 - THE RIGHT WORD ARCHIVES - (Sep 28 2025) - “ THE THIRD TEMPLE REVISITED” --- {Part II}
PORTERVILLE, CA -- † 1 Corinthians 6:19 I hope that from { Part I } you heard that the physical 3rd temple to be quickly erected in Jerusalem (and soon enough) has its place in prophecy but will not be used by God in any way like the tabernacle and Solomon’s temple were. The glorious Shekinah Presence of God came upon the Wilderness tabernacle and later Solomon’s temple but it did not manifest in the rebuilt temple in Ezra and Nehemiah’s time or even later after Herod’s massive improvements. (Sep 21 2025) - “ THE THIRD TEMPLE REVISITED ”
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Recently in three parts we looked at our tri-part being and the order by which we are to attend to the way we were created. By the fall of mankind into sin the order of priority whereby we have been inspired and then acted was flipped upside down from the original order of spirit, soul and physical body to become body first and then the soul with no input from our dead-to-God spirit. From that series called “Our Needed Spiritual Diet” I shared that our spirit is the life that God gave us and that the soul belongs to the spirit and that it goes with the spirit at death and that the physical body (Gr. slave) is the servant of the soul and spirit while on this worldly plane. (Sep 14 2025) - “IN THE MINORITY and LOSERS”
PORTERVILLE, CA -- In the repertoire of topics that I've shared over the last 27 yrs of my formal ministry I've talked a time or two under the theme “Being in the Minority”. In what a person believes or how he or she publicly does things that are not the way nearly all other people believe or how they do things usually causes such a separatist to feel awkward and can be uncomfortable when among those that do not agree with him or her, yet they (we) persist. Those in the majority on any subject believe that they're right in their beliefs or ways and that people that do things in the old ways or unconventional ways or even in opposite ways are misguided or just plain wrong. (Sep 07 2025) - “OUR NEEDED SPIRITUAL DIET” #3
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Is this possible—to become “absolutely perfect and irreproachable” in spirit and soul and body? It is with the help of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God or it wouldn’t be declared in the Word in the affirmative as the accomplished condition of believers by the time of His coming. If we do not live until the day of His physical return, by our quick repentance when we sin we each should be found clean when we stand before Him on the day we die. But this cannot and will not happen without the Christian’s complete devotion to the plan of God to sanctify the follower of Jesus. (Aug 31 2025) - “OUR NEEDED SPIRITUAL DIET” #2
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I believe the present-day King James Version Holy Bible to be the inerrant (error-free) inspired Word of Almighty God and literally the only perfect physical gift provided by Heaven that is on the earth today (not the "New KJV"). When you read it, live it, and quote it you are using the most valuable tangible device available to mankind and one that has been provided by our Creator. Having said these things, you should understand that each word from its original language as found in the Hebrew Tenakh (OT) and the Greek Textus Receptus (NT) are intended to be there by God who inspired them to be written and passed down to us throughout the ages. (Aug 24 2025) - “OUR NEEDED SPIRITUAL DIET” !!!
PORTERVILLE, CA -- In today’s discussion we are going to look at how God made us and why it is important that once we are born again we understand this and what we must do for the whole of our being. As born-again ones from Heaven through Christ, we are body, soul and a regenerated spirit, however this order is backwards as far at its rightful hierarchy was before sin entered mankind. In a right understanding, we are really spirit, soul and body with the lowest standing of our 3-part being being our physical body. That is not to say that we can abuse it or not take care of it but ... (Aug 17 2025) - THE “CONFRONTATION” TABLE !!!
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I am today going to cast a different light on something that has become a now uncommon practice in many churches, not understood in others, never done in some, infrequently offered in still others, and in some entire denominations calling themselves “Christian” it has become an empty ritual among most of their congregants. Today’s discussion is called “The Confrontation Table” and is a practice better known as the Lord’s Table, the Communion Table, the Lord’s Supper, or Holy Communion. You will understand why I am casting this in what seems to be a negative light as I present my case for the use of the word “confrontation”. (Aug 10 2025) - WHEN “GOD” IS SILENT ???
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I know that you have experienced this, as have I: There have been and there will be again times in the life of a Christian where God is silent. Today we will look at this occurrence to better understand both why it happens and how we are to respond to it when it does. And when it seems He is silent—consider the † Psalms. We are vulnerable when God is silent during the micro-seasons of our lives—vulnerable if we are carnal and immature, weak in faith, deficient in the knowledge of His Word, not patient with God, or simply have not learned enough about how God works in the lives of His children (Aug 03 2025) - THE “DOMESTICATED” CHURCH ???
PORTERVILLE, CA -- † Zechariah 4:1-10 “Says This” : At least in the modern western countries and cultures, the official Christian church has become thoroughly-domesticated. That is to say that as to its divine life and purposes as seen in the first church (and at spotty times throughout history since then) today’s Christian church system resembles very little of what God established some 1,995 years ago. We are going to look at that today—and why? Because what we will see of the true church in the first century is what the Lord has prophesied will emerge again in these last days. (Jul 27 2025) - ARE “YOU” SURE ???
