Time to wake up and be prepared.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
1:34 And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.
The demons knew and understood Him to be the Messiah, the one true and holy Messiah; Isa, Al-Masih, is kalimat-Allah and wadjih according to the Quran and for that reason they were powerless against Isa.
Many that were possessed with devils – Dr. Lightfoot gives two sound reasons why Judea, in our Lord’s time, abounded with demoniacs. First, Because they were then advanced to the very height of impiety. See what Josephus, their own historian, says of them: There was not (said he) a nation under heaven more wicked than they were. See on Rom_1:1 (note). Secondly, Because they were then strongly addicted to magic, and so, as it were, invited evil spirits to be familiar with them. It seems strange to find men at this distance of time questioning the truth of that which neither scribes nor Pharisees then doubted; nor did they ever object against the pretensions of Christ and his apostles to cast them out. And, if the whole business of demonism had been only a vulgar error, (as “wise” men now tell us), what a fine opportunity had the “wise” men then, to unmask the whole matter, and thus pour contempt on the pretensions of our blessed Lord and his followers, who held it to be one proof of their Divine mission, that demons were subject to them! – Adam Clarke
It has been said, “Build a better mousetrap and the public will beat a path to your doorstep even if you live in the wilderness.” Unfortunately the crowds were only coming because they wanted something; unfortunately the crowds only thought they were coming to see a wondrous physician; fortunately the crowds were coming.
Sadly, for one prayer that goes up to the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in days of prosperity ten thousand go up in times of adversity. Only prayers to the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are of any value, prayers to any other god are useless.
Try Jesus, if you don’t like Him, the devil will always take you back.
Many a man who has never prayed when the sun was shining begins to pray when the cold winds come. So many people regard religion as belonging “to the ambulance corps and not to the firing-line of life.” Therefore religion, to them, is merely a crisis affair. Only when life has gotten into a mess do they begin to remember God, but it is in the sunshine times that we need to polish the communication lines so that when the darkness settles over us we don’t suddenly find ourselves trying to figure out how to establish a connection. God is not someone to be sought only in the day of misfortune; He is someone to be loved and remembered every day of our lives.
The god of Ishmael does not love you; The God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob loves you.
Although the recognition of one’s failure to come to Him during the sunny time should not be allowed to hinder the seeking of Him in the dark time – it is just so much better, so much wiser, and so much safer to remember Him in the sunny time when one may be assured of finding Him.
And healed all that were sick – Not a soul did the Lord Jesus ever reject, who came to him soliciting his aid. Need any sinner despair who comes to him, conscious of his spiritual malady, to be healed by his merciful hand? – Adam Clarke
Need any Muslim despair who comes to the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? He loves you and wants you to know who Jesus really is; Jesus is the holy one of God who knows the true path to eternal life.
Injil Markus 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Away from the disciples and other distractions, He started His day in private communication with the one true God.
Injil Markus 1:36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.
1:37 And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.
1:38 And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.
Simon Peter, upon finding Him, tells Jesus that people are starting to gather at his house again. Jesus informs Simon Peter that the gospel message must be taken to other towns also. His message is not to be confined to a single area, no matter how well received in that place. This would also give the people a chance to more carefully consider the gracious words they have already heard Al-Masihu-Isa speak unto them. As regards prayer; prayer doesn’t do our work for us; prayer strengthens us for the work that must be done.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
There is one main thing standing in the way of a One World Government system being put into power. That is the American Constitution. So we should easily see why there is such a full on attack to destroy it. Elitist narcissistic individuals with delusions of grandeur recognize they have an obstacle in that special document that prevents them from being able to gain worldwide dominance as long as America remains a “free” superpower.
If we can’t stop this attack by this president who was supposed to be an expert on the Constitution we may fall from within. Many will argue that he isn’t a constitutional scholar, in spite of the fact that he claims to be one, because the evidence is lacking, however, if you want to destroy something or some enemy, you have to get to know everything you possibly can about the individual or the entity in order to destroy it. The only evidence I’ve seen offered to support Barak’s claim to be a constitutional law professor is a photo of him at a blackboard but that was not the U.S. Constitution on the board, rather it was something from Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” which, in and of itself, speaks volumes.
BHO called the US constitution “A charter of negative liberties,” a statement that is foreign to the mindset of most Americans. We tend to view it as a positive thing that protects our freedoms while BHO views it as limiting what he can do to us. That is part of the beauty of the U.S. Constitution in that it hinders would-be tyrants, although the checks and balances thing is not being utilized currently as intended unfortunately.
