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2 Corinthians 1:8-11 Delivered by God, Sustained by Prayer Please remain standing for the reading of our sermon text – 2 Corinthians 1:8-11. That is on page 1145 in the pew Bibles These verses continue the theme from last week. The apostle Paul was expressing the comfort of God to the Corinthians. He wanted them to be comforted by the comfort of Christ in their suffering and also share that comfort. These verses, 8-11, continue that theme. Paul now gives them an example - a life threating affliction that he experienced. Reading of 2 Corinthians 1:8-11. Prayer There is strong evidence that most of the apostles were killed for their faith… for their gospel ministry. We call that being martyred. For example, James, the brother of the apostle John, was executed by king Agrippa. We know that for sure from the book of Acts chapter 12. That is the only one recorded in the Bible, but we have other historical testimonies from the early church fathers. They wrote about how Peter was crucified upside down in Rome. How Thomas was killed in India. How Andrew was crucified in Greece on an X shaped cross. And how Paul was beheaded under the persecution of Nero. Other accounts exist as well. And while we can't absolutely verify the details, the evidence supports those accounts. Some of you will know this, but before the apostle Paul's radical conversion, he was the one persecuting and even killing Christians. Yet God transformed his life. He was confronted by Jesus himself on the road to Damascus. Even though he was temporarily blinded, God opened the eyes of his heart, he could now see the truth clearly. Instead of being a persecutor he became one of the persecuted. In fact, at the time of his conversion, God revealed to Paul, what he must suffer. God told a man named Annanias to find Paul. Annanias was hesitant because he knew Paul's history. But listen to these words spoken by the Lord to Annanias.  “Go, for he [that is, Paul] is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.” And suffer, Paul would. In the book of Acts we have account after account of Paul's imprisonments, beatings, and other persecution. And we don't even know the half of it! Later in 2 Corinthians, chapter 11, Paul lists many more than we have recorded elsewhere. Five times he received what was known as 40 lashes minus 1. That is whips on his back. Three times he was beaten with rods. One time he was stoned. He had been left for dead. You see, Paul and the other apostles endured intense persecution because of their Gospel ministry. And eventually would be martyred, I'm telling you all this because when we read 2 Corinthians, it's important to understand and apply this book correctly. And we can do that on three levels. ·       First and foremost, Paul is defending his apostleship. The apostle's ministry was patterned after Christ's ministry of persecution unto death. The affliction and martyrdom that Paul and the others endured testified to God's special call for them. So, the first layer of application is to affirm their apostleship and this word from God and to therefore reject false teachers and false apostles. ·       Second, the call to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth still applies today. And while there are no more apostles, capital A, yet God still calls many to bring the love of God in Christ to places that have never received the good news of Jesus Christ. And it is a sacrifice. There are those, today, who give their lives for that great cause. Martyrs, who in their frontier mission work, testify in their life and death to the risen Christ and hope in him. That is the second level of application. Those being persecuted for their faith receive a special comfort from these verses. You with me, so far? The first level application, again, is the apostle's persecution and affliction which testifies to their apostleship. The second level of application is in the affliction and comfort of those who are afflicted because of their faith. Now, some people draw the line there. They say that those are the only two levels of application here. In other words, they say we should not extend the application to the other kind of suffering… like sickness, hardships, emotional or relational pain, or grief. But I disagree with that. ·       I want to make the case (like many others have)  for a third layer of application in 2 Corinthians. If you have your Bible open to 2 Corinthians 1, look at verse 3 from last week. God is to be worshiped because he is the God of “all” comfort. That is pretty broad... “all.” And if you look at verse 4, the word “all” is used again. Then Paul says that they want to comfort others who are in “any” affliction. Again, it's a very broad application of comfort in affliction… “any.” Here's what I am saying… the giving and receiving of comfort in suffering also applies beyond those in dangerous missions work. I mentioned last week that we are not talking about worldly comfort, but rather the comfort of assurance and peace and being encouraged and strengthened in Christ to endure. As the theme of suffering and comfort comes back around over and over, we'll apply it on those three levels. I wanted to say that up-front because it relates to today's verses… Ok, before we get into verses 8-11, I want to share one more thing. Amy told me this after last week's sermon. The verses from last week are very meaningful to her family. 30 years ago, Amy's brother died in a small plane accident. He was 23 years old at the time. A dear friend of the family shared these verses of comfort with Amy's dad. That friend who shared those verses had himself been comforted by those very words. Years earlier his daughter had died in an accident. He was sharing with Amy's family the comfort of Christ with which he himself had been comforted in his suffering. It's a beautiful picture of sharing Gospel comfort with one another. Now look at verse 8. It begins with the word “for.” It's a connecting word. “For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia.” The apostle Paul directly connects this new paragraph to what he has just written to them. He is saying, let me now give you an example of our affliction through which you can be comforted. The big question, of course, is what exactly happened in Asia? That would be helpful information. And the answer is, we don't know exactly. However, I do want to give you a couple of possibilities. Look at how Paul describes the event in the second half of verse 8. “We were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.” It was very difficult. Verse 9 makes the event even more intense. “Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death.” Whatever the situation they found themselves in, they thought they were going to die. Earlier in the service, we read from Acts 19. One possibility is that Paul was referring to the riots in Ephesus. Ephesus was, after all, the capital of Asia at that time - Asia minor. You see, in Ephesus, Christianity had been spreading and transforming it in a good way. But it was bad for business. What I mean is that the church had been preaching against idols and idolatry. Well, that meant that all the merchants who were selling little “g” god idols were losing money. And so, Demetrius, the silversmith stirred up a riot. As you know, when a crowd gets stirred up, it can easily turn into an angry mob. When that happens, people lose any sense of peace or moderation… if they even had any to start with. Well, this mob in Ephesus dragged off two of the believers, Gaius and Aristarchus. They were, in fact, two of Paul's travelling companions. It's amazing that these men and others were not killed. God delivered them… he used the Roman authority to calm the crown down. You can see, it is possible that Paul was referring to this event – After all, they thought they had received the sentence of death, broadly speaking. The only thing is that Paul was not in the midst of it. He was not at the theater where the riot occurred. The other believers wouldn't let him go out of fear for his life. So, we do not know for sure if this was the event. Another possibility is in 1 Corinthians 15. There Paul mentioned that they fought with “wild beasts” in Ephesus. Those were the words he used. Now, to be sure, he was not talking about literal beasts, but rather men so evil it's as if they were wild beasts. So, there was a second event where they had been attacked. They could have felt the same sentence of death that he describes. Maybe it was some other event. We ultimately don't know. But whatever it was, Paul and the other with him were overwhelmed. They feared for their life, and despaired of what was going to happen. Paul described what they felt as “burdened beyond our strength.” Let me ask, have you been there? Have you experienced something so intense and so difficult that you could not see any path out of the burden? That is what they experienced. In the garden of Gethsemane the night before he was crucified, Jesus prayed, “Father, take this cup from me… yet not my will but yours be done.” I think it is safe to presume that Paul and those with him prayed a similar prayer. And what happened? God delivered them. So, while we don't know exactly what happened, we certainly know how it affected them and we know that God delivered them. And furthermore, we know two more things. ·       We know what God taught them. ·       And we also know how the church was to help them. So, let's turn our attention to those two things. Again, what did they learn and how can the church help. 1. What they Learned Number 1: what did they learn in their suffering? You know what? We don't have to guess. No, actually, Paul tells us right there in verse 9 – the second half. “But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.” In the middle of our affliction, suffering, trials, God desires that we rely on him. And I want you to notice something very important here - the order of what happened. Paul first says that they learned to rely on God and not themselves… THEN in verse 10 he says that God delivered them. That's important. It was not after God delivered them that he taught them to rely on him. No, it was in the middle of feeling the sentence of death. That is when they learned to rely on him. That's hard to do, isn't it. Because in the moment, we often feel so overwhelmed. Yet it is in that very moment that we need to rely on God the most. And why we can rely on him and trust in him in those very moments? Well, it is for this reason: God raises the dead. That is what he did. God raised Jesus Christ from the grave. And that is what he will do. He will raise the dead. At the very height of the intense burden… feeling the sentence of death, what did God teach them? He taught them to not rely on their own strength but to turn their hearts to the one who raises the dead. It is the greatest promise that we can rely on in our affliction. Some of you may recognize the name Donald Barnhouse. He pastored 10th Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia back in the mid 20th century. Sadly, when his children were young, his wife passed away. As you can imagine, he struggled to have the words to comfort his children. Well, on the way to the funeral, one of his children asked, “Daddy, why did mommy have to die?” At that moment, God gave him words of comfort for his children. You see, right then, a large truck drove past them and cast its shadow over them. And he asked his children, “would you rather be run over by the truck or by its shadow? His youngest child responded first, “the shadow. It couldn't hurt anybody.” Barnhouse replied “Remember, children, Jesus let the truck of death strike him, so that it could never destroy us. Mother lives with Jesus now—only the shadow of death passed over her.” She lives. He was telling his kids… death is not the end. And while we grieve, we grieve knowing that God raises the dead. We each will experience the death of our bodies, yet we have that sure hope in our resurrection because of his. Those in Christ will be raised with him forever Let's go back to the apostle Paul and those with him. God did deliver them in that moment. God still had more work for them to accomplish in this life. More suffering to endure. More people to share the hope of Christ. More letters to write, like this one. More churches to plant. God delivered them. I want you to notice something in verse 10. The word deliver is used three times. The first use is past tense. “[God] delivered us from such a deadly peril.” Then twice, future tense. “God will deliver us.” That future deliverance involved first, hoping and praying that the Lord would deliver them again in their earthly circumstances. But second, the future deliverance meant that whatever happened, God would deliver them forever. Death in this life will only be a shadow because God raises the dead. Paul and those with him learned to rely on God who will deliver them. They “set their hope” on it (that is the phrase used)…. They “set their hope” that God would deliver them from the next sentence of death in this life. But they knew that their ultimate deliverance would be beyond the grave. And as I mentioned, at God's appointed time, Paul suffered a martyrs death. But he lives. Lets bring this together… what was God teaching them? He was teaching them… to rely on him. His strength, his purposes, his means, and not on themselves. God reminded them that he raises the dead. That is the most profound truth for those in Christ… especially in our suffering and affliction. God will deliver you. We pray for and set our hope on deliverance in this life from whatever affliction we are enduring… but ultimately, we rest on Christ and his eternal promise. We will be delivered because God raises the dead. 2. How they should help OK, that brings us to the other thing we learn in these verses. We learn the primary thing the church can and should do for those suffering. And that is, pray! Now, there are a lot of things that we can do to support one another as we go through affliction. Last week, we learned we can share the comfort of Christ with each other. Obviously, Paul had that in mind – he had just written that. And of course, we can come alongside each other in several other tangible ways. But the most important thing that we can do for anyone in any trial or affliction is pray. Pray with them and for them. Now, remember, Paul was not there with the church in Corinth. That is why he wrote to them. So, the church in Corinth could not help him and support him in the middle of this affliction. But they could pray. Look at verse 11. “You also must help us by prayer.” That is pretty strong. Paul petitioned them to pray. They needed prayers from the church in Corinth. As we think about how that applies to us today. Number one, we need to be praying for those on the front lines of mission work around the world. We do that. We know and support several that are on those front lines of Gospel ministry. And we need to continue that and maybe increase our prayers. Praying for their ministry… praying for protection… praying for them to rely on God who raises the dead. Praying that through their ministry, that God would change hearts and minds and increase his kingdom. All those things. We also need to be praying for the persecuted church. Last week, Open Doors published their annual report of persecution. They are a ministry which focuses on information and prayer for the persecuted church. They estimate that last year 380 million Christians across the world faced persecution… and about 4,500 Christians were killed for their faith. We need to pray. God will work through our prayers to bring deliverance or endurance just as he did for Paul. Let me ask this: What does Paul assume by telling them they must pray? Well, he believes prayer is powerful and effective. God hears our prayers. Look how he describes the importance of prayer in verse 11. He says, “many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.” You see that? The Apostles will be blessed because of the prayers of the church. Our prayers will build up those in Gospel ministry. Though our prayers, God will give them confidence and reliance on him. So, we need to press on in our prayers for those experiencing persecution. Let's take this down to that third layer of application. We need to pray for those in any kind of suffering…. Like what I mentioned earlier: sickness, hardships, emotional pain, or grief. To say it again, there are other ways we can and should support one another. But the most important is prayer. And we absolutely can pray for deliverance. If it's sickness, we can and should pray for healing. God heals. If it's emotional or spiritual, we can pray for the Holy Spirit to intercede. If it's relational we can pray for reconciliation. We can pray boldly for comfort and peace, and healing. The same confidence that the apostle Paul had in prayer should be the same confidence that we have in prayer. May we pray for these things. Conclusion So, God raises the dead. If your only hope in life and death is in the Lord Jesus Christ, then this great promise is one you can rely on in your affliction. God will ultimately deliver you forever. But God also can deliver you from affliction in this life. We trust in his providence, but we pray and hope that God will intercede. We boldly pray, knowing that our prayers for one another are powerful and effective. In our suffering, may God direct us to rely on him and the power of his resurrection. And may we pray for one another and especially those enduring affliction because of their faith in Christ.  

