Are You A Christian Or Are You Being A Christian?

 

Are You A Christian Or Are You Being A Christian?

 

It seems like a confusing question but it is actually an important question, are you or are you being?

 

So what is the difference? You can be a Christian: believe in JESUS as The Son of GOD and Savior, go to Church regularly and pay tithes and live a moral live. But that is not being! If you “are” a Christian than you are just meeting the minimum requirements of receiving Eternal Life. If you are “being” a Christian than you are living your life to the fullest that you can, Obeying GOD’s Will and Purpose for your Life.

 

So the question is are you just present or are you actively present? Are you doing what is required to get by or are you Seeking GOD and His Righteousness First before everything else?

 

Look at the lives of the apostles and early Christians, they were actively present, they were seeking GOD and His Righteousness and they were accused of changing the whole world. What is your Christianity changing? Only yourself or are you Obeying GOD’s Purpose for your Life, no matter how hard it is? Did Paul ask, pray or desire all the bad things that happened to him? No! But he willingly accepted them for the sake of fulfilling GOD’s Purpose for his life!

 

Deuteronomy 11:18 “Therefore you shall lay up these Words of Mine in your Heart and in your Soul and bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.” If we are to Seek GOD First then we must read and study His Word The Bible. JESUS said The Father was going to give us His SPIRIT to teach us, to convict us, to council us, to comfort us and to remind us of everything that JESUS Said! Are you Seeking Him and His Righteousness?

 

Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to the 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.” The SPIRIT of GOD Renews our Mind by The Word of GOD! The Word of GOD Washes us clean of the things we learned from the world.

 

Exodus 20 is the Ten Commandments and Leviticus 19-20 is the defining of the Ten Commandments. Learn and Live by them as a Good Start to Serving The Will of GOD that is for every Believer. But we also must Seek Him and His Righteousness so that we can fine His Purpose and Call for us as His Child and Servant!

 

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Dream - Isaiah 14

 

Dream – Isaiah 14

 

I awoke about 4AM on Friday September 19, 2025 from a dream. My dream began with a conversation with my wife, Charlene, who was reminding me that I was to give a very important message when I came home from work.

Then I was at work in an office building, It grew late and almost everyone had gone home, as I was leaving I was called back by a supervisor (in my dream this was a real supervisor when I worked for Kyocera Wireless) he was with three other men (one was a friend, co-worker and Christian, Greg Florey). My supervisor told me they (the company) needed me to make a public statement about what was happening in the world.

I told him I was supposed to go home to give a message about this, but he insisted. I asked if they had an outline yet and he said they did. I asked about including The Bible in the message, not as a sermon but to emphasize the point of the message. He said yes that would be good. As I was awakening I heard  Isaiah 14 so I got up and read it.

 

Isaiah 14 is about JEHOVAH GOD’s Blessing on Israel as He brings them out of their seventy years of captivity for their disobedience and rebellion (:1-2). It is about JEHOVAH GOD’s Judgment on Babylon (:3-11), it is about JEHOVAH GOD’s Judgment on Lucifer (:12-21), it is about the destruction of Babylon (:22-23), Assyria (Siria; :24-27) and Philistia (Palestine; :28-31).

 

There is much imagery in Isaiah 14, it is important to read it slowly and ask The SPIRIT of JEHOVAH GOD to show you what He wants you to learn!

 

“For JEHOVAH will have mercy on Jacob (Israel) and will still choose Israel and settle them in their own Land. The strangers will be joined with them and they will cling to the House of Jacob. Then people will take them and bring them to their own place and The House of Israel will Possess them for servants and maids in the Land of JEHOVAH; they will take them captive whose captives they were and rule over their oppressors. (While this is specifically about the time after Israel’s seventy years of captivity it is also about today. Since Israel was restored as a nation in 1948, they have been threatened and attacked about a dozen times and they have won every fight and come out stronger each time.)