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I hear it often, “Are you sure?” We say it when someone offers us something that is kind or generous or maybe even a sacrifice by them for our help or benefit. I’ve usually thought, “Why do we ask that? Why did he or she ask that?” I’ve never heard anyone say in reply, “Well, no, I’m not sure and actually would rather not” or “No, I’m just kidding!” Why do we not instead respond to such a thoughtful offer by saying, “Thank you, you are very kind” or “That is thoughtful of you but please do not let it create a hardship for you”. (Jul 20 2025) - “Complaining” About GOD ~ Part II
PORTERVILLE, CA -- In our first discussion about “Complaining about God”, I pointed out to you two things that were a summary notice regarding such murmuring: Complaining about God is a lack of faith (or sufficient faith), and also that it does not go unheard of by God that you disapprove of how He handles the issues of your life. Complaints are known of by God by what we silently think, what we say with our mouth, and what we do or do not do, such as refusing to regularly read His Word, shunning its instruction and governance, and by giving Him the cold-shoulder of non-prayer. Take heed, church family members, we should not offend God! (Jul 13 2025) - “Complaining” About GOD
PORTERVILLE, CA -- In these last years before Jesus returns to the earth and not before the Great Tribulation that He spoke of (that most of us may have to endure the majority of), too many people in the true church today live on the fringes of a relationship with God. Most do not read their bibles, fewer pray or even think about the Lord, and the life they believe is a “Christian” life is fraught with worldly distractions, unchecked sinful habits, doubts about God, and fears about tomorrow. I know this by how people talk about God or do not, how they spend their personal free time, by the complaints they have about their lives, and the attitude and language they use (words of doubt and the use of vulgarities). (Jul 06 2025) - “Uncircumcised” Foreskins
PORTERVILLE, CA -- As I read through the Old Testament in my yearly schedule to read through the whole Bible, a passage in the book of Joshua jumped out at me. The Lord commanded a certain preparation be made before Israel could take the Promised Land in blessing and power of God. The Lord has used many types and shadows in His Word to show us the meanings or applications of things He would later reveal to us as how they apply to us under the new covenant. One of those proto-types (a model, first form or example) of what he introduced in the Old Testament is the requirement of circumcision that was initiated with Abraham. (Jun 29 2025) - When the “Trouble-Bubbles” Pop
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Many years ago I heard that the Chinese character for “crisis” (weiji / way-jee) is the combination of two symbols for “danger” and “opportunity”. This came to the attention of the American people in a speech by President John F. Kennedy in 1959—but was not an accurate translation of that compound Chinese character. In looking into the truth of that claim, I quickly discovered according to Steve Nguyen, PhD (and others), that although the meaning behind the Chinese symbol for “crisis” does convey the notion of danger, the second part of the symbol does not mean “opportunity” but does mean “incipient moment” ... (Jun 22 2025) - When “The Old Man” Dies ~ Part II
PORTERVILLE, CA -- At the end of part one, I said this: “The old man, and the new man that you and I are, or for most are to be, the old man and the new are at war (the Bible calls this enmity, acts of hostility), and as the old native American saying goes about the bad dog and the good dog fighting, “The one you feed the most is the one that will win in the end.” There are many wonderful benefits, advantages and blessings as a result of the old man dying.” I urged you “to think about what you had heard in that discussion as it relates to your life of either victory over sin or the guilt and shame before God of your sin as you feel helpless to triumph against it.” (Jun 15 2025) - When “The Old Man” Dies
PORTERVILLE, CA -- When they talked about him, my uncles on my mother’s side would always refer to their father as “the old man” or “my old man”, which is not an uncommon term used among some people on the east coast. Occasionally I hear this used in a movie, too. I don’t think I have ever heard anyone from other parts of our country refer to their father in that way, and I never did my father. It is disrespectful and reflects an attitude that suggests perhaps an unloving and demeaning spirit. However! There is one place the term “old man” is completely appropriate and ... (Jun 08 2025) - Is Your Life “Up-to-Date”?
PORTERVILLE, CA -- As He usually does for me, the Holy Spirit often informs me of the topic for our weekly meetings with a single word or short phrase dropped into my heart and mind. Of the more recent things I heard have been “First Focus”, and “Untouchable Subjects”, and just 4 weeks ago the single word “Hardships”. These gave me the needed focus to then follow the Lord’s lead in preparing and sharing with you the things on His mind for us as followers of Jesus. Just over a week ago I could not escape the term as a question: “Up-to-Date?”, and so what I address today is what the Lord asks you through me, “Are you up-to-date in the important matters of your life?” (Jun 01 2025) - A Post Script to “Hardships” ~ Part III
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I sensed the need to add a part three to our recent series called Hardships Among the Ways of God, an additional segment that can and should help some that have chronic issues in their physical bodies. I have in mind the pains and sufferings of some that are under a yoke of sickness or disease or a physical disability that continues day after week after month and longer. Paul had such things to cope with as did Timothy, and you can be sure there were other the Word could have listed that we know not of. (May 25 2025) - Hardships Among the Ways of God ~ Part II
