11/15/2011
Like a good ship, a good gospel will always float
When I was pastoring I was on several radio stations, Two 15 minute broadcasts every Morning,
The newspaper in our town of apx 65,000 people
Asked me to summit a sermon article every month.
This is one of those. (It was called clergy corner)
Back in the early 50 s, when I was in the Navy, I was stationed aboard the Battleship USS Missouri in Korea. She was a magnificent ship—massive—impressive—able to get the job done. My wife and I traveled down to San Francisco in July of 1998 when she was docked there and went back aboard after 45 years. Because I was very proud that I had served aboard her and wanted to share some of my younger past as a younger man, I decided to buy my grandson Peter a model of this grand old ship the U.S.S. Missouri. When I came back home I gave it to him and he and his Dad put it together. When they finished it and I looked at it I realized it was a very cheap reproduction of a Great War ship. I began to think about this in relationship to the true gospel of Jesus Christ and it brought to mind that we are seeing so many cheap reproductions of the true gospel.
If I am going to entrust my life—I want to entrust it to something that will take me through the storms. I don’t want to get on a ship or a cheap model that will be destroyed by the first wave that hits it and causes it to go down. Likewise, the gospel of Jesus Christ is like the USS Missouri in that it is a massive, strong, well-built, safe gospel that will take you through the storms. It’s not a cheap reproduced model.
An awful lot of what we are hearing today from a lot of pulpits, denominations, and TV ministries is a watered-down cheap reproduction of the gospel of Jesus Christ that has been created by man. Jesus said that if you follow me you will pick up the cross daily. I think that many today are trying to lessen the importance of the cross of Christ. If we are going to put our lives on the line, doesn’t it make sense to entrust our lives to the real thing and not to a cheap reproduced model? Why would we accept a modified gospel? Why are we so willing to be blinded and have our ears filled with half-truths? Paul said that in the last days there would be those with “itching ears” who would hear what they wanted to hear – not necessarily what is truly right and wrong. Why are we so willing to accept a gospel that says you can do just about anything you want to do as long as you ask forgiveness? This has caused a lot of Christians to become “pre-meditated sinners.” They know that the lifestyle they are living is against the word of God, but they plan around it and use a modified washed-down version of the gospel to approve of their sin.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is based upon the planting and sowing of seed. Some of the teachings today are like green seed. A seed must first die and then it must fall on good ground before it will reproduce. Think of the green seeds being spread from many pulpits today to bad ground. Neither one are wiling or ready to accept or plant the true gospel of Jesus Christ. But, if you take a seed that has died, (Paul says we must die to our sins), and put it in the good ground, God will resurrect it and it will produce fruit.
When we’ve learned this principal – that we can’t plant with green seeds nor can we trust our lives or families to cheap models of the gospel of Jesus Christ – then we’ll start getting back to the truths of the Bible. I believe it’s time we started getting serious about who God is. If the rapture were to take place Saturday night, sadly enough, there would still be preachers and people in church Sunday morning because they have trusted their lives to cheap reproduced models. And who reproduces a cheap model? Not God! It’s man!
In this hour we are living in – the hour of grace just before the rapture of the church – my warning to you is to test the word that is being taught to you with the Word of God. If it doesn’t line up with the Word of God then you’d better find out what kind of a model you’re being asked to follow. Take heed to I John 4:1 – “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
Sorry, this has taken up so much room, but I must work with a program called Zoom Text that magnifies everything for me, and I type in an 18 font. The article was written in a 6 font, 2 x 11 inches, and I was going word by word with a magnifying glass. Old folks have old ways. I hope if you are able to read this all the way through, that it will be a blessing to you.
Stefania Caterina was born in Genoa 19 January 1959 by a Catholic family practitioner.
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A dutiful introduction
Dearest Readers,
The messages Jesus is dictating to me these days and that will be published in the next months, definitely trace the path towards the events awaiting us. Therefore, I felt I had the duty to write this introduction, to help you enter more deeply in the subject you will be reading.
Up to today I shared with you the revelations I received from God. In my first book, Beyond the Great Barrier that ends with the 15th chapter entitled “The new Creation”, I amply presented to you the central message of the revelations received, that is: recapitulate in Christ all things in heaven and on earth. I tried to lead you to the events that have to do with the Earth and the universe. These days, Jesus told me that in the next months He wants to prepare us to face those events awaiting us in the immediate future.
How to face such events? I believe that in these years, through the many explanations I received and I communicated to you, we obtained the grace of understanding the interior walk which prepares us to enter the mind of Christ and to understand the mystery of God and of life, to elevate and transform us to the point of becoming new creatures. I spoke to you about this spiritual walk in particular in the book Writing History Anew – Vol. 1 In the mind of God. Furthermore, you have been accompanied by the messages published every month on this site; these messages continue and they introduce us, more and more, to a serious phase of preparation and decision making.