If BHO is successful in his efforts at undermining of the foundations of the USA it will all fall apart in very short order and that will prove to be very hazardous to many governments around the world. The progressive/liberals have been actively attempting to fundamentally transform America for many years now for that very reason and it is really an amazing testimony to the resiliency of her people that she has not yet succumbed to the subversives. But I do believe the days are numbered for America because there are too many who are ignorant or too apathetic to even care and our moral foundation has been drastically eroded.
We need a brand new Great Awakening in America. With it God can and will turn this nation around; the principle for causing it to happen is found in His Holy Word, the Holy Bible 2nd Chronicles 7:14.
Let us pray.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
Injil Markus frequently reports the amazement that Messiah’s teaching and actions produced. The Scribes tended to teach the words of other teachers and the traditions of men. Part of what was happening with the teaching from Jesus was that He was teaching Scripture, not from the Mishna or some other tradition of men; He was teaching them what God said and meant, not what some famous Rabbi of bygone days had said that perhaps God had really meant. When a man teaches that a Hadith or a fitnah supersedes or abrogates something in the Quran is he not claiming the Quran is mistaken or corrupted? Furthermore, because the Koran says the al kitab ul muqaddas is not corrupted, then whenever an Imam teaches something contrary to the Al kitab ul muqaddas he is acting exactly like the Rabbis who were opposing Messiah and he is not one iota less corrupt than they were. I have already offered the testimony of Muslim scholars and Muhammad himself regarding the Holy Bible’s accuracy in a previous post.
Injil Markus 1:23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
1:24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
It was the demons who cried out. Demonic possession tends to torment and destroy those who are created in God’s image, but the demon recognized that Messiah was a powerful adversary capable of destroying all the forces and schemes of jinn and Shaytan. The phrase, “The holy one of God,” was perhaps used by the demons in accordance with the occultist belief that the precise use of a person’s name might give a certain amount of leverage against him but most definitely they have recognized the divine origin of Jesus. Thereby they were saying in effect, “These foolish humans may not know who You are or the love the one true God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has for them, but we know who You are and we know what will happen to all of Your enemies.”
1:27 And they [the people] were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
1:28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
The whole subject of demons [jinn] is a difficult one, but no more so than the problem of the devil. The devil is an unclean spirit, because he has lost all the purity of his former nature, therefore he acts in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit of God, and by his suggestions defiles the spirits of men. There are many in our assemblies who quietly attend under merely formal teachers; but if the Lord comes with faithful ministers and holy doctrine then, by his convincing spirit, they are ready to say, like this man, What have we to do with thee! That jinn was terrified that it was going to be sent to the place of punishment before the set time and knew that Jesus had the authority to send him there. By the way, your Imam does not have that authority; if you have a loved one whom you wish to have freed from demon possession you will have to find a Christian who has been given that authority. That is just one of the reasons that it is not wise to harass the followers of the Holy one of God.
No “disorder” could enable a man to know Jesus to be the Holy One of God. The jinn wants to have nothing to do with Jesus, for he despairs of being saved by him, and dreads being destroyed by him. Consider whose language they speak, who say to the Almighty, “Depart from us”. This unclean spirit hated and dreaded Christ Jesus, because he knew him to be the Holy One of the one true God; for the carnal mind is enmity against God, especially against His holiness. People who cannot stand to attend a Bible-believing/Bible-teaching Church here on earth should not expect to be able to tolerate Heaven where the one true God abides forever.
1:34 And he healed many that were sick of [various] diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.
The demons knew and understood Him to be the Messiah, the one true and holy Messiah; Isa, Al-Masih, is kalimat-Allah and wadjih according to the Quran and for that reason they were powerless against Jesus.
When Jesus The Christ by his grace delivers souls out of the hands of Satan, it is not without tumult in the soul; for that spiteful enemy will disquiet those whom he cannot destroy. This put all who saw it to considering, “What is this new doctrine?” A work as great often is worked now, yet men treat it with contempt and neglect, endangering their own soul. If this were not so, the conversion of a notorious wicked man to a sober, righteous, and godly life, by the preaching about a loving, holy Savior, should cause many to ask, What doctrine is this? Will he do such a work for me?
