Psalms 119

LOL!! I do not care about proving Calvinism or disproving Arminianism. I simply care about truth, and exposing the lie. Just so happen these are all tied together.

You must have missed some of those important words... It is God doing all the doing.

Remove from me the way of lying, And grant me Your law graciously.
Psalms 119:29 NKJV

Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it. Incline my heart to Your testimonies, And not to covetousness. Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, And revive me in Your way. Establish Your word to Your servant, Who is  devoted to fearing You.
Psalms 119:35-38 NKJV

Why does David run the course of His commandments? Because God has enlarged his heart to do so.

I will run the course of Your commandments, For You shall enlarge my heart.
Psalms 119:32 NKJV

Here is something else people don't realize my friend... Many say the Psalms support the heresy of Arminianism, BUT... We know that once God gives us His Spirit that HE CAUSES us to obey His statutes.

I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
Ezekiel 36:27 NKJV

Guess what was done BEFORE the Psalms were written?!

Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON DAVID FROM THAT DAY FORWARD. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah.
I Samuel 16:13 NKJV

The OT is FULL of spiritual truths my brother. David is not talking about the Law as given through Moses, but rather the heart and will of God.

Mormon Doctrine is Like...

Jason Cord Massey...

God just gave me a perfect analogy that you will understand perfectly.

Let's say that today I produced a purchase sale agreement for the Mace farm dated from 2009 and I claimed that the Mace development is rightfully mine.

The basis of my claim is that there are missing addendum from the executed purchase sale agreement that pointed to the validity of the contract I have in my hand that gives me rightful ownership to the land, but there is zero evidence of any such addendum.

You would laugh at me and tell me "Yeah... Right." It would be a good con for sure. The only reason anyone would believe me is if I gave them something to gain from my claim being accurate.

If I told you that according to my contract all of my supporters got a lot and house for free. Well... Now I have supporters. A free lot with a house is a great motivator for you to want my claim to be true. However, if you were objective and honest you would see that there are too many holes in my claim for it to be valid.

So it is with the LDS doctrine. Instead of a house on a lot, Joseph Smith leveraged something even more valuable to us, our family. By the grace of God He is showing me the holes so that I might share them with the Mormons the Lord has put in my life. Not to demean, but to reveal the truth in hopes they might see.

You are a smart, smart man Cord. I KNOW that you can see this. God gave me this analogy this morning just for you my friend.

Glasses, or no glasses?

The Universalist's dichotomy is that they teach a person that since God is love, a person should read and interpret the Bible with this presupposition in mind. This is a fallacy because God, as He reveals Himself in His Word, is love, but love, as we know through our emotions, is NOT God.

A sinful person, which we all are, picking up a Bible and trying to read it with a presupposition that God is defined by their own sinful understanding of love is foolishness. Such a person would only end up with an idol.

Rather a sinful person, which we all are, should pick up the Bible and read it with ZERO presuppositions, and, IN FACT, with the understanding that our idea of what love is has been tainted by our sin. Our fallow ground must be broken up for us to see what God wants to show us.

If someone tells you to put on some kind of glasses (presuppositions) before reading the Bible, rather than telling you to take off all glasses(breaking up your fallow ground and having NO presuppositions), feel free to slap such a person.

Is the Bible Corrupted?

The Mormon looks at a Bible believing Christian with pity, for in their pride they believe they have the truth and that the Bible we have has been corrupted. They believe the Bible believing Christian is part of the abominable Church that is under the power of Satan and leading people to Hell.

This is the very foundation that prevents a Mormon from hearing and responding to Biblical truths. Why would they believe this? Because Joseph Smith told them so in Nephi, which is a prophet from the Book of Mormon.

26 And after they go forth by the hand of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, from the Jews unto the Gentiles, thou seest the formation of that great and abominable church, which is most abominable above all other churches; for behold, they have taken away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and most precious; and also many covenants of the Lord have they taken away.

