Be †Killing † SIN

Abba you got the power

I walk in Your Holy grace

to the destruction of my selfish ways

-and-

No matter how many times I lose,

I'm going to fight this flesh until I am dead in you.

I feel the presence of evil

Seeking to have me so focused on my mistakes that I wont be able to spread the gospel of His Grace.

In the darkness of this hour, I feel the somber silence the thick air leaving me breathless again.

With eyes fixed on the Son

I stand again, ready to face any tribulation. 

Abba you got the power

I walk in Your Holy grace

to the destruction of my selfish ways 

-and-

No matter how many times I lose,

I'm going to fight this flesh until I am dead in you.

This battle has already been won

and this careless war that's raged

can't hold a candle to His sacrifice.

Keep promising me happiness and wealth

what does that matter if I'm not promised tomorrow?

Take your pride and your worldliness

pick up your cross and crucify it all…

You want peace and change?

well, somebodies got to die

either you or Christ…

make your choice.

Lord enlighten me with your word

every move I make solidify my steps

Following the path that You have made

not wanting to walk to my desires

deep in the darkness of my lusts

Dragging this flesh to the crucifix 

killing this sin until theres nothing left.

The Prophet Micaiah

In 1 Kings 22 we read about a prophet by the name of Micaiah in hebrew his name would be pronounced Me-keye-yeh-who which means "who is like God".

1 Kings 22 deals with King Ahab of Israel, (the same Ahab who had the wife by the name of Jezebel who exalted baal above the one true God.) and also king Jehoshaphat of Judah. We know that the northern kingdom of Israel(Ahab) was far from following God, and the southern kingdom Judah(Jehoshaphat) was the line of David and was generally shown mercy.

Now Jehoshaphat went to visit King Ahab, and while visiting, Ahab tells him that the Ramoth Gilead which is under control of Syria is theirs, and Ahab asks Jehoshaphat to come with him to fight Syria for Ramoth Gilead.(1 Kings 22: 3-4)

Jehoshaphat tells King Ahab "my people are you people, my horses are your horses" essentially agreeing to help Ahab with Syria, but Jehoshaphat also tells King Ahab to inquire of the LORD this day. (1 Kings 22:5) Jehoshaphat was saying simply..of course I'll help but first lets go see what the LORD has to say about this battle.

Now King Ahab had about four hundred "prophets" come to him, this is stated in 1 Kings 22:6. But interesting thing is, we know Ahab was more of a follower of baal then he was God, these prophets that he gathered around him were just a bunch of puppets that would tell Ahab exactly what he wanted to hear. So when Ahab asks them "Shall I go again Ramoth Gilead to fight, or shall I refrain?" (1 Kings 22:6)

They all agree and say "Go up, for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king."

(1 Kings 22:6)

The funny thing is Jehoshaphat sees this and he must realize quickly that these are not prophets of God but false prophets, wolves in sheep's clothing if you will, I don't know, think of them as a bunch of Joel Osteen's or Rick Warrens just tickling your ears telling you what you want to hear. So Jehoshaphat being not convinced quickly says "Is there not still a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of Him?" (1 Kings 22:7)

Jehoshaphat disregards the words of 400 men and is just seeking to hear from the LORD, he didn't care that 400 men said to go up and fight(Ahab didn't care to hear from any prophets at all) Jehoshaphat wanted one legit man of God who would speak truth. So Ahab tells Jehoshaphat " there is still one man, and his name is Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, because he does not prophecy good concerning me, but evil"(1 Kings 22:8)

"I hate him, he does not prophecy good for ME, but evil" tell me this doesn't sound familiar. It is, as if it wasn't before, easily seen that King Ahab only cares about himself, and the good of him. Ahab doesn't care what God has to say, and why would he? Ahab and his wife Jezebel follow the doctrines of demons and worship baal. Worship of anything other then the ONE true God ends up being the same mindset of self worship and self-pleasure, I don't care if you say you worship the sun or moon or stars or baal,krishna,buddha,the virgin mary,prosperity ect ect…anything other then the biblical foundation and the worship of the ONE true God is nothing but doctrines of demons following the satanic motto of "Do what thou wilt".

Ahab didn't want to give up his gods, didn't want to give up the right to himself and all that he had, so this is exactly why he hated hearing from this prophet Micaiah. 

