her will catch the same sickness, and some will even die. Then every congregation will know that I am the One who knows the intents of all, but judges each person on their actions.

If you have not participated in the honoring of false gods, then you need have no fear of judgment. If you have not pursued the “deep truths”, which actually comes from the enemy, then please just keep doing what you have been.
The Victor is the one who acts like me until the end, and that one will watch as I take over every power and every human realm and I crumple them like a piece of paper and toss them aside as garbage is thrown away. And that one will share in my authority over heaven and earth.

Whoever has an ear, pay attention to what God tells his people.

Labels: Letters to Seven Churches, Revelation, Revelation 2

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Letter To The Anglican Church (Rev. 3)

John, take this dictation:

To the Power of the congregation of the World Anglican Church:

From the Authority over all the churches, and who has authority over God’s eyes and arm:

I have seen what you really do in the world. I know how everyone honors you and talks about how lively, important and powerful you are. But you aren’t alive at all, but dead. You are made up of only reputation, not life. Remember your past—how you focused on my word. You heard it, accepted it, kept it alive and changed your life because of it. So I warn you—be ready! I am coming for you to make a determination about you and you have no idea when, like a mugger at night.

Not all of you Anglicans, however, have defecated upon yourselves. They live my life in sincerity and deserve to be rewarded, not just because they have a good name.

The one who is victorious over their own desires and compromise will be presented before God in pure, holy clothes. Their name will not just be their reputation, but it will be written in the book of Life. Their name will not be sullied by the world, but I will declare it before my Father and all the hosts of heaven.

Whoever has an ear, pay attention to what God tells his people.

Labels: Letters to Seven Churches, Revelation, Revelation 3

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Letter to the Church at Orissa (Rev. 3)

John, take this dictation:

To the Power of the congregation of Orissa:

This is from the Speaker of Truth, the Holy One in the presence of the Great Judge, the Gatekeeper of heaven, who opens to some and shuts to others:

I know what you have done, and the door to heaven is open to you and no one can shut it. This is due to the fact that you have little influence on the earth—no one will support you at all. Yet you have remained true to me and you continue to teach my word and have not denied me, even one bit. Yes, there are those who claim to be of God, and persecute you in God’s name, but they are not of God, but deniers of the Reality. I will act against them, persecuting them from heaven as they persecute you on earth, and they will come and bow down to you, requesting your help, for they will know that I love you. You have been so faithful to keep my word I will keep you safe in the destruction that will sweep the whole of the earth. Others will be tested as to their faithfulness—you have already been tested. I come to you quickly. Stay in the path you have not yet strayed from so that no one can take away your reward at the end of the journey.

The one who claims victory over fear of persecutors will be a pillar in God’s temple in heaven. They will never stray from God’s presence, nor be a non-entity in the spiritual places. The victor will have God’s name tattooed upon him and my name. Also, he will be a permanent citizen in Jerusalem—not the Jerusalem of earth, but the city that comes from heaven to reign over the nations.

If anyone has an ear, he should pay attention to what God is telling his people.

Labels: Letters to Seven Churches, Revelation, Revelation 3

posted by Steve Kimes @ 9:19 PM 0 comments

Letter To the Church of Prosperity (Rev. 3)

John, take this dictation:

To the Power of the congregations of Prosperity:

From the One who spoke the truth of what He saw in heaven, the one with integrity and faithfulness, the one who became the beginning of God’s act of setting aside this world in order to make a new one:

I know all that you have done, and you are nothing. You aren’t my enemy, nor are you zealous for Me. You faithfully come to church and sing my praises, and you do nothing with them! I would prefer that you were zealous against me than just proclaiming me and never living it! You are mediocre, and thus you are disgusting to me. I am ready to cast you away from me.

This is because you say, “We are rich! We have obtained everything through faith! We need nothing—not health, not wealth, not power, not prestige. We have it all!” You have no idea how you look in the spiritual realm. I see you before me and you are a beggar: miserable, hand stretched out, crippled, in rags. But you refuse to take what I offer. I offer you true wealth, if you would but surrender your false wealth, but you reject it. I offer you true healing in your soul, but you reject it to take healing of the body. I offer you the proper clothing of righteousness, but you reject it to dress yourself in the sad garments you fill your closets with. I offer you true knowledge and you prefer your blindness. If only you would accept my offer! You stand in public in the most shameful display and I can fix all of your weaknesses!

I love you, and so I will discipline you. I rebuke you now, but only because I really want you to live. Here I am now, I am at the door to your church. I would come in, but you must first repent. Invite me in—who I truly am. And we will truly be family, eating together as brothers, sharing together with the poor.
The one who is victorious over his own wealth and desires, I will grant him to sit on my ruling throne with me. I was victorious through poverty and death—he who follows me in this will be victorious with me.

