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The "subject" Jesus taught His disciples on the most, ...was/is Faith... For His "disciples" alive today we have so much more than them, ...all they had was Habakkuk 2:4, ..the just shall live by his faith. ...apparently it was/is so very important for His Church that He gave us three commentaries, The Just is/are explained in Romans, How they are to Live is explained in Galatians, And Faith is explained in Hebrews. We are "given" Faith the size of a mustard seed when we are, become, ...His Redeemed, blood bought, born again children, ...just like the 12 disciples, ..we're are to "use" that Faith when He allows, brings the storms into our lives, ...and in turn it will grow and grow and grow. However, ...we "can" react to the storms that come, ...in "fear," ...the result, ...fear and Faith can not "co-exist" together, ...fear will always "kill" our faith, ...what does the enemy of our souls use, fear, ...fear is "always" of/from the devil. How do we over come this fear that comes from the devil, ...the exact same way He showed His disciples, ...to "believe" what "He" has said in His Word, ...don't look at the storm, ...just "believe" with all of our heart, soul, mind and body what our God has told us in His Word, ...no exceptions! Lord bless

@OneLight Friend, are you ignoring me, ...or you can't answer? I'm still waiting for your verses that "prove" the branches are dead and the death of Jesus on the Cross is not sufficient to pay for my sins. Please just verses and no diatribe, ...just verses, ...book, chapter and verse(s), ...that's all.

I apologize if this has already been said, I don't have the time to read through all of the pages. The "mandatory" vaccine will include a chip that when scanned will tell those who are scanning if you have the virus from reading your vital signs, ...that means there will be many "restrictions" on those who refuse the vaccine, ...international and domestic air travel to be sure, ...entry into stores, ...public events, ...the list will be endless. However this is not the Mark of the Beast, ...it's just a precursor to set up the world "for" the Mark (the Church has to be Raptured first), ...they say the "vaccine" won't be ready until the end of the year, ..but today there are stores that we can't enter without a mask, ...when the vaccine is ready, ...with the chip, ...many, many will flock to receive it because they have been "programmed" for many months to "obey."

Opening statement??? Does that mean you haven't "read" what I've said before??? You're worried about why "I" don't "see" what you are saying, ...because it's not Scriptural... Show you your error, ...okay, ...but will you "receive" it??? Here, ...let's keep it real simple... You keep talking about "dead" branches, ...but you don't have any Scriptural authority to be saying that, ...you are just "twisting" Scripture to "fit" what you are making up. Here's "your" dead branch verse in John 15:2: Every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. You mistakenly assume "beareth not fruit " means dead, ...but that is not what "Jesus" is saying, ...what He is saying is, a branch that "continually" (that is the verb tense in the Greek), does not "bear" (verb) fruit, which means it's "continually" alive, ...what does He say His Father will do with that branch (?), ...He taketh away:, ...which those three words in our English Bible is just one word that Jesus spoke, airō, and it means to "lift up," ...His Father is "continually" lifting up! Voilà, ...your error, ...do "you" see it??? So here's the problem you have, you twist this verse to say the "branch" is dead so it's cut off and thrown into the fire to be burned... Jesus said, ...paraphrased, so that it can be understood, ...one of "My" branches that is "continually" not bearing fruit, ...My Father will "continually" be lifting up so that it "will" bear fruit. The glaring difference between your "opinion" and the Truth is, ...you say the Father will take a live branch that is not bearing fruit (one of those who have been redeemed, washed by the Blood of Jesus and given to Him), ...cut it off that "live" branch, ...who "you" say is dead, ...and and throw that saint into the Lake of Fire! Where Jesus says the Father will take that same redeemed, washed in His Blood and given to Him saint, ...if they make a mistake, walking in the flesh, ...will, ...in His Agape "Love," lift His child up into His arms and gently, lovingly teach them the correct way so that they can bear much fruit... There are many here at Worthy, ...myself included, ...who have experienced the loving touch of our Heavenly Father and has done to us exactly as I have described, ...have you never experienced this in your walk with the Lord??? So, along with that, ...you need to authenticate your "opinions" with Scripture, ...where is the "dead" branch verse, ...including the verse and/or verses that prove the death of Jesus on the Cross was not "sufficient" to pay for my sins today. Please, stop with the diatribe and just post some verses that authenticate your "opinions."