In response to hearing this from Ahab, Jehoshaphat says "let not the king say such things!" 1 Kings 22:8

So Ahab sends an officer to go fetch Micaiah. This messenger finds Micaiah and says to him "listen, all the other prophets with one accord encourage the king, let your words be like theres speak nothing but encouragement." (1 Kings 22:13)

Micaiah says, "As the LORD lives, whatever the LORD says to me, that I will speak."

(1 Kings 22:14)

So Micaiah comes before the king and Ahab says to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall we refrain?" (1 Kings 22:15)

Micaiah's reply seems awkward at first because he says "Go and prosper, for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king!" (1 Kings 22:15) exactly what the false prophets said to Ahab. Sometimes it's hard to read sarcasm/mocking but that is exactly what Micaiah is doing, Micaiah already knows that Ahab already has his mind made up and doesn't care what the Lord has to say. So Micaiah is essentially like "here..this is what you want me to say, your going to go and attack no matter what I say, so here…i'll tell you what all these false prophets of yours have already said"

King Ahab knows that Micaiah is being a smart ass which is why he replies with "How many times shall I make you swear that you tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?" (1 Kings 22:16)

So Micaiah says "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, "These have no master. Let each return to his house in peace." (1 Kings 22:17) to which Ahab quickly whines to Jehoshaphat "See! I told you he only prophecies evil for me!" (1 Kings 22:18)

Then [Micaiah] said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by, on His right hand and on His left. "And the LORD said, 'Who will persuade Ahab to go up, that he may fall at Ramoth Gilead?' So one spoke in this manner, and another spoke in that manner.

"Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, and said, 'I will persuade him.' "The LORD said to him, 'In what way?' So he said, 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And the LORD said, 'You shall persuade [him], and also prevail. Go out and do so.'

"Therefore look! The LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the LORD has declared disaster against you."

(1 Kings 22:19-23)

The Lord gave Ahab exactly what he wanted, Ahab didn't care what God honestly had to say, he wanted to go to war with Syria regardless. Micaiah was saying LOOK! all your prophets are not speaking from God they are full of lying spirits! but Ahab was so blind with pride and selfishness that he only had ears to hear what was pleasing to him.

Now Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the spirit from the LORD go from me to speak to you?"

And Micaiah said, "Indeed, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide!"

So the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son; "and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this [fellow] in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I come in peace." 

But Micaiah said, "If you ever return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Take heed, all you people!"

1 Kings 22:24-28

God through Micaiah warned Ahab but he refused to listen and threw Micaiah into prisoner for speaking the truth. Ahab dies in the battle for Ramoth Gilead (1 Kings 22:34-37) In 1 Kings 22:37 the prophecy of Elijah is fulfilled that was said of Ahab in 1 Kings 21. Now why Jehoshaphat after hearing from the Lord through Micaiah still decided to go to war against Syria for Ramoth Gilead is beyond me, maybe because he felt he already promised Ahab? or maybe because he knew the prophecy was against Ahab and not himself, I'm not sure.

What I do know is we need to be biblical, and we need to beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, to be careful not to become comfortable. We can't ignore God because what He says isn't what we want to hear, we can't settle for the tickling of our ears and claim to be walking in light.

Psalm 22 = Christ

"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"

"Eloi, Eloi, lama Sabachthani?"

These words are said by Jesus in Matthew 27:46 and also Mark 15:34 while He was on that cross taking the wrath we deserved. Interestingly enough, what Jesus was doing was quoting from Psalm 22, which if you read Psalm 22  it is a perfect picture of our LORD and Savior, it is prophetic to use the correct term. 

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?

Why are you so far from helping Me, and from the words

of My groaning? O My God, I cry in the daytime,

but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am

not silent.

But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.

Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You

delivered them. They cried to You, and were delivered;

They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and

despised by the people. All those who see Me ridicule

Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

"He trusted in the LORD, let Him rescuer Him;

Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!"

But You are He who took Me out of the womb;

You made Me trust while on My mother's breasts.

I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother's womb

You have been my God. Be not far from Me,

For trouble is near; For there is none to help.

Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong bulls of 

Ba'shan have encircled Me. They gape at Me with their 

mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion.

I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of

joint; My heart is like wax; it has melted within Me.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue

clings to my jaws; You have brought Me to the

dust of death.

For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the

wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and

My feet; I can count all My bones. They look and stare

at Me. They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.

But You, O LORD, do not be far from Me; O My strength, hasten to help Me! Deliver Me from the sword,

My precious life from the power of the dog. Save Me

from the lion's mouth and from the horns of the wild oxen!