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Not one of us likes inconvenience, setbacks, failures, sickness or disease and its pain and suffering, or having to be patient in difficulties for very long. We do not like to put up with disagreeable people, noisy neighbors or ones that do not take care of their property. Yet things like these, and so many others we face regularly that are hardships to one degree or another, are the very things that help us to learn of and adopt the ways of God; such hardships are things to train us to behave in righteousness and holiness when we face them. (May 18 2025) - Hardships Among the Ways of God
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I want to take you through a few select Scriptures today with one thing in mind, and that is this: To show you that God permits or arranges hardships in our lives as part of His intimate work in and upon and through the lives of His children. His purpose in doing so is to thoroughly redeem us from what we used to be, transform you and me into the image in heart and character of His beloved Son Jesus, and give us peace in spite of the growing chaos of this life. God knows you inside and out and has a restoration plan that is one-of-a-kind for each of us that He works throughout the days of our lives. We would be wise to cooperate with Him, especially during the times of hardships for they are part of the ways of God. (May 11 2025) - Heretofore Untouchable Subjects ~ Part V
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Aliens from other near places in the galaxy, star gates, inter-dimensional portals, UFOs, giants and hybrid creatures, stone structures above and below ground far too massive and elaborate for men early in our 6,000 year history to design and build even today: Science fiction or secreted facts? For the many years I have followed these things they are for me established facts that by what I have shared with you are things that I believe. However, if you are more than skeptical for what I have shared with you in these 4 previous parts, I have at least accomplished one thing and that is to give you a spiritual “X-Files” overview for what I know are actual issues for you to keep an eye out for. (May 04 2025) - Heretofore Untouchable Subjects ~ Part IV
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Angels are wise and mighty beings created by God and were created for certain functions in service to God throughout His seen and unseen realms. Of the 2/3rds that remained loyal to God, many are appointed to watch over individuals, a few are divine messengers (such as Gabriel), some are destroyers as are the six we see in Ezekiel 9 and other places, and there are those that are warrior angels under the command of Michael. I do not necessarily believe that angels are 24/7 with us as individuals but do believe that as we need them that God sends them to encourage, defend, and strengthen, or to deliver us in situations where God does not want us to be hurt or killed. (Apr 27 2025) - Heretofore Untouchable Subjects ~ Part III
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Jesus warned us ... that things would be happening so terrorizing that they would cause men’s hearts to fail for fear of what’s coming on the earth. Those things will be from both below ground and from above our heads coming from the first and second heavens—our skies and outside our planet’s atmospheric boundaries respectively. For just a brief time let’s discuss why—why have we not heard about these things and others yet to be revealed in this series? These things have been intentionally kept secret as part of the plan of Satan to deceive the world and lead it to the destruction of both human kind as well as the planet itself. (Apr 20 2025) - Heretofore Untouchable Subjects ~ Part II
PORTERVILLE, CA -- What Jesus said in († Luke 21:25-28) and things spoken about in other places is why we are addressing the many controversial things we began talking about in part one. Things are going to be seen with the eyes, events will happen that will be so astounding that some won’t believe their eyes, and situations will happen without any warning that are so life-threatening and shocking that some will literally be scared to death. This series of teachings are to inform you about those things that can terrify the unprepared—and 99% will be! But if you know about these things ahead of time ... (Apr 13 2025) - Heretofore Untouchable Subjects
PORTERVILLE, CA -- If you are not aware of the news, a recent development has triggered in my heart and spirit the need to talk about some things known to some and reveal other things unknown by most that are never talked about among Christians or even generally among non-Christians. The development I speak of is the revelation that massive structures exist under the plateau of pyramids in Egypt. What things are seen by deep underground radar penetrating mapping technology are at least many thousands of years old and (here is the first of many astounding statements you will hear:) are constructs that without a doubt predate † Genesis 1:2 ... (Apr 06 2025) - Scared or Prepared?
PORTERVILLE, CA -- We each have unconscious default positions that just happen when we are faced with some unexpected issue in life. A default position is what you do automatically, usually without any thought or even a few microseconds of consideration about what else can or should be done. Such automatic reactions are not necessarily bad but some can be if it is the wrong thing to do in a specific or unique situation. Things happen and what we often do is immediately panic and react in ways that might just be totally wrong for our well-being or our survival. (Mar 30 2025) - As Evil Matures
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I heard someone say once that “We have yet not seen how evil that evil can be!” I agree with that statement; by looking back, those of us that are especially over 50 can see how dramatic the moral decline of our country has become in our lifetime and that there has been a noticeable acceleration of wickedness in just the last 10 to 15 years. And I do not doubt that evil is just starting to get warmed-up! One only needs to compare what the Bible says about these last days with our daily news reports of peoples’ attitudes and behaviors right here in America. (Mar 23 2025) - First Focus : A Closer Look