Friend, ...it's really hard to take you seriously when you just make up things as you go. Really, ...dead branches... Where did you get that??? Here's what Jesus said: I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. John 15:1 I am, ...egō, ...eimi, ...the Divine Name pronounced to Moses at the burning bush, ...Jesus is "the" vine, ...how can anyone possible think or believe that anything "dead" could "exist" in Jesus??? But you said it, ...here's the verse: Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. John 15:2 How anyone can twist that around to mean "dead" is beyond me??? Like I said, ...we trimmed the "new" branches because they "wouldn't" bear any fruit that year, ...maybe the next year or the year after, ...they "sprouted" to replace the old branches that had stopped producing, ...surly you saw your grandparents vines and they trimmed the old branches that had stopped producing. Yes you did answer it with your "opinion," I'm not interested in your "opinion," ...what I asked you was to "prove" what you are saying with textual proof, ...a verse or verses from the Bible, ...maybe you have forgot, ...here's the question again. Since you are saying the death of Jesus on the Cross was not sufficient to pardon my sins today, ...prove it by showing me a verse from the Scriptures...

Nice ride!!! All original, ...or have you modified her?

For me personally, when I was "born again," my pastor advised me to read through the Word in a year with a daily Bible Reading plan, ...I found it too limiting, so I devoured the Bible, ...I had my Bible with me wherever I went and any free time I read from it. Then as I grew in the Grace and the Knowledge of my Lord I began to slow down and started to study the Word, ...to the point now, I can study just one word and how the Holy Spirit uses it throughout His Book. I heard a pastor explain our need for daily reading the Word like this, ...It's like a train leaving the station, the firebox is stoked with wood and the boiler is at maximum pressure, ...then the fire is no longer stoked, ...but the steam in the boiler keeps moving the train down the tracks, ...however, ...gradually, ...little by little the train is slowing down, ...until it is dead on the tracks. It's like that with a child of God, at first we read and read His Word and He is talking to us, but then we start to miss our time with Him in His Word and like the train, we are running on the steam that is stored in the boiler, ...but then we wake up and realize we are no longer hearing Father speaking to us, ...we try to use what He said to us previously, ...but that was for yesterday, ...just like the wood in the fire box was for the miles the train has already journeyed, ...we lose our joy, our peace, our faith and finally, just like the fire has gone out in the firebox, ...we have extinguished ourselves, ...the voice of God in our lives. 1 Cor 5:19 It's a process, ...first we "resist" what the Holy Spirit is teaching us through His Word, ...we don't want to "believe" it's true so we listen to someone that teaches us what we want to hear with our "itching" ears, ...that in turn "grieves" the Holy Spirit, ...why would we chose to listen to some sinful, mortal man rather than Him, ...so when we do pick up the Word the Holy Spirit leads us back to what He previously said, ...it's our personal Kadesh Barnea, so if we continue to refuse "listening" to what He is teaching us, ...we extinguish the Faith of/in God in our lives, ...and He allows us to wander around in the Wilderness, ...still taking care of are "basic" needs, and we read how that story ended, ...BUT, ...the Holy Spirit gives us, His Church, ...a second chance: ...while it is said, "Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation." Heb 3:15 How do we "reignite" the Holy Spirit teaching us, ...go back to our personal Kadesh Barnea, ...that verse the Holy Spirit gave to us to obey, ...and obey! Lord bless

