The message coming Sunday 2/16/2020
Rev. Reginald Stevens
There Is No Neutral Ground
Friends Grace and peace to you and your families in the name of God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus used examples out of the natural order of things in order for us to understand things that are spiritual in nature. If we understand these things in the natural order it will help us understand the spiritual truth.
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May 3. 2019
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Greetings my friends, grace, and peace to you in the name of God our Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. I thank God for you, my friends. You are faced daily with challenges that test you to your very core. In many ways, we face the same challenges, and those challenges are common to most people. To top that off we face personal challenges that add to the common ones. If that is not enough there are challenges that we must face that are inherent in the system of this world. I know it is a challenge for you to resist the temptations that are presented to you to by the world. You see the lies that are masquerading as the truth. You see the truths which are being declared to be lies. You see the easy way out disguised as the right way out. The wrong way seems better than the right way, and the right way looks to be the wrong way. Lord God, you are the light that shines in the hearts of men that open our eyes that we may see the truth as it really is. Help me to shine your light to the eyes of the minds of my brothers and sisters so that they may be guided by your truth concerning your way is the best way. That we may be encouraged in our walk. Thank You, Father, in Jesus’s name Amen.
My friends because we live in this world and we are not part of this world. Some of the challenges we face are common to us in the sense that many of us face the same problems, for example, many of us are out of work, and many of us who do have jobs face problems on that job. some of us cause our own problems in our jobs and some of us face problems that are not in our control and we have to face the pressure of possibly losing the job that we need to take care of our families. Your bills get behind because of some unforeseen incident involving a member of your family or friend and you help them and you fall short on your rent, you get robbed, or God forbid you get sick, or you make a costly mistake with your money. You then seek help and everyone sympathizes with you, but no one helps you. Some of us will swallow our pride and even go to the church and the church say we will pray for you, and yet won’t help. But the people you know that are doing financially well and they don’t have a legitimate job like you joyfully reach out to help you when no one else will. Now you think it over and consider the cost and even though it tears away at your very conscious you turn it down knowing that you are not going to be able to provide food for your wife and children or lose the shelter God has enabled you to provide for your family. You have done everything you can do and it failed except one. Jesus said come to me all who are a burden and heavy laden and I will give you rest. The first person we should have come to was the last and just at the right time Jesus made everything right, Amen. Many of us who are Christians find ourselves in situations like this. Don’t feel alone, thank God for caring for you.
My friends, we don’t see things as they truly are. The scripture says that by faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command so that what is seen was not made out of what is visible. We don’t see things as they truly are. We think we know, we interpret what we see to be the truth and many times it is not true at all. For example, you can take a glass of water and place a pencil in it and the pencil will look as though it is bent. We don’t see the pencil as it really is. our vision is refracted. God’s word tells us that we don’t see the world as it really is. For now, we see things only as a reflection as in a mirror. then we shall see face to face. now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. The king of Syria sent a host of troops to find and take Elisha into captivity because he was angry that Elisha warned The king of Isreal of the trap the king of Syria had laid for Israel’s destruction. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, Behold, a host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. and his servant said unto him, alas master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that are with us are more than they that are with them. And Elisha prayed and said Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man: and he saw, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. You may not see it but this you can be sure of, God is in control and He Love you and He has you securely in His Hand, Amen.
God is so good to us, God is wonderful, extraordinary, munificent, merciful, immeasurable, kind, loving and caring. God is so good that there is no evil in Him at all. God is so good and so generous, God is the King of Kings, God is the Lord Of Lords, God is the Hero who rescued His people from horrors of death and Hell. Our eyes can’t see the wonderful things that He is doing for those who love Him, God is Faithful and will do everything He has said He will do. Everything that is seen and everything that is not seen is ultimately subject to the authority of Word of God’s Power and His will be done. My friends God is Holy, He is spiritually pure. God has never been wrong and can never be wrong. God’s Holiness demands that God destroy Evil. Evil is against the very nature of God and God must destroy evil. God’s plan is to destroy, eradicate all evil from the world. Because God is true to Himself, just as those of us that are saved is considered by God to be seated in Heaven alongside Christ in the same way evil is consider eradicated by God. In other words, it’s a done deal. It will be done, nothing absolutely nothing can stop it, It will be done Amen. To us right now evil is currently being destroyed. To God, it is as well as done.
