Deep Waters

Kenneth Shelton

Deep Waters is about understanding and how to apply what's in the Bible. We need the absolute revelation, not interpretation, of God's written voice. Bible and ministry ignorance is one of the greatest plagues we are facing today and I have the most earnest desire to eradicate this plague from our earthly church today. If you want entry level Bible teaching then you can attend your local church, but if you want to get to know God, yes really get to know Him intimately then stay tuned into this podcast and get ready to cast off your arm floaties. No not all churches are missing it, but in saying this I challenge you to find one that operates as them ol' preacher boys did in the book of Acts. This ministry isn't trying to get the attention of our Lord Jesus by being the biggest most glamorous, most relevant for today's culture church the heavenly host has ever cast their eyes upon. We are after the one's that know that they know that they know there has to be more than what most churches are chatting about. And where, by God, is the power that is to accompany the preachers preach? Christian peeps it is time to pluck our Christian heads out of the sands of inefficiencies and ineffectiveness and join our Lord in the battle on the surface of this earth.

We challenge you to get lit for God and to listen to these messages and remain the same as you are when you first tuned in. Video's and books will come in there time but for now I guarantee you will not remain as you are if you engage in these messages.

The Podcast Preacher is called, appointed, and anointed to help you grow. I have been He has been given the gift of Teacher and is flowing in and pouring out that gift to anyone who is tired of attending a church that is in no way changing anything about the individual or the community in which they reside in.

A final word to the wise: you will hear things that you will not hear in more than 95% of todays churches, and that is fine, that is why God is always using the uncommon man to move His church forward. Each of the more than 460 messages is fully supported by scripture so that you can do your own research and look into these things that God is saying during these no doubt end times. This is not an end times ministry, it is teaching, a getting to know God intimately ministry. It is a ministry of encouragement and of accelerated spiritual growth. The only promise that we can make is if you, yes it is if you hear and do what in in these messages. Bible confirmed and backed by the good fruit of this ministry.

1 Cor 3:1-3 - 3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and [a]behaving like mere men?

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Is Jesus coming back Soon And Will We Know Whenish? 3 of 10

Is Jesus coming back Soon And Will We Know Whenish? 3 of 10

Hosea 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.This is God talking to us Christians not the other guys. Welcome to my third topic of ten which is titled, “Is Jesus coming back Soon And will we know whenish?” And but you should know why I am doing a message on this topic and that is because we are closer to Him returning, and based on the way Christians are acting and behaving, they seem to be unaware. What Ken? Yupper Tupperware. By the looks and activities of many of our sweet churches today, you would think that we have all the time in the world to wait for His return. I mean the bible states that there is a time for the Laodicean church age to manifest and many have taught that this, meaning today starting around 1950’s is the age for that church. And Jesus Himself stated you would know them by their fruit, and no fruit is a telling story regardless of how you might redefine what it looks like to walk with God. Ha oh wait you want the fruit list before I carry on with this message. Ok, so let’s build a bit of support and then get on with what kind of fruit Jesus is talking about, that all but appears to be MIA from the existing body of Christ in well most cases as you know I would never say all because I do not know or believe that all churches absent of the fruit of God is possible. If that were true then we ought prepare to be raptured any second now. But since I am still here typing away then we must have some that are on task. So now don’t go gettin mad, ignorance of the things of God is a thing in the ill-equipped body that actually has a cure, and it is listening to this message, and well the other Podcast messages, and then doing what you can to depart from a stationary induced ignorance. Or just read the bible and do that. I am not the final answer, I am just one of you trying to do my best to line my life up with the life of Jesus. Let’s build it and then get into it:2 Peter 3:1-7 - 3 Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2 that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, (that is these days) walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

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Is Jesus coming back Soon And Will We Know Whenish? 3 of 10

