We are always affecting the world, furthering the kingdom of darkness by acting out of self, or the kingdom of GOD when living by His spirit.

We are fully accepted by God in Christ acording to our willingness to be conformed to the image of Christ.

We are most of us ready to fight and if need be die for Jesus. We look forward to the battle and victory but the battle is won this way we grab our sword run toward the enemy screaming just as we get there, we lie down and let people tear us apart because the enemy is not people, it is the thing...

We are not condemned by what we do, we do what we do because we are condemned.

We act out of evil desires because we are children of the devil. If we would, through Christ become the children of God we would then act out of Godly desires.

We are not washed in the blood of the Lamb so we may go to heaven. We are washed to be a clean vessel for Gods use on the earth. Heaven is not a reward for accepting Christ, Eternal life is a natural consequence of GOD dwelling and controlling every move and thought now.

We are willing to accept what His Death and Blood bought for us as long as it doesn't cost us anything. But we will not join Him in that death and humiliation (in order to be made holy) for the good of others.

We are willing to let Jesus take us to heaven when we die, but are we willing to so lose ourselves to and in Him that He takes us to heaven while we live?

We die to self for the glory of God, or we die to GOD for the glory of self.

We follow Jesus to GOD, His blood the door, His nature the path, His glory the result.

We have until our heart stops beating to allow GOD to perfect us to the extent he desires, He can and will use His love, this world, good people, evil people, angels and devils to accomplish that end. The only thing that hinders His work is our resistance, He stops perfecting us only when we are...

When we attempt to use the word of GOD as the sword of the spirit without the indwelling and empowering of the Spirit we wield a blunt weapon suitable only to beat and bruise the flesh. When used with the empowering of the spirit it becomes a two edged sword capable of dividing soul and spirit to...

When we avoid pain we are often cooperating with the enemy in his attack against us.

When we look to anything other than Jesus for fulfillment, joy, peace or love then we ask death to supply us with life.

Without trust there is no love. To love is to trust everything else is merely attraction.

We are a purchased people Born of the flesh, then redeemed by the blood of Christ, if we from that point, live at all for ourselves we are robbing god.

You are forgiven, you believe in Jesus, the sacrifice and the blood, you know you are forgiven and yet occasionally you still grieve God, do or say the wrong thing, still you sin. You repent ask for forgiveness maybe even weep....then do it again, people tell you its OK we all do it. I am here to...

You are, right now, exactly who and where GOD meant you to be. It is in accepting this that His peace is found.

"A determination to live in a prescribed manner by any set of  rules is to live the letter that brings death. To live by the spirit is to lay self at the alter of  Christ and not move till He moves you"

A call to action is neither offensive nor effective. A call to Christ and death on the cross is both

The expressions ""kingdom of God"" and ""kingdom of Heaven"" are used in Scripture concerning the divine life in the soul. They Mean simply the place or condition where God rules, and where His will is done. It is an interior kingdom, not an exterior one. Its thrones are not outward thrones of...

Solders of Christ who love their lives shall forfeit victory. Watchman Nee

The whole nature of virtue consists of conforming to the will of GOD. The nature of sin is departing from it. William Law

Truth as a living principal is only communicated by those who live it.

Trials themselves don't reveal the need to be reconciled to GOD, it is our reaction to the trial that reveals the need for reconciliation.

To the extent we remain self-determining is the extent we remain under the rule and authority of Satan and under his rule we can produce only death.

Pay little attention to the beautiful words and subtle discourse of the wise of the earth. Woe to those who look to human knowledge to satisfy their curiosity. It is the Creator who teaches the truth and instructs the heart of the humble.    Brother Lawrence

This Jesus is capable and willing to take your dross refine it in a divine fire then present the world with pure gold.

The Bible is a collection of the words of God, but the Word of God is alive and sits on the throne of the universe. The words of God are meant to reveal to us the Word, Jesus, who is himself the way the truth and the life.

There are two kinds of people in the world those born of the flesh who belong to themselves and those born of God who belong to Jesus.

The substance of saving faith is Christ in us-guiding, controlling, rebuking, teaching, and sharing Himself with others.

There are not concepts called mercy and justice that explain God there is a God called I AM whose character defines Justice and mercy.

It is what we do that matters, not what we believe, the trouble is that what we do is dictated by what we believe.

If we aren't saved from sin all the way, what makes us think we are saved at all?

The carnal walk is to seek to understand and walk in the letter and the law of God.  The spiritual walk is to seek and walk in the God of the letter and the law.

The Bible is given to spur us on to faith, not to excuse us for having none.

Hell is simply the will of the created believed to be independent of the the creator.

Romans chapter 7 reveals a man that understands Christianity, Chapter 8 reveals a man that lives it.

The only reason we don't obey GOD is because we don't trust GOD.

