TO BE WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD IS SUCH A FOOLISH NEEDLESS THING

Do you understand the very concept of being at enmity with God? To be at war with the Most Holy! Oh my undone! Bound by sin! Doomed to Death and Destined for Hell. TO BE WITHOUT GOD!


Eph 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Praise God for Christ Jesus. Yet most, yes the VAST MAJORITY reject him and are without Christ...WITHOUT GOD in the world. Many a Church is filled to the rafters with unrepentant sinners hoping that God will look the other way and yet THEY ARE WITHOUT GOD in the world. Look and see through the scriptures has it ever been said a man was made right with who would not admit he was a sinner in need of a Saviour? Has there ever been a man who has come to Christ , admitted he was a Sinner but that he did not also admit his sin was was an affront to God? Look at Thessalonian who Paul encourages,
1Th 1:9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; Have there been those who came to Jesus with no knowledge of their sin? Would to God Sinners would come to God through the Saviour Jesus Christ.

Calling upon the name of the Lord. THE WHO? The Lord! A Sinner needs salvation and a man coming to Christ will be made aware of his particular sin. His Sinfulness in it and his separation from God because of it. Oh yes I know that we all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God, and that in Adam we all die, But I also know that no man ever came to a saviour who did not think he needed saving and no man ever thought he needed saving from a "nothing". What sayest thou? Hast thou come to the lifter of burdens with no specific burden? Have you come to the great physician with no idea you were sick? Have you come to the great emmancipator with no knowledge of your captivity in Sin and Death? Adulterer, fornicator, drunkard, effeminate, blasphemer, glutton, foul mouthed, hypocrite, rebel against all that is right and holy and Good which one are you? All of the above? When you came to Christ which one was such a burden upon your shoulders that you knew that you were doomed with out Christ Jesus? Which one of these sins did he look you in the eye over and say Go and sin no more?
2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. To Come to Jesus Christ who is Longsuffering not willing that Any should perish but that all should come to repentance, a willingness to turn away from sins and Turn to Jesus Christ. Who is able to Save to the uttermost all who come unto him by faith! Without fail! Jesus Christ came that you might have Life, and who the Son sets free he sets free indeed to a newness of life, for any man that is in Christ Jesus is passed from death into life, where old things pass away and behold all things become knew! " As many as receive him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God! I give unto the eternal Life and they shall never perish! Jesus Christ will make all those who hear his call come unto him even though they be weary laden that they might have rest! Come unto me Jesus said and I will give you rest! Rest from you burden.. Confess it to him! Forsake it and take hold on Christ! Repent dear sinner. Turn from your dumb Idols and turn to Christ Jesus. Turn from your self righteousness to His Righteousness! Turn from your wickedness to His Holiness! Come to the Cross and receive His Crown! Be Washed in the Blood to be made Free from sins stain! He that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life ..
Joh 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

In Christ
The preacher

JURY DUTY

A letter that I had written back in Feb 2001, that was not published but it is still timely. Hope it is a blessing and an education.
The Preacher

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." (Cornelia's Tactics, Roman senator and historian. AD c.56-c.115).

In a recent article in the "Voice of south Marion" I read about Brad Kings (DA, in OCALA)concern that "some jury members in a few cases disregard instructions from judges, thereby 'making their own law" while deliberating for a decision.....

While it may or not be better for the "jury:" to be selected from drivers records or voters records it certainly be better for every one involved if those in charge were to abide by the constitutions of the land and the intent of the framers of the said documents. The Idea of Judicial supremacy" that has invaded the Land is appalling
the Judge is not the Law! And the Judge is not above ignorance of the Law either. And also prejudices!
Alexander Hamilton made this very point in Paper No. 65:

"But juries are frequently influenced by the opinions of judges. They are sometimes induced to find special verdicts, which refer the main question to the decision of the court. Who would be willing to stake his life and his estate on the verdict of a jury acting under the guidance of judges who had predetermined his guilt?"