I cannot comment on these messages. Jesus Himself and His Holy Spirit will explain them to you in your heart. An answer is expected from you to understand the words that you will read. Finally, it is up to each one of us to commit ourselves, for the Earth and for the whole universe, so that the promises of God may be realized.
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“My Father is at work until now, so I am at work”
(John 5:17)
“I bless you my children! Today I wish to speak to you about God’s work in these times and about the general picture in which your life and your mission is inserted.
“Try to understand, above all, that you did not happen to be in the reality in which you are by accident, but you are here because of a precise divine project. Whatever you might think about yourselves or others might think about you, know that your life is precious and irreplaceable in the time and place in which you find yourselves to be, according to God’s projects. You have been preordained for this reality, and for this reason God gave you irreplaceable and original potentialities. No one in the universe is equal to you, because God’s creativity is unlimited and inexhaustable, and because each one of you is absolutely unique in his being and in his way of acting.
“Unfortunatly, many on Earth live below their potentiality, because they do not make of themselves a gift to Me. I am the only One to know pefectly the Father’s project for each one of you, because from Him I received the order to bring to completion His work in every person. I am acting in you by the power of the Holy Spirit, who enlightens you, cloaks you, constantly inspires you pointing out the avenue towards Me, so that I might reveal to you the Will of the Father for each one of you.
Without me you shall never truly be able to know yourselves, nor to be able to understand what is asked of you to do in this life.
“The Holy Spirit and I are constantely at work in order to realize the Father’s project in each one of you, but we can do this only with the help of your freedom, that is, only when you willingly and freely choose to love and serve God and you offer to Him your life. This is the indispensable condition so that your potentialities activate and are at work. In fact, by the moment you decide to live for God and to be totally abandoned to His will, within you the action of the Holy Trinity starts working, and little by little, transforms your life and your thoughts. Thus, you are beginning to become conscious of who you are in God and to make a mark on reality, a creative mark, because it is divine creativity working in you. I wish you to be conscious about what I am saying to you, because the knowledge that God is active in you, independently from your human limitations and frailties, is determinant for your mission in the time in which you live.
“Yours is a grand time and a difficult time for the entire universe. Grandiose for the power of the events that the hand of God is preparing, and difficult because it is a time of battle with the powers of evil, an always more open battle.
All this does not refer to the planet earth alone, but to the entire creation and all the people who inhabit many other planets. I have already told you that they are children of God as you are, and that I gave My life for them as well. They are your brothers in whom the project of My Father has to be perfectly accomplished, just as it is in yours.
“What is the project of the Father? To bring back the entire creation to the state of integrity and perfection it had before original sin; to bring back every person to the dignity and glory of a child of God. All men and every creature that exists in the universe must be made free from corruption and death which infiltrated themselves in the work of God because of the sin of your forefathers. Humanity must return to a correct relationship with God, by recognizing His authority and by submitting to His guide. How is the Father going to realize this project? By recapitulating all creation in Me, since He gave Me all power in the whole universe.
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“This is why I am at work i
“You will also see nature restless, because nature reacts to the solicitations of good and evil, with a sensitity often stronger than yours. Nature will be hit heavily by the forces of evil, forces who will try to damage humanity, but nature will not be destroyed. Nature also will be recapitulated in Me in order to be renewed and transformed. Therefore, do not be afraid, My children, when facing the natural events that will follow one another. Hold on tightly to Me and you will have nothing to fear.
ReplyDelete“I am stopping here for now; later I will talk to you about other matters so you can be prepared for what is about to happen. The Father never asks man to adhere to what he cannot understand; first He gives him light, then He asks him to decide, because God is fair with you. The Father sent Me among you to enlighten your road toward God and place you in the condition to be able to walk. Now it is up to you to decide.
to donate your life to Me, so that I can protect you and prepare you for the events that are awating you. It is not about catastrophes, like the most apprehensive ones fear, but it is a matter of tests necessary for the purification of humanity, in view of t“I am asking you to pray a lot and to seriously decide for God. I am asking you again he beautiful and incorrupt new creation awaiting you. The Father prepared it for those who love Him, and I am calling you to be part of it. The Father is at work unceasingly and I am at work as well; therefore, your eyes will see great things. If you have faith you will be able to read them in the right light. They will appear to you for what they truly are: the marvels of God’s love for His people.
“I am blessing you in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”.
In the book “Beyond the great barrier” at Chp. 6, I spoke about the humanities of other planets, and of the choices made by each humanity. As a matter of fact, not all men have committed the original sin. There exist some humanities that kept themselves faithful to God, thus preserving spiritual and physical prerogatives much superior to ours.
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