Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Tony's Top Ten 9/28/2022

 

TONY’S TOP TEN

 

Psalm 96:13 Before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

1. When we go to the truth of God’s word instead of our feelings we can see God’s goodness in different ways.

2. Understanding what and why God does what He does is not required, but believing and accepting who God is and that what He does always demonstrates His goodness is.

4. Just because we, as imperfect human Christians can’t see God’s goodness doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

5. We need to quit judging God by our standards; He doesn’t live by our standards, in fact, if the truth be known, we were created to live by his standards and not even our own.

6. You have to want to see God’s goodness to see it; it is as easy as Genesis 1; look at the times who God is and what He does is declared good!

7. We may have been affected by sin; but God has not and has only goodness in Him.

8. Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

9. We need to focus on hearing what the HolySpirit whispers instead of what the flesh screams.

10. Your flesh will never agree with the Holy Spirit; always remember, you flesh will not want what is good for you and will never satisfy you.

By Pastor Tony Kim

A Renewed Heart & A New Mind!

 

A New Heart & A Renewed Mind!

 

“Also I heard the voice of The LORD, saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send me.’” Isaiah 6:8

 

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable – who can know it? I The LORD search the heart, I try the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” Jeremiah 17:9-10

 

“Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a New SPIRIT within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My SPIRIT within you and cause you to walk in My Statutes, and you will keep My Judgments and do them.” Ezekiel 36:25-27

 

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by The Mercies of GOD, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to GOD, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect Will of GOD.” Romans 12:1-2

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Whose Will Is It?

 

Whose Will Is It?

 

“What then shall we say to these things? If GOD is for us, who can be against us? He Who did not spare His Own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him give us freely all things? Who shall bring a charge against GOD’s Elect? It is GOD Who justifies.” Romans 8:31-33

 

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the Mercies of GOD, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy acceptable to GOD, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1

 

“Surrender is not the surrender of the external life, but of the will; when that is done, all is done. There are very few crises in life; the great crisis is the surrendering of the will.” Oswald Chambers

 

To surrender or not to surrender, that is the question! Whether it is nobler to seek one’s own will or to seek GOD’s Will?

 

Seek GOD First while He may be found!

 GOD Bless, Bob & Charlene

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Saturday, September 24, 2022

Mockingbird Media's Half Truth About China by Leo Hohmann

 

Hohmann: Mockingbird Media Dishes Up a Load of (Half) Truth, 50 Years Too Late

By Jim Hoft
Published September 24, 2022 at 7:30am

Guest post by Leo Hohmann
The story I’m about to share is not terribly shocking, at least not to those of us who are awake, but I find the timing, along with the source, a bit ominous.

It comes from a mainstream corporate media outlet, NBC News, and it tells us that the modern military machine owned by the Chinese Communist Party is basically a creation of the United States.

Now why is the source and the timing of this story important?

Along with Facebook, Twitter, CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times, NBC is at the epicenter of the CIA-led mockingbird media, totally under the thumb of the globalist deep state, shilling for the technocratic beast system that’s being erected before our very eyes.

If you aren’t familiar with the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, look it up and study it.

Well-paid, professional propagandists, posing as journalists, are working hand-in-glove with the government, education system and large corporations to destroy the U.S. as we know it and merge what’s left into a technocratic one-world authoritarian system. The model system for the Communist States of America is China, where everyone is surveilled, tracked, monitored, assessed and socially scored 24/7 in real time. These ministers of propaganda use every manner of false reasoning and errors of omission to nudge you into their false narrative. Whether it’s climate change, vaccines, gun control, abortion, transgenderism, the pandemic of the month or the next big war, it’s all professionally served up in holy, self-righteous style. Eat this, don’t eat that, drive this, don’t drive that, inject this, live here, don’t live there, cover your face, stand on the X, sign up for your digital ID, etc. Obey and get promoted. Disobey and get demoted, canceled, disbarred, reviewed, revoked.

Let’ be clear: NBC News doesn’t report anything that the military-intelligence-biomedical-Big Pharma industrial complex doesn’t want the American people to know. On the flip side, it reporting everything this beast system wants us to know, whether it’s true or not, as part of their mind-controlling operation.

