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Danger in Being Attracted to the World’s System

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He who becomes a friend to the world’s ways becomes an enemy to Christ’s ways and people.  When you begin to love them, you begin to dislike Christ’s religion.  When you begin to worship money you cease to worship God.  When you begin to love the house of pleasure you begin to dislike the house of prayer. When you begin to love bad books you begin to lose a taste for the Bible.  When you seek irreligious associates you draw off steadily from intercourse with the people of God.  When the greedy lust of the world has eaten out a Christian conscience, when it has deadened the spiritual sense, when it has dry-rotted the whole heart, when it has banished The Christ and possessed the soul’s affections then the man is ready to completely to desert the Lord’s camp.  Actually he has deserted!

What is any person worth to the Church, or to God, when his heart is the property of Satan?  He may linger within the camp or even wear the uniform of a church member.  But when the bugle calls to action he is not in the ranks.  When a march of reform is ordered or a strife for God’s law is waged, he is calling for compromise or flat-out “missing.”  Therefore, when the final role call is announced, he won’t be there.

Matthew 7:21-23  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Still, Jesus calls “Come unto Me,” therefore why would you resist Him?

–Pastor Ward Clinton

What are You? Why are you what you are?

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Matthew 13:36-40  Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.  He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;  The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.  As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. – Jesus, The Christ, as recorded in the Holy Bible

A common saying among the tares is,

“We are all children of God.”

  However that is not what the Scripture or Jesus teaches;

all those who are not genuine followers of The Christ, howsoever good or moral they may seem to be are counted as tares by God and will meet the end appointed unto tares unless they let God “genetically modify” them.  In that same vein, do not kid yourself, it is as though we continue to carry a dormant gene that may become reactivated by the enemy of our soul if we do not stay in close contact with our Savior and Lord.

Stay connected to the vine and be blessed

–Pastor Ward Clinton

Pastor Jeffress regarding voting Trump

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Robert Jeffress: Christians Not Voting for Donald Trump If He’s the Nominee Are Foolish, Prideful

“It is absolutely foolish to do anything that would allow Hillary Clinton to become the next President of the United States … at least Donald Trump has voiced a belief in a pro-life movement, he has at least talked about religious liberty as he did last Friday, you don’t hear either things coming from the lips of Hillary Clinton,” he continued.

“I believe any Christian who would sit at home and not vote for the Republican nominee … that person is being motivated by pride rather than principle and I think it would be a shame for people to allow Hillary Clinton four or eight years in the White House,” he said.
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/robert-jeffress-christians-not-voting-donald-trump-foolish-prideful-158881/#UWSBkP1B3RCTWPVq.99

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–Pastor Ward Clinton

Be Joyful

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It takes seventy-three muscles to frown, so they tell us, but only fourteen to smile.  Well, no wonder grouchy people are always so tired.

Happiness depends on happenings; joy depends on Jesus.

Joy is the flag that is flown from the castle of the heart when the King is in residence there.

–Pastor Ward Clinton

God Shaped Vacuum

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Everybody basically has an empty hole inside of them that they try to fill with money, drugs, alcohol, power – and none of the material stuff works. – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr (Daniel Cher and Vicki Sheff, “Toxic Avenger,” People, July 22, 1991, 74

 

I used to say: “There is a God-shaped hole in me.” For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole.  Now I find it is the shape which has become more important – Salman Rushdie, Indian – English novelist.

 

There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of everyman, which cannot be filled by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ. – Pascal

–Pastor Ward Clinton

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One is Fighting for a tolerant accepting open holy religion and society and way of life. The other fights for an oppressive, intolerant, enslaving violent sinful religion and society.

–Pastor Ward Clinton

God Values You

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A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding u a $20 bill.  in the room of 200 people he asked “Who would like this $20 bill?”  Hands started going up.

He said, “I’m going to give this bill to one of you, but first let me do this.”  He crumbled up the $20 bill.  Then he asked. “What if i do this?” He dropped it onto the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.

He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. “Now who still wants it?” Still the hands went up in the air.

You see friends, a valuable lesson has been learned here.  No matter what he did to the money, people still wanted it because it did not decrease it’s value.  It was still worth $20.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumbled and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and circumstances that come our way.  We feel at times as though we are worthless.

But no matter what has happened or what will happen you will never lose your value.  dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are priceless to God as one whom He truly loves.  He created you in His image, He loves you with an everlasting love.

The worth of our lives comes not in what we do but by who we are.  You are special to God.  Don’t ever forget it.  God loves you and wants to have a personal relationship with you through His Son Jesus The Christ.

Count your blessings not your problems.  Remember, if God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.  Good will either lighten your load or strengthen your back.

–Pastor Ward Clinton