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God Said, “Be Holy”

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In our day, when the Holy Bible is quite readily available, in multiple translations, just in the English, it is disturbing to observe that the overall trend regarding reading any books is on the decline.  Even though the Holy Bible still has the status of being the “best seller of all time” it also likely holds a distinction of being the most neglected book.  Therefore people in general only know what they pick up in bits and pieces through bits of sermons which they might not really be paying attention to or quotations, especially the popular misquotes.  Therefore we really should not be surprised that there are so many ineffectual Christians as well as people who imagine themselves to be a Christian but have only had enough exposure so as to be inoculated against catching the real thing.

Those two groups occasionally find themselves annoyed by the spirit-filled, effectual, group of Christians; the second more so than the first but both tend to seek out the failures of the sanctified ones, or effectual Christians, in order to exploit them to make themselves feel better about their less=than-optimal level of spiritual living.  But every one of us needs to be striving toward being more Christlike, as revealed in the Holy Bible, in order to be more properly equipped for residence in Heaven.

Ladies and gentlemen of the world; if you don’t like being in Church for a couple hours on a weekly basis, what makes you think you are going to like Heaven?

Only holy beings can handle residing in the habitation of the One True God who is the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who is a holy God and He expects His people to be holy like Him.  He cannot lie to Himself and call that which is unholy to be what it isn’t without making it be.  Now, if someone is content to live in the “I sin daily in thought word and deed” rut, they ain’t holy by any stretch of the imagination.  But they still need to be.

—Pastor Ward Clinton

The Most Important Relationship

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God Knows You

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Holy Bible is Superior to Koran

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Greetings everyone.  Let us praise the one true God for those who are escaping from the ways that lead to death and eternal darkness to follow in the path of the Holy One of God whose way is the way of life, light, and love and which is, in fact, the way that the One True God desires that each and every person on this earth should go.  Some of us know this already, others need to know therefore we who do know need to pray for them.

Corrupt Imams claim the Bible is corrupt however the Koran does not make any such claim.  Confused people who have merely accepted the claims of corruption could carefully study the Koran for themselves but there is no need for that because the wiser course of action would be to simply accept the challenge of reading the New Testament portion of the Holy Bible and learn the truth about the one whom the Koran calls Isa, the Holy One of God.

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—Pastor Ward Clinton

Holy Spirit Blessing

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John vii. 38: “He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given.)” This passage cannot be read without perceiving that it holds up for the believer a second blessing.

The Holy Ghost had been given as a Pardoner and Comforter long before. David had prayed: “Take not thy Holy Spirit from me.” Paul says that holy men wrote the word as they were “moved by the Holy Ghost.” Evidently, then, the promise in the passage above is for the gift of the Holy Ghost in a new form or office–viz., as the sanctifier.

This, then, is the second blessing: “They that believe [that are already believers] shall receive the Holy Ghost.” After this living waters shall rise up and flow uninterruptedly from the heart and life. John xiv. 23: “Jesus answered, if a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” Here is unquestionably something of a wonderful nature done some time after conversion. The promise is to a regenerated man, for the heart cannot love Christ unless it has been born again.

Now read: “If a man loves me, keeps my words”–all this is in the present. Now comes the assurance of something in the future: “We” — that is, the Father and the Son –” will come unto him and take up our abode with him.” This constant abiding of the Father and the Son in the soul is one of the wonderful and gracious features of sanctification. This is also the fulfillment of what was shadowed in the most holy place, in the perpetual shekinah, the glorious indwelling of God. John xv. 2: “Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” Here the Christian is represented as a branch on the vine, Christ, and as bearing fruit. After this, and while bearing fruit, it is suddenly cleansed.

The Greek word kathairei, translated “purgeth” in the verse above, has for its main meaning, according to the lexicon, “cleanseth and purifieth.” Take it any way, this verse is a death-blow to those who insist that we are made holy in regeneration, and need only time for development. It plainly teaches that there is a cleansing after conversion, and that this purification, done by Christ himself, comes not to a backslider, but to a branch on the vine–to a Christian bearing fruit. Read more here

—Pastor Ward Clinton

Without God there is no America

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Democrats are the party that booed God being included in their platform.

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Chosen by Voters

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I know that some still try to tout Trump’s negatives but the fact remains that Trump was chosen by the voters.  The political insider class hates him because they cannot control him.  If there is any hope for America and “We, the people” it resides in a Trump Presidency and blessings from God.  Those blessings will only come if we pray in accordance with 2nd Chronicles 7:14.

–Pastor Ward Clinton

Time to be the Church

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    If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. – 2nd Chronicles 7:14

Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old ones made over. – Billy Sunday

Even though our somewhat schizophrenic world rails against it whenever it encounters it or even catches a glimpse of it, what the world wants is genuine Christians living up to their full potential via completely consecrated Christianity.  The Church also wants that type of Christianity.  Christ does not take us out of the world; He takes the world out of us.  Many, if not most, of the problems with Christianity in America today flow from the fact that few who call themselves Christian are willing to fulfill more than what they believe to be the very basic requirement to attain the label of Christian while trying to hold on to the world.  “Oh?  I get to quote that magical verse and I am automatically counted a Christian and on my way to heaven?  Cool – sign me up!”

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. – Richard M. Nixon

Then, when you make an effort to clear up and correct their misconceptions and explain that there is actually more to it than the mere recital of a few words, like some sort of special incantation, you may find yourself being brazenly accused of being “judgmental” and maybe even “narrow-minded” by some who want the “easy believism” and nothing more than that.  But righteousness does not consist of being a little bit less sinful than our neighbors.

Then there are others who will claim that you are trying to add works to the equation and we all “know” that works are not needed, not required, and, most assuredly, not even desired.  That’s found somewhere in the Bible – right?

Oh yes, I do mean to imply that Biblical illiteracy is a very serious problem which certainly needs to be corrected, we are suffering the consequences of that general ignorance already.  It is also quite fascinating the number of people who speak with certitude regarding what the Bible says when it actually does not say what they happen to be asserting in an attempt to self-justify.  It only takes a little bit of careful questioning to reveal their lack an awareness of much of anything as to what is really contained and proclaimed in the pages of the Holy Bible.  And not all of those people are outside of the church.  Some of them, not many, are even relatively active within the church.

 If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. – 2nd Chronicles 7:14

–Pastor Ward Clinton