1.Hallelujah! sing to Jesus, His the scepter, His the throne; Hallelujah! His the triumph, His the victory alone. Hark, the songs of His redeemed ones Thunder like a mighty flood: Jesus out of every nation Hath redeemed us by His blood.
2.Hallelujah! not as orphans Are we left in sorrow now; Hallelujah! He is in us, Faith believes, nor questions how. Though the clouds from sight received Him When the forty days were o’er, Shall our hearts forget His promise, “I am with you evermore“?
3.Hallelujah! Bread of heaven (The Word), Thou on earth our food, our stay; Hallelujah! here the hungry Come to Thee from day to day. Advocate and Intercessor, My Redeemer pleads for me, On the throne of the Almighty Now and to eternity.
4.Hallelujah! sing to Jesus, His the scepter, His the throne; Hallelujah! His the triumph, His the victory alone. Hark, the songs of His redeemed ones Thunder like a mighty flood: Jesus out of every nation, Hath redeemed us by His blood.
(Click pause symbol, " ... at beginning of hymn, to stop music)
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Scripture pertaining to this hymn:
John 1:1-4In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by HIM(The Word / Jesus); and without HIM was not any thing made that was made. In HIM (The Word / Jesus) was life; and the life was the light of men.
(God created the heavens and earth and all things through THE WORD ... And THE WORD rules ... yet the WORD is subject to God the Father.)
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Concerning the blood of Jesus ... God gave me a very strong revelation as follows:
Hebrews 9:12by HIS own blood HE entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us ... v. 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
I have shed none of my own blood to pay for my sins. Jesus did shed HIS own blood to pay for my sins. My sins can never be paid for by my works, by trying to make up for what I did wrong. Only through entering into belief in Jesus' blood can I be saved from my sins.
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We are heirs with Christ through Jesus' blood.
Romans 8:11-17 But if the Spirit of HIM that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, HE that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by HIS Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.
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John 6:35(Jesus said)Iam the bread of life: he that cometh to ME shall never hunger; and he that believeth on ME shall never thirst.
Jesus, THE WORD, is the bread we, who are children of God, eat and drink.
The Lord's supper is THE WORD which we live by. We eat and drink THE WORD continually as we live on this earth.
THE WORD (Jesus) is flesh and blood to us.
John 6:48-51Jesus says: I am that bread of life.
(Jesus, THE WORD, is our bread.)
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
(THE WORD comes down from heaven to us today and comes into our minds by His Spirit speaking ... THE WORD is living bread for that word delivered to us today comes from God, The Father, through HIS Spirit who lives in us ... HE speaks to us through Jesus' Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and shows us the way to go as we live on this earth today... God does this by bringing HIS thoughts to our minds by HIS Spirit. John 14:26 & John 16:13)
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John 6:53-58Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you. (Life is in The Word of God...and the way we eat and drink that WORD given us by God.) Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, dwelleth in Me, and I (dwell) in him.
As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me.
This (The Word) is that bread which came down from heaven:
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Romans 8:34 It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. ***
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ (the Word) which strengtheneth me.
And
it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the
synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the
Jews and also of the Greeks believed. 2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren. 3 Long
time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave
testimony unto the word of His grace, and granted signs and wonders to
be done by their hands. 4 But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles. 5 And
when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the
Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,6 They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:7 And there they preached the gospel. (If they won't receive you as you share The Word, just go elsewhere.) *** 8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: 9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and (Paul) perceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. 11 And
when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices,
saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the
likeness of men. 12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. 13 Then
the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and
garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. 14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes (making themselves look as nothing in the flesh), and ran in among the people, crying out, 15 And
saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions
with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities
unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all
things that are therein: 16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. 17 Nevertheless
HE left not HIMSELF without witness, in that HE did good, and gave us
rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and
gladness. 18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them. 19 And
there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded
the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing
he had been dead. 20 Howbeit,
as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the
city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. *** 21 And
when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many,
they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch, 22 Confirming
the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the
faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom
of God. 23 And
when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with
fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed. *** 24 And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. 25 And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia: 26 And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled. 27 And
when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they
rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how HE had opened the
door of faith unto the Gentiles. 28 And there they abode long time with the disciples.
Book: Overcoming Through God Chapter 2 Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
A man in our little church group was considering building another storage building to store his stuff.