Is Jesus coming back Soon And Will We Know Whenish? 3 of 10

Hosea 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.This is God talking to us Christians not the other guys. Welcome to my third topic of ten which is titled, “Is Jesus coming back Soon And will we know whenish?” And but you should know why I am doing a message on this topic and that is because we are closer to Him returning, and based on the way Christians are acting and behaving, they seem to be unaware. What Ken? Yupper Tupperware. By the looks and activities of many of our sweet churches today, you would think that we have all the time in the world to wait for His return. I mean the bible states that there is a time for the Laodicean church age to manifest and many have taught that this, meaning today starting around 1950’s is the age for that church. And Jesus Himself stated you would know them by their fruit, and no fruit is a telling story regardless of how you might redefine what it looks like to walk with God. Ha oh wait you want the fruit list before I carry on with this message. Ok, so let’s build a bit of support and then get on with what kind of fruit Jesus is talking about, that all but appears to be MIA from the existing body of Christ in well most cases as you know I would never say all because I do not know or believe that all churches absent of the fruit of God is possible. If that were true then we ought prepare to be raptured any second now. But since I am still here typing away then we must have some that are on task. So now don’t go gettin mad, ignorance of the things of God is a thing in the ill-equipped body that actually has a cure, and it is listening to this message, and well the other Podcast messages, and then doing what you can to depart from a stationary induced ignorance. Or just read the bible and do that. I am not the final answer, I am just one of you trying to do my best to line my life up with the life of Jesus. Let’s build it and then get into it:2 Peter 3:1-7 - 3 Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2 that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, (that is these days) walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Can You Lose Your Salvation 2 of 10

Can You Lose Your Salvation 2 of 10

So now then welcome to my second topic of ten which is titled, “can you lose your salvation?” And but you should know why I am doing a message on this topic and for those of you that think you know, my answer might surprise you. I am doing this not because I am trying to point out that there is a difference between us and them, the believer and unbeliever, but because there are so many of us’s that believe we are in because we simply stated a prayer at an alter. This really is a message more for the Christian nutralites. A nutralite is a Christian that even though they may have had a born-again experience, they have done nothing by way of changing from the old man to the new man that would show or demonstrate that they were actually born again. For them or others they may remain as they were at the beginning of their salvation because they have been taught that they cannot lose their salvation once they have gotten it. There response is to do nothing because all the work was already completed on the cross and they know that they can do nothing to earn salvation so they gladly shift their lives into neutral; and it is right there that we have the birth of the nutralite. So before we go on, as I am hoping I didn’t already lose my listener base, ha I should tell you that I do feel unqualified to delve into such things as this from the position that I will be trying to take. And I say so, because really there are others who have done a better job at explaining these kind of things. So why do it Ken? Because it occurred to me when I was reading a book this past Sunday that something strange bumped into my current thinking. Allow me to share. So I have done more than one message and a book soon to be released down the road, on the subject of losing your salvation. And I supported that thought using some of the same scriptures that I will be using in this message, but from a new angle. We will take a look at the inerrancy of God predestining His peeps to salvation which, if this is the case, then there is no guesswork as to who name is in the book of Life and who’s is not right? It is finished before it started so to speak (1 Peter 1:20). The other angle is that your name could be in the book of Life but because you went south in your walk with God your name vanished from the book. I will provide the scripture and the event which alludes to the fact that this could be the case.

Does God Love Everyone Top 1 of 10

Does God Love Everyone Top 1 of 10

Does God love everybody?Ha, what Ken, I am trying to kick off my day with a touchy, touchy, feel good, and some coffee and a cronut. Look, as we dive right in, I remember a story whereby some Mormons came to my place to share their religion. In truth, what I like to ask these traveling kids, are questions about their own beliefs. And now but these kids had stopped by for the second time, as I invited them back after giving them something to think about the first time. And so we ended up on the topic of God loving everyone which I believe is a statement that they had made. So I took them to this scripture:Malachi 1:2-3 - “I have loved you,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says the Lord. “Yet Jacob I have loved; 3 But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.” And so now as you can expect these ill-equipped elders were not aware that this was in the bible that they were holding. After a few awkward moments of no response, they peddled off somewhat thrown off by their own biblical ignorance. What I was trying to do was to point out, not only the fact that they were not equipped for doing what they were doing, but that they also were ignorant of the scriptures. My goal was to drive them to look at the scriptures and move away from what man states about the bible (interpretation) and get them to where they could be authentically born again and begin to get revelation imparted by the Holy Spirit. Every Mormon on the planet needs to have the born again experience to be saved. Hey yall peeps do not believe it for a moment that you can get around this one fact:John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Ha I am right here and I am not waldo. So in the midst of recording the first of my top 10 messages that I most like, the software I have been using to record over 465 messages in less than two years all of a sudden started crashing. No but I mean like straight up into a wall with no point of return. And although Audacity is free my time isn’t especially when I have to re-record a message 5X. Now I say five times but in truth I, after I post this status will be trying to record the first of my top ten for the fifth time to see if there maybe wasn’t another thing going on. But more on that later…