I know what you mean bro, My very first car was a '41 Chevy pickup, ...4 speed without sincros, ...my girlfriend at the time refused to ride it in, ...so I sold it and bought a '55 Chevy. I too have many car regrets, I owned a '57 Chevy Nomad, which my father sold for $400 while I was away "working" for my Uncle Sam, ...a high perf, "K" code '66 Mustang fastback prepared by Ford to be sent to Carroll Shelby, ...and I turned down a '70 Boss 302 Mustang being sold in '74 for $1,800...because I was too proud, ...told the man I wouldn't pay any more than $1,700! Yes, God does use strange things to make "wondrous" opportunities for us, ...if I still had those cars today, ...I wouldn't have God and He wouldn't have me! PTL Wet a hook for me bro, Lord bless

@OneLight Just one question, ...have you ever worked in the grape fields? Remember Steinbeck's book that we had to read in High School, "Grapes of Wrath," with the location being Weedpatch, CA? Well, for two summer vacations I worked in those very same vineyards... Granted the difference between Biblical times when Jesus used this illustration in His Parable and the methods of "suspending" the vines above ground is different, ...but the work and the reasons are the same. The trunk will have as many as 8-10 branches on each side, ...some produce grapes and some do not, ...at the end of the season they go through the vineyards and cut the branches way back to about two feet or less on each side of the trunk. That means the next season the branches will grow out to 5-6 feet on both sides, ...some of the branches are "old" stock from many years and some are "new" branches. In June we went through fields and "counted" five bunches of grapes on both sides of the trunk that were the largest, the rest of the branches especially the "new" branches were cut off to allow the ten bunches of grapes that were left to grow and become very large, ...like you see in the grocery stores. Towards the end of June, ...we High School boys stopped the "trimming" and went back to collect the "dry" branches that had been cut off and took them to be burned. John 15 is NOT about "who" will be in Heaven, ...it's an metaphor Jesus used that all the people understood, about producing the "best" fruit. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. John 15:4 I can look back over my time of walking with my Lord and "see" the times He has trimmed useless projects that "I" thought "I" was doing for Him, ...but each time He showed me, "Not by might or by power, ...but by My Spirit." The "trimming" didn't cause me to lose my Salvation, ...no, ...it made me more "fruitful." Exactly like we did back in the summer of '65 and '66, ...the farmer didn't "lose" any profit from his grapes, ...he made more than if the"trimming" hadn't been done... Chapter 15 follows chapter 14 and in chapter 14 Jesus is teaching His "disciples" and telling them, "HE" is the Way the Truth and the Life and promising them His Father will give them the Holy Spirit, ...so we are back to what I have previously said, ...if Jesus is teaching a born again, Spirit filled, child of God in chapter 15, ...can lose their Salvation, ...then the Holy Spirit goes with them into the Lake of Fire, ...or Jesus' promise of the Holy Spirit never leaving them is a lie and that makes Jesus a liar! The "correct" exegesis of the first six verses is: Verses 1-5 are a metaphor about growing grapes. Verse 6 is a simile about people, ...not grapes. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as (or like a grape ) a branch and is withered. And they gather and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. John 15:6 Now, back to what I have previously asked you that you seem to be side-stepping, ...you have stated that the death of Jesus on the Cross did NOT pay for the sins that I commit in the flesh today, ...so please gives us the Bible verse that authenticates what you are saying, ...or otherwise it is just your opinion. Acts17:11

Dear sister, please correct me if I'm wrong, ...but you came to Worthy with your testimony of "hearing" the Holy Spirit calling you to Jesus and you "believed" in your heart and "received" Salvation. How is that "not" simple? Please, this is "not" said in a derogatory manor, ...but with the love of Christ from a brother, ...who "bewitched" you Gal 3:1, into thinking differently? Lord bless

How sad!!! I'm a Blood bought born again child of God and I'm your enemy??? Here's a little of the Word for you to meditate on today as you worship your god. He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in darkness until now. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no offense in him. But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has blinded his eyes. 1 John 2:9-11

