SHADOWS IN JERICHO

The Prison of Pride Wisdom is revealed in the man or woman that learns when they are rebuked or corrected with the truth. A Fool is much different. The Pride of a fool will not allow them to accept either reproof or correction. The fool becomes entrapped in an invisible self made prison of denial.The sad irony is that this prison is visible to everyone but the fool because he or she remains in a state of perpetual self denial and spiritual blindness. -Randall Nelsen

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VESSELS OF HONOR In a wealthy home some utensils are made of gold and silver, and some are made of wood and clay. The expensive utensils are used for special occasions, and the cheap ones are for everyday use. If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work. 2 Timothy 2:20-21

Water Washes the outside of the Cup, but only the Holy Spirit can wash the inside, which is the heart of man. - Randall Nelsen If water baptism is an essential component of Salvation then Grace becomes works and  then it becomes dependent on an act of man in addition to the,"Redemptive work" that Jesus fully accomplished with the blood he shed on the cross. We must be baptized Jesus commands us to, but water baptism is not the same thing as the redemptive act of being born again through the baptism of the indwelling Holy Spirit. Jesus speaks of  Spiritual rebirth, which is  also the same as being born again. Being born again is a prerequisite for eternal salvation. Water baptism is very important and we should do it as he commands us to. 18  And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19  Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy

No valley is deeper than the Rock that carves it. - Randall Nelsen

The Parable of the Wedding Feast Matthew 22 NKJV 22  And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said: 2  “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son, 3  and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come. 4  Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.”’ 5  But they made light of it and went their

   Build on the Rock Matthew 7:24 - 29 NKJV 24  “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25  and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

The Parable of the Lost Son   Luke 15:11-32 NKJV 11  Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. 12  And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. ’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 13  And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. 14  But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. 15  Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16  And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

When you forgive someone you rob bitterness of its power.Bitterness is like the bite of a snake, it fills a persons heart with poison. If a person chooses to forgive someone who has wronged them, then they can receive the antidote for their bitterness. Sometimes the antidote takes time to work its way through us, because it is a process. Sometimes time itself is insufficient for a cure, and it still requires the work of Christ within us to bring about our healing. In Gods timing all things are possible. - Randall Nelsen

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Sometimes you will go to church and sometimes you will even actually meet real Christians there. Just because you go to church that doesn't mean that you are a Christian; a genuine Christ follower. Even the Devil himself likes to attend church and inspire False teaching and preaching in the house of God, he loves to masquerade as an angel of light.Many also like to attend church because they do it out of obligation, duty, or religious ceremony, but this is a false way and slippery path.

LOVE The Greatest Gift 13  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, [ a ] but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4  Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5  does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6  does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8  Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 

Spiritual Truth is not experienced in the dry theology of head knowledge. Truth that is Spiritual is a Matter of the Heart. It is first personal, and then it is Transformational. It is the Spiritual Metamorphosis that is gradually unfolding within our hearts. God himself the Holy Spirit.   Romans 12:2 New King James Version (NKJV) 2  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. This Renewing and Transformational Process requires Action. We must read and receive the Word of God. We must daily read the Word of God.