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June 30, 2020

Cure For Empty Eye Syndrome |Protests 2020

Must be careful:

As I write this, I must be careful not to demean or minimize what has happened to Americans of African descent. I would not be a good Christian if I believed that no wrong has been done to the black community in this country.

The eyes told me everything I needed to know:

I have told as many people as possible, what I originally said about the police officer who murdered George Floyd. It wasn’t that he was a cop who killed a black man. It was a deranged lunatic with a vengeance who killed George Floyd.

The anger, animosity and hate filled eyes told it all. I hope he gets the full weight of punishment for his crime.
—Oscar Roca on George Floyd’s murderer.

If you also see those that call themselves Antifa, you will find the same empty eyes. It’s as if they have lost all hope of living. Their eyes are filled with hate…but more with dispair and hopelessness. We must reach the young people before they get to this point!

There’s a dangerous trend in this country!

|That being said, I have noticed a trend in this country. It’s not a good trend. The trend of intentional separation by ethnicities. Some Blacks want to separate from Whites & some Whites want to seprarate from all non-white people.

Diversity was & is achievable:

When I was growing up, there was diversity in the city of close to 100,000 people. Whites were the majority, hispanics were second, Samoans, Filipinos and blacks were also in our community, but it was not like today. The diversity in my original hometown is mostly Hispanic, White, Black, Filipino, and Samoan, in that order. I don’t live there anymore, but can’t imagine living without such diversity. I played with kids of all ethnicities. There was no ‘us’ versus ‘them’, at least in the area I was in…except, the Mexican American barrios.

I learned that people wanted to keep to their ethnicity on purpose:

In those neighborhoods, it was 99.99% Mexican American. It was so homogenized that only one point of view was ever perceived. The Mexican American kids were in essence, not in tune with all the communities of my city. The neighborhood was small and the people inside of it mainly socialized with each other. Very few Whites or Blacks or Asians entered it. When non-Hispanics moved in, they made the life of the kids miserable. I could not understand why the Barrio friends would not talk to non-Hispanic kids.

I was allowed to go in & out of this neighborhood because I was the same ethnicity & because I had been friends with the Barrio kids since grade school…
—Oscar Roca

What I learned:

Here’s what I learned from both worlds, yes, they were different worlds, and yes, I could tell as young as elementary school.

Let me rewind a bit:

In another small city before we moved to the one above, my family was one of the first Hispanic families to move in.

I was in 2nd grade & could hear the homogeneously white neighbors saying, “Hey mom, look at the taco people!”
—Oscar Roca

Funny because where we lived before this was in Compton, where I played with Black, Japanese and White kids. Yes, the ethnicities I mentioned were almost long gone from Compton, but I still remember playing with these kids. I did not know what race wars were, nor did I care. My small tiny world had been made up of all ethnicities, and one race.

All this to say, wherever I experienced or witnessed ‘racism’ it came when the area I was in, was homogenized into only a majority of one ethnicity.

When Racism takes hold of hearts:

You see, racism takes hold of, cements itself on, and spreads, when one group of people think, act, work with, live close to each other. Anytime kids grow up in 90% __________ (fill in the blank on ethnicity), they begin to think that the whole world is that way. Hispanic neighborhoods without Whites or Blacks or Asian, start to think that the whole world should act and think like that area they are living in.

The way the area thinks, acts, talks like, are intermingled within the community of people.
—Oscar Roca

The solution:

In my case, I was friends with all ethnicities, I did not see color or accents, because the kids around me were of many different ethnicities, financial backgrounds, and all of us got along, except, the kids in the Mexican Barrio. They would hang out, talk to, and walk around isolating themselves from all others.

Did I experience racism? Yes, but I did not let this define who I was, or who all people were, from a small percentage of their ethnicity! I would not be denied the freedom to interact will all people!

Fast Forwart to today:

We have Black Lives Matter, Brown Pride, White Power, etc. They have been around for a long time, but what was fought for in the 60s, by MLK and Chavez, seems so long ago. They were catalysts for inclusion, not separation or exclusion.

All my life I have seen and been witness to a small percentage of ignorant people from all ethnicities that were racists.
—Oscar Roca

Be Careful-Racism comes from all ethnicities:

This demeaning way of thinking is not owned by the White population only. We have to be careful to say this, because I have been called a Beaner, and Wetback in the past by Whites, and other Hispanics. My daughters have heard Blacks call Hispanics donkeys, a derogatory term meaning that Hispanics are the burros of the workforce.

Again, let’s be careful of separating ourselves from other ethnicities in our community. Because Christ warned us that this would happen in the late stages before He would come back. Jesus speaks of separation of ethnicities and warring of ethnicities in Matthew 24:7, you can click above scripture reference.

Nation against nation is not exactly what the Greek says. That verse should read—

|“for Ethnic Groups shall rise up against ethnic groups and leaders of people against leaders of people.”
—Oscar Roca on Matthew 24:7

We are seeing leaders of people paying destructive leaders of people, to cause destruction of other people’s properties. Antifa agitators paying protestors money to destroy properties.