It shall come to pass in the day JEHOVAH gives you rest from your sorrow and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, ‘How the oppressor has ceased, the golden (insolent) city ceased! JEHOVAH has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers; he who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he who ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted and no one hinders. The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing (both rejoicing and worship of JEHOVAH GOD; Isaiah 55:12). Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you were cut (have lain) down no woodman has come up against us.” Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you. All the chief ones of the earth, it has raised up their thrones all the kings of the nations. They all speak and say to you: ‘Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us? Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol (hell), and the sound of your stringed instruments; the maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you.’” (All men fail in death; all men are judged rightly in death; Hebrews 9 27; Revelation 20:11-15.)

 

“How you are fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! (Ezekiel 28:11-15; Revelation 12:7-9) For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into Heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of GOD, I will sit on the mount of the congregation (Zion) on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like The Most High.’ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the pit! Those who see you will gaze at you and consider you, saying: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who did not open (would not release) the house of his prisoners?’ All the kings of the nations, all of them sleep in glory, everyone in his own house; but you are cast out of your grave like an abominable (despised) branch, like the garment of those who are slain, thrust (pierced) through with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trodden underfoot! You will be joined with them in burial because you have destroyed your land and slain your people, the brood of evildoers shall never be named. (In Revelation 2:17 those who overcome the devil will receive a new Heavenly Name from JESUS, our True Name that JEHOVAH GOD gives us when He writes out the days of our life before we are born [Psalm 139] and enters it in The Lambs Book of Life; these who serve the devil will be nameless in their eternal judgment.) Prepare slaughter for his children (Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 19:17-21, 20:11-15) because of the iniquity of their fathers, less they rise up and possess the land and fill the face of the earth with cities.”

 

“’For I will rise up against them,’ says JEHOVAH of Hosts  ‘and cut off from Babylon the name and remnant and offspring and posterity,’ says JEHOVAH. ‘I will also make it a possession for the porcupine and marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction.’ Says JEHOVAH of Hosts. JEHOVAH of Hosts has sworn, saying, ‘Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass and as I have purposed, so it shall stand: that I Will break the Assyrian in My Land and on My Mountains tread him underfoot! Then his yoke shall be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulders. This is the Purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations! For JEHOVAH of Hosts has Purposed and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out and who will turn it back?’”

 

“This is the burden that came in the year that king Ahaz died (Again, yes this was about that time, but it is also about today in Israel as they fight against the modern Philistines.). ‘Do not rejoice all you of Philistia, because the rod that struck you is broken: for out of the serpents roots will come forth a viper and its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent (Revelation 12). The firstborn of the poor will feed, and the needy will lie down in safety; I will kill your roots with famine and it will slay your remnant. Wail, O gate! Cry O city! All you of Philistia are dissolved (exist no more); for smoke will come from the north and no one will be alone in his appointed times (Or ranks). What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That JEHOVAH has founded Zion (Jerusalem), and the poor of His People shall take refuge in it.’”

 

https://youtu.be/3VTFLAZEn8c

Isaiah 1 America Repent!

 

Isaiah 1

America Repent!

 

This is the first Message JEHOVAH gave Isaiah for Israel, like all of GOD’s Words it applies to all nations and peoples, especially America (The United States of America) because like Israel this nation was founded by GOD; through His People who wanted to Worship and Serve Him without religious or governmental interference. Like Israel, America was called to proclaim JEHOVAH GOD as the True and Living GOD of all creation Who wants to save us from our sin through His Only Begotten Son, JESUS CHRIST! But like Israel America has fallen and turned from JEHOVAH GOD.

 

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning America (Judah) and Washington DC (Jerusalem) in the days of Clinton (Uzziah), GW Bush (Jotham), Obama (Ahaz), and Trump (Hezekiah), presidents (kings) of America (Judah).

 

Hear O heavens and give ear O earth for JEHOVAH has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against Me! The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s feed troth; But America (Israel) does not know, my people do not consider.”

 

Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken JEHOVAH, they have provoked to anger The Holy One of America (Israel), they have turned away backward.

 

Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; they have not been closed or bound up or soothed with ointment.

 

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; illegal aliens (strangers) devour your land is your presence; and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. So the daughter of America (Zion) is left as a shelter in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Unless JEHOVAH of hosts had left to us a small remnant we would have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah.