–Pastor Ward Clinton
Barry is not an inept President; he is an enemy agent. – worldparliament-gov.org
All the Toyota trucks ISIS have in their possession are courtesy of BHO. They would not have enough equipment to put up much of a fight, let alone expand their sphere of influence, if BHO had not created them, and then armed them with all the modern equipment. BHO is a treasonous Nation of Islam type of Moslem.
Barak Hussein Obama/Frank Marshall Davis, Jr/Barry Sotero, whoever he is, is a traitor or domestic enemy to the USA and that is by his own choice. He has been somewhat of a success in his actions to undermine and destroy America; if he intended to do good for America then he has been a horrendous failure. Either way, he is the worst President America has ever had.
Pray for America
Now is the time for all Christians to be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves because we live among those who would tear us apart and destroy us if we are not careful, therefore let us put on the whole armor of God and engage in the battle.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
One of the seemingly easiest ways to excuse our sins is to judge others. It is not wrong to exercise judgment but we must start with ourselves. Only too frequently we are guilty of the sins we think we see in others but that is not necessarily always the case. We need prayer and love if we are to perform “eye surgery” on our brothers and sisters. We must judge them the way we want them to judge us.
Lightfoot said, “Cast out the little sin that is in thy hand: to which he answered, cast out the great sin that is in thine. So they could not reprove because they were all sinners.” Thus we see how great a calamity was cast upon Christendom by Calvin because he revived that antinomian spirit that said that we all sin all the time because we are only a sinner saved by grace and can never rise beyond that low-level of spirituality this side of heaven. But Jesus commanded “Sin not,” and He knows full well how to help us live blameless before God.
We know that sacred things are liable to be abused by profane persons. It should really come as no surprise, then, when they use and misuse the sacred text to attack us in order to inflict pain or intimidate us into being silent at the very time we should not be. God does not give permission to the Christian to be silent; He has commanded us to be watchmen, holy watchmen, alert and sounding the alarm for the enemy of our soul is near at hand.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
Jesus preached the good news of peace (Ephesians 6:15) The penalty of being a fallen human being is to have a split personality. In fallen human nature the beast and the angel are strangely intermingled. Man’s trouble has always been that he is haunted both by sin and saintliness. Robert Burns said, regarding himself, “My life reminded me of a ruined Temple. What strength, what proportion in some parts! What unsightly gaps, what prostrate ruins in others.” The coming of Messiah Jesus brings forth the cure for that disintegrated personality and enables victory over the warring self through being conquered and completely consecrated by The Christ.
Jesus preached the good news of God’s promise (Ephesians 3:6). It is true that men have always tended to think of God as a God of threats rather than a God of promises. Look at the way some say the God of the Old Testament was mean – it demonstrates they still fail to understand who God is. If you have eyes to see and understand, the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob shows His mercy and loving-kindness even in the Torah. God’s grace (i.e. unmerited divine favor) is demonstrated in that portion of The Book, it is just much harder to see than it is in the latter portion which begins with the Gospel (Injil) accounts.
Jesus preached the good news of immortality (2nd Timothy 1:10). To the pagan and the Sadducees alike, life was the road to death; man was characteristically a dying man; but Jesus came with the good news that through Him we are on the way to life. Interestingly enough, the pagans that did believe in an afterlife had a rather dark view of what it amounts to. I have to admit that I am not too impressed with what the followers of Mohammad believe regarding the afterlife either. That is primarily because the god of the Koran doesn’t seem very trustworthy. But, of course, disbelievers in Messiah Jesus, as revealed in the Holy Bible, should have a dark view of what the afterlife will be like for them. The fact of the matter is that there was a time when you were not, but now there will never be a time will you will no longer be. Therefore, embrace, make friends with, the holy one of the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because, if you do not, this earth is as close as you will ever get to Heaven.
Jesus preached the good news (Ephesians 1:13) of salvation. Salvation is not simply liberation from penalty and escape from the consequences of past sin; it is the power to live life victoriously and to conquer sin. That makes the message of Messiah good news indeed. It is a shame that most followers of Jesus do not live and walk in the full victory of life available to them.
Jesus preached the good news of Repentance. Unfortunately, repentance is not as easy as we tend to think. The Greek word metanoia literally means a change of mind. That is part of the reason a new follower of Isa has such a difficult time trying to walk in holiness of heart and life; he knows he is a new creature, but he still has the old habits and needs help. Of course, it does not help when the tradition of certain men gets in the way by suggesting that it cannot be done. As for traditions, the earliest hadiths are only the result of traditions, nothing more, and created by men over a hundred years after Muhammad.
