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Church Leaders! Time to Sacrifice!

Franklin Graham as of 2020 has a net worth of 12 million dollars! He is considered one of the highest paid pastors in the world who earns an annual salary of $622,252 dollars with additional increments from Samaritans Purse! During the time of his father, he is said to have earned a yearly salary of $450,00 thousand dollars for his work at BGEA. Source: The WealthRecord.com Commentary: This is why I have difficulty supporting big ministries! Just not enough self-sacrifice from leadership! We have the political elites! The social elites and the religious elites! These ministries have no personal connection with you unless you give big bucks to them! Then you become an elite! They will never be there for your funeral! For your marriage! They do not know who you are! If you passed them by on the street they would not recognize you! It is so impersonal! Jesus said the love of money is the root of all evil! This includes ministries! Jesus could have made billions of dollars healing the sick and raising the dead! He could have published books and made millions! But he did not! We all have to be a good steward of what God has given us! My spiritual leader will never be a millionaire! Jesus ministered to people that had more money than he did! The rich young ruler! Just give me your money and then you will make heaven! No! Give it to the poor! If the Lord tells you to give to a ministry then do it! I do not want your money! I want to help build your spiritual man! Sacrifice is a Kingdom principle! Jesus is our CEO! He owns it all! Let us turn back the clock about 60 years ago here in America! I grew up on a little farm near a little town Pilger Nebraska! The town had about 500 people then! In that town were five churches! We attended a Methodist Church. On Sunday morning these churches were full of people! Then between the little town and our farm about six miles south of Pilger were a host of country churches! What got my attention on Sunday morning when my parents were getting us ready for church was the sound of church bells across the land! The bells are silent now? Every pastor across America of every small church by the tens of thousands was responsible to God and to the church members of that flock! They had a shepherd they personally knew! Not so today! We were tied together community by community by a common bond! Not so today! Our rich heritage is lost today that made America great! TBN has become the Walmart of religion! They are not answerable to you! They do not know you! America is a foreign land today where there is no spiritual connection with leadership of the Pastorate! Just like Washington D.C.! Jesus disciples are numbers on their income sheets! If you wonder why America is fragmenting apart so fast then these are some reasons shown here! Support your Pastor and the small church! I have noticed God shows up there too! He is no respecter of people but whoever calls on his name shall be saved! The elites do not care about the little guy but Jesus does! God Bless America! James & Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Love in the Church! 1 John 4:20

“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his [brother], he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother who he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” Commentary: Brother Strong’s # 80. Adelphos (brother), Adelphe (sister). The word brother in the Greek is used here as a more distant relationship and many believe this circumstance means refers to brothers and sisters in Christ or the church. So the Apostle John is giving a directive to the church. Now we love everyone when we share Christ with them! But some will reject his love! God has offered redemption to all regardless of race, gender or political affiliation! If this love is not displayed in the church it will be hard to take it to the world! I just had a sister in the Lord remind me we are to pray for our political leaders! I do and I also get frustrated when they make stupid decisions that hurt Americans especially the middle class workers! I reminded her that the disciples prayed for Caesar yet he martyred them! I am sure in the German church some were praying for Hitler! Yet those Pastor’s that opposed him were martyred! I think we can oppose a wicked leader yet pray for him! The Lord told Paul he must go to Rome to be a witness for me! Do not worry what you shall say to the leaders for I will give you the words to say! The Apostle John here in this passage of scripture is saying love your brothers in the Body of Christ and then that love will flow out into the world! James & Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

The Reluctant Church!

The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized… The churches as a whole were to docile or anti-Semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solitary with the Jews. Walter Wink Commentary: Jesus has more than one side! He overthrew the tables of the money changers in the Temple and called them a den of thieves! These were business people! He told the political leader Herod he was a fox! Jesus will judge the living and the dead some into everlasting life and some into everlasting judgment! The church sometimes over history has been out of balance! It was the church in Europe that raised an army to drive out the Muslim invaders! The cleverly devised 501c done by politicians has muted our Pastors across America! The American church is like the church living in Nazi Germany! However there were some German Pastors that were executed by Hitler for taking a stand for righteousness! Where are the voices of the American pastorate when it comes to abortion, homosexual marriage, transgenderism, lesbianism, Islam, socialism, open borders, sanctuary cities, drugs, sex changes for children, evolution and the list goes on? With a few exceptions they are as quiet as a dead church mouse! You have to resist the devil with your mouth! The words you speak from scripture! The bully pulpit has died in America! God is love because he hates sin! If we do not raise the standard of the Biblical Gospel and oppose evil in our own culture then we are wasting our time to show up at church every Sunday where our money is collected to feed the neutered church! The church disfunction and non- application to popular culture is in our own making! Resist the Devil and he will flee from you! The Church in America needs the courage to resist! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Christmas Story

