PASSOVER
2014

Preparation & Meaning
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Including GJiGT Messianic Passover Seder

God Invites His People
To Be Born-Again, AGAIN
By Jim Searcy
Good Preparation 52 Weeks Per Year
 

The Messiah is our Passover

Behold the Lamb of G-d, Yeshua!


1 Cor 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

 

Mat 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
 

Mat 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.


You know that I take it for granted, that all of you, who have continued to remain on the GJiGT list, are fully convinced, that it is appointed for all men once to die. You all really believe that after death comes the judgment. You all do know what the consequences of that judgment will be. Either one will be doomed to dwell in the blackness of darkness, or ascend to dwell with the blessed God, King, Creator, Redeemer, and Savior, Yeshua THE Messiah, for ever and ever.

 

I also take it for granted that whatever God has called and equipped you to do in your daily life, that there is not one of you, no matter how reckless and/or forsaken, who does not have the blessed hope to go to be where we may see the Great King Jesus in FULL GLORY, when we die.

 

If there is anything which I know of my own heart, it is that there is this great desire and prayer to God, for you all, that I may see you in the BIG CHURCH of THE FIRSTBORN which Our King will establish, 3600 square miles BIG, on Mt. Zion.  But though we all hope to go be with our Lord when we die, yet, if we may judge by people's lives, and the Lord says, in Mat 7:20, Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them - I am afraid we know the truth, that there are thousands, and ten thousands, who hope to go to this blessed place after death, yet, are not now in the way to it, as they now live.

 

Though we call ourselves Christians, and would consider it an insult for any one to doubt whether we were Christians or not, yet even the majority of those who call themselves Christians or Messianic believers, do not really KNOW what real Christianity is. If you ask many what exactly they have based this blessed hope of being with the Great King Yeshua on Mt. Zion, in that Big Church of the Firstborn, they will tell you, that they belong to this, or that, or the other denomination, and are part of some group of Messianic believers into which the Body of Messiah is so obviously divided and fragmented.

 

Some might say they have been baptized, and perhaps that their fathers and mothers, presented them to the Lord Jesus Christ in their infancy. Yet, as we look around we do mourn as we see this great ocean of compromise, comfort, and nice feel-good feigned affection and feigned faith. Many forms of godliness we do see which deny the power thereof. We mourn that so many, instead of fighting to advance the Kingdom of the King, through compromise, have been fighting against Him, almost since they were baptized. There are many who believe that just because they have been admitted to church, and their names are in the Register book of some church, that their names are also written in the book of life.

 

That is one of the things about which we do mourn, that there are so many building their hope of salvation upon such sorry rotten foundations as the Purpose Driven Church. Just because they live so their neighbors cannot say that they hurt anyone, we like to believe they will somehow make it to the Big Church of the Firstborn on Mt. Zion. If a person is what the world calls an honest moral man who does justly and has a little of what the world calls mercy, and is quiet and good-natured, maybe even on some occasion reaching out to the poor, and has communion a couple times a year, and appears sober and honest, we know the world would certainly say he is a Christian. Truly it is not our place to judge who will enter God’s Kingdom, OR IS IT? At least for our self it surely IS.

 

There are many who are faithful in the duties of life, that think they shall go to be with the Lord. Sadly it is very possible for the vast majority in these last days of strong delusion to have a Christ in their heads, and yet not have The Christ in their hearts.

 

The Lord Jesus Christ knew this perfectly. He knows what is IN all men. He knew how desperately wicked and deceitful men's hearts were. He knew how many would go to hell just ever so narrowly missing the gates of His Kingdom. He knew how many would climb up to get close enough to even knock at the door, and yet in the end, hear the most crushing words imaginable “I never knew you: depart from me."