We had an experience happen like this in my first church. A new pastor came, he was young and played the banjo and a twelve string guitar, ...shortly after his arrival his guitar broke beyond repair, so he played worship on the banjo, ...I like banjo music, ...but his was clang, clang, clang. The church bought him and Ovation 12 string which was definitely better than the banjo, ...but he "strummed" all of the songs, ...way too loud and strong. One Sunday night after service a man we had never seen before went on to the stage and stood before the Ovation, staring at it, ...our pastor saw him and asked him if he played, "Yes," would you like to play it, "Yes" He sat down and finger picked "In the Master's Hand," ...that Ovation sang, ...we all sat back down in amazement to listen, ...when he finished we all said, "play some more," ...which he did, ...What a Friend we have in Jesus." Our pastor learned from him that night what His Master could do in his life with that Ovation... Praise the Lord

Better yet, ...please, put me on "ignore." So that i won't waste my time anymore. Thanks

All I did is give you what the Bible says, ...how does that come across a "my" words?

Bro, I didn't "repent" of my sins the day I was saved, ...in fact "all" of my sins were on my shoulders, I was at a Bible Study and they bent me over in my chair with my head between my knees so that I couldn't sit back up no matter how hard I tried. At the same time I knew in my heart I was destined for Hell, ...for the first time in the 37 years of my life the darkness as to "Who" Jesus was to me, ...just a name I frequently used in swearing, ...the Light of the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ "shown" Gen 1:3, ... in my mind 2 Cor 4:4, ...and I repented, changed my mind "about" Jesus, ...He could be "my" Savior if I just "believed" in my heart and "confessed" him with my mouth, ...which I did and I became a blood bought, born again child of God. The next day... I didn't "repent" of any of my sins, ...but rather I had this "sense" inside of me "not to do that!" I didn't "repent" of my sin of pornography, ...I just threw away the Playboys and haven't bought one since. I didn't "repent" of my swearing, ...and believe me, ...I could of out cussed a muleskinner, ...the "words" were erased from my mind and I didn't even realize it it until some time later one of my workers told me I had stopped cussing. My motto was, "I don't get even , ...I get ahead!" Suddenly I had this "urge" inside of me to forgive and actually help those that had hurt, cheated, betrayed, used, profited from me. To be truthful, I haven't "repented" from anything I have done in the "flesh," ...I just follow the Holy Spirit's teaching and "confess," ...homologeō, ...that is, ...say the same thing God says about my sin, "...Father I agree with You, ...what I did is sin," and the Holy Spirit assures me, He is Faithful and Just to forgive me, ...AND cleanse me, ...the word He used is, katharizō, which means to purify, Which means, though my sins be as scarlet, ...I reason, I "agree" with my Father and He katharizō, purifies me, ...and He "sees" my "sin" as white as snow, ...washed by the Blood of the Cross. At the time of your salvation your future sins had not yet been committed, how can you ask for forgiveness and repent from them? How old are you, ..more than 2,000 years old? So you "are" saying Jesus has to go back to the Cross and die again! So, the onus is on you to provide a verse for us to prove what you are teaching. Acts 17:11

Dear sister, ...believing the Bible is "delusional?"

Dear sister, ...Salvation "is" simple, ...so simple that a child can understand it... It's the preparation of our cold, stony and hard heart that takes the time before we can "receive" it. I we were to look at our lives as a horizontal time line, starting at our birth and continuing on to this very moment, ...with another horizontal time line "above" it that stretches so far back behind ours and so far ahead of ours that we can't see the ends in either direction, ...the one above our is God's timeline from eternity past to Eternity future. When we look at God's time line we see times, "events," from our own time line superposed over it, ...those "times" are when God "intervened" in our lives to help us, provide for us, heal us and even preventing us from dying. When we look back over our time line we can "see" those "events" in our lives. Jesus said, "No one can come to me unless the Father draws them," John 6:44 Progressively, as we live our lives, ...we begin to understand those times "between" God intervening in our lives were the times the Father was using in our lives to break our pride and soften our hearts, ..."preparing" the soil like Jesus said in His parable. Finally, when God has determined it's "our" time to be "born" spiritually, ...the blindness in our minds 2 Cor 4:4 is removed and we can see for the first time in our lives the Light of the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ and we "decide" to "receive" the Salvation Jesus provided for us, ...and then our timeline go up and joins with/into God's timeline for our lives. Lord bless and keep you