You have answered Me.

I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of

the assembly I will praise You. You who fear the LORD,

praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him,

and fear Him, all you offspring of Israel! For He has not

despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;

Nor has He hidden His face from Him; But when He cried

to Him, He heard.

My praise  shall be of You in the great assembly;

I will pay My vows before those who fear Him.

The poor shall eat and be satisfied; Those who seek Him

will praise the LORD. Let your heart live forever!

All the ends of the world Shall remember and turn to the 

LORD, and all the families of the nations Shall worship before You. For the kingdom is the LORD'S, and

He rules over the nations.

All the prosperous of the earth Shall eat and worship;

All those who go down to the dust Shall bow before Him,

Even he who cannot keep himself alive.

A posterity shall serve Him, it will be recounted of the LORD to the next generation, They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born,

that He has done this.

Psalm 22:1-31

Psalm 22 correlates with Christ, how anyone can read Psalm 22 and think otherwise is beyond me. From it speaking about Jesus and His Jewishness in the form of man in verses 4 and 5, (because He is speaking about His forefathers  trusting in God). To the verses talking about Him being persecuted and ridiculed in verses 6 through 8 exactly like He was while on the cross.

(Matthew 27:43)

And My tongue clings to My jaws;

You have brought Me to the dust of death.

Psalm 22:15

In John 19:28 Jesus said "I thirst" which correlates with Psalm 22:15 "And My tongue clings to My jaws".

And then you also have "You(Meaning God) have brought Me(Jesus Christ) to the dust of death"

We know Christ's whole purpose was to suffer the wrath

to take the cup of wrath that we should have drank.

He came to die, simple as that, it was all part of God's plan, and Isaiah 53:10 says "it pleased the LORD to bruise Him".

Then you have verses 16 through 18 of psalm 22…

For dogs have surrounded Me; 

The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. 

They pierced My hands and My feet;

 I can count all My bones. 

They look and stare at Me. 

They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.

Psalm 22:16-18

LORD we praise you, we honor you with the price that was paid. We know that there is nothing we can do to pay it ourselves, we know that we were bought and we now belong to you in Christ's name, bought in His holy pure blood. Father we recognize your abhorrence of sin, and praise you for cleansing us and making us what we were always called to be, and thats Holy.

Help us to walk in the light as you are in the light, to surrender all pride and selfishness, to pick up our own crosses and crucify this flesh daily. Only in You do we boast Jesus,Son of God, King of Kings, God in the flesh Holy un blemished lamb who became punishment for our wickedness.

All Glory to Him! 

A Gentile asks Forgiveness

You know what I find interesting….Acts 28:28,

now you may be asking yourself why is that interesting?

or actually probably not, because I mean it does state that the salvation of God(keywords salvation of God)

has been sent to the gentiles and they will hear it!

Amen..right? Gentile of course meaning anyone not jewish. But this is not why I bring up the verse, you see Paul being the apostle of the gentiles(a jew himself) is speaking about salvation to the gentiles has come, and he is saying this to jewish leaders in Rome. I want you to go read Acts 28, the whole chapter, I want you to notice this, these jewish leaders listened to Paul, some agreed with what he was saying about Jesus, and others disagreed but they all departed after Paul said one thing.

Now they had a disagreement amongst themselves about this Jesus Paul was speaking of but they didn't all leave until Paul said "Salvation of God has been sent to the gentiles" that was pretty much the straw that broke the camels back. You see back in that time the jews didn't understand how or why God would want to give salvation to gentiles, to them, they were very unclean ungodly people..heck they were not even circumcised. This is even a dispute in Acts where certain gentile believers are troubled by certain jewish believers telling them they must be circumcised and keep the law:

Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, "You must be circumcised and keep the law"*—to whom we gave no such commandment—

Acts 15:24

My point is this, certain jewish believers were disgusted with the thought of Gentiles being brought into God's good graces, they would force their laws and traditions on a converted gentile believer, or at least try to. It seems today however, things have flipped…I mean obviously back then the majority of real believers in Yeshua(Jesus) were Jewish, all the apostles were. But now in 2012…would you say that's true? of course not…the majority of believers in Christ are gentiles, and I'm not saying anything is wrong with that. But you see, like the certain jewish people who were trying to force gentiles into being jewish to earn salvation, now we as gentiles have forced ourselves on the jew's saying they must become like us for salvation. Don't get it twisted…YES

a jewish person(or gentile for that matter) must recognize Jesus Christ(Yeshua Hamashiach) as LORD and savior to be saved..