As he thought about doing this, he heard: “Why don’t you just get rid of the stuff.”
This was the Holy Spirit speaking to this man.
This was wisdom from God.
James 3:17
… But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable,
gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without
partiality, and without hypocrisy.
At the
time this happened, this man was in his early 70’s. Within a few years,
he had a very serious heart operation and became partially paralyzed. It
was certainly the wisdom from God by the Spirit of God to get rid of
the stuff when he heard from God to do so.
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Overcoming through God … overcoming through the Word given us by the Spirit of God on the issue of this life with which we are currently dealing.
Jesus
commissioned each believer to overcome the issues of this present life.
And we need to overcome the problems by seeking the way God wants us to
deal with such. We pray. We turn to God. We consult God. We wait until
we are assured God has shown us the way to go.
Jesus promised us that God would give us The Holy Spirit, The Spirit of Truth, The Comforter …
The scripture in John 14:26 and in John 16:13 show us 4 things the Holy Spirit does for the believer in Christ.
The Holy Spirit:
- Teaches us all things
- Reminds us of what Jesus said
- Guides us into all truth
- Shows us things to come
Jn. 14:26
… But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send
in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Jn. 16:13
… Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into
all truth: for HE shall not speak of HIMSELF; but whatsoever HE shall
hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
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I
have lived many years believing these things about the Holy Spirit and
trusting my life and my way on this earth to God through this word
concerning what the Holy Spirit does for the one to whom God reveals HIS
Word.
When I was born again, I owned a small business in Dallas, Texas … American Indian Arts.
A
man came to me from Houston to talk to me about business. This man’s
wife was starting an American Indian Arts business in Houston and he
insisted in coming to talk to me about business. I tried to get him not
to do this, telling him I didn’t know anything about business. But he
insisted on coming to talk with me. This man was a graduate of Harvard
Business School.
The first thing he wanted to know concerned “my marketing plan.”
I was praying all the time he was asking me these things.
Finally I said to him:
I’m a Christian.
So before I go out to the reservation to buy art objects, I pray, asking God to have the Indians make the objects.
When I get to the reservation, I pray, asking God to show me the objects I should buy.
When I return to Dallas, I pray, asking God to send out the angels to bring in the customers to purchase the items.
Dead silence!
Then the man said, “Well …that’s a type of marketing ..” and he left the store.
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Shortly after I was born again, I was transported into heaven in the night as I slept … I was with God, with Jesus, with the Holy Spirit. (I saw no images. It was an experience in the Spirit.) At that time, I was “merged” into the body of Jesus, made one with the Word of God.
I didn’t tell anyone about this because I thought this happened to everyone who was a Christian.
A few nights after this,
the exact thing happened again in the night. I was transported into
heaven as I slept. I was with God, with Jesus, with the Holy Spirit. At
that time I was “merged” into the body of Jesus, made one with the Word
of God, with God and the Holy Spirit as witnesses.
I was then on fire for Bible and things of God. That is all I cared about. I no longer cared for the business.
I
had 3 very competent women working for me at my shop. I didn’t even
have to go to the shop, except for doing appraisals of art objects. And I
did have to go to reservations to do the buying of the objects to stock
the shop. Otherwise, I just stayed home at my apartment and studied the
Bible. I went to church gatherings. And I went to a prayer group.
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During these early years, a man came to Dallas selling jewelry out of a motel room.
The Dallas Morning News
asked me to write an article helping guide people in the purchase of
authentic art works in this field. I warned consumers about “too good to
be true” sales where items were marked down too much, such as 70%.
A
man who was doing this filed law suit against me and several other
American Indian Arts dealers in Dallas/Fort Worth. He also filed suit
against Better Business Bureau of both Dallas and Fort Worth. He charged
that we were conspiring to keep him from doing business in the
metroplex.
I had trouble taking this seriously.
Then
I realized that if I failed to respond to this suit, I could lose the
business and judgment could be ruled against me in the courts of law.
So I hired a lawyer.
Shortly after hiring the lawyer, I saw the following scripture.
Isaiah 54:17 ...No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of ME, saith the Lord.
The legal fees were putting me in danger of having to go into debt. Therefore, based on this scripture in Isaiah, I decided to dismiss my lawyer and go to court without any human legal counsel.
My lawyer was horrified and said, “Joan … you can’t do this. You don’t realize how evil these courts are.”
