Month: August 2021

Listen Church! Revelation 2:7

“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit sayeth unto the churches; to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” Commentary: Jesus is speaking to his church not the world! Sometimes we are hard of hearing? How shall we hear without a preacher? Listen to the Word of God! Faith cometh by hearing the Word! The written and then spoken Word of God! The Trinity spoke the worlds into existence! So what must we overcome to receive the fruit of eternal life? Sin authored by Satan! Jesus overcame our sin by taking it to a cruel Cross and paid the price of death and judgment for you! However it does you no good unless you trust Jesus with the miracle he has done for you! Jesus is in the midst of the paradise of God! He was also being the Tree of Life present in the Garden of Eden! Yet Satan took their gift of free choice and deceived them into eating fruit from the wrong tree casting death and disease upon the human race! Jesus conquered death for you but you have to receive the sacrifice by faith and trust him with the promises he has given us! Without faith it is impossible to please God! Not by our works but his works on the Cross! The only sacrifice acceptable to God! Jesus raised from the dead on the third day! How many days have you lived trusting yourself rather than trusting God with your present and eternal life? Are you eating from the wrong tree? Time to put your ears on church! Listen and obey his word! This world is perishing day by day but God’s gift of eternal life is forever! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com

Loss of First Love Caused by Sin! Revelation 2:6

“But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.” Commentary: Notice Jesus said he does not hate the Nicolaitans but hates their deeds! This confirms the entire theme of the Bible that God judges us not by race, gender, economic status, language, cultural popularity, religion but by character alone! However we cannot have the character of God without God! Jesus makes that possible! So who were the Nicolaitans? The name in the Greek means to conquer or subdue people! This is what sin does! This cult group were the descendants of Nicolas of Antioch an ordained deacon! See Acts 6:5. He came from out of paganism into Judaism and then to Christianity! He changed religions many times! He was not afraid to switch religions when he found it convenient! He taught the doctrine of compromise! He believed there was more than one way to God like Christians today who cling to Darwinism and then try to hang on to Christ? Occultism was a major force that warred against the early church! In Ephesus the primary pagan cult was the worship of Diana (Artenis). The Nicolaitans mixed paganism with Christianity. Much like the Hindus do today where every road leads to God including Christianity! Does not matter which road you take all roads lead to the same place! This results with a diluted Christianity with no power and no conviction! It is a worldly kind of Christianity! No borders, no law, no rules anything goes! Homosexuality fine! Gay marriage great! Abortion good! Lawlessness something to be desired! This evil fruit of the Nicolaitans lead to people engaging and approving sin completing Satan’s power over them to conquer and imprison them through the sin that God rejects and died for on a Cross! James & Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Christ Loves His Church! Revelation 1:20

“The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches; and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.” Commentary: Biblical scholars for the most part in commentaries over hundreds of years believe the seven angels are the seven pastors of the seven churches in Asia Minor! The Greek word “angel” can be translated Pastor! The Apostle John imprisoned in a slave labor camp by the Romans on Patmos was given this vision for those churches to communicate to them his will, direction, correction and encouragement to the Body of Christ! Jesus does not name these pastors or churches because Caesar would arrest and imprison them! His letter had to be coded so that the churches would be protected! God by his spirit communicates with those he loves in visions and dreams so that our enemies are confounded! These messages are also to those congregations! Church leaders are very important to God! Whether leading small or large congregations! Pastors are the shepherds of the sheep! Not perfect and neither are we but appointed by God and anointed by God to build his kingdom down here on earth! I want to share a personal experience with you when back in 1983 we were commissioned as missionaries to India for 3 years by the world’s largest church located in Seoul Korea. The Pastor was Paul Yongi Cho and we spent 10 days there in Korea with him and his church which then was about 500 hundred thousand members and today over 1 million members! I was then really green behind the ears and we had our own idea’s how to do the work in India! However after spending about 15 minutes in his office everything changed! Cho told us our primary mission to India was to help local pastors across all denominational lines with our time, money, prayers, encouraging, correcting when necessary, preaching, evangelizing and coming under the authority of those pastors! Why? He told us the way Satan tries to destroy the church is to attack the head or pastors of those local churches! Cho understood the importance of God’s plan of the church to reach the entire world with the Gospel! No lone rangers in the Kingdom of God! Our mission today is still the same! Those who never come under authority God will never put in authority! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com