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So, I signed up to the discovery channel and see that they have dedicated paranormal and ghosts highlighted for special viewing with ufo documentaries etc , first of the bible informs us that their are good angels and fallen angels and human beings with principalities of evil that inhabit the heavens and they appear to be inter dimensional as well, demons are noted to be unclean evil spirits, possibly could be the off spring of the fallen angels when they had relations with human woman before the world flood, maybe after the flood it happened again but God probably put a complete stop to that behaviour ever happening again after the flood, Jude tells us that the angels who behaved so have been locked up in chains and darkness ontil the day of judgment. What about ufo and aliens today it’s a mystery as well but look at the transfiguration of Christ were Moses and Elijah entered our dimension to give support to our Lord, suppose the fallen angels created another lie of ufo and aliens when in truth the aircraft they can use and they themselves entering our earth causes the people to cry out ufo and aliens, we also know that satan will one day gather all the rebellious people from all the nations together to wage war on the lamb who destroys them with a breath of his mouth, when Christ returns with his holy angels to wage war on the rebellious earth inhabitants, they just might think ufo and aliens because they became used to the idea over many generations and more so in our own media age were anything can be passed of as being believable. But anyway if we stray away from the bible we to can become vulnerable to believe false things. These programs are filled with people claiming boldly to being pysics and mediums and some actually invoke the lords name in their unholy practices. God says “neither shall the living commune with the dead on behalf of the living” nor neither shall a medium or witch be consulted on behalf of the living or again God says “is it because God does not exist that the people can’t go to him and commune with him” seems today people are doing the things that seem right in their own eyes ignoring the Word of God with all His commands and warnings to all mankind from generation to generation, we know that everything God tells us and warns us about is all Truth and no lie found in Him or his word for all mankind, we know their are spiritual beings that God created like the holy angels and ourselves as well because we are eternal spiritual beings as well but different from the angels as well in form and appearance. So ontil the lord returns we will always have to test the spirits to know wether they are from God or not, the great goal of the devil and his angels is to keep as many human beings away from the Truth of the gospel and their salvation as possible so that they will spend eternity in the lake of fire along with them on the final day of God’s judgment, may the many be redeemed from the lie and brought to believe the Truth that can only be found in Jesus Christ.

September 1st

Destiny of holiness

Ye shall be holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:16 (R.V.).

Continually restate to yourself what the purpose of your life is. The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. Nowadays we have far too many affinities, we are dissipated with them; right, good, noble affinities which will yet have their fulfilment, but in the meantime God has to atrophy them. The one thing that matters is whether a man will accept the God Who will make him holy. At all costs a man must be rightly related to God.
Do I believe I need to be holy? Do I believe God can come into me and make me holy? If by your preaching you convince me that I am unholy, I resent your preaching. The preaching of the gospel awakens an intense resentment because it must reveal that I am unholy; but it also awakens an intense craving. God has one destined end for mankind, viz., holiness. His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men; He did not come to save men out of pity: He came to save men because He had created them to be holy. The Atonement means that God can put me back into perfect union with Himself, without a shadow between, through the Death of Jesus Christ.
Never tolerate through sympathy with yourself or with others any practice that is not in keeping with a holy God. Holiness means unsullied walking with the feet, unsullied talking with the tongue, unsullied thinking with the mind—every detail of the life under the scrutiny of God. Holiness is not only what God gives me, but what I manifest that God has given me.

September 1

“I will lay thy stones with fair colors.” (Isa. 54:11.)

THE stones from the wall said, “We come from the mountains far away, from the sides of the craggy hills. Fire and water have worked on us for ages, but made us only crags. Human hands have made us into a dwelling where the children of your immortal race are born, and suffer, and rejoice, and find rest and shelter, and learn the lessons set them by our Maker and yours. But we have passed through much to fit us for this. Gunpowder has rent our very heart; pickaxes have cleaved and broken us, it seemed to us often without design or meaning, as we lay misshapen stones in the quarry; but gradually we were cut into blocks, and some of us were chiseled with finer instruments to a sharper edge. But we are complete now, and are in our places, and are of service.
You are in the quarry still, and not complete, and therefore to you, as once to us, much is inexplicable. But you are destined for a higher building, and one day you will be placed in it by hands not human, a living stone in a heavenly temple.

“In the still air the music lies unheard;
In the rough marble beauty hides unseen;
To make the music and the beauty needs
The master’s touch, the sculptor’s chisel keen.

“Great Master, touch us with Thy skillful hands;
Let not the music that is in us die!
Great Sculptor, hew and polish us; nor let,
Hidden and lost, thy form within us lie!”

1 SEPTEMBER

Peace shaken

‘Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.’ Isaiah 38:17
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Job 1:1–22

One of the chief differences observable in the experience of the Lord’s people is with regard to the season and means of their establishment in the faith. Some, after their first convictions, go mourning for years, tried by the Lord but fettered by Satan, and, though secretly supported, have little sensible comfort, but are perhaps still expecting to perish at last. At length the Lord’s time of deliverance comes, and afterwards they have generally a smoother part; and though they may continue to meet with many difficulties, they are seldom brought to question the foundation any more. Others pass through but little trouble at first; the Lord draws them by love, gives them liberty soon, and continues their peace till they are ready to think they shall see no changes. But by and by they are suddenly brought into darkness and depths, are at their wits’ end, and can hardly be persuaded they were ever right. They find things both within and without so different from what they were aware of. Job was an instance of this. We have the best evidence (the testimony of God himself) that he was a gracious man before his troubles—but how rudely was he shaken—not in outward things only, but his joy and peace in believing was taken away.

Then to his saints I often spoke; Of what his love had done;
But now my heart is almost broke, For all my joys are gone.

He had only the root of faith left—the exercise was gone, so that in the anguish of his spirit he cursed the day of his birth. But when the Lord returned, Job came out of the furnace purified like gold. He had seen more of his own heart, more of the power and majesty of God, than ever he had done before.

FOR MEDITATION: O Lord, what shall I say? I am the very wretch that was once an outcast in Africa; how dost thou comfort and honour me on every side, though I am still most ungrateful.
Diary, 19 July 1774

SERMON: ISAIAH 38:17 [1/2]

August 31st

My joy … your joy

That My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. John 15:11.

What was the joy that Jesus had? It is an insult to use the word happiness in connection with Jesus Christ. The joy of Jesus was the absolute self-surrender and self-sacrifice of Himself to His Father, the joy of doing that which the Father sent Him to do. “I delight to do Thy will.” Jesus prayed that our joy might go on fulfilling itself until it was the same joy as His. Have I allowed Jesus Christ to introduce His joy to me?
The full flood of my life is not in bodily health, not in external happenings, not in seeing God’s work succeed, but in the perfect understanding of God, and in the communion with Him that Jesus Himself had. The first thing that will hinder this joy is the captious irritation of thinking out circumstances. The cares of this world, said Jesus, will choke God’s word. Before we know where we are, we are caught up in the shows of things. All that God has done for us is the mere threshold; He wants to get us to the place where we will be His witnesses and proclaim Who Jesus is.
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water. Be a centre for Jesus Christ to pour living water through. Stop being self-conscious, stop being a sanctified prig, and live the life hid with Christ. The life that is rightly related to God is as natural as breathing wherever it goes. The lives that have been of most blessing to you are those who were unconscious of it.