 

The Lord very plainly tells us, what great change must be wrought in us, and what must be done FOR us, before we can have any well grounded hopes of entering into the kingdom of heaven. We all seek Him as Nicodemites, and MUST understand, "that unless a man be born again, and unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." The REAL Yeshua has some very hard, serious, and sobering words that we MUST have ears to hear. Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall NOT enter into the kingdom of heaven. The words in context, are plainly directed to the disciples for this was Messiah’s response when the disciples came unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

 

We should understand that these DISCIPLES, to whom our Lord spoke this, were in some degree converted before. The words of the Lord apply to those who have already gotten some faith in Christ. Our Lord gives them, and us, to understand, that though they had already tasted the grace of God, yet there was so much of the old man, so much indwelling sin, and corruption, yet remaining in their hearts, that unless they were more converted than they were, that unless a greater change came upon their souls, and unless further sanctification continued, they were short on the evidence of their belonging to His kingdom.

 

His kingdom was not to be set up in outward greatness, as they supposed. His kingdom was to be a spiritual kingdom, begun here, but completed in the kingdom of God after this. Though this particular answer was to the disciples, we should see the same general direction being given especially to Nicodemus, and in many other Scriptures as well. THAT MEANS THIS IS MOST SERIOUS and I do hope all on the GJiGT list will keep this focus as we come to this most serious Passover season.

 

I believe His words may and should be applied to saints and sinners. Though I like to believe all on the GJiGT list KNOW Messiah, realistically I must suppose there are also those that do not know Him. Some are converted, and there are some that are not born again, not converted. Brethren, may I say that Passover is an invitation by God, to His people, to be born again, AGAIN? There is therefore not any reason why, by the grace of God, that I should not try to write to the hearing ears and obedient hearts of both saints and sinners. After all, what is a saint if not a redeemed repentant SINNER?

 

Yes, I believe it is right to seek the Lord for another series of articles to PREPARE FOR THE PASSOVER. I am believing that the understanding of how we MUST be converted and become like little children will lead us in a right direction. Yes, you may be sure that I will be writing to those who profess a little of this child likeness. And also, you know that I will not be able to help but to hold out something for those who have NEVER kept the PASSOVER as the Lord has taught in the More Sure word of the KJV, King Jesus Version, Holy Bible. Those who KNOW, can stand to know better, and those who do not know certainly need to know.

 

We will explore together what we are to understand by our Lord's saying, "Except ye be converted and become as little children," knowing this is good preparation for PASSOVER, whether or not your theology can tolerate my contention that in the Passover feast of the Lord, God is calling His people to be born again, AGAIN.

 

Jesus said to His disciples in Mat 18:3, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

 

The words are explicit that before you or I can have any well-grounded, scriptural hope, of being in that BIG CHURCH of the Firstborn that our Lord will establish on Mt. Zion for His millennial reign, that there must be some great, notable, and amazing change to come upon our souls. Every one would agree that a great change has come upon their bodies, since we first came into the world, and were infants held in their mother's arms. We do not have more arms or legs than we had then, but, those arms and legs have certainly changed. In one way, in terms of parts and relative location of those parts, we are the same. However, someone who knew us then, regarding the size and shape of our body when we were in our crib, if they had not seen us all that time since the cradle, and saw us now, they may not know us at all. Yes, we have changed. We are different from how we appeared in the crib.

 

I hope this can give us some insight regarding those PROFOUNDLY IMPORTANT words of the Lord in Matt 18:3. There has been quite a change that has happened upon our bodies since we were infants. As we consider how this may relate, can we see that before we can get to that BIG CHURCH of the Firstborn on Mt. Zion, that there must be such a great a change to come upon our souls? Our souls, if we consider just the physical sense of the mind, will, and emotions, are still the same. However, in regard to our character, our habits, and our conduct, we must be so changed and altered, that those who knew us before we were born again, when we were in a state of sin and enmity with God, with no great desire, hunger, or knowledge of God, before we knew Christ, if they met us now, MUST SEE SUCH A GREAT CHANGE WHICH CHRIST HAS MADE IN OUR SOUL.

 

Would they be as much amazed at the change in our soul as in our body?

 

I believe all on the GJiGT list are familiar with the doctrine of original sin. Some people may not see that doctrine as clearly and sharply as others, but I do believe the doctrine is touched so many places cover to cover in the word of God, at least the vast majority would not think that I sound like I am from Jupiter when I mention the doctrine of original sin. We were all born sinners. We were all born at enmity with God and therefore, whether we knew it or not, we all have this great need to be born again. Everything outside and around us, and everything within us, clearly should tell us that we are sinners in a sinful world.