From Water To fire

From Water To fire

Another way of saying what I saw while driving to work in driving rain is that the baptism by water and baptism by fire happens to authentically born-again Christians as well as to the planet. Ha what? Right both events happened to those called or rather predestined by God, and also to the planet, and surely there has to be a reason that I am seeing this, this morning March 05, 2024. And maybe as I motor through this message God will bless us with the totality of its meaning. So whatever shall this mean? So I'm driving down from Paradise heading to work and this thought pops into my head as it's raining cats and dogs up here in Paradise. I was thinking about how exciting it is that God had made a promise so long ago after the first earth bath, that He would no longer destroy mankind by flood. Gen 9:11-17 - 11 Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”12 And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Pay Attention Non-believer God May Be Using You

Pay Attention Non-believer God May Be Using You

What the Peter, James, and John are you saying Ken? Ha, this one came to me as I was opening up our gate at work. Now I had just started on my top-10 Christian questions and but while I was steppin’ to the gate bam. And but what I like about such messages is that it fly’s in the face of religion, not the Jesus religion, but the man-made up stuff religion including some who call themselves Christians. Oh, but I am not addressing those types in this message, and but notice I didn’t say the non-believer types, but I am referring to those who may be Christianity deceived and have glommed onto a falsy religion or even participate in a Laodicean church of which as I have already stated, and but many others too, that we are in this very church age. The Luke-warmers, and now I am not picking on the spiritually ignorant when I say this stuff, but for whatever reason it would seem like it takes a hard stroke to make a point, especially if the nail is already set it its own way. Can I get a translation Ken? What I am saying is that religious people are a very difficult bunch to teach anything new to because they don’t like being wrong or changing very much off of what they already believe (Luke 5:36-39). They are not hard to spot, and now don’t go lookin’ for them either, but if you catch the movie The Fighting Temptations you will see them and/or hear them. I will let you decide who is who. So but I am talking about those in whom the Lord is calling but have yet to respond with a yes and an amen. Now before I prove my point and it’s a good one which is why I am saving it for the great reveal at the end of this thing, I will demonstrate the workings of some of these peeps and you can let me know if you think that they have the fruit of the spirit, the miracles, signs, and wonders, following, the calling and approval of God marked all over them. Yes you can let me know if we even have such a Christian today as they were before they, yes they even got saved. Oh, I let a paw out the bag, but not the whole cat.

Genius's, Super Heros, And Super Naturals

Genius's, Super Heros, And Super Naturals

These false or misidentifying traits, that is genius’s and super heroes, create division and perpetuate elevating one person above and over another. And what is wrong with doing so Ken? If I work harder than that guy, why shouldn’t I get what’s mine. Well here is a strange response. There are homeless people with more or greater talents than yours because they do not think like you do. You see not everyone has a straight shot at life. Look at how God builds the kingdom of all kingdom’s. Now but also listen to what the result is in our abilities as a Christian: 1 Cor 1:4-9 - 4 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, 5 that you were enriched in everything by Him in all [b]utterance and all knowledge, 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed [c]in you, 7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. What? No short gifts for the one who is plugged in. And yet I say that many will believe that they can outperform a plugged in Christian, but I say it is not possible that this could happen if the Christian understands what happened to him when he became authentically born-again: 1 Cor 1:10 - 10 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Your Ministry Updates & Directional Goals for 2024

