BOOK: Exhortations

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Volume 9 ... #31

No Darkness in God ... No Darkness in Children of God

I John 1:5 ... God is LIGHT, and in HIM is no darkness at all.

6 If we say that we have fellowship with HIM, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as HE is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ HIS Son cleanseth us from all sin.

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We, who are of the children of God, must not walk in darkness.

We once lived in darkness but now we are light and as there is no darkness in God, we, as HIS children, have no darkness in us.  We are kept continually by God as we wait for the return of Jesus as did Paul and those who went before us.

Jesus talking to God said ... 2 As THOU hast given HIM power over all flesh, that HE should give eternal life to as many as THOU hast given HIM. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know THEE the only true God, and Jesus Christ, WHOM THOU hast sent.  (John 17)

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Acts 2:47 ... the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.  

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All given to be saved are kept by Jesus ... by the WORD ... by HIS Spirit. 

John 17 ... Jesus speaking to God ... 6 I have manifested THY name unto the men which THOU gavest ME out of the world: THINE they were, and THOU gavest them ME; and they have kept THY word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever THOU hast given ME are of THEE. 8 For I have given unto them the words which THOU gavest ME; and they have received them,

...  9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which THOU hast given ME; for they are THINE. 10 And all MINE are THINE, and THINE are MINE; and I am glorified in them. 

11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to THEE. Holy Father, keep through THINE own name those whom THOU hast given ME, that they may be one, as WE are. 

12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in THY name: those that THOU gavest ME I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 

13 And now come I to THEE; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have MY joy fulfilled in themselves. 

14 I have given them THY word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that THOU shouldest take them out of the world, but that THOU shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through THY truth: THY word is truth.  

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Jesus said:  Jn. 6:44 ... No man can come to ME, except the Father which hath sent ME draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 

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John 10 ...  27 MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of MY hand. 29 MY Father, which gave them ME, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of MY Father's hand.

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We, who belong to God, can wait for HIS return with full assurance that as long as we live on this earth HE will keep us.  The Holy Spirit that is in us will remind us of a word from God and we keep that word.  Or if we do slip into darkness, God will cause something to happen to open our eyes so we can leave that darkness.

I John 4:4 ... Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is HE that is in you, than he that is in the world.

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In 1979, God gave me the following terrifying dream:

Destruction was everywhere.  

A meeting was going on.  A man was speaking to a room filled with people.  I went in and began to listen.

A second man rushed in and said:  "Stop ... Wait ... Can't you see ... It's too late ... It's already begun."

The first man resumed speaking.

I looked out the window to see what had "already begun."

There was a tall pole with a yellow civil defense speaker at top of the pole.  A gas was coming out of the speaker.  I knew it was poisonous and would kill the people.  It was coming directly toward us!

The shocking thing was the speaker that was set there for the purpose of warning us was being used as the instrument which dispersed the gas that was poison and would kill us!

I looked at the man seated next to me.  He had a big grin on his face and was looking directly at the man who was speaking to the group.  But then I saw this man was a corpse, though he looked alive.  He was already dead!

I looked about the room at the other people and realized they were all dead.

As I sat back in my chair and listened to the man speaking I began to feel sleepy and I knew as I sat there among them this was killing me too.

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God was showing me the anarchy that was already going on in our church groups in 1979.  Even then destruction against the scriptures was everywhere in the churches.  Now it is much worse.

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II Thess. 2 ... NASB ... Let no one in any way deceive you, for it (the day of the LORD) will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?

And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. Then that lawless one will be revealed

The restraint was the scripture.  When portions of scripture were removed from the church, lawlessness moved into the churches ... thus the apostasy in the churches. 

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