 

Even the heathen who had no other light, I do believe, can see that dim light, because God put a conscience in all of us. The majority today may not have had the conscience purified. Most have had the conscience seared with a hot iron. However, honest anthropologists will tell you there is no civilization so primitive and backward that it does not contain a majority of God’s ten commandments of His royal law of love, life, and liberty. The heathen and the unregenerate, if they ever stop to think of it, know they have an unsolvable problem. Most do not think of it, but the law of sin and death is 100% effective. All have the disease of sin, whether they think about it or not. The natural effect of sin is death.

 

Sadly now days, many who have been baptized in the name of Christ, speak against the doctrine of original sin. There are today, many who are angry with my meddling and preaching as is found on the GJiGT, showing man undignified, unglorified, and unarrived spiritually. Many respond like it cannot be that children come into the world with the Adam's sin nature all over and in them. However, every single one that I have ever challenged to prove it from the Scriptures simply can not do so. If it were NOT so TRAGICALLY SERIOUS it might be funny. Tragically however, Matt 18:3 is often cited in the vain attempt to prove from scripture an argument against the doctrine of original sin. It is tragically shocking how many would cite these words of the Lord, to refute the doctrine of original sin. Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

 

Some of the best of those who hate this truth will go on like this. They will say those SERIOUS SOBER WORDS OF THE LORD TO HIS DISCIPLES imply that little children are innocent, and that they come into the world like a blank sheet of paper or a clean white screen. They try to argue that otherwise the Lord could never pretend to say, that WE must be converted, and be made like wicked creatures; that would be no conversion.

 

NICODEMITES. Oh Lord please help us get through the hard shells and blindness of the NICODEMITES.

 

Such blindness is exactly what we find in Nicodemus BEFORE conversion and regeneration. That sort of wresting and twisted thinking makes Jesus Christ speak what He never intended. There is NO way to possibly conclude such things if the context is at all considered. In context, that conclusion is impossible from that particular word of God.

 

The fact that little children are guilty, that they are conceived and born in sin, is clearly seen from cover to cover in the KJV Holy Bible. The profane modern bibles really try hard to suppress that unpleasant REALITY and TRUTH. The whole Holy Bible teaches the doctrine of original sin EXPLICITLY and too frequently for total obliteration in even the most profane of modern perversion profane so-called bibles.

 

David was a man after God's own heart, yet he said that he was conceived in sin. Jeremiah, in Jer 17:9, spoke of every human heart when he said the heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked above all things. God's servants can not help but to unanimously declare that we are all gone out of the way, and are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

 

Those who have children KNOW this truth. Did you have to teach that precious little darling to lie, or to tell the truth? Which comes naturally and which must be disciplined and trained otherwise? Do they have a self will? Is foolishness in the heart part of the package of the two year old?

 

You know the reason your children are so unenthusiastic regarding your instruction. Part of the human package left by Adam and Eve, brings this enmity into the world with them. It is quite plain from both scripture and facts of life, that children are born in sin. Consequently, they are children of wrath. It seems to me that when any child dies that it is a strong proof of the truth of the doctrine of original sin. We know that all suffering is the result of sin. We should also know that generally the people doing the suffering are not generally the ones who do the sinning, the Lord Himself being the Chief Example. Many people struggle greatly with these issues. The enemy of our soul can so easily use such wrong understandings to cause us to think God is somehow not consistent with His goodness and justice. I get angry at the devil at the thought of a little child being sick, even though I know Adam's sin nature is part of his being.

 

Thanks be to God for the Second Adam. Alleluia Yeshua.

 

We need to bring our children to Him, the Second Adam. We simply MUST understand that when our Lord says, "unless ye are converted, and become as little children," that He in NO WAY would indicate, that little children are perfectly innocent. He quite clearly is speaking in a comparative rational sense. Little children are innocent when compared with grown people. However, as they are, as they come into the world, they have hearts that are sensual, and minds which are carnal.