PORTERVILLE, CA -- We have taken a good look at the command of God to love Him above all others and to love others as we do ourselves (ex. Deuteronomy 6:4, 10:12, Mark 12:28-31). In today’s follow-up discussion we are going to more closely define what that love looks like as it is to be expressed through the mind, heart, words and actions of a believer that walks in biblical love. Why take the time? Because like the lawyer in the parable of the good Samaritan, we can easily try to set the conditions for what that love will be in us toward God and others, which will inevitably fall short of the what God requires. (Mar 16 2025) - First Focus - Part II
PORTERVILLE, CA -- “If you try and try and try to walk in the righteous ways of our holy God but consistently fail (you sin by lying, sexual issues, hatred, unforgiveness, envy, etc.) It Boils Down To This One Reason: You do not love God nor fear Him enough! There is the need for the work of the cross on your sinful nature to put an end to sinning but if you do not love God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, you do not have the needed inspiration to seek the power of the cross to put an end to your habitual sinning. If we will go to the cross for the death of sinful nature it is because we love God—a lot.” (Mar 09 2025) - First Focus
PORTERVILLE, CA -- † Deuteronomy 6:4-5 ... Once we are born again from above, we must soon come to understand that we are to walk in love and to open the doors of our heart and mind to that prime directive of Heaven. You will recall something that I have said over the years of what the Apostle John’s has emphasized in his writings—and that is that “we are to stop sinning and if you get anything right, get love right.” Although it does not happen overnight in most lives, a walk of love is a command of God and is to happen; I believe it is to be our first focus as to the changes that are to take root in our lives and by love gives us victory over the very strong and competing worldly behaviors of our former lives. (Mar 02 2025) - Forthwith the Doors Were Shut
PORTERVILLE, CA -- † Acts 21:27-29 ... My spirit has always been pricked by that statement “and forthwith the doors were shut” and intuitively knew that one day I would speak to that issue, which is today. That phrase has been in my notebook for a long time—and being moved to address it now is an indication to me that as a warning by the Holy Spirit, now is the time for all that have ears to hear need to prepare for and to act on what I have to share today. Perhaps you’ve never noticed it but the form of this phrase has been used several times under different circumstances in the Gospels. (Feb 23 2025) - Loose Ends
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Have you ever pulled on a string on a shirt or blouse or on a strand of yarn on a sweater or a knitted cap or a comforter? If you have, you know what can happen—either it doesn’t let go but pulls an unsightly snag into the item or worse, it begins an unraveling of that sweater or comforter. Such a result left unrepaired can cause the thing to continue to come undone and eventually be damaged perhaps beyond help. Loose ends need to be tended to or they will one day cause at least regret. Actually, I have found the best way to deal with such a loose end is not to ignore it, or pull it—but to cut-it-off. (Feb 09 2025) - The Grand Plan of Elohim -- Part 4
PORTERVILLE, CA -- † Revelation 19:5-8 (KJV) Over the last three weeks I have given you enough to understand that in the grand plan of God there will be a very special subset of the whole Church called out (“chosen”) to become something unique in all of eternity future—the Bride and the Helpmeet of Christ. All members of the Church are “called” (invited) but “few” (a puny number) will be “chosen” (selected) to be members of the Bride. You should have come to understand that those that are selected out-of the Body of Christ (the Church—in the same fashion as Eve was taken out of the body of Adam) are ones that by their individual choice and follow-through dedication came to love God more that all others and their own lives while having been submitted to the needed transformation from having a sinful nature, idolatries, and all unclean ways to being holy as He is holy. (Feb 02 2025) - The Grand Plan of Elohim -- Part 3
PORTERVILLE, CA -- If you are a student of the Word, then as you can, you read through all the books of the Bible from Genesis through Revelation. If you have a Bible that does so, whenever the Old Testament has a verse that is a direct prophecy about Jesus (His birth, its location, His life and mission and death) it puts a hollow star next to that verse. In the Gospels where that is then prophecy fulfilled, my Bible puts a solid star next to that verse indicating its fulfillment by that event. The thing about His prophetic verses in the Old Testament is that they are usually obscure one-liners (just one or maybe two verses except of Isaiah 53) in the middle of some larger narrative and can be easily missed as prophetic even by those that might know it is prophetic about Jesus fulfilled in His earthly life 2000 years ago. (Jan 29 2025) - The Grand Plan of Elohim -- Part 2
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Why did God do it? Why did Elohim create the archangel Lucifer knowing that he would at some point become prideful and lead a major rebellion against God? Why then later did Elohim create man upon the earth about 6,000 years ago knowing that he, too, would disobey God’s Word, fall to sin, and produce an entire race of sinners? Why do it in the first place or why not at least set Adam and Eve aside in some remote location until they died a natural death and recreate another man and woman that would love God and walk in obedience to His Word and His ways? Have you ever wondered about these kinds of things? I have and over the years have come to understand a broad answer to such questions ... (Jan 19 2025) - The Grand Plan of Elohim -- Part 1
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I have never had the privilege of flying in the first class cabin of an aircraft but would have liked to. I have never owned a Mercedes or a Porsche or even driven a Porsche but would have liked to at least once. I am not a member of the Mensa International society, although invited to apply more than once—I didn’t think I would qualify and considered it to be a vain pursuit but thought it was cool to be asked. I didn’t get to fulfill my adolescent hope for a career in the military but left the Army due to the politics of the armed services (and as I later understood, it was not God’s plan for my life) and that was a great disappointment. (Jan 15 2025) - Jesus Warned: Watch!