Please brother, ...tell me you don't believe this... Please correct me if I'm wrong, ...but are you saying, ...if I commit a "known" sin, in the flesh (which I don't understand, ...because all sins are committed in the flesh)... That Jesus has to go "back" to the Cross and die for again for my sin??? If that "is" what you "are" saying, ...can you please give me a verse to "authenticate" what "you" are saying? Acts 17:11

Dear one, ...I thought you said you were through responding to me?

Precious, ...please, ...you and many others have missed the point I'm trying to make... There is so much factual proof that this pandemic is a hoax, ...planned in advance for many years... Please look at it from a Biblical stand point, ...the Word tells us there will be a man arise and he will control the world, ...Jesus and the Holy Spirit both call him the anti-christ, ...what we are watching before our very eyes is the world being "prepared" for him. There "is" a One World Government "now" in place, ...created by the United Nations and the World Health Organization and they have "manipulated" the world into having to "wear" masks, ...now they are saying all of the world will need to be "vaccinated" which will include a tiny chip that when scanned will tell the scanners your vital signs, ...that is, do you have the virus "without" out the symptoms showing,...that will "infect" others, ...that they are predicting "will" come in a "second" wave. Please, ...think about it, ..who told you you had to wear a mask, ...your government, ...and every "other" government on the planet, ........well, ...who told them, ...can you see the United Nations and the World Health Organization are "now" governing the whole world. What I'm trying to say to those who live in Europe, especially those in England, ...you have a much greater "worry" than the virus, ...right now you might have "Brexit", ...but the Bible tells us England was/is a part of the Roman Empire. Dan 7:7-8 Leah, ...I've been saying, ...since the beginning, ...God has promised His children this virus won't "touch" them, ...in fact it won't even come "near" to them, ...please, ....prayfully read what our Heavenly Father has promised us, ...don't be afraid, ...ask Him if it's true for you: He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust. Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Because He hath set His love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known My Name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. Psa 91:1-15 Do you see that dear one, ...what our Father has said to "you" and me, ...and to all of His children that have "set" our love on Him, ...the word "set" means to "cling" to, ...to "attach" to, ...have a "desire" for, ...to "long" for, ...everyone wants to be, ...is searching for, ...someone to love them "unconditionally," ...what Father is saying to "you" and me is, ...since the "burning" desire of our hearts is to "find" someone "to" Love us, ...we "set" our love on the One "who" Loves us the most, ...and after we "set" our Love on Him, ...our Father, ...God Almighty, ...reassures us in the last verses of His Promise what "He" will do for us! Dear sister, since the virus can't touch us, or even come near to us, ...think about it, ...how can we "infect" others if we don't have the virus? What we need to be doing during this scare "tactic" is to not be worried about the "physical" condition of "others", ...but rather their "spiritual" condition, ...now is the perfect time to be "infecting" the others with the Gospel and explaining to them the "blessed hope" we have, ...Psalms 91 makes a good tract that we can print out at home and hand out explaining our belief, faith and hope. And YES, there have been some of Father's children that "have" died from the virus, ...but just wait until we are with them in Heaven at the Bema Seat of Christ and we will see Father used their death to bring many into the Kingdom and will be Glorified, ...by and through their deaths, ...the young Chinese doctor, our brother, ...Father didn't force him to go to work, ...he made a conscience, rational decision in/out of Love to "help" others, ...just think of how many of his patients heard about Christ for the first time from him at their bedside as they were dying, ...given the same opportunity I would do the same as he did, ...for the Love of Christ constrains me. 2 Cor 5:14 Like I've said before, ...it's so simple, since we believe Father's promise to us in John 3:16, ...then why not Psalms 91? Lord bless and keep you

@Alive Hey bro, ...where the beef!!!

