I epitomize the journey the Church is made for…I’m ‘that’ guy.

May God’s amazing grace be bestowed upon you!

Before I begin, I would like to let you know that I firmly believe being transparent is the best way to help others in their own situation.  Viewer discretion is advised, blunt force trauma is about to come your way.  Of the hundreds that read this, I am sure that some of you have had this same issue.  As for some of you,  you will read this and begin some ridiculous judgement against me…because you don’t actually read the entire thing!  Then most of you, will understand the purpose, because you will finish.

Have you ever met ‘that’ guy, you know him, the one who always has SOMETHING to say about…well everything.  The same guy who gravitates people to him, yet does not seem like he knows where he is going.  To simply put this, he has serious people skills, and you never see him in a dull conversation.  The gift of gab, if you will.  I’m that guy…and for many years, the whole ‘always having an opinion’ thing never worked out too well, but because I was so certain in my beliefs, people latched on who didn’t quite have the same level of belief in their own system.  Due to this blessing/curse, I use to sit in my room and think of all the reasons against something.  It was almost as if I was always looking for a debate and trust me, I always had the perfect comeback, and that carried some pride within me.  It was almost like a competition every time someone disagreed with me.

Here is where the whole ‘Church’ thing comes into play, I was the guy who dissed the Church.  I was the guy who believed my own self-growth and studying the Word was sufficient enough.  So much that when I would watch 50+ sermons a week from Pastors nationwide, I gained this in-depth knowledge and felt like the physical Church location was merely for specific individuals who had had a void to fill.  Yeah, I was ‘that’ arrogant.  Matter of fact, I was so against the physical location of the Church, that I was almost in fear going to it.  But this is every ‘unchurched’ or ‘dechurched’ guy, right?  This is the story for every egotistical maniac who believes something after they tell themselves it for a elongated period of time. I had seen all of the hypocrisy that people were gossiping about, I had seen all of the lies, the talking behind ones back, etc.  I had seen it all.  To be truthful, the Church it felt less Godly than anything else on the planet.  That will probably ruffle a few feathers amongst my blog viewers, but truthfully that is exactly how I felt.  But this is because I had fallen into the same trap society had fallen into…that because my Pastor wore a suit, I was a bother to him if I tried to contact him.  If my Pastor stood tall above everyone, you did not have the ‘access’ to speak to him.  Sadly, the last two statements were true, I seen too often that a Pastor would be too busy for his people.  But just because society tells me that the typical church is that way, doesn’t mean that it has to be that way.  Why couldn’t I have stepped in to help a fellow brother or sister in Christ?  Oh, I was too busy being intimidated by the mantra that is associated with this physical location. How foolish of me, thankfully Jesus died to save for idiotic things like that in which I have partaken in.  So that was me until about my high school/college age.

One day though, I was reading through the Book of James (located in the Bible) and I started to feel very heavily convicted for all of those thoughts.  I started to read about how our modern day Church is very little like the Church that was initially begun by these pioneers.  I mean, if ANYONE would know besides Jesus on what the Church should look like, it would be his little brother.  So my next question was…why does the same Bible that these Churches follow say this and the majority of them lack in following?  It was that very question that the Holy Spirit laid upon my heart, in which led me to really get to know the purpose of the Church.  It was that question that led me to know that I was meant to assist in the restoration of the Church that Jesus himself built back in the day.  I started to have these thoughts of, would anyone really love on a homeless man if he walked into a Church?  I mean, the people at Church, do realize that Jesus spent a majority of His life homeless…right?  So if Jesus came to visit, would they even let Him in?  All of the questions alike began overwhelming me and so I started to write all of my thoughts down, that would be the first sermon I ever wrote.  I wanted one thing.  The Church Jesus built to thrive with every ounce of my flesh, blood, spirit, soul, and mind.  My walk with God was faithfully and exponentially growing before my very own eyes.  But let’s be honest, I still had this opinion problem, where I felt like I had to have an answer to every single problem.