So it was with great interest that I read the article from NBC this week reporting that at least 154 Chinese scientists who worked on U.S. government-sponsored research at America’s foremost national security laboratory over the last 20-plus years have been recruited to do scientific work that helped build China’s military, and that U.S. national security is now “threatened,” according to NBC.

NBC sourced the story to a new private intelligence report authored by Strider Technologies.

The report describes what it calls “a systemic effort by the government of China to place Chinese scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons were first developed.”

Imagine that. A communist government having a strategy to systematically steal U.S. military technology. Who would have ever thought such an indignity as this could come from the plotters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the mass murder of millions of its own citizens, and the brutal one-child policy augmented by forced abortions and forced organ harvesting? No. Impossible!

But NBC News seems shocked by this revelation.

So let’s pick up with the story as reported by NBC.

“Many of the scientists were later lured back to China to help make advances in such technologies as deep-earth-penetrating warheads, hypersonic missiles, quiet submarines and drones,” according to the report.

“Scientists were paid as much as $1 million through participation in Chinese government ‘talent programs,’ which are designed to recruit Chinese scientists to return to China,” (after they’ve acquired the necessary technical training and valuable state secrets from the stupid Americans).

What? You mean Chinese communists paid Chinese scientists to perform research for them here in the U.S. that would give China a military advantage over the U.S.? The shock value of this story just keeps getting more unbelievable by the moment!

But that’s not all. Let’s continue because there’s more to come from the stellar journalists at NBC.

“Such talent programs have long been identified as a source of concern, but U.S. officials said they had not previously seen an unclassified report that described the phenomenon in such detail, naming specific scientists and the projects they have worked on.”

At about this point in the story, you start to wonder, isn’t this what we have the FBI for? Where were they when all of this was going on? I mean, it says in the article that it has “long been a source of concern,” that the Chinese were doing this. I guess NBC gives them a pass since they’ve been so busy hunting down January 6 “insurrectionists” and investigating those moms who attend school board meetings.

But, I digress. Back to the story.

The talent transfer “poses a direct threat to U.S. national security,” said Greg Levesque, a co-founder of Strider and the lead author of the report. “China is playing a game that we are not prepared for, and we need to really begin to mobilize.”

Really? Mobilize? Now? After 50 years of cooperating with, coddling, favoring, and enriching the Chinese communists, now we suddenly want to “mobilize” against what should have been known all along?

And who are these “U.S. officials” who feign ignorance and let this happen right under their noses? Perhaps they’re out there with the FBI tracking and monitoring moms at school board meetings and all those other “rightwing extremists” working to “undermine our democracy.”

NBC reports that “although a former Los Alamos scientist pleaded guilty in 2020 to lying about his involvement in a China recruitment program, most of the conduct described in the report appears to have been legal.”

Ah, now I get it. The FBI didn’t investigate because pillaging U.S. military secrets is legal in the United States. If that’s true, it’s only because it was made legal by treasonous lawmakers from both major political parties, compromised individuals like Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Biden crime family and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, all of whom have profited off of business deals in China.

Lest anyone starts to get nervous at this point in the story, NBC assures us that, “U.S. officials and experts say most Chinese scientists who immigrate to the U.S. remain here — and many have made significant contributions to U.S. defense technology.”

There are those mysterious, anonymous “U.S. officials” again, joined by nameless “experts,” telling us that the Chinese aren’t all bad. Heck, we should thank them. While they were busy transferring all that advanced weapons technology back to Beijing, they actually found time to provide a helping hand to our American military. Wow, these guys are talented.

What a disgrace. These corporate-media CIA hacks really do think we’re stupid.

But current and former U.S. intelligence officials said the Strider report shows how the Chinese government has been using talent recruitment programs to acquire insights into U.S. technology to help build a military that poses a significant threat to U.S. national security. The officials added that, according to NBC, “China’s hard-line turn under President Xi Jinping is sparking a re-evaluation of the long history of scientific exchange between the two countries.”

I don’t know about you, but I feel comforted that this U.S.-Chinese cooperation program is being “re-evaluated” after China’s built its military from almost nothing 40 to 50 years ago into a high-tech powerhouse capable of challenging the U.S. on the seas, land and air.

This has been going on, mind you, since the 1970s, when Henry Kissinger convinced the U.S. government to give communist China access to Western trade and capital.