 

I hope you do not think we are wasting time with this. There are parents with children on this GJiGT list. Unless parents are convinced of this, they will never take proper care of their children's education. If parents were convinced, that children's hearts were as bad as they are, there would be much more prayer. There would be much less unmonitored TV and Internet. There would be greater care taken regarding where children are allowed to go and who their friends may be. The goal of the TV, by the prince of the power of the air, is to corrupt and even destroy their minds. The goal of the prince of the power of the air is to make them the children of the devil. If parents were convinced of this, they would pray more, and be more involved in all aspects of their children’s education.

 

I hope you see the reason why such perspective is necessary as we now seek some depth and fullness of understanding in what Yeshua meant in Mat 18:3, when He said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

 

In context Matthew tells us that the DISCIPLES, (the Apostles), at this time came unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? These disciples had swallowed the common widespread idea that the Lord Jesus Christ was to be an earthly prince. They dreamed of nothing but being ministers of state, of sitting at The King’s right hand in His kingdom, and lording it over God's people. They thought themselves qualified for state offices. They really had the inside track and said, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? Which of us will be the pooh bah over the others? Amazing question from unregenerate poor fishermen full of leaven and without the Holy Ghost. Yet, we must see ourselves in this picture. We should see the importance of this consideration coming into this Passover season.

 

In order to help them with this leaven of the Pharisees’ problem, Yeshua calls a little child, and sets him in the midst of them. This is like saying loud and clear, you Poor Fishermen! Your imaginations are so vain and puffed up. DISCIPLES – I will make this little child preach to you, or I will preach to you by him. Verily I say unto you – Stop and think about this - ALL DISCIPLES THINK NOW - the One doing the talking here is the I AM, who taught Moses, TRUTH Personified, THE KING of The Kingdom. He KNOWS in what way His disciples are to enter into His kingdom. He tells the disciples, THAT MEANS YOU AND ME TOO, if we will have ears to hear - I say unto you, ye are so far from being in a right manner, behavior, and thinking for My kingdom, that except ye be converted, and become as this little child, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven – Unless you are, comparatively speaking, as unattached to the world, as unattached to crowns, scepters, and kingdoms, and earthly things, as this poor little child I have in my hand – You DISCIPLES shall NOT ENTER into My kingdom. WOW – Selah. THINK ABOUT IT.

 

Clearly what our Lord is speaking of, is not the innocence of little children. The clear meaning is, that as far as ambition and lust after the world, we MUST in this sense, become as little children. How much does the little child that just learned to walk, just learning to talk, care about crowns, titles, or kingdoms? The little child cares nothing of things of vanity and status so important to so many adults. Give a little child a small toy or a ball to play with, and he will leave ruling the world to other people. Now, THIS IS THE SENSE IN WHICH WE MUST BE CONVERTED. This is the Passover reality check that all disciples would do well to consider.

 

A thing that Dr. Lourens once shared that is so helpful, is how a child is defined physiologically being in a state of growth. TEACHABLE. In this sense we must be converted, and become as little children; that is, we must be as ready to let go of the world, comparatively speaking, as a little child. We must be ready and willing to give up our false doctrines that make us feel good and comfortable and complacent about our present state of being.

 

Please do not misunderstand me. I am not telling you to quit your job or shut up your business. I am NOT trying to tell you that if you want to be a real Christian, that you must become some sort of hermit. I am NOT telling you to retire out of the world.

 

Let me share a truth with you that I learned the hard way. You cannot leave your wicked heart behind you, when you leave the world. I have most certainly found that when I am alone, my wicked heart has followed me, and it makes no difference if you move from Texas to Israel, that wicked heart will be there.

 

Brethren, NOW, of all times, we should KNOW to NEGLECT NOT THE ASSEMBLING together. Yes, even though you may feel like the lone sparrow on the rooftop, STILL, be seeking how to gather with Messiah. Jesus Christ does not call us to go out of the world, quit our jobs, or leave our children to be provided for by miracles. STILL this must be said, IF, IF, IF, we are really converted, we shall be not putting such high values upon the things which the masses of the unregenerate Nicodemite world values. Though we are in this world, and though we are obliged to work for our children, and though we are obliged to be productive good workers, STILL, IF, IF, IF, we are real Christians, we will be ready to let go of what the world values.