AS CHRISTIANS WE ARE TO:

I am a testament to the power of committing my life to Christ. I have witnessed what transformation and renewal means. What I see in the agitators who have been arrested, is the same thing I have witnessed with the man who killed George Floyd— I call this Empty Eye hatred. There is such hate filled stares in these people, that you know what they are doing is just trying to destroy property, people’s dreams and business for the sake of shutting their rage within their hearts. They have hung around others who have the same mind, that it has become a homogenized way of thinking. They have not received or wanted to receive the other side’s thinking. What we need to do as Christians, is go throughout the world and bring them the Good News of the gospel.

This in turn will bring people the peace people crave but don’t have, can’t attain, or never reach without Jesus in their lives. They will never have peace, nor know it, until their hearts are transformed by & redeemed by Jesus’ saving work on the cross.
—Oscar Roca

Salvation only comes thru Jesus:

The salvation that only comes from a personal commitment and knowledge of what Christ did for them and their sins, dying on the cross. They need to know the love of God that brings redemption through His son’s sacrificial act of dying, taking away their sins through the blood shed on Calvary.

But, if we Christians are just on the TV or Computer screen and see what’s happening, shaking our heads in disgust, while only complaining, without reaching those that are lost, then we will also be at fault. Because by doing nothing about this division, we will be ushering in what Jesus told His disciples. We will be allowing people to war against each other, some dying to everlasting damnation.

Why Not:

Why not go & be the ones to bring change by ushering in Christ’s Love & Grace?
—Oscar Roca

Why not reach those filled with hate, and bring them peace?

Why not reach those that society deems lost and way past redemption in their eyes?

Let’s change that verse through Christ and say—

“For ethnic groups shall love unto another ethnic group, and leaders of people shall send help & love unto other leaders of ethnic groups!”
—Oscar Roca

Let us reach the world for Christ, so that those who are enraged, lost and have empty eyes syndrome be filled with peace, know their way to heaven and have the blessed hope filled eyes to reach others!

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June 27, 2020

God’s getting His CHurch back 2 its Roots! |Tentmaking & Discipleship

BACK to Basics Home fellowships

In the final days that God has planned for us, we are witnessing a sort of going back to the Christian roots revival.

—Oscar Roca

Governments around the globe have closed churches due to this epidemic. The reasons are unknown to most people, but if we Christians truly believe that we are living in the last days, then we will have be be diligent, vigilant, and committed to change.
What some people see as drastic changes in their way of thinking, for me is business as usual.

You see, while most pastors are having to close up shop so to speak, my wife and I are continuing to do what we have been called to do—house fellowship.

—Oscar Roca

We can learn from The Master Tactician:

We Can Learn From The journeyman at work

I’ll explain. Paul was a tentmaker. He worked all day and witnessed to whomever was there working alongside of him. Once the co-workers committed their lives to Christ, he would then disciple them. All from the workplace.

And this was just Paul’s first missionary journey.
All those cities, all that work, all that mission of sharing the gospel to who ever had an ear to hear.
Paul mentions that he worked so that it wouldn’t be a hindrance to people by giving to him. In other words, he said, “I could have taken from the offerings of the churches God gave me to start, but I didn’t so that you could be like me and work for a living, giving the gospel free of charge!” ( I Corinthians 9 & 2 Thessalonians 3 ).

We can Learn from His bi-vocational life

Paul only took money from the church when he was under house arrest, and that was only from the Church at Philippi (4:10-23) who sent him a love gift.
There is something special about Paul, his knowledge of the Word, intensity for the gospel, and the coming along with new converts to disciple them from the start. This is the man who went from persecuting the Church, to dying for Christ.

We can Learn From God—taking His Church to its roots

Paul Learned—From Jesus

Yet, the roots of His Acts Church are built upon only one thing, Jesus Christ coming to earth, growing up as a human being, ministering from city to city, teaching His disciples, dying on the cross and coming back to life 3 days later. Jesus then keeps teaching His disciples and then ascends to the heavens where two of His messengers tell the 500+ disciples—that Jesus will come back and set His feet down the very way He left His disciples.
Jesus had no money (Mat 8:20 ), or Church building, status in the Sanhedrin, nor did He want it.

Jesus taught His disciples to go without money, to have faith they would be taken care of by God, and to go and drive out unclean spirits (<a href="http://Mar 6:7-13) and share that all men should repent for the kingdom had arrived.

We can learn—to wait for The Power of The Spirit

As Jesus ascended, He told his disciples to wait in Jerusalem. The wait was over on Pentecost, when the Spirit of the Living God filled the disciples with such power, that they turned all of the Roman Empire upside down.

