Luke 1:52 Greek Translation “He (Jesus), hath put down and overthrown and demolished with violence the mighty powerful authorities of rulers of territories from their seats and exalted them of low degree.” Comment: Wow! I thought Jesus was this milk toast guy everyone could push around? When you study scriptures you discover that Jesus like a coin has two sides! He is a lamb but also a lion! Salvation and judgment! Sometimes you see the lamb side and sometimes the lion! Jesus told King Herod he was a fox! He overthrew the money changers tables in the Temple! He told the Jewish religious leaders not one stone of their Temple would stand! Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within you! Jesus raised the dead! Violence over death! He slew death! Love and judgment go together! You cannot have one without the other! He rebuked his disciples yet showed them by example how to live! He predicted Peter would deny him yet after his resurrection he found Peter along the sea shore back to fishing. However that was the last denial Peter ever made of Jesus and was crucified in Rome! I shared in an earlier post of how in detail all the political leaders who plotted Jesus death ended up! King Herod, Pilot, Judas and the high priest! They all came to a bad end! They were all put down! They rejected Jesus! Yet Jesus disciples were elevated to high positions within the church! We read their writings in the New Testament! Do you feel you are a nobody? Then you are ready for a promotion! My very first sermon I ever preached from a pulpit was in front of two million people in a church in Seoul South Korea in 1983! If we exalt God he will exalt us! This is the Kingdom principle! When you promote God he will promote you! No one can take this away from you! This event is eternal! Jesus is going to return to earth during the Tribulation period a seven year period where the one world government (socialism) will be led by the Anti-Christ! This will be the last great battle on earth called Armageddon! Jesus will return with his saints to defeat Satan and his followers just before the Millennium reign of Christ! Satan will be bound for a thousand years! Are you a soldier of the Cross or milk toast? Are you a traitor or a warrior! We conquer in his name! Start your crusade by resisting evil here on earth! This will be your only chance! Resist the Devil and he will flee from you! President Trump is the first president in my life time (70 years), who has promoted Christianity! Openly promoted! He is a warrior! The last leader we had like this was Abraham Lincoln! We have an opportunity to promote the Gospel to this dying culture! Do not miss this opportunity that can only come once in a lifetime! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
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Winning or Losing?
When you get to the NFL playoff games it does not matter how well you did in the regular season except you made it to the playoffs! Then one game determines whether you move on towards the Super Bowl or your season ends! Life is like this! Life is a playoff game! There are winners and losers! Sometimes we win sometimes we lose! We must continue in the game! Our Super Bowl game is about making it to Heaven or default to Hell! Jesus Christ will determine your destiny! He is your coach! The Church is your team! Your Pastor is your coach here on earth! He gives you the game plan based on the scriptures and then you go out and execute the plan! Then the outcome is left into God’s hands! I am going to give you some statistics like you have in the NFL! Remember after you win the game they mean nothing! 65% of Americans polled in 2019 identify themselves as Christian! However in 2012 78% identified as Christian! In 2001 81.6% identified themselves as Christian! In 1990 85% identified themselves as Christian. So what is going on? Are the American Pastor’s doing a bad job? We have big mega churches now! Television and internet ministries everywhere! We have TBN, Daystar and other mega ministries! Books written about the Bible on the hot sellers list by the millions! So where are we losing the war? According to Psalms 11:3 we are losing the battle on the political side! Remember the word foundations in Hebrew means moral and political support! The 501c tax free donations to our churches established by government has muted our Pastor’s from challenging the enemy in the political arena! Here are some more statistics! According to the Dave Olson’s study published in the Journal of Scientific Study of Religion, 3700 American churches close their doors every year! That is every Sunday of the year 71 churches close up shop! A survey conducted by the Coalition of Religious organizations shows the number of Mosques in the U.S. has grown 74% in the past 11 years! (CNSNews.com 2014). Hinduism is the 4th largest Faith in the U.S. with a Hindu population in American with 2.23 million an increase of 85% since 2007. (India Today, May 13, 2015). Your political leaders determine our immigration policies. Obama let in over six hundred thousand Muslins into America during his administration! If we lose the moral war we lose Christians in our population! The political left owns our public education system with promotion of gender reversals and Darwinism! They own most of the movie productions and social media platforms! They own the clergy during elections as there is no platform to challenge evil! The Lord gave me a Gospel Tract back in the 1980’s while on the mission field in India! We used it there to minister to Hindu’s, Muslims and Sikhs! However when we returned to the United States I felt let down because all of them lived outside of America! Guess what? They followed me over here! Go to our web site and copy off the tract and then make copies for distribution to those away from Christ! We have this tract in about 130 languages! The mission field is right here in America today! Take advantage of it! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Godly or Godless?