Your Ministry Updates & Directional Goals for 2024

Ok so this is an update on your ministry, and this is your ministry or one of them if you are a listener. Now don’t walk away to avoid your part in this thing. I have made it easy by using the teaching gift that God has imparted to me by preparing these deep water messages. By you sending a link from any one of the 30 platforms that these messages can be found on, you are performing in your ministry and preaching and teaching, although indirectly, these messages. How cool is that? God will help you to help Him by giving you premonitions of who you might send these to. If you have a website or business of some sorts you can do the same thing. I mean are we not helping the social media bugs by using their product when we sent any and all kinds of data to our friends and others in whom we don’t even know? Yes and they are huge because of it. Now I am not picking on them as I think when used properly they can be relational in nature. How much more ought we be distributing the message of God to a world that has an ending date? An ending date that could be as soon as Sept 2025 or 2060 something. And yes, although I don’t agree with everything the author states, which is total 100 ok, his book series has a lot of great information that you might want to plant in your nuronic bank so that you do not get caught off guard. That even sounds funny right? Oh what is that? Uhmmm it’s the end of the world. What? I just bought a new Mercedez and my daughter just got married…now what are they going to do if there is no more world? Ha, but no many will get caught off guard and because of social media and news perpetuated fear, it will cause them, you, and others to poke your heads underground.

Interpretation Is The Enemy Of Spiritual Intelligence

Interpretation Is The Enemy Of Spiritual Intelligence

And at the risk of offending the educated group, I am now, in my 61 years of living on this rock and seeing all of the things that I have seen, and remembering 100,000 of thousands of written works by famous people as defined by famous people, by unknowns who are also famous, by grand institutions known for their famous people and contributors, and well much of in the middle as well, and if you know what that means email me so we can be on the same page. Perhaps we too can be known by the unknown to us and some of our remarks can be entered into the belly of the earth for all to be wowed by. But, and if you haven’t caught on yet, I am somewhat frustrated by some recent readings whereby they were recommended by an author in which I liked his own written works. Just so you know, this is how I move through my reading plan. I really so try and tap into what God is trying to show me or teach me, or now a days may even want me to speak on. And but with the exception of Jesus you can ask anyone who really did only want to do and say what God is saying, that it is not an easy task. Oh He is not the difficult one in the relationship, we are. You see we have a thing called our pre-salvation got mud up, all into everywhere, and thought we actually knew how to live on a planet ravaged by sin, and under the sway of the evil one, and all of this before we could actually even walk. Our pre-conceived ideas about what God is, who He is, why He is, and what He has to do with us as well as the other way around, can get us a little mixed up.

Kingdom Versus Priesthood

Kingdom Versus Priesthood

Ok so first things first, this morning Feb 09 2024 I did an interview with Wavve.co which is an audio to video conversion company. I wasn’t interviewing but providing feedback as to my thoughts on using their platform. They, in essence wanted feedback on their product. Now how nice of a world would it be, if every company actually wanted to know if they were 1) providing a product that the public wanted and doing it well, 2) seeking input from the end user on its effectiveness, and userability and 3) asking if they could make it better for you and future users. Five stars to Jeff and that company to involve their customers in product improvement and userability, both of which included very little input because they do what they do so well. And yes I made userability one word. Ha, but what I am trying to say is that by them reaching out, it took them to the next level. Most companies do not do this because they do not care. No, it’s not that they do not have the time or resources, but that they don’t want to hear what you think. And this may be that they might think that the feedback you would give would be negative or maybe even counter productive in terms of what they are trying to sell. Hey company peeps, any feedback is useful if it can help you to get to the point where you are operating in excellence. And I think that your audience, the end user, is way more informed about your product than even you are at times. You know that this is true if you have never sought out input from the people who pay you to make a living. Yes I am being hard but helpful. If you want to succeed then tap into your untapped into resource, and often times it is a free resource, to measure your effectiveness. And no, don’t just trust in auto data, A.I., to inform you of your effectiveness. Listen, drug dealers, if you were to measure your effectiveness by money piles alone, would exceed any and all of your marketing strategies that you pay top dollar for, if you in fact used money piles alone to determine success. They spend no money on marketing and smoke you in how much money is left on the table. And that right there my friends is the key. It is not how much money you make but how much you leave on the table. It is in fact how much you could have made but didn’t that makes the difference.

