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Deforest Buckner taking his jersey number back from CJ West. #FTTB
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Muslims have killed more than 600 million non-Muslims since 622.
But if you point this out, they’ll say it’s Islamophobia.
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A Farewell to Arms
Do me a favor this morning. Draw the curtain and come back to bed.
Forget the coffee. We’ll pretend
we’re in a foreign country, and in love.
— Raymond Carver
“Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.”
-John Bunyan
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A Warning to the Remnant About the Rasha Spirit
The Nature of the Rasha Spirit:
The remnant must understand what Scripture means by rasha. It is not a label for disagreement, nor a word to throw at brothers who see differently. Rasha describes a condition of refusal — a heart that knows the truth and rejects it. Daniel says plainly that “the wicked shall not understand,” not because the text is unclear, but because their spirit is closed. The rasha spirit is not ignorance; it is resistance.
This spirit does not seek correction, clarity, or Scripture. It seeks conflict, attention, and dominion. It thrives on accusation and pride, not discernment. It weaponizes religious language to control the conversation and silence the Word.
The Pattern of Engagement:
The remnant must recognize the pattern. When you speak Scripture plainly, the rasha spirit responds with:
• accusation instead of exegesis
• labels instead of verses
• intent‑judgment instead of text‑engagement
• escalation instead of correction
It will call sincerity “flattery,” clarity “deception,” and kindness “sarcasm.” It cannot remain in the text, so it attacks the one who does. And when Scripture corners it, it does not repent — it blocks, flees, or ends the conversation with a final accusation meant to wound.
This is not discernment. It is avoidance dressed as spirituality.
The Cost of Arguing With Rasha:
The remnant must be warned: arguing with a rasha spirit never pays. You will pour hours into Scripture; they will pour hours into accusation. You will quote the Word; they will quote their suspicion. You will seek clarity; they will seek victory.
And at the end, when they have no basis left, they will block you — not because you were wrong, but because they cannot remain in a conversation they no longer control.
The rasha spirit drains clarity, steals time, and entangles the remnant in fruitless debate. It is a trap designed to exhaust the wise and distract them from their calling.
The Remnant’s Response, The remnant must walk in:
• sobriety — recognizing the spirit at work
• endurance — refusing to be baited into endless conflict
• humility — speaking the Word without heat
• discernment — knowing when to disengage
• peace — leaving judgment to the Lord
The remnant does not fight for dominance. The remnant stands in truth. When confronted by rasha, the remnant answers once, clearly, and then steps away. You do not owe endless explanations to a spirit that refuses Scripture.
The remnant must remember: rasha is revealed by its refusal, not by its accusation. The wise understand because their hearts are open. The wicked do not understand because their hearts are closed. The remnant must not waste their strength trying to pry open what God Himself says will remain shut.
Walk sober.
Walk awake.
Walk under the wing of the Lamb. And do not let rasha entangle your steps.
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What does it actually mean to be saved? 🤔
What is salvation? 🤔
💠Adam and Eve became living beings when the Holy Spirit was breathed into them. [1]
💠Adam and Eve lost the Holy Spirit living in them when they sinned, and died that very day. [2]
💠Regaining the indwelling Holy Spirit of God is salvation; it is life from death. [3]
💠Because Jesus paid the sin debt on the cross, salvation can last longer than a nanosecond. The Holy Spirit does not have to flee at the next sin. [4]
💠Salvation can last forever, and should last forever. [5]
💠To regain the indwelling Holy Spirit of God, confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved. [6]
💠 Upon confession and belief, the Holy Spirit will enter, granting eternal life, and bringing gifts. And beginning the transformation. [7]
💠Salvation is the instant transformation of a spiritually dead human being headed for hell into a spiritually living new creation in Christ Jesus heading for heaven. [8]
[1] Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
[2] Genesis 2:16-18
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
[3] John 6:63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
John 20:22
And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit."
[4] Genesis 3:6-8
She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
[5] John 10:28–29
"I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand."
Romans 11:22
Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
[6] Romans 10:8-9
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
[7] Ephesians 1:12-14
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
[8] John 1:11-13
He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 5:24
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee, our noons, our nights, our bodies spilled together, sleeping, the tiny flowing currents, immediate and forever. Your leg, my leg, your arm, my arm, your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.
— Charles Bukowski
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Marcionism👇 What is it?
Basically-
The God of the Old Testament is an evil murderer, and that Jesus is a totally different God who came to save us.
Most people arguing don't even know there is a real name for what they are talking about. It’s an ancient deception from the year 144 AD started by a guy named Marcion. He wasn't a prophet or a theologian- he was actually a wealthy ship owner who couldn't figure out how the judgments in the Old Testament fit with the love in the New Testament.
Instead of studying, he took a knife to the scriptures. He completely threw out the whole Old Testament and heavily butchered the Gospel of Luke and Paul's letters, cutting out every single verse that connected Jesus to the Creator. The early church immediately called him out as a fraud.
Now, social media algorithms are bringing this dead idea back to life. When people say foul things to cause instant outrage, everyone jumps in to fight, and the app pushes the video to even more feeds.
👉🏼It makes a tiny group of confused people sound like a massive movement, but it's really just loud noise👈🏻
If you look at this with basic common sense and a Bible, the whole argument falls apart because Jesus continuously honored and quoted the Old Testament.
Jesus never separated Himself from the God of the Old Testament. In Matthew 22, He directly quotes Exodus and says the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the God of the living, calling the Creator His Father.