The Fall of DS Babylon (Audio) David Eells – 9/18/24 I told you I would try to share things with you if you would forsake being news junkies and seek the Lord for sanctification, which we have studied a lot lately. I pray you are ready for what's coming.  :0) I was told by the Lord to tell this story and that everything and everyone is covered by Him. (In Rev 12 the dragon and his angels are being cast down. I will share and make comments on some world affairs here.) Restored Republic via a GCR: Update as of 17-18, Sept. 2024 …in part…  https://operationdisclosureofficial.com/2024/09/17/restored-republic-via-a-gcr-as-of-september-17-2024/ https://operationdisclosureofficial.com/2024/09/18/restored-republic-via-a-gcr-as-of-september-18-2024/ Now Is The Time (The angels and the Alliance are bringing down all of the DS elites plans. Trust The Plan Pray “The Enormity Of What Is Coming Will Shock The World” …President Donald Trump, Q+ And the angels are also using men because it is in the Word that Cyrus, a type of Trump, destroys DS Babylon. Right Now a Globally Coordinated Military Strike Designed to Obliterate the Globalist Power Structure is Bringing in the Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History Did you know that angels only fulfill His Word and only listen to the voice of the Lord? Psa 103:20  Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, That are mighty in strength, that fulfil his word, Hearkening unto the voice of his word. One man who dealt with angels asked a high ranking one if he commanded them. The angel said we only obey the voice of God. This is true. If the word of the Lord comes out of man's mouth they obey it as it was with Annanias and Sapphira. When our missionaries were being killed by the Jesuits and Jehovah Witnesses because their people were being converted, the man who was over the Jesuits contacted me. He said very hypocritically and irately that Your people are killing our people.  I said to him, “You have never seen one of our missionaries raise a weapon against any of you or even to defend themselves.” This seemed to stun him but it was true and he didn't argue the point. I said you only have a couple of choices here. Either the JW's are warring against you again or the angels of God are killing you. He couldn't take that the angels were killing them because that would make him and his religion evil. I knew the angels were defending the missionaries. I asked one of my angels what was happening.  He said when the Jesuit mob gets too close to hiding missionaries we drop them. I said are there any marks on them? He said, No, so I said, to this Jesuit leader “there is no physical marks on them that is the angels and they don't make mistakes or do evil”. They killed that evil man and the Jesuits made a mask of him and put it on a turncoat and they killed him too. And for you the listener today and your understanding, the angels do not live in time and they know every person who is chosen from the foundation of the world and do not harm them. Now I tell you it is the same with the DS and their leaders. Nobody can tell the angels to do anything that is against God's will. After warning DS leaders who then ignored them,, the angels have fed them to the sharks and given some their own monkeypox. For 53 years I have worked every day to save people from sin and that is my heart. I wait expectantly for the Soloman (peaceful) Man-child ministry to come when the peace is won by the David Man-child ministry. We are almost there. Watch Out For, Protect & Save the Children. S*****c Worshippers & Their Secretive Covens Exist Across the Globe Perhaps Even in Your Neighborhood & Right Next Door. Pray them down for they have plans to destroy Christianity. Tues. 17 Sept. 2024 “The Storm Is Here: Hidden Bunkers Raided, Children Rescued, and the Deep State Exposed” …Ben Fulford on Telegram The Deep State's grip on our nation is weakening as their secrets come to light. The truth, long concealed, is now emerging, and the powerful are scrambling to maintain control. Brave actions are peeling back the layers of deception, revealing the sinister operations that have kept the American people in the dark for too long. February 18, 2024: The Georgetown Raid: Tension filled the air in Georgetown, Washington, DC, as Unit X, a group of elite military personnel with trained Belgian Malinois, stormed a hidden bunker beneath the city's streets. Inside, they uncovered horrors orchestrated by the Deep State—47 children were rescued, and high-profile arrests followed, including a sitting congressman. The mainstream media remained silent, complicit in covering up this monumental event. Operation Eclipse Exposed: March 15, 2024 marked another victory against the Deep State. Leaked documents from a private intelligence firm in Langley, Virginia, exposed “Operation Eclipse,” a plan to fracture the nation through media manipulation and engineered social unrest. The Deep State aimed to bring America to its knees, paving the way for martial law. However, Trump's executive orders from 2020 thwarted this sinister plot just in time. FEMA Camps Revealed: On June 22, 2024, a whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security risked everything to reveal that FEMA camps, supposedly for natural disasters, were being used as holding facilities for political dissidents and t********d children. Satellite imagery and intercepted communications confirmed these camps' existence in remote areas of Nevada and Montana, exposing the Deep State's depravity. The Silicon Valley “S*****e”: August 8, 2024, saw the mysterious death of a tech billionaire in his Silicon Valley mansion. The official story—s*****e—was a lie. This billionaire, a key financial architect of the Deep State, had been funding operations to undermine Trump's efforts to drain the swamp. Unit X had been monitoring him, and when they struck, they ensured he could no longer threaten the nation. This was not a s*****e but an execution in the war against those who seek to destroy America. The Banksters Exposed Fast forward to September 8, 2024. The pace is accelerating. Switzerland—long a safe haven for the cabal's dirty money—is under siege. The Swiss National Bank has been exposed as a laundering operation for the Rothschilds, CIA, and Mossad. Billions have flowed through these accounts, funding bioweapons research and secret space operations. The Great Awakening is in full swing. Leaks are flooding the internet, exposing Swiss banks as the heartbeat of the devil's operation. They've manipulated currencies, hoarded gold, and funded wars they claimed to mediate. But the reckoning is here. The White Hats and Q Ops, with the Space Force, have intercepted more than just financial transactions. They have the blackmail archives—the files that kept politicians, CEOs, and Hollywood stars in line. These are the secrets that have protected the cabal's sick agenda for too long. Epstein was only the beginning. His island was the hub for t*********g and a***e, but now, Trump's knowledge of these operations is a weapon against the elite. The mainstream media won't tell you this, but Trump's Sovereign Wealth Fund is the declaration of war against the Rothschild's debt-slavery system. The Federal Reserve is crumbling. $3 trillion in hidden reserves have been uncovered. These funds, stolen from the American people, were used to fund global chaos—from fake pandemics to weather manipulation. Yes, they've been playing God with storms, controlling droughts and earthquakes to instill fear and control. The Deep State's Final Struggle: The Deep State is in full retreat, but the battle is far from over. Every day, new revelations expose the extent of their crimes and influence. The fight for the soul of America is entering its most critical phase. The deep state's reach extends into every facet of society—government, media, corporations, and institutions once trusted to protect us. They have manipulated and controlled us through fear and division for years, but 2024 marks the turning point. The Tide Is Turning: The Storm is here, and the Deep State is running scared. They are not invincible, and the tide is turning. The hunters have become the hunted. Every action they take is monitored, every plot countered, and every secret exposed. The deep state's time is running out, and the final, decisive blow is coming. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has just blown the lid off a terrifying agenda hidden deep in Alaska. Documents reveal that HAARP, which they claimed was about “scientific research,” is in reality a weapon designed to control and manipulate humanity on a global scale. HAARP's Dark Purpose: For years, the military has disguised HAARP as a research station, keeping its true mission hidden from the public. According to Snowden's leaks, HAARP is no innocent experiment—it's a weapon of mass manipulation, targeting people's brains, causing what seem like natural deaths—strokes, heart attacks. This is more than a conspiracy theory. It's happening now, right under our noses. Mind Control at an Unimaginable Level: Snowden revealed that HAARP can remotely control the minds of those who speak out, turning people into irrational, “crazy” individuals in the eyes of the world. Their goal? Silencing dissenters, using these frequency waves to make their opposition crumble from within. Think about it—the world leaders, media moguls, and CEOs you see on TV are just puppets, controlled through advanced technology. Ever wonder why some of the most powerful voices for truth go silent overnight? The Smoking Gun – Proof of HAARP's Control: These documents aren't just hearsay. Snowden shared secret emails from top military officials confirming the horrific truth behind HAARP's operations. This is no longer speculation—it's fact. You're either awake or you're being played. They want you docile, blind, and submissive, all while the elite pull the strings behind the scenes. HAARP's Reach – More Than Just Alaska: It's not just Alaska. There are multiple HAARP facilities worldwide. In Sweden, Russia, even beneath the cover of cell towers right here at home. They've built a global network to keep their control tight.  WARNING!!! At This Very Moment in New York UN Global Elites Were Positioning Themselves To Completely Control People of the World via Passage of the Global Digital Compact, or the Illuminati's Great Reset (Pray this down) Meanwhile… On Monday Trump Announced the Launch of World Liberty Financial Crypto Exchange, the Apparent Precursor to 130 Sovereign Countries' Gold/Asset-Backed Global Currency Reset Which Ensured The People Would Have Complete Control Over Their Own Monies & Provided Freedom From Debt For All …. Checkmate!!! Judy Note: We're sitting on the edge of a Global Blackout and Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) Activation, where normal communication will cease for ten days. It's called Operation Stormbreaker – the greatest Sting Operation ever. Military Units have been mobilizing Worldwide for a coordinated military strike to obliterate the Globalist Power Structure. “It's only wise to have at least a month's supply of food, water, cash, medicine and essential items on hand for yourself, your family and to share with others in case of emergency.” Judy Note: Right now the 79th U.N. General Assembly was meeting in New York to consider putting their stamp of approval on a document called the Global Digital Compact. If passed, the Compact would give the U.N. Secretary-General totalitarian control over all people across the Globe, overriding governments and trampling individual freedoms. (I believe Our annulling of this will last till mid trib.) A non-elected Deep State UN official could demand every person on the planet implant digital IDs and vaccine passports on their person for the sole purpose of Deep State surveillance. Worse, the tattooed ID some define as the Mark of Cain, would give those Globalists control over individual bank accounts, and lives. Without compliance, you would be nothing—unable to work, unable to live. Sound familiar? This will not happen now but mid-trib  The UN Deep State Cabal would have the power to declare at their will, global emergencies, lockdowns and travel restrictions. – a perfect plan for implementation of the Illuminati's New World Order. The Global Military Alliance does have it all. They have overtaken the Z******s and Elites who pull the strings of the World —those at the very top had fallen: the 13 Illuminati families, Vatican, Royal Families, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Gates, Obama, Clintons – were under White Hat control even if they, or their clones, or perhaps actors behind sophisticated masks, still paraded around in public like nothing happened. As head of the Global Military Alliance President Trump has either replaced or had control over them all. He's the true ruler now, and not just of America, but over the entire world. Like Trump, President Kennedy knew all about the CIA Child S*x T*********g Ring Operations and the Deep State Military using s*x operations to blackmail politicians, that then controlled health, education, Mainstream Media, music and film industries, along with foreign government officials who were connected to Money Laundering Operations and the Global Financial System. That's why this Deep State Cabal assassinated Lincoln, and tried to assassinate JFK, Trump and others because these Patriots  were trying to give taxpayer monies back to The People. It was why the Q Movement was formed and now operating at full speed That bubble was set to burst on Wed. 20 Nov. 2024 with the start of Nuremberg Trials 2.0 which were bound to reveal all. Pray down the new plagues Another bubble was popping across the Globe by way of more planned epidemics. On Tues. 17 Sept. 2024 in what appeared to be very strange coincidences, a new C***d strain known as “XEC” was announced as rapidly spreading across Europe. First identified in Germany in June, cases of the XEC variant have since been detected in the UK, US, Denmark and several other countries. Also on Tues. the Deep State tried to declare a Bird Flu epidemic in Democratic Colorado as the state announced a State of Emergency, while at the same time the CCP in Singapore launched a quarantine and vaccination campaign (This is the real threat) for Monkeypox: https://www.newstarget.com/2024-09-16-singapore-launches-quarantine-and-vaccination-campaign-monkeypox.html Tues. 17 Sept. 2024: ALERT! WEF Insider Warns Elite Planning ‘Dirty Bomb' Terror Attack at Trump Rally! The People's Voice Video – amg-news.com – American Media Group 2016 Haitian Reporter: “Where is the money Hillary Clinton raised with the Clinton foundation? Haiti did not get even 2%. The whole world has given billions. They say Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton stole it. So, Mr. Trump, we are asking you, begging you, the Haitian community will side with you if one day you ask Hillary Clinton publicly to disclose the audit of all the money they have stolen from Haiti in 2010 after the earthquake” Tues. 17 Sept. 2024 Texas: Governor Abbott has created a new Strike Team bringing in drones, helicopters, K9, Texas Rangers, special agents, aircraft, Swat Team and enforced Officers to confront gang violence in Texas. On Monday 20 Venezuelan Gang members were arrested and the governor was now seeking to confiscate their properties. BREAKING! Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designates Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization and says Texas will use the courts to halt the operations and will use asset forfeiture to take their property while working to keep them in jail longer. The governor says there is no database to identify TdA members, TxDPS will be working with other law enforcement to create the a database from scratch. Gov. Abbott says the gang is trying to get a foothold in Texas but he's not going to let that happen. The governor annoying that the Gateway Hotel in El Paso has been shut down following an injunction via the county attorney. Governor Abbott says 20 suspected TdA gang members were arrested as a result of operations in and around the hotel. Meanwhile, the Biden/Harris Administration was providing Venezuelan migrants with over $18,000 in food stamps, funding that came from US taxpayer money. Tues. 17 Sept. 2024 US Taxes Paying for Play Depicting God as Bisexual, Communist LGBT Rights: https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/17/state-department-paying-stage-play-god-bisexual-communists-lgbt-rights-abroad/ Tues. 17 Sept. 2024 Election Fraud by US Postal Service: 300,000 member Postal Workers union endorses Kamala. In 2020 there were many issues with postal workers not delivering to R precincts, collecting undeliverable ballots for harvesters, holding ballots till too late, the truck from LI to PA that disappeared. Not much that can be done now – registration rolls are padded, mail ballots will be generated. …David Nino Rodreguez on Telegram William Rodríguez, famously dubbed “The Last Man Out,” was a janitor on 9/11 who heroically saved lives by unlocking doors with a master key. However, when he began speaking about explosions in the basement before the planes hit, he was swiftly ignored and even pressured by the FBI to stay silent. Despite his firsthand account, his testimony was never included in the 9/11 Commission Report. Trump's golf outing was a last minute decision. Yet, Routh was already hiding in the bushes, waiting for Trump to walk by on the golf course with his GoPro camera set up for the “perfect shot.” How did this well trained killer make it that far by himself and how did he know where Trump would be? How did Routh know Trump would be out golfing at that exact time and at that exact place on the golf course? I was told by the Lord when I asked this same question, “Laura Loomer” and the angels gave her to the Alliance. This is a deep state very sexy plant who travels by plane everywhere the Rally Trump goes and knows his plans. The real Trump is safe and faithful to his wife. Why did Democrat Left leaning Time Magazine on 9/11 come out with a cover that had a picture of Trump in a Golf Cart going down a sand hole with the word “Trouble” to the side of him? They were told by the DS their plan, Why did Democrat Left leaning CNN now come out to say that the shots WERE in fact, directed at Trump after they originally reported that this was an isolated incident and Trump wasn't in danger. Oops the truth got out, had to cover themselves. Why did both of Trump's assailants appear in a Deep State Cabal BlackRock ad prior to their assassination attempts? Apparently, several Secret Service agents returned fire at both of the recent Trump Assassination Attempts shooters. All of them then fled, and were apprehended or k****d shortly after. The fact that the FBI, Homeland Security, US Secret Service and or local Police allowed two or more people with AK-47s in an active firefight anywhere close to where Trump was speaking or golfing was very alarming to say the least. Golfing opens up too much unwatched territory for shooters. I'm only an outside observer, but with Trump head of the Global Military Alliance which was arresting thousands of corrupt Deep State Globalists, it's pretty obvious to me that the two recent Trump Assassination Attempts were Homeland Security- FBI-Biden Administration Inside Jobs. But of course, those were the very agencies that held the power and were required to “investigate” the incidents, so why should we worry? Don't worry, act and speak faith! And, why should we worry that the U.N. was positioning itself to be the center of Global control with undefined powers? After all, only our Freedoms were at stake. The Lord is sovereign over the beast. Let Him speak through you “Trust The Plan. Pray: Sunday's second Trump Assassination Attempt was believed to be a Homeland Security-FBI Inside Job – which brings us closer to the Big Bang Three Day Event. We are just waiting for the Green Light for Starlink to send an Emergency Broadcast Alert to all cell phones worldwide. As corrupt governments fall and Mass Arrests are made, a Ten Day Communications Blackout Event will bring in the new Quantum Financial System and GCR, NESARA/ GESARA implementation. After which will arise the unbelievably fast Quantum Internet with secure bank accounts and transparent Quantum Voting that restore Freedom and Democracy, along with Trumpsara for lean and efficient governments manned by honest Patriots and free Med Bed treatments that create healthy and free societies worldwide.” … The 17th Letter (JFK Jr.) on Telegram Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 McAfee Software has been used by the Global Military Alliance to infiltrate the inner sanctums of governmental bodies, elite individuals and global military entities. It serves as a covert operative revealing a labyrinth of corruption, concealed agendas, human t*********g, planned military coups, and international money laundering operations. As of September 15th 2024 over 130 countries including the US, had aligned with the fully operational gold/ asset-backed Quantum Financial System where every transaction, every asset was tracked, verified and secured by quantum encryption. No Banker, no hacker, no agent, no Elite – absolutely no one – could break through to your personal account. The QFS operated on its own terms, and those terms were non-negotiable. Sun. 15 Sept. 2024: Breaking: Tragic Death of ABC News Whistleblower Who Exposed Kamala Harris Receiving Debate Questions in Advance (video) – amg-news.com – American Media Group (The angels brought this brave woman back to life and she is in witness protection. I was asked by General Smith why I didn't tell them the angels had this capability. I said, I am under orders what to say and do and when. He said, I can understand that. He and his men are doing a great job. The Lord said he could make a list but the Lord would decide who could come back.) Since Joe Biden was Vice President, his family and their shell companies have hauled in $18 million from foreign sources. (By order of the Lord, the angels make sure the ill-gotten gain of these people is ultimately returned to the people harmed in the way He decides and the criminals all the way to the top are eliminated. The Fakes - Biden, Harris, Walz, Obama, elites, etc. Those in custody will be gone as per The Lord's word about Babylon.) Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 Situation Update: Bombshell Report! Judy Byington: Sunday's Second Trump Assassination Attempt Believed To Be A Homeland Security-FBI Inside Job! Restored Republic via a GCR: Update as of Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 – amg-news.com – American Media Group As of today, September 17, 2024, military transports have been spotted landing at Nellis Air Force Base and Fort Bragg. Insiders report this is Phase One of a larger operation targeting key deep state strongholds in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, and beyond. The Pentagon is done waiting for compromised bureaucrats. Orders are coming directly from a clandestine command center deep within Cheyenne Mountain. And it's not just the U.S.—forces overseas are joining the fight. Bases in Germany and Italy are preparing for joint operations with loyal NATO factions. The global purge is about to begin. The elites are panicking. Private jets have been tracked flying into remote hideouts—they're running scared. CEOs are stepping down, politicians are “retiring,” but there's no escape. The storm is here, and it will show no mercy. Possible Timing: Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 John F. Kennedy Jr. (The vice-President) on Telegram: In one week everything will change. The channels everyone has been waiting for will publish devastating information that is kept secret from the public. A big scandal happened this week, so we have it all. Donald Trump has promised. Sat. 14 Sept. 2024 On EBS Activation …Q Trump on Telegram: Absolutely no time frame has been given for EBS Activation. No one knows when it will happen, other than it will occur at the top of the hour. It was designed this way for a reason. When it happens you are to follow EBS instructions to the letter. Be ready for 3-6 weeks where everyone will be home. There is no reason to panic as everything has been factored in. Sun. 15 Sept. 2024 EBS: The Moment We've Been Waiting For …John F. Kennedy Jr. on Telegram U.S. Military Alert: All military forces worldwide are preparing to suspend all media, internet, phone, and TV services. Emergency services will stay active, but everything else is about to go dark. During this time, no internet, no ATMs, and phones only working for 911 calls. This is the Global Martial Law we've been talking about, and it comes with a 10-day communication blackout. (It's been said Signal will be operational. I read the grid may be sabotaged. If so an adapter to charge your phone from the cigarette lighter in your car is cheap; maybe $3. Also Tesla Free Energy may go up.) But here's the kicker: the Emergency Broadcast System will be activated worldwide. Nonstop, 24/7, 8-hour documentaries exposing the darkest secrets of the elite—fraud, corruption, pedophilia, and their arrests—will play three times a day. The truth will be unleashed. The military is taking down Cabal-controlled governments worldwide, executing mass arrests based on 500,000 sealed indictments. This is the moment we've been fighting for. Tues. 17 Sept. 2024 Military Buildup in US …Voices of Revelation on Telegram As of 2:57 PM eastern US time on Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 there were literally HUNDREDS of military aircraft flying over the continental United States (CONUS).  The image (on Telegram) from Ads-B Exchange shows ONLY Military Aircraft! I am 62 years old and I have never seen this many military in the air in my entire life.  After the 10 days of darkness, we will reconnect to a new quantum internet. The old systems of government, education, finance, health, and commerce? Gone. A new age is coming. Subs off the coasts. I have it from high up.  “This is part of the ww3 scare tactic. These are part of the Alliance.” Tues. 17 Sept. 2024 Military Buildup in US …Voices of Revelation on Telegram As of 2:57 PM eastern US time on Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 there were literally HUNDREDS of military aircraft flying over the continental United States (CONUS).  The image (on Telegram) from Ads-B Exchange shows ONLY Military Aircraft! I am 62 years old and I have never seen this many military in the air in my entire life.  GESARA/NESARA activated. Global Currency Reset: Judy Note: The new Iraqi Dinar denominations are out in Iraq and new rates were showing up on certain but not all, bank screens. That couldn't happen unless they had revalued the Dinar. From past Intel it appeared that the RV began on Fri. 13 Sept. when banks received financial transactions and were given up to 72 hours to finalize them, or risk a fine of $20 billion per institution. Bond payments were expected to complete by next Wed. 18 Sept. Tues. 17 Sept. 2024 Bruce: Bond Holders are getting funds into their accounts right now and will have access to those funds Thurs. or Friday. Tier4b (us, the Internet Group) will be notified at the same time as Tier 3. Redemption Center people in charge of getting emails to Redemption Center leaders will be sending those emails around 6pm EST tonight Tues. 17 Sept. Tier4b should get 800 numbers by 12 noon Wed. 18 Sept. 2024. SS increases will be here by the end of Sept. R&R will come out in September. Our R&R will be in our account at our appointment. On Mon. 16 Sept. at 8pm EST President Trump announced the launch of World Liberty Finance. It was believed this was the precursor to the announcement of the Global Currency Reset, where The People would have their own individual and secure bank account of which no banker, or anyone else, had control. Mon. 16 Sept. 2024: Trump Announces World Liberty Financial Crypto Exchange: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-world-liberty-financial-crypto-exchange-what-to-know/  Mon. 16 Sept. 2024: Quantum Financial System Goes Live: Over 130 Countries Confirmed in the Military-Secured, Gold-Backed QFS as the Global Currency Reset (GCR) Unfolds! – Gazetteller Restored Republic: Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 Julian Assange: “For those who still can't grasp what's really going on… Trump and the White Hats signed a global peace treaty—GESARA NESARA. But don't be fooled by the so-called “peace.” This is no ordinary treaty. It's a trap for the enemy. They surrendered a long time ago, but it hasn't been announced. Why? Because we are in the final stages of a secret war. Yes, it might look like Trump is working with Z*****t enemies in Israel, but the truth is the Global Alliance has already overtaken them. The elites pulling the strings—those at the very top—have already fallen. The Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, Gates, they are all under control now, even if they still parade around in public like nothing happened. Trump isn't collaborating with them—he's replaced them. He's the true ruler now, and not just of America, but over the entire world. He took down the puppet masters and claimed the throne. The Z******s and their lackeys have no choice but to obey. The king has returned! The light is coming! But remember, this is a game of strategy. In war, you don't reveal your hand until it's time for the final blow. Right now, Trump is holding all the cards. You need to hold the line, keep your poker face. The storm hasn't passed—it's building. In the end, we'll see who really won. The enemy won't know what hit them until it's too late.” Mon. 16 Sept. 2024: BOOM! Exposing the Universe's Darkest Secrets: PROJECT ODIN MILITARY, Starlink, QFS and MOSSAD Satellites – Unraveling the Quantum Financial Systems – amg-news.com – American Media Group (The MSM MOSSAD satellites will go down by the angels when President Trump gives the order. Then Starlink is up.) Mon. 16 Aug. 2024  Jan Halper-Hayes, “I've talked about the JAG ships that are off the coast of Australia, off the coast of Japan, off the coast of Italy & England. The JAG ships also serve as prisons. You can go online & see the construction advance of Gitmo from when Trump took office to what it looks like now. They continue to expand. There's a Hospital facility there. They have also expanded on Guam.” Fri. 16 Aug. 2024: Bombshell!!! List of Indictments, Arrests and Executions – Dismantling the Deep State Operatives and Doubles – “We Have It All” ~Q! – amg-news.com – American Media Group As of Nov. 4 2023 260 Global and Political Elites had been arrested, held at GITMO, undergone a Military Tribunal, executed or removed from office. That included all members of the six Illuminati families who ruled the World, Popes and Cardinals at the Vatican, plus Royalties and Prime Ministers around the World. Start looking for an honest conservative to elect Prime Minister of your country. Mon. 16 Sept. 2024: Red Heifer Prophecy: “Behold, I Make All Things New” Donald Trump, the Number Seven, Seven Trumpets and the Prophecy of the Red Heifer! – amg-news.com – American Media Group The ashes of the Red Heifer are to sanctify the priesthood of what? A religion that Jesus turned away from clearly in the New Testament.  Instead His born again creation are a Kingdom of priests who offer their own fleshly appetites as sacrifices unto God in the midst of their fiery trials.) The Re-inhabited Republic for These United States of America, Dr. Miarecki: (7/12/2024) | SG Sits Down w/ USAF Lt Col (Ret) Dr. Sandy Miarecki to Discuss the Reinhabited Republic For These United States (rumble.com)   How To Save America | Republic for USA (republicfortheunitedstatesofamerica.org)   Want to hold a seat in the United States of America Republic? https://members.republicfortheunitedstatesofamerica.org This is the gathering of conservative patriotic people to man the new republic.  These will take the place of those whom the Brunson case has thrown out of their stolen offices. Wars and Rumors of Wars: Mon. 16 Sept. 2024: Urgent: Russia Mobilizes 2.4 Million Troops, Surpasses China – Putin's Power Move Signals Imminent World War 3! – amg-news.com – American Media Group (This is the scare event to show the people what the DS is trying to accomplish. This is to turn people away from the satanic leftist depopulation agenda. But there is a real ww3 near the beginning of the tribulation in Rev 6:3-4. Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 WW3 BREAKING – Germany: Law enforcement closed today all borders due to heightened security concerns, ahead of a possible major military escalation with Russia. The Real News for Mon. 16 Sept. 2024: Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 DOJ Drops Charges in Many Jan. 6 Cases: The DS scam is completely known and the people who told this lie are on the run. https://conservativeamericatoday.com/doj-drops-obstruction-charges-for-many-jan-6-defendants-after-supreme-court-limits-laws-scope/ Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 Judge Joe Brown Drops BOMBSHELLS on Kamala Harris's Career! (She has no career; she was killed after the debate, unless they find another look alike or mask somebody. The original Kamala was put to death when the original Biden was years ago. We had been seeing a look alike. Walz and an Obama clone went too with others. Their subordinates are speaking for them saying she is stumping across the country but we know that the news gets the votes.) Mon. 16 Sept. 2024: BOOM! Clones, Doubles, Trannies! Who's Your Daddy? – amg-news.com – American Media Group A rundown of many duplicates. Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 Colombian Nationals Sentenced in International Conspiracy Case:  https://republicanjournal.org/colombian-nationals-sentenced-in-shocking-international-conspiracy-case/ Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 Disney Whistleblower Testimony ARRIVES: Secret Audio, ABC Makes Big CONFESSION, Congress Up Next? (They fixed the debate) !” https://youtu.be/rcmCzzMIfiM?si=YgKPiguHTe1nSa60  Mon. 16 Sept. 2024: ALERT: The Richest U.S. President? Not Who You Think! Judge Joe Brown Drops Shocking Claim About Obama's Hidden Wealth! VIDEO – amg-news.com – American Media Group Angels got Obama's stolen wealth and gave it to the poor. Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 New York Post: Feds, City to crack down on animal s********s in NYC: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1835194685897224331?t=1eCarNaOMn9u5QJJ8eCwJg&s=19 Feds, city to crack down on animal sacrifices in NYC's Jamaica Bay after dog-carcass with snapped neck, wounded pigs found https://trib.al/8ao55bb Mon. 16 Sept. 2024 Trump Assassin an Inside Job? INSIDE JOB? Trump Assassin EXPOSED 