I replied, “Gordon
… I am a Christian. This promise of God to Christians is in the Bible.
The promise says no weapon formed against me will prosper. If that is
true, this lawsuit will not prosper against me.”
Gordon replied: “We are willing to work with you. It will only take about $10,000 more to try your case.”
With that I was shocked and shouted: “$10,000? … Gordon, STOP, don’t do another thing!”
I dismissed the lawyer from representing me in this lawsuit.
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Approximately
a week later, Gordon came into my shop. He said the law firm had
decided to represent me without any further cost to me.
What is going on here? One week it is going to cost $10,000 more and now they are going to represent me for free?
What does God want me to do is the question … so I prayed, asking God what HE wanted me to do.
After I prayed about this, the Holy Spirit brought the following scriptures to my attention.
Genesis 14 …And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. And
Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the
Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will
not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take
any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram
rich:
I knew God was telling me to turn down this “free” legal service.
Also
with this information my way was set for the remainder of my life. I
purposed with Abraham that I wanted my support to come from God, not
from worldly people.
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I was very frightened after these decisions. I kept scripture given me by the Holy Spirit in front of me day and night to give me strength and to fight fears.
The
case went on for several months. Then six days before the trial was
scheduled in US courts, the man suing us dropped all charges against
everyone.
About two weeks later, Gordon came into my
shop. He said the lawyers at the law firm had discussed my case and had
decided what I said happened, happened.
I was not trying to be a witness to the lawyers.
All I was trying to do was obey God and do what God wanted me to do.
But
when we are trying to do things on this earth God’s way we are a
witness without trying to be. It is like a stone being thrown into the
water. The stone isn’t trying to make ripples in the water. But ripples
occur.
In everything that happens to us in this life, our goal should be to overcome by God’s plan for the situation.
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Jesus made the following promises to the 7 churches in the book of Revelation concerning overcoming … Jesus said:
Revelation 2
v. 7 … To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
v. 10 … Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life…
v. 11 ...He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
v. 17 …
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will
give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no
man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
vv. 26-28 … And he that overcometh, and keepeth MY works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And
he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall
they be broken to shivers: even as I received of MY Father. And I will
give him the morning star.
Revelation 3
v. 5
… He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I
will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess
his name before MY Father, and before HIS angels.
vv. 10-12...
Because thou hast kept the word of MY patience, I also will keep thee
from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try
them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast
which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I
make a pillar in the temple of MY God, and he shall go no more out: and I
will write upon him the name of MY God, and the name of the city of MY
God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from MY
God: and I will write upon him MY new name. v. 21…
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with ME in MY throne, even
as I also overcame, and am set down with MY Father in HIS throne.
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We have a commission from Jesus to overcome on
this present earth and to run that race to the end of our lives on this
present earth or until Jesus returns for HIS people and takes HIS
people into heaven, to the new Jerusalem, wherein dwelleth righteousness, according to the apostle Peter. (II Peter 3:13)
We will never have righteousness on this present earth.
The apostle Paul warns us:
II Tim. 3:13 ... But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Our job, as long as God leaves us on this earth, is to follow God by HIS
Spirit, speak truth as the door opens for truth, and endure to the end,
holding fast faith in God even in the midst of iniquity in our own
households and churches.
One way to endure is to
keep our eyes focused on great men and great women of faith in the
Bible, letting them be our friends, for we are one with them. Our
company must be with God and with those men and women of the Bible.
The churches
today have already entered into the apostasy as they removed scripture,
in part, and explained scripture away. This allowed the restraint
against antichrist to be removed so that the man of lawlessness could
enter into the churches.
But according to the apostle Paul, this had to happen in the churches before Jesus could return.
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
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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. You will say, "My church isn't a part of the apostasy." (and you will be so proud) Does your church teach the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery? This is what Jesus said: Mt. 5:32 If your church allows men to marry divorced women, it is a part of the apostasy.
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The poison gas dream:
In 1979, God gave me the following terrifying dream:
Destruction was everywhere.
I went into a meeting room where 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.
God was showing me the anarchy in the church groups, at the time of the dream, 1979. The destruction in the churches was everywhere, even at that time. And it is much worse today.
Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet June 7, 2019, as I slept in the night ... I began pleading with God over a woman in our little church group, Barbara, who had risen up against me and railed with words against me. I said to God, "If you do that to her, then devils will win out." We certainly don't want devils to win out. *** My pleading with God was exactly the same as Moses' pleading with God when God was going to kill the children of Israel. Numbers 14:1-4 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.And all the children of Israel murmured (complained) against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. 11And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke ME? and how long will it be ere they believe ME, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13-14And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 16 Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which HE sware unto them, therefore HE hath slain them in the wilderness. 20-24And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Because all those men which have seen MY glory, and MY miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted ME now these ten times, and have not hearkened to MY voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked ME see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed ME fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. *** When we are in strife, of course we think "we" are right. If we thought ourselves to be wrong there would be no strife.
So I began asking God if I had done those things I was accused of doing by Barbara, for I didn't know. I had no recollection of these things since some of the events were decades ago. *** Did I do this against this church person? against a person in our own church group? How could I continue working as a minister of Jesus as apostle/prophet if I said these things to Barbara. If I said these things, for which Barbara accused me, I was unfit to be a minister of Jesus or even a member of the church of Jesus of the body of Christ. This had to be established by God in a way I could understand. *** On June 7, 2019, God gave me a dream. I opened the front door of my house and was very shocked. Someone had put bags of garbage all along the front of my house ... bags of garbage and pieces of garbage had been thrown everywhere. I knew I would have to get someone who would clean up all this garbage. Some teenaged kids went past me and I asked them if they had put all these piles of garbage at my house. They denied it. There was a dead plant in a small plastic type container. I kicked the plant into the street but it rolled across the street and landed in my neighbor's yard. I would have to clean this up. *** I believe most of the dream shows the accusations made against me by Barbara Preston. God was showing me by the dream that her accusations were "garbage" ... which she leveled at my house, at me, at the way I conducted myself in the ministry of apostle/prophet. (Barbara was in our church group for approximately 40-years.) *** And I believe some of the "garbage" (especially the little dead plant), came from my cousin a few days earlier. The week before this dream, my Church of Christ cousin, Jeanne, also made an attack. Her attack was against the ministry office of apostle. Jeanne and her husband (who is dead now), fought me for years, even accusing me of evil donebefore I was born again. (I don't think either Jeanne or Charles understood the concept of being born again and having our sins removed by Jesus.) My cousin is 96 and obviously is near her death. I wanted to get these things cleaned upbefore she dies. *** Recently I was reminded of Jeanne's dad saying to me: "If you would come to Church of Christ, you could do so much."
To attend Church of Christ I would have to deny the Holy Spirit and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
When they quote Acts 2:38 they omit the part of the verse that I have placed in red.
Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. *** To attend Church of Christ, I would have to deny NT apostles and prophets and the following scripture. Ephesians 4:8; 11-12 When HE (Jesus) ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men ... And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
(Jesus set these ministries into the church after the crucifixion and resurrection. Jesus gave these ministries to today's NT church: apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher.)
To go to Church of Christ group, I would have to deny Ephesians 4:8;11-12.
***
To go to Church of Christ group, I would have to deny all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, eliminating the scriptures ofI Corinthians 12 and Romans 12.
I would have to eliminate what Jesus said about the Holy Spirit in John 14:26 & in John 16:13. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (Jn. 14:26)
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. (Jn. 16:13) And I would have to deny many other scriptures in the Holy Bible.
***
To go to Church of Christ, I would have to deny the heavenly vision given to me shortly after I was born again when I was taken into heaven and merged into the body of Christ, made one with the Word of God, God and Holy Spirit witnessing. (in 1975)
To deny the many dreams and happenings done in my life is to deny God, the calling of God, the many teachings God has given me, the Holy Spirit's work done in me, and the Words of Jesus and even the blood of Jesus.
***
To deny these things of God is to bring upon myself the following.
Hebrews 10:26-31 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
For we know Him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto ME, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge HIS people.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
***
So I have to go forward speaking the message I believe to be from God for the church.
In 1982, God said to me: The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God ... over and over this same word came to me.
Then God called my attention to sins being committed by ministers: Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Kenneth Copeland, Marilyn Hickey, Robert Tilton
In the case of Swaggart, Bakker, and Copeland, I could not get private written messages to these men, even though I was relatively well known at that time in ministry. They have people who filter their many messages from the church goers.
So I became persuaded to give these messages on my radio broadcasts. Then they got the message.
