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October 29th, 2014

10/29/2014

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   Friends, you must be born of God. This is the will of God and the purpose of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection.  Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham that all nations would be blessed by Abraham's seed.
   
He died to make clean our bodies and minds from sin, so that we might be the temple of the Holy Ghost. Galatians 3 tells us that Jesus purchased our freedom, redeeming us from the curse of the law and its condemnation.   If we receive Christ Jesus, the blessing promised to Abraham comes upon us, so that we through faith receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.  In the Gospel, John the Baptist declared that Jesus would baptize us with the Holy Ghost and fire. In the Book of Acts, Peter said this is it!  They were filled with God's Spirit so fully that they overflowed with joy and spoke in tongues glorifying God.  
  
Later on in Acts, Cornelius, his friends, and his family received the Holy Ghost in the same way the believers did in the upper room.  Paul was concerned that some disciples he found didn't have the Holy Ghost.  They said, “We haven't heard of it.” Paul asked, “How were you baptized?” They said, “John's baptism.”  Paul baptized them in the name of the Lord Jesus, and they received the gift of the Holy Ghost in the same way Peter and Cornelius did. People are still being filled with God's Holy Ghost in the same way as the book of Acts. It's for us, even us who love Jesus over two thousand years later.
  
Galatians 4 tells us God sent forth His Son to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.  Because we are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying Abba, Father, so that we can know God and be known of Him.
  
Ephesians 1 tells us when we trust Jesus, He seals us with His Holy Spirit.  This is the fulfillment of the New Covenant of which Joel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, the Pentateuch, Psalms, and 2 Samuel prophesied. This is the everlasting covenant that He would take away our sins and remember them no more, and that He would put His law into our minds and write it in our hearts.  We are His people, and He our God, and we know Him and enter into His rest.
  
In John 17:26, Jesus prayed, “I have declared unto them thy name and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” I also pray that this may be fulfilled in your lives.
                                                                                                                                        Betty


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The Master Builder

10/24/2014

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                                                                                                                                    by Betty
Is the Lord making you who you are? The Bible says that except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain (Psalm 127).

Is your life built upon wood, hay, or stubble? Are you a Christian because you became a member of a church? Are you a Christian because you want to be good? Are you a Christian because your parents are? Or are you a Christian because you just decided to be? True Christianity is more than these. These are just stubble. True Christians are those who have met Christ and are born of the will of God. Those who are born of the will of God are given more than forgiveness, they are given deliverance. They are called out of darkness to live and show forth the praises of Jesus in His marvelous light. They are given the gift of the Holy Ghost and they are made the temples of God. They are like Daniel and Joseph in whom the Spirit of the
Holy God was.

Because God dwells in true Christians, true Christians love God. God hath clothed them with the garments of righteousness, and He hath sanctified them. They are clean, and He keeps them clean. It is the Lord's doing.

Jesus teaches His children. He shows them the path of righteousness. He corrects them and guides them. He opens His word, the Bible, to them, and His words become their life. God's children, the true Christians, will live their lives with God's purpose and bear God's fruit and God's work.

If your life is the fruit of man's hand (church, pastors, parents, yourself, or friends), you have nothing. You need the Lord Jesus to touch your life and be the builder of it. Jesus is the Master Builder of a new life, a life headed for heaven.

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Adventures of a Street Preacher

10/16/2014

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   The Lord Jesus sent me to Seattle, Washington in the late 80's to preach the gospel. I
first preached in Seattle in the 70's, and over the years I found the people of Seattle to be
open and receptive to the gospel; therefore, I was very happy to return. Seattle is
teaming with people from every culture and nation of the Earth. It was a great mission
field. It was easy to share the gospel with hundreds of people every day.

  I arrived in Seattle and started preaching like in the good old days. The police left
me alone, and the people heard the gospel and received Bible booklets. But wait, things
are never this easy. And if you think serving the Lord will cause the angels of heaven to
make everything easy for you, I suggest you stay at home. I got to Seattle all right, and
the preaching was good. I found a good job, but I could not find a place to live! I was
living in a tent in a campground many miles from town. My employer had a tremendous
backlog of work, so we worked seven days a week. But my heavenly Father had souls
to win, so I also preached 7 days a week.

   My typical day went as follows. I woke up around 5:30, cleaned my tent, and started
driving to get to work by 7:00. I worked till 3:30, cleaned up, and went to downtown
Seattle to preach. After preaching, I ate dinner, then went back to my tent and went to
sleep. I never was so exhausted in my life. Finally I found an apartment next to the
interstate. It was so noisy that I always wore earplugs, but it was nice to be out of the
rain.

   When the Apostle Paul knew that his time upon the earth was coming to an end, he
spoke of his ministry in the 20th chapter of Acts.

   Paul said, “I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. Yea, ye yourselves
know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with
me. I have shewed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak,
and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, 'It is more blessed to give
than to receive.'”

  Starting in 1974, I have shared the gospel from Vancouver B.C. to San Diego to
Boston to Miami. I have shared the gospel with a lot of people, and I paid my own way.

   Today my family and I still share the gospel. We have never accepted an offering.
One time we ministered, and the people demanded we receive their offering. I said, “If
you give us an offering, we will never come back.” They decided not to give us an
offering.

   If my ministry ever becomes greater than the Apostle Paul's, perhaps I will consider
the possibility of receiving an offering, but until then, I will labor night and day like Paul
did and pay my own way.

 “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.”
                                                                                   --2 Timothy 4:2
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The Work of God

10/14/2014

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 By Betty

We are indebted to God for this life.

We are indebted to God for His love.

Jesus set us free from the devil's strife,

And gave us peace by the heavenly dove.

The Holy Ghost is sent to give us power

To live our lives through Christ in this very hour.

“You in me and I in you,” Jesus did say,

So we might live in a new and living way.

Victorious overcomers of this world,

A light of Jesus in the darkness unfurled.

Praise God for His great gift of life with Him.

We are loved and known of God and free from sin.


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