Four simple lessons from John the Baptist

God works though individuals

Be quiet before the Lord

Position and prestige are unimportant in the kingdom of God

Use money properly & scripturally

[KJV] [Matthew 11:11] Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

NON GREATER BUT THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN GREATER THAN HE

What were his strengths and how will we be greater?

There is much we can learn from John and apply to our lives and ministries.

1. Use money properly & scripturally
   

John’s unique ministry was to call the people to repentance in preparation for Jesus being revealed as the Messiah.

When the people asked John what they should do to repent, he deals three times with the misuse of money. (everyday people – government & official people – law enforcement people)

1. •[KJV] [Luke 3:11] He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
   
2. • [KJV] [Luke 3:13] And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
   
3. • [KJV] [Luke 3:14] And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
   

1. You everyday Saints Be ready to give – The liberal soul is made fat
   

[KJV] Proverbs 11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

Why are so many professing Christians such tight fisted “stewards”? The only thing that I can come with is lack of faith. This is the most un-believed un- acted on verse in the bible:

[KJV] Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

This why I love being a chubby cheerful Christian!

1. You ministers & oversight in the church. (we all minster in same way or another)
   

   When will we learn the danger of greed & the need to leave gleanings?
   

[KJV] Leviticus 19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

Why do you we think that screwing the very last drop out of ant deal or transaction that we are involved in on the grounds of being a good steward & being diligent in business? Have absolutely no comprehension of Christianity?

Have you any idea of how you extract more than is due?

1. Soldiers of the cross.
   
   1. There is so much justified “violence” – railing in un-forgiveness & resentment operating as “righteousness”.
      
   2. False accusations cause the Christian society (church) to fail. See how it important this was in the 10 commandments. When you make a false accusation you try to use your authority in Christ Jesus. It not a good thing to do. When you believe a false accusation you are deceived. Deception allows erodes faith & the truth.
      
   3. Content with your wages. Be happy with what you have: [KJV] 1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
      

      You don’t want to be striving to gain more but rather give more.
      

John understood that using money in a way that pleases the Lord, is one of the keys to open the door for revival.

Martin Luther said it this way, “There are three conversions: the conversion of the heart, of the mind, and of the purse.”

Please remember that these things are for pre-born again. If you have more grace then the standards are far higher than these. These principles are not done away with now that you born-again. NO, they are heightened and amplified to embrace far deeper responses.

Let’s prepare for a move of God by learning from John & by handling money God’s way.

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God works though individuals

Be quiet before the Lord

Position and prestige are unimportant in the kingdom of God

Use money properly & scripturally

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Four simple lessons from John the Baptist

God works though individuals

Be quiet before the Lord

Position and prestige are unimportant in the kingdom of God

Use money properly & scripturally

[KJV] [Matthew 11:11] Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

NON GREATER BUT THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN GREATER THAN HE

What were his strengths and how will we be greater?

There is much we can learn from John and apply to our lives and ministries.

1. Position and prestige are unimportant in the kingdom of God.
   

LUK 3:1-2

~John the Baptist Preaches

[KJV] [Luke 3:1] Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

[KJV] [Luke 3:2] Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

Caesar and Pilate represent those in political power.

The high priests were on the top rung of the religious ladder.

But who received the precious word of God?

John, a man who was simply close to the Lord.

John was a genuinely humble person. His entire life was dedicated to honouring the Lord.

Carefully consider what John said.

[KJV] [John 1:27] He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

[KJV] [John 3:27] John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

[KJV] [John 3:30] He must increase, but I must decrease.

[KJV] Matthew 3:4 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

A simple man, living in the desert, eating locusts & honey & drinking water.

John always honoured the Lord Jesus. John’s disciples had questions as the crowds flocked to Jesus and started to leave John. John not only said that Jesus was greater BUT he actually lived it.

They said that had a devil. He was thrown in prison. He was beheaded.

John ends up beheaded at the whim of a daughter by the evil scheme of her mother because please, in a dance, Herod & his cronies. An ignominious death. John was murdered while in prison because he dared point the finger of the immoral behaviour of a fellow Jew who was the puppet of Rome.

This is the greatest man who has ever been born from human parents. His values were simply that he wanted to please the Lord Jesus. He was willing that the outward results of his life’s work would diminish as he watched the Lord Jesus fulfil his own purpose before the father. He has many things to teach us by his example.

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What can you learn from John the Baptist?

Four simple lessons from John the Baptist

God works though individuals

Be quiet before the Lord

Position and prestige are unimportant in the kingdom of God

Use money properly & scripturally

[KJV] [Matthew 11:11] Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

NON GREATER BUT THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN GREATER THAN HE

[KJV] John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

It’s like double entry bookkeeping – for increase there must be a decrease or else the trail balance will show an error – the debits & the credits must balance.

What were his strengths and how will we be greater?

There is much we can learn from John and apply to our lives and ministries.

1. Be quiet before the Lord.
   

John spent time with the Lord isolated from distraction.

It is no coincidence that Moses, David, Paul, John the Baptist, and Jesus all spent time alone with the Lord God in the desert.

The desert is a quiet place.