“We have benefited enormously from the inflow of Chinese talent,” Robert Daly, a China expert at the Wilson Center, a congressionally chartered nonpartisan research institute, told NBC. “And I hope that we can continue to do that — it’s essential to the United States. But China is now developing weapons systems, capabilities, doctrines and, frankly, attitudes toward its own power that means we have to go back to the drawing board in some of these areas.”

Robert Daly is a globalist. As is usually the case with globalists, Daly speaks out of both sides of his mouth. China has been good for America but now China is also a danger to America. Both of those statements cannot be true. Which is it, Mr. Daly?

The truth is that China used the post-World War II liberal world order to enrich and empower itself with Western technology and know-how. Now that it has matched the U.S. in power and wealth, and has in many ways surpassed its senior partner, like all communist regimes it will turn on the very partner that helped it gain power.

The U.S.-led global order has been built upon lies and deceptions from the very beginning. They told us that by trading and doing business with China, that China would become more like us and learn to appreciate individual freedom. That was a lie. But those who set this world order and profited from it, the U.S. military-industrial complex, can never admit that, so they pull their punches and try to confuse the American public in order to protect their own interests.

In 2019, a bipartisan Senate report said China’s Thousand Talents Program and similar arrangements were a vector for China to exploit U.S. research.

So, after the damage is done, 50 years too late, we get a faux report that’s brought to us by a faux news agency. But hey, a year or two or three from now, when we are occupied by Chinese communist thugs wearing blue helmets, raping our women and shooting our men, they can say they warned us.

God help us.

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The Bidens Selling Natural Gas to China by Palela Geller

 

TREASON: Joe and Hunter Biden Selling US Natural Gas and Drilling Assets to China

By Pamela Geller - on 

Rep. Comer recently obtained new documents that show Hunter and Joe Biden were working to sell American natural gas and drilling assets to Communist China. Rep. James Comer (R-KY) went on with John Solomon from Just the News on RAV on Thursday (9-22-2022).

The Biden regime has banned energy for Americans. But plenty for their paymasters

Treason as policy.
GOP reps seek Treasury reports on ‘millions’ paid to Biden family by Chinese company

From the Committee on  Oversight and Reform:

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today is pressing Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for information about the Biden family selling American natural gas to China in 2017 and Joe Biden’s involvement. Documents and communications obtained by Committee Republicans reveal Joe Biden was involved in the arrangement as a business partner, had office space, and may have benefitted financially from his family’s transaction selling American energy to a Chinese business closely affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party. Ranking Member Comer is calling on Secretary Yellen to provide all suspicious activity reports for the Biden family’s transactions with Chinese entities.

“Documents obtained by Committee Republicans show that the Biden family received millions of dollars from a Chinese business closely affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, and therefore the Chinese government, to ship American natural gas to China. According to additional information provided by a whistleblower, Joe Biden was involved with this arrangement as a business partner, and documents reveal he even had office space to work on the deal. This comes to light at a time when the cost of natural gas is at a 14-year high and Americans struggle to pay their energy bills. The President has not only misled the American public about his past foreign business transactions, but he also failed to disclose that he played a critical role in arranging a business deal to sell American natural resources to the Chinese while planning to run for President,” wrote Ranking Member Comer. “We are concerned that the President may have compromised national security in his dealings with the country most adverse to U.S. interests—China.”

Under the Biden Administration, the Treasury Department changed its policy for releasing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)—a tool provided in the Bank Secrecy Act—to Congress. According to media reports, Hunter Biden and other Biden family members have racked up at least 150 SARs related to their foreign business deals. On May 25, 2022, Ranking Member Comer wrote to Secretary Yellen requesting all SARs generated for Hunter Biden and other Biden associates and family members’ financial transactions. He reiterated his request on July 6, 2022. In the Treasury Department’s September 2, 2022, letter to Committee Republicans, Treasury stated that SARs may be provided “upon a written request stating the particular information desired, the criminal, tax or regulatory purpose for which the information is sought, and the official need for the information.”