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Romans 1:16

HOWEVER, we don't then say they must become as gentiles too. Just like a believing jew doesn't tell a believing gentile he must adopt his customs. What we as gentiles have done through the years is curse the natural branches..

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Romans 11:17-18

Us being the unnatural branches(gentiles) we have taken promises that God has given to His chosen people, we even dare say things like we are the real Israel or we are the real chosen, like God has taken His hand away from those He promised to bless and, His chosen, and He has cast them aside all for our glory.

We get puffed up against jewish believers and we ridicule them, some even going as far as despising and cursing them. Then we wonder why they refuse to hear about Yeshua(Jesus)? 

I wrote the following a month ago after reading

"Our Hands are stained with blood" by Michael Brown.

It has everything to do with this subject.

Abba forgive me, I apologize for what has been

done against your chosen people in your Holy

name. Those who claim to follow Yeshua(Jesus)

The Son, have risen up to destroy your first love…

As gentiles you grafted us into the tree, like a poison

we have decided to destroy the roots of the seed.

Gentiles stealing your promises for your chosen,

and making it all about them. As if Israel and your Jewish people you no longer love, in the name of Christ we've trampled them down, instead of asking for your love in them to abound.

From people like Luther who wanted to see Jews burn, to Christians today claiming to be your new chosen. So much injustice we have brought into the church.

In your Holy name we reject them, say that you yourself have rejected them, and not even Jesus can save them.

in effect we curse the natural branches, the ones to whom you have made promises! Lord forgive us of this treason, and let us instead proclaim Yeshua to them our roots of our faith, our brothers and sisters who were never taken from the covenant to never return again.

O LORD fulfill the promises you made them, bring them into Your glorious Kingdom recognizing Yeshua Hamashiach for who He is, and as gentiles and jews let us stand together as your sons and daughters.

The Gospel of Tolerance

Before I get into just how unbiblical this worldly gospel of tolerance is, I'm going to hammer home the real gospel first.

How are we saved? Is it by our goodness and our good works? no…we have only sinfulness apart from Christ, anyone who claims to be without sin is a liar and the truth is not in him(1 John 1:8) and it is by God's grace that we are saved not by works (Ephesians 2:12)

Are we saved for OUR glory? think about that for a moment, "saved for our glory"…what possibly could we offer God? God creator of the universe and EVERYTHING in it, who is all righteous and glorious! does He need us? like He is bound by some kind of law that's above Him where He has to forgive us of all our wickedness, does he seriously need us? need our approval, need our glory? of course He doesn't, it's not for our glory that we are saved BUT for HIS..

Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.

Isaiah 43:7

Paul said:

"God forbid if I should glory in anything except

the cross of Christ."-Galatians 6:14

"For My name's sake I will defer My anger, And for My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.

Isaiah 48:9-11

That makes it pretty clear God doesn't share His glory.

It is by His grace, and for His glory that we are saved.

We should rejoice in this fact and present our bodies as a living sacrifice Holy and acceptable to God, as it says in Romans 12:1.

The question becomes are we living out this testament? are we living for His glory or are we living for ours? Does the word transform us to recognize its not about us or do we transform the word to be about our glory?

Romans 12:1 says by the mercies of GOD..present your bodies as a living sacrifice. So because of what God did to save you, I.E sending His son, God himself coming in the form of man and living a Holy un-sinful life, the perfect man/unspotted lamb and then being the sacrifice for our sinfulness! He took the wrath that we deserve! Because of all this, and because of who God is we surrender ourselves fully to Him, to give Him the honor and glory that is due to Him.

This is why fruit should be produced if we claim we know Him, to know Him means we know all glory is His and His alone and we seek only His will. This is why sin was and is dangerous! 
This is why the word of God says;

"The wages of sin is death"-Romans 6:23

Sin takes all focus off God and puts it on us, it becomes about what we want and desire in our fleshly nature,

OUR Desires

OUR Needs

OUR Will

Sin chokes us and intangibles us consuming our every action and purpose robbing us of the Holiness that cost Christ everything and making it all about OUR glory.

This is why daily we are called to mortify our nature, to put to death our flesh and put our focus on Christ who has overcome death, He has taken sin and overcome it for us once and for all. ALL GLORY TO HIM!

Now remember what I said the question is…

The question becomes are we living out this testament? are we living for His glory or are we living for ours? Does the word transform us to recognize its not about us or do we transform the word to be about our glory?