Clearing Up The Denominational Conundrum

Clearing Up The Denominational Conundrum

OK so I was working on a message titled One foot in One Foot Out Means You're Out, when this thing popped into my head and it was probably Pop who dropped it. So I am now working on this new message, which will be a clarification of something I often talk about but also about something that I also read about in a great book series. And but when I read about it in this book series, I did not agree with the authors position on this, and it is part because I feel that I have done the reading and research as well as having been a part of several church address communities and that the idea that, and here is the statement paraphrased, “God is not shocked that we have so many denominations.” And so for some context he was indicating in the text that it is ok that we have so much variety in the church today. Now so another way we could look at this conundrum is to simply state that choosing to attend a church is as easy as selecting a meal off of a 15-page menu that serves a little bit of every culture from 5-countries. Ha, I know you have seen some of those menu’s. I feel that in some cases you should at least get a two-year degree after working that menu over. So to be clear that analogy is to say that this person thinks that it is ok that we have so many different choices. But to get to that conclusion you would have to back a truckload of revelatory information and consider not the differences in doctrine or theology. And maybe if we chatted about it he might be more clear when making such sweeping statements. And why would I care? Because these are the statements that perpetuate the current problem that we have with this mostly manmade institution. Yes, Jesus did not point to a corner spot in Jerusalem and tell Peter on that corner address I will build my church. Ha, no and but there is nothing wrong with having a corner address. The problem is when we do it while departing from doing church Gods way. Wow this got big fast. And that is just how I like it. Its like unravelling a golf ball which is not just a little bit interesting.

The most convincing lies look like the truth and it is this very fact that will prove that many will slip away from God as we draw closer to the end. Oh ken not another one of these. Yup but nope. I do not speak too much of the end times insofar as the end times go. Not that I shouldn’t but just that I am not right now called to speak on it because I am but just now starting to look into it. Why? Well, because I do know that while Donald Trump was our President, and throughout his term things were clearly off insofar as our country goes. I think God was showing us that we are in hot water and that we have misplaced our faith in things such as the democratic system over the things of God. I mean and this is just me, as you are also able to have an opinion, how could so many of us Christians have it wrong? In these, no those and these days, how could we be so far apart. We truly looked no different than our unbelieving neighbor. In more cases than not, you could not tell a Christian apart from one who did not believe in God. Why is this? Because they were getting their information from the same source. And the source is designed to tell a lie so good that it looks like the truth. Oh there it is. Yup, therein lies the trigger and the point of this message. If you are prone to believing what anyone states that is in direct conflict with what the bible states, then you are in trouble and susceptible to losing salvation ground. What, how can you say such a thing Ken. Ah now that we have your attention let us see how satan operates and how he will continue to operate as we draw nearer, in fact, we truly are only minutes, heavenly minutes, from the end, or should I say the beginning of the end. I have at least two authors, or rather believers who believe that the end of times, or tribulation started near the 1950’s or so. And if you are a data looker and look upon the statistics and world events that have taken place since about that time you can but ask, how much worse does it need to get for us to ask how much worse is it going to get and will I be here or in the greatest mess known to mankind (Matt 24:21-22).

Testimony Blizzy

Testimony Blizzy

I was thinking of titling this brief testimony, “Wind Talker And Then The Real Story”, but I think it is too many words for such a short message. So it is always good for all of us authentically born again believers to share when God moves in our lives. It is expected that we do so because He Himself stated: Rev 12:11 - And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. Wow I think it is too early for such a scripture. Ha, but no I used it so that you could understand the value of sharing your testimony, and in part that value is that you can overcome the devil and whatever he brings your way by sharing what God is doing in your life with others. So I have shared previously that I have prayed when the wind was jus getting crazy on my trees in Paradise Ca. And at times they would come crashing down taking a bunch others with it. now none have landed on our home which is expected because why would God tell me to move to Paradise Ca to take me out when He could have done that so many other times in my life when I was a wild prodigal. And but at least three other times including during a snow storm I commanded the wind to stop and it did. And but now in this event I had read in a pop up from X the new twitter and fear spreader of America. We know that fear likes an audience and X provides that. So I read something to the effect that the winds were going to be dangerous in this storm.