Title: Pride and Providence Text: Acts 15:36-41 FCF: We often struggle disagreeing with mercy and grace and pursuing unity with one another. Prop: Though God providentially uses even our sinful disagreements over upright things, even so we must pursue unity in truth and love. Scripture Intro: [Slide 1] Turn in your bible to Acts chapter 15. In a moment we'll read starting in verse 36 from the Legacy Standard Bible. You can follow along in the pew bible or in the version you prefer. There is no question that Luke is beginning a new section in his book with this text. However, the themes that begin this new section connect in a contrasting way to what we have been discussing for the last 6 chapters. In the last six chapters we've seen the slow build of the church mission to advance beyond the Jews and go to even pagan gentiles. In culmination of that gospel work the Jerusalem council delivers the definitive word on the subject of the Jewishness of the New Covenant. In short, those who are united to Christ by true faith are not of any one specific culture or background. Christ has fulfilled the law and therefore Gentiles need not keep the ceremonial law. But they must submit to the law of Christ and love one another and strive for unity and peace. As Luke moves on now to the second missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas, the theme of unity and peace remains – but sadly - with the inverse outcome. Two of the godliest people who were currently setting fire to the world with the gospel of Christ now succumb to disunity over a matter that did not require it. To transition us to the second missionary journey of Paul, Luke provides a cautionary tale on the heels of the great success story of the Jerusalem council. It would be wise for us to take heed. So let us stand to honor and focus on the reading of the Word of God. Invocation: Father, we know that those whom you have united by true faith to your Son, are declared righteous in your heavenly court based on the substitution of Christ for us. But we also know that although we are declared to be righteous and treated as sons and daughters, and although sin's penalty has been paid for us, and although sin's power over us has been broken – we know well that though you call us saints, which is certainly true, we yet remain, for now, sinners also. We recognize that unless we are busy about the work of killing sin, then sin will be busy about the work of killing us. Spirit of the living God, help us learn from the poor examples of these spiritual giants. And help us to be better. Help us to see your hand of providence in all things. Teach us today we pray in your precious Son's name. Amen. Transition: [Slide 2] In a discussion with my daughter this week, we asked her how she might engage in battling the selfish temptations of her heart. She replied that she could ignore the impulses within her to be selfish. I said, that in theory this makes sense. But in reality this will not work. I told her that if two armies stood on the battlefield and one fired a round of machine gun bullets at the other and the other decided to simply ignore them, hoping they'd just go away… who would win? She replied that the ones shooting would win. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against intelligent evil both from outside of us and from within us. And no matter how mature in Christ you become, the moment you stop fighting… is the moment you leave yourself open to a terrible defeat. Today, in the afterglow of a wonderful story of the church preserving unity and peace… we have a story of war and division. But even in the mist of this there is hope. Let them hear who have ears to hear. I.) Godly people can come to two upright but different conclusions, even so we must pursue unity in truth and love. (36-38) a. [Slide 3] 36 - Now after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.” i. Paul and Barnabas clearly spend a good deal of time in Antioch of Syria. ii. It makes sense. They spent an entire year there preaching together. iii. They were sent out from the church in Antioch of Syria on their first missionary journey. iv. In other words, there is quite a history here. No doubt we could see Antioch of Syria as their home church or sending church. v. The elapsing of time also helps us to smooth over the difficulty we have with Silas suddenly being present in Antioch after leaving for Jerusalem. vi. Since it seems that many days separated the delivery of the Jerusalem council's decision and the events recorded here, Silas could have made his way back to Antioch at some point. vii. Paul, no doubt feeling the tug of the Spirit, desires greatly to check in with all the churches they had set up on their previous missionary journey. viii. We don't know how long it has been, but it is safe to say that it has at least been a couple years. ix. Paul is often known as a great evangelist but he is more than that. Although not an original apostle of the twelve, he certainly is a commissioned one of Christ. He has the zeal of an evangelist, the credentials of an apostle, and the heart of a Pastor. x. He desires to not only preach the gospel to those who have never heard, but to ensure the spiritual growth of those who are believers. b. [Slide 4] 37 - And Barnabas wanted to take John, called Mark, along with them also. i. Barnabas seems to be in full agreement with Paul that they should go back to these cities. ii. However, Barnabas desires to take John, called Mark, along with them. iii. We remember that on the first missionary journey, they did take John Mark with them for the first leg of the journey in Cyprus. iv. John Mark is the son of a woman named Mary in Jerusalem whose home was a meeting place for the church. v. In Colossians 4, we see Paul mention that Mark is Barnabas's cousin. vi. This helps us to make sense of why Barnabas might have wanted to take John Mark the first time and to take him again now. vii. Of course, there is a piece of information we have omitted from this discussion of John Mark, isn't there. viii. Yes… and it is the reason that Paul is not keen on the idea to take John Mark. c. [Slide 5] 38 - But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work. i. Here we see that Paul did not think Mark was a good choice. ii. The word translated “kept insisting” has the idea of counting something worthy or deserving. iii. In other words, Paul thought that this was not wise to take this man with them. Why? 1. First, because he had already deserted them once. a. If we remember after they left Cyprus, and once they landed in Pamphylia, John Mark went home to Jerusalem. b. Luke so far has not really revealed to us why Mark left. c. Here Paul says that he deserted them, which is the same word used for apostasy. d. Luke's usage of this word to describe Paul's thoughts on the matter reveal that Paul did not think John Mark's reasons for going home were honorable. e. And if he deserted them once, he could do so again. 2. Secondly Paul focuses on the work itself of preaching and teaching the gospel to those who had never heard. a. John Mark did not go with them to do this work. b. He is unfamiliar with the people on the second leg of the missionary journey because he did not feel that they were more important than his reason for leaving and returning home to Jerusalem. c. What other priorities would John Mark place in front of the ministry? iv. But before we assume that Paul's argument is the only valid one, let us look at Barnabas' side. 1. So far, Barnabas has been the poster child for sticking up for people who no one wanted to be around. 2. He did this for the less fortunate when he sold his estate and gave it to the apostles to give to the poor. 3. He did this for Paul himself, when none of the church in Jerusalem wanted anything to do with him - Barnabas took him to the apostles and vouched for him. 4. Although he faltered slightly in declining to eat with the gentile Christians, he quickly rebounded and helped Paul to defend the cause of freedom from the ceremonial law of Moses for the Gentiles. 5. It seems as though Barnabas is doing what he always does. And His track record, thus far, has never faltered. Every person and every cause he has stuck his neck out for, has prospered. 6. Perhaps John Mark has repented of his desertion? Perhaps he is ready now to go on such a journey? v. So, who is right? Should they take Mark? Should they not take Mark? 1. The question is difficult because we don't have all the information, but we have to think that this should not be so great a matter that they cannot solve it. 2. I mean the church just came together in unity regarding the proper place of the ceremonial law as applied to Gentile Christians. 3. If the church can do that… it seems like Barnabas and Paul can figure out whether they should take John Mark or not. Right? 4. Maybe there is a compromise in here where they take Mark and someone else? 5. Maybe Paul can meet with John Mark and explain his hesitations and see if John has changed? 6. Maybe they could cast lots? 7. Maybe Barnabas could spend some time in prayer waiting for unity. 8. Maybe Paul should trust Barnabas who has a knack for supporting those who no one else supports. 9. Maybe Barnabas should trust Paul who has the mission and the gospel burning in his heart. vi. We have the two sides of the argument. vii. Both sides have good reasons and there is no clear indication to us of either being more wrong or right. viii. But before we see if they can work it out, let's draw some teaching and application from this so far. d. [Slide 6] Summary of the Point: Luke continues to deliver the realistic view of the early church in that it was not always peace and harmony. Sometimes there were disagreements. He has already several times when disagreement occurs. But here today, we see another disagreement arise on something as simple as who would be joining Paul and Barnabas on a follow up trip to the churches they had established only a few years prior. Although a simple matter we see both Paul and Barnabas have upright and good arguments for what should be done. So, what must happen next? The same thing that happened at the Jerusalem council. They must pursue unity in truth and love. They must selflessly seek the Lord and the love of one another to do this. We have already observed several things that they could have done toward that end. But of course, many times, it is easier for us to find solutions to problems that are not ours. May we be quick to find solutions to our own disagreements with others who are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Transition: [Slide 7 (blank)] So what happens? How do Paul and Barnabas resolve their dispute? Unfortunately… it is not well. II.) God, in His providence, uses even the sin of men to further the gospel of Christ, Even so we must pursue unity in truth and love. (39-41) a. [Slide 8] 39 - And there was such a sharp disagreement that they separated from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus. i. If you had never read this passage before, and if we did not read it this morning to introduce the text of the sermon… I don't think you'd ever see verse 39 coming. ii. After reading all that Paul and Barnabas had been through. After Barnabas vouched for Paul, after Barnabas went to Tarsus to hunt Paul down and bring him to Antioch so they could minister there for a year, after they toiled in Cyprus and Southern Galatia facing grave persecution and even beatings and a stoning. After this Jerusalem council where they stood shoulder to shoulder representing the gospel of grace and freedom in Christ. iii. If this was my first time reading this – I think I would be completely stunned. iv. And to be honest, even though it isn't my first time reading this… I am still deeply saddened. v. Although some scholars attempt to paper over this and make it seem like an insignificant spat… vi. I believe Barnabas and Paul were sinfully prideful here. vii. They have fallen into Satan's snare. If the forces of darkness cannot get you to divide over faith and practice, they will get you to divide over a trivial matter which is relatively amoral by tempting you to fight for your opinion in an ungodly way. viii. Paul and Barnabas had elevated each of their positions to a matter of principle. They have entrenched themselves and argued themselves into corners to where they could no longer back down nor could they compromise. ix. We look at this situation and ask… x. Neither of them would budge? Really? xi. Neither of them could find a way to get around this issue? xii. Is this a gospel issue? Is this a matter of Essentials here? xiii. I do not believe Luke records this merely as a segue to get to the next missionary journey. xiv. Instead, I believe Luke records this as realistic look at the church. That despite the unity around truth and love that was achieved at the Jerusalem council… even great missionaries like Barnabas and Paul are still sinners wrestling with their own arrogance and selfishness. xv. Only a short time ago they told a crowd of worshippers that they were mere men like them possessing the same nature that they had. xvi. Here they prove that statement to be true. xvii. My friends this is a tragedy. This is heartbreaking. xviii. As UP as we were for the great compromise earlier in this chapter… this is a dark DOWN for the church. xix. But… God still uses it. xx. God in His providence uses the sin of these men to divide one missionary endeavor into two. xxi. That doesn't remove the responsibility of these men who were unable to set aside their pride and come to an agreement. xxii. But it does give us comfort that our God can make magnificence from our mess. xxiii. Luke records for us that Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed to Cyprus. xxiv. This is the last time that Luke mentions Barnabas in the book of Acts. b. [Slide 9] 40 - But Paul chose Silas and left, being committed by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. i. Here we see Silas is back in Antioch. ii. In comparing the two statements about Barnabas and Paul's departure, we notice some interesting details. 1. We do know that Cyprus is how Barnabas and Paul began their first missionary journey. So, it appears that Barnabas is retracing their steps chronologically. 2. We know that Barnabas and probably John Mark are originally from Cyprus. So, they are going home in a way. 3. In comparison to what we read in verse 40, Barnabas is not said to have gone with a commissioning of the brothers or with the grace of the Lord. 4. Luke leaves Barnabas for good and focuses on Paul and his missionary journeys for the rest of the book of Acts. iii. With all these details we may be tempted to conclude that Luke is siding with Paul and sees Barnabas in error on this issue. iv. However, I have some counter points to that thought. 1. This is a book inspired by the Holy Spirit. And since the greater context of the New Testament indicates to us that Barnabas was actually right… Mark becomes a very spiritual and useful figure in the church – aiding Peter and Paul and writing one of the four synoptic gospels, perhaps even the first one, we can conclude that Luke who writes several years later, is probably not showing Barnabas to be wrong. 2. Just because Barnabas is not said to have gone with the commissioning of the brothers or the Lord's grace does not mean he has neither of those. 3. The comment about the commissioning of the brethren applied toward Paul could just as easily indicate that Luke thought Paul was wrong and had to assure Theophilus that despite his stubbornness, the church still commissioned him to his mission. But I don't think Luke is supporting either of these missionaries… in reality. 4. Luke is merely transitioning from Paul's time with Barnabas to his time with other companions. One of which will be Luke himself. c. [Slide 10] 41 - And he was traveling through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. i. Here we notice that Paul went the opposite direction as Barnabas. ii. He did not revisit Cyprus at all and chose to go the back way through the gates of Cilicia to get to Southern Galatia to Derbe and Lystra. iii. Paul also went home first, visiting Cilicia whose primary city would have been Tarsus, his home. iv. It is interesting that both missionaries after having a selfish dispute which led to division, went home first. v. In the process of this, he and Silas strengthened the churches that he had helped in these places. d. [Slide 11] Summary of the Point: In Luke's effort not to guild the lily, we arrive at an uncomfortable and unfortunate point that is not without its silver lining. The dark cloud of the matter is that even the godliest, most Christlike, most graced and used believers, are still merely human and thus are sinners. Here we see both Paul and Barnabas insisting on their own way rather than seeking unity and peace in truth and love. But the silver lining in all this, is that God's sovereign providence has used even their pride for His glory and the furtherance of the gospel ministry. Now two missions go out instead of one. More people are being trained up for the work of the ministry. But even though God does work things out for our good and His glory… that should not soften the imperative for us to pursue unity and peace with one another through truth and love. God working things out is not the liberty we need to run roughshod over each other and insist on our own way. We are all responsible for our actions even when God uses them to accomplish His greater purposes. So, we must pursue unity and peace through truth and love. Conclusion: So, what have we learned today, CBC, and how should it change how we live? Doctrinal Takeaway: [Slide 12] Luke shows us a realistic picture of the early church. He does not hide the sometimes-ugly details. He didn't hide Annanias and Sapphira. He didn't hide the widows being neglected. He didn't hide the Jerusalem council. And he didn't hide Paul and Barnabas' disagreement. In his realistic view, he shows that godly people can arrive at two upright conclusions that are seemingly incompatible. This is possible. Barnabas and Paul both had great and upright reasons for taking or not taking John Mark. Unfortunately, this situation also shows us that even godly people reaching godly conclusions can defend those conclusions in ungodly ways. We are shocked to see both Paul and Barnabas caught up in such a small matter. And yet… here we are. And even though the Lord in His providence used this for His glory, it remains a cautionary tale for us. One that requires that we intentionally and purposefully pursue unity with one another. That we be makers of peace. That in truth and in love, we strive to be of one heart and mind and not separate over things that do not matter. But let me enter into a more practical discussion especially as it relates to the Lord's Supper today and our impending fellowship together around the Lord's Table. 1.) [Slide 13] Mind Transformation: “What truth must we believe from this text?” or “What might we not naturally believe that we must believe because of what this text has said?” We must believe that God uses even our failures to further His Kingdom. a. Let me do a little logic with you to prove this point. i. Do we believe that God is all powerful, omnipotent? Yes. Why? Genesis 18:14 asks is anything too hard for God of which the response is the implied… NO! This and literally hundreds of other verses attest to His omnipotence. ii. Do we believe that God is all knowing, omniscient? Yes. Why? Peter in his answer to Jesus if he loved Him answered that Jesus knows everything so he knows that Peter loves him. This and many other verses reveal overtly and logically that God knows everything. iii. Do we believe that God is everywhere, omnipresent? Yes. Why? David claims in Psalm 139, that even if he made his bed in the realm of the dead, the Lord is there. For He is everywhere. This and many other verses prove that God is not bound by space… or even by time. iv. Do we believe that God is good? Yes. Why? In answer to the rich young ruler Jesus Himself reveals that none are good except God. That and hundreds of other verses prove God is good. v. Now. If God knows everything, is everywhere and every when, is all powerful and good… vi. It makes absolutely no sense that God would allow His people to EVER fall into sin… unless He had a purpose in it that was for our good and for His glory. b. Listen to the text of the 1689 London Baptist Confession regarding God's Providence. i. The perfectly wise, righteous, and gracious God often allows His own children for a time to experience a variety of temptations and the sinfulness of their own hearts. He does this to chastise them for their former sins or to make them aware of the hidden strength of the corruption and deceitfulness of their hearts so that they may be humbled. He also does this to lead them to a closer and more constant dependence on Him to sustain them, to make them more cautious about all future circumstances that may lead to sin, and for other just and holy purposes! So whatever happens to any of His elect happens by His appointment, for His glory and for their good. ii. Let me just say… They nailed it. They nailed it. c. God could have stopped Paul and Barnabas from sinfully fighting over this issue. But He did not. So that 2 missions could go forward instead of one. d. Now, does that mean that Paul and Barnabas get a pass here? e. Absolutely not! f. In a rare instance, we can say, DO NOT BE LIKE PAUL. DO NOT BE LIKE BARNABAS. g. Instead, we must pursue unity and peace around truth and love and not allow petty squabbles like this to divide us. h. And how do we do that? i. Well, a good start for us is to admit a lie that we often believe. 2.) [Slide 14] Refutation: “What lies must we cast down” or “What do we naturally believe, or have been taught to believe, that this passage shows is false?” We must deny that if our opinion is biblically solid, we are free to defend it however we wish. a. My friends, many a man and woman have fallen prey to this lie. b. In the name of conviction, in the name of righteousness, in the name of holiness, in the name of wisdom they have chewed up and spit out their fellow member of the body of Christ. c. Essential matters of faith and practice must be discussed, defended, and if necessary, divided over. d. But so many of our disagreements do not fall into this category. e. So many of our principled stands and worthy causes are insignificant next to the clear teaching of the Word of God. f. Paul and Barnabas each had great reasons… biblical reasons… for their position. Barnabas' heart was to restore the man. Paul's heart was to safeguard the mission. g. But my friends these positions are only incompatible because they allowed them to be. h. They are only incompatible because both men were equally inflexible. i. We must recognize that it is possible for two godly people to come to two godly conclusions about a matter that seem to be incompatible. But what they do from that point comes down to whether or not they are intentionally pursuing unity through truth and love. j. We all can have our own opinions on a great deal of things. From parenting style all the way to music preference, from educational philosophy to our stance on consuming alcohol - we all can arrive in different places. k. In fact, we can all have well-reasoned and incredibly biblical and logical arguments for our particular opinion. l. But what we cannot do… what we must not do… 3.) [Slide 15] De-Exhortation: “What actions should we stop doing” or “What behaviors do we naturally practice that this passage tells us to stop doing?” We must stop looking for ways to win and start looking for ways to be united. a. We must not take the nuclear option. We must not destroy unity and peace for the sake of being right or for the sake of winning the argument. b. Instead of unity Barnabas and Paul pursued victory. c. My friends we must learn from the mistakes of men who are spiritual giants to us. d. We must learn that we are all sinners and capable of being pridefully petty. e. And we must learn that some things matter more than winning. f. Like being united around truth and love. g. Paul insisted John Mark not come with them. And although I'm sure his arguments were good, they lacked love for God and for Barnabas and for Mark. h. Barnabas insisted that John Mark come with them. And although I'm sure his arguments were good, they lacked love for God, for Paul, and for the people who might be harmed if John Mark abandons them again. i. If they had fought for unity instead of victory… this may have ended very differently. j. So we must stop fighting to win. Instead… 4.) [Slide 16] Exhortation: “What actions should we take?” or “What is this passage specifically commanding us to do that we don't naturally do or aren't currently doing?” We must pursue unity and peace with one another in truth and love. a. This is not our default setting. b. This does not just happen. c. There are certain people it is easier to be united with than others… but even those with whom we have a natural bond, there will come times when unity will need to be fought for. d. Even in a little rural church like this – the temptation to divide over things that don't matter is alive and well. e. We must all do our part to pursue unity through truth and love. f. Truth in the sense that we all affirm and accept the Scriptures as the final authority for our faith and practice. g. Love in the sense that as much as it depends on us, we will be at peace with all people especially with those of the household of faith. h. We must care about people more than our opinions and unity more than victory. i. This must be true of us or it will be the end of us. j. Let us set aside anything we may have against each other and any disagreement we may have and seek to love one another as Christ has loved us. k. And as we turn our attention now toward the Lord's table, let us take some comfort for our souls in this thought… 5.) [Slide 17] Comfort: “What comfort can we find here?” or “What peace does the Lord promise us in light of this passage of scripture?” The meal we are about to share not only partners us with Christ but also with one another. a. I Corinthians 10 instructs us that not only are we partnering with the thing sacrificed, meaning we partner, fellowship with, or are united to Christ in the Lord's Supper… b. But also let us see that we are also partnered with one another since we are one body in Christ. c. Although this meal has personal significance in that God uses it for those who approach by faith to grow them and press them and lavish His grace on them… d. We cannot deny that since its beginning the Lord's Supper has always been a meal shared between a family. e. Jesus called His disciples brothers and friends. He ate this meal with them and told them that He would not eat it again until He ate it with them in the New Kingdom. f. My friends, the meal we will partake in soon is a meal of unity in Christ. g. So let us cast aside any non-essential that divides us and pursue unity in truth and love and do so before partaking of the atonement of Christ together. Let our souls feast on His person and work and bind us more fully together. [Slide 18 (end)] Let me close in a prayer by the Puritan Robert Hawker How good it is, Lord, to receive a broken Christ into a broken heart. We feed on your body broken, and your blood shed, as the sole, the only, the all-sufficient means of salvation by faith! Lamb of God! Keep your table sacred from all leaven, both in the persons approaching it, and the offerings made upon it. Do not allow the leaven of hypocrisy and wickedness here, but let all who meet around your table be of the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. And Lord, please come into your house, to your table, to your people. Let each person hear and joyfully accept the invitation of the kind Master: Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved! Then Lord, make us yours, altogether yours! Let our whole body, soul, and spirit be all yours, both by the conquests of your grace, as they are justly yours, and by the purchase of your blood. Never, never more may we depart from you, but as did the church of old, may we exult in this blessed assurance, "My beloved is mine, and I am his." For it is for His sake we ask this… Amen. Benediction: For those who are believers, who are not clinging to some sin refusing to repent of it, who desire to have their souls sustained by the atonement of Christ in His body and blood, please follow us up to the upper room for the Lord's Supper. If you are not a believer, or are not joining us for any reason, I'd ask that you go in peace and not distract those who go to the communion feast together.

