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Read Your Bible!

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading! Athanasius of Alexandria (296-373 A.D.) Egyptian Theologian, Church Father, Apologist for Nicene Faith opposing Arianism.

Most Requested Bible Verse 2019

Philippians 4:6  Greek Translation: “Be careful for nothing, not even one, no matter what he may be, but in everything by prayer your requests to God for a particular benefit, with thanksgiving let your petitions be made known to God and the Revelation of his saving purpose.” Comment: The Bible App has had over 400 million users in 2019. So why is Philippians 4:6 the most requested scripture verse in all the Bible? This App has the Bible in 1350 languages! Even so still there are over a billion people in the world who do not have the Bible in their native language! If you had asked me to guess what scripture would be most popular I would have guessed John 3:16. I would have thought it would have been a scripture spoken directly by Jesus! Like go out into all the world and preach the Gospel! A lot of scripture explains who God is! You would call this Theology. However in this scripture it is about you talking to God! Prayer is about talking to God! But we need to know who God is or who we are talking to! It is hard to talk to someone you do not know! You cannot be intimate with them! The critics might say well this shows us how selfish these Christians are! Give me! Me! Me! It is all about me! However God is a giving God! Back to John 3:16. For God so loved the world that he gave… We also need balance here!  Satan told Jesus if he would bow down and worship him he would give him all the Kingdoms of this world! So Satan can give you stuff but not eternal life! He will use the stuff to try to keep you out of the Kingdom of God! We need the whole council of God or we balance the scriptures against each other! We need a stable faith! All the Bible provides this balance! It prevents extremes! Does this verse stand by itself! Yes! But the Bible interprets itself! You need all the scriptures to see the clear picture or Image of God! Jesus prayer was not my will but thy will be done! Satan promised Jesus I will give you the stuff! God’s will was for him to go to the Cross! Some Christians pray “If it is thy will.” No! Thy will be done in my life wherever that takes me! Whether a dungeon in Rome! Paul wrote the Book of Philippians from a jail cell! Paul and Silas sang worship songs together at midnight but it was not in a church choir! They were chained together on a prison floor! Is my prayer to win the lottery? The problem is that if we do not pray and we get something good we will take the credit upon ourselves! If we pray and God gives it to us as we prayed  we know it is from God and we can give him the Glory and Worship! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Is Evolution in your Bible?

Romans 1:20 “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so they are without excuses.” Comment: Evolution is not in your Bible! You can try all the schemes to get it there like the gap theory but not Biblical! If you confess evolution and Christ you have divided yourself from God! You got your evolution ideology from another source! Like the Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution! You are banking your future on a theory! The Apostle Paul here in this scripture says we would be without excuse! The only way my sin could be judged with no redemption is to reject the Godhead! Reject the Trinity! The Trinity is responsible for creation and redemption! You cannot have it both ways! Either God is a liar or Darwin is a liar! Either your evolution teacher is a liar or God is a liar! Jesus is the truth? Why? He is God in the flesh! He did not evolve! He has existed forever before the creation of the world! Jesus will judge the world! Jesus witnessed and was active in Creation! Jesus will be active and will witness either your judgment or redemption! Which way it is for you he will be active in! You can follow Darwin to judgment or Christ to redemption! Two roads that lead to very different places! One road to heaven and one road to hell! Why not travel the road less traveled? Do not follow the road most traveled where the masses of humanity follow the road to the abyss rejecting the Savior! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Why is 1492 A.D. Important? Esdras 6:42 (Apocrypha)

This same year the last of the Muslims were forced out of Spain by the Crusaders! Christopher Columbus set sail for America! This same year the Spanish Inquisition began! Why is all this significant? First Christopher Columbus was a Jew! Throughout his life Columbus showed a keen interest in the Bible and Bible Prophecy! He would often quote Biblical texts in his letters and in his ship logs. Part of the argument that a Book he submitted to the Spanish Monarchs when he sought for his support for his proposed expedition to reach the Indies by sailing west was based on his reading of the Second Book of Esdras 6:42. Columbus interpreted this scripture from the Bible to mean that the earth is made up of six parts of land and one of water. The then world maps showed only 5 continents so Christopher reasoned from the scriptures  there was another continent missing on the world maps! So he thought traveling west he would discover this missing continent! If you read the quotes of Columbus he said he did not use science, navigation or mathematics but the scriptures as his guide! The Catholics got a hundred years start on evangelism of South and Central America because they did not reject the Apocrypha from the scriptures as the Protestants did! Towards the end of his life Columbus produced a Book of Prophecies in which his career as an explorer is interpreted in the light of Christian Eschatology and Apocalypticism. On August 3, 1492 the Edict of Expulsion was executed requiring all Jews to leave Spain! On August 2nd Columbus and his crew boarded their ships before midnight and left harbor 1/2 hour before sunrise. His historic journey was also financed with the help of some wealthy Jewish merchants! Spain had been a 2nd home for Jews since 200 A.D. Remember Paul wanted to travel there! There were 800000 Jews living in Spain when the Inquisition began! The Catholic Church in Spain wanted all Jews to convert to Catholicism! Also King Fernando and Isabella wanted to seize the Jewish wealth of Spain! History has shown us that if the Muslims are not around to persecute the Jews the Church is! Christopher was also searching for a land where the Jews could escape persecution! That happened to be America and a land which has always supported Israel! The Apocryphya was a collection of Books published in the original King James Bible of 1611. They were part of the King James Bible for 274 years until they were removed in 1885 A.D. They were inserted between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Here is what Esdras 6:42 says, “Upon the third day thou did command that the waters should be gathered in the seventh part of the earth; six parts thou dried up, and kept them, to the intent that of these some being planted of God and tilled that might serve thee.” KJV 1611 A.D.–1885 A.D. The parts of the Bible that were later thrown out were the GPS navigator’s for Columbus voyage to the New World in 1492! Maybe we should revisit the Apocrypha? Thankyou. James and Hamsa Sasse.  GodWhoisGod.com

Babylon & Your Bible!

