551 shades of Red

Today's society believes that sex is an idea that they have perfected, that sex outside of marriage is a must: that they deserve to have any type of sexual contact with whomever they want, when they want and how they want. Sex and love have nothing to do with one another, other than this, where there is no love, sex is pleasureless.

But that is not how God designed sex, sexual contact is designed and can only be fulfilled to the fullest extent of pleasure within the confines of marriage. Marriage as God designed it, not as mankind thinks, but only between a man and a woman, period.

A Godly marriage goes beyond this, a Godly marriage is just as it sounds, simple enough: God first then a man and a woman,marriage is sacred, so much so that the Bible tells men that they are to love their wives as Christ loves the church. Once we see each other through the eyes of our Creator, we will love each other greater, and the full experience of a Godly marriage will start to take place, now do not get me wrong, your marriage will not be perfect, you will still have disagreements, and disappointments, not because God fails, but because we fail. This goes back to Adam and Eve, and our sinful, selfish nature. I want to add this, when conflict arises get over yourself quick, and move on when this happens, focus your heart and eyes on Jesus and your problems will become less bothersome, in the light of eternity with Him.

Here is what the world misses, sex without love is nothing more than a little selfish pleasure coming to light, and foolishly we miss the greatest pleasure of all. It is like eating a package of stale crackers, when a fully cooked steak is right there in front of you, why would we sell ourselves short?

Love without God is impossible, for He alone is the author and creator of Love, and only through the guidance of the Holy Spirit will we experience the greatest love of all.

If your lost in the world and have been trapped in a life that makes you believe having sex with someone will make them love you, STOP...this is a lie and will never come to be.

*What you need to do first is come to Jesus, He alone will love you where you are, as you are, and He will make you new, He alone has that power.

**Second you need to find a Bible believing and teaching Church that will disciple you and help you grow in your relationship with Jesus.

Third start praying and asking Jesus to lead you to a woman or man of His choosing and ask others to start praying with you and for you, be listening to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Love is out there, it is not found in bondage, or sexual contact with another person, love is found only through God our Father, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. When you read through the Holy Bible, you see how God describes love.

God's shade of love was written in red through the blood of Jesus Christ, on an old rugged cross.

In marriage this love must always be put into action:1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 13 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

God's love in us, causes us to go further than we could without Him.Matthew 5:43-48  “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?  You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Ultimately we must come to the end of ourselves and submit to Christ authority. Matthew 6:24-25  “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

When we do what Jesus has said we will love deeper and greater than ever before. Mark 12:28-31 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

How much God loves us. John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

How we should be known .John 13:34-35  “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

How we are to live. John 14:21-24 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”  Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him,  “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

Jesus gave His all so you and I can love. John 15:9-17 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another

Before we knew Jesus, God showed His love for us. Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Nothing can take us away from the love of God. Romans 8:37-39  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

True love is without hypocrisy. Romans 12:9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Love is not prideful, but humble and helpful. Ephesians 4:2-3 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Once we love sacrificially we start to live. Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

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Love is filled with forgiveness.1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”

God has done it all, and loves us more than we can know. 1 John 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Love is more than words.1 John 3:18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Love is from God and can only be truly experienced through Him.1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God

Love is always without fear, for Love is selfless. 1 John 4:18-19 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us.

In the ESV Bible, Love appears 551 times in 505 verses, you see Love is a gift from God, sex is a pleasure given to us from God. That He made for man and woman, the devil ,has perverted sexual pleasures and uses it against mankind. We have a warped sense of pleasure because our hearts are far from God, men and women view pornography and it affects the way we see each other, how we respond to each other. A pornographic view of sex does nothing more than put performance issues on both people, in which neither will ever be able to achieve, this view leads to broken relationships, inside and outside the marriage bedroom pornography perverts love and makes it a sexual act.