 

Hear The Word of JEHOVAH you rulers of Washington DC (Sodom); give ear to The Law of your GOD you people of America (Gomorrah): “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” says JEHOVAH. “I have had enough of abortion (burnt offerings of rams) and the poisoning of food (fat of fed cattle). I do not delight in the blood of murder (bulls), or of transgender surgery (lambs) or lgbt+ (goats).

 

When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My Churches (courts)? Bring no more futile regulations (sacrifices); incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths and the calling of assemblies – I cannot endure  iniquity and the sacred meeting. Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My Soul Hates! They are a trouble to Me; I am weary of bearing them. When you pray (spread your hands) I Will Hide My Eyes from you; I Will Not Hear! Your hands are full of bloodshed (blood).

 

Wash yourselves make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My Eyes. Cease to do evil! Learn to do Good; Seek Justice, rebuke the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now and let us Reason together,” says JEHOVAH, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are Willing and Obedient you shall eat The Good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel you shall be devoured by the sword!” For the mouth of JEHOVAH has spoken!

 

How the faithful city (Washington DC) has become a harlot (unfaithful)! It was full of Justice; Righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers! Your silver has become dross; your wine mixed with water. Your rulers (princes) are rebellious and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

 

Therefore JEHOVAH says, JEHOVAH of hosts, the Mighty One of America (Israel)’ “Ah, I will rid Myself of (be relieved of) my adversaries and take vengeance on My enemies! I Will turn My hand against you and thoroughly purge away (refine with lye) your dross and take away all your alloy. I Will restore your judges as at the first and your councilors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the city of Righteousness, the faithful City!”

 

America (Zion) will be Redeemed with Justice and her penitents (Lit. returners) with righteousness! The destruction of transgressors and of sinners together, Those who forsake JEHOVAH shall be consumed. For they (some) shall be ashamed of the sites of pagan worship (terebinth trees) which you have desired; you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens which you have chosen. For you shall be as terebinth whose leaf fades and a garden that has no water. The strong shall be tinder and the work of it as a spark; both will burn together and no one shall quench.

 

Read and Pray 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 for America!

 

https://youtu.be/IpP097R_0BY

Repentance!

 

Repentance!

In Luke 3:1-14 John Defines Repentance!

 

“John went into all the region around the Jordan, Preaching a Baptism of Repentance for the Remission of sins, (Baptism is the immersion into water to symbolize the washing away of sins to those who ask GOD for Forgiveness of their sins. Repentance is the lifestyle of stopping sinning and starting to Live Righteous before GOD.)

 

Then John said to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, ‘Brood of vipers! (Genesis 3:1) Who warned you (Ezekiel 3:17-21; 1 Thessalonians 5:14)  to flee from the wrath to come? (Psalm 2:1-6; Romans 1:18-21)

 

Therefore bear fruits (Proverbs 12:12-14; Matthew 7:15-20) worthy of repentance (2 Chronicles 7:13-14; 2 Corinthians 7:8-12) and do not begin to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.” For I say to you that GOD is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. (Luke 19:37-40; 1 Peter 2:4-8)

 

And even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. (Matthew 3:10, 7:15-20) Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” (Psalm 37:9; Proverbs 2:22; John 15:5-6)  Study JESUS’ Woes, Matthew 11:21, 18:7, 23:13-29, 26:24; Luke 6:24-26, 10:13, 11:42-52, 17:1, 22:22 (yes some of them are duplicates.)

 

So the people asked him, saying, “What shall we do then?” He answered and said to them (Repent), “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; (Matthew 5:40) and he who has food, let his do likewise.” (Isaiah 58:6-7; James 2:15-16)

 

Then the tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, “Teacher what shall we do?” So he said to them, “Collect no more than what is appointed for you.” (Leviticus 25:35-38; 1 Timothy 3:2-3)

 

Likewise the solders (Not Roman) asked him, saying, “What shall we do?” So he said to them, “Do not shake down for money or accuse falsely and be content with your wages.”’” (Exodus 20:13-17; Deuteronomy 16:19; Romans 13:8-10)

 

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Forgiveness!

 

Forgiveness!