To turn the world upside down, we must get real with our sin.  We have to take off our masks and get real with our sin. When we get real with our sin, grace happens and life is  transformed.  If you grew up in the church, and you are wearing a mask of spirituality that hides the sin in your heart, then you don't like the story of Annanias and Sapphira, in Acts 5. You hear the story and you think, "God that was a little over the top, don't you think?"  I mean it was just a little lie, who were they hurting? If you are a religious person, God's the bad guy in this story.    But if you have ever got real with God and found forgiveness for your sins; if you have ever dealt with your junk, you know that God's not the bad guy. Sin is a cancer that hasno cure but grace and grace that doesn't come if we don't get real. But when it comes...it is simply gloriously good!

The church provides for each other as they have needs.  Annanias & Sapphira do not deceive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 9: Absurd Commands but God asks us to do it anyway. There are 3 shifts: Persecutor to Chosen Instrument, Only for Israel to For the Gentiles too, Prominence to Suffering. Obedient faith goes, even with the fear. The pattern: Pray, Answer, Go. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bearingwitness/support

Faction Cannot Prevail (9)      (audio)  David Eells – 8/20/23  Word From The Lord  Debbie Fenske 6/29/23   I want to share a word Jesus shared with me as I was sitting before Him, praying, and just waiting on Him. I heard Him speak a couple thoughts to me. After writing down the second thought Jesus just kept speaking this encouraging word.   “Many, so many who have, in the past, been a part of UBM, are beginning now to understand the evil, and the dangers of faction. The truth that they are receiving from Me is instilling a holy fear within them. This is why I rise up in David, My servant, moving within him to keep talking and warning about this. It has been imperative for him to do so, for faction is a disease, killing many. So many who have not understood this are now finally listening, and repenting, and many will return to My ministry of UBM to receive truth once again. For they are aware of the great deadness of their spiritual womb. My truth, and a holy fear of Me will produce life in them once again.   My servant, David, must not stop speaking about these things. For I will have My way, which is revealing to all I have chosen, the true condition of their hearts. My truth will break out again like a wildfire through the mouth of My servant, for My anointing will not leave him. And My anointed chosen will soon be revealed, and many, many blind eyes will be opened, and the deaf ears will hear. Hearts will be healed, and they will rush under the presence of My anointing, and will grow, and will with much Joy, and spiritual vigor, produce much fruit which will come forth from My life within them.  My provision, in every way, will flow once again. Press in, and I will give abundant blessings. Receive them now, as you press in to Me, that I may make them manifested to you. For My Spirit is moving, stirring hearts to come back to Me, and My anointing. They are coming back to the truth. Trust Me, and wait on Me, and you will see, soon, the outpouring of My Spirit, and My great supply of provision for my people, as the unleavened bread continues to go forth from My anointed, and spoken forth from all who have received, and believe, and are walking the unleavened walk. The time is set for my life received to pour forth from you, a flowing stream of life. Remain faithful, humble, and pure. I have not, and will not fail of any of My good promises to My unleavened bread ministry.”  Before I got on the zoom meeting, I prayed that God would somehow, someway, confirm this word. And I believe that He did that through some verses that were shared.   Deb Horton's scripture that she shared was Jeremiah 32:6-15. The confirming verse is the second part of verse 15. “Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.” I also felt confirmation was received in verse 15 of her scripture verses. “For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. Houses, and fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”  Shay shared, Philippians 4:19-23. Verses 19 and 20: “And my God will supply all your needs, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. 20 Now to our God, and Father glory forever and ever. Amen.”   Amen! Yes, Lord. All glory belongs to You! Thank You, faithful Father, for delivering and rescuing those who you will from the evil faction, and opening the eyes of those who just could not see to receive the awful truth about faction, and so gave up and set aside your truth. Thank You for your blessings now, and those you are about to abundantly bestow upon UBM, and for your faithfulness to all, all over the world, who are faithful to you in giving out the unleavened truth of Your Word. Amen!      Satanist's Abuse of Young Women    David Eells  First I would like to say that we have pretty well used language in the following to make as sure as possible not to arouse any individual but any who would like to opt out can do so. The information is important because satanists depravity against against Christians is becoming rampant. Satanists astral project themselves to rape young women or otherwise control them. They then can have perverse thoughts they never had before. https://youtu.be/M9IV550e2ko   Satanists rape their own children to impart perverse spirits to them by injection so they can take advantage of them and also impart their evil gifts to them. One of the local satanists young girl who was very Christian when we knew her and opposed her father's faction was now seen to be a boy with very short hair, plus mannerism and dress, this is clearly bisexuality and historically satanists impart this and other evils by incest spirits. The father had a very long pony tail and kind of sickly looking. I am convinced that the local satanists who focus on us as their main hatred under Kevin C. Rea are astral projecting themselves into 2-3 of our young women to have sex with them at night without their knowledge. From research I discovered that this is common with satanists and more than one satanist can do this at a time. The women often awake with symptoms of pain in their vagina area. I am not sure of any other places. This is common with satanic night time rapes. Also, incubus demons molest women, but I do not think they are needed in astral projection cases by satanists. These are all from the same Devil. We can cast incubus out and bind any molestation by satanists in the name of Jesus.  Demonic Sexual Abuse  Excerpts from:  The Young Female Body as a Site of Demonic Sexual Abuse: The Case of Christians in Charismatic Pentecostal Churches in Durban South Africa By: Vivian Besem Ojong'  Ten young girls were interviewed for the study drawn from three churches in Durban South Africa. … The article exposes how young women under such forms of abuse have been silent (until now) and the alienation they suffer as a result of their experiences.  INTRODUCTION  The young female body is beginning to draw attention within the Pentecostal charismatic circles through the process of ‘deliverance'. These bodies are being perceived and represented differently through the local churches, the young women themselves and the media. …   Turner's (2004:71) concept of embodiment increases understanding of the subject matter because it talks about the body as a life process that requires learning techniques; practices which gives a body its place in everyday life. For young girls (with little experience in life), it is a bit challenging for them to separate what happens to their bodies and how they view their bodies and are viewed in society. Viewing the body from a phenomenological perspective, Merleau-Ponty (1962) describes the body as a province of meaning. Through the concept of embodiment, the paper examines how young women view their bodies after demonic sexual activity.   The realm of religion and sexuality is one which fueled with conservative and traditional values. Within the Pentecostal charismatic circles, sexual relations between demons and humans are an essential part of their belief and practice. Through the Pentecostal charismatic churches, the female body is portrayed as a site of active demonic sexual activities and exoticism and as one trapped in secrecy and shame. …   The aim of this research was to explore the meanings and explanations that young women gave to their experiences of sexual abuse of demons and the interpretations they gave to the public display of the process of exorcising these demons from their bodies. Since little or no research has been done on the experiences of such women, it is exploratory in nature, designed to understand general meanings the women gave to their experiences. Instead of sticking to the taken-for-granted definitions of sexual abuse, I relied on the specific explanations given to me by the women in my sample.   These understandings were then mirrored around the other existing forms of sexual abuse and forms of violence against women. Several key questions were asked: what are the different forms of demonic sexual abuse? How do the young women know that they have been sexually abused? Are they able to narrate these experiences to friends, families or pastors? What avenues exist for women sexually abused by demons? How do the women feel about aspects of their private lives being displayed openly in public? Are they able to exercise agency? Do the Pentecostal charismatic pastors take advantage of the women's situation for church growth? How can the feminist movement contribute to the empowerment of such women?   From the different churches I have been ministering deliverance to young women; I was able to utilize a sample of ten young women who were willing to explain and talk openly about their experiences. The data was gathered through in-depth interviews with ten women over a period of twelve months. These women fell within the ages of 13 to 21 years… These young girls are caught between telling their stories and keeping quiet. By the women maintaining silence and not narrating their experiences may be misconstrued as entirely an individual matter. But from a feminist perspective, women's continuous abuse lay in the ability of the abusers to stay hidden and keep the women quiet about their suffering. These young women have on a whole maintained silence about their experiences of sexual abuse for fear of further cultural and religious images of being depicted as some sorts of evils themselves. From the different interviews conducted, it was clear that most of them were willing and anxious to get help but at the same time, had remained silent about their suffering. Seven out of the ten women had become very reserved and withdrawn (even within the context of the church) as a result of their abuse, while the other three have become overly outwardly spoken.   These behaviors to me seemed to have been shaped as coping mechanisms in response to their abuse. Three of the women said they had decided to distance themselves from the rest of the women by either having no friends in Christian circles, or coming late to church and leaving early to avoid any communication with people. Whenever they found themselves in group meetings, they remained quiet throughout. These may be seen as some form of dysfunctionality; but actually these are means through which these girls survive sexual abuse on a daily basis. In order to get these young women to speak to me about the “unspeakable” experiences of their lives, I had to apply empathy.   When I first decided to conduct research of this nature on women who were sexually abused by demons, my main aim was to highlight their experiences and bring their suffering to the fore in a critical manner. (From what I have researched it is actually satanists using demons to do this for their own lusts in some cases but incubus demons don't need satanists to do this. Also the demon of asmodeus (spirit husband) God has also revealed is part of the raping of women and making them supernaturally attracted to him. This is used by the satanists to rape women. The author here also goes into the abuse of pastors trying to get notoriety with their deliverances and possible other abuses by them.)… Sexual abuse of women by demons is not a new phenomenon, but also not very clear within the Christian circles. … During the deliverance of these evil spirits, different voices are heard; the young woman's voice, the voice of the Pentecostal and the voice of the demon speaking through the women.   What appears to be strange about the two voices heard from the woman is that, she has no recollection of the demonic voice that speaks through her. To her ‘embarrassment' after each deliverance session, the young woman is told by those who attended the church services or those who watched the church services through live television broadcasts.   … Being a church minister, I have come to the understanding that this sexual demonic abuse of women is fast becoming a social/religious problem and warrants academic attention. …   As I moved from interviewing one young woman to another gathering their stories, I realized that these women's sexuality is being damaged as a result of continuous abuse and they are struggling dealing with sexual relations with men. As one of the young women narrated, ‘whenever a man approaches me and tells me that he loves me, I see the face of the demon' (Anna, 21yrs). M (18yr old) explained that, whenever she is approached by a man for a romantic relationship, she develops a fear that he may violate her body the same way the male demon does… The experiences of S (22yr olds) explain how dehumanized young women feel about these abuses…  When I was thirteen years old, I woke up one night and thought that I had peed on the bed. When I properly examined myself, it felt like someone poured prepared jungle oats on my private part… (As we will see this is the satanists doing their usual thing.) After one month, it became a weekly event and I began seeing faces of men but was unable in most instances to even shout for help or raise my hand until the person leaves me. This continued until I turned 21yrs. This demon started showing himself to me and claiming I am his wife. I don't know how he enters my room and he is very rude and harsh. He does not discuss anything with me. He only comes and has sex with me. There is something about him; whenever he comes, I am unable to speak, shout or run away. Since I turned 21, he ensures I see him before he will leave me.  E (19yr old) feels that she is used as a sex tool by multiple demons. (and Men) Every night from when I turned 15 yrs I have been waking up every morning angry because some short dark men have sex with me… They come straight for sex at night and leave the next morning. When it is night time, they come again. What is strange is that, one handsome demon came twice but I could not see him clearly when I looked at him. And sometimes, I see different men, some I recognize because they come often (these men don't exist in my community; I see them only when they come to sleep with me). I do not recognize most of them. There was a time I asked one who pretended to be nice to me; where he came from. He said that he lives under the sea, that I am his wife… Sometimes when I pray, I will be able to refuse to have sex with them. Sometimes, even if I did not sleep with a man, I will wake up in the morning angry because I will have the feeling that something was in my private part. As a result of these assaults, something in me hates men. I feel like I should be with a woman who cannot hurt me. Many of the men who do this to the women are bisexual and they are imparting these demons to the women.) I remember when I was 15yrs old, I had a dream whereby I was handed to a man in some sort of a wedding ceremony I can boldly say is among those who come and have sex with me. …..   At this point, she turned and starting weeping, asking me whether there is something in her that attracts these spirits… She said that early this year in January, she was walking and came face-to-face with the one she thinks married her, immediately she saw him, he smiled and disappeared before she could even think of what to do. Since then, she explained that… He has been appearing in my bedroom. (This is most likely a satanist who astral project themselves to and in the women.)  I will open my door and find him sitting and waiting for me. I cannot run away. I feel helpless. I have attempted suicide twice by talking overdose of sleeping pills but it did not work.      Testimony of a Sister in Christ    Being the age of about 4 years old is the youngest I can remember. When I was a child, demons, or unclean spirits, whether they were human or just demons I am unsure, but they would come to me especially when I was alone in my room at night and also attack me when I was physically asleep.  I remember as a child they would appear to me as a cartoon character or a character from a toy or doll, or sometimes to do with children's things. (The Lord did a lot of deliverance with me relating to demons that entered me as a child through children's films, children music, toys and dolls. (The origin of dolls was for voodoo and witchcraft and there are many demons in them.) I believe because as a child, I trusted and was comfortable with these things, demons would disguise themselves as that.  These demons or spirits in disguise would trick me into having sex with them and it was probably almost nightly. As I got a little older new demons came and some of them would threaten to kill me if I didn't give in to them. They promised to protect me from other spirits if I let them do what they wanted. These sexual things were not just spiritual but also manifested in physical things, and I would experience the physical feelings and sensation and soreness and smell etc.   Other demons would disguise themselves as a person that I had a “crush” on, which caused me to easily submit in this way. But mostly I remember as I got older, most of these spirits used fear and threats of death or torture, unless I let them do what they wanted.  Because this had been a normal thing since I was about 4, sexual sin was normal to me which I fell into around the age of 7. This was so normal that I didn't understand that it wasn't normal until after God woke me up to Himself.  When I had just turned 18, I was drugged by a couple that were involved with witchcraft, satanism and snuff porn. I had no knowledge of what had happened to me until I woke up in the morning lying naked in their bed. I had no memory for the past 12 hours. They told me of the physical satanic abusive things they did to me, but I had no memory of any of it, probably because of the drugs. The lady in the relationship was pregnant at the time.  When I was 19 and travelling in the USA, I met a man and some of his friends and I stayed with him at his hotel for a while. He had an extreme amount of money, and he wasn't very old. He told me it was from getting bitcoin before it went big and all money he had, he had to get from a crypto machine. I guess we got along because we had an extreme amount in common. (I did not know Jesus at the time) but one night God supernaturally opened the spiritual realm for me, and he showed me that this man was involved in human trafficking. He would get the women and take them to a specific place, and he would hand them over to the next line of people and he would get paid. I saw this was all true and this was what this man's original intentions were for me.   I was in extreme sin, and I didn't care if I lived or died, I didn't care about myself, so I kept staying with this man even though I knew of the evil he was involved in. I did not have much knowledge of human trafficking at that time, but I was interested to know more about it, so I asked him about it. He freaked out for a while and was worried that I was with the FBI or a spy or something. But after a little he could see I wasn't with the FBI and we were like friends with a lot in common, had similar personalities and desires in life, both in love with drugs and we both knew the truth about conspiracy theories etc.   