So today it's a mask, ...tomorrow it's a "mandatory" vaccination, ...what comes after that, ...you have to take the maSk, ...ooops, ...the maRk to buy and sell, ...ahhhh, ...it's just another "tiny" step "backward" for mankind... Every single one of the "mask" wearers is going to die, whether it be from this virus or something other cause, ...why this sudden fear of dying??? Death for a born again, child of God means going Home, ...directly into the arms of Jesus, ...so what's so terrible about that??? The True and Only thing to be worried about at this time is if you are one that "will" go directly into the arms of Jesus when "He" says your time is up! Consider this, what the devil couldn't do in 6 millennium, ...in three short months the enemy has destroyed Faith in the Word of God, "Did God say?" Jesus asked, ...would He find Faith on the planet when He returned? Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:8b

Precious sister, ...don't believe what you are hearing, ...I will "never" turn my back to God and leave, or tell Him I don't want Him any more! You see, ...those that say those things are "never" talking about themselves, ...they are "preaching" to others, ...the "important" part they will always leave out is, ...when we make the "conscious" and "intelligent" decision to "leave," ...where or to whom will we "go!" Peter answered this foolish doctrine when he replied to Jesus asking the "same" question: Then Jesus said to the Twelve, Do you also wish to go away? Then Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the Words of eternal life. And we have believed and have known that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. John 6:67-69 Here is a verse you need to meditate on and appropriate into you heart to calm the fear and give you the peace Father promised to us. I have written these things to you who believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God. 1 John 5:13 The only "requirement" for "Eternal" life is to "believe" on the "Name" of the Son of God. The "Name" of the Son of God is Jesus, ...Joshua on the Old Testament and it means, ...God "is" Salvation. Beloved the word "know," is a verb used "only" in the past tense, ...when you were first saved, born again, ...you "knew" you were saved, born again, ...now today your "knowing" is in the "present tense, ...it's what you are "hearing" today, ...may I pass along to you what my pastor taught me, Don't throw away what you "do" know, ...for what you "don't" know... Sister, ...you "did" know, ...so don't throw that away and exchange it for what someone write in cyber space... May I also suggest something my pastor taught me about the book of first John, ...John said by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, "I have written these things," ...what things? I was taught to highlight every time the Holy Spirit used the word "know" in first John and study it in the context "the" Holy Spirit intended it, ...precious, ..if you do that and let the Holy Spirit "teach" you, ...you won't have any doubt to your "eternal" security! And if you do that, ...then go back through first John and highlight the words, "that you may," ...the "example" Jesus gave to us, ..and "false professions," found throughout the book. Sis, if you do that, you won't ever be deceived again, ...and you will be able to "live" and "teach" the Word of God. Lord bless

