Dear friends,
I have almost completed writing poetic sermons from four books of the Holy Bible: Luke, Matthew, Genesis and Jude - all in that order. It’s been wonderful! The Holy Spirit has illuminated the Word in such a way that I have also touched, tasted and heard. It’s just so good! I have learned what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” There are people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Holy Spirit. But the Children of God build up their faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. They keep themselves in God’s love as they patiently wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring them to eternal life. Now some will doubt - show mercy to them; save others by snatching them from the fire. It is coming! The kindle is being gathered. There is a dividing. Jesus said, “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already burning! But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three.” Luke 12:49-52 Brothers and sisters - Don't you see us dividing? We must show mercy! I used to think the division we see came from Satan, but now I know it comes from God! The Lord has snapped his plumb line. He is the final authority! Nothing happens without his consent! I see the Lord. I see him standing with a plumb line in his hand. I see him snapping it hard - setting the line from which every human being is being divided. I see his hand. I see him pulling the mask off of the righteous - exposing the truth that lies below. I see him ripping. A tearing away of that which is false. I see authentic- authentic faith being exposed. I see God bearing down on the truth - adding weight to people’s hearts. I see a suffocating. A gasping of breath - people searching for oxygen that can only be found in Christ. I see the plumb line setting the stage for what is to come! God is good. He is getting rid of everything that is not. God is pulling His children from the rot. I hear Him saying, “What do you see, Cherie?” “A plumb line,” I say. and then I heard the loudest dividing snap! My ears are ringing from the thunderous sound of that precisely snapping dividing line! I can see the filament - a threadlike structure supporting the whole kingdom up. Everything not attached will be let go. Brothers and sisters in Christ - We must show mercy! The dividing line is not from Satan, but from God. His Spirit is searching the earth for His blood. Can you smell the corrupting flesh? Sin is in the process of dying. Jesus is only keeping that which is good. “To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.” Jude 1:24-25
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