Paul also had no church building, or paid staff. He did not take money from the Churches, he went from house to house preaching the Good News of Christ. He would go into cities, establish his trade of tentmaking, work hard, and show people what a Christian was. He had home fellowships and established disciples in all places he went.
Paul was copying Jesus and the disciples and this new Jewish Sect of the Way, changed the Roman world.
Today, we are living through the same dangerous times as the original Acts church. We are being told not to come together and worship. We are being scrutinized throughout the world. Some are dying, some— their churches being destroyed. Yet all of us are still learning the Word, teaching and discipling.

Do not fight this, embrace it! Because this means that Christ is getting His Church ready for another final explosion of disciples before He calls us to our true Church—Heaven.

May you start a home fellowship today and get to discipling anyone who asks for the reason for our hope (1Pe 3:15 )…

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June 23, 2020June 23, 2020

Yearning 4 Home! |Father’s Day 2020

18 “And I will be a Father to you,And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”Says the Lord Almighty.~ 2 Corinthians 6:18 NASB
2 Corinthians 6:18

During this strange Father’s Day weekend, I was reminded of what truly matters.
My son-in-law helped me move some old furniture that needed to be dropped off at the dump.
He had my grandkids with him, who waited patiently in the truck while we fit all the pieces like a puzzle in the truck bed. My oldest is my grandson.

He is my favorite boy in the whole world!

As we were moving the stuff around, I heard my grandson’s voice, it sounded so giddy! I call him my little Buddy. Buddy would say something and then just crack himself up with laughter. He kept this up after we dropped off furniture and during our breakfast. As we got closer to my house, I saw his face, Buddy’s big smile got serious. He knew two things would happen:

One, his dad would park, turn off the engine and open the door. Then he would open the rear driver door and unbuckle Buddy. Then I would get off and do the same for my granddaughter on the rear passenger seat. This meant that Buddy would be going into His Papa’s house, where he could enjoy time doing what we usually do with them, have fun and enjoy walking and running around the neighborhood.

Two, Dad would stop the car, look at papa and say goodbye.
I knew which option Buddy was thinking of. His face said it all. He knew that they were not going into our house. His eyes started welling up with tears. He looked at me, then at dad and started wailing. I felt horrible because I know how much Buddy and his sister enjoy being at Papa and Nana’s house. He was crying so loudly that his sister’s smile became a frown, then it became a cry. My son in law and I looked at each other and tried to console them. A bit later, they had calmed down and I told Buddy and little Grace that I would see them on Sunday for Father’s Day. They both looked at me and had to give me a fake smile. I absolutely love those kids.

4 and He will Awipe away every tear from their eyes; and Bthere will no longer be any death; Cthere will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; Dthe first things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:4

***My heart is glad seeing her with her daddy!***

I saw the truck drive out and went inside feeling convicted. Thinking when the last time was, when I was praying and in fellowship with God, why I did not long for, cried out to, and wanted to be in heaven with my Father?

When was the last time we Christians had such longing to be in our real home?
Then I just stopped and thanked God that my little buddy taught me the real meaning of longing to be with someone important to his little heart. The most important Person in our lives should be God. We should long for the big rooms Jesus has prepared for us. Our true joy will be being with our heavenly Dad in fellowship…and being so giddy that we can’t help but laugh with extreme joy…

…Or cry longing to be in your real home with your your Heavenly Papa!

Happy Father’s Day to all the Daddys of the world!

If you don’t know what it is to long for your real home, click the links below to get your answers:

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June 21, 2020

ComM Minus Unity =Tragedy |Protests 2020

I have waited about a week to post this. We are still having protests around the area. There is much anger on all sides, which is ironic. Anger solves nothing. Debate shoud be the first place to start. Because all lives matter to God.

When you isolate yourself into one community, you are in a sense, doing exactly the opposite of what you claim you are fighting for. God cares about all ethnicities! He sees the color of your spirit & not your skin!

Community

Community is where we buy our food, shop at the local stores, and buy stuff from the mom and pop shops. When people from out of town come in to wreak havoc and incite the mediocre weak minds to cause destruction, it affects the community.

My daughter lives in the area where it was most affected by the weak-minded and ignorant people who canceled out the good that real protestors were peacefully trying to accomplish!

I blame the media. The damage was concentrated in one part of my city, but the media made it out to look as if all of Long Beach was burning…and they continued portraying this nationwide, in other cities besides the epicenter.

THE REAL COMMUNITY UNITY:

The destructive aftermath was overpowered by the love of the community for its own.

My wife and I tried to help out my daughter but could not get there early to help her community. We both had early morning appointments, and by the time we tried to drive down, the traffic was at a stand still!

My daughter later told us that there were more lookie-loos taking pictures and videos instead of helping out.

Hundreds upon hundreds of volunteers went to clean up, my daughter being one of them. We have taught our children always to help and volunteer. This is our Christian ethos.

TALE OF TWO PLACES:

Our neighborhood had a protest. We saw moms and dads, kids, grandparents, and grandkids all protesting the tragic death of George Floyd. The cars passing by honked as a sign of solidarity. They moved from the elementary school they were in, to the main avenue which connects this vast city.