Brad may be right in his opinion that juries will be better informed via the voters registration files, but if his main concern is an informed jury, judging both the case at hand and the Law itself, as being a bad thing, Holding judges and lawmakers accountable for bad laws and bad decisions concerning those laws, he has missed the position of what law is all about in the first place,

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. That state is most fortunate in its form of government which has the aptest instruments for the discovery of law.
Calvin Coolidge, to the Massachusetts State Senate,
January 7, 1914

The jury has an obligation to judge not only the defendant but also the law being used in the trial, they have a responsibility to ask questions that the prosecutor and the defense attorney have either refused to ask or were to afraid to ask, they also have the right to determine whether or not a judge should be HONORED or dishonored in regards to his or her instructions, with out fear of tyrannical "contempt charges" where a person is "lynched," that is found guilty of a crime invented by a judge, not allowed a trial, and sentenced, all without any regard to the constitution, or the rights guaranteed therein.
It is common today for judges to tell prospective jurors that they must apply the law as he gives it to them and that their business is simply to determine whether the defendant has broken the law or not. But that is not what was intended by the right to trial by jury in the Bill or Rights.

Thomas Jefferson said in 1782 (Notes on Virginia):

...It is usual for the jurors to decide the fact, and to refer the law arising on it to the decision of the judges. But this division of the subject lies with their discretion only. And if the question relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.

Then, recommending trial by jury to the French in 1789, Jefferson wrote to Tom Paine,

"I consider...[trial by jury] as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution...."

The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, in Unites States v. Dougherty, 1972, saying:

[The jury has an] unreviewable and irreversible power...to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge...The pages of history shine on instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard uncontradicted evidence and instructions of the judge; for example, acquittals under the fugitive slave law.

It is not only [the juror's] right, but his duty...to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court. John Adams, 1771

.....it is usual for the jurors to decide the fact, and to refer the law arising on it to the decision of the judges. But this division of the subject lies with their discretion only. And if the question relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.
Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on Virginia," 1782

Another apprehension [about the French Revolution] is, that a majority cannot be induced to adopt the trial by jury; and I consider that as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution....
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Tom Paine, 1789

It is presumed, that juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the other hand, presumed that courts are the best judges of law. But still both objects are within your power of decision.....you have a right to take it upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy. Chief Justice John Jay, Georgia v. Brailsford, 1794

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction...if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong. Alexander Hamilton, 1804

Petty juries, consisting usually of twelve men, attend courts to try matters of fact in civil causes, and to decide both the law and the fact in criminal prosecutions. The decision of a petty jury is called a verdict.
Noah Webster, Dictionary of the English Language, 1828

In the trial of all criminal cases, the Jury shall be the Judges of Law, as well as of fact, except that the Court may pass upon the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction
Article XXIII, Constitution of the State of Maryland

In all criminal cases whatsoever, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts.
Article I, §19, Constitution of the State of Indiana

The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both the law and the facts.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Horning v. District of Columbia, 1920

If the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by a judge, and contrary to the evidence...If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic or passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision.
4th Circuit Court of Appeals, United States v. Moylan, 1969

Now I know that our system is not perfect, but it would seem that those fine patriotic men who framed our system did not have in mind the monopoly
BAR club that has placed our judges and Lawyers as GODS among men.

A free jury is a constitutional jury and is the last bastion against governmental tyranny left to the common people, don't seek to turn it into a rubber-stampRooseveltiann machine for bureaucrats.

IN Christ Jesus

The Preacher

A Day of preaching Freedom in Christ!

Today was a rainy day but it was none the less and eventful one. A GOD PRAISING DAY!

Brother James Lyman was with us again today for our three o'clock service and preached a heart pounding sermon on "The Man of God!" but before this he , his family and members of Freedom Baptist Church went to Ocala on the corner of 200 at the Burger King intersection by the K-mart Plaza and had a street preaching time of it. Brother Lyman was very encouraging and uplifting to th men and women as an example to BE a street preacher! They were out from about 11:30 till just before 2. MEAN while on the other side of Ocala I was at WOCA Preaching on the Radio on Cremation issue giving examples from the word of God which led of course to preaching the peril of Sodom and Gomhorra and all who would follow in their Sodomite unrepentant ways. They even gave me an extra 10 minutes at the studio!

From there I came back to the Church building at 2 pm. Taught a short lesson on the waste of worshiping through fables and jangling, To be honest I was physically pretty under the weather, but the Lord provided the strength and stamina.