You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God’s love to you. Do not argue, ‘I cannot love God! I have striven to my uttermost to do so, but I have failed in all my endeavors, until in despair I have abandoned the thought and have relinquished the attempt’. But it is so–no effort of your own can strike a spark of love to God from your heart. Nor does God demand the task at your hand. All that He requires of you is faith in His love, as embodied and expressed in Jesus Christ to you the poor sinner. Octavius Winslow (1808-1878), Famous Evangelical Baptist Pastor to England and the United States. Comment: Do not try to be God! Let God be God in you! Let His Word, His blood and His Holy Spirit live in you! Let him take residence in you! Then His eternal love not your failing human love will be expressed to you and others! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Creation or Evolution?
Genesis 1:2-3 “And the earth came to pass without form desolate and useless, and void; and darkness with misery and falsehood was upon the face of the deep waters and the Spirit the breath of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light and there was light.” Comment: Science teaches us that in order to have life we must have water air and light! All three elements introduced at Creation! Without these we perish! Without light no heat no plants and no food! These space craft that explore our universe are looking for three things! Water air and light! An adult body is about 65% water! A new born infant is about 78% water! Water without form is useless! The entire flood in the days of Noah was water without form! When you put water in a glass it takes form and is useful! The land under a river gives the water form! A dam gives water form and is useful for irrigation and electrical power! The water pipes in your house give the water form and is useful to you! When God moved upon the face of the waters he gave it form! Purpose! When God breathed upon the waters he gave it oxygen! He gave it life! When the Holy Spirit breathes upon you he gives you life! As a mighty rushing wind! There is a river of life flowing from the Throne of God right now in Heaven! Tree’s grow along the banks of this river giving fruit that is healing for the nations! The next important element at Creation is light! Jesus is the light of the world! Without light we would freeze to death! No food and no heat! God created light because he is light! It is interesting in the Book of Revelation that heaven has no need of the sun and moon for light! God is the light himself that illuminates the heavens! Hell has light but the fire of judgment! Science will always support the scriptures! Everything you see or do not see God created! Give him the glory due his name! Satan got to hell by calling God a liar and taking credit upon himself for what God had done for him! Satan’s voice echo’s across the ages from the Garden of Eden saying; “Surely God has not said?” The Word of God is true and to oppose him is to join the ranks of Satan! To deny the life he has given you to self or another source is blasphemy! When we acknowledge Jesus as our Savior we are giving God credit creator of everything! To endorse God is to win his favor! To deny him is stupid! Do not be a disciple of the atheist Charles Darwin! To deny God is like a midget taking on a 10 ton elephant! Do not compare yourself to a monkey and insult them! He has his purpose and you have your purpose! Your purpose is to worship God the creator of heaven and earth and creator of you! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Truth or Lie?
1 John 1:10 “If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his intelligent Word is not in us.” Comment: Make who a liar? Make God a liar! Make Jesus a liar! If we have not sinned then Christ went to the Cross for nothing! Intelligence is based on truth! I spent 3 years in India! Like the 3rd grade it was the best 3 years of my life! While living there I became exhausted by the number of religions there! But they all had a common denominator! They were built on the ideology that man is not a sinner! Islam believes they are not sinners and do not need a Savior! In fact to get to Heaven they have to die for God! Rather than recognizing God has already died for them on a Cross! They make themselves God! Hindu’s believe in reincarnation! They believe after death they will come back to earth and live another life! Then they will repeat this many times! So they believe they get multiple chances to get their life right before God! No need of a Savior since you can do this on your own! This is why time is not important in their culture because they are just waiting around to come back again and get a second chance at life! Jesus said after death the judgment! He took our judgment on the Cross for our sin! What about the heresies in the American church today? We have the Mormon’s! We have Jehovah Witnesses! We have a great number of atheists! You do not need a Savior if there is no God! When you boil down the false religions of the world and America the common thread is they believe they can work their way to heaven! My good works will please God! My Bible the intelligent Word says my works are as filthy rags! Just like a used menstrual cloth! By God’s standard our works will condemn us! We try to make ourselves God! We cannot save ourselves! Jesus saved us on the Cross at Calvary! The religious people of the 1st Century crucified Jesus! Is it Jesus or judgment for you? Jesus will judge the living and the dead! Because he took your judgment! Reject him and receive the judgment he took for you! Death! The Apostle John in the 1st Century had to deal with the heresies in the church of his day! John had to deal with the Antinomians and the perfectionists! Today here in America it is atheism developed by the false teachings of Darwin! You do not need a Savior if you believe there is no God! The lies of evolution are taught to our children in Public Schools! Whether you believe the truth or a lie there are consequences both good or bad! I have asked President Trump to give out school vouchers and privatize public schools and make them competitive! If you believe you came from a monkey you will act like one! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
For Better or Worse! 1 Peter 3:17
Greek Translation: “For it is better preparing, providing and making ready, if the will of God which pleases God be so, that you suffer for well doing benefiting others, than for doing evil harming others.” Comment: Remember your marriage vows? For better or worse! Sometimes it is better and sometimes it is worse! But together in covenant with God we stay together! Everyone will suffer in this world! Suffering does not discriminate! You will suffer either for the right reason or the wrong reason! If you are suffering for the right reason then your persecution comes from those that hate God! If you are suffering for evil then your persecution is coming from God! In the end Job was rewarded for his righteous persecution! God gave him back all he lost plus much more! Patience is your reward to see the righteousness of God! Time exposes the truth for the righteous and the wicked! Jesus chose suffering to deliver us from Satan our accuser! So what is our obligation back to God for suffering for us? Even though Salvation is a gift from God we still suffer the same persecution Jesus did for us! If you want to love God then receive his gift of eternal life to you! To hate God is to reject his gift! When you lift up the name of Jesus in the earth persecution will come but for the right reason! Rejecting God will bring the judgment of God! Jesus took our suffering and defeated death and the hell that was reserved for us! Now he is seated at the right hand of his Father in Heaven praying for the believer’s in the earth and awaiting the time for his second coming back to earth! He took our judgment and part of his reward is to be judge of all the living and the dead! God’s grace to you is greater than anything you could ever do on your own! By grace you are saved and not of yourselves! When your Facebook, Google or YouTube account is shutting you down because you posted a Bible verse there understand the persecution is against Christ himself and they want to shut him up and the only way to do that is to shut you up! Be patient and keep taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
The Choice is Yours?