Today, television, the Internet, music, movies, handheld entertainment all compete for our time and can even become addictive. I need to get aside somewhere to pray. I used to like to walk as I prayed. I used to hop in my car & drive to a lonely spot, often with a great view of the countryside, and pray sometimes while sitting in car & sometimes getting out.

MAR 1:35-39

[KJV] [Mark 1:35] And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

[KJV] [Mark 1:36] And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.

[KJV] [Mark 1:37] And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.

There is a deep significance in this fact that Jesus so often during His Ministry turned aside for periods of prayer.

He has just spent His energies in healing the crowds of sick; and now this expenditure of power is followed quite naturally by the restoration of power. This is the top-up experience that refreshes and restores him.

If the healer himself found this necessary, how much the more should the patient — myself!

For I too have spent my energies time and time again — spent them in rather a different way — in enduring my particular cross, in facing up to pain and distress, in trying to sustain the will to live. Furthermore, unless I do renew my energy in prayer, there seems to be little alternative to cracking up completely.

Prayer is not an optional extra; it is the very power of my life.

Going Aside to Pray.

[KJV] Luke 9:10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.

I let Jesus take me aside. When he calls then I drop what I’m doing and go with him.

[KJV] Luke 9:11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.

Do I follow Jesus when he hides himself? Do I hide myself sometimes?

MAR 6:31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

So busy I have no time to eat let alone pray. I get pushed and engaged with the business of living & ministering. I do not need days or weekends off, I just need a quiet place for an hour or two. I always make certain that I get these times of short respite. The stillness of my heart & the voice of prayer and thanksgiving refresh and restore me.

32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.

Sometimes I need a private space for a short time – that is all it takes to centre myself in the rest that is God and the centre of his great heart of love.

Mat_14:23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

I am not heard for my “much” praying. I just know that I must not run on empty.

Mar_6:46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.

Sometimes I have to make a departure to just go aside to pray. I like random rather set daily at a set time to pray. My need for pray changes with the demands and challenges of the day.

Luk_6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Sometimes I separate myself for a night.

Luk_9:28 And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.

Jesus sometimes takes me aside. Sometimes I go aside to find him.

Act_10:9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

Peter learnt from the master. Let’s hope that I can!

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Four simple lessons from John the Baptist

1 God works though individuals

2 Be quiet before the Lord

3 Position and prestige are unimportant in the kingdom of God

4 Use money properly & scripturally

[KJV] [Matthew 11:11] Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

NON GREATER BUT THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN GREATER THAN HE

What were his strengths and how will we be greater?

There is much we can learn from John and apply to our lives and ministries.

1. God works though individuals.
   

[KJV] [John 1:6] There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

God typically works through individuals.

People are God’s method of getting things done – no amount of programs, events, ideas or systems will change this.

After all the most efficient system there is is angelic – not bound by time or space won’t wear out an endless engine no fuel etc. BUT God uses redeemed people.

Men & women filled with the Holy Spirit are his witnesses – angels may be his messengers but we are his witnesses.

In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul describes each follower of Christ as a different part of the body of Christ.

We have varied backgrounds, skills, spiritual gifts, and personalities. These talents are given to us for his service. When are talents & gifts are combined with a righteous lifestyle & a cheerful disposition, we are ready. We will be called into his service.

This God-given diversity is intended to make us more effective collectively in reaching our world for Christ.

1CO 12:1-31

~The Use of Spiritual Gifts

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:1] Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:2] Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:3] Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:5] And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

(God uses us each individually to bring profit & benefit to us all.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:10] To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:11] But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:12] For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:13] For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:14] For the body is not one member, but many.

(We are individuals in the body of Jesus Christ.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:15] If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:16] And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:17] If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

(We cannot all be the same BUT we can all be used by God.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:18] But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

(Each member is different but each member is needed. He uses individuals to help the whole.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:19] And if they were all one member, where were the body?

(You are a unique individual. There is no one like you. God will not waste your life. You are worth more than any sparrow or endangered species. Your life has value and purpose.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:20] But now are they many members, yet but one body.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:21] And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:22] Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:23] And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

(This is a sobering thought. God will bestow more abundant honour in the same way. He does not judge like mankind does.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:24] For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:25] That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:26] And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:27] Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:28] And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:29] Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:30] Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:31] But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Be ready for the Lord Jesus to use you for his glory. Do not let your thoughts cheat you. As you are born-again so you are equipped to enter into his service. He uses individuals honour his word and have faith in his name. Remmber god loves cheerful individuals.

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Until next time – your friend in the Lord Jesus, Danny

When I was a young man, before I knew the Lord Jesus Christ as my saviour, I migrated out from the UK to Australia in 1961. To my shock, and at the time, to my embarrassment and sometimes outrage, there were many cultural differences between being a young man in the UK and a young man in urban Australia. No, it was not at the thought of finding kangaroos hopping up the main street of Sydney, but I was appalled at the state of public transport and I refused to get on the first train that pulled into Circular Quay. This train was what Sydneysiders affectionately called the Red Rattler. My first impression was that it was a cattle truck and I wouldn’t climb aboard. One of the main differences that I noticed was the general talk behaviour of young fellows. Easy use of foul language and derogatory remarks appalled me. There was one activity that I had in common both in the UK and Australia. The copious amounts of alcoholic beverage consumption continued unimpaired for one country to the other. The method and behaviour of this consumption was, admittedly, different, but there was one common strand.