If anyone has ears, pay attention to what God says to his people.

Labels: Letters to Seven Churches, Revelation, Revelation 3

posted by Steve Kimes @ 9:17 PM 0 comments

Matthew 13-- Mustard Seed and yeast

Jesus told the disciples another story: "God's utopia is like a mustard seed, a tiny seed compared to most other seeds. But a man took that insignificant thing and planted it in his land and he let it grow. And when it grew up fully, it became a sturdy tree so strong that the birds rested in the branches. Even so, you, my disciples, are insignificant and the least. But when the Father and the Spirit are done with you, you shall be strong enough that the nations of heaven will rest comfortably within you."

God's utopia is like a small pinch of yeast which a woman carefully places into four gallons of dough. Then she mixes it all together so that the yeast cannot be seen anymore, yet it has permeated the whole of the flour, so that it has all been transformed.

Labels: Gospels, matthew 13, Parable, parable of the mustard seed, parable of yeast

posted by Steve Kimes @ 11:53 PM 1 comments

Parable of the Lover

Based on the parable of the soils:

A great lover travelled from town to town to court many women. He spoke words of love to all who would listen to him. He wrote notes of love to prudish women who, in their offense, dropped them immediately, and men of the town would pick them up and laugh at them, mocking him.

He spoke tender words to daughters of wealthy businessmen and they swooned and quickly agreed to meet him at night. However, when their fathers found out, they forbid their daughters to go. And because they agreed quickly and didn’t deeply love him, they remained at home.

Other women fell in love with him and promised their heart to him forever, but then they became focused on their families and jobs and so they never had the time to meet with him.

But sometimes his song of love strikes some women’s hearts and they meet with him night after night. And soon the countryside was filled with children of these women in love.

Let me explain to you the parable of the great lover: The lover is the speaker of God’s loving truth to all. When someone hears about God’s utopia, some don’t want to have anything to do with it and are immediately offended by it. Satan then takes God’s word from them and mocks it in their heart. These are the prudish women.

The daughters of businessmen are those who hear God’s truth and are immediately elated by it and accepts it without really considering it—but the word isn’t at the heart of their being. So when difficulties or suffering come to them because of accepting God’s truth, they quickly forget their elation and turn away.

The busy women are those who believe in God’s word with their whole heart, but their daily concerns distract them. Their jobs, their families, and a need for greater wealth and security distract them away from the word. Soon, the word becomes small in their heart and they never actually do what it says, although they had every intention to.

The women in love, though, are those who hear about God’s utopia and embrace the message fully. And then the world is full of the fruit of their love and obedience.

Labels: Jesus, mark 4, matthew 13, Parable, Parable of the Soils, Parable of the Sower

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mark 4:1-20-- Parable of the Soils

And again he began to teach by the sea. And a great crowd gathered to him so that he embarked on a boat to sit down in the sea and all the crowd was on the land by the sea. And he was teaching them with many parables and he said to them in his teaching,

"Listen! Behold a planter came out to plant. And as he was sowing, it so happened that some fell by the road and the birds came and ate them. And others fell upon the rocky place where it did not have much earth and it immediately sprouted up because it did not have deep earth. And when the sun had risen it was scorched and because it did not have root, it withered. And another fell in the thorns and the thorns came up and choked it and it gave no fruit. And others fell upon the good earth and coming up and growing, it gave fruit and brought in thirty and sixty and a hundred."

And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

And when he was alone, those about him with the twelve asked him about the parables. And he said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God. But to those outside everything is in parables, in order that seeing they may see and not see and hearing they hear and do not understand or else they might turn back and they are forgiven."

And he said to them, "Don't you know this parable? Then how will you know all the parables?

“The planter plants the word. And these are those by the road: where the word is sown and when they should hear immediately Satan comes and takes the word which was planted in them. And these are those planted upon the rocky places: who, when they should hear the word immediately they receive it with joy, and having no root in them but are not long, then there is suffering or persecution because of the word, immediately they are scandalized. And others are those planted in the thorn plants: These are those who hearing the word and the concerns of the age and the deception of wealth and the desires concerning other things enter in choke the word and they are without fruit. And those are those planted in the good soil: Who hear the word and receive and bear fruit in thirty and sixty and a hundred.”

SKV 1—

Pay attention now. There was a farmer who planted seed in the spring. Some of the seed was put by the roadside, where the ground was hard and the birds ate up all that seed. Other seed fell on rocky soil where the soil was shallow. Because of that shallow soil, the seed sprouted quickly, but when the heat of the sun beat against the plant, it weakened, and because the plant didn’t have deep roots, it withered and died. Some of the seed fell in the midst of dense weeds, which didn’t allow the seedlings enough water. The seedlings grew, but the lack of water didn’t allow them to become full plants and there was no produce. Other seeds reached good soil and when it grew, the produce multiplied thirty, sixty and a hundred times as much as the original seed. If you have working hears, pay attention!