“Multiple whistleblowers have confirmed to Committee Republicans that from 2017 to 2021, the Biden family made promises to business associates that: (1) Joe Biden would run for President in 2020 and, (2) those who worked with the Bidens in 2017 onward would reap the rewards in a future Biden Administration. As America now struggles in an energy crisis, it is critical to understand why the Biden family was selling American energy reserves to the Chinese, if that is affecting President Biden’s decision making today, and why President Biden has never disclosed his relationship with the Chinese to the American public,” continued Ranking Member Comer. “If President Biden has worked to enrich not only himself but his family by promising, in exchange for millions of dollars, access or policy influence in a future Biden Administration, Congress and the American people are entitled to that information. Particularly since the Biden family promised business partners similar access to a future Biden Administration in other business deals, all while President Biden continues to deny any knowledge of Hunter Biden’s business dealings.”

The letter to Secretary Yellen and associated documents can be found here.

Congress secures first Hunter Biden whistleblowers as memos unmask lucrative gas deals with China

Internal company memos show Hunter Biden effort to score American LNG ports, gas deals, and drilling ventures for Beijing

By John Solomon, Just the News, September 23, 2022:

President Joe Biden boasts proudly today he is leading an “incredible transition” from fossil fuels, but just three years before he won the presidency his family worked to score billions of dollars in deals helping executives in communist China gain access to U.S. natural gas, oil and energy infrastructure, according to internal business memos and interviews with congressional investigators.

Memos obtained by Just the News from the Hudson West III LLC partnership that presidential son Hunter Biden operated with a prominent Chinese business executive named Gongwen Dong show the Biden family pursued at least 21 major deals in 2017 and 2018 for Chinese interests seeking U.S. energy assets, including liquified natural gas export terminals, LNG trade deals, drilling exploration firms, pipelines and other key energy assets.

Many of the deals targeted assets in the oil-rich Gulf Coast, including Louisiana, and aimed to help an energy-hungry China gain access to U.S. oil and gas, according to a summary memo of the 21 deals. Just the News found the memo on a Hunter Biden laptop turned over to the FBI in 2019 and corroborated its authenticity with a Biden business associate directly familiar with the deals and memos.

“Discussed both oil and LNG trading/exporting opportunities,” one memo sent to Hunter Biden read. “Our team was more interested in pursuing the LNG spread trading opportunities, due to the timing of upcoming winter peak usage season and the spiking natural gas price in China.”

That LNG deal and others like it never went forward, but Hunter Biden’s team chose to pivot in 2018 to other oil and gas deals, ranging from pipelines to drilling assets, the memo shows.

“Explore U.S. natural gas industry midstream investment opportunities (including natural gas pipeline projects with international and U.S.-based financial institutions),” the memo recommended as one of the 2018 opportunities.

Another goal, the memo stated: “Explore potential investment opportunities in the petrochemical and energy production space.”

The Hudson West III opportunities memo stated it was seeking to acquire interests in some drilling and exploration companies, like Noble Energy’s parent firm, that had fallen on hard times when oil and gas prices plummeted during the Trump administration. “Explore potential investment opportunity in distressed international energy company affiliates (for example, the Noble Group and affiliates),” the memo read.

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HW Project Summary2018.pdf

The Hunter Biden-connected firm also dabbled with the notion of getting better prices by targeting minority-owned energy firms that got preferential treatment in some markets.  The “model involves the support and nurturing of minority business and commodity brokers” and the benefit would be to “gain further discount and better service terms from its oil major partners,” the strategy memo stated.

According to evidence released by Republican Sens. Charles Grassley and Ron Johnson and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), Hudson West III’s goal was to find deals to benefit its primary partner in Beijing, CEFC, the Chinese energy giant led by Chinese businessman Ye Jianming, whom Hunter Biden met back in 2015.

The size of some of the deals Hudson West III sought were massive, ranging from $800 million to as large as $2.8 billion, one internal company memo stated.

Comer, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee and its likely chairman next year if the GOP wins control of Congress, told Just the News on Thursday night that he has secured cooperation from at least two of Hunter Biden’s former business associates, who have authenticated that Hunter Biden’s strategy was to help China secure U.S. oil and gas interests.

“What we know is that Hunter Biden’s company Hudson West III was negotiating a deal with the Chinese energy company CEFC to not only purchase American natural gas, but also to try to start purchasing interest in American drillers for natural gas so they can start to take control of the American natural gas industry through the drillers,” the congressman said in an interview with the “Just the News, Not Noise” television show.