For the follower of Jesus, the Messiah, the trial that may lay ahead is never as strong as the power behind. The children of the world (disbelievers in the holy one of God) have no such guarantee. He, Jesus, is “wadjih” (worthy of esteem in this world and the next), according to the Quran. The Quran also says Isa is kalimat Allah.
Pray to the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who sees, hears, and still speaks to us today and longs to demonstrate His great love.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
We cannot just allow [our moral values] to be frittered away because we’re unwilling to defend them. This, i think, is absolutely critical …our moral values will sustain us. Our values as a civilization, our religious values, will sustain us because they are civil values; they are tolerant values, and this, it seems to me, is the kind of thing that will enable all of us to pull together and sustain whatever efforts it takes to resist this attack on us. –Mort Zuckerman
–Pastor Ward Clinton
Don’t be bamboozled, they are not “refugees” they are invaders with malicious intent.
Keep your powder dry, you will need it. Prior to that point in time when it will be needed we all need to be praying for a great revival to happen within all the Christian churches throughout America and that it would spill out into the streets in such a fashion as to spark a brand new Great Awakening such as sparked the founding of this nation as an independent country that has been mostly a force for good in this sin-darkened world. Holiness unto God needs to be our watchword, now more than ever.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
John had quite likely lost track of his cousin during his own scholarly and Godly pursuits. On the other hand he may even have tried to recruit Him into the Essenes because he had always known there was something very special about his younger cousin although he did not know precisely what it was. Perhaps he was still hoping that his cousin would leave the carpenter shop and join him in preparing the path for the mighty Messiah who would manifest miracles and whom he knew was due to arrive at almost at any time now. Perhaps Jesus (Isa) had even gone out to hear John preach a time or two.
John’s message of preparation also pointed to something much better than mere water baptism because the Messiah was coming and the Messiah has the ability to baptize people with the Spirit of God. Water can cleanse the outside only but the Spirit of the one true God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob can cleanse our innermost being. John’s goal was to get people turned around from the path they were on and redirected towards the one who was greater than he; the one whom all men, without exception, need. Remember this, the teachings that Isa will return show that we really need to know who Isa is and what He taught and expects from each one of us according to the Holy Bible.
Injil Markus 1:9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
Jesus probably began His public ministry 27AD, when He was approximately 30 years of age. As far as we know, he had spent most of his life in Nazareth. Jesus approached the water where John was preaching and baptizing and perhaps John thought for a brief moment “Cool, here comes my cousin, perhaps he’ll consent to being part of my ministry preparing everyone for the arrival of The Messiah.” Mark does not relate the brief exchange that took place between the two, which is something which was left to another gospel writer to tell us more about. But suddenly John recognizes who Jesus really is because the God revealed the truth to him and he exclaims “I need to be baptized by You.” And John begins telling his own followers, “Follow Jesus, He is the one I have been prophesying and preaching about. Jesus is the Holy One of God.”
1:10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
1:11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
For those who have eyes to see something very important has been revealed.
John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance intended for those who were sorry for their sins and desired to express their determination to be completely done with them. What did such a baptism have to do with Jesus? Wasn’t He the sinless one and therefore such a baptism would be irrelevant and unnecessary in His case? Short answer, yes.
Jesus took upon Himself the likeness of sinful flesh in that although He was perfectly pure and unspotted, He chose to be washed as if He had been polluted. Therefore for our sake He sanctified Himself so that we also might be sanctified and be baptized with Him. Jesus was and is the holy one from the one true God and He gave us the pattern of living the one true God desires to see reflected in each one of us.
1:12 And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
“As soon as” He was baptized there was a voice from Heaven affirming Him and then He went into the wilderness for a period of time. Matthew and Luke expand upon that wilderness experience but the Gospel of Jesus according to Mark marches on without even pausing for a breath.
John’s heraldic ministry was now wrapping up and it had accomplished much of that which it was supposed to. Better results would have been nice but there was a resistance to his message. Unfortunately that is the old, old story in that so many oppose God and His true messengers. Fortunately, however, some do pay attention and obey. So John exits the stage and the main feature begins because the long-awaited mighty messiah who manifests miracles is taking center stage.
1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
The good news from, as well as about the one true God, the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was calling for a change of heart and lifestyle. He also had the message that the one true God actually cares about and loves us enough to send Isa (PBUH) to us to demonstrate that fact. He is still trying to communicate that message to any who will stop and listen today.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
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