Thank you, ...I just want to make it clear, ...I was a house framer that "framed" with an oilfield rigging ax, ...the cabinet making skills are not "inherent" in me, ...it's the Holy Spirit working "through" me, ...just like He did with Bezaleel. Actually ...Jesus tells/warns His Church the Laodicean "mentality" was present waaaay back in the Ephesian Church Rev 2:6, ...they were the Nicolaitans, ...the word He used, "Nicolaitans," is derived from two words, nico and laitans when combined together means, victorious over the people. Jesus commends them because they "hate" the deeds of the Nicolaitans just like He does, ...finally the Nicolaitan "mindset" became a doctrine in the Church Rev 2:15, which evolved over the centuries into the Laodicean church, ...who consider themselves, ".....victorious over God!" In Los Angeles CA, ...was the "outpouring" of the Agape Love of God, "the" Holy Spirit in His Church from 1906- 1909, ...history tells us people from all walks of life, all of the different social classes and people of different nationalities came together in the Agape Love of the Holy Spirit to worship God "without any "discrimination," ...in the first century "principle," evidenced at Pentecost by the Holy Spirit, And all that believed were together, and had all things common; Acts 2:44 ... the local newspaper reported this "phenomenon" like this: The pastor placed a wooden crate by the door and those entering in threw money into the crate and those in need took from the crate when they left, ...when the meeting was over the crate still had money left in it and was left like that, by the door, ...after the door was locked from the outside. The follow up to the Azusa Street Revival came by the Holy Spirit 56 years later when He poured out His Revival on the "hippies" in Southern California at Costa Mesa, ...which the press named, "The Jesus People Movement." During this Holy Spirit revival, ...the Azusa Street Revival "principal" of the Church "having all things in common" was still active, ...but the had church "forgot" this principle and focused on the false doctrine of "speaking in tongues" that supposedly came out of the Azusa Street Revival, ...these two verses came into play in the church: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: Amos 8:11 The "famine" wasn't because there weren't any Bibles to read, there were Bibles every where, ...every home had a Bible, ...the "famine" was the churches weren't listening to what God was saying! So..., this verse was clearly evident in the land from coast to coast: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: Hos 4:6 Father's "people," at that time, were the hippies and the satanic drug culture that was killing them by the thousands, ...the Church was into and fighting over their particular doctrine and completely oblivious to the "dirty" drug taking hippies. The Holy Spirit poured out revival on them and "added" to His "principle" of having all things in common, ...His "method" for studying the Bible, ...which is ...book by book, chapter by chapter and verse by verse, ...starting at Genesis 1:1 and going to Revelation 22:21, by doing this the Holy Spirit "is" teaching His people that "lacked" knowledge 1 John 2:27, ...and when His Church has gone through the complete Bible in this manor, ...the Holy Spirit leads His pastor back to Genesis 1:1 to study through the Word again and again and again, ...until it's Raptured. My principle online church, ...the Holy Spirit's pastor, ...who was one of those "dirty, drug taking" hippies, has taught in the last 41 years, ...through the Word of God 3 times with this "method" the Holy Spirit has given him "in" the church the Holy Spirit planted on the East coast of America in '81. That dear friend "is" the Holy Spirit's Church of Philadelphia, ...not some "man's" church,...His Revival is still "ongoing" and "active" today and has spread across the world! My Jesus is the same, ...yesterday, ...today, ...and tomorrow, ...no "man" with his "textualism," ...can close the door "my" Jesus "is" holding open, ...again, ...the proof, ...I was one of those "dirty, drug taking hippies" that the Holy Spirit "saved" in July of '86, ...in a Laodicean church, and in '88 moved me out and placed me in one of His Philadelphian Churches. So friend, you have accused and attacked me numerous times in this thread, ...I forgive you and won't report you, ...however, you challenged me to a Soap Box Debate, ...which neither interests me or I have the time for... But, ...I'll challenge you, ...it's very simple!!! Tell me what State you live in, ...and the city if you want to, ...and I'll post a link to one of the Holy Spirit's "Philadelphian" Churches near you that teaches the Word of God "today," in May of 2020, ...with the same "method" He gave to His Church back in '65, ...so that "maybe," ...you can learn the Truth, ...but much more important, ...the "lurkers" reading this thread, ...won't perish from lack of knowledge!!! Lord bless

And a leg of lamb, with home made mint sauce, ...heaven on earth. If you have never smoked lamb it cooks very fast, 1:45-2:00 hours, I fashioned a "S" hook and installed an eye in the lid to hang it from, with a small fire and low temp it will pick up some of the smoke flavor. You're making me hungry and I need to go to work...