In the UK and in Australia, when first meeting with friends and strangers for alcoholic beverage consumption, we clinked our glasses and/or bottles together and mutually called out “CHEERS.” The Australians sometimes added crude comments but this term was a constant. It was actually more frequent than shaking hands when meeting. I don’t think that I ever got any alcohol down my throat in the presence of another person without saying “CHEERS.” I no longer consume alcoholic beverages. It is my choice in the same way that I no longer smoke. I found, to my surprise, that as soon as I became born-again as a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ that I no longer needed many of the habits that I used to be involved in.

Greeting one another by using the word “Cheers” has a very scriptural foundation. How it got to be associated with copious amounts of alcoholic consumption I have no idea. I’d like to look at three new Testament references to the concept of cheerfulness.

[KJV] Acts 24:10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:

Whenever we Christians get an opportunity to witness or testify about our Christian faith, we should do it with cheerfulness. We should testify with the same type of enthusiasm that we used when we said “Cheers” to one another as we clinked various alcoholic drinks. We have nothing to be ashamed of, and indeed, we have news and greetings of great importance. When we tell other people about the love of God and the provision of the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour we ought to be more than ready to share this information with great cheerfulness with readiness of heart and mind. Cheerfully speaking out about the claims of the gospel, its privileges and responsibilities flows quite naturally to us as we walk in the spirit of the Lord Jesus. We should testify about our Lord Jesus Christ with both a cheerful manner with a cheerful readiness. After all, the scriptures exhorted us to be always ready to give an account of our faith. If you don’t like the idea of being too intrusive in the way in which you testify, you can always start your testimony with a question. Something like, “would you like to hear what I’ve got to say?” I know that some of you may feel that you have to wait until you asked before you tell anybody about the gospel or testify about your experiences of the Lord Jesus Christ. People like to take a narrow view of this Scripture: “[KJV] 1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” this Scripture does not say that you have too actually wait until you are asked before you give a reason for the hope that is in you. Unfortunately I can see a day looming on the horizon when it will be a chargeable offence to attempt to try make a proselyte of somebody without being given an invitation to do so. That will end up with the gospel being less spread than it already is.

Remember that each of us is to be filled with the holy spirit and so become people who testify of the news of the Lord Jesus Christ in all times and places. So be like the apostle Paul be always ready to cheerfully answer for yourself and testify about the power and the fact of the Lord Jesus Christ in your life.

[KJV] Romans 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

This is the next circumstance in which we are to show cheerfulness. Whenever you show mercy or forgiveness of somebody you ought to show this with cheerfulness. Forgiveness and mercy are to be offered cheerfully, freely, happily and completely. The reason for this is because our heavenly Father has cheerfully, without reservations, forgiven us for the sake of his son our Lord Jesus Christ. When we show mercy, kindness or forgiveness to somebody it is on the grounds that we who have been forgiven so much through no deserving qualities of our own, can freely, completely and cheerfully show that same forgiveness and mercy to others. To cheerfully show mercy to somebody is the liberating secret that will release you to a life of abounding joy and rejoicing. There is a certain freeness and abundance in the concept of cheerfulness. It represents the concept of happy “more than enough.” The abounding joy of a cheerful heart is exceptional medicine. To show mercy, even if it is not particularly deserved, with cheerfulness is to take on the very nature of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[KJV] 2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

This verse says it all – God loves a cheerful giver. If there should be one characteristic of the way in which you give it should be with cheerfulness. An attitude of cheerfulness is offset against having an attitude that gives grudgingly or out of a sense of necessity. The galvanising attitude towards giving is cheerfulness. Our giving is not related to a sense of having to give for whatever the reason nor is it flavoured with a grudging or begrudging attitude. Have you ever seen a wilful child that is made to share with a friend? The creased brow, the out-thrust lip, the drooped head and the aggressive stance all scream out that this child is sharing out of a sense of external compulsion and necessity. There is no free spirit of cheerfulness in this example. We, on the other hand, are to be able to give cheerfully, abundantly, completely and freely not expecting anything in return.

Once again that happy abounding attitude that is able to give out on the grounds that you have been given so much in Jesus Christ. I hope that you pursue these attitudes of cheerfulness with the same enthusiasm that you used to clink your alcoholic beverages and greet your friends with “Cheers.”

Some links you may enjoy:

God is painting our sky: http://youtu.be/8BC6flTOGSk

Link to my video on Cheerfulness: http://youtu.be/kCtOCJcc8QM

Link for my 1^st session on Cheer: http://youtu.be/XznG7pQzR8U

Whatever you do, stay full of cheer and let cheerfulness mark the way you behave.

John Singleton, arguably the most successful mass media advertiser whom Australia has ever produced, starts out in his book “mass media advertising is the poor man’s door-to-door salesmen.” Now John Singleton was the first Australian to sell an Australian company, his huge advertising agency, to overseas interests and then get himself employed as a CEO of that American owned agency. He admits that personal face-to-face advertising is the most effective & productive method of gaining “new customers.” Now, it’s obvious that I Lord Jesus Christ understands this principle perfectly well. He commissioned his gospel to be spread by word of mouth face-to-face. There is no better way than the Bible way. The trouble is that one “good idea” leads the way to another “good idea.” The idea is that we as people come up with are not necessarily good ideas.