Update yesterday 6-14-2020, we had another protest by our house, this time, it sounded angry! Nothing happened. Yet, in my mind, I think that yelling & screaming will not solve anything.

In our area, there was not one incident of looting, broken windows, or disrespect. The local shops and restaurants remained safe.

If you drive south on the main avenue, about 4-5 miles, you will be in the area devastated by the looting and destruction. This is where you would have caught a glimpse of Tweenies breaking in and looting. You will not see any parent or grandparent around “smacking the fear of Jesus” in them.

DO NOT READ IF YOU’RE EASILY OFFENDED. SKIP TO THE NEXT SECTION PLEASE:

Now, I have said I am a darker shade of brown Hispanic, and I have to say something that no one wants to hear. Because it is neither popular or politically correct.

On this side of my neighborhood, most of those protesting were white, some Hispanic and Black. Most of the kids had their parents with them.

Where all the looting and destruction of property happened, not one parent was seen around. Nor were there any grandparents. All the kids I saw on TV were Black and Hispanic kids. There may have been a few white kids trying to be Antifa, and if they were… still no parents!

WHAT I AM GETTING AT:

We don’t have a Black, White, & Hispanic problem. We have an inactive & parentless problem in America. Because what I saw on the News, was what happens when parents are not active & around their children’s lives.

WE HAVE AN EVEN BIGGER PROBLEM:

What happens when you only teach that it’s survival of the fittest?

A dog eat dog world?

An only the strong survive world?

When all you see on TV portraying most Blacks as gang members and most Hispanics as drug cartel members?

When violence is the way of life in our society?

Where no mention of a higher power is allowed anywhere in this country. Because of a few people who don’t want God anywhere in schools and government? Where they have perverted the original intent of the First Amendment. By not allowing God even to be mentioned in schools or public Institutions?

More on this next post

If you want to be part of the solution, start by getting right with the Almighty God. You don’t have to be perfect or have it all worked out. All you have to do seek God by asking Him to come into your life. Here are a few links where you can get information and answers…

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June 15, 2020

Don’t Let Circumstances Define You! |Graduating Class 2020

A big Congrats to all grads!

This month, like this year, has been unprecedented. We have closed the country down, and most things that have been taken for granted are now, something that when society is normalized, we’ll hopefully cherish.

This month is special for a few reasons. But I want to take the time to congratulate all those who are graduating from High School and College.

And before you tell me I forgot middle school, I did not. I just want to speak to those young people that are now considered adults.

I would tell all of you that you do not allow this unusual way of graduating to define you or your future. This is a small bump on the road that you can either learn from or make it identify you. Learn from this and move on. Life is too short to be bummed out about this! Go on to your next goal!

HIGHSCHOOl GradS:

If you are graduating from high school, this has to be the strangest year for you. All the hard work you have put to is finally going to pay off. The nights of staying up and doing homework. The long practices in your sport or school band or a part-time job. The four years were for you to acclimate yourselves into society. The part-time positions are there for you to work hard, learn from the managers, get extra cash for college, or to buy a car. Whatever the money is for, know that the part-time job and the hard homework was just the beginning.

Some of you may not go into college. You may be learning a trade as soon as this summer. Some have decided to go into the armed forces. Some have decided to travel.

Reach for the stars & you will never fail to grab one! There are too many to fail!

All these things will lead you to one thing—getting more life experiences. Learn from them.

High school is just a small step. Use the learning experience to do better.

For those that worked hard, congratulations, you are now on to a four-year college!

For those of you that did not take high school that serious, congratulations, you now know what you need to do in the two-year college, or technical school, or trade school. There is time for you to get better at what you want to do in life.

For those going in the military, God bless you. Work hard, make it through the boot camp you will be going into. Remember what they are doing to you. They are making you stronger physically and mentally.

COLLEGE GRADS:

If you are graduating from college, you have spent four years doing your best to blend and survive the onslaught of young adult life. Your longer nights of homework, cramming for tests, etc., are behind you. You have done what most want to finish. Now it’s time for you to continue onto more college classes or a new job. Don’t settle for a part-time job unless you are going on to your Masters or Ph.D. Send out your resume to as many companies as you can. If you don’t hear from them, spruce up your resume and keep sending it. If they require experience, ask your part-time job to make you full time and then start sending out your resumes again!

What all of you have done is a good thing. You have learned that you can take steps to achieve your goals. This is what High school and college are. They are there for you to learn academically and also intellectually. Some of you will continue in sports, and some will continue to become doctors, lawyers, teachers. Whatever it is that you are being directed to do, do it with full zest, enthusiasm, and energy!

God knows each star by name, imagine how much more He knows you! He will lead your steps if you ask Him.