We had a great time of fellowship afterwards! Thank you Martha for the Chicken PotPie with biscuits!

Anyway Looking forward getting some street preaching signs made up so the folks from church can go out more... I THINK SOME OF THEM GOT A REAL TASTE FOR IT NOW!

AMEN AMEN AMEN

Get out and Get it Done for Jesus!

SHOULD I DREAD SHOULD I DISPARE? .... NO NOT AT ALL!

Personally I do not live in the doom and gloom, I live in Christ. I Preach against sin and the need for repentance from sin and faith and trust in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some folks say that I am a Negative preacher! I suppose when one is living in sin and ignoring the bulk of Gods word in regard to Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness in Christ, and the only true freedom that is found in Service to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords I suppose that the Preaching I preach might seem Harsh and somewhat negative.

I must Say there is nothing that enjoy more than preaching and teaching the word of God and there is nothing more that I enjoy and find peace in than knowing that God is in Charge in all things. I have peace and tranquility most all of the time in regard to the world around me and at the same time an earnestness and eagerness to Preach the Gospel to every creature. THE WHOLE GOSPEL.

I know the world is Going to hell in a hand basket. I Also know that there are those who are hell bent on destroying the work of God and despise the preaching of the word of God's will with all of their hearts.

Should I dread? Should I despair?

No not at all I should be encouraged that God was right and that these things would come to pass. After all Ezekiel was told about the rebellious house about him

And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words,
though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be
not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a
rebellious house.(Eze 2:6)

Notice How the lord dealt with His disciples question in regard to the coming time of the end of the world and His personal return;

Mat 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be
not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is
not yet.
Mat 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers
places.
Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Even in the Beginning of sorrows he has told us and comforted us to BE NOT TROUBLED! The Lord is With thee. Even unto the end of the world.

What of preparing for times of trouble? Christian there need be no troubled heart in preparing for problems. When setting aside for the future you should not be dismayed at the prospects of whatever God hath determined will come to pass. Take no thought... we are told. Does Take no thought mean Do not Act? No not at all, what I believe is that the command to take no thought for the morrow has to do with Trusting God's plan and moving according to HIS PLANS not YOUR THOUGHTS.

Can a Christian have a Joy while he prepares while he serves the LORD. Jesus Said that he came that we might have life and that more abundantly. Joy that might be Full. Peace beyond understanding! Will you prepare for the coming battles with dread and heads hung low or with courage and with eyes upon the Captain of your salvation? Paul said with Joy in his heart that he fought a good fight and that he wared a good warfare.

He looked forward to the Crowns of Glory ,Righteousness, Life, Incorruptible that fadeth not away! The Overcomers Crown the Soul Winners Crown!

So what if we are to ware in this life Crowns of Thorns liken unto his! Let us do it as he did for the Joy that was set before him!

In Christ
The Preacher

DO POLICE EVER TRUMP UP CHARGES TO TAKE AWAY FREEDOMS?

I was sent an E-Mail today with an interesting link to a WESH news story on it about 2 Lake County Deputies who got caught saying what amounts to a conspiracy to take away the freedoms of law Abiding Citizens. These Officers ADMIT that they like to get in peoples faces and harass folks even when they know they have no jurisdiction to even arrest them. What is more amazing is the Lake County Sheriff's blank stare comments about the event. I have it taped in the audio blog below this post. you really need to hear this to appreciate it. ( the cussing by the officers has been blotted out). The Photo to the left is Lake County's Sheriff. Call the Lake County Sheriff's department and find out exactly what is being done and if these guys are going beyond a little talk.....let them be made an example of. Just remember these guys are still on duty and YOU MIGHT BE NEXT! The Lake County Sheriff's Office said the voice on the message is Deputy Daniel "Scott" O'Neil talking to Deputy Daniel Hirsch.

Edited by the Preacher to more aptly reflect a need that Mr Interested pointed out, that these officers may just be running their mouths,( In a Very wicked and shameful manner ON DUTY, that is WHILE being Paid by the citizens)

The phone number is (352) 343-9500


When arrogance, stupidity collide it makes an interesting tape.


The Preacher

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