It was Christmas Eve in Brooklyn New York in 1942. The war was on and a difficult time. It was snowing in New York. A cold night as Wilber was walking down the street thinking about his past. Wilber was 98 years old and his past troubled him? He had committed crimes and betrayed his family and many friends. He was most troubled about where he would go if he died? As he went by a church he heard Christmas Carols. Then he thought I know what I can do! I will join a church and this will throw me in with all the good folks. Then I can escape hell! Wilber went into this Lutheran Church and asked the Pastor if he could join the church? The Pastor told him if he could answer one question correctly. The question is where was Jesus Christ born? Wilber thought a minute and said Pittsburg. Sorry said the Pastor you need to find another place. Wilber went back out into the snow and cold and found a Catholic Church. He went in and asked the Priest if he could join? The Priest said he could only if you can answer one question correctly. Where was Jesus Christ born? Wilber strained his brain and said Philadelphia. The Priest told Wilber he was too far gone to make a good Catholic! Down but not out Wilber hit the streets once again. The he walked by a Synagogue but it looked closed. Then he saw a light in one of the back offices so he knocked on the door. A Rabbi opened the door and invited him in. Wilber asked if he could join the Synagogue? The Rabbi said sure you can! Wilbur was perplexed? Are you going to ask me any questions? No replied the Rabbi. Wilber asked the Rabbi if he would mind if he asked him a question? Please go right ahead said the Rabbi. Where was Jesus Christ born? The Rabbi responded Bethlehem of course! Wilber replied and said, ” I knew it was in Pennsylvania some place! ” Source; Unknown. Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

False Prophets in Church! 2 Peter 2:1

Greek translation: “But there were false prophets among the multitude of people, even as there shall be false teachers among you pretending to have the character of a Christian but promoting false doctrines, leading people astray with damnable heresies living in a state of death excluded from Salvation in a religious form contradicting the scriptures even declining and rejecting the moral authority of the Lord that bought them demonstrating this on the Cross yet bringing upon themselves swift destruction.” Comment: So what lie detector could I use to detect false prophets in the church? Your Bible my friend! Let me make this as simple as I can! Religion for dummies! Good title for a book! Anyone who tries to teach you that there is another way to God and Heaven other than through Jesus Christ is a deceiver and a liar! No organization can save you! No denomination can save you! Your mother cannot save you! Your Pastor, Priest, Pope and Rabbi cannot save you! A Republican or a Democrat cannot save you! Your religion cannot save you! Your money cannot save you! Your works however noble cannot save you! Your race cannot save you! Your gender cannot save you! Your earth worship cannot save you! You cannot save the planet and the planet cannot save you! Democracy cannot save you! Capitalism cannot save you! Socialism cannot save you! Your gun and drugs cannot save you! Your ideologies cannot save you! Your theology cannot save you! Your government cannot save you! Your flesh cannot save you for it will perish! Only someone outside of yourself and greater than yourself can save you! His name is Jesus Christ the only Son of the living God! No mortal can do that! Only God! Jesus has made a way for the mortal to put on immortality! Creator of heaven and earth is the only God who can do this! He has made it so simple that even a simpleton can figure this out! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Church Gambler!

A congregation member bought a lottery ticket and won fifty thousand dollars! However his wife intercepted the letter from the lottery commission and did not inform her husband because she was concerned about his health due to his age and a heart condition! So she called the Pastor and asked him if he could come over and gently break the news of his winnings to her husband? He complied and came over to the house and asked the husband what would he do with the money if he ever won fifty thousand dollars? The old man said Pastor I would give you twenty five thousand dollars and split it in half just for you! The Pastor immediately had a heart attack and died on the spot!

Families Moving Church Membership!

As more denominations and Pastor’s are endorsing homosexual marriage, transgenderism and lesbianism families are leaving these congregations to leaders who support the Biblical standard of marriage between a man and a woman! Suggest you find out where your church leader stands on these issues! Do not assume anything because the church with a few exceptions never challenges our culture with a Biblical standard! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Demon’s in Church? Mark 1: 23-25

Jesus went into the synagogue on the Sabbath at Capernaum and began to preach! The congregation noticed something very different about Jesus! Jesus had power and authority where the scribes did not! The demon’s in the church got very nervous! They shouted out to Jesus to leave them alone! We have nothing to do with you! Have you come to destroy us? Put the scribes back in the pulpit they never bothered us! They talked about God but had not his power! We know you are the Holy One of God! Even the demon’s believe! Leave us alone so we can control more men! Jesus commanded the demon’s to leave! WOW said the congregation! Even the demon’s obey him! Today 21 Centuries later they are still trying to get rid of Jesus! Take prayer out of the schools! Take the 10 Commandments down off that wall! Remove Crosses throughout the land! Happy Holidays! No mention of Christ and Christmas! Nothing has really changed about this on going cultural war! Gays can be legally married we can change the laws of God! Defy creation! You were born a man you can become a woman! Satan knows he can only win if he sanitizes American culture from Christ! So the war goes on! The battle between good and evil! Destruction for Satan is being cast into the Lake of Fire forever! His days are numbered but he will try to take as many soul’s with him as he can! Satan trembles at the name of Jesus! Political correctness is an attempt to silence you of the mention of his name! Jesus the most loved and most hated name on earth! Easter is about the redemption of men who are at war with God! When we surrender our sin God will lift us up and Bless us! Without confession redemption is rejected! After the thousands of wars fought on planet earth by man the only real chance of peace is for the Prince of Peace to live in your heart! Then Satan has to flee and occupy another unbeliever! James and Hamsa Sasse, GodWhoisGod.com