“We have two whistleblowers,” he added. “And I’m confident they’re going to come forward in a Republican majority when I can conduct hearings, and I have the gavel for oversight, to tell us in detail what their objectives were. And these people were associates of Hunter Biden. And the ultimate goal — and the Bidens knew this — was for China to start to take ownership in all the different parts of the natural gas industry in the United States.”

Earlier this month, Comer wrote the Treasury Department asking for financial records related to Hunter Biden’s dealings with the Chinese, disclosing to Secretary Janet Yellin that his staff obtained a detailed business plan in Mandarin — including maps of U.S. shale gas deposits — showing the president’s son used Hudson West III to create a “plan to sell American natural gas reserves to China.”

 

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Tony's Top Ten 9-24-2022

TONY’S TOP TEN

 

2 Corinthians 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

1. One of the issues of talking about Satan is to not give him too much credit, yet, not ignore the fact that he still has power, so that we cannot discredit him either.

2. When it comes to making wise choices, we should at least consider what each choice is going to cost us.

3. Sometimes it would be a good perspective to see our choices with price tags on them or like food items, having a warning label on them, like “this choice may cost and cause..”

4. If we did it would certainly make us rethink our choices.

5. Just look at that word “devices:” it comes from the Greek word “noema” which has to do with strategies and mind games.

6. The implication here is that Satan has strategies, mind games and devices to take advantage of us and this is clearly the thought right here in this scripture.

7. His desire is to suggest to your mind through his thoughts, his strategies and ways to get you to make a choice that will not in the end turn out good for you.

8. Satan is not the cause of every problem in your life, this should be said, but he is a powerful enemy with a great influence when it comes to our thinking.

9. The first word in our text is “lest:” this is a word of permission, Satan can only overpower us if we give place to him and what he says.

10 the verse before this one is about forgiveness and it suggests if we do not choose to forgive, then we open the door to Satan to take advantage of us through his devices.

By Pastor Tony Kim

JESUS Is The Fulfillment Of GOD's Will For My Life!

 

JESUS Is The Fulfillment Of GOD’s Will For My Life!

 

When I became a born again Christian and my sins were removed and cast away so that GOD no longer saw them there were gaps in my life. Like all people I was born a sinner, as a child I did little actual sin, as a youth I started sinning regularly and as a young adult I sinned daily. But at the age of 23 all that changed and my sins were washed away by the blood of JESUS and my sin nature was crucified with JESUS and I was made a new man by GOD’s SPIRIT that came to abide in me. I was baptized in faith as a demonstration of all that GOD had done in me.

 

So when GOD looked at my life what did He see? Not much, from birth to that point in my life there was not much that I had done that would remain. But He did not look at my life up to that point and see blank spots, He saw JESUS. GOD rewrote the history of my life with JESUS. When I stand before GOD at the final judgment and the books are opened on how I lived my life, there will be a lot of JESUS filling the gaps of my lawlessness, my rebellion, my disobedience, my sin.

 

By the time of the resurrection and final judgment there should be fewer places in my history where JESUS is filling the gap. But there will be places where my history is JESUS’ life, death, resurrection and ascension. But because my sins were removed by His Blood my name is written in The Book of Life, so I will be received into GOD’s Eternal Kingdom.

 

GOD has and is rewriting my living history while His SPIRIT is leading me in the way He determined my life to be, to accomplish His Will for me before I was born. As I seek Him and work my at salvation with fear and trembling, when GOD judges my life as a whole He will see His Will for me having been done by His good and faithful servant. Thank You JESUS!

 

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Friday, September 23, 2022

Unity In The Church!

 

Unity in the Church!

This is a study of unity in the New Testament, but it has to be established on unity from the beginning!

“In the beginning, GOD created the heavens and the earth. Then GOD said, ‘Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” Genesis 1:1 & 26a The name of GOD used in the introduction of GOD is the plural form Elohim. So GOD establishes His plurality; Father, Son, Spirit; and the theme of unity. We see throughout the Old Testament that there is no conflict or division in the Godhead. “Behold how good and how pleasant it is for the brethren to dwell together in unity!...For there the LORD  commanded the blessing – life forevermore.” Psalm 133:1 & 3b This is the only time in the Old Testament that the word unity is used. It is to those who believe in the Living GOD and comes with a commanded blessing from GOD. If we are in unity in His Kingdom on the earth which at that time was Israel, He will bless us!