PORTERVILLE, CA -- † Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. † Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: † Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe (a watch, to guard, keep an eye on, fulfill) all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world (age) Amen. I have been speaking to you under the banner of “Taken for Granted: The Word of Jesus.” Defined again: (Jan 08 2025) - The Sower’s Seed
PORTERVILLE, CA -- The broad theme that we are addressing in these few weeks is this: What are the words of Jesus that we are “taking for granted”? What does that term mean? Taking for granted: To believe that someone or something will always be the same or remain available or a benefit like it is today. To act like you can do whatever you like without any consequences of what has been stated. Failing to appreciate someone or something, especially as a result of over-familiarity. To underestimate the value or the importance of some counsel, advice, or a thing expected of you. [Giving little or no thought to things that are really important to our lives, our relationships, and especially our eternity. /SR] (Dec 29 2024) - Become as Little Children
PORTERVILLE, CA -- In what is the general theme that we are working under (Taken for Granted: the Words of Jesus), last week I spoke on making “the Case for Forgiveness”. For anyone that cannot find it in their heart to forgive, that person should know this: Such a man or woman is in outright rebellion and disobedience to the will of God and His command to forgive and is still a slave to their old nature’s prideful independence from God, which without sincere repentance will be very, very costly. [† Genesis 3:4] And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (Dec 22 2024) - The Case for Forgiveness
PORTERVILLE, CA -- This last week I began preparing an exhortation called “Taken for Granted: the Words of Jesus” and as I began moving through some of the things Jesus taught it became clear that by that theme I was today to reinforce in your minds and hearts (again, it never hurts to over-learn a subject) how very important forgiveness is to our thorough redemption; which is forgiveness received from God and forgiveness given by men, two sides to the same coin. The words of Jesus make it clear, “Forgive and you shall be forgiven”. I don’t know how that strikes you but for me it is a very ominous and frightening declaration from Jesus, Who is God; it is a statement that also includes a sure outcome: Don’t forgive and you will not be forgiven. (Dec 18 2024) - Saying “I’m Sorry” in Heaven
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I have not been able to get past two related thoughts that have stayed with me now for several weeks: “Heaven” and “I am sorry”. Multitudes people alive today believe they will go to a place called Heaven when they die; many believe this that are not even Bible-believing Christians. And, just about anyone that believes there is a Heaven after this life also assumes that it will be perfect and blissful (it will be), and that Heaven will offer all who enter there equal delights, rewards and benefits (it will not). Jesus said that He alone is the way, the truth and the life and no man (lit. “not even one man or woman”) comes to the Father (whose realm is Heaven) but by Him, Jesus (John 14:6). (Dec 08 2024) - Forged(?) or Forging and Being Forged?
PORTERVILLE, CA -- † Romans 12:1 One of the several aspects of becoming a Christian and disciple of Jesus that is almost always neglected to be informed of and understood to be part of one’s commitment before God as part of being forgiven and born again is the requirement of being transformed into the likeness of Jesus Himself. Being “saved” is not just coming to believe on Jesus Christ, being forgiven and washed from one’s sins by the shed blood of Christ, promised eternal life—and then resuming your former life with no thought of what all that is supposed to mean and help the believer become. (Dec 01 2024) - REMAIN CALM !!!
PORTERVILLE, CA -- If you are paying attention to life, you have at least a faint sense that the things of your life are noticeably moving in a bad direction. In case you honestly haven’t recognized these things, let me mention some examples that I am aware of ... • Food prices are higher by 25-50% while incomes have not increased • For most, housing, some utility costs and insurances have climbed • Many places of business have closed their doors; others have raised prices • Major banks and financial institutions are on the precipice of failure • There are more homeless people walking the streets than ever before • Unexpected weather has become itself a mass murderer ... (Nov 24 2024) - It is Finished - Part III
PORTERVILLE, CA -- In part 1 we covered what the meaning of “it” is to be understood as by many examples of what He had accomplished (“finished”). In part 2 the meaning of “is”, as it is to be understood by His followers throughout the ages, is that all that He “accomplished” (said “is finished”) is real-time-relevant and second-by-second powerful from the very moment of His death on the cross and through the end His 1,000 year reign upon the earth, which is to come. What Jesus did for us is always present-tense and never to be allowed to slip in the past tense of the yester-years of history and its relevance forgotten by us. We see this ever so clearly in the statement “Jesus Christ is come in the flesh” and ... (Nov 17 2024) - It is Finished - Part II
PORTERVILLE, CA -- In part one we began to dissect these last three words that Jesus spoke before He died by examining the word “It” and what that word represented. What was “it” that Jesus had finished? When the Lord uttered the words “It is finished” from the cross just before His last breath and giving up the ghost, the meaning of “it” is to be understood by these examples of what He had accomplished (finished): • Jesus was born, lived and died sinless (a requirement to be the Savior) • He upheld the Word • He fulfilled the Law and the what the prophets had said about Him • He undertook and completed a work that no mere man could have done • Jesus had outsmarted and defeated the devil ... (Nov 10 2024) - It is Finished
PORTERVILLE, CA -- We are going to look at three words in English and indeed the last three words uttered by Jesus before He released His physical life to death. They are three words that we have read for ourselves many times or at least heard others read them in the context of the story of the Lord’s brutal time on the cross. It is usually the case that the words are heard but generally are not given any thought or study. Every word that Jesus spoke is important and worthy of careful thought and to be added to our spiritual understanding because He said that His Words are life—life-giving and life-sustaining. In a quick review in sequence of what Jesus said about what He says we read this: (Nov 03 2024) - Beware The Path of Least Resistance
