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“I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture” - John 10:9 ESV. “And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising” - Isaiah 60:3 ESV.

We're all like wallflowers when, by sheer pleasure, the Father confers a Kingdom upon us. It’s more than enough to drive us from obscurity into the spectacle of some Pentecostal Pogo Hop! "...how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation" - Hebrews 2:3 NKJV. "And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me" [...] "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom" - Luke 12:29&32 NIV. "...the goodness of God leads you to repentance" - Romans 2:4 NKJV. "However, as it is written: 'No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him'" - 1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV. "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades" - Job 38:31 KJV. "And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus" - Ephesians 2:6 NIV.

Preaching the Gospel is supposed to be fun! It is, after all, the serious business of heaven. I know I’m getting blowback when preaching ceases to be fun. Since I’ve stuck my neck out by delivering the Message of Reconciliation (AKA the Gospel) in recent videos I’ve gotten blowback. In fact, I’ve lost friends. So I’m just going to clear some channels again here and let these Words bang around on the Internet for a while

The Romans Road: Romans 3:10; 3:23; 5:12; 6:23; 5:8&9; 10:9&10; 10:13 "But what does it say? 'THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART' (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" - Romans 10:8:9 NKJV. "For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ BUT THE WORD IS VERY NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART" - Deuteronomy 30:11-14 NKJV. "At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" - Philippians 2:10 NKJV. "“Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. I have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath” - Isaiah 45:22&23. "And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist" - Colossians 1:17 NKJV. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" - John 1:1 KJV.

Oh the irony that revilers will lump homosexuals into a category of those not inheriting the Kingdom of God when they are on the same list! It's handy having a preferred scapegoat! Sit tight whilst I unpack one of the "clobber verses" used to indict homosexuals. But what does "not inheriting the Kingdom of God" mean? The reviling fundamentalist would default offenders into hell. Maybe it takes someone walking in the stuff! Knowing our rights as sons of God transcend all the categories! So don't mind if I take my heritage as an open show and even with a swish. We just can't play these evangelical games of who's in and who's out anymore! We either have dominion on the earth or we don't! Not inheriting that has nothing to do with anyone going to hell! "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor those habitually drunk, nor REVILERS, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God" - 1 Corinthians 6:9&10 NASB. "He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love" - Colossians 1:13 NKJV. "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." - Romans 8:19 KJV. "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God" - Romans 8:21 KJV. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren" - Romans 8:29 KJV.

The way of life winds so wide it makes me want to color outside the lines! "The way of life winds upward for the wise, That he may turn away from hell below" - Proverbs 15:24 NKJV. "For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away" - 1 Corinthians 13:9&10. "And he was afraid and said, 'How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!'" - Genesis 28:17 NKJV. "As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him" - Colossians 2:6. "For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings" - Proverbs 5:21 NKJV. "...and the name of the city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE" - Ezekiel 48:35 NKJV. "God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble" - Psalm 46:1 NKJV.

We're at that precipice place! Might as well have fun!

If we keep kicking the can down the road we may end up falling on our asses. A little butt-hurt is always a good waker-upper though! Here I am making an account for my “mystical ways”. I wish it didn’t require this! Just think of how much bliss we could all have if we just accepted that Jesus has already accomplished everything for us! We could actually hold hands and sing “Kumbaya”! We could run and romp in the breadths of our heavenly heritage without a care in the world! But as it stands so many Christians are still unsure of how done is done when Jesus says, “It is finished!” It’s a trick of religion to move these heavenly realities beyond arms length to some vague point in the future. God doesn’t use a carrot on a stick to ensure compliance and endurance. That’s the devil’s job! If we’d stop impugning God with that kind of austerity maybe we would pop a little more joy! As it stands God’s presence is not bound by time and it much nearer than most of us are comfortable with. It’s not “back then”. It’s not “to come”. The sooner we embrace the witness of the Holy Ghost for ourselves the sooner we’ll start enjoying the presence of Jesus NOW - and all the wonderful things that entails to boot! “…we are his witnesses of these things; and SO IS also the Holy Ghost” - Acts 5:32 KJV. “(God) hath raised us up TOGETHER, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” - Ephesians 5:32 KJV. “Therefore, since you HAVE BEEN raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God” - Colossians 3:1 BSB. “…lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven - For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” - Matthew 6:20&21 ESV. “Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules” - Colossians 2:20 NIV. “…our old self WAS CRUCIFIED with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin” - Romans 6:6 NASB. “That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life - and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare (Him) to you” - 1 John 1:1&2 YLT. “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” - John 20:29 NIV.

Kingdom reality is overtaking and things are turning upside down. It's a wild ride! Get ready for subjective experience with the Creator who laid all things out for you to enjoy; and that without any middleman! "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion" - Albert Camus. "...know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God" - Ephesians 3:19 KJV. "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free" - Galatians 5:1. "Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" - Romans 12:1&2 NIV. "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost" - Romans 14:17 KJV. "But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you" - Matthew 6:33 ESV. "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls" - Matthew 11:29 KJV. “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you" - John 14:18 ESV. "For my father and my mother have forsaken me, But the LORD will take me up" - Psalm 27:10 NASB. "The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you" - Luke 17:20&21 NKJV. "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom" - Luke 6:38 KJV. "...all things belong to you" - 1 Corinthians 3:22 NASB. "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" - Romans 8:32 KJV.

