1 John 3:23 “And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the [name] of his [Son] Jesus Christ, and [love] one another.” Commentary: Jesus was born in Bethlehem so that we would have the power to love one another! Did you know you could keep the ten commandments and not love one single person! That is what religion does! The word ‘name’ is significant! It means a name attributed to the character of a person. Jesus means savior and Christ means anointed one! An anointed savior! The word ‘Son’ in the Greek is a special word reserved only for the Son of God! Out of the four Greek words for ‘love’, agape used is the highest form of love! Why? Because it is a sacrificial love! People may say they love you and words can be cheap but would anyone go to a bloody Cross for you for your crimes against God and man? I have met a lot of people including family that want to sacrifice you for their gain! There is only one Jesus but if you have not figured that out yet you will one day! No greater love than a man lay down his life for his brother! President Lincoln laid down his life for you! Between 2006 and 2020 we have had 17645 active duty American military members lay down their lives for our freedom! Thousands wounded! Missing limbs! How do you think they feel around this Christmas season? How about the over 250 thousand lost to the Coronavirus? A spouse losing her husband or wife with children? Do you suppose we could make a sacrifice for them this Christmas? Only love cures sorrow! That is why Jesus came! Only you can represent Jesus on this earth! Do not let him down to fulfill the new commandment! Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
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3rd Plague! 3rd Commandment!
The third plague over King Pharaoh and Egypt was lice! Invasion of lice into every Egyptian! Why lice? Let me give you a definition of lice; “Lice are parasitic insects that can be found on people’s heads and bodies including the pubic area. Human lice survives by feeding on human blood and lays eggs in their clothing producing more lice and more blood sucking.” The key word here is blood! Pharaoh rejected the sacrificial blood of the Jews for redemption so his blood was sacrificed! No redemption in his blood or of his people! Because of the rejection he became the sacrifice! Pharaoh trusted his idols! Idol worshipers make an idol which fails so they make another idol which fails! If a woman is your idol then you chase after woman after woman but never satisfied! This is where idol worship takes you! Making your own gods instead of embracing the living God! According to my Bible we were created in the Image of God! You get in trouble if you create God in your Image! Hitler lost two million troops on the Eastern front with Russia in WWII. Napoleon lost his army trying to conquer Russia! Most of the casualties froze to death in the harsh Russian winter! The Axis powers leaders were all Evolutionists! They rejected creation of our scripture and embraced Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution! It lead to the death of tens of millions of people! A historical story of the German troops on the Eastern front was because they had to keep the same uniform on for months lice infested their bodies! When they got near a fire to keep from freezing to death the heat to their bodies would cause the lice to swarm on them! They could not stand that so they would back away from the fire that would keep them from freezing to death! So the German people were sacrificed by blood loss because their leader Hitler rejected the blood sacrifice of Christ for their sin! So they went out and committed sins! This is the curse of God! Blessings or curses depending on what you do with the sacrificial Blood of God! We either praise God or we will curse God! Pharaoh mocked God and cursed God by trying to compete with Moses by trying to duplicate the signs and wonders God gave Moses in Egypt! Rebellion against God leads to you making yourself a god! Evolutionists are really atheists! They reject the sacrificial blood of Christ! The tenth plague on King Pharaoh and the Egyptian people was the death of the first born! More blood sacrifice! Their own sacrifice! So what is the death of the first born in America for the 20th and 21st century? What have the Evolutionist devised? Abortion! To the tune of about 60 million! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
1st Plague! 1st Commandment!