PORTERVILLE, CA -- It is normal for us humans to usually take the easy way or resort to shortcuts—whether it is on a hike, in a relationship with conflict issues, a shortcut regarding repairs or the building of something, the easiest way to solve a problem involving money, or a thousand other situations that come up in our lives that demand our attention. Some time back I worked part time for a man who had a saying when something inconvenient happened that needed to be dealt with or fixed quickly; he would say with a smirk, “It may not be right but it’s right now!” The problem with that often enough was that that quick-fix was usually not revisited and fixed long-term or the repair job done in haste would not be later addressed in the best way. (Oct 27 2024) - Praying in These Last Days
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I have become increasingly aware of something over the last several years, which is something needful for you as a Christian to know and do also. Too few believers today do not pray (or pray enough), and that will prove to be the undoing of their physical health, and unfortunately for some the undoing of their faith in God during the times ahead of us. Personal fellowship with God is a huge part of coming to trust what His Word promises and to have confidence in God to do what He says He will do. With that being said, the main point of what I will be sharing with you today puts an even finer point on the critical need for your prayers unto God, and that is this ... (Oct 20 2024) - Pushing the Pause Button to Reflect
PORTERVILLE, CA -- When we lose someone close to us (as we just did here in our church family), or someone that we had known for a significant amount of time, it causes us to reflect on several things. We think about the person we lost; his or her life, contributions, hardships, and accomplishments, where they are now in the eternity that began when they died, what their absence will mean, and about those they left behind. For some people, there are the thoughts of “Did I treat that person right” or “Should I have done more for him or her,” and perhaps even deeper regrets about something between you and that person that you wish you could change. (Oct 16 2024) - 12 Expressions of the Redeemed - Part 5
PORTERVILLE, CA -- What I share with you today is the conclusion of what has been to me over the years an impressive passage of the Scriptures. At 1 Chronicles 16, King David has written a psalm and given it to his chief praise and worship leader to be presented to the nation. As you now know, it has at least twelve expressions by God’s people instructed to be made unto the Lord our God and Savior. We are taught that as a people of God, and we as the most blessed of the three 2,000-year periods since Adam, and a people that should be the most spiritually advanced among all the peoples of God over 6,000 years, we are to: Give thanks unto the Lord, make known His deeds ... (Oct 13 2024) - 12 Expressions of the Redeemed - Part 4
PORTERVILLE, CA -- 1 Chronicles 16:28-36 It takes three consecutive breaths for David to make the point that we are to “give unto the Lord”. In similar terms, you can think of giving to the Lord like this: “Hand over to God those things which He wants from us and the things He deserves from us”. The Hebrew word that is used by the psalmist simply means “give” or to “put before” Him. A more definitive definition for our 21st century understanding today would include “to freely transfer the possession of something to someone [else]; to hand over to. To provide or supply with. To present without expecting compensation. To make a gift of.” (Sep 22 2024) - 12 Expressions of the Redeemed - Part 3
PORTERVILLE, CA -- This term “glory ye” is the Hebrew word halal, and is translated into English throughout the Old Testament as: Praise, to glory in, boast, shine, commend, and celebrate our God and Redeemer. How many of you have ever thought within your heart or said or sung out loud “Hallelujah”? That single English word in its original language is “Halal, Oh Jah!”; it means “Praise ye, Jah”, which [Jah] is an abbreviated version of Jehovah. Its Greek counterpart “alleluia” is used 4 times in the New Testament with all four found in Revelation 19. (Sep 15 2024) - 12 Expressions of the Redeemed - Part 2
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I surmise that we have alive in America today two generations of men and women of all ages that profess to be followers of Jesus that have not been taught much at all about living each day as one redeemed from sin and its bondage; that would be Christians alive today that have been born in the last eighty years or so. Why do I believe that? Because many believers have no fear of God (no alarm bells ringing at how they still live yet will face His judgment seat or reverence of Him as the all mighty and eternal God) ... (Sep 08 2024) - 12 Expressions of the Redeemed - Part 1
PORTERVILLE, CA -- The life of the shepherd boy who became Israel’s greatest earthy king has been to me a blessing, and should be to all Christians. He came to know the God of Israel early in his life and devoted his life to Him, learned the value of often praise and worship of God, was not shy in testifying to others about Him, and boldly defended Him against the armies that defiled Israel’s Divine King. And although David would make mistakes, he also knew well of the need for humility and repentance before his God. (Sep 01 2024) - Your Need for Water
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I haven’t been able to escape a recurring phrase in my heart—and that is “appointed time”. As Christians, we are each and every one of us at a ‘Y’ in the road of our lives, which will result in either enduring to the end of our appointed time and being saved when we die, or not being prepared (by good spiritual disciplines) and as a result not being able to endure to the end of our appointed time but physically dying sooner than God’s plan for our life has always been. (Aug 25 2024) - Joshua’s Errors to Learn By
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I am fond of many of our Bible’s heroes and their stories, and one of those is the man Joshua. From about the time that Moses began leading the children of Israel out of their bondage in Egypt, as a much younger man Joshua was never far from Moses’ side. In Exodus 17 he was commissioned as the captain of the army of Israel for their first battle, which was against the Amalekites. In Exodus 24 he is called Moses’ minister and accompanied Moses up the mountain of God. (Aug 18 2024) - NO Past Behind the Cross #2
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I begin today in a gruesome manner by giving you a picture of what the memories of sins that haunt us are like or how continuing habitual sin looks like as Heaven observes our lives—the lives of born again ones that are supposed to be free of sin and its nature. The following is a fact of Roman criminal punishment and one that perhaps the Apostle Paul had in mind at † Romans 7:24. (Aug 11 2024) - NO Past Behind the Cross
PORTERVILLE, CA -- In the recent message called “What Evidences Will Convict You?”, I mentioned personal secrets and that one thing that we cannot keep secret is our relationship with God as the followers of Jesus. But what if those closely kept secrets are affecting a believer’s life? Whether the secrets are about present sinful habits or they are secrets about things in one’s past that haunt and condemn a Christian, there is a solution; the solution to both these things (present sin and past sins that still whisper to us) is the cross that Jesus died on. (Aug 04 2024) - What Evidences will Convict You?