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants! William Penn
What Did Jesus Say About Following Him? Matthew 7:13-14
Jesus had a radical message! You can only enter in at the narrow way, narrow passage or narrow gate to follow me. A narrow gate would only be about the width of your shoulders. You cannot carry any baggage with you when you go through it. Following Jesus through the narrow gate requires focus with no distractions in the way. The broad road or gate leads to destruction. Jesus does and did not go this path. It is a dead end road. Few people choose the narrow gate. American culture is more Christ resistant than anytime in our history. To follow Christ today is more costly than in previous generations. We are considered radicals by our culture and ridiculed. We are considered on the outer fringes like space cadets. Did you ever notice the on-line surveys always give you a way out. You are never committed to a yes or no answer. Kind of like politics today. Christ gave His disciples no third choice. It was either Heaven or Hell. The same holds true for us today! Yes or no? Easy or difficult. Matthew 5:1-2. Jesus real audience was more than the crowds it was His disciples. They had already made up their minds to follow Him but their trust level was low. It takes time to figure out if you can trust someone. Jesus told them the Kingdom of God is right now! It was not yesterday or tomarrow. Living right now is Monday through Saturday working, school and difficult schedules. Jesus said let Heaven break into your boring day to day world. Jerusalem has 12 gates. The wide gate is the most used gate. Examples today are convenience stores, shopping malls, fast food, ect. We like the best paved roads with the fewest traffic lights. They even have drive through churches today. Just hear a message on the internet or television. Why go to church? Studies have found that women like to shop on the internet after 9:00PM. Why? Convenient! We like to choose the easy way over the difficult. Going through the wide gate we can take along as much baggage as we want. No constraints, no sacrifices, easy choices, no boundaries, no commitment applies to all who travel the wide gate. Taking this path leads to ruin. Jesus took a narrow path from The Judgment Hall to Calvary. It was also a steep climb carrying your Cross! He took your unforgiveness, hurt, pain and all your sin. Jesus was a teacher of virtue. Creativity exits between boundaries. Whether it be inventions, music, poetry, sciences, discoveries or even the work of a humble farmer. All great work is done within constraints and boundaries. Jesus had to be sinless to fix your sin. Because of the discipline of constraints and boundaries we have very few great people. People do not like boundaries. Live together why get married? Why study? Why work? Get on welfare. Pregnant? Get an abortion. Vote for the political party that offers you no constraints or boundaries. Revelation 7:9. Heaven is not sparsely populated but has a great multitude. Salvation belongs to our God! It is a free gift like a Christmas gift under a tree and is easy to find. Jesus is easy to find but very difficult to follow. Weddings are exciting but then the couples have to learn to live together. Marriage goes from easy to difficult. The wide gate is to get a divorce or just live together unmarried. To remain in covenant is a miracle from God and requires His Grace. To stay married is hard work and a challenge. Getting pregnant is easy but raising children is hard work. The family under the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman is God’s only plan and design for relationships and for the security of future generations. Worship even requires constraints and boundaries. All people will make one of the following four choices in their life. 1. Secularism- autonomy, it’s my life, live for yourself, no boundaries, no restraints. Not Jesus way. No! 2. Moralism- Follow the rules and get the life I deserve. Entitlement. Steeped in religion that says it is all about me. I deserve to be rich and famous because I am a moral person. 3. Religion- I owe my life to God. Obligation. Things better go right with me because I am serving God! Bad exchange. Problems come! Death and disease comes to all! 4. Grace- Jesus says your life for my life! Wonderful exchange! Great Exchange! My nothingless for His everything. Give God your life and He gives His life back to you! Stop living for yourself. It is a dead end. Let Christ come in. Welcome the Holy Spirit! You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. What needs constraint in your life? Do you eat food for comfort? Do you have a drug or sex addiction? Do you feed your senses to no avail. Let Christ increase and you decrease. Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and He will add to your life that will help you to victory. Source: Pastor Brady Boyd, New Life Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Message given Sunday September 1, 2013.