Why is the name Babylon important? God thought it was important enough to mention it 284 times in your Bible! That is a lot of scriptures containing this word! You might think because the name is mentioned so many times it deserves honorable mention? Not for its value but a warning to us of its destructive powers to any culture! The name appears first in Second Kings 17:24. The King of Assyria brought men from Babylon and planted them in Samaria! Verse 25 goes on to say they did not fear God and God sent lions in to consume them! This is one way to handle the illegal immigrant problem! We have moved to a place in America where very few people fear God! They work on Sunday and do not honor the Sabbath! Sixty years ago when I was a small boy growing up in Nebraska only the police department and the hospitals were open on Sunday! You traveled to church and no where else on Sunday! If you murdered someone you got the death penalty! The name Babylon means confusion! In the Hebrew Strong’s #894. However this Hebrew word has another Hebrew root word that helps us understand the name Babylon! This word literally means to mix yourself with God! That is you dilute God with yourself! Like diluting milk with water to get skim milk! You try to make yourself God! Like an atheist you decide what is right or wrong! You decide who lives or dies! Abortion! Holocaust! However God initiated the incarnation to mix himself with humanity through his only Son Jesus Christ! Then God had to sacrifice his only Son on a Cross to make us right with God! Remember Jesus was fully God and fully man! When the Jews were mixed with the ideology of Babylon God had to take them into captivity to Babylon for 70 years! In the land of confusion they discovered the truth of their God again and regained their heritage and were returned to Israel! Babylon is mentioned several times in the Book of Revelation! God is warning us that in the end times confusion will rule the world! Sexual identity confusion! Political confusion! Darwin/Creation confusion! Lawless confusion! The list goes on also here in America! When I went to another culture in India and lived for 3 years I discovered the great value of my Christ while living there! Had I not gone to India I would not have understood the precious value Christ is to any culture and without him man makes himself God and destruction follows! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Bible on Gays! Leviticus 20:13

“If a man lies with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: They shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” Comment: The law simply tells us we are all sinners! Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it! Jesus was very different from us! He never sinned or broke the law! That is why he is the only perfect sacrifice for our sin! Remember when the religious leaders caught Jesus healing a man on the Sabbath day? Jesus told them he was even Lord of the Sabbath! Jesus went to the Cross and fulfilled the law dying with the penalty of death for all of our sin! He did it for us so what must we do? Receive this Salvation repenting or forsaking our sin and changing directions! Then we are free from the guilt, pain and bondages of sin able to serve God in purity and Holiness! God makes us Holy we cannot do it on our own! The biggest lie Satan will ever tell you is you are not a sinner even though he is the author of sin! You can work your way to Heaven? You are not a sinner you do not need the Savior? The government has sanctioned your sin so the law of man says I am right? No man will be able to save you on judgment day! Only Christ the God/man can stand before you and judgment to Hell! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Lead us not into Temptation!

Pope Francis wants to change this section of the Lord’s prayer to: “Keep us from falling into temptation.” I do not have any problem with this semantics however the word we need to pay attention to is “Temptation.” In James 1:13 it says God cannot be tempted neither does he tempt any man! Why? Because there is no sin in him and he is Holy! Satan is the father of sin and executer of all sin! What did Jesus mean by “Lead us not into Temptation?” What Jesus meant with this model prayer to the Father is lead us not into denying Christ! The only unpardonable sin is to deny Christ! Every other sin can be forgiven! To deny Christ is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit who is part of the Trinity along with Christ! I touched on this topic in January of 2018. You can type in on our search box of our blog, “Hour of Temptation! Revelation 3:10”, and it will take you to this posting. So in Revelation 3:10 what did Jesus mean by keeping us from the hour of temptation? Keeping us from denying Jesus! The 21 Coptic Christian believers who were beheaded last year were kept from the hour of temptation! Christ will give us strength not to deny him! So what are the forces in American culture that put pressure on you to deny Christ! There are many! Popular culture in Hollywood, Political correctness, political left, liberal media and social media, educational teaching of atheism in evolution, humanism, socialism, abortion, racial supremacy, anti-colonialism, gay marriage, lesbians and transgenderism! These are not all but the more obvious! These are the principalities and powers of darkness that will tempt you to deny Christ! So how do we resist the Devil? The same way Jesus did! With the Word of God! It is written man shall not live by bread alone! It is written! It is written! If you do not know your Bible you are hanging out on a limb! An eternity at stake! Jesus came to deliver us from our sin! The only way you can thwart God’s love for you is to deny him! So who would be so foolish? Many! Do not follow them to be separated from God but follow Christ for an eternity spent with him experiencing his love forever! Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com