Now the bridge between the Old Testament and the New Testament is the life of Jesus, the only begotten Son of GOD, who was the full embodiment of the Godhead! (Colossians 2:8-10) What does Jesus say about unity? “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them” John 17:20-26 Jesus does not use the word unity but His teaching on being one is the same. He and the Father are one, and He wants us to be one with Himself so that we will also be one with the Father. Here is the blessing of unity that the love that the Father loved Jesus with will be in us and Jesus will be in us! This is eternal life!

The word unity is only used two times in the New Testament, Ephesians 4:3 & 13, “…endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace…till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of GOD, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.” Wow! The first six verses of this chapter are about oneness, the same prayer Jesus prayed over the disciples and the future Church in John 17; “…bearing with one another in love…keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace…one body and one Spirit…one hope of your calling…one LORD, one faith, one baptism…one GOD and one Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Verses 7 thru 10 speak of Christ’s Lordship, power and authority, verse 11 is about the gifts He gave the Church, and verses 12-16 are the purpose of the gifts and the results He expects to see in the Church. 4:16, “from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”

Paul teaches unity in his teachings on the Church as a body of believers likened to the human body and to a building built on Jesus Christ the chief corner stone and foundation. Peter refers to us as being living stones built on Christ The Living Stone. (Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31; Ephesians 1:22-23; Colossians 2:18-19; Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Corinthians 3; 1 Peter 2:1-10) Paul has a lot to say about love which also is a sign of unity, but John says it best emphasizing what he heard Jesus teach and pray for the Church. In First John he talks about love and abiding saying if we say we love GOD but hate (do not love) our brothers we are a liar, that is a strong statement. He says we need to abide in Christ, His love needs to abide in us, if it does His Spirit abides in us and we are the children of GOD. “If someone says, ‘I love GOD,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love GOD whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves GOD must love his brother also.” 1 John 4:20-21 Study the whole book of First John and 1 Corinthians 13.

Here is the scripture that started this diatribe, 1 Corinthians 1:10-31, as I was reading this passage I started thinking about unity and the Cross, the thought I wrote down was, “Out of unity comes the message of the Cross, or unity is the message of the Cross – Salvation for all! Otherwise we are like the Jews of Jesus’ day.” Study Matthew 23

I have been a Christian since Dec. 8, 1974 and I have never seen unity like Jesus and Paul pray and teach about. I have heard songs and teachings about unity and I have seen attempts at localized unity and some small successes. But for the most part the Church is divided and seems to want to stay that way. Catholics and Protestants rarely join together in prayer, fasting, worship, fellowship, and ministry to the lost and needy. Within these two groups are many divisions, expressions, and ministries that do not often work together themselves.

1500 years ago the Church lost the Middle East and Asia because of its sectarian and political divisions. In the 19th century the Church lost Southeast Asia while it was expanding its political, economic and religious base in those regions, in the 20th century the Church lost Europe during the two greatest wars the world had ever seen, now the Church is in the process of losing the Americas while we are electronically taking the Gospel to the world. The good news is that the Church is slowly gaining in parts of Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. As the Body of Christ we have failed to fulfill the commission He gave us, the works of which are to preach the gospel in all the world, lay hands on the sick and see them recover, cast out demons, and raise the dead. This will result in making disciples of the nations and making His enemies His footstool.

What will it take to bring us, the Church, to repentance and unity? I do not know – GOD did not tell me. I have a thought, what if it is the arrival of the anti-christ and the great tribulation? It is only a thought I am not forming a new doctrine (actually I think this is a very old doctrine). In my 47 years of being a Christian I have been all over the map on the end times, the rapture and tribulation. I have heard many teachings and read a few books on the subject, but mostly I have read the Bible and I have come to no clear conclusion of the timing of the events, I do believe that everything the Prophets, Jesus, and the Apostles have written is true and will happen. I’m not worried about the order or timing of the events because one of the main themes of Jesus and the Apostles teachings is to know the signs of the times and be prepared so as not to be taken by surprise. I am trying to live my life after the motto of the Boy Scouts, “Be prepared!”