27 And all this have they done that they might pervert the right ways of the Lord, that they might blind the eyes and harden the hearts of the children of men.

28 Wherefore, thou seest that after the book hath gone forth through the hands of the great and abominable church, that there are many plain and precious things taken away from the book, which is the book of the Lamb of God.
- Nephi 13:26-28

This prophecy by Nephi predicted that this corruption would happen "after the twelve apostles". Joseph Smith had started to write into the KJV the "precious things taken away from the book", and in 1867 the translation was published. Guess what these missing parts were?

They were prophecies about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Imagine that! Check this out... A large part of what was added by Joseph Smith was added to the book of Isaiah, and these additions were specific prophecies about him and the Book of Mormon.

The Isaiah Scroll was found in 1947, and was written around 100 BC. This was written before the corruption that Nephi prophesied about, and is an exact match to today's book of Isaiah. Guess what is NOT in it? Joseph Smith's additions, the "precious things taken away from the book" are NOT in the Isaiah Scroll.

Who is it that has corrupted the Book, but Joseph Smith? Who then is the church that is taken captive by Satan and leading people to Hell, but his church? Yet they do not see...

Rapture

Some things I read are so retarded. Listen. The Bible CANNOT contradict itself. Period. If it did, anywhere, it could not be truth. Rules of logic dictate that to opposing views CANNOT both be true. This verse by itself is what would be called the limiting factor. As this verse MUST be true there is no rapture before the tribulation ENDS. This verse EXPLICITLY says that the tribulation is cut short because of the elect's sake. Read your Bible, AND BELIEVE IT. The other Scriptures that talk about a rapture MUST BE interpreted with this clear verse in mind. Sola Scriptura.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.   And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Matthew 24:21-22 KJV

Was Jesus or Paul Married?

I have heard fairytales that say Jesus was married. It never ceases to amaze me how some are wilfully ignorant(dumb on purpose), and choose to believe such silly things.

There would be no better example for Paul to give than Jesus for being married, but he doesn't use such an example because it DID NOT EXIST. Rather he uses Peter as his best example because Peter was the best example. NOR DID PAUL USE HIMSELF AS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE WHO WAS MARRIED, rather Paul associated himself with those who were NOT married.

Jesus and Paul were NOT married. Do NOT follow after fairytales.

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 9:5 KJV

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.  I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.  But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
1 Corinthians 7:7-9 KJV

Spiritual Kingdoms

When Jesus came into the world He brought the Kingdom of God with Him, and Satan was simultaneously cast from Heaven.

And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
Revelation 12:7-10, 12 NKJV

From that day on the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence.

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew 11:12 NKJV

Satan and God's great army are currently marching the earth executing God's wrath.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Romans 1:18 NKJV

Family and the Truth

Our earthly family is NOT our eternal family, and this life is NOT about family. In fact, Jesus came to bring a sword as the goats are divided from the sheep. If a person doesn't value Jesus above EVERYTHING, including their family, they have NOTHING to do with Him.

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.  For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’;  and ‘a man’s enemies  will be  those of his  own  household.’  He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me."
Matthew 10:34-37 NKJV

Our eternal family are those whom Jesus fills with His Holy Spirit, causing them to be born again.

Then one said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You.” But He answered and said to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?”  And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!  For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 12:47-50 NKJV

Secure

I have had a few conversations recently about whether or not a person can lose their salvation or not. In fact, I left a church over this very topic. Listen to what the Bible says, and you decide.

Remember that the Holy Spirit is the GUARANTEE, and God CANNOT lie.

In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
Ephesians 1:13-14 NKJV

Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
II Corinthians 1:21-22 NKJV

When a person is regenerated, he is filled with the Holy Spirit. Such a person is secure in Christ.

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
Ezekiel 36:26-27 NKJV

There is only one reason people fall away.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they  went  out  that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
I John 2:19 NKJV