His disciples and the twelve waited until he was on his own and then they asked, “Could you please explain your parable?”

He looked at them questioningly, “Don’t you understand this parable? If you don’t understand this one, how will you get any of them?

So, the farmer is the preacher, spreading out God’s word of repentance. There are four types of soil and so four kinds of response to God’s word. The seed by the road are those kinds of folks who have the possibility of hearing and doing something about God’s word, but Satan convinces them immediately that the word is wrong. Then there’s the rocky soil. The word is given to some people who accept it and have a positive, immediate, strong emotional reaction to it. But the word never gets deep in their lives, so their reaction is only temporary. So when suffering or negative reactions to the word come against them, then they turn away from the word. Then there’s the soil with weeds. Some people hear the word, and they accept it, but they are focused on their present needs and concerns—wealth, desires and lusts. So they never actually produce repentance. Then, finally, there are those planted in the good soil. They hear the word, accept it fully and then produce a great abundant life of obedience to the word.”

Labels: Gospels, Jesus, Mark, Parable of the Soils, Parable of the Sower

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Who Am I Really?

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Parable of the Virus-- Matthew 13: 24-30, 36-43

Translations of Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Another parable he placed to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who planted good seed in his field. But while the man slept, his enemy came and planted weeds in the midst of the wheat and left. So when the plant sprouted and fruit was made, then he saw also the weeds. And the slaves, coming to the landowner, said to him, ‘Lord, didn’t you plant good seed in your field?’ And he said to them, ‘A man of enmity did this.’ And they said to him, ‘Therefore, do you want us, taking up, to seize them?” But he said, “No, don’t seize the weeds, lest you judge them with the wheat. Let them both grow together until the harvest. Then, in the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, “Seize first the weeds and bind them in bundles to burn them but the wheat congregate in my barn.”’”

Then, leaving the crowds, he went into the house. And the disciples came to him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.” And he said to them, “The planter of good seed is the Son of Man and the field is the world and the good seed are the sons of the kingdom. And the weeds are the sons of the evil and the enemy who planted them is the devil and the harvest is the end of the age and the reapers are angels. Therefore, just as the weeds are seized and thrown into the fire, so it is a the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels and they will seize from his kingdom all those who cause stumbling and those who do lawless deeds and throw them into the furnace of fire—there will be weeping and grinding of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

Jesus told the crowds another story: “God’s utopia is like Bill Gates over Microsoft. He established a whole new version of Windows called ‘Windows Rules!’ which was going to be the premier system operator of all time. However, when Microsoft was closed (the employees DO sleep), Steve Jobs sent some spies in and infected the new operating system with viruses. Then they snuck out, undetected. After a while Windows Rules! went to beta version and all the viruses were discovered—every time the word ‘Windows’ appeared on each line of every text, it was replaced with ‘Apple’. When the Microsoft drones saw this, they went to Bill Gates and said, ‘Great Master, your programming, as always, was without error, was it not?’ Gates responded, ‘Steve Jobs is behind this, I know it!’ They said, ‘Would you like us to re-write every text of the program and take out the name of the accursed Apple?’ Gates said, “No, in my unfathomable wisdom I have discovered that the virus is too insidious—should we erase the “Apples” we will also erase the good text. We have no choice but to wait until the end of the beta test. At that time, I will have my virus hunters create the greatest anti-virus program the universe has ever seen. Then the program will run and every line of virus will be burned in Windows Inferno TM. But the good text will be sent out in Version 2 and they will thrive and make me more money.’”

Having finished his speech, Jesus left the crowds and went to Peter’s house. His private students then asked, “Could you tell us the meaning of your story of the computer virus?” Jesus said, “Certainly. Bill Gates is God’s emperor. The computer is the earth. The Windows Rules text are those who will live in God’s utopia for eternity. The lines of virus are the corrupt who live among God’s people. Steve Jobs is Satan. The beta test is the age we live in now and the final release is the time of God’s utopia. The virus hunters are angels. Just like the virus text is found and eradicated in Windows Inferno TM, so it is at the end of the age. God’s Messiah will send his angels and they will grab every corrupt person in his church—every person who causes God’s people to sin and those who live as if God didn’t tell them how to live. All these will be dragged out of the Emperor’s utopia and thrown to punishment where they will cry out in agony. But the faithful followers of God will thrive in God’s utopia.

Labels: Bill Gates, computer virus, end of the age, Jesus, kingdom of God, matthew 13, Messiah, Parable, Steve Jobs, tares, weeds

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