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Many people have secrets, secrets that no one else knows except God, of course. Some of the secrets people hold, if known, would cause shame and embarrassment, some would lead to emotional pain and suffering in others, some secrets if known would bring an end to relationships, and some secrets would even cause imprisonment. Your secrets are yours to keep but there is something about your life that cannot be kept a secret, and that is (if it is true) that you have been born again from Heaven by a confession of faith in the only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ. (Jul 28 2024) - Tempered Together with Faith (#2)
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Under this title we are talking about two important facets of faith in God; your faith in God. Faith in God that itself must be made strong by a tempering process of heat (tribulations, hardships) described by James 1:2-3 and 1 Peter 1:3-9, which is to understand that our faith must be exercised, tested, and strengthened. But then how and when are we to apply our faith—that is to say when, where, and how do we “mix”-our-faith into your and my everyday lives to give us the supernatural ability to stand in the face of the myriad of things that come up in our lives. (Jul 21 2024) - Tempered Together with Faith
PORTERVILLE, CA -- My last discussion was under the title, “Stale Christian, Stale Faith” and in it, I addressed how that faith in God and in His Word in our present culture has for many become stale in their lives (and most do not even realize it or care). Stale faith is a serious problem for anyone that thinks that all is at least spiritually adequate (good enough) between him or her and God. In a fashion, such a thin veneer of faith is not unlike having the sword of Damocles hanging over the head of one with stale faith. Let Me Relate The Story About That Sword. (Jul 14 2024) - Stale Christians, Stale Faith
PORTERVILLE, CA -- For you that have listened to me for years, you know that I have a very low opinion of the formal church system in our country, which by-and-large does nothing to train and equip Christians to be strong in their faith in God and obedient to His Word. In general terms, the institutional church system involving seminaries, credentials, denominations, church politics, and the division of members between the laity and the clergy has failed the Lord. I have no doubt that the corrupt state of our country as it is today with the judgment of God now becoming apparent upon the United States of America lies at the feet of the Christian church ... (Jun 30 2024) - 30 Days Left to Live
PORTERVILLE, CA -- If I were to inform you today that I have been told by the doctor that I only have just one more month to live—how would you feel? I suspect that as ones that have known me for many years that you would be stunned, filled with sadness and sorrow and groaning. At some point your thoughts would turn to my wife of now 43 years, and my daughter and grandsons, and then you would think of what my absence would mean to you. If I indeed reveal this to you today, I in-turn would hope to comfort you by my calmness and peace, in spite of such news, by my knowing that all is well between my God and me. (Jun 09 2024) - ? - or - !
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I remember a discussion in my 10th grade English studies class that was posed by our teacher, Mrs. Nelms. As she wrote three words on the board (This-is-fun), she asked the question, “How many ways can you say these three words?” These were the responses: This is fun!, This is fun!, and This is fun! When no other ways were suggested, I raised my hand and said, “This is fun?”, to which Mrs. Nelms signaled her approval as she and the whole class giggled. And therein lays the point of what I want to share with you today. (Apr 14 2024) - An Unfamiliar Road
PORTERVILLE, CA -- The background of what we are about to read is this: After 400 years of living in Egypt (with at least the last 50-75 years or so being slaves), the descendants of Jacob (who became Israel) were led out of Egypt by Moses and had spent the next 40 years wandering in the land between the Red Sea and Canaan, their Promised Land. They spent about 38 years in their Wilderness walk because of disobedience, faithlessness, and continued rebellion against God. For much of that time, they were pagan-Israelites, more Egyptians in their beliefs and pagan practices then they were God-fearing children of Israel. (Mar 10 2024) - Customizing Your Beliefs - 2
PORTERVILLE, CA -- In part one, I paired what the Apostle Paul said to the Galatians with what (in our time) Dr. George Barna revealed about those in America that profess to be Christians. I made and continue to make the point in this segment that our Christian culture has in large-part customized the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the only Gospel able to save one’s soul; huge numbers of those believing they are born again and will go to Heaven one day are believing things that are “another gospel”, which will not save a man or woman’s soul. (Mar 03 2024) - Customizing Your Beliefs - 1
PORTERVILLE, CA -- For two segments I hope to incite you to very carefully (and with a magnifying glass) look at what you have allowed yourself to believe—the magnifying class that is the Word of God and only the Word of God. This is also counsel from on High for everything in the future that you are presented as truth! For many years now I have been interested in the work of Christian researcher Dr. George Barna of the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University. No one is better at keeping a thumb on the spiritual pulse and respiration of the people of our country then Dr. Barna has been doing for 3 decades. (Feb 18 2024) - A TRUE CHRISTIAN
PORTERVILLE, CA -- If you are otherwise familiar with my work as a teacher of God’s Word and ways then perhaps you have noticed a term that I have used in the past, and now more frequently: A True Christian. I use it intentionally as an occasional and perhaps almost a subliminal challenge to anyone listening to me intending it to cause everyone that claims to be or even believes they are a Christian to consider the very tragic ending if they are not a true Christian. If a man or woman saying they are a Christian is not a true Christian what might be the case? (Jan 07 2024) - ARE YOU A RECHABITE?
