Men have failed me in every aspect of life - spiritually, politically, and morally. Yet, God has never failed me. Therefore, I prioritize my praise and worship accordingly, giving it all to Him. I will fail you, you will fail me; Jesus will never fail us.
Psalms 108:12 KJV Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Psalms 108:13 KJV Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Many claim to be Christians, but few are truly born again. A faith devoid of the Holy Spirit is nothing more than a devil’s belief, masquerading as genuine through ritual baptism and sacraments. I don't recall my infant baptism, which merely veiled my shallow Catholic upbringing. It wasn't until I was born again at 18, followed by full immersion baptism, that I truly understood the depth of my commitment to Jesus Christ through faith. My life has been directed by the Holy Spirit ever since.
Acts 19:2 KJV He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
Acts 19:3 KJV And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
Acts 19:4 KJV Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
Acts 19:5 KJV When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
The Jews were and are without excuse due to the initial explosion of the Gospel, accompanied by miraculous sign gifts like speaking in unlearned languages. This sign gift was crucial, given the limited space and time, as Jews from all over the known world gathered for Pentecost, speaking many different languages. Today, many mock this sign gift with meaningless babble, whether ignorantly or not.
Acts 19:6 KJV And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Special miracles unique to Paul and his apostleship, not special miracles unique to you or me.
Acts 19:11 KJV And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
Disputes are a more heated form of debates, fueled by highly controversial and inflammatory content. When boldly preaching the Word of God, such disputes inevitably arise, which is why much of the American pastorate avoids preaching the whole counsel of God, fearing accusations of antisemitism.
Acts 19:8 KJV And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
Let them defame you as an antisemite or whatever they want. Never let their defamation deter you from preaching the Gospel and engaging in the next dispute.
Acts 19:9 KJV But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
Gospel gains often take much time.
Acts 19:10 KJV And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
I'm surprised we don't see aprons and handkerchiefs like those of the apostles being sold in the commercial Christian marketplace. I'm always amazed by how selectively the apostolic sign gifts are applied in our day.
Acts 19:12 KJV So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
The Judeo-Christian impostors who claim to cast out evil in Jesus' name are often the ones overtaken by the very evil they purport to expel, leading them to commit heinous acts such as adultery and pedophilia. This ultimately leaves them exposed and naked before the world, revealing their true nature as hypocrites and reprobates.
Acts 19:13 KJV Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
Acts 19:14 KJV And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
How do you fight the antichrist spirit?
With the Spirit of Christ, or you will end up like the sons of Sceva.
Acts 19:15 KJV And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
Acts 19:16 KJV And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
If the antichrist world boosts your content, it's likely because you're teaching antichrist doctrine.
Those who genuinely love, fear, and respect the Lord Jesus will purge their lives of pornography and other content that opposes Him.
Acts 19:17 KJV And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
Acts 19:18 KJV And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
Acts 19:19 KJV Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Do you want to prevail? Seek and allow the Word of God to grow in your life. Become Gospilled!
Acts 19:20 KJV So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
The antichrists will largely ignore Bible preaching until it starts to impact their financial gains. However, for now, Christians pose no threat because they contribute to those gains through faithful purchases of their products and devices.
Acts 19:24 KJV For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
Acts 19:25 KJV Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
Paul posed a threat to the antichrist marketplace of his day; Christians today do not.
Acts 19:26 KJV Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
Acts 19:27 KJV So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Acts 19:28 KJV And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
I've noticed recent excitement over the toppling of a single antichrist statue display in America. However, the New Testament church didn't employ such tactics; instead, they simply preached and lived the Gospel, which ultimately toppled them all.
Acts 19:37 KJV For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
Incest is evil.
Leviticus 18:6 KJV None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 18:7 KJV The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:8 KJV The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Leviticus 18:9 KJV The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
Leviticus 18:10 KJV The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.
Leviticus 18:11 KJV The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:12 KJV Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
Leviticus 18:13 KJV Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
Leviticus 18:14 KJV Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
Leviticus 18:15 KJV Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:16 KJV Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Leviticus 18:17 KJV Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Leviticus 18:18 KJV Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Adultery is evil.
Leviticus 18:20 KJV Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
Homosexuality is evil.
Leviticus 18:22 KJV Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Beastiality is evil.
Leviticus 18:23 KJV Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
Is America not defiled by the practice of incest, adultery, homosexuality, and bestiality, just to name a few?
Leviticus 18:24 KJV Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Leviticus 18:25 KJV And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Leviticus 18:26 KJV Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus 18:27 KJV (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
Leviticus 18:28 KJV That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Leviticus 18:29 KJV For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus 18:30 KJV Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
People seem to fail to understand that the armies of the world are under the command of the LORD.
Isaiah 13:4 KJV The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
Isaiah 13:5 KJV They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Isaiah 13:6 KJV Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
If you do not receive the grace of the LORD, you will receive His wrath.
Isaiah 13:7 KJV Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
Isaiah 13:8 KJV And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Isaiah 13:9 KJV Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
The day of the LORD will follow the physical return of Jesus Christ (day of Christ). Although the world has yet to witness this event, it will. This will be a time of wrath poured out upon the entire world, not limited to a single geographical location.
Isaiah 13:10 KJV For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Isaiah 13:11 KJV And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
This earthquake will disturb the orbit.
Isaiah 13:13 KJV Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
When God unleashes hell, Bitcoin will not save you.
Isaiah 13:15 KJV Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
Isaiah 13:16 KJV Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Isaiah 13:17 KJV Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
America shows no pity for the womb now, so why should God show pity for it when He unleashes hell?
Isaiah 13:18 KJV Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
The United Babylonian States of America believes in its invincibility when such belief is a mere delusion.
Isaiah 13:19 KJV And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
The hoot of the owl will reign in America; it's only a matter of time and a continued lack of repentance.
Isaiah 13:21 KJV But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Isaiah 13:22 KJV And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Father, may sexual purity remain a priority among Your people. In Jesus' Name, Amen.