Coming Up Short

Coming Up Short

This is a sporty shorty and but still is intended to help those who even today with all of our medical advances, still walk around spiritually blind thinking that they are in with Jesus. Ha, show me a Doctor who can cure spiritual blindness and I will show you an authentic born-again believer preaching the gospel in power, yes the power of God. How you measure what you are assessing determines the outcome of what you think about what you are assessing. Another way to see this is to know that you are wrong about what you think about other humans way more than you know. And when you look at them through a judging lens, the distortion of your opinion can be blinding to your own self. James 4:11 - Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. Judging another because they do not meet your idea or standard of how they should live, only exacerbates your spiritual blindness. The Pharisees struggled with this all of the time. It is the same spirit. And lo if you are back-slidden or have walked away from God, and not ready to come back home oh ye prodigal, then you can be prone and susceptible to supporting your weakened spiritual position by criticizing others who are not back-sliding or who have walked away from God. And refusing their help is ant- God. He joined us together so that we would find help in our time of trouble.

A Fisherman's Tale

A Fisherman's Tale

So when commercial fishermen go out they usually take a crew of about 3 to 6 guys to handle the potential catch. Yes some boats have more depending on how large it is and how many fish that they harvest from the sea. They when they are loaded up or our of bait, they return to shore and drop off their payload, which then goes into a factory where many staff are waiting to process the harvest. Now I don’t know the process in a fishing factory but working a decade in lumber now doubt it works similarly.The fish must be separated into species, grades, sizes, and what not. And before I move on, the season of fish runs do, no doubt determine what process is used in the factories. So but now back to the fishing story and the point of this tale. A few peeps catch a large amount of fish, which is then processed by more people than who caught them. Works the same in mining or the lumber industry whereby a few harvest the lumber in comparison to the many that process the lumber in a lumber company. Back in my day 1981 – 1990 we had about 900 staff in just one location processing the lumber. We would never see 900 people up in the woods cutting down trees and driving them down to their final destinies for just one company. I am getting down to my point, a point that has been made in several other messages, and that point is…drum roll please…We should not be sending out the whole church to do the fishing for men and equipping so few to care for the harvest once it comes in. Ha, ha do you see it now?

The Power of Corrupted Beauty And All Beauty is Corruptible

The Power of Corrupted Beauty And All Beauty is Corruptible

My first title of this message was going to be “Where's Solomon.” But then as it began to evolve and morph, it became clear that God may have been taking me in another direction. And well but I say may because isn’t it always the case that when something so…well, intriguing lands on the pages, it can go sometimes beyond what even you or in this case I had suspected. But then as I am reading this through to clean it up and prep to lay it to voice, I see that something epic has indeed landed on these pages. I never did see the end of this topic at its beginning. Nope, I was just wondering if Solomon had remained in salvation given what he did at the end of his life. Not that this wouldn’t have been a great issue to discuss as if it were possible that he did then it is indeed possible that we too can do the same thing and that sounds like it is important to discuss. But as God has done throughout my life, He likes to say what He likes to say and expects us to be a precise voice as we represent His message. Ha, maybe Moses knew this up front which is why he did not want to be that voice (Ex 3:10-11, 4:10-16, Acts 7:22) I added the scripture from Acts as we should see that maybe he just did indeed know. Ha. I then came up with the spy life of beauty because it appears to be an unmanageable force in our lives and one of the most, if not the most corrupted God attributes if ever He did create one. Now not that He corrupted it, oh no like all things God to us it was corrupted by sin and our fight as believers today is to discern the authentic from the corrupted. So but let’s kick this thing off and remember I do consider this to be one of the more revelatory messages that I have got, not because of the thought that the evidence of what I am saying is insufficient to support it, as we only need to be open to what is right now happening every minute of every day right around us. Oh this is so clearly evident it does concern me not just a little. And not just for the truth of it but because I dared to touch it in spite of my own life-long struggles with it. Hidden in plain sight. You know, and I will get it going in a minute, it has to fall into the same category of food. What I mean is that we all get hungry, and if you struggle with how much food or what kinds of food you eat which contributes to unhealthy weight gains, you of all people know the struggles other may not know or see right? For others, few others by the way, they eat and move on about their day, but for you, you see all of the bill boards, TV ads, coupons in papers and magazines, social media ads, ads, ads, ads everywhere. You cannot go anywhere where there is not some kind of temptation when it comes to food.

