PREP RALLY IN THE HIGH COUNTRY
JESUS said in John 14 verse 1, "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. Verse 2, "In my Father's house (His eternal residence, dwelling place, Heaven) are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you (your very own mansion, although just a room would be more deserving for me...but this KJV says "mansions"- who am I? I didn't write this; but there are other references to wonderful puzzlements.) What is written is written...men change the Word of GOD anyway all the time...but GOD'S WORD is forever settled in Heaven.) Verse 3,And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
I believe we are living in "the last days" [Acts 2: 17; II Timothy 3: 1; II Peter 3: 3; and soon will that day come when we Christians shall all be taken up to meet our Saviour in the air forever to be with Him in Heaven. So comfort one another with these words!
It is further explained to the apostle Paul in I Thessalonians 4:..13But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
WHAT MIGHT HEAVEN BE LIKE? WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE TO OUR WILDEST LIMITS, BUT IT IS MY CONSIDERATION THAT WE CANNOT FATHOM ANYTHING CLOSE TO WHAT IT WILL ACTUALLY BE LIKE! BOUND TO THIS EARTH UNTIL DEATH SETS US APART, OR UNTIL WE ARE RAPTURED, STOLEN AWAY, MAGNETICALLY JOLTED AWAY FROM THE GRAVITY-FORCED HOLD ON US BY OUR HEAVENLY FATHER'S DESIGN...A DAY COMES WHEN ALL OUR ANTICIPATIONS AND YEARNINGS WILL FADE INTO THE ACTUAL, IMMEDIATE PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD...WE SHALL SEE, BEHOLD, FATHOM THE LOVELY, BEAUTIFUL, UNMATCHED FACE OF OUR PRECIOUS LORD AND SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST...WE SHALL REVEL IN THE PROMISE AND JOY IN OUR ARRIVAL!!! LET IT BE A PRACTICE, AT LEAST A FORETASTE OF THAT TIME WHILE WE ARE STILL BOUND ON THIS EARTH- COMING THIS YEAR: LET US RALLY 'ROUND THE BANNER OF THAT DAY'S GLORY TO PREPARE FOR HIS APPEARANCE BY GATHERING EVERY FRIDAY EVENING AT 7:00 PM IN THE MATNEY LIBERTY CHURCH. ALL ARE WELCOME- FOR SINGING, MOVIES, OR DVDs, LIVE ENTERTAINMENT (as available). FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT DAN ON THIS SITE. THIS IS A DONATION-BASED, FUND-RAISING, GOSPEL-OUTREACH MINISTRY OF MATNEY LIBERTY CHURCH. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CLICK ON THE ADDRESS BELOW >>>>>>>/
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I'VE BEEN READING THE KING JAMES BIBLE MOST OF MY LIFE. WHY? THAT WAS THE PREFERENCE THAT MY DAD HAD...OUR FAMILY MEMORIZED THE VERSES FROM THAT VERSION...THAT WAS THE VERSION USED IN THE CHURCHES WE ATTENDED, FOR THE MOST PART...LATER, DURING AND AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, IT BECAME MY PERSONAL, PREFERED VERSION OVER THE MANY OTHER VERSIONS I'VE READ, AFTER READING IN THE KJV THAT WE SHOULD SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. AS FOR SEARCHING FOR THE MOST TRUTHFUL, TRUSTWORTHY, AND ACCURATE HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRED VERSION, THE KJV HAS BECOME THE STANDARD FOR ME- THE "ITHMUS TEST" (?) FOR ALL OTHER VERSIONS- WHICH TEND TO COME ACROSS TO ME AS DILUTED, POLLUTED, AND VIOLATED VERSIONS (OR AS MY DAD WOULD LIKE TO SAY, "PERVERSIONS").
I NEVER LIKED THAT TERM, 'CAUSE IT ALLUDED TO THE OTHER VERSIONS I'D READ, AND TO HIM, THE KJV WAS "THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD", AS MANY CONTINUE TO CONSIDER IT THAT ALSO, EVEN IN THESE DAYS. THE KJV, TO ME, IS OF MY HIGHEST ORDER AND PREFERENCE IN MY PERSONAL SELECTION OF BIBLES TO READ. ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10, AS TO PREFERENCE I READ AS TO "THE BEST", IT IS NUMBER 1O (TEN), FIRST CHOICE. SECOND CHOICE WOULD BE THE LIVING BIBLE (FOR A MODERN-DAY PARAPHRASE), AND A VERY CLOSE, ALMOST TIE, WOULD BE THE NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE. BEYOND THEM, IN NOT ANY NECESSARILY PARTICULAR PLACEMENT ORDER, WOULD BE THE REVISED STANDARD VERSION, THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE, GOOD NEWS FOR MODERN MAN, AND MANY OTHERS I WOULD READ ONLY FOR COMPARISON...TO SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.
THERE IS ONLY ONE BIBLE VERSION I PRACTICALLY DETEST, NEVER ACCOUNT AS A WORTHY READ, UNFORTUNATELY FOR MOST OF THE MASSES THAT DO READ A BIBLE, IT IS PROBABLY THE MOST POPULAR DIVERSION FROM THE REAL TRUTH, AND I PLACE IT AS A NEGATIVE TEN, AN UNDER GROUND SURFACE PUBLICATION- WOULD BE THE NIV. BASED ON POPULARITY AND DILLUTION AND POLLUTION...IT IS POISONOUS, DECEITFUL AND ERRONEOUS TO THE HILT. BUT THIS IS JUST MY EXPRESSION, AND SINCE I'M NO ONE OF ANY "ILK" OR CONFERENCE, THIS DOESN'T MATTER. YOU'LL FIND MORE BASES WITHIN.
I Corinthians 1: 21- "For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." Ultimately, by whatever means, no matter how foolish, The Holy Spirit will save those HE is pleased to save. Therefore, I do not defame the NIV, IT HAS BEEN DONE ON ITS OWN MERIT; I just very well ignore it for any kind of worthwhile read to myself.
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