But remember to feed your spirits too. The word of God is there for you to gain the most valuable knowledge! It is there to transform and renew you. Whatever mistakes you did, are swiped clean! Whatever you thought you were going to do, may not be what you want to do now. God is directing your paths. Be still and quiet enough to hear His guidance.

Don’t forget GOD

Do not forget God. For those that have never sought out God, now is the time to seek Him. He has been waiting for you. Do not leave this blog without closing your eyes and asking God to start directing your footsteps. Ask Jesus to wipe all the mistakes and wrongs you have done in life clean. I promise you that He will. And you will feel like a new person. Those mistakes, transgressions, or sins that you have done in your life are gone.

Time to start fresh. May this month of graduations, be the month that you are guaranteed a Post-Life Graduation into eternity!

Again, congratulations, and keep running the race of life!

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June 11, 2020June 11, 2020

LEssons Learned —Lessons we don’t Want to Live |Covid-19

Since we had a holiday on Monday and Tuesday seemed like Monday, this is my Tuesday Political Post:

***The symbolic “remains” of the railroad in Treblinka***

***Jewish women & children being taken into camps***

LESSONS FROM THE PAST:

I always wondered how Hitler and his minions were able to swindle about 11 million people to get into train carts, packed like animals. To get them rounded up and give all their possesions away. Dividing the women and children from the men. Then dividing the young, and old, and having them lined up, to be sent to the gas chambers.

The above pictures tell a story. The story can never be repeated they said. Yet, years after this, the world has witnessed the great communist Russian, Chinese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, North Korean atrocities. Where millions upon millions of people have died for the sake of political agendas which are made to sound like Nirvana on earth.

Hitler is typical of an agenda so perverse and wicked, that most people find it too outlandish and inconceivable to be true. Yet, here we are in 2020 America, where politicians with political agendas are once again telling their lies to its citizens.

With every God-given right, some on the Democratic Left have become tyrants over night. Like Hitler, Stalin, Chairman Mao, and the rest of the killing fields tyrants, governors have become drunken with power. Their veins have been shot up with the percieved notion that they are the only ones who could save us from ourselves.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Just ask the 11 million plus people who died in the hands of what a tyrant was calling the perfect society.

You see, the Jewsih people living in Europe were lulled into thinking that Hitler would take care of them. Before the gas chambers and concentration camps, was the notion of Ghetto’s where DNA and religion played a part of seperating German citizens from their properties, and everything they owned. All in the name of helping the citizens make a better and brighter future.

The bigger and brighter future meant restricting the Jews from coming together in synagogues, family get togethers that were out of town and rights of being German citizens.

This taking away of rights was subtle & minute. They would take a small thing away from the Jewsih people. But every small mandate was a building block to tyranny.

WHAT’S BEEN LEARNED:

What I have learned from the convid-19 of 2020:

One— very few people, including Christians, will speak up against tyranny. This is an immense disappointment for me. Long gone are the days of Martin Luther King Jr., and the thousands upon hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters. If you were on the streets marching, on social media or blogs, or texting loved ones and friends, I applaud you. You were one of the few that understood that if they take tiny rights of citizens away, they are chipping away at the fabric of what made this country incredibly exceptional.

WHAT THE CHURCH HAS LEARNED:

Two— very few of the Christian leaders spoke up. I am talking about seasoned, mature in their faith elders, and deacons of churches. Out of the thousands and thousands of churches in California, only 1,500 pastors are going to defy the tyrannical and controlling mandates of staying closed since March 14th.

WHAT’S TRIED TO BE TAKEN FROM US:

Three— None of the governors, or mayors, or city councils in any of the United States have any right or power to cancel the rights of the people. These rights are in the Constitution. No one elected official has any power to impose what they feel or think is right on the citizens who elected them.

We are not in China or Russia or 1940s Germany.

RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PEOPLE NOT GOVERNMENT:

Four— Most Christians are responsible enough to have their own set of self-imposed mandates. Years before, no one had to tell me to carry around a small bottle of alcohol to sanitize my hands when touching things out in public. I did this to keep from getting sick and also not to pass on germs. No one mandated me to do this.

WHERE TRUE CARING STARTS:

The same is true for most pastors and elders in any given area of the country. They know their congregations and understand their flocks.

Pastors have been taking care of, praying for, counseling their church members & their families without anyone having to tell them to do so.

THE NEEDY HAVE LOST:

Five— Christians are at the forefront of volunteering. At homeless shelters, hospitals, convalescent places, nursing homes, senior living facilities, orphanages, etc. No one had to send a letter or put out a website to ask for volunteers to help. This Christian extension of going into all the world and making disciples of all nations means we don’t just preach it, and teach it, but reach others for it.

But when we are mandated to stay home, the effects are felt throughout communities.

TAKE A BOW:

So here’s to the 1,500 pastors who had the guts to do what every pastor should be doing, defending their flocks from wolves who come and try to hurt or disperse them.

Even if it means getting in front of the wolves & holding out their shepherds’ staff while yelling out like Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings, ““You shall not pass!””