The Bible is filled with promises and warnings, the warnings are for those that don't grab hold of the promises.

The act of sin cannot be carried out in the Kingdom of GOD, therefore every act of sin reveals a heart of stone that is under the dominion of the prince of the power of the air. Any act of sin reveals the need of a new heart.

If we are not willing to die to be Holy, what makes us think we will be willing to be Holy when we die?

If HIS death could not make you righteous, what makes you think yours will?

Jesus will take His place in the church, when we give Him His place in our hearts.

The martyred saints throughout history were killed for one reason, they did not resist when GOD used them to convict others of their sin.

"Say not that thou has royal blood in thy veins, say not that thou art born of GOD if thou canst prove thy pedigree by daring to be Holy" William Gurnall

How can we expect the power in the name of Jesus to change others at our request, if we don't first allow that same power to change us?

Just as we were born into Adam, inheriting corruption unto death, so also are we born into Jesus inheriting righteousness unto life.

Man came into the possession of the knowledge of good and evil unlawfully, it follow that, since a bad tree cannot produce good fruit, then any exercise of that knowledge on our part is evil.

"The holiness which the new covenant offers will rather terrify than attract men; the life in the spirit of bondage appears to make more allowance for sin, because obedience is declared to be impossible" The Two Covenants, Andrew Murray

     I Built this site over a couple of days knowing nothing about what I was doing, it is built with a content management system called Joomla. Hosted by DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) They have a handy installer where Joomla as well as other programs are installed by them on the server. The look...

"If we have not the Spirit of GOD, it is better to shut the churches, to nail up the doors, to put a black cross on them, and say 'GOD have mercy on us'".  Charles Spurgeon

     I Built this site over a couple of days knowing nothing about what I was doing, it is built with a content management system called Joomla. Hosted by DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) They have a handy installer where Joomla as well as other programs are installed by them on the server. The look is mostly achieved with a template from JoomlaShack (www.joomlashack.com) called Js AppBox, on another site at www.buildingthebodyofchrist.org I am using a template from Rockettheme (www.rockettheme.com) called afterburner. (actualy the other site was first then I thought of this name, when I am done I will mirror the other site to this one, I think) the editor I found is called JCE (www.joomlacontenteditor.net) and it includes a spellchecker, I am trying a newsletter component called Vemod (http://vemod.unimatrix.net), The comment component is JoomlaComment4.0 by compojoom ( http://compojoom.com ) though I may try jcomment (www.joomlatune.com). Most of what I am using I don't really know how to use or even what they are called, most everything is freely available except this template which wasn't much. I will try to keep this updated as I go along and learn more of what I am doing and using, feel free to comment and or criticize.

Joe Hill

There are two ways to submit content to be viewed on this site the first is to simply comment on an article by clicking the comment at the bottom of each article type in your name and email and the little spam blocker field (if you can't read the letters click on them and they will change) then click send. After review your comment should be published and keep the conversations going.

The second way is to create an account, then log in using the log-in you just created, that puts you into the Author area of this site and you can then write articles using the submit articles button. After review your article may be published (at my discretion) then it will be available for others to comment on.

You can even upload images to your submission though they do come out full size so you might want to crop them first.

There is no spellchecker on here yet so if you are like me you might want to type in another program and cut and paste.

Update I found an editor with a spellchecker called JCE and now it works! 

     I Built this site over a couple of days knowing nothing about what I was doing, it is built with a content management system called Joomla. Hosted by DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) They have a handy installer where Joomla as well as other programs are installed by them on the server. The look is mostly achieved with a template from JoomlaShack (www.joomlashack.com) called Optimus, on another site at www.buildingthebodyofchrist.org I am using a template from Rockettheme (www.rockettheme.com) called afterburner. (actualy the other site was first then I thought of this name, when I am done I will mirror the other site to this one, I think) the editor I found is called JCE (www.joomlacontenteditor.net) and it includes a spellchecker, I am trying a newsletter component called Vemod (http://vemod.unimatrix.net), The comment component is JoomlaComment4.0 by compojoom ( http://compojoom.com ) though I may try jcomment (www.joomlatune.com). Most of what I am using I don't really know how to use or even what they are called, most everything is freely available except this template which wasn't much. I will try to keep this updated as I go along and learn more of what I am doing and using, feel free to comment and or criticize.

Joe Hill

Many understand Christianity to mean that we receive forgiveness now and then upon the death of this body sin is removed and we are made perfect.  As we go through this I think you will see that GOD may have a different idea. GOD told Adam not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden, If he did then on that day he would surely die.  What if GOD was right.  GOD made Adam in His image but then the Bible says Adam beget sons in his image…in the image of Adam not the image of GOD..In many other places it is written that we are dead in sins and trespasses, that we are evil through and through, that the wages of sin is death. What was accomplished on the cross was a lot more than just perpetual forgiveness and a place secured in someplace called heaven.  What He purchased is His very life born into us that we may become the righteousness of GOD through Him.