 

We are all at different stages of our growth in the KNOWLEDGE and FEAR of the Lord. We may be a brand new twig or a sixty or eighty year old tree, but we MUST stay GREEN. We MUST cleave to the VINE if we will bear fruit. Those who will not bear fruit will be cut off or may be withering on their own, ready to fall off of the vine and not even know it. That is why this Passover is so important. Messiah is our Passover, whether children, young men, or fathers. Though we may not have attained to the same degree of spiritual-mindedness, we all should see this is the primary meaning of the word of Matt 18:3, that we must be converted and become as little children.

 

There are still other ways in which we should understand these words as we prepare for this Passover. When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, He also means that we must be aware and understand our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child. Every one looks upon a little child, as a poor, weak, and needy creature. A child is one that ought to go to school and learn some new lesson every day. A child is simple, open, and without craftiness. A child has not  learned the abominable art, called dissimulation.

 

Today sadly, dissimulation is what most preachers preach. However, as Matt 18:3 so clearly shows the professed love of Christians to each other should be sincere, free from deceit, NOT devious, NO deceitful compliments. Real Christians must be depending on God’s grace. Real Christians must detest all evil, and love whatever is kind and useful. Real Christians must not only DO that which is good, but must cleave to it. The sum total obligation of Real Christians towards one another is LOVE, as God defines love in His Royal Law, and NOT feigned affection, or dissimulation. Real Christians have real love defined by the 10 Commandments and not dissimulation. Yes, such love does include zeal for the gospel. Yes, such love makes one wise and diligent in all his wordly business, and in gaining greater skill.

 

God MUST be served with the spirit, under the influences of the Holy Spirit. NEVER FORGET that God is honoured by our hope and trust in Him, especially when we rejoice in that hope. God is served, not only by working for Him, but by our patience when He calls us to suffer. Patience for God's sake, is true godliness. Real Christians who can rejoice in hope, are likely to be patient in tribulation. Not only must there be kindness to friends and brethren, but Real Christians MUST NOT harbor anger against enemies. It is to mock love, it is feigned affection, DISSIMULATION, which rests in words of kindness, while our brethren need real supplies, and it is in our power to provide them.

 

Real Christians are ready to have guests of those who they know do good, and when there is need, also know that Real Christians must welcome strangers. Bless, and curse not, means through good will and action, more-so than to just religiously bless them when at prayer, and curse them at other times. It means bless them always, and curse not at all. True Christian love will make us take part in the sorrows and joys of each other.

 

Therefore as we come into this most serious season of Passover, let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

 

As a child, the Real Christian will look upon worldly pomp and dignity with indifference, if not with holy contempt, and most certainly is not in love with it. Real Christians will KNOW their place and be consenting to the place that God in His divine providence has allowed, whatever that may be. Yes, even if that place means sufferings which might be required. Nothing is below our dignity but sin. Real Christians do not talk down to others, or indulge in self-importance. Real Christians will recognize SELF as an IDOL to be mortified and NOT exalted and NOT to be esteemed.

 

Dissimulation is what today’s popular preachers preach. Dissimulation is feigned affection. Now in all these ways I believe we should understand Mat 18:3  - Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

 

Are little children aware of their weakness? Must they be led by the hand? Must we take hold of the toddler or they will fall? So, if we are converted, if the grace of God really IS COME in our hearts, there is a BIG change. Brethren, however we may have thought of ourselves before, and whatever previous high exalted imaginations we have had, This PASSOVER, and at every Remembrance of Messiah Our Passover, let us be aware of our weakness. It is time to stop saying or thinking, gain is godliness, that we are rich and increased with goods, and lack nothing. Rather when we  properly remember Messiah our Passover, how He was sacrificed for us, we should remember that apart from Him we are inwardly poor, miserable, blind, and naked.