I pretended to be interested in what he did and he opened up about it. The hotel and some of the hotel workers where he was staying, were involved with the human trafficking. This was a high-class hotel very close to an airport in California. This man would basically get women (Usually young women that were from overseas and traveling alone.) and take them to a party. (There they would be drugged and given to the next person involved.) Or sometimes they would trick the women to travel overseas (commonly to Brazil) with them where they would get kidnapped once they arrived. This man was just the front-line guy that would find the women, lure them to a place, where the next person would take them, and he would get paid usually between $15,000-$25,000 depending on what the women looked like and her age and virginity etc.   I found out long after this experience that the traffickers work and get paid in bitcoin etc. In my ignorance I kept staying with this guy for a while but then after God allowed another significant event not related to this, I left safely all by God's grace.   After learning of God's existence and my own will to follow Jesus, I wanted nothing to do with sexual sin in my mind or with my physical body. So, when these spirits would try to attack me sexually when I was awake, I would reject it and lean on Jesus, and they would flee after making many threats to hurt me.  But they continued to attack me while I was in my sleep state. They would disguise as my ex-boyfriend and do some bewitchment on me where I had no control or thought. Other times they would paralyze me physically where I couldn't move. They would sometimes sit on my chest or lie on my body and were so strong that I was unable to physically move, and I could only think of Jesus. They could now only attack me at night when I fell asleep. This would happen frequently.  The only Christians I knew at the time thought I was crazy as they didn't have any understanding of the spiritual realm.  I recall one time when I was physically asleep but I was awake. I was like rolled away, doing constant underwater somersaults, in this underwater kingdom. I knew this was real, it was not just a dream, and I knew that I was underwater. In this place there were many creatures that were half human and half sea creatures, and I saw them having sex with actual humans. Whether they were awake or asleep I don't know but it was so real. I saw where these creatures would do strong spells and enchantments on these humans that would force them to not resist but to give into having sex with these creatures.  Later I learned that the marine kingdom is real and the biggest satanist kingdom on earth. It is underwater where humans gather with demons and do evil rituals, and the marine spirits are responsible for all the sexual depravity in the world. They are the ones seducing people and giving them lust; they control and are manipulating them in sexual sins.  After I got married the attacks became less frequent. When they did occur when I was asleep, I would either recognize that the spirit in front of me was trying to seduce me and I would reject it, or I would wake up immediately unharmed. Sometimes it would paralyze me, and I couldn't physically move or do anything until it left.   Other times when I was asleep, the spirit would disguise itself as my husband, being all innocent and use some enchantment to make me attracted to it and make me desire sex. Because I really thought it was my husband, I would give into it, and I would wake up and realize it was a demon and I would have physical pain in my vagina (Like the attacks on our sisters by the satanists) and sometimes other symptoms.  When asleep, these spirits, whether they are humans or just demons, will disguise as someone or something we desire. They know our weak spots and they know what attracts us. Now, when they attack me, they would disguise as my husband and there have been times when I'm asleep, I literally see my husband and I lying in bed at the exact same time one of these spirits is also there. The feelings to have sex would be so real as if being physical awake, and then I would just wake up and realize that I was being tricked by an unclean spirit again.  These spirits also use enchantments or spells to make us feel physical and spiritual pleasure to make us unable to resist them. Sometimes the witchcraft enchantment- spell thing is so strong it just takes over your whole body and it's so real and hard to resist. Many times, after something like this has happened, the next day I have gross thoughts that I never had before.  From my experience, once a sexual act takes place with any of these spirits, even while asleep, a covenant with them is made and they have legal right, and they think they are your husband or wife etc., so they are given more control. Since finding God they have tried many times to convince me that they are my friend by disguising as something familiar and trying to trick me to think I want them because they have been there such a long time, but they are all liars.  But we only want to and have covenant with Jesus, so I have renounced all these spirit spouses and unclean spirits. I want nothing to do with them, I don't want their lies or seduction or witchcraft or enchantments or spells. They all must stop and cease in Jesus Name. And thank You Father for blessing all of us that we can and will be aware of what is really going on when we are physically sleeping. That You for always making it known to us when it's a demon disguising as our husband or another person. Thank You for only Holy experiences when we are physically asleep and awake and thank You that You have made us clean by The Blood of Jesus! ALL praise and Glory and Honor to You Holy One now and forever! AMEN.      Sunshine Daughter of Sacrifice     A Summarization of Parts and Excerpts  https://www.ubm1.org/sunshine.pdf    Teresa learned the following about James and Helen in her investigation and research of her daughter, Sunshine's death:  The two satanists, James and Helen put an ad in the newspaper for employment to ‘lure' Sunshine to them for an interview. They hired her immediately for a job position in their home. They knew she was a Christian and she confessed this to them up front.   James was born to a very wealthy family in the east and raised with the best of everything. After being educated in private schools and graduating from West Point, he served as an officer in the military. He has a highly charismatic personality, warm and outgoing. He dresses well, and appears to have everything going for him. Helen's grandparents were from Haiti. She was raised in the Midwest by her grandmother. Tall, thin and elegant, she managed to raise herself to respectability by her appearance. She claims her uncle is an attorney in this city. She is very straightforward, projecting an authoritative and intimidating persona.   As mentioned, Helen is of Haitian descent. She had not only taken up some of their traditions, but incorporated some of her own. Two hundred years ago some Haitians made a pact with satan in the third week of August, and now, during that week, their commitment was reaffirmed by the offering of human sacrifices. Helen told Teresa that she and James would be greatly elevated in power and be given 50,000 souls to rule over because of their sacrifice of Sunshine. The sacrifice of a Christian is supposed to increase their power especially.   Teresa learned through her own research in Sunshine's case, how James and Helen controlled and manipulated the police, the judicial system, and any witnesses to continue to get away with all their satanic crimes. She no longer trusted the police. There were too many discrepancies in the stories they had given her.  She was not comfortable contacting the detective again. She was told by him that Helen was dead, but learned from two women who knew Helen, that she was alive. They told her of Helen's and James' involvement in Sunshine's death. They said they knew beyond a doubt that Helen and James had murdered Sunshine, that Helen had admitted it – or, more exactly, she bragged about it to them, about what they did before and after. It was plain enough that they were frightened of Helen. When asked if they'd told the police, their response was, “We weren't asked.” Teresa had found these two women in five minutes and three phone calls, yet the detective hadn't managed to get in touch with them.   They told Teresa that the police wouldn't arrest Helen and James. Helen told them this herself. (The satanists bind the police with witchcraft and fear so that they will get away with it.  That is why it is better to go to God because His angels have authority over the witchcraft and murder and the sexual things they always do to their victims.)  Then they told her about Helen's involvement in satanism and witchcraft. “She's real powerful,” they said. Somehow Helen had convinced them she had great and mighty powers; you could see it when they spoke of her. They were certainly afraid of her. “We're not her friends anymore – we only know her,” they said.   Teresa went to the information counter at the police station and gave the woman the number of Sunshine's case and asked where she might go to get the transcript of the original police report. She was told that the record number was a child support case, not a homicide number. She was told to go to Homicide and was able to get the correct case number from the woman there. Here, she learned that James had been “in the system” several times with many arrests and the charges dropped for one reason or another. She then went to the deputy in charge of records, was able to look at the file and found very little information in it. There were no transcripts of a court hearing, nothing but a few copies of subpoenas and a letter from an investigator on behalf of James' attorney. When inquiring about the detectives' findings, she was told those files were with the sheriff's office and she would not be able to obtain them because it's a murder case and still open. She could not trust anyone at the police station.  (Go to God, prayer and faith.) Teresa contacted an old friend who had lived there for many years who knew a lot of people in high places and low, asking him to see if he could find out anything about Helen, James, the detective and the judge from the hearing. He got back to her about her inquiry with a warning. He told her that an old friend of his, a retired deputy sheriff, knew enough about the case to ask him to tell Teresa to drop it. He said her life would be in danger if she continued, not necessarily by James and Helen but others. He went on to explain “a scenario” to make her understand.    “Okay. Let's say there's this businessman who, for many reasons – be they financial, or he's on some kind of power kick – decides to benefit himself. He buys or operates a brothel or a massage parlor or whatever you want to call it, but it boils down to one thing: he has women who do sexual favors for money.”   “Okay, now this businessman throws a party, at some exclusive club, hotel, his home or wherever, and invites as many influential people as he can. Chances are it's taken him some time to build up this rapport with them, but, nevertheless, he invites these influential people – some of them might be police, lawyers, maybe even a judge or a congressman – you know, people who can make a difference to any kind of situation this guy might find himself in. Now, at this big party he has these girls give his influential friends any and every kind of sexual favor they can dream up with their sick, devious minds. And, unbeknownst to these influential friends, the businessman is taking all kinds of pictures of them in compromising positions. Then, guess what? If this businessman were ever to get into any kind of trouble, all he'd have to do is tell one of his influential friends about the pictures he happened to take at his party. Are you beginning to understand, Teresa?”   “Of course, I do. James and Helen keep getting off because they blackmail whoever they have to with these smut pictures. Right?”     (So they did this to Sunshine and it was possibly a snuff video?  She wrote that “Six Satanists, brutally tortured her while performing their chantings and rituals using her blood, as Satanists do, for hours until they were interrupted by a vehicle showing up, and they all fled the place leaving her there. She was just barely alive and still reciting Psalm 23.)    He answered, “You've got it. Now, can you see how much danger you're in? You can't trust anyone, because you never know whether the one you go to might have been a photo'd friend.”  (This they do with the police and judges and politicians. Its Epstein Island all over again and again and again. They have taken over the nation this way. The Children of God cult sent a pretty woman to seduce me but totally failed. They did this to men they wanted to capture. The faction sent one woman they captured to me; another failure. By the grace of God I had no interest.) Teresa wanted to find out why James and Helen murdered Sunshine and was able to contact a woman who was listed in the police report. She agreed to talk with her and her story correlated point-for-point with what she had already been told by Tinker, Helen, the two women, and with what the autopsy indicated.    Teresa wrote letters home telling Sissy and another dear friend all the details of what she had found, just in case something did happen to her. Then they'd have some idea why, and possibly even who.   She remembered a conversation with the detective a long time ago, when he'd told her there were some pictures of Sunshine in his file, and that she could have them later. She called and was told she was allowed to come and get them but when she arrived, the property sergeant told her that he had looked all through the homicide files and couldn't find the one for Sunshine's murder. He said that it was nowhere in the homicide department, and he would go to the archives across town to look for her file thinking it must have been transferred there. However, the next day when they spoke again, he told her that the file was nowhere to be found after he looked through all the archives, under every possible number. He confirmed to her that everything pertaining to the case, all the evidence, all the statements, all the confessions would be in the file. Teresa asked if new evidence were obtained, could the case be reopened and the sergeant told her, it's like it never happened. There's no case to reopen. It's all lost!   And the moment after Teresa had hung up the phone with the sergeant, God said to her, “It's finished. You can go home now.”  **The Lord had instructed Teresa to pray for Helen and pray specifically that she would confess. Helen eventually called her; the following is Teresa's account of their conversation:  About ten minutes later the phone rang again. I ran and answered it.  “Hello.”  Again, the question: “Sunshine's mother?”  “Yes, it is. Please talk to me. Please don't hang up this time. Please talk to me.”   She paused a long time, then said, “I don't know if I can.”  “This is Helen, isn't it?”  “I don't know if I can answer you...I don't know if I can talk to you.”  I started to speak again, and she hung up.  I resumed praying for her. God, she sounded like such a tormented soul! Help her, Father, and help me to understand and help her. I waited and waited, praying for her to call again. Eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, one o'clock. I finally went to bed. As I lay there dozing, in my mind I kept praying, Father God, please have her call again. I know so little about Sunshine's death. I fell asleep, and the phone rang again at two-thirty. I ran and picked it up.   “Hello, please don't hang up – hello?”  After a long silence: “Sunshine's mother?”  “Yes, Helen, don't hang up. Please talk with me.”  “He'll kill me, you know.”  “Who, Helen? Who will kill you?”  “James. He's already tried. He'll kill me for talking with you. I made the confession…but I don't know why.”  “I do, Helen. I know why.”  “Why?”  “Because I prayed for you, too.”  “You prayed. Huh,” she snorted. “Your God has no control over me.” She was bitterly scornful.   “If my God has no control over you, then why did you confess? Why are you talking to me now?”  “Just you shut up and listen!” she snapped.  I knew I had made her angry, and I didn't want her to hang up again, so I said, “Okay, Helen, I'll listen. Go ahead.”  “I guess you want to know why we murdered Sunshine.”  “Yes, Helen, I would like to know. It would help me so much to understand.”  She paused a long time. “You wouldn't understand it if I told you.” she said contemptuously.  I felt she was trying to provoke me, but this was too important for me to let her get the better of me now. “Maybe not, Helen, but I'd like to try. I just need to know why. Why Sunshine? Please tell me.”  There was another long silence. Then, in a very arrogant tone, she said, “We ran the ad to attract girls like her. We chose her from the beginning.”  “Chose her for what, Helen? What are you talking about?”  “You ignorant, (blankety-blank) Christians, you have no idea what's going on, do you? You live in your own little (blankety-blank) dream world.”  “Well, Helen, why don't you inform me?” I already had a good idea of what she was talking about. But I wanted to hear her say it, in her own words. “What, Helen? What do us ignorant Christians have no idea about?”  “We do whatever is necessary. You understand?”  “No, I don't, Helen. Explain it to me.”  “I'm a witch. My mother and grandmother were witches. We do whatever is necessary. You understand!”  “Helen, please explain to me why it was necessary to murder Sunshine. Where does she fit into all this?” I was pushing her. I wanted to hear her confirm what I had suspected from the moment I saw Sunshine in the casket.  “Sunshine told me all I needed to know when I interviewed her for employment,” Helen sneered.  “What's that, Helen?”  “Well, she said, ‘I'm a Christian – I won't do anything that will hurt my walk with God.”  Of course, I'd heard Sunshine say this often. “Explain more, Helen, please.”  “It's time you all knew, you're losers,” she said.   She then went on to tell me every detail of the evening they murdered Sunshine. She told me how and why, when and where. There was no guilt or remorse in her explanation. On the contrary, she was bragging about what she had done. I regret that I didn't have more of a spiritual impact on her. I tried. I sincerely wanted to lead her to Christ, but she would have absolutely none of it.  Her last statement was, “The police will never get us. You'll see. You'll see.”      Protection In Ignorance    Anonymous - 2020   A few months after I started following Jesus, my husband and I were visiting my hometown and I didn't know it at the time as I hadn't been walking with The Lord for long, but demons kept giving me all types of thoughts and feelings to go visit my private catholic elementary school on our way out of town. (The enemy tries everything to lead astray.)   Mar 13:5 And Jesus began to say to them, Beware that no one deceive you.   Out of ignorance of spiritual knowledge and the devils' tricks, we went to visit the school, at nighttime and the school was in a secluded area, and there weren't houses anywhere close and it was so dark.   My whole life I had nightmares about trying to leave this school at home time, but I couldn't run quick enough, and it got late at night, and I was still trying to leave. Also, after this experience I remembered that so many times in my childhood where I almost went to this school alone at nighttime with friends, but it never ended up happening.   