In Seattle, Washington, the radio station manager was standing outside the door of the convention center room where I was to have a meeting for the radio station audience. He was waiting for me.
When I arrived at the door to the meeting room, George said:
"Joan ... you have many good messages. Just speak those messages. If you speak these judgment messages, I don't know what is going to happen to you. We might have to put you off the air."
The Holy Spirit speaking through me said:
"George ... If I don't speak the message I believe to be from God then I don't have a message and I may as well be off the air." (Yes ... they put me off the air at the radio station in Seattle. About 1/2 my stations left me on the air.) *** More about messages given to me judging ministers in the early 1980's. In the case of Robert Tilton, my own pastor at the time, I made a tape recording and sent it to Bob. The report which I have from Bob's own office staff, who witnessed what Bob did with that tape, is as follows: Bob, and his wife at that time, heard the tape along with some of the office staff. They then cut the tape in little pieces and marched around the waste baskets quoting scripture.
Their actions do not destroy the message, which was and is: "Bob, by your actions against Ava on your TV show when you stopped Ava from saying she is a prophet because you said to Ava, "it is not popular", kill a prophet. Therefore, your house will be left to you desolate." After this: * Bob and his wife divorced. * Bob remarried another woman who said she was a minister. They divorced and she ended up suing Bob. * Bob married a third wife. * In each of his divorces and remarriages Bob committed adultery according to Matthew 5:32 and Matthew 19:9.
Jesus says:Matthew 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Also according to Matthew 19:9 Jesus says: And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
* Bob ended up losing his 8,000 seat church building with recording studio in Farmer's Branch, Texas, outside Dallas. (See report: Robert Tilton, Wikipedia)
The church building was torn down and youth hockey arena built on location. Today no one would know a church once met at that location.
* Bob was exposed on ABC, Prime Time Live, for solicitation of prayer requests and having those "prayer requests" forwarded to a bank in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the tellers at the bank removed the money from each envelop and threw the written prayer request into the garbage dumpsters outside the bank. (Wikipedia report on Robert Tilton)
* Offerings to Robert Tilton declined from 80-million-dollars per year to 2-million per year (still a lot of money) after the ABC Prime Time Live telecast aired.
* A church member sued Bob for fraud. Bob had taught the congregation a doctrine saying they would receive 100-fold return for the offerings they gave. The church member lost all the money and did not receive 100-fold return.
Here is what Bible says about 100-fold return:
Matthew 19:29 Jesus says ... And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
People who give to church are blessed by God but I don't believe a minister can rightly teach the congregation to expect to receive 100-fold for their offerings.
* Wikipedia reports that Robert Tilton sold everything he had accumulated in Florida and bought a hotel in Culver City, California. This is the last report I have seen concerning Robert Tilton.
The prophecy stating that Robert Tilton's house would be left desolate because he killed a prophet did happen ... Tilton lost his wife, his church, his ministry, his enormous offerings, and went on to a life surrounded by sin in adultery and turmoil.
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Galations 6:7-8Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
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Matthew 24:1-5 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and HIS disciples came to HIM for to shew HIM the buildings of the temple.
And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
And as HE sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in MY name, saying, I (Jesus) am Christ; and shall deceive many.
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Matthew 24:12-13 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
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To endure, we must:
* pray continually, taking all perceived offenses and trespasses which we think to be against us to God in prayer, trusting God to settle everything and establish us in HIS truth.
* forgive those who trespass against us ... for if we do not forgive in our hearts, God will not forgive us. Matthew 6:15
* overcome all situations in a godly way and overcome all thoughts sent by devils and instigated by our own flesh and by the flesh of other humans ... we overcome by committing everything that happens to us to God and trusting God to deal with both us and them.
Jesus says: Luke 21:34-36And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. ***
(Watch yourself that you not be swept away from the instructions given by God by HIS Spirit through the Holy Bible ... for sin and unforgiveness can destroy you and drive you into a form of madness.)
We live in exceedingly dangerous times whereby we must keep our own hearts with all watchfulness through prayer and by allowing God to establish truth as God sees truth in each issue.
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Hymn: Trust & Obey
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1. When we walk with the Lord In the light of His Word, What a glory He sheds on our way; While we do His good will, He abides in us still, And with all who will trust and obey.
Chorus:
Trust and obey, For there’s no other way To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey.