Take the idea of trying to reach the maximum number of people for the “sake of the Lord Jesus Christ” by the most effective modern-day methods. You could easily end up by following the dictates of modern marketing. This will lead to the concept that you need to be acceptable within the target range of your advertising dollar. And where does this lead? Modern marketing will tell you that the age group between 18 and 29 years old tend to follow modern Buddhist principles. While I don’t want to go into this subject here, this line of thought will lead you to attempt to tailor the message that you wish to market into a format that will be acceptable. This will lead you to accentuate the positives and hide the negatives. The first D is such an advertising campaign or philosophy will be the death of HELL. TO LEAD THE SUBJECT OF HELL OUT OF THE MESSAGE OF THE CHURCH IS BLATANT DECEIT.

If the peoples of this world have any rights at all, surely it is the right to hear the truth. There can be no freedom without truth. The father of all lies is the devil. He has been cast out. I, for one, have no wish to join him. Now that I am a Christian I should be committed to telling the truth no matter what the cost. The best way to promote and market the Lord Jesus Christ is to tell the truth about the gospel. The whole truth and nothing but the truth – our whole justice system is built on this principle. Eternal matters are far more important than the affairs of this world. This world is destined to vanish away, but the eternal matters are everlasting.

I am attempting to keep these blogs short. Until next time, a fellow servant of the Lord Jesus, I will keep praying and rejoicing, Dan.

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For many years now the publishing of the holy Bible has fallen into commercial hands. There is nothing new in this, in fact, when the first Revision of the King James Bible in the 1880s was to be published there were arguments and copyright battles over the rights of the American edition. The trade in Bibles is a multi-billion-dollar industry.

So what does “Settings of the King James Bible” actually mean? Bible publishers are found to be cavalier and casual in their attention to detail and accuracy when it comes to the actual printing of the material contained in the holy Bible. This is quite apart from deliberately misleading and changing the words of the Bible between editions.

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Type is not set in the same way that it used to be. Once a mistake is made it is very easily replicated over and over again. I am sure that we have all read books which have “setting” mistakes within them. We can often see these types of mistakes when we haven’t written the material ourselves. Sometimes, in our own writing, we brush these embarrassing mistakes off as “typos.” Anybody who has ever published anything has had problems with these “settings” or typological mistakes. We don’t pick up these mistakes in our own material and we don’t pick them up when we believe and trust the material that we are reading. Even so, these mistakes are there and even if they don’t change our perception they can change the perception of other people reading them. We should be able to buy a King James Bible free of careless mistakes in the setting of the printed type.

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Settings of the King James Bible

When it comes to English Bibles, small changes in Anglo-Saxon words have the power to change your perception and understanding of the word of God. I’ll show you an example of this by carefully comparing the same Bible verse from two different Bible translations in the English language. The two versions that I’ll choose are the King James Bible & the Revised Bible. You have to be careful when referencing Bibles that are called revised. There are several Bibles with the name revise or revised in their title. We want to look at the Revised Bible. The reason for this is because this Bible was the first major English revision of the King James Bible, and it starts a deliberate trend to hide the real word of God from us, the English-speaking people.  

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Here is a brief summary of the revised version: The Revised Version (or English Revised Version) of the Bible is a late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version of 1611. The work was begun in 1879. The New Testament was published in 1881, the Old Testament in 1885, and the Apocrypha in 1894. It is the only officially authorized and recognized revision of the KJV. There were over 50 “scholars” from various denominations on the team. American “scholars” participated by correspondence. The revisers were charged with introducing alterations only if they were required in order to be faithful to the original text. In the New Testament alone, there are more than 30,000 changes made, over five thousand of them based on a new “so-called” better Greek text. I can assure you that they did not stay faithful to the charge that they were given. Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort were the best known of the translation committee members; their fiercest critic of that period was John William Burgon. Hort & Wescott introduced reference documents that were never considered part of the original text at any time in previous church history. Most of the changes are as a result of using these corrupt manuscripts. Hort & Wescott have very detailed profiles that show that they were anything but godly. Burgon strongly opposed this English revision and forcibly argued that the result was not the word of God. This revised version also opens the way for publishers to become extremely protective of their copyright entitlements.

We are going to look at just two parallel versus:

(Heb 1:1 RV) God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,

(Heb 1:1 KJV) God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

The first thing you notice is that the word order and the structure of the sentences are changed. You have to look carefully at them to spot differences. This is not just a matter of using different definitions. The changes between the two will alter your perception about the word of God.

Let us look at two small words “in” & “by.” In the way that the mind Works, these two small Anglo-Saxon words will change your perception of the word of God, unless you are well informed. By saying that the word of God or rather, what God spoke, is “by” the prophets, you imply that what the prophets spoke is the word of God. By saying that the word of God or rather, what God spoke, is “in” the prophets, you imply that what the prophets spoke contains the word of God.

If you believe beyond all reasonable doubts that the Bible is the word of God, then trusting it to reveal God’s words to you is simple. If you believe that the Bible only contains the word of God then you need some sort of reference to show you clearly (I had a split infinitive here “to clearly show you” but I decided to change it) just what is the word of God and what is merely the reports of mankind. By using the simple word in the phrase “in the prophets” you entrench your perception that the Bible, as we know it, only contains the word of God and therefore its meanings are up for change and debate. This implies that you need someone with specialist knowledge to interpret whatever God might have said.