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Today’s message is a distinct word from the Lord to those that will listen. This story is one that I have always found intriguing and been blessed by in my own life. The name “Rechabites” is only used 4 times in the entire Bible and it is in this one chapter in Jeremiah. It has some very good instructive points in it that I want to share with you today. This entire family-line for several generations lived without compromise according to a command made by an Israelite forefather named Jonadab, the son of Rechab. There obedience to that command again was this: We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: (Dec 24 2023) - "Red and Yellow, Black and White"
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I remember sitting in a high school classroom with a black man as my teacher, a man that I recall respecting, and he said this: “If we all woke up one morning and shared the same skin color—by the end of the day we would find another reason to be prejudice.” Think of that—where would new prejudices come from? Eye color? Height? Hair color? Education, political affiliation, type of career, some perceived class of people? Religious beliefs? A difference of opinion? What kind of car we drive? That teacher’s statement made an impact on me at the age of 16 that was eye-opening and helpful. (Dec 17 2023) - "Time is Accelerating"
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Do you like mind-teasers? Today’s discussion is one that if you like to be challenged in your mind you will probably spend some considerable time mulling over what you will hear today. What I will be talking about will involve you and me and everyone else on the planet, including the spiritual beings that are busy on the earth, those for good purposes and those others for evil. See if what you read here isn’t going to be a little mind-boggling/warping/twisting experience for you courtesy of the Word of God. The Bible makes it clear something very unusual and strange to us is going to happen in these last days and that Jesus also said something else that must be considered with it when He declared “the Scriptures cannot be broken”. (Dec 04 2023) - "Excuses"
PORTERVILLE, CA -- I have little doubt that in this regard you have been like I have been from time-to-time: When we do not do what we were supposed to or we did something that we should not have done, and in either case we are legitimately confronted about it—we often are quick to make excuses. In some cases, we might be forgiven (although warned) but in other cases of our wrong-doing there will be consequences, ranging from unpleasant to seriously negative and in some way maybe painful—perhaps even long-lasting. Do you know what I mean from personal experience? The Holy Spirit put that one word on my heart: Excuses! (Nov 26 2023) - "Sufficient" Means "Enough" - #3
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Before moving into the last analysis of what we can learn from what Paul wrote in this passage, I want to point out as an important review two things that we discovered in this passage that have been mentioned so far. From part one, we learned that the word "sufficient" used by the Holy Spirit infers a two-fold participation that is to happen between God and the believer. What He gives us as grace in our trials is to be recognized by definition as enough for the need and our benefit, it is just the right amount of help by God's wisdom, it will suffice and is just the correct dose of help for the purposes of God in our life regarding that problem area. (Oct 29 2023) - "Sufficient" Means "Enough" - #2
PORTERVILLE, CA -- What I shared with you in part one of this short series on the subject of God’s grace was an important first step in walking in the benefits of that grace. There is no question that you and I have been given His grace or we would not be able to consider ourselves ones born again from Heaven. To put a finer point on what you heard in part 1, you might want to consider grace this way: There is every day grace that you and I are not even aware of and there is what we might consider as emergency grace or the favor and help of God’s grace needed when unexpected and serious things arise in our lives. (Oct 04 2023) - "Sufficient" means "Enough" - !1
PORTERVILLE, CA -- Dear friends in Christ, On the heels of talking to you under the title How Can We Know, an important 3-part look at one’s genuine faith in God as a Person, including what His Word says, and about one’s love for God, today I want to tag onto what you should have taken to heart this subject today. It falls nicely in place as both a review for some of what we should know and live by, and for others, it will be instruction and an encouragement on how to live having strong faith in God and what His Word teaches us, as well as for one that loves God passionately and knows that He loves us even more than that! (Oct 18 2023) - Addition or Submission ???
PORTERVILLE, CA -- As my wife and I were watching a Christian movie recently one of the main characters in it asked someone that claimed to be a Christian a great question that went something like this: “Regarding your life and Jesus—is it by addition or submission?” That’s what I am addressing today about your life and our God and Savior Jesus Christ. What does that question mean? Is your relationship with Jesus one of addition or one of submission? Straight to the point it means ... (Oct 08 2023) - When War Comes Home !!!
PORTERVILLE, CA -- As Christians we are children of light and of the day—living in an ever-more-darkening world—but if we walk about with our eyes closed, light does us no good at all. Our country has not seen war on its lands since the terrible Civil War in the mid-1800s. There were reports of a Japanese submarine spotted off the Los Angeles County, San Pedro coastline during the WWII timeframe, and supposedly sunk, but we have not had foreign military invaders on U.S. soil since the British were expelled during the Revolutionary War. But this is soon to change—you need to know that, believe it as true, and make plans and preparations to live through it as a Christian. (Oct 07 2023) - Tribulation Wealth !!!
PORTERVILLE, CA -- The topics that I bring weekly are usually developed from the title that the Lord drops into my heart. A few weeks back the term “Tribulation Wealth” just popped up in my mind and I immediately understood what it was to be about—it is this: The world, our country, and our households are sliding more swiftly by the week toward what the Bible calls “great tribulation.” It will be a time of civil chaos, the collapse of our financial systems (to include both our income sources and nearly all commerce in our land), an extreme scarcity of the needed things of life, (sadly) the physical destruction and the death of multiplied millions by natural calamities and by wars, and eventually the imposition of the antichrist system of buying, selling, and the demanded worship of false gods. (Oct 02 2023) - War Footing !!!
PORTERVILLE, CA -- In recent months there have been news reports to the effect that as a result of the conflict going on between Russia and Ukraine several countries have gone from a peacetime, “life is normal” mode, to a declared and almost frenzied “war footing”. A few have openly publicized it while others by their actions have implied that that is the state of their defensive mood. Specifically—Russia is preparing for a war with NATO and the U.S. and China is preparing to invade Taiwan with a resulting war with the U.S. and perhaps 3 or 4 of its neighbors (including nuclear India) when it moves against Taiwan. For more Information - editor@portervillepost.com All Right Reserved 
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