2.Not a shadow can rise, Not a cloud in the skies, But His WORD quickly drives it away; Not a doubt or a fear, Not a sigh or a tear, Can abide while we trust and obey. 3.Not a burden we bear, Not a sorrow we share, But our toil He doth richly repay; Not a grief or a loss, Not a frown or a cross, But is blest if we trust and obey. 4. But we never can prove The delights of His love, Until all on the altar we lay; For the favor He shows, And the joy He bestows, Are for them who will trust and obey. 5. Then in fellowship sweet We will sit at His feet, Or we’ll walk by His side in the way; What He says we will do; Where He sends, we will go, Never fear, only trust and obey. (Click pause symbol, " ... at beginning of hymn, to stop music)
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Scriptures pertaining to this hymn:
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do HIS commandments: HIS praise endureth for ever.
The fear of the Lord is a deep respect for God and The Word.
When we "fear" God, we are basically afraid to go in a way opposite to God's Word for we have an inner understanding that God knows what is best and to violate what HE says is to go in a way of self destruction.
Therefore our trust is based on the awe we have for God.
And we obey God, doing what HE says to us by HIS Spirit.
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In December, 2018, at the age of 81, I fell at my house.
As the ambulance people were removing me and we reached the front door, I heard the following word in the form of a thought that came to my mind: "You'll never see this house again."
I believed that thought was from God.
Therefore I believed there would be another way for me to go if I survived the accident.
I put my house up for sale even as I was awaiting surgery.
A church person said to me, "I don't see how you can do that." (I don't think she understood faith in God.)
I explained to her that when you believe you have heard from God and there is a way to go, you simply obey ... no hesitation.
I never looked back and I never saw that house again.
I did not know where I would go when I put the house up for sale but I knew God would work it out for me and reveal it to me and God did within a few weeks. A woman in our little church group took me (and my cat) into her house to live in Colorado. She is a very godly woman and prays over everything! It is a great joy for me to live in a house with such a person.
My life was made better after my accident, not worse.
God had a plan for me and I knew HIS plan was all that mattered.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
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Acts 17 ... NIV Original Translation ... God chooses the exact places we will live and the times we will live there.
KJV Acts 17 … And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
(God determines the times we live and the places we live.) 27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him, though HE be not far from every one of us: 28 For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.
I Thessalonians 4:13-17But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep (dead).
For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. ***
All who are ready, will rise to meet Jesus "in the air." (If we live in bitterness and unforgiveness at the time Jesus returns, we will not be ready. Therefore we are warned multiple times in the NT to "be ready" for we know not the hour Jesu comes.)
This current heaven and earth will be destroyed by God and will no longer exist after the great tribulation, the wrath of God, is loosed upon the unbelievers. Revelation 8-16
The church that has risen from death and the church that has been taken up to meet Jesus and those previously dead in the clouds will be taken to "the new Jerusalem" which has been prepared by God.
The apostle John described this as follows:
Revelation 21:1-5 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
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I Peter 3:10-14 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
(But what if you are striving with another or have unresolved strife or unforgiveness in your heart when Jesus returns for the church ... will you be taken up from the earth with the believers if this is the case in your heart, even if you are the elect of God?)
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Matthew 24 21-22 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days (the days of the great tribulation) should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
44Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. (What if you are not ready? You will not be ready if you have in your heart strife and unforgiveness. You might end up as the elect of God going through the great tribulation. So Jesus says, "Be ready.") Peter warned us in II Peter 3:14 ... be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless. *** I believe the church that is ready will be taken out by Jesus before the great tribulation. But the church that is not ready due to unforgiveness and other sins will be left on the earth to go through the wrath of God even if that part of the church is the elect of God at the time they live in unforgiveness and other sins. *** Jesus says: Luke 21:34-36And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
(Watch yourself. Keep yourself by doing the word of God. Be ready at the time Jesus returns for the church.)
1.Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father, There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not,
Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.
Chorus:
Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see; All I have needed Thy WORD hath provided— Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
2.Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon and stars in their courses above, Join with all nature in manifold witness To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
3.Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide; Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
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Scriptures pertaining to this hymn:
James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. ***
Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. God set the solar system and they are faithful to continue in the commandment of God. We see the faithfulness of God's word day by day as the seasons continue and as the sun is visible day by day. As God is faithful in this word, we can have faith God will perform every word HE has given us.