 

John 20:21-23 “So JESUS said to them again, ‘Peace to you! As The Father has sent Me, I also send you.’ When He has said this He breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive The HOLY SPIRIT! If you Forgive the sins of any, they are Forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’”

Have you ever thought what that means, we have the authority to forgive or not forgive someone’s sin?*

 

James 5:13-16 “Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray! Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms! Is anyone among you sick? Let him call upon the Elders of the Church, and let them Pray over them, anointing them with oil in The Name of The LORD. The Prayer of Faith will Save the sick and The LORD will Raise them up. If they have committed sins they will be Forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another and Pray for one another, that you may be healed! The Effective, Fervent Prayer of a Righteous person avails much.”

See how repentance (which starts with confession), prayer and forgiveness work together to bring healing and recovery?

 

1 John 2:1-2 “My little children these things I write to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have an Advocate with The father, JESUS CHRIST The righteous! He Himself is the Propitation (Mercy Seat) for our sins and not for ours only but also for the whole world!” John 1:29

 

We have to have at least one person in our life who is a mature Christian who we trust our life to; it may or may not be a pastor or church leader. Someone we can confess our sins to!

 

 

*JESUS told us if we do not forgive someone who sins against us then our Father in Heaven would not forgive our sins, Matthew 6:13-14. How do we reconcile this?  In Matthew 6:13-14 JESUS is talking about someone sinning against us as this follows 6:9-12 where JESUS teaches us to ask for forgiveness for our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.

There is a point in a person’s life that prayer for them is not valid, Romans 1:18-24; 1 Timothy 4:4-5. The reality is that we have the authority in JESUS CHRIST to not Forgive sin, of those who do not sin against us personally but whose sinful life is so dark they seem and proclaim that they are unredeemable, Matthew 7:15-20; 1 Corinthians 5; 2 Timothy 3:1-9.

 Remember Matthew 7:1-2, 12 “Judge not, that you be not judged! For with the Judgment you Judge, you will be Judged; and with the measure you use it will be measured back to you….Therefore, whatever you want people to do to you, do also to them, for this is The Law and The Prophets.”

 

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3 Commandments Of JESUS-You Must Forgive!

 

3 Commandments Of JESUS!

You Must Forgive!

 

JESUS told us not to Judge others because we would be Judged with the same measure!

JESUS told us not to call people names because that would put us in a place to be Judged!

JESUS told us to Forgive those who sin against us or our Heavenly Father would not forgive us!

These Commandments of JESUS go against our human nature, because we are sinners (Saved by Grace) but He told us if we did not keep them we would not be His Disciples! The point is that we cannot Live by Grace but by Obedience! We Live in Grace to Endure through Obedience; JESUS told us we must Endure (Overcome)! (Matthew 10:22, 28:13; 1 John 1:13-14; Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26-29; 3:5, 12, 21-22; 21:7)

 

Let’s look at these Commandments of JESUS:

 

You Must Forgive – Matthew 5:43-48 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall Love your neighbor (Leviticus 19:18) and hate your enemy’. (Deuteronomy 23:3-8; Psalm 139:19-22; 1 John 3:15) But I say to you, Love your enemies (Romans 12:17-21; 1 John 3:18-23), Bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you and Pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you (Jeremiah 29:6-7; Acts 7:59-60). ” Wow! Love your enemy? Is there a precedent for this? (Proverbs 24:17-18, 25:21-22)

 

“that you may be sons of your Father in Heaven (John 1:12-13; Galatians 3:23-29); for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust (Proverbs 15:3; 2 Peter 3:8-9).”

 

“For if you Love those who Love you, what reward have you? Do not even tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren (friends) only, what do you do more than others? Do not even Gentiles do so? Therefore you shall be Perfect just as your Father in Heaven is Perfect (Ephesians 5:1-2; Colossians 1:27-29; 1 Peter 1:13-21)!

 

You cannot  Love your enemies if you do not Forgive: Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you Forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father Will also Forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither Will your Father Forgive your trespasses.”

Matthew 18:21-35 If you do not forgive, not only will GOD not forgive you, but, “So My Heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his Heart, does not Forgive his Brother his trespasses (sins)!”