 

And as a little child reaches up its hand to be held when walking with his parent, Real Christians, those who are truly converted, will give up the self-centered heart. We will give up our understandings, our self wills, our affections, to be guided by the word of God, the will of God, the fear of the Lord, and the Spirit of the Lord. Real Christians KNOW that “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." This Passover we better KNOW that ONLY they are the sons of God.

 

Just like little children look upon themselves to be ignorant creatures, so also Real Christians that are converted, do look upon themselves as ignorant too. That is the reason that John in his epistles refers to Christians and wraps up his first epistle saying - Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. He says, I have written unto you, little children. The Lord also says in Luke 12:32, Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Messiah's flock is called a little flock, not only because it is little in number, but also because those who are members of His flock, are indeed little in their own eyes. Even the Apostle Paul, when he speaks of himself, says, "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ."

 

There are some who think that Paul did not really speak true, and really mean what he said there. They have that way of thinking because they are judging Paul's heart by the standards of their own proud hearts. As we get more of the grace of God, we less and less can challenge or question the truth of the KJV Holy Bible, in any way. I have never met anyone who questions Paul’s apostolic authority that did not very soon prove he was a heretic. The more we grow in the grace of God, the more we see the PERFECTION of the KJV Holy Bible. From this Passover forward let us not be ashamed to call the KJV Holy Bible the King Jesus Version. The more we grow in the grace of God the more we see the FOLLY, arrogance, and presumption of the bible correctors. The more we grow in grace the more we see our own heartlessness and depravity, and become less and less in our own esteem.

 

As we think about characteristics of a little child we see them as harmless. So if we are Real Christians, genuinely converted, and are become as little children, we shall be without guile, straightforward, and HARMLESS. What a great complement when the Lord saw Nathaniel? That also tells us how rare that quality of simple straightforwardness and being without guile really is. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.

 

A person really converted, knows that though there is too much of the old man in us, yet, if we are really converted, there will be in us no allowed guile, we shall be harmless. That is the reason why the poor Christian is too often imposed upon. Having an honest heart, he thinks every one as honest as he is, and therefore is an easy mark, or some would say gullible.

 

"Verily I say unto you;" and what Jesus said then, He says NOW to you, to me, and to as many as will have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches, to as many as the Lord our God shall call. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? Could Passover be God’s LAST call to His People to be born again, AGAIN. There does come a time, and now is, for the time is at hand that - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. I must exhort you to check and see whether you are genuinely converted and have become as a child. Examine honestly whether such a great and almighty change has become reality upon the mind, will, and emotions.

 

Brethren, we all hope to go to that BIG CHURCH of the Firstborn on Mount Zion. I do pray God Almighty that you all may be there. Because of that heart desire and prayer whether any will hear, and even if all forbear and forsake, these simple truths must NOW be brought forth. I see your death warrant as surely as you can see mine. I have sinned and you have sinned, and the death warrant wages of sin has been signed, sealed and will sooner or later be delivered. I will cry aloud and plead with every man, woman, and child. I will cry if you have ears to hear, that  you must NOW hear this, that the Lord Jesus Christ said that "Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall NOT enter into the kingdom of heaven."

 

In the state of this world wherever we may be, the stark reality is that we may not live to see tomorrow. We have had such profound proofs of this with 911, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Hurricanes, not to mention the possibility of strategic nuclear war. So NOW as we are coming into this season of Passover, will you for Christ’s sake, and for your own soul's sake, if you would have substance and evidence of the blessed hope to dwell with God, EXAMINE YOURSELF. WE MUST DISCERN THE LORD'S BODY. THAT BEGINS WITH SERIOUSLY DISCERNING IF WE ARE GENUINELY CONVERTED AND HAVE BECOME AS A CHILD.

 

Will you consider, SERIOUSLY CONSIDER, and will you NOW go to the Lord with me?

 

Lord, search me, and try me, And see if there be any wicked way in me. Lord, examine my heart, bring my conscience to the fullness of life that every conscience will have before the great white throne judgment. O Lord, please let me know whether I am converted or not!

 

Brethren, saints, redeemed repentant sinners, what do you say? Has God by His Holy Spirit wrought such a great and necessary change in your hearts? I must ask you, whether you have the solid evidence to think that God has made you new creatures in Christ Jesus? Can we say that our heart is free from wickedness? Have we become as a child in the ways we know Jesus was meaning when He taught His DISCIPLES that important lesson setting the little child in their midst?