ALL THIS TO SAY:

Whether any governing body mandates churches to stop their worship, we must always obey what God wants us to do. God’s mandates supersede and overrule the man-made mandates. Try to say that five times fast!

LESSON LEARNED!

So the lesson learned is this: As Christians, we must go to prayer and fasting next time a President, governor, and congressman or mayor mandate anything that forces God’s people to stop the right to assemble for worship.

This is a Constitutional right & a God-given right that no one can take away.

OKAY, REALLY ALMOST DONE:

The Church of Christ needs to come together to fast, pray, and hear from the LORD. Next time our rights are trampled on, we’ll know exactly how to react, and no, that is not when we blindly obey the authorities. When authorities become tyrants by forcing people to stop their worship of the Living God, that is when Christians must choose to follow God even more intensely.

Is their precedence on this? Just ask John the Baptist, Jesus, Peter, Paul, & the rest of the Martyrs in history who would not stop preaching Christ and going out to the world to turn it upside down.

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May 27, 2020

A moment that lasts forever—Christian Love Transcending time! |Discipleship Series

What is it to have a love of Christ everywhere one goes?

I’ve been talking about how some people compartmentalize their Christian faith into little boxes. Some will not dare speak about political things, so as not to cause any waves.

While others only speak Christianese when they are around other Christians.

Some speak about their faith, but their actions say quite the opposite in everything they do.

Then there are those whose lives are not perfect; they have their quirks. Some, including myself, have said things so passionately, that it makes people uncomfortable.

But, one thing that I know, that all Christians have this thing. This thing can’t be duplicated by people who don’t have it. This thing is only there when people ask for it. This thing can’t be acted out or purchased. The blood of Jesus has already purchased it on the cross.

Since I am a writer, I have been trying to put my finger on this transcending love for years.

This thing is not a thing but a Person. This Person can’t be put aside or on a drawer somewhere in your bedroom. This Person can’t be left out of politics, or sports, or any other scene we Christians walk into in our lives.

You see, once you have this, you can’t go back and put it back somewhere. It’s like trying to put a genie back into the bottle. Except this Person doesn’t grant wishes or isn’t capricious like genies.

The Spirit of God Supernaturally gives us this type of love:

The Holy Spirit is the Person that fills a Christian inside. The Spirit of God permeates into our smallest sinews. The Spirit of God encompasses our whole being. Then it cleanses the darkest parts of our hearts and minds. The Spirit of God breathes new life, love, and joy inside. Why? Because it touches a part of us that worldly things can’t touch—our spirit.

A person is never the same:

Here is the impressive part of having the Spirit of God—Once the Spirit fills you, you will never be the same. Pentecost is right around the corner. This is a Feast of the LORD. God, Himself, instituted this and the other six Feasts or Holy Convocations. You can read about it in, Exodus 12:14-28; Exodus 23:14-19 Numbers 28:16-25; Deuteronomy 16:1-8.

Jesus celebrated all these special Holy Days and did not come to abolish them ( Matthew 5:17 ) but to fulfill the Holy Convocations and commands.

ALL THIS TO SAY:

When a Christian who is regularly in touch with God, goes into the world, mysterious things happen. Mysterious, since people that don’t know God will wonder why Christians do the things they do and show others love the way they do.

Christians will go out and clothe, feed, pray with the people who have been left out in society. They will go to orphanages and abortion clinics because the love of Christ is in them. This is not a natural thing for people to hear because the world teaches survival of the fittest— in business, finance, Wall Street, Washing ton DC, London, Shanghai, etc.

The world doesn’t know how to love those who are unlovable or who are considered enemies.

But, Christians, and I have found many instances on this love of Christ to those who are not regularly shown, love.

I have witnessed so many people who will pick up a little child whom no one will carry because they live in the streets. I have seen someone pray with a homeless person, touching their hands like it’s no big deal that this person has not bathed in weeks or even months.

Spirit takes flesh—Checkmate:

Those moments where you flesh is saying don’t touch this person, but your spirit and the love of God’s Spirit overwhelm you with such intense and peaceful love for the person, that it overrides any negative thoughts in your mind.

I have seen Christians love those that have been antagonistic with them for years.

This love of Christ is genuine. Wherever Christians go, the extension of God’s love goes with them, and this is the only natural thing Christians do.

The picture below is from a Christian woman who I know. There are pictures we take, and then there are pictures that transcend the ages. This is one of those pictures. Should society survive another thousand years, this picture will show the same thing it initially showed—Christian love that is purely a 1 Corinthians 13 kind of love.

I leave you with a couple of those pictures that capture a moment. A moment for the decades. The love we Christians have for our own children and grand-children oozes out into the children and the forgotten of the world…

If you would like this supernatural kind of love, I ask that you go to the weblinks below.You can make an informed commitment to God that is eternally lasting:

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May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

The Great Con Job & The Lawless One |The End of Days Series 2020

End of Days Series Part 1

MY BLOG:

Was and still is to lift up and encourage people. To point them to Jesus, the Savior of mankind. And to lift people’s spirits…….loud screeching tires sound…..