I’m sure that you can see the problems here. By using the word “in” you are now at odds with the word “all.”

(2Ti 3:16 KJV) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

We would then have to do know what the word “Scripture” means. Is the whole of our Bible the Scripture or is only part of our Bible the Scripture? In other words, if the Bible that we are reading only contains Scripture but is not totally Scripture, then who is qualified to make these distinctions?

I believe that the King James Bible is the word of God in English. This English word of God can be traced all the way back to the day of Pentecost when travellers from Britain heard the gospel in their own native language and brought it back to Britain as the word of God.

(Act 2:8 KJV) And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

I think that it is wonderful that every vernacular Bible up to & until the work on the Revised Bible all agree with one another. Once the Revised Bible was published the way was open for all the vernacular Bibles in the languages of the world to be polluted and changed into something that only contained the word of God and certainly was not the word of God. I think that Revised Edition translation committee has a lot to answer for.

I have endeavoured to keep this Post short. I would welcome any comments or questions & I have posted this through several different blogs and social networks sites. When you develop a love for the word of God you will have access to something that is far more than just another resource for living.

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My physiotherapist said I did things in my mind first – well she is not saved & sits in spiritual darkness, but she is correct to assume this as this is how it appears. I do things through Christ Jesus in my spirit first and then I just flow on in this.
Be fashioned by the word of God and not by humanist thinking.

The Background:

The following corrects Marslow and his
Existentialism - ACTUALIZING people, as he called them, have the following characteristics that were so popular & circulating around in the 1960′s. He moved past the old ways of sorting people out and came out with observations that floated these sorts of ideas. Of course, he got these ideas, in the first place, by observing monkeys and he assumes that humans come from monkeys.

I was living between Bowral & Mittagong with Henry Gallus. Henry has now been called home to heaven by our Lord Jesus Christ. Henry & I were working our way through the book of Hebrews, using Andrew Murray as a sounding board. Henry used to bring fresh meat home from the butcher’s shop. One day, as we prepared our stew pot, I noticed that the newspaper that the butcher had wrapped the meat in had an article in it about Existentialism and Marslow. Henry & I chuckled at the notion of “strong meat” of the word of God as opposed to “milk” of the word of God. I was intrigued by all this humanism. I had not, in those days, connected the dots between today’s mental health solutions, the revised English bible and evolution. I knew that I did not care for the notion of evolution as it denied the word of God. So, here, in this newsprint fragment, was an explanation of human behaviour that excludes the need for a relationship with God. I looked at it very carefully. The article lists the qualities that a modern fully balanced superior person actually processes. I don’t have the actual newspaper clipping, but I do have my original hand written notes in pen & ink and not biro tucked away somewhere. And, yes, the newspaper used the term “superior person.”.

I took this list, there were 10 points in the newspaper, but there are actually more qualities listed as part of this Existentialist list of superior qualities. It’s all very humanistic, no need for God at all. I have taken them and put them in a scriptural context showing that we born again people are moving towards the type of humanity that God the Father intended for those he created in his image. This is only possible through the blood & life of the Lamb of God.

Anyway I hope that you are blessed by this list. Instead of “superior” I use the term “extra ordinary”

Extra-Ordinary People

A portrait of the type of person Jesus Christ will turn us into if we let Him.

Superior person or extra ordinary person in the sense of above natural thinking, practice & the world

[KJV] ROM 8:7 – 9

[Romans 8:7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. [Romans 8:8] So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. [Romans 8:9] But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

[KJV] 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The “humanists” invent nothing.

Once again the “humanists” like the “evolutionists” invent nothing but in their rush to dent God they put their own “humanistic interpretation on what they observe.”

These qualities belong to the spirit filled saint whose mind in renewed by the word of God.

Qualities of an Extra-Ordinary Person

Sons of God with love, power & sound mind

[KJV] [2TI 1:7] For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Extra- Ordinary Saints; believers in & followers of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Outside the normal ordinary attributes!

Saints who have the following characteristics:

A – Superior perception of reality

You can differentiate what is fake and dishonest from what is real and genuine. This reality is beyond the normal senses.

Discernment – Natural & Spiritual

discern v. 1 perceive clearly with the mind or senses. 2 make out with effort.  discernible adj.

discerning adj. having good judgement. discerningly adv. discernment n

[KJV] Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

[KJV] [LUK 12:56] Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

[KJV] [1CO 2:14] But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

[KJV] [1CO 11:29] For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

[KJV] [1CO 12:10] To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

[KJV] [HEB 4:12] For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

[KJV] [HEB 4:14] Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

You “see” & rely on these realities:

My redeemer is God & He is living in me in the power of an endless life

[KJV] [PSA 78:35] And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

You are an heir of God

[KJV] [ROM 8:17] And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

All power in heaven & earth is given to the one who lives in me

[KJV] [MAT 28:18] And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Eternal Life is real.

This is force that drives you

[KJV] [1JO 5:11] And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

B – Increased acceptance of self, of others.