If you have not ever had sex outside of marriage I urge you to hold out until God brings you into a marriage relationship, if you have already experienced sex outside of marriage , you can stop and hold out for your mate and wait on God, first you need to repent. read Psalm 51 and pray what King David prayed, only search yourself and pray this, otherwise they are just words if your not humble and repentant these words mean nothing.

If your marriage is in a free fall, may I boldly say stop looking to each other and turn to God, He 

knows what is going on, ask for His help, His healing, for this to work both parties must take responsibility for their actions and come before God, humble and repentant, and be willing to seek Him first over their own desires and that of their spouse you must be willing to let God work in every area of your lives, there is always more than one issue going on, God wants all of you.

If your addicted to pornography, stop if your single or married , pornography only perverts your perspective and clouds your heart and mind, it has no place in your life again you must be willing to let God work in every area of your lives, there is always more than one issue going on, God wants all of you.

If your struggling with homosexuality, there is hope, and help. Your not forsaken, your not hated, you are loved by Christ, He died for your sins just as He did mine. Your lifestyle to God is no different than someone who is an adulterer, or fornicator, anyone who has sex outside of marriage as God see's it is in a lifestyle of sin, our only hope is in Christ Jesus.

God will only recognize marriage between a man and a woman, I do not care what these dollar store preachers say, the Bible , God's Holy word is clear. Jesus said this Mark 10:6-9 But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.'  'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,  and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.  What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

If you do not know Jesus as your personal Saviour, I urge right now to do so, He will not make you richer, your life easier, or solve all your financial woes, He will love you, never leave you or forsake you that is a promise God made, and God nailed His promise His only begotten son Jesus  to the cross to take the punishment for our sins and God fulfilled that when Jesus rose again 3 days later.

In Christ.

Pastor Brian Kinnett

*If you have no idea on what it means to be saved, this will help. “For God so loved the world. that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him  

should not perish, but have everlasting life.” – John 3:16

Hard questions don’t have easy answers, but they do have an answer. That answer is ultimately found in the God who created the universe and loves you unconditionally. How do you find that God? How do you reach Him? This is the Good News: God has come looking for you! He has reached out to you! Saying “Yes” to God begins with your desire to respond to His gracious Gift of Jesus Christ. Here are some ways to help you do just that. Discover for yourself life the way it was meant to be. Receive God’s Gift today!

  

First we must Admit that we need a right relationship with God.

Pride keeps us from doing some of the most important things in life. Don’t let your pride keep you from THE most important thing in this life and the next!

As the Scriptures say: “There is no one who always does what is right, not even one….” Romans 3:10, NCV All have sinned and are not good enough for God’s glory,… Romans 3:23, NCV

Second we must Believe: Believe that God’s Son Jesus Christ makes possible your having a right relationship with God.

There is nothing that you can do, no matter how good or great, to ever restore your relationship with God.  

God was using Christ to restore his relationship with humanity. 2 Corinthians 5:19, NCV

Third we must Confess your sin to God and accept His forgiveness.  

Everyone of us chooses to live our lives like we want to, taking charge, ignoring God, pleasing ourselves. That’s what separates us from God. That’s why we need His forgiveness.  You can have forgiveness of your sins through Jesus. Acts 13:38, NCV

 Fourth Dedicate yourself as a fully devoted follower of Christ.  

Receiving God’s gift of forgiveness through Jesus Christ will set you in a direction exactly opposite of the one you’ve been going in because now you’re following Christ.

Jesus said to all of them, “If people want to follow me, they must give up the things they want. They must be willing to give up their lives daily to follow me.” Luke 9:23

Fifth Express your faith in Christ publicly.  

What God does for you in His Son Jesus Christ is the greatest thing that will ever happen to you. It requires a clear confession that you have given Him your very life.

If you use your mouth to say, “Jesus is Lord,” and if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9

If what you have just read expresses what you would like to do in your life, or if you have more questions about Jesus and faith, please contact me 

**You can email me and I will help you find a Bible Believing/teaching church in your