So what was the first plague on the Pharaoh and Egypt for not letting the Jews go out into the wilderness and worship their God? Moses wanted his people to get away from the idols of Egypt for they had suffered with them for 430 years! This was the hardest part of slavery! They could not worship their God! From my three years in India I understand this very well! Everyday you see hundreds of idols everywhere! This begins to wear you down over time! Pharaoh refused to let them go! So Moses took his rod and struck the Nile River, the lakes, ponds, streams and wells of Egypt and the water turned to blood! This was the first plague of Egypt! They could not drink the water and all the fish died in the water and they lost their food supply! The first Commandment says thou shall have no other gods before me! So what does the blood represent? Redemption or judgment! Remember Jesus turned the water into wine! A red mixture representing blood! Remember during the 10th plague Moses directed the Hebrews to put the sacrificial blood of the lamb on the side door posts and the upper door post so the death angel would Passover them and not kill their first born! Pharaoh rejected the blood sacrifice of the Hebrews worship predicting the coming Lamb of God who would be the sacrifice for our sin! So the blood became not his Savior but his curse! The blood of Christ will either be your Savior or your judge! The same God yesterday, today and forever! The same sacrifice! The same Savior and the same Judge! It all depends on what you do with his blood! I heard a preacher on TBN say God can forgive any sin! I agree except for one sin! To reject the Savior! Then you take your own judgment instead of letting Christ take your judgment! This is the only unpardonable sin! Sometimes when you hear preachers you get the idea there is no consequences for rejecting Christ? If God can pardon every sin then I can reject Christ and go on with my life with no consequences! Pharaoh rejected the blood and it became his curse! The rejection of the blood of Christ brings every plague upon men! The Savior becomes your judge! God took your judgment on an ugly Cross! When I see America reject the Savior then I understand the plagues! There is no call to a National Repentance from most preachers? No repentance of abortion, gay marriage, lesbianism, transgenderism and the sins our nation has promoted! It seems like business as usual? You can still repent and so can I of my sin! Repentance is required based upon the Word of God! Blessings or curses! Plagues or Redemption! Pharaoh had a choice and so do you! Choose this day who you will serve! Choose Christ and his atoning blood for your sin! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
2nd Plague! 2nd Commandment!
There is a correlation between the 10 Plagues of Egypt and the 10 Commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai! The Plagues came first and then the Commandments! God gave us the Commandments to stay off the Plagues! The second Plague to Egypt were frogs! Why frogs? Among the ancient Egyptians frogs were sacred and could not be killed! Egyptians worshiped the frog as a female goddess because frogs were common around the Nile River where they reproduced rapidly and being amphibious they were part of two worlds, creatures of both land and water. So what does the second Commandment say? Do not make any graven images and serve them! Idol worship has been around since the beginning of time! While living in India I saw millions of people worshiping cows, snakes, elephants, monkeys and the list goes on! The Spirit of Satan lives in Idol worship! You will be in bondage to serving idols! The frog that the Pharaoh of Egypt worshiped became his curse! If you worship anything that replaces God that Spirit will take over your life controlling you and destroying you! That has always been Satan’s objective! To steal worship from God and destroy his followers! Some people worship money, sex, power, position, fame, land ,silver, gold, stocks and the list goes on! These things are not evil in themselves but if they replace true worship of the true God lead to your destruction! Religion itself can become an idol! God will give you all the things you need in life without the bondage that would otherwise come with them! The Ten Commandments lead us to finding and worshiping the true God! Satan is the imposter pretending to be God to steal worship from the true God! My Bible says Jesus is the Name above all names! Jesus name is above the Coronavirus! Above sickness and death! Above pandemics! Above fear! Above evil! Jesus defeated your sin and evil at the Cross! He has handed us the victory! Many in American culture have socially distanced themselves from God! Religion replaced worship! Now God is removing our idols to get our attention that we need to return to the true living God! To worship him alone!James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Holy Ground! Exodus 3:5
Take off your shoes Moses! No shoes allowed! Sometimes when you go into a business they post a sign on the front door that says, “Must wear shoes.” After the 9-11 Muslim terror attack on us you have to take your shoes off at the airport! Not in respect for Islam but to try to prevent them from blowing up your flight! Let us look at the word “ground” in the Hebrew. It is the word “Adamah” which is Strongs #127. Do you see a clue here? Do you see the word Adam here? God’s first created human being on planet earth. Adam was formed out of the ground! He was created out of the dust of the dust of the earth! The top soil produces the entire agriculture products for us to exist! In fact all the elements in the human body are found in the soil of the earth! The plants, tree’s and animals take the elements in the soil that we eat to replace the lost elements in our bodies! The name Adam means ruddy or a red brown color. It is the color of fermented