You have a quality that is more likely to take saints as they are than try to change them into what you think they should be –

This same acceptance is applied to your attitudes towards yourself:

If some quality of yours isn’t harmful, you let it be, even enjoying it as a personal quirk.

[KJV] 2CO 12:14 – 13:1

[2 Corinthians 12:14] Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. [2 Corinthians 12:15] And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. [2 Corinthians 12:16] But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. [2 Corinthians 12:17] Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? [2 Corinthians 12:18] I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? [2 Corinthians 12:19] Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. [2 Corinthians 12:20] For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: [2 Corinthians 12:21] And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. [2 Corinthians 13:1] This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

You are not a moaner or grumbler.

You know all thing work for good to them love God & are called according to his purpose.

You know the meaning of “Good Cheer.”

You have the ability to change.

You know the power of your mouth.

C – Spontaneity Increased

Increased spontaneity and simplicity:

You prefer being yourself rather than being pretentious or artificial

Christ writes his law of liberty on your heart – so you can be spontaneous!

You can move & flow in the Holy Spirit!

You live from within!

[KJV] JOH 14:20 – 21

[JOH 14:20] At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

[JOH 14:21] He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

You know the power of the indwelling life!

You can trust spontaneous action – you are sure of the position of abiding in Christ & this brings an increased spontaneity of action – you cry laugh & respond freely & easily – the life comes from the river within – it is not good manners it’s life.

D – Task-orientation, not self-centeredness

Increase in problem-centring – stronger focus on problems outside of yourself

You are problem-centred

Meaning you treat life’s difficulties as problems demanding solutions, not as personal troubles to be railed at or surrendered to.

E – Desire for privacy

Increased detachment and desire for privacy

You have had a need for privacy, and are comfortable being alone

[KJV] [MAR 1:35] And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

You are complete in Jesus Christ.

You love people but you are part of the answer not part of the problem

You know that solitude is an asset.

F – Increased autonomy

Sense of independence and autonomy

Independence of culture and environment

You are relatively independent of culture and environment, relying instead on your own experiences and judgments.

You have the ability to depend only on God & not on man & natural thinking

You look to God & you follow Christ Jesus.

G – A vivid and fresh appreciation of reality

A certain freshness of appreciation, an ability to see things, even ordinary things, with wonder

Vivid religious experiences

Higher frequency of peak experiences

A peak experience is one that takes you out of yourself, that makes you feel very tiny, or very large, to some extent one with life or nature or God

It gives you a feeling of being a part of the infinite and the eternal.

These experiences tend to leave their mark on a person, change them for the better

Mountain top experiences –

Often moved by the Spirit –

Like Paul who had times, left for dead, in the deep – jail – 7th heaven etc –

Beyond the mundane –

Living in the power of an endless life

H – Increased identity with humanity

Increased identity with humanity; identification with the human species

You have the ability to understand the human spirit – know your fellow man – know the spirit of a man – understand meetings (the flow of them & know people

I – Greater Freshness & Richness of Emotional Reactions

You enjoy intimate emotional relationships with people

Greater freshness of appreciation and richness of emotional reaction & experiences

You enjoy intimate personal relations & improved interpersonal relations – display brotherly love, compassion or philanthropy Intimate emotional relationships — social interest, compassion, humanity & hostpitality.

You have the ability to feel deeply & have a freshness about it

You can laugh, weep, joy, sorrow, peace or grief

The Holy Spirit can manifest himself in you, do with you what he will because you yield to the spirit

This brings you to improved interpersonal relationships

Deepening friendships -

That I might know him & the fellowship of his sufferings – greater oneness & unity – able to bear burdens – Paul longed after brethren with bowls of mercies

J – Democratic values and attitudes

A more democratic character structure – Democratic values and attitudes

This means that you are open to ethnic and individual variety, even treasuring it.

Ability to meet & greet all planes & types of people

Preach & minister to any – children / adults / rich / poor – people from all walks of life

K – Increased Creativity

Creativity – Greatly increased creativeness; your ability to be creative, inventive, and original

You have the ability to create ideas –

You are ready for inspiration & revelation –

You know that the abiding word of God creates – confessing the word knowing that the creator is your redeemer who brings to nought the things that are & creates what otherwise could not be

L – Own Highly Individual System of values

This drives you – like Paul you walk a path that is beyond what you expect from others – Jesus Christ’s value system was to do only the will of the Father

No confusion of means and ends

You have a different perception of means and ends. You feel that the ends don’t necessarily justify the means, that the means could be ends themselves, and that the means — the journey — is often more important than the end – because you can’t get to the end without taking the journey

You can see the value of the journey –

Recovery road – Christianity explained – Open house.

A sense of humour that is philosophical, not hostile –

You have an un-hostile sense of humour — preferring to joke at your own expense, or at the human condition, rather than directing your humour at others

M – Resistance to Conformity & Enculturation

Resistance to conformity & to cultural conformity; resistance to enculturation. And they resisted enculturation, that is, they were not susceptible to social pressure — they were, in fact, nonconformists in the best sense of the word.

Resist someone forcing on you what could be called “stuff” – culture or personal value systems

Just like the Jews tried on the Gentile Christians – you can tell the difference between this type of enculturation & real revelation

You have the ability to maintain your God given identity regardless of the company you are in

A transcendence of the environment rather than just coping.

You make a change by just being!