The gospel of tolerance isn't about God's glory period.

You see the world wants you to believe that tolerance=love, that Jesus was tolerant of sin..and if you are a Christian then you are suppose to just show tolerance and not open your mouth about what is wrong or right, for there is no right or wrong.. per say, the only wrong there is is to tell someone else they are doing something wrong and that's very "unchristian".

This is the world we live in people. You know the funny thing about tolerance is that it's not very tolerant to those who hold to the bible being absolute truth, Ironic is it not? Lets tackle issue number one

"Tolerance=Love" and well Christians are suppose to love..right? so hence we are suppose to be tolerant of wrong doing.

First of all, lets say I am married and my wife who I love is sleeping around, if I love her I should just tolerate her wrong doing right? I mean, it's just her life style she chooses to live…if I truly love her I would tolerate it right?

Or 


how about if I have a child, and he is you know living his chosen life style of being a terror by breaking things and stealing other kids toys and what not, you know normal kid stuff…if I love him I should just tolerate his choice to do so..right? I have no right to say what he is doing is wrong do I? I mean I "love him" so tolerance must be shown..

The fact is tolerance doesn't equal love like the world wants you to think, what is love? well 1 corinthians sums it up pretty nicely;

Love suffers long [and] is kind; love does not envy; 

love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 

does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, 

is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Oh look at that, none of that looks like "Tolerance" to me. We as Christians are called to love, yes absolutely..but love doesn't mean no correction, no standing firm on solid truth and no warning of wrong doing. We should correct, we should stand on biblical truth and we should warn of wrong doing and all of this we are called to do in a loving way. 

Drugs lead to a broken life and death, so if I had a friend or a son who was doing drugs would it be loving for me to just ignore their destruction and just act like what they are doing is their prerogative and it doesn't matter? or would it be loving to warn them that what they are doing isn't healthy and what they are doing leads only to death..

The answer is obviously the latter, that is actual love, which is why in a loving manner we warn that the wages of sin is death(Romans 6:23)

The gospel and Christ's message isn't a gospel/message of tolerance, if Christ was tolerant of sin then why did he say things like "Repent"(Luke 13:3) and go and sin no more (John 8:11). The fact is if Christ was so tolerant of sin then why did He come to die because of it?(Romans 6:10) and don't even say the typical liberal answer of;

"Well Christ died and it is by grace I am saved so I can continue living in sin"

That's complete garbage, Matthew 16:24-25,Romans 2:4,Romans 6:15,Galatians 2:20, the whole bible debunks such thinking. It took a cross and the wrath of God on His Son to forgive us of sin…how is that tolerance of sin?

My whole point is this…the gospel is about surrendering to Christ, it's about His glory and not ours…the bible doesn't allow for personal opinion and tolerance it's plain and simple…. believe and follow or don't.

I realize the world and the way it's going , and I know the world is going to say I am a bigot and even say I am un-christian because I am not "tolerant of sin"…but I am not accountable to the world, I'm accountable before God.

The world will rip Kirk Cameron for saying being gay is unnatural, and isn't what God wants for us on Piers Morgan. and the world, and people like Piers, will confuse "Love" with "tolerance" and ironically be intolerant of gospel truth. We were warned in the bible about  people who call evil good and good evil(Isaiah 5:20)…and warned in revelations about the Lukewarm so this is all just a sign of the times.

I'll continue to stand by God's word un apologetically, and because I do that doesn't mean I hate gay people. They have the same opportunity of eternal life as I do and it is ONLY through surrendering to Jesus Christ. 

A homosexual might say "well it's easy for you to be saved and stand by the bible because it is heterosexual and doesn't say what you do is wrong"

Actually, it isn't "easy" specially in this oversexed generation to live a surrendering life to Christ. Just because I'm straight doesn't mean it is "easy" for me, I struggle all the time with lust, after all I am not married and if I were to have sex outside of marriage with a woman I would be just as wrong as a homosexual,

sin is sin…sexual immorality is sexual immorality it doesn't matter if I'm straight or gay. 

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.- 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Only by the grace of God can we be saved, Only by what was done for us on that cross are we saved. We have to put to death our self-interests,our will. our flesh and fully rely on and surrender to Christ because ONLY He saves us.

Oh America...how far you have fallen...the world replaces love with tolerance and it's only a sign of the end...

with that being said....

BEWARE THE MARK OF THE BEAST!