I was working out, minding my own business, when I happened upon 3 chaps with similar owies as mine. I said, "Is there a doc in the house???" Oh my goodness! Does He ever have a stake in our bliss! He is gloried when we FEEL GOOD! And he delights in our bliss!!! Needless to say I am totally jacked up on His tendermercies! The fact is we are complete and whole in Him. So I was spittin' and sweatin' and enjoying my own salvation - which is only right - when suddenly I am beside myself giving away freely what I have already received! Who can ignore such a great salvation??? ~BOOM-BOOM-BOOM~.... ~BAM~ 3 sets of fully functional and whole shoulders before even the asking!

Get this! JUST LOVE GOD! "When the requirement came my inability was revealed and I failed" - Romans 7:9 (My paraphrase). "For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings" - Proverbs 5:21 KJV. "I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts" - Psalm 119:45 NIV. "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft" - 1 Samuel 15:23 NKJV. "That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height" - Ephesians 3:18 KJV. "Love God and do what you will" - St. Augustine (In epistulam Ioannis ad Parthos - Tractatus VII, 8). "Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men" - Proverbs 8:30&31 KJV. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" - AIeister CrowIey. "When the commandment came, sin revived and I died" - Romans 7:9.

If you’re not perfect and complete in the eyes of the Father then Jesus was a failure. This appeal is a response to the dour disposition I’ve noticed from Christians of late. When we are arrogantly trying to measure up it puts us under the law. The shame and condemnation enter in when the scope of our salvation is throttled by our own conscience. Let’s rest in what Christ has done and end the futile striving. If you think you can undo what Jesus started in you then please, by all means! REPENT! "Believe me, there is pardon for all the other sins of mankind and the blasphemies they utter; but if a man blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, there is no pardon for him in all eternity; he is guilty of a sin which is eternal. This was because they were saying, He has an unclean spirit" - Mark 3:29&30 Knox. "...how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation?" - Hebrews 2:3 NIV. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!" - Romans 8:35-39. "He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love" - Ephesians 1:4 NKJV. "All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" - Revelation 13:8 NKJV. "But when He who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace was pleased to reveal His Son in me" - Galatians 1:15&16 NASB. "And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled" - Colossians 1:21 NKJV. "Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them" - 2 Corinthians 5:18&19 NKJV. "Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom" - Psalm 51:6 NKJV. "I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places" - Isaiah 45:3 NKJV. "For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart" - Hebrews 4:12 NIV. "He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him" - John 3:36 NKJV. link to original video: https://youtu.be/1Lw5LSP8WkY

So you’re saying that God talks to you at night when you can’t sleep? Doesn’t that happen to everyone??? “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts” - Psalm 139:23 NIV. “I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, And my spirit makes diligent search” - Psalm 77:6 NKJV. “I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons” - Psalm 16:7 KJV. “Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD” - Psalm 130:1 ESV. “Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands” - Psalm 143:5&6 KJV. “Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts” - Psalm 51:6 KJV. “He who was delivered over because of our wrongdoings, and was raised BECAUSE OF our justification” - Romans 4:25 NASB. “But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase” - Daniel 12:4 ESV. “I am very dark, but lovely” - Song of Solomon 1:5 ESV. “By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth” - Song of Solomon 3:1 KJV.

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The object of the Restitution is “Devil! Put that stuff back! Ya thief! Ya destroyer!” “…the Messiah, who has been appointed for you, even Jesus — whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things” — Acts 3:20&21 NIV & KJV. “having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them” — Colossians 2:15 NKJV “It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven” — Amos 9:6 KJV “He who builds His layers in the sky,” — Amos 9:6 NKJV

How good is your Gospel? Is being free from "elementary principles" just a get-out-of-jail-free card? Is it more than graduating elementary school? This revelation is a challenge to my preconceived thoughts and I hope to change the way others think about these things too. We too quickly accept entropy in this life and fail to comprehend what it really means that we are at liberty from the "law of sin and death". So let's stop making deals with the devil and transcend this shadowland where his lies hold souls in bondage. No more plodding along from birth to school to work and then to death. We are welcomed into a brand new paradigm and we are celebrated there. In fact - YOU ARE A SUPERSTAR! "If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees" Colossians 2:20. "I think therefore I am" - Rene Descartes. "I live thus time passes" Wubbo Ockels

I want to challenge the way that Christians think about the topic of homosexuality. To deal with this condition I've had to stop framing it in sexuality. How long has the term "homosexuality" been around anyway? It sounds Freudian. And how about "gay"? When did that stop being an adjective describing vibrant color and high spirits? Oscar Pistorius runs on no legs. He says he wants to change the way people think about disability. That's somewhat the conclusion I'm coming to here about same-sex attraction. Oscar was counted out from running because he had no legs. In the emotional realm should people with same-sex attraction be counted out of loving because ignorant people have sexual hangups? By and large I'm sticking my neck out in posting this. I've spent years being discreet about it and fostering lots of friendships and relationships. So this is a game-changer. God wants this part of my life out front and I'm honestly nervous. But if being secretive is an impediment to loving more deeply and learning intimacy more perfectly then so be it. Enjoy it or not... I'm free and won't compromise this topic from being marginalized.

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"But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it" - Deut. 30:14 ESV "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist" - Col. 1:17 KJV

What are you breathing and drinking? Did you know that they are connected in the Spirit? The ancients knew that secret and it's brimming with simplicity. It will change your atmosphere! "I will become even more undignified than this." - 2 Samuel 6:22

The scandal from yesterday’s message about Christ’s vicarious role in our repentance and ascension can’t be emphasized enough.

The definition of 'buffet' makes all the difference! To strike sharply with one's hand, or, a generous spread of delicious food. Jesus invites you to enjoy yourself at His table! "He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner over me was love." -Song Of Solomon 2:4