 

Bad theology leads to hell. I tell you that thinking Passover is God calling His People to be born again, AGAIN, whether anyone calls it good or bad theology can keep people from hell. Can we say TONIGHT - Lord, I am ready? Can we say truthfully, Whom have I in heaven but Thee, and there is no one, NOTHING that I desire that could be compared with you, Lord. Are we aware of our weakness and need? Do we feel that we are poor, miserable, blind, and naked? Can we get victory over self-will as John Baptist directed that He must increase, and I must decrease? Can we be guided by the Holy Spirit as a little child with our hand lifted up to be held and led by our parent? Are we big or little in our own eyes? If the Lord Jesus Christ has emptied and humbled us, if He is allowing us to see and know that we are nothing, though it may not feel good – ALLELUIA YESHUA, we are making good preparation for Passover. As we empty our heart of that leaven, we then will see Him fill it with substance and evidence of our blessed hope called FAITH. Alleluia Yeshua. Praise the Lord Jesus.

 

If you know you are genuinely converted, and have become as a little child, I delight and count it a GREAT SIMCHA to Bless you in the name of Yeshua. Being born again, or being born again, AGAIN, makes one part of the family of God called Israel. We have the same surname, Israel. Alleluia. I welcome you and bless you in the name of the Redeemer of Israel, in the name of THE Holy One of Israel.

 

Maybe those in the world around you do not see the difference. Yet, if you have followed through without guile in this examining and leaven hunting, the difference is HUGE. I see you as a king and priest unto God, sons and daughters of the Great King of Kings.

 

Will you from this Passover on forward, seek that child likeness which Yeshua made clear we MUST have to enter, and STAY in, and function in, His Kingdom? May I give you some very good news? Messiah our Passover was sacrificed for such child like people. He was delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification. Our secret sins that nobody knew but God and our own souls, might have damned us. May I tell you only His love and sacrifice could so reverse the destiny of hell.

 

Can you hear Him, Messiah or Passover saying – Let them live, I have the ransom, I will redeem.

 

Are you converted? Have you become like little children? Then what must you do? Be obedient to God. Remember God is our Father. Any parent loses his happiness when they must suffer a wicked, disobedient child. If we would not want our children to be disobedient, for Christ's sake let us not be disobedient to our heavenly Father. If God is our Father, obey Him. If God is our Father, serve him, and love him with all our heart, love him with all our might, with all our soul, and with all our strength. If God is our Father we should WANT TO turn away from everything that may displease Him, and walk worthy of the One who has called us to His kingdom and glory.

 

If we are converted and become like little children, then we should behave as little children. Whether new-born, or born again, AGAIN – makes no difference – we should then desire the sincere milk of the word, that we may grow thereby. If we are a child of God then we should grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. NEVER forget as we think what it means to become as a little child HOW MUCH WE NEED THE PURE MORE SURE WORD OF THE KING JESUS VERSION HOLY BIBLE EVERY DAY.

 

Though we will continue to be child like in some important areas we want to grow quickly, and continue to PRESS forward toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. We want to PRESS into this Mystery of the Ages, Christ in us, the hope of glory.

 

Are we God's children? Are we converted, and become like little children? Then we should know that if anyone tries to hurt us, they probably do not know our Big Brother. And if they do not know our Big Brother then they cannot possibly know our Father. If we have a problem we should talk to our Father about it. If we are God’s children, then if the devil, his antichrist demoniacs, or this world is giving us trouble, then we WILL TELL OUR FATHER. Glory to God. We will make a direct complaint to God. We will keep it simple too. No high religious sounding words should be expected to come from the mouths of LITTLE children. Psa 103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

 

Are you converted, and become as little children, have ye entered into God's family? Then KNOW and be fully persuaded that our heavenly Father will chasten us now and then. Heb 12:7-8 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.: In this time it is scary to me to hear people boasting that they have NEVER had a cross to bear in their life. We have all prayed selfish prayers. That is OK for God knows our frame. We pray for good health, we pray for humility, for more and stronger faith, more love, more fullness of the gifts of the Spirit. I think very few saints realize that such prayers are ALSO prayers that are asking the Lord to send us great trials. It is great trials that prove our faith, and where we do the FAST growing in FAITH. The enemy of our soul would love to have us think that God has given us over. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, DOUBT THE LOVE OF GOD.