So, we got out of the car, and it was dark, and we walked inside to a main area in the school and there was barely any light, it felt like we were being watched in the physical the whole time when walking around. We went to a part of the school where I had spent many years and much time.   I saw a person in the physical standing from a distance and I saw them teleport to the left and then run to the right and move around so fast, it was completely supernatural but in the physical. (Satanists can do crazy manifestations in the physical with their witchcraft.)  I also saw another human shapeshift into a crow and then they flew around us making loud creepy bird noises. The presence of fear and evil was so strong in this place, and there were multiple people gathered here all doing creepy weird manifestations. We felt them all staring at us with extreme hatred.  My husband heard a loud growling noise and then said for us to go. We didn't know of real spiritual warfare or deliverance at this time. (The enemy will try all methods to isolate anyone to devour.)  1Pe 5:8 Be sober, watch: the devil, your Adversary, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking to gulp down:   We turned to walk away and then this bright purple light sort of the shape of a human appeared from the distance and we still aren't 100% sure what it was. We think it was either a Holy Angel protecting us, or a false light trying to distract us to stay.   Mat 18:10-14 See ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, that their angels in the heavens see at all times the face of my Father who is in the heavens. 12 How think ye? if any man come to have a hundred sheep, and one of them go astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains, and go and seek that which goeth astray? 13 And if he come to find it, Amen I say unto you that he rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. 14 Thus it is not a thing willed before my Father who is in the heavens that one of these little ones perish.   We left and were safe praise God. It was later revealed to us that it was a coven of satanists gathering and that The Lord had many Holy Angels around us protecting us even though we were on the enemy's territory.   I had a dream not long later where I saw that it was the satanists intention to kill us, but praise God that He protected us even in our ignorance.  Jas 1:16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.      Some Have Lost their Place in God    Anonymous (David's notes in red)  I dreamed I was taking a walk and came upon a beautiful forest. The beauty of this forest was breathtaking; I just had to walk through this forest. What caught my attention was all the trees were beautiful. There wasn't an ugly tree in this forest. As I got into the middle of the forest, there stood an even more beautiful tree. I looked at my watch and saw that I needed to get home for dinner, so I left. But I decided I would return to this forest the next morning.  I got up the next morning and went back into the forest to once again see the beautiful tree in the middle of the forest. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me; it appeared this most beautiful tree had moved left of where it was the day before, but I wasn't sure. (Just a little compromising the Word leads to worse and then you can be gone. Satan was once beautiful in the garden of God. The goats move to the left, according to Jesus. Goats represent stubborn self-will. At the time of this dream, we were watching some people move to the left, away from God, toward unforgiveness, bitterness, criticism and faction. I have heard from other parts of the world that this is happening there, too, right now. It is the separation Jesus spoke of between sheep and goats.) So I looked around and found a nice-size rock and placed it by the tree and then I went home.  The next day, I returned back to the beautiful forest to check on this most beautiful tree. Sure enough, the tree had moved a few more feet to the left. I couldn't help but wonder what was going on with this tree. Once again, I found a rock and put it by the tree and left. This went on and on until this beautiful tree was completely outside the boundaries of the forest. I remember being sad for this tree. Also, I observed this tree wasn't the most beautiful anymore. It looked like any other tree you would see in the world. So I went home very sad.  The next day, I decided to go back and look at the once beautiful tree to see if there had been a change. My heart just sank when I saw that once most beautiful tree; it had completely withered. I went and got some water from a place I knew that was pure water. I put the pure water on that tree for many days but it didn't help. (The true water of the Word has no effect on them anymore, because there is no repentance. If this could happen to a once beautiful tree how much faster could it happen to a not so beautiful tree? Quite often it's the not so beautiful tree that draws the beautiful tree away from the Kingdom.) Then I woke up.  This tree was once most beautiful and died a slow and progressive death, and lost its place in the forest because it wasn't beautiful anymore. I noticed it wasn't pushed out; it progressively moved farther to the left (away from God). (The offended cannot blame anyone for their unforgiveness. It is they who chose to separate. It is a matter of sowing and reaping what has been sown. God is not mocked: whatsoever a man sows, so shall he reap.)  Our tongue can give life or it can give death. If we are not walking in holiness before the Lord, what happened to this most beautiful tree can happen to us and we won't look so beautiful before the Lord.  I have a very unsettling feeling in my spirit for the factious. I strongly believe the Lord is shouting at them to repent and He is not going to give them a lot of time and will possibly reprobate some! I pray for their speedy repentance. (Yes, many have run out of time.)      Kevin Kills Eve and Her Sisters    Heather Guinn 4/26/20 (David's notes in red)  It was dark outside and I was inside a mall with my 3 girls and friend Petronique. All the shelves were empty and there was only one store open; JcPenney. People were rushing to buy things. (Its going this way now) My friend laid sleeping bags down for my girls to sleep on the floor that was close to the door.  I felt really thirsty. I told her that I was going to walk across the street to the Perkins restaurant and get some water. She looked at me and said, "Okay, but be careful." I told her I would. I started walking and the only light I could see was a street lamp on the right side of the building. There was a woman on the side of the hill behind the restaurant smoking a cigarette. (This is what she was to be careful of; the faction imparted by slander and witchcraft. Smoking represents partaking of unclean breath representing evil spirits Eve and sisters received from Kevin.)  She saw me and started to walk down. She was on the heavier side and had red hair. (Eve is dumbed down by their demons and full of fleshly desires put in her by Kevin. Kevin has always had lust and fornication. In her right mind Eve would never desire Kevin for she knew the great evil perversion of this man. Her sin was to go after her boys, contrary to God's and my commands to her.)  We went inside the restaurant and it wasn't decorated like a traditional Perkins. It was smaller and was decorated with all old wood. I asked her for some water and she seemed really annoyed. (The factious spirits are annoyed with UBM people.) She said, "Wait here." She went up these narrow stairs to the right. I followed close behind her. She began to panic as she noticed the white stand up freezer to the right was completely emptied of the meat it was stocked with. (This represents the righteous truth that should be preserved in a person's life. She lost the spiritual meat of the word and ability to do the will of the Father when she was deceived by Kevin's faction. She forgot about Cindy her friend, who was seduced into being a “rib wife” for the lusts of Doug Perry and left her husband and children to brainlessly be one of several wives in that cult. This man knows Kevin. They are kindred spirits.)  The left freezer was still fully stocked. (The leftist factious spirits and slander and hatred had replaced the truth.) She looked at me and I knew her thoughts without her saying anything. She was thinking that I distracted her and set her up for someone to steal the meat out. (She has Kevin's demons injected into her by him and they always blame the righteous for their own sins.) She was like, "no, no, no, my boss (Kevin) is going to kill me for this." (He killed her by taking this from her as we will see.)  There was a door that was open to the left that had a small glass window in it. I peaked my head out and looked to see a long metal grate staircase. I then saw a heavy set man that was wearing a bright orange vest. (Kevin is very heavy and the orange represents your life is in danger from what is in his heart.) He began to walk up the stairs to get the rest of the meat. He was whistling and I felt the most evil presence from him. One I've never felt before. (Kevin is her boss and is totally satanist. He stole the spiritual meat and was going back for more. Jesus said, “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me.” Meat also is the solid food of scripture that is for spiritual grownups. All of the faction had this meat stolen by slander, witchcraft, and faction spirits. They forgot everything they learned from UBM. They died to God.)  I put my head back in and the woman said, "Hide," so I hid behind the door. (Does she have enough heart left to warn this woman?) I saw him walk up and the woman said, "Hey you can't be in here." (He, by witchcraft and slander, entered her soul and stole her meat.)  He was suddenly behind her and stabbed her several times in the neck and killed her. (He stole her meat and spiritually killed Eve.) I was then asking God what I should do. Should I rebuke him? What should I do?   I then woke up in the natural briefly and was so disturbed but God took me right back to the dream in the same spot where I left off. I rose up, pointed my finger at the man and said, "God kill that man." He dropped dead immediately. (In this case a spoken Word from the Lord could give Kevin over to death for the murder of many like Eve and then the elect will be set free from his principality and their captivity will be over. The apostle got such a word for Annanias and Sapphira and they died for far less than Kevin's murders and rapes have done.)      What Kevin Did to Eve and Sisters    Heather Guinn 1/10/23  It was nighttime and I was riding in a bus with a bunch of teenagers on this narrow mountainous road. I felt like I was my teenage self as well while on the bus. We were going to some camp-like place. (This represents a wilderness situation. An opportunity for teenagers to exercise faith and obedience for God to supply His benefits.) We arrived there and I was then my current age. (The wilderness is a place one can grow up fast for there is no means for self-sustainability forcing one to trust and obey God.)  I said I needed to use the bathroom. I go in and lock the door behind me for privacy. I walked slowly looking through the cracks of the stainless steel stalls. I get to the very end one and see a woman using the restroom. I knew it was Eve Brast. She looked at me and said, "What are you doing here?" (Some insight into Eve's situation at that point. Obviously they ran into the faction but at least Eve is getting rid of some waste that is not needed in the body. We know she and those like her will make it. :0)  I then walked slowly back to the door to leave and unlocked it. (2Th 3:14 And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. Eph 5:11-12  and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them; 12  for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.)  There were a bunch of ladies waiting in line. (Danger) I knew I wanted to go out on the dock to get to the water but had to go through this room where people were gathered. It was decorated in all wood. (Representing dead trees which represent dead people in the Word.)  A man was at the podium and said, "And this award goes to Eve Brast." (Kevin always wanted a position of authority even if it was over satan's people so this is him.) She was sitting in the back and shot right up. She had short loosely curled blonde hair. (She has red hair so this is faking submission to the sun/Son; a fake Bride. If a satanist like Kevin rewards you, it is for pleasing his flesh to do evil.)  She was wearing a two-piece white outfit with her belly fat hanging out. (The flesh is still there at this point in the dream but we believe it is passing away. They will be free soon. She dines with Kevin regularly and he got huge from no restraint, just like his sex life.)  She slowly ran up to the podium with her arms flared up like a prissy girl.  I walked out to the dock and the moon was shining bright on the water. I knew I was going to search the bottom to see what my husband had down there. (The light of the Son reflected into the water of the Word will reveal much. The moon glory represent death to self and 60 fold fruit.) The water looked completely still but when I got in, it was flowing quickly. (This is called living water.)   My husband (Representing Jesus) was then in the water with me (where the light was in the Word). I told him I needed oxygen (thinking it would be deep.) (Oxygen is life to the body as the Spirit is life to the soul. Breath and Spirit are often the same word.) He handed me the small oxygen tubes that they use in the hospital. I thought, "How the heck is this going to help me?" I grabbed it anyway.  I went down thinking I would find something but it was shallow and there was just sand there. (The sand on the seashore represents Abraham's seed.) I got up out of the water and just hugged him. Then a clear condom goes floating by us. I thought, "What the heck is that doing in here?" (Kevin's sin has always polluted the waters of the seed of Abraham but God drove him from us through faction. (He was not a beautiful tree as long as I have known him, but he drew away some beautiful trees.) His days of polluting us are almost up. I have prayed for him to repent but always get the same answer. In one dream he was killed trying to kill us and in another he was witnessed to go to hell when he died. Kevin just got caught stalking one of our women in her phone.  Then he sent emails from her to insult her friends. He then sent me a nasty message from there. A woman who never did anything to him and served her fellow man sacrificially.)      Eve Resurrected   Heather Guinn 6/29/21 (David's notes in red)  I was in a two-story house with my husband in a tiny room and it was nighttime. We were sitting down on a daybed couch. There was a little boy in a crib to the right. (Representing your fruit of Jesus in you.) I felt a very evil presence in the room. There were two smaller closets to the right that were completely pitch black. I then saw a little puppy that had a collar with a green light on it. (Puppies are small dogs capable of being big dogs and are not supposed to be among the righteous.) He started to go into the room and I said, "No puppy, don't go in there." It yelped and came out. The light on his collar then turned red and he became vicious. (He went into the darkness of Faction, which is vicious towards the saints and their own families.)  He lunged in my husband's face and almost bit him. The baby boy began to cry and suddenly there was a tall man with a long trench coat facing away from us. He picked up the baby, laid him across his arm and snapped his neck. (Kevin is antichrist, which hates the baby boy representing the fruit of Jesus in us and will kill that if one disobeys the warnings of scripture to forgive from the heart and avoid the factious.) I was then outside and there was the biggest moon I've ever seen shining upon this woman. (The reflected light of the sun/Son shining its glory on Eve.) The woman was slender with long red soft wavy hair. She was wearing a white lace dress. (Eve in a wedding dress, meaning she will be in the Bride as many dreams have shown.)  There was a bunch of zombie-like people (The faction are the walking dead seeking who they can kill to be like them.). They had the same red light collars on as the dog ravaging around. (They are vicious murderers.) One came up to me and bit down as hard as he could on my right hand but could not penetrate through the skin, so he went away. I then looked at her and asked her how she was being protected. She looked up at the moon and said, "I have a special protection." (The moon only reflects the light of the sun/Son. It doesn't have its own glory and represents death to self. This is protection. “Righteousness delivereth from death.”)  Pro 29:16 When the wicked are increased, transgression increaseth; But the righteous shall look upon their fall. When they fall like Judas everyone knows who the wicked are. Pro 17:4 An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; And a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue. So the wicked are the ones who believe the slandering faction and they are cleased from the body. The righteous will stand the test and grow stronger with more fruit.     Demonic Satanist Attack   Zoé Osegueda - 8/19/23 The past couple to few days I had been greatly under attack, have been fighting, and have felt a bit weak from the warfare. The attacks were very intense mental attacks that I was not in agreement with. I believe it was definitely faction witchcraft sent to me and/or the body because things that normally wouldn't bother me were magnified in my mind.  At this point I knew it was oppressive demons and not just temptations of the flesh. I felt like the enemy was trying to kill me and make me fall away, so I asked the Lord if there was witchcraft being sent against me to please show me, and then Zoé woke up from the following dream that very morning: I had a dream that Lana told me that she was having a sleepover, and she invited me to come. I wanted my mom to come too, and so my mom came to the sleepover as well.  When it was dark, we went outside to look at the stars in the sky and I saw a lighthouse constellation. I said "Look, look! It's a lighthouse!" I was very excited because I had never seen that before. (A lighthouse is a guide to cause ships to avoid death on the rocks.) After looking at the stars and constellations, it was time to go to bed, and we all slept together in Fio and Lana's bed.  While we were all asleep in bed, I had a dream that there were several ninjas dressed in all black, with red ties on the back of their heads, chasing and attacking my mom. (These are the colors of Anarchy. All satanists and especially factious people are in anarchy because they willfully break all laws of God and man.)  I knew these ninjas were demonic and trying to kill my mom.  The ninjas had small swords in their hands and they were trying to slash my mom, until finally one got her and killed her.  Then I woke up from the dream in the dream, and I saw that my mom was still lying there in the bed with us asleep, and then I really woke up. End of dream. My mom received by faith at random: Psalm 72:4 He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, And will break in pieces the oppressor.     Kevin's Reprobation   Anonymous - 8/18/23 During the morning prayer meeting, I was asking the Father if He could grant Kevin repentance to be like a Paul. I then said, to the Father "because he's going to hell in a hand basket."  After I said that, I had an open vision of a round black wicker handbasket that had a handle going across it with a black string tied to it.  I saw a  demon lowering the basket by the black string into a fiery hell slowly. I knew Kevin was in the handbasket. I then saw the arm of Lord, He had black scissors in His hand. The Lord cut the black string that was attach to the basket, and the basket descended faster into the fiery hell. 