Ephesians 4:25-32 – Keep The Ten Commandments and Forgive!

Matthew 22:36-40 – Love GOD (Deuteronomy 6:5, 10:12-13, 30:6) and Love your neighbor! (Leviticus 19:18)

 

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3 Commandments Of JESUS-Do Not Hate!

 

3 Commandments Of JESUS!

Do Not Hate!

 

JESUS told us not to Judge others because we would be Judged with the same measure!

JESUS told us not to call people names because that would put us in a place to be Judged!

JESUS told us to Forgive those who sin against us or our Heavenly Father would not forgive us!

These Commandments of JESUS go against our human nature, because we are sinners (Saved by Grace) but He told us if we did not keep them we would not be His Disciples! The point is that we cannot Live by Grace but by Obedience! We Live in Grace to Endure through Obedience; JESUS told us we must Endure (Overcome)! (Matthew 10:22, 28:13; 1 John 1:13-14; Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26-29; 3:5, 12, 21-22; 21:7)

 

Let’s look at these Commandments of JESUS:

 

Do Not Hate – Matthew 5:21-26 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder (Exodus 20:13); and whoever murders will be in danger of the Judgment.’ But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the Judgment.” (Numbers 35:9-34).

“And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ (Lit. in Aramaic, empty head) shall be in danger of the council.” The council is what JESUS faced during His trial, (council in the Greek means a tribunal council or a joint session of the Jewish Sanhedrin for the purpose of punishment; Matthew 10:16-20 [Mark 13:9-11], Matthew 12:14 [KJV], 26:57-59 [Mark 14:55, 15:1, Luke 22:66]; John 11:47; Acts 4:5-16, 5:21-41, 6:12-14, 22:30-23:1)

“But whoever says, ‘you fool!’ shall be in danger of hellfire! (“You fool!” is a Judgment that only GOD can give, Psalm 14:1; Proverbs 10:23, 12:15-16, 18:6-7, 28:26; [26:3-12, 29:20]; Luke 12:16-21). Do a word study of fool in Proverbs. shall be in danger of hell fire!” (this is Eternity in the lake of fire; Matthew 25:41; 1 John 3:10-15; Revelation 20:11-15, 21:8)

 

“Therefore if you bring your Gift to the Altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your Gift there before the Altar and go your way. First be Reconciled to your brother and then come and offer your Gift.” This sounds straight forward, if your brother has an issue with you, go and make it right. But in Israel, every male was your brother, even if you did not know them; all Hebrews were descendants of Abraham, therefore brethren. To the Hebrew people everyone was a spiritual and natural relative.  In the Church today we limit our spiritual brethren to those in our Church Fellowship and maybe our denomination, we even exclude our natural families if they do not agree with our beliefs. JESUS is saying that every person in our nation is our brother or sister and if any of them has an issue with us, we have to reconcile with them (this is why you have to read scripture in context to understand who was talking to whom about what, then you can apply it to your own life)!

The reverse also applies, Matthew 18:15-17, it is our responsibility to be at Peace and in a right relationship with everyone! (Romans 12:14-21).

So what is JESUS teaching us in these two situations? That whether we are offended or the offender it is our responsibility to go and fix the matter before GOD.

 

“Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer and you be thrown into prison. Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny.” So this is the worse-case scenario, your non-believing brother has now become your adversary (or enemy), the one who wants to do you harm for your offence. Here JESUS puts the responsibility on the offender to make things right or face judgment as we saw in Matthew 18:15-17 where the offender is put out of fellowship because of his unrepentance.

JESUS told the parable of the unjust servant who was forgiven a great debt but refused to forgive his brother who owned him a small debt. The master of both men, when he found out reinstituted the debt of the original man and threw him in prison. (Matthew 18:21-35).

But we still must forgive them, Mark 11:25-26, “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, Forgive him, that your Father in Heaven may also Forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not Forgive, neither will your Father in Heaven forgive your trespasses!” This is a serious matter, JESUS talked about it a lot, even when He taught the disciples how to pray in Matthew 6:9-13, in verses 14-15 He said, “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also Forgive you. But if you do not Forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses!”

 https://youtu.be/7BMh4GGxiG4