 

We know His love in the chastening and trials. God is a WISE Father. He loves His children too perfectly to spare his rod. Moses, the most meek of men blew it one time. He could NOT enter the promised land. He needed chastening for NOT sanctifying God before the people, and God loved him with the rod of correction. We see from all the scriptures that those most precious ones of God’s people are most chastened. So we MUST KNOW that if we are converted, and become as little children, and if God takes something precious from us, like even our children, that God is GOOD, and God HAS NOT AND WILL NOT FORSAKE US. If we are forsaken by everyone in the world and hurting so badly that the devil would come as a flood to tell us God has left us, WE KNOW we have a Friend that sticks closer than a brother who even went through the death of the cross of Calvary for us. Glory to God.

 

NEVER DOUBT THE LOVE OF GOD. No matter what – just know and declare that we are stubborn perverse children. KNOW and declare at the same time that we know He loves us, and we REFUSE to DOUBT His love in this or any trial, and even in the valley of the shadow of death. Do NOT blame God, but put the blame squarely where it belongs on MY OWN sins and errors. He is a loving Father and our Lord is easily touched with the feelings of our infirmities. And He truly is afflicted in all of our afflictions. Remember how He spoke to Paul when He loved Paul knocking Paul of his high horse on the way to Damascus? The I AM, said to him, the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

 

Admit the truth that you and me and all saints are redeemed SINNERS. Then make the sacrifice of praise because He is WORTHY. NEVER doubt His love.

 

If we are God's children, and if we are converted and become as little children, then, though we do not have a death wish, we do long to go home and see our Father. That is where the FULLY and TRULY happy ones are. It causes me to mourn when I see the coldness and lukewarmness of those who claim to be Christians. I long to be with God and His people. I hate mediocrity. I hate silly games in the assemblies of saints in this antichrist world today. These things that cause us to mourn, like how many are falling away from THE Faith, how many will not keep the Passover, how many refuse to see their need to be born again, AGAIN, who will NOT get the leaven out. When we see this, how can we NOT want to go home?

 

Thanks be to God, because we KNOW what God has said regarding THESE THINGS we NOW see, in the KJV Holy Bible. We know that we have the Word of God that we have the Word of God. Alleluia. Because we KNOW what God has said about THESE THINGS we see we can KNOW that He will come and will not tarry. Do not be impatient, do not grow weary. God, in the time He knows best, will take us home. Are we ready? Are we ready? Have we gotten out that last trace of leaven? Have we truly become as a little child? This Passover will we be Born Again, AGAIN?

 

Yes, we are facing great tribulation in the antichrist war on the saints. Yes, we may very well lose everything we have in this world, including homes, family, and even our lives. Yet, we do KNOW whom we have BELIEVED and are FULLY persuaded that Jesus Christ IS Come in the flesh. We are fully persuaded that we will also suffer these things. Nevertheless we are not ashamed. For we KNOW Whom we have believed, and are persuaded that He is able to keep that which we have committed unto Him against that day. So then, Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever. Amen. 

 

Though we may be tormented and tribulated now, yet we do KNOW that SOON we shall be comforted. Though we are like the despised beggar Lazarus here now, so despised by this antichrist world and its churches of apostasy, His angels will be honored to gather us unto Him. Let us believe that we have ears to hear Him saying to us about this Passover, that With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before YOU suffer – Luke 22:15. We KNOW He has finished His trip to the Cross. Messiah our Passover is sacrificed for us. Will we receive His invitation to be born again, AGAIN?

 

If we are converted, and become as little children, then for Christ's sake let us stop fighting with God’s people. LOVE one another. We are to be known as Christians by our lives not by our nice feigned affection or dissimulation.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 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. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

 

Mat 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
 

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