In time, God really worked with me and healed my opinion issue.  But most importantly, about three or four years later, God had GIVEN me the opportunity to fully serve the Church, the same church that I had chastised my entire life.  I had really overcome all of my negative affections and thrown out the connotations involved with the Church.  I was, for the first time, feeling so blessed by God.  I had the opportunity to actually help and teach others.  I had the opportunity to show people answers in the Gospel!  My life had literally hit a pinnacle, God had began using my life for His ultimate purpose.  It was then, where my opportunity to serve the Kingdom had started.  I began to understand more and more that the Church was not a ‘museum for the good people’, but rather ‘a hospital for the broken’.  That, like Paul, boasting in weakness…is what we do best and what draws us to the Lord.  It all started to click, and click it did.  The Church, now, had me at ‘hello’. Jesus was like ‘I told you so’.  Once I began to serve and devote a lot of my time to the Church, I began to see others being blessed by ministries, ministries that weren’t even the one I was a part of and I took such great joy in that!  I began to understand the role that the Church plays in society, but like everyone else, I had the slightest clue early on.  But in fact, it was me that the Church was made for.  I was broken.  I was in need of my Savior.  I wanted to learn how to boast in my weakness.  I began epitomizing the exact person who begins their own restoration in the Church.  I’m ‘that’ Guy now also.  I’m ‘that’ guy who will give 90 hours to helping others, if it would be my way and be attainable.  God has turned my hardened solo heart into a heart for the lost.  God has blessed me immensely and because of this blog, I am encouraged each and everyday that the ‘real’ Church (body of God) is alive and well!  I am encouraged because there are people who were like me, transformed each and every day for God’s Kingdom!

God has delivered me from a lot over the course of the past 7-10 years, but the most amazing thing is the avoidance of the Church.  The fact that I now serve on a staff at my local Church, still today blows me away.  The fact that I will begin Seminary school for my Masters degree in the Fall….BLOWS ME AWAY. Don’t get me wrong though, I battled my calling for a while, but God has assured it within me and now I’m going after it! God has transformed my heart and let it be known TO YOU that if He can do such miraculous works in my heart, He can in yours as well.  I’m now going to be ‘that’ guy on the stage in front of the people, and my Church will follow the ways of the Scriptures and not of society.  God has called me to help rehabilitate the physical structure of the Church, so that we (his children) can ultimately fulfill our purpose in reaching as many people as possible!  So how about you join me, blog family, in helping the Church be restored to the way that Jesus made it and the way God intended it when it was created!  How about instead of giving the odd-ball the stink eye, how about inviting him over for dinner.  Let us follow the ways of Jesus and not the ways of society.  Join me and let’s make HIS KINGDOM KNOWN!

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The Alpha and the Omega, He is the beginning and the end.

Good morning to all across the perfectly designed planet Earth!

I am sure that, at one time or another, everyone has been curious about the beginning of the Earth, but what happens when we perish…or wait could the Earth die too?   What I am about to do is give you the gospel in less than 500 words, so that you have a better understanding that maybe you should also think about the end of the Earth.  Because the end of the Earth and the sight of Heaven will obliterate any sight seeing tour that this world has offer.

 

 

Step One: God created all things

After God created all things, we have a collection of Old Testament prophecies where a ‘savior’ (messiah) will be sent by God to destroy sin and take the keys and death from Hell.  ~ 2000 years ago, God sent an angel to tell Mary that she was pregnant, even though she was a virgin.  Not too long later, Jesus, the messiah, was born via a virgin through a miraculous birth.  This child was named Jesus, he was 100% human & 100% God.  He was a carpenter the first thirty years or so of His life, but the last three are the most notable as He was began His ministry.  Jesus was different, Jesus did not give into temptation, Jesus was all that we envy and long for, ‘perfection’.

But unlike the animal offerings in the Old Testament, Jesus was sent as the ultimate sacrifice.  The people turned on Jesus, because He did not follow the ways of the religious scholars.  Jesus witnessed to all people, regardless of their reputation.  Jesus was fulfilling the true Will of God. So man despised Him so much that they had Him crucified on a cross, beating Him, spitting on Him, lashing His body to where he was unrecognizable.  The prophecy claimed that He would rise again after three days and defeat death.  Three days later, and still today, people go to the tomb and look for the man who was put there after His death!   When Jesus died, He took the keys from Hell and defeated death, so that when we perish…we may have everlasting life in Heaven if we choose to!  God gave the ultimate sacrifice, so that you and I can have a clean slate.  So that when we die, that we do not die, but are born again in a land with perfection and without suffering.