Neither Bone Was Broken

Neither Bone Was Broken

Well I guess I should explain the title just a minute because it can be a bit misleading if taken at face value. What I am really saying is that the rib taken out of Adam to create Eve, and the sword that pierced Jesus side breaking not one rib is one story about fulfilling a prophetic word spoken by king David, and God pointing out the future of mankind which is that it is not good that man be alone. So just a sideline being a bachelor or player is usually played by those who are actually lonely inside and know not how to stop being alone. They are not good being single nor are they good even if they drive a Bugatti up Mulholland Drive. A woman completes a man. Let’s support this revelation before we get too deep too fast:Gen 2:21-22 - 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He [a]made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.Oh the coolness as Adam was made from a pile of dirt, and then only after he was made, was a woman was taken from his very side and made. Neither had a belly button, and but what is stranger is the fact that Adam received the breadth of God straight from the mouth of God but the first woman did not come into the earth the same way. I don’t know, I am just trying to take this message one way and it seems as though it may be going in another. It is probable that she too also needed the breath of God but I don’t want to assume that just because God was silent on the matter. And but he may not even been silent on the matter but she may have been made alive differently than Adam considering how she came into the world. The bible doesn’t say that but it is just me wrestling with God on the matter. Now let’s stay in the boat and go with it shall we?

The Price And Purpose of A Lie

The Price And Purpose of A Lie

All of the little and large lies have a purpose which is to train you how to differentiate the lie from the truth. And your conscious is there to help you. But then the whole of truth is that there is also an enemy to the truth and but to make it more interesting it comes born in human form. It is a spirit and but takes up residency in a human host. Let's remind my Christian learners of that story before getting on with this story after all you need to know this story so that you don't shout me down when you hear the rest of it. Tic toc time to take a walk:John 8:44 - 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Let’s hit it: Phil 4:4-8 - 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!5 Let your [a]gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.6 Be anxious (3X) for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. And I cannot but help to think that if we do the following it will because of two things, the first is that we have conquered anxiousness, and the other is that by doing these things it will keep us from falling into that pit again. 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.So now besides all of the great stuff in that scripture, I must define another word that meditate has triggered in my mind. And I need to do so because I think that that there is a great misunderstanding about the word that is so similar to this word meditate that people have been convinced to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Now but there is a path that can lead a person to meditate on the wrong things right (Pro 23:7)? Yes, but knowing what we should be thinking about and what we should not, we can manage those thoughts. Let’s look at meditations twin brother - D-Com please:Ruminate:verb (used without object),ru·mi·nat·ed, ru·mi·nat·ing.to meditate or muse; ponder.Psychology. to obsessively revisit the same thought or theme over and over again.verb (used with object),ru·mi·nat·ed, ru·mi·nat·ing.to chew again or over and over.to meditate on; ponder.

Well so this is a fishing story of stories. Yes, it is based on the fact that even though I caught it and placed it in my freezer it still got away. Yup, it is the one that got away story; and but now it didn’t break the line as there was no fight left in it, it was in my freezer. So now but how it got away is less of concern than why it got away, and but I say that this can happen to anyone regardless of fishing skill level. Because this fishing story can be applied to anything that we do that God disapproves of. Yes, at some point in your Christian maturity God is going to stop letting you off the hook so to speak.Ha, growing as a Christian means that you will know when you are about to disappoint God and that in doing so you will get an alien reaction. Yup, you will always be presented with a way out but as us humans go we often overlook the way out and head towards the door of temptation to get what we want:James 1:13-15 – 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.