How many out there have been to church or to a revival meeting and had some bubble headed preacher tell you that you were saved, you may even come to the place where you think it is true, but deep down inside you know if GOD is good then he must find you guilty. The reality is that if GOD is saving a man He is doing it by the life of Jesus being born and ruling in the man, and the righteousness of GOD works itself out in reality, sometimes when you don't want it to, proving that Jesus is LORD in your life. If, However, you are always free to do what you want then you might want to ask yourself who is LORD in your life?

This site, much like my life is dedicated to see GOD glorified through Jesus in this lost world. The difficulty enters in when men try to figure out how to glorify GOD. It seems to me that the man living in Romans chapter 8 typifies the glory of GOD and the man living in Romans chapter 7 typifies the man trying to glorify GOD. I for one would rather just do it than continue try and fail.

He who knew no sin became sin for us that we may become the righteousness of GOD.

How is it we become the righteousness of GOD?  it can't be by works of the law or there would be reason to boast. It must be by believing on Jesus but many of us have believed then looked around and found that we were anything but the righteousness of GOD. If the justification of GOD does not work out to our actual righteousness then GOD must Himself be evil.

THE HOLINESS of GOD

-excerpts by A.W. Tozer.

"God is not now any holier than He ever was. And He never was holier than now. He did not get His holiness from anyone nor from anywhere. He is Himself the Holiness. He is the All-Holy, the Holy One; He is holiness itself, beyond the power of thought to grasp or of word to express, beyond the power of all praise."

"Language cannot express the holy, so God resorts to association and suggestion. He cannot say it outright because He would have to use words for which we know no meaning. He would have to translate it down to our unholiness. If He were to tell us how white He is, we would understand it in terms of only dingy grey."

"It was a common thing in olden days, when God was the center of Human worship, to kneel at an altar and shake, tremble, weep, and perspire in an agony of conviction. We don’t see it now because the God we preach is not the everlasting, awful God, ‘mine Holy One’ (Habakkuk 1:12), who is ‘of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity’ (Habakkuk 1:13)."

"We’ve used the technical interpretation of justification by faith and the imputed righteousness of Christ until we’ve watered down the wine of our spirituality. God help us in this evil hour!"

"We come into the presence of God with tainted souls. We come with our own concept of morality, having learned it from books, from newspapers and from school. We come to God dirty – our whitest white is dirty, our churches are dirty and our thoughts are dirty – and we do nothing about it!"

"If we came to God dirty, but trembling and shocked and awestruck in His presence, if we knelt at His feet and cried with Isaiah, ‘I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips’ (Isaiah 6:5), then I could understand. But we skip into His awful presence. We’re forgetting ‘holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord’

(Hebrews 12:14)."

"O God, soon every person must appear before you to give an account for the deeds done in the body. Father, keep upon us a sense of holiness so that we can’t sin and excuse it, but that repentance will be as deep as our lives. This we ask in Christ’s name. Amen."

-A.W. Tozer.

How many out there have been to church or to a revival meeting and had some bubble headed preacher tell you that you were saved, you may even come to the place where you think it is true, but deep down inside you know if GOD is good then he must find you guilty. The reality is that if GOD is saving a man He is doing it by the life of Jesus being born and ruling in the man, and the righteousness of GOD works itself out in reality, sometimes when you don't want it to, proving that Jesus is LORD in your life. If, However, you are always free to do what you want then you might want to ask yourself who is LORD in your life?

Many understand Christianity to mean that we receive forgiveness now and then upon the death of this body sin is removed and we are made perfect.  As we go through this I think you will see that GOD may have a different idea. GOD told Adam not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden, If he did then on that day he would surely die.  What if GOD was right.  GOD made Adam in His image but then the Bible says Adam beget sons in his image…in the image of Adam not the image of GOD..In many other places it is written that we are dead in sins and trespasses, that we are evil through and through, that the wages of sin is death. What was accomplished on the cross was a lot more than just perpetual forgiveness and a place secured in someplace called heaven.  What He purchased is His very life born into us that we may become the righteousness of GOD through Him.

I Built this site over a couple of days knowing nothing about what I was doing, it is built with a content management system called Joomla, the look is mostly achieved with a template from JoomlaShack called Optimus, the editor I found is called JCE and it includes a spellchecker, I am trying a newsletter component called Vemod, most of what I am using I don't really know how to use or even what they are called, most everything is freely available except this template which wasn't much. I will try to keep this updated as I go along and learn more of what I am doing and using, feel free to comment and or criticize.

Joe Hill

I hope to add to this as time goes on.