If we pray to God that we wholeheartedly believe God sent His son for each and every one of us, and that God gave His son for OUR sins.  We, too, can be saved and have everlasting life through God.  Sit in Gods shoes for a minute to really grasp this, do you have a child?  Could you sacrifice your child (or someone you love) for people who are disgusting, hypocrites, unworthy, and undeserving like we are?  I’ve got to be honest, I’m not sure I would have been able to do it.  But if God did it for You and I, to walk in a life of repentance…and develop this relationship with Christ, our Savior, that God promises we will spend eternity in Heaven.  I’ll close with leaving Revelations explanation of the beauty and majesty of the eternal reward!  Because just as God makes us new after we perish in flesh, He will make the Earth new as well!

 

 

 

 

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Revelations 21

 

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”^[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. ² I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ⁴ ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’^[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

⁵ He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

⁶ He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. ⁷ Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. ⁸ But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb

⁹ One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. ¹¹ It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. ¹² It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. ¹³ There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. ¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. ¹⁶ The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia^[c] in length, and as wide and high as it is long. ¹⁷ The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits^[d] thick.^{[e] 18} The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. ¹⁹ The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.^{[f] 21} The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

²² I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. ²⁴ The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. ²⁵ On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. ²⁶ The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. ²⁷ Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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You think fear is powerful, wait until you hear about ______.

I hope that this message reaches you with peace and love.

To dive right into this…we all have, for certain, two things in common; we all experience fear and this other thing.  How many of you have this mundane fear of not being successful?  Do any of you have the fear of not being able to provide for your family, even maybe yourself?  How often do you feel like this photo (see below)?

According to the dictionary:  fear – (noun) an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.

fear – (verb) be afraid of (someone or something) as likely to be dangerous, painful, or threatening.

Maybe you are a part of the rare breed whom never experience fear, but truthfully if you say you do not…I claim that’s not possible.  Perhaps your fear is that you won’t be able to pay your next bill, that your significant other will find out what you have been doing, even the fear of yourself in your inability to contain your addiction, etc. Fear is a very common thing, fear is what distinctly controls us into making knee-jerk reactions. Fear is, as described, the unpleasant emotion that we feel threatened by (i.e Satan).  The enemy with many names has this perpetual propensity to utilize fear to his distinct advantage.  Be assured though, fear is…worthless, tasteless, and insignificant.  Haha, fear is pathetic. Let me tell you about the one thing that is even more powerful than this ‘fear’.

According to the dictionary:

hope – (noun) a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.

hope – (verb) want something to happen or be the case.

Hebrews 10:¹⁹ Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, ²¹ and since we have a great priest over the house of God, ²² let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. ²³ Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. ²⁴ And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, ²⁵ not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

You see friends, fear (aka Satan) is a LIE.  Fear is a subjective nuisance that attempts to devastate your entire morale over something that may never even happen.  Now let’s focus on the real thing:  Hope.

Let me tell you how I know that hope is more powerful than fear.  Here is the human/practical example that I would like to use.  Every single time my fiance comes and visits me, I am always certain that when she tells me that she is on her way…that she will hold her word and come knocking ever so fast.  I always know that my fiance will hold to her word, because of this trust or faith between one another; I have this indescribable hope that comes over my life when she says she’s on her way.  I don’t doubt that she will come, I don’t fear that she’s going somewhere else.  I don’t believe that she would lie to me, because I believe she is faithful to her word. As a matter of fact, I’m so certain that I get butterflies in my stomach and stare outside of my blinds until I see her car approach.  There is not one ounce of fear, and the funny thing is…I have zero control on whether she decides to show up or not.  Yet I have sincere hope and faith that she will hold to her word. Do you see where I’m going with this?

God is not just always on the way, or even pronouncing that He is coming or arriving, God is omnipotent, He is already there!  You see, this indescribable hope should apply to the fact that God is already with you, wherever you are!  God is always visiting you, all you have to do is pray and encounter God.  You see what if we had enough faith in God, as we do humanity, to where we actually because of this trust or faith between one another; would encounter this majestic hope that comes when He is around us.  What if we trusted God the same way we trusted humanity?  Let me take this a step further, what if I told you that we should have more trust in God than we do in humanity?  You see, according the scriptures, (passage above), which tells me all that I need to know.  So let me tell you what is true from the Word.  I don’t ever doubt that God will come, I don’t ever fear that God’s going to miss my stop. I don’t believe that God would ever lie to me, because GOD is FAITHFUL to HIS Word.  So if you don’t get anything out of this, please understand this statement. You think fear is powerful, wait until you hear about hope.  This feeling of hope is far more powerful than fear, and I’m sure you’ve felt it before.  I plead that you give God a chance!

God bless,

Love you all!

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