This Bible verse made me leave Catholicism, what does it mean to be in a state where you have no connection with sin, and why did Annanias and Sapphira die in the Book of Acts?

This Bible verse made me leave Catholicism, what does it mean to be in a state where you have no connection with sin, and why did Annanias and Sapphira die in the Book of Acts?

In this episode we will learn the stories of the early Christian disciples; including Stephen, Phillip, Annanias, and Paul. This is a New Testament Bible study for children. This week kids will learn: I can follow Jesus Christ by standing for the right. The Holy Ghost inspires me to share the gospel with others. Heavenly Father invites me to repent and change. The priesthood is a priceless gift from God. Welcome to the Come Follow Me Podcast for Kids! We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and we create this podcast for primary aged children (2-12) following along with the church's Come Follow Me Manual. This is a New Testament Bible Study podcast for children. If your children would like to be guests on our podcast email us at comefollowmekidspodcast@gmail.com and we will send you an assignment for a future week.

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 Before God asks us to give anything, he gives us everything. In this vintage Grace City sermon on generosity, Pastor Josh unpacks the story of Annanias & Saphira, compares the greedy life to the generous life, and ends with a powerful story of God's redemption in the life of a man who grew up homeless and now runs his own business. 

Here we learn the punishment for hypocrisy in the early church, where Annanias and Saphira attempt to deceive the Holy Spirit

What Happens when God calls us to reach someone who doesn't look like us, think like us or act like us?" What if God called us to preach the Gospel to someone who hates Christians? That's exactly what happened to a man named Annanias in the book of Acts, when God called him to speak to Saul, a man who was persecuting Christians at the time. But Annanias saying yes to God, even when it was uncomfortable, led to a man who was killing Christians to become one of the greatest men for Jesus the world has ever known. What miracle could be waiting to happen if you just said "yes" to God?Prayed to accept Jesus? Congratulations!Text SAVED to 337-222-3210 or click here https://bit.ly/CC_saved

—Sermon text:Acts 5:1–11 Download the discussion guide for this sermon here

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The Apostle Paul had a major impact on the church and is responsible for writing a large part of the New Testament. But there would be no Paul without a man named Annanias. This week, Pastor Steve Carter teaches us about Annanias and the power of saying yes.

The Apostle Paul had a major impact on the church and is responsible for writing a large part of the New Testament. But there would be no Paul without a man named Annanias. This week, Pastor Steve Carter teaches us about Annanias and the power of saying yes.

Today we combines episodes so we can get caught up. Join us as we read about Annanias and Sapphira, the Apostles meeting more opposition from the Jewish leaders and about Stephen. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jeremiah-campbell9/support

This week Pastor Jason Huffman brings a sermon on Acts Chapter 5. Visit us online at www.PinevilleChristian.com or search for us on Facebook! Our service is at 10:30 am on Sundays.

02.05.2021 - Xolisa Skade, Pastor at Apostolic Faith Mission - Lessons from Acts 5 vs 1-11 The story of Annanias & Sapphira

02.05.2021 - Xolisa Skade, Pastor at Apostolic Faith Mission - Lessons from Acts 5 vs 1-11 The story of Annanias & Sapphira

Acts 9:1-19 (NIV) Read by: Kathy Haug What events in your life were most significant in shaping your spiritual life today? In today's episode, we journey with Paul on the road to Damascus. Now, within the narrative of Acts, the only thing that we know about Paul is that his Jewish name is Saul, and he was there approving of the stoning execution of Stephen. So in order to fully appreciate the story that Luke gives us today, we need to understand a little bit more about Saul, and that comes from other writings. We learn from Paul's letters, and from who he becomes in the rest of the Acts narrative that at the time that he's traveling on this road, is among a sect of the Jews called the Pharisees. This group was dead set with their zeal and fervor to keeping Israel pure and in right standing with God. Saul was traveling around Judea arresting followers of Jesus and seeing to their deaths if necessary. All for the sake of defending the faith and honoring Yahweh. Pharisees like Saul were known for a form of prayer that modeled itself after Ezekiel's vision of God's heavenly chariot. They would meditate on this image and work their way up from the wheels to the chariot to the shining being hoping to see the face of God. And Saul sees a face that he was not expecting. Many refer to this as a conversion of Saul, but really this was a radical convergence, of all that Paul believed in the person of Jesus. His whole world gets flipped upside down. ----------REFLECT---------- 1. What moment in this passage stirred you the most? 2. Saul thought that he was acting out of righteousness, defending the holiness and purity of God's people. And in this moment he's literally blinded as he's exposed by the truth that Jesus is the very righteousness that he has so longed for. Have you ever been acting or living or believing one way, only for God to turn that inside out and upside down? 3. God calls Annanias to go to Saul. Now think about what Annanias knows. All he knows is that Saul is the one who's been traveling around persecuting Christians. And God calls him to go where he is and Annanias calls him brother?! If you knew that God was working in the life of someone who you would consider an enemy, would you go to them? Lord, we ask that you reveal yourself to us. Turn over the things that we have wrong about who you are, and use us in the lives of those for whom you're turning things over. ----------GO DEEPER---------- Bible Project: Acts 1-12 Overview >> InterVarsity Press Selections: Acts >> ----------CONNECT---------- Find an InterVarsity Chapter >> Start an InterVarsity Chapter >> Learn More >> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dailyread/message

This Week:   Text: Acts 5:1-11   Theme: The account of Annanias and Sapphira; -swift harsh consequences for sin; they lost their lives -what really was going on?

The story of Annanias and Saphira. Do not lie to the Holy Spirit. There will be a price to pay. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeffrey-austin/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jeffrey-austin/support

De les over Saffira en de schudding is een ernstige les. Aan het voorbeeld van de bijna instante dood van Ananias en zijn vrouw Saffira kunnen we zien dat bewuste overtreding van Gods wet heel erge gevolgen heeft. In hun geval kwam de doodstraf direct. In ons geval is het nog uitgesteld en lijkt het alsof we ons zonden kunnen permitteren. Het verhaal is bekend van de eerste gemeente. Om de gemeenteleden die zelf geen inkomen meer hadden te kunnen voeden en huisvesten gaven degenen die wel goederen en geld hadden dit aan de leidende broeders die voor de verdeling zorgden. Niemand had zo gebrek. Annanias en Saffira deden dit ook, echter viel de opbrengst veel hoger uit van het verkochte land dan zij vooraf dachten. Een zegen van God. Zij besloten een deel zelf te houden, terwijl zij voordeden dat zij de 100% gaven. Ook in onze tijd kan het snel gaan. De zondagswetten kunnen sneller worden ingevoerd dan voor mogelijk gehouden, zoals we ook zien aan de corona crisis. Laten wij daarom waken en bidden en ons vastklemmen aan het geloof van Jezus.

Acts 5:1-11. Following Barnaba's example, Ananias and Sapphira also sold their land but secretly withheld a portion of proceeds. Annanias presented his donation to Peter...... Ananias died on the spot and was carried out. Everyone who heard about the incident feared the Lord. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lawrence-mwamba/support

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Brandi considers the story of Paul's Damascus experience from the point of of view of the man he is brought to meet: Annanias, the one who healed Paul's eyes, and brought him into the church whose message he would transform forever. thesourcehouston.org

Lifestyle Evangelism (1240)Acts 5:42 says, “And daily in the temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.” Publicly and privately, the early church did not stop preaching and teaching about Jesus Christ; it was a daily experience.In our own way and opportunity, each of us is called, ordained and equipped to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. In fact, if you are a Christian, evangelism is supposed to be a lifestyle. Adrian Rogers says, “God has called you to witness. A Christian who is not witnessing is not merely missing a blessing, he is guilty of high treason against heaven's King.”If you are not witnessing, you are disobeying God. In the Book of Acts, the conversion of three men reveal why it is so important to witness to others.In Acts 8, the conversion of the Ethiopian man shows us that all people have a common hunger to know God, even if we don't understand it yet.In Acts 9, the conversion of Saul—who later became Paul, apostle of Christ— reminds us that all people have a common heartache. All the intelligence and money in the world couldn't buy the satisfaction that is found only in Christ.In Acts 10, the conversion of Cornelius tells us that all people have a common hope—Jesus.Back-to-back, we are shown by Scripture that the hope of Africa is Jesus, the hope of Asia (Paul the Apostle) is Jesus, the hope of Europe (Cornelius) is Jesus. All people need the same help. The hope of the world is Jesus.God took Phillip, Annanias and Peter, with their availability, expendability, adaptability, and used them to share the Gospel with men who would carry it even further, to the uttermost ends of the earth.We all have the same heartaches and hunger that are only satisfied through our common hope in Jesus Christ. And remember: Jesus will save anybody who is willing to come to Him.They may not even know that it is God who they are searching for, but each and every man needs to know him. It is our job, as a Christian community to help them.Apply it to your lifeAre you available, expendable and adaptable, ready to be used by God? There's somebody that needs you desperately.All men need the same help—they need somebody to tell them about Jesus and that somebody is you. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/135/29

The Deceit of Annanias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) from The Book of Acts – God’s Revelation of Transition by Dr. Randy White. Released: 2019. Track 17. Genre: Speech. Additional Materials: ( Outline | Website | YouTube | ZoHo ) The post The Deceit of Annanias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) appeared first on RWM Podcasts.

Jim Schatzman gives the third installment in our “Engaging with God for Change” series. Using the stories of Baalam, Paul and Annanias, Jim shows how hard God is working to speak to us and how we begin to prepare ourselves to listen. Date: 1/27/2019 Scriptures: Numbers 22:-21-39 Psalm 85:6-13 Acts 9:1-19 John 16:6-14

Here we learn the punishment for hypocrisy in the early church, where Annanias and Saphira attempt to deceive the Holy Spirit

The early days of the church set the platinum standard for every church that exists today. They shared everything and loved each other deeply. It can be easy to think that all was perfect when the church began, but the story of Annanias and Sapphira teaches us that sin is always present. The question isn't whether the church has sin, but what do the people do with it? Confess it and fight against it or hide it and pretend it doesn't exist? How you answer that question can cause or prevent a lot of unnecessary suffering in your life and the life of the church.

Is God in the business of punishing us for our sins? Was the cross effective? What about Ananias and Sapphira? You don't want to miss this week's message!

Acts 5a - Annanias and Sapphira by God's Character Podcast

How can we have courage to speak about Jesus or live for Jesus when persecution comes? What do we need to stand?

How can we have courage to speak about Jesus or live for Jesus when persecution comes? What do we need to stand?

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The grim tale of Annanias and Sappirha.

Continuing our series examining the book of Acts, Heather looks at the story of Annanias and Sapphira. "Church should be a place where we can be honest, where tears are understood".

By Jerry Smith

By Jerry Smith

It is all too easy to fall into the practice of deceit that is so prevalent today in our culture. We can actually find ourselves believing the lies we pass as truth to others. Even worse, we will deny the plain truth to our creator. We see this very thing in Acts 4 and 5 as Annanias and Saphira lie, not only to men, but much worse, they lie to God. Pastor Rory Rodgers teaches on Acts 4:32- 5:12

This book will teach us important Lessons to learn, Principles to apply & warnings to heed.

Radioandakt fra Radio Filadelfia Kristiansand. Andaktene er ved Margrethe S. Tveit, Oddvar Isachsen og Michel Andreas Rivas. Av og til er det også noen gjesteandaktsholdere.

Radioandakt fra Radio Filadelfia Kristiansand. Andaktene er ved Margrethe S. Tveit, Oddvar Isachsen og Michel Andreas Rivas. Av og til er det også noen gjesteandaktsholdere.