UNPRECEDENTED TIMES:

As I have said recently and will continue to say it, we are living in unprecedented times. The world has spun out of control like a drunken spin top violently turning from side to side, almost falling. My calling is to still lift and encourage through God’s Word.

WE CAN’T HIDE OUR HEADS IN THE SAND:

It is also to educate and explain the whole counsel of God found in the Bible. Some people want to stick their heads in the sand while yelling out—Bad things go away, bad things go away….
These things are not going away; therefore, we must be equipped for the challenges ahead. Because we are to be wise as serpents and as harmless as doves ( Matthew 10:16 )

RIGHTS DESTROYED:

Governments around the world have taken control of the rights of their citizens. They have made a mockery of calling themselves free and independent countries.
The UN and its health care lap dog, the WHO, have made the whole world think that this virus is worse than the Black Plague.
In California, the governor has taken full control and has overstepped his limited authority, forcing people to be locked down for a more extended period.

THE CON-19 JOB:

Yet, a small percentage of citizens are rising up. Those that think independently and see behind the veil. Forty million people live in California, and as of today, the horrible death toll is under 3 thousand deaths. With a large percentage of fatalities being from older folks who had other health issues.
The economy is in shambles, and the unemployed numbers are reaching those of the Great Depression.

WHAT IT ALL MEANS:

If I am correct, then this means that we are living at a time when people will turn on each other. Family members will turn against family members, friends against friends. Those who are faithful will be persecuted. All for the good of keeping society pandemically clear.
People will call good evil and evil good ( Isaiah 5:20 ). The things that have been truths since the foundations of the world are now fake. The falsities of this world are now taken as truths.

THE COMING WORLD LEADER:

As I have said before, there is a man in the background right now. Someone whom we all may know, he is a man of industry and is a philanthropist. He will come in the name of saving billions. He will look like a man of peace, but if people cross him, they will pay the price.
This man will, like the First Horseman of the Apocalypse ( Daniel 7, Revelation 6 ) come riding on a white horse, peacefully and victoriously. The whole world will clamor to make him World President. His pretentious attitude will be to turn the position down until world leaders humbly, and their citizens cry out louder for this man to save them from such horrible Pandemics and the Great Unholy Hyperinflation Depression.

HIS Sinister AGENDA:

This coming Totalitarian will fake peace and love. Will want to help the poorest of the poor on earth. He will give trillions to their cause. He will also sway the dominant countries on earth to help him. This liar will promise the countries world peace. Countries will want to help him because their economies will be in shambles. Little will they know that he and the rest of his unholy billionaire horde had been the ones to control the Stock Markets all over the world.
As the average citizens lost their savings and 401k’s, the antichrist and his minions will have made trillions.

SOUNDS LIKE A MOVIE:

If the above scenario sounds inconceivable, it is not. The great unholy world leader will, in fact, take over the economic, health, and spiritual/physical welfare of the people.
This man will have planned out exact steps to get to this point. His number one goal—take out America and its robust economy. Then this man of sin will go after the rest of the dominant economies, one of these economic blocs being his political base.

***General Titus who destroyed Temple in Jerusalem***

WHERE?:

The Bible speaks of the coming world leader as the Prince of the people who would destroy the Temple in Jerusalem ( Daniel 9:26 ).
This same nation or empire, which we know as the Roman Empire, will rise again. It already has. Many people have tried to revive the Roman Empire—Charlemagne, Napoleon, The Prussian Empire, Hitler, Mussolini, they all failed. Fast forward to the mid 20th century; the European Union becomes one again.

ENGLAND HAS LEFT THE BUILDING, BREXIT 2019:

The original members were Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom joined in 1973, almost sixteen years later. Most of the countries were part of the Roman Empire when Jesus walked the earth. Daniel wrote these prophetic events 500 years before they got the timeline started.
You see, if you read Daniel 9:26, you have to put a line between verses 26 and 27 because there is a gap that seems to have started with the reshaping of the EU.
Britain recently left the Union because it was tired of having to pay for the rest of the countries and their adverse economic policies.

THE US AND ISRAEL SOLUTION:

While Brexit was going on, the US was having the most significant resurgence of economic power since the WWII boom. Israel and its technological pharmaceutical and healthcare advantage is well known worldwide.
These two countries are allies, and while the US holds the superpower status, no one will touch Israel. All this will soon change.
This man of sin, or world leader of peace, will soon come into the scene. He will be like the beast in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13. He will softly trample over everything and anything that stands in his way. All the earth will be ready for this Prince of lies to take over and unite the world into one government.