You are an over-comer

In many ways you are vulnerable

You can often suffer considerable anxiety and guilt — but realistic anxiety and guilt, rather than misplaced or neurotic versions.

You can be absentminded and overly kind.

You can be tough or hard when you have to be.

You can have moments of ruthlessness, surgical coldness, and loss of humour.

You have these following qualities

Truth – rather than dishonesty

Goodness – rather than evil

Beauty – not ugliness or vulgarity

Unity, wholeness, and transcendence of opposites – not arbitrariness or forced choices

Aliveness – not deadness or the mechanization of life

Uniqueness – not bland uniformity

Perfection and necessity – not sloppiness, inconsistency, or accident

Completion – rather than incompleteness

Justice and order – not injustice and lawlessness

Simplicity – not unnecessary complexity

Richness – not environmental impoverishment

Effortlessness – not strain

Playfulness – not grim or humourless drudgery

Self-sufficiency – not dependency

Meaningfulness – rather than senselessness

You have the following characteristics:

1.    Superior perception of reality

2.    Acceptance of self and others

3.    Spontaneity

4.    Desire for privacy

5.    Sense of independence and autonomy

6.    A vivid and fresh appreciation of reality

7.    Task-orientation, not self-centeredness

8.    Vivid religious experiences

9.    Increased identity with humanity

10.    Intimate emotional relationships with people

11.    Democratic values and attitudes

12.    No confusion of means and ends

13.    A sense of humour that is philosophical, not hostile

14.    Creativity

15.    Resistance to conformity

16. A transcendence of the environment, rather than just coping.

17. Own Highly Individual System of values

These saints are Individuals

1. They avoid publicity, fame, glory, honours, popularity, celebrity, or at least they do not seek it for its own sake. It is not terribly important one way or another.

2. They do not need to be loved by everyone.

3. They generally pick out their own causes, which are apt to be few in number, rather than responding to advertising or to campaigns or to other people’s exhortations.

4. Their fighting is not an excuse for hostility, paranoia, grandiosity, authority, rebellion, etc., but is for the sake of getting things right. It is problem-centred.

5. They manage somehow simultaneously to love the world as it is and to try to improve it.

6. They respond to the challenge in a job. A chance to improve the situation or the operation is a big reward. They enjoy improving things.

7. They do not need or seek for or even enjoy very much flattery, applause, popularity, status, prestige, money, honours, etc.

8. Expressions of gratitude, or at least of awareness of their good fortune, are common.

9. They tend to be attracted by mystery, unsolved problems, by the unknown, and the challenging, rather than to be frightened by them.

10. They enjoy bringing about law and order in the chaotic situation, or in the messy or confused situation, or in the dirty and unclean situation.

11. They try to free themselves from illusions, to look at the facts courageously, to take away the blindfold.

12. They feel it is a pity for talent to be wasted.

13.    They tend to feel that every person should have an opportunity to develop to his or her highest potential, to have a fair chance, to have equal opportunity.

14. They like doing things well, doing a good job, to do well what needs doing. Many such phrases add up to bringing about good workmanship.

15. They get great pleasure from knowing admirable people (courageous, honest, effective, straight, big, creative, saintly, etc.)

16. They enjoy taking on responsibilities (that they can handle well) and certainly don’t fear or evade their responsibilities. They respond to responsibility.

17. They uniformly consider their work to be worthwhile, important, and even essential.

18. They enjoy greater efficiency, making an operation more neat, compact, simpler, faster, less expensive, turning out a better product, doing with less parts, a smaller number of operations, less clumsiness, less effort, more foolproof, safer, more elegant, less laborious.

The above is a portrait of someone who is patiently awaiting the Lord Jesus.

These qualities are only possible because you are a new creature and all things have become new.

[KJV] 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

[KJV] Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Daniel Wooldridge from thoughts spanning from 1964 to 2011

Here is what you asked for – it is the account of my wonderful experience with your brother Geoffrey in 1963 – 4. I was a constant visitor at your home in Narromine. Your mum (Pam) was so very kind to me. I hope that you, family & friends like it.

Geoffrey 1963 – 4

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I arrived in Narromine in late 1963 or early 1964. I had hitchhiked all away from Mittagong, through the Blue Mountains and along the great Western Highway to Dubbo. I then hitchhiked down the Narromine Road that leads into western New South Wales. At every ride that I got I witnessed about the power the Lord Jesus to save, I remember that I was received very well and at least two of the drivers gave me money to help me on my way. The last lift dropped me in the main street in Narromine which was exceptionally wide with trees growing up the centre of it. The driver was a cowboy pulling horse float he wanted me to go all the way to Broken Hill because he said that the gospel was very much needed out there. I didn’t continue with him but I will always remember his invitation. I did not know where to go but I did know that Bruce Kerr was in the town. I eventually found him. His landlady didn’t believe that I was in the will of God in coming to Narromine. Somebody else had actually been asked to go but I said I was going. Bruce’s landlady was determined to remove herself from me and also Bruce. Bruce lost his lodgings so that left it to us to go down the stock route in his combi van and camp down by the river. We slept outside on the ground and in the morning we woke up surrounded by sheep as far as we could see. We both felt that this was a prophetic sign that there were many souls to be saved in the town. I have a photograph of us at that camp on the first day.