My friends the world is full of deception, evil is being destroyed and is fighting as hard as it can to take as many people as it can with it to hell. Hold on to Jesus. We sometimes go through tough times, and life becomes very difficult. Place your trust in God, God loves you and He is with you. God will not abandon you or allow you to suffer more than you can bear. When He lifts you up you won’t even remember the pain of being down because of the Joy you experience knowing that God lifted you up and placed you back on your feet making you better then you were before you fell down, hallelujah, thank you, Lord Jesus. Brethren, friends as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear has heard nor has it entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Glory be to God! Thank You, Jesus. From everlasting to everlasting. time without end thou are God, Amen
My friends that are not saved, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe in Him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life. Jesus said I Am the way and the truth and the life and no one can come to the Father except by me. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and you believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. You are reading this message because God loves you and this is your opportunity receive the gift of eternal life, Believe in Jesus death on the cross for your sins, do it today, God will reward you. Amen
I Cor 13:12, I Cor 2:9 Heb 11:3, Matt 11:28, 2 Kings 6:15-17 Rom 10:9, John 3:16, John 14: 6, 1 John 1:9
Thank You, my Friends,
God Bless You
Rev. Reginald Stevens
Greetings my friends’ grace and peace to you in the name of God our Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. God is good and has brought us to this new year, May God bless you this year and many more years to come. I thank God for you and this wonderful opportunity to share with you His wonderful word for our lives.
My friends, there is so much evil going on around us, murder, rape, robbery, thief, child neglect, crimes against children, homelessness, unemployment, corrupt law enforcement, and politicians, outrageous bills, everything you can possibly think of that makes life difficult. The influence of evil around you has a goal to return to the very place God has rescued from. Returning you to a state of captivity to sin and fear and hopelessness. Evil wants you to take your eyes off Jesus. My friends, remember God loves you, you know where he has brought you from, You have tasted choice wine, there is none better in all of the universes. We don’t have to fear or worry, because God fulfills all our needs. We were dead but now we are alive, we were blind but now we see, praise God. Let us rejoice in the face of evil.
Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice. Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus (Phil 4:4-7).
My friends’ let’s rejoice in the Lord, Let us stand up as Christians before all men, no matter what problems we may face, we know that we can pray to God and He will answer our prayer. those who are without God can’t turn to God for help if they did He won’t here them, those who live evil don’t have a life of peace. They can’t sleep well at night, but God in such a way that transcends all understanding give us peace and protects our hearts and our minds, in Christ Jesus. Amen, When I have done all that I can do, I know I can call on God, I can place before Him my petition, He allows us to come to him with our concerns, and with our desires. He loves us and cares enough for us that He supplies all our needs and rewards us with some of what we want. Amen praise God. I rejoice because I know what God has done for me, continually. He loved us so much He gave His Son to die on the cross for you and for me. If God loves us that much He will not deny us any good thing, Amen.
God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe in Him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life (John 3:16). Do you believe? If so contact me.
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See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand—I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end—My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her—As a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee—Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby—Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
P ROV. 3:12; D EUT. 32:39—JER. 29:11—ISA. 55:8; H OS. 2:14—D EUT. 8:5—HEB. 12:11—1 P ET. 5:6; P S. 119:75
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear—The L ORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him … in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the L ORD … and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the L ORD—To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word—The L ORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
L UKE 1:50; P S. 31:19-20; 1 P ET. 1:17—PS. 145:18-19; 2 K INGS 22:19—ISA. 66:2—PS. 34:18
Jesus the author and finisher of our faith—I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do—We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified—Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.
I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again—Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
J OHN 19:30; H EB. 12:2 —JOHN 17:4 —HEB. 10:10-14 —COL. 2:14—J OHN 10:17-18 —JOHN 15:13
As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness—I beseech you … brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new—In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy—This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind. Ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus. Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
R OM. 6:4; R OM. 6:19—ROM. 12:1-2; 2 C OR. 5:17—GAL. 6:15-16—EPH. 4:17, 20-21, 24
I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her—As a man chasteneth his son, so the L ORD thy God chasteneth thee—Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby—Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
I know, O L ORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
P ROV. 3:12; D EUT. 32:39—JER. 29:11—ISA. 55:8; H OS. 2:14—D EUT. 8:5—HEB. 12:11—1 P ET. 5:6; P S. 119:75
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus—Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the L ORD.
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father—We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord—When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known—Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
P ROV. 4:18; P HIL. 3:12—HOS. 6:3; M ATT. 13:43—2 C OR. 3:18—1 C OR. 13:10, 12—1 J OHN 3:2-3