In Luke 24, after He rose from the dead, He walked His disciples through Moses and all the prophets to show them how the Old Testament was all about Him.
And in John 10, He flatly says the scripture cannot be broken.
You just can't separate Jesus from the Old Testament. He spent His whole ministry preaching from it, fulfilling it, and telling everyone that those exact scriptures testified of Him.
So when you see people online shouting these things, don't let the noise shake you. They haven't found some hidden truth; they're just repeating a 2,000 year old lie because they haven't actually read what Jesus said.
“She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.”
-Cormac McCarthy: AllThe Pretty Horses
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Luke was a doctor.
Paul calls him the beloved physician. Colossians 4:14.
And Luke is the only gospel writer who records what happened to Jesus’s body that night in the garden.
Luke 22:44. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
The other three gospels tell you He prayed. The doctor tells you what the prayer did to Him.
There’s a name for it now. Hematidrosis. It’s rare, but it’s documented in medical literature: under extreme anguish, the tiny blood vessels around the sweat glands can rupture, and blood mixes into the sweat. It’s been recorded in soldiers before battle and in men facing execution.
The body of the Son of God was breaking under the weight of what was coming, and nobody had touched Him yet.
No whip. No thorns. No nails. Just a man on the ground under the olive trees, and the knowledge of what the morning would bring.
Now look at where He was.
Gethsemane. The name means oil press.
An olive grove on the Mount of Olives, with a press for crushing the harvest, great stones bearing down on the fruit until the oil runs out.
He went to the place where olives are crushed, on the night He was crushed.
And look at the word Luke uses. Agony. In Greek, agōnia. It’s an athlete’s word, the strain of a wrestler at the limit of his strength. He’s not resting in prayer. He’s fighting in it.
Mark says He began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy.
And then Jesus said the most frightening sentence a human being has ever said about himself. Mark 14:34. My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death.
The man who calmed the storm with three words, who had raised the dead, who knew the end from the beginning - on His face in the dirt, telling His friends He was so overwhelmed it felt like dying.
Matthew 26:39. He went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
What was the cup?
The prophets had already told you. Isaiah 51:17, the cup of his fury. Jeremiah 25:15, the wine cup of this fury, given to the nations to drink.
It was the cup of the wrath of God against sin. All of it. Every century of it. And He was going to drink it to the bottom.
That’s what He saw in the garden. Not the nails. The cup.
Now go back to the first garden.
Genesis 3. The first Adam stands in paradise. Every tree is his. One command. And he chooses his own will over God’s.
Then the voice of God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam ran.
Genesis 3:10. I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
The first Adam hid from God among the trees.
The last Adam went into the trees to find Him.
The first Adam said: My will.
The last Adam fell on His face and said: Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Now read what God said to Adam on the way out of Eden.
Genesis 3:19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground.
Sweat. The curse was sweat.
The sweat of your face, until you return to the ground.
And in Gethsemane, in a garden, the doctor watched the sweat of Christ’s face fall to the ground, mixed with His blood.
The curse that started in a garden ended in a garden. The last Adam took the sweat of the first one, and He bled it out onto the same ground Adam was made from.
One more detail. Luke again.
Luke 22:45. When he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow.
For sorrow.
Matthew and Mark just say they were asleep. The doctor gives the diagnosis. They weren’t lazy. They were grieving so hard their bodies shut down.
Three times He came back and found them asleep.
Three times He went back alone.
Could ye not watch with me one hour?
He asked His closest friends for one thing, one hour, on the worst night of His life. And they couldn’t give it to Him.
He prayed it alone.
And look at what comes after the third prayer. Matthew 26:46. Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
He doesn’t run. He doesn’t hide in the trees. Torches are already moving across the valley, and the man who was face-down in the dirt stands up and walks toward them.
The fight was over. It was won on His knees, before a single soldier arrived.
Now you.
Some of you are in your garden right now.
You’ve prayed for the cup to pass. You’ve asked three times. Thirty times. You’ve fallen on your face over a diagnosis, a child, a marriage, a fear you can’t say out loud. And heaven hasn’t moved the cup.
And your friends are asleep. Not because they don’t love you. Because they’re tired and they don’t know how bad it is. You’re praying alone.
He knows that garden. He’s been in it. He sweated through it.
And here’s the thing about that cup. The worst cup, the cup of wrath, the one with your sin in it - He didn’t let it pass. He drank it so you will never have to.
Whatever is in your cup tonight, that isn’t in it anymore.
What’s left is the prayer. The hardest one there is. The one that turned the curse around.
Not my will.
He prayed it first.
Now you can.
Good evening brothers and sisters
The world becomes more hostile as the wicked lash out at the believers in Christ.
This place is a town square, filled with all kinds of people.
Some are believers and many more are not.
Many assault with the tongues of demons, lashing out yo cause dissent and unrest in our hearts.
We as Christians must be strong together, not only here but in the world which turns increasingly hostile to us.
Let us hold each other up and let the light within us warm each other in this both physical and spiritual winter.
-Colossians 3:12-17-
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
14 And above all these things put oncharity, which is the bond of perfectness.
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
We must support each other and build each other up.
We must teach each other and keep our hearts open and full of love.
Not only for each other, but even more for those who do not believe
I am so glad to be here with all of you.
Praise God and bless you all
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“O believers, love the Word of God! Prize every letter of it.”
— Charles Spurgeon
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“When Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.” - C.S. Lewis