I eventually got to meet the Richards family. I can remember the street that they lived in, it was parallel to the main street on the Trangie side of town and nearly at the end of the street. Mrs Richards was very warm and welcoming. I spent some time living with Bruce in a caravan parked near the Sollaces’ place. I had a great time with Bruce. On one journey we wrote “I’m just a branch.” Bruce played a Ukulele & I think that I was playing a slide guitar. We sang, prayed and preached. It was soon Easter and we travelled down to Bowral for an Easter convention. At this convention Bruce decided not to return to Narromine and indeed the oversight of the church decided that it wasn’t the right time to go to Narromine. I believed that it was the right time for me to be in Narromine so I returned on my own without any backing from any church or church leadership at all. I rented a very old house, the rent must have been zero, and the Richards house of became like a second home. I was living next door to young Betty Sollars who is now Betty Camac. The one thing, about the Richards home, that I really do remember was their wood stove and how when you open firebox door you can cook the most delicious toast imaginable. Needless say I had many a slice of toast at the Richard household. I got to know the kids very well. They were a young and happy family. Geoffrey was their little boy, not yet at school and he and I became great mates. I loved him and, I believe, that he loved me.

I held meetings in the CWA Hall. We broke bread every Sunday morning and I collected to children for a Sunday school in the work Ute, and if I couldn’t get that, I hired a taxi to go and get them. It was a great time, people were saved & I baptised them in the river. I was told that you could not run a church without a car, but i did. As far as I was concerned, God was moving. The Richard kids got saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. We all used talk in tongues together as we toasted bread at the stove in the kitchen.

This is a story about Geoffrey and a certain dream that he had regularly. In this dream he would see a large black hand. The palm of a black hand was facing towards him sort of like a stop sign when you put your hand out fingers in the air palm towards someone to indicate that you wanted them to stop. I always used to ask Geoffrey what the dream meant. Geoffrey always said that the dream meant that the Black Hand stood for the sins of the whole world. Every time he had the dream he would come and tell me about it and I would ask him what the dream meant and he would tell me that the Black Hand stood for the sins of the whole world.

One day, and I’m almost certain it was at the Richards’ house; Geoffrey came to tell me that he had had the dream again. He said “I saw a big black hand in front of me.” I asked him, “Geoffrey what does the Black Hand stand for?” he said, “It’s the sins of the whole world.” In my mind’s eye I see myself sitting down and Geoffrey standing in front of me. His little head is hung down and his shoulders are slumped. This time I felt that the answer would be different somehow. So I asked again “Geoffrey what does the big black hand stand for?” There was a long silence as Geoffrey, his head hung down, just stands there. Gradually he lifts up his head to look at me. His little lips are trembling and huge fat tears are leaking from his round eyes and roll down his little cheeks. He starts to speak through the sobs “it’s my sins, It’s all my sins” he mumbles. I can see them even today, splashing down. To tell the truth the memory still gives me goose bumps. I either knelt down with him or scooped him up in my arms on my lap. “Yes, Geoffrey” I said, “it is your sin but the Lord Jesus gave you this dream so that he could show you how to understand it because he wants you to ask him to forgive you and to come to live in your heart. Would you like that?” He said that he would like that to happen and so we prayed and he asked the Lord Jesus to come into his heart. The tears turned to smiles and do you know that he never had that dream again.

Later, after I had left Narromine, the Father gave permission to his son the Lord Jesus to call Geoffrey home to heaven. It must have been so sad for all his family and years after, when I heard about this, I was stricken but heartened that this little boy knew who Jesus is and what he has done and what the Father expected him to do about this news. Geoffrey is one of the crowd of witnesses that have been cheering me on to live for my LORD JESUS CHRIST with all my heart, mind & strength. I can see him standing on the ramparts of heaven. On that great day when the Father sends back His son to collect us, Geoffrey will be among that number riding a very different cloud & I shall rise to meet them in the air.

I hope that you are ready to meet Geoffrey on that day. You have to do what Geoffrey did. He knew that he had sinned and he knew that there was forgiveness for him but he had to ask the Lord Jesus into his heart. He had to have a bad conscience about his sins and want peace with God. Be like Geoffrey and let the Son of God come to you and restore you to the Father’s side.

Daniel Wooldridge recalling events from 1963/64

[KJV] Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

[KJV] Job 22:13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

[KJV] Acts 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

[KJV] Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

[KJV] Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

~The Incomparable Christ

[KJV] Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

[KJV] 2 Samuel 22:29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

[KJV] Isaiah 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

~Jesus Is the Light of the World

[KJV] John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Postscript:

I really enjoyed my time serving my Lord Jesus Christ in Narromine. I have a few other stories of that time of Jesus & me. Sometime after this Bruce married Rosie and he was asked to start the Full Gospel Church in Narromine. He had a new house built. Bruce felt that he could not be really effective if I was in town. I was asked to move on, which I did. I moved to Orange for a while were the adventure in the Lord Jesus continued.

All these many years later, 2010, I start crosslife virtual church fellowship and find Trish Richards (well not Richards now) at 54 and a grandmother, still living for her Lord Jesus. Who tell the way and adventure of the LORD JESUS CHRIST?

Dan Wooldridge

danw@crosslifechurches.org

20/12/2010