THE CORRUPTION:

The world has seen how corrupt its leaders are. Within countries, there is a systematic division taking place. All this is for him, the most corrupt man to ever live. He will come in bringing peace, but his arrogance and speech will cast the world into the most chaotic time ever in history.
What are the signs that this coming corrupt, liar may already be here? Next post….

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May 14, 2020

COmmitment no matter what the costs! |Discipleship Series

Count the Costs Part I

WRITING TO GIVE ENCOURAGEMENT:

I noticed some of my brothers and sisters are being persecuted throughout the world. Through the Christians Alliance, I want to let you know that we are praying for you here in the United States. We don’t take our freedom lightly.

I want to encourage all of you today to pray for us here also. The United States carries weight around the world and its influence goes far beyond the world things. Spiritually, my country is at a fork on the road. Things are getting worse here when it comes to the rights of its citizens to worship freely, speak and protest freely.

THE LINES HAVE BEEN DRAWN:

The lines have been drawn where good as evil and evil good, we are Christians are being told not to worship or try to convert anyone to Christianity. God has brought in a President and cabinet that are for human rights and freedom of worship. Our President is by no means perfect. Nor is he a politician. He comes from New York, where people have directness that for some across the country, is called rude. I have been to New York lots of times. My last trip was on mission to some of the areas that most New Yorkers will not go into. I love New York. I love its people. Some of these people are extremely anti-Christian. They want religion to disappear. That’s okay with me. Some of the greatest in the faith have been so anti-Christian, that they were willing to have Christians killed in order to quench this Judaean off shoot. New York is ripe for a harvest. So is California. But the forces of evil are at work here. They want to quench the rude and antiquated thinking Christians who think that the non-Christian population are evil.

WHAT THE UNBELIEVERS DON”T KNOW:

The non-Christians are wrong about us. Even in your countries, because people are afraid of what they don’t know. They are also afraid of who the God of the Bible is.

I know that some of you come from countries that are even more anti-christians where being a disciple of Christ can kill you.

WHAT WE BELIEVERS KNOW:

Know this, no matter what the situation is here on earth we have a home in heaven that is infinitely better in every respect.

If you are poor in this world you’re rich in spirit.

If you are being persecuted wherever you are, do not allow this temporary thing to keep you from your ultimate price. This ultimate price is having an eternal place in God’s kingdom.

KEEP RUNNING THE RACE

Keep preaching the Good News of Jesus, because those hurting you are ignorant. Their eyes have been shut from the truth. This truth frightens them because of the misconception of their religion. Most religions come from doing good deeds in order to have a chance of attaining a celestial entrance.

You who know Christ in a personal way, are assured of this. Not by doing anything to get there. But by doing the only thing, the one things that God asks—To come to to Him humbly with a contrite heart. To ask His Son Jesus, who died on the cross for all of us, that are sins would die on the cross with Him. Because through Jesus dying and taking our transgressions with Him to the cross, He by His blood sacrifice, has cleansed us spiritually and by His resurrection, has made us pure. So pure, that we are now sons of Light.

ON OUR SALVATION:

We did not have to get on our knees and make a pilgrimage to an earthly holy site to do it. We did not have to make a yearly pilgrimage anywhere. We did not have to buy our way there. We did not have to do more good works in order to get a ticket there. We just had to come in with a broken heart asking Jesus into our lives. To forgive us of our transgressions. To have Jesus help us learn how to become more like Him. There was nothing that we could have done for this salvation because it is only through His grace, mercy, and love that we can have Heavenly peace. Such peace, that those who don’t know Him, will never understand, until they personally encounter the Jesus of the Bible.

UNPRECEDENTED TIME WE LIVE IN:

I want to tell you all this because, at this moment in time, 2020 has been a horrendous year so far. The global virus grips all of our lives. The News and social media outlets inundate us with hopelessness. But they don’t know what we know. That our hope is not in earthly leaders or health workers. Our hope is in Jesu. Our blessed hope is to one day be with God, with our loved ones who made the same commitment that we have. This is our destination.

But we are living in unprecedented times. With unprecedented politic upheavals. Some of our brethren have lost their homes, churches and lives for Christ. What does this mean?

IS THIS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR?

Are we awaiting the final pieces to God’s prophetic puzzles?

Or must we wait a bit longer?

Do we concentrate only on sharing the gospel?

Or do we continue living and working and sharing the gospel?

Do we listen to authorities picked by God, even when they are keeping us form worshipping and coming together in fellowship?

When will it be more important to obey God rather than men, like Peter and the rest of the early Christian church did?

Am I ready to die for the gospel?

Or does God want us to live for the gospel?

Is there a difference?

Why is there such division within Christian circles, some adamantly telling people to obey the governments blindlY?

While others saying not to allow government to intervene on our God given rights of free speech, freedom of religion and to peaceably to assemble?

These last questions will be answered one by one….

Next Post, edification of the modern church compared to edification of God in early church. Is it the same here in America versus in other parts of the world. Did our church fathers obey governing authorities blindly?

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May 8, 2020May 8, 2020