wine. The curtains in the Jewish Temple were this color. Remember when you walk across the ground you were made of this stuff! Ashes to ashes! Dust to dust! Your physical body was joined together with God’s Spirit! You are created in the image of God! This is why the 6th Commandment says you shall not kill. Jesus is the second Adam sent to redeem us! God became flesh but this time to atone for the failure of the first Adam! The ground that Moses walked on produced man ! When we are buried at death back to the ground we go! The grave could not hold Jesus Christ! He defeated death and the grave! No mortal man could do this only God! The ground produced humans but not redemption! Only if the sin within us is defeated can death be defeated! The resurrected Christ promised to raise us from the dead! The angel or pre-incarnated Christ could live in the flames and not perish because he is the judge of all. Do you want to draw near to God? Then your sin must be covered in the blood of Jesus Christ! Then you can draw near to God and then he will draw near to you! In April of 1912 a ship sank below the waves of the Atlantic ocean! Those men that stayed with the Titanic sang their last hymn on earth with a full orchestra! The name of the song was, “Nearer My God to Thee!” The purpose and journey of our life while on this short life here on earth is to draw near to God! Your Holiness is not based on you but what God did for you! Would you like to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior? James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Keeping or Polluting the Sabbath? Isaiah 56:2
Comment: What is my attitude about keeping the Sabbath the 4th Commandment of God? If I were to keep the Sabbath I would guard it like a gardener building a hedge around his garden! I would guard it as a shepherd would protect his flock from the wolves! Why is the Sabbath important to God? It is the seventh day of the week! Remember after God finished creating the world for six days he rested from his labor on the seventh day! It was the climax of his creation! On the Sabbath you cease from your work and reflect on the wonderful things God has worked out for you! You rest in his supply! You relax trusting God rather than your own works! So how would I pollute the Sabbath? You would just make it another common work day! It would be violence against God’s established law! I would defile, pollute and desecrate a Holy God! I would ignore him and his Blessings and trust in my own works! Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath! Remember the Jewish religious leaders got on Jesus for healing on the Sabbath! Jesus was raised from the dead on the Sabbath! That is why we worship on Sunday! He rested from his work on the Cross! If God needs rest who are we? Are we greater than God? Remember Lucifer thought he was greater than God! What happened to humanity? Death, destruction, war, disease, sickness and famines! Do you want to worship death or life? Self-worship is worshiping death! Worship life by honoring God and his Sabbath and creator of life who has also promised to raise you from the dead both now and forever! Keep the Sabbath because God is Holy! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Tribute To Captain David Lyons USAF 1985-2013
One of our very own Captain David Lyons was celebrated at the memorial service today in Colorado Springs at New Life Church. The military protocol was moving as hundreds of Air Force Academy Cadets and other military members attended the services along with New Life church members. Captain David Lyons was killed in action last month in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber. Other military members were killed and injured in the attack along with some NATO troops. David was a star athlete at the Air Force Academy and still holds the Idaho High School State record for the shot put throw. He was adopted and took on his adopted parents name. His wife Dana is also an Air Force Academy graduate and serves in the Air Force. It is so encouraging to see military members and church members support their fallen hero’s and their families. I want to give you a famous quote by Charles Province which was given at the memorial service. It reads as follows;” It is the Soldier, not the minister who gives us freedom of religion. It is the Soldier, not the reporter who gives us freedom of the press. It is the Soldier, not the poet who gives us freedom of speech. It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer who gives us freedom to protest. it is the Soldier, not the lawyer who gives us the right to a fair trial. It is the Soldier, not the politician who has given us the right to vote. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, and Who’s coffin is draped by the flag!” Jesus said in John 15:13, “Greater love hath no man than this, That a man lay down his life for his friends!” The word friends translates from the Greek as neighbor. Remember in Mark Chapter 12 the scribes asked Jesus which is the greatest Commandment? Jesus answered, “”Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength. Then the second is to love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no greater Commandment than these!” David did lay down his life for his neighbor’s which represents millions of American’s and millions of people in Afghanistan! We must also recognize a distinction here. David laid down his life to save others! The suicide bomber laid down his life to destroy others! There are two separate eternities for each. There are two sides of the fence here. In one eternity David is joined with Christ the one he lived and died for! The suicide bomber who died to bring death to others is separated from God forever in the fires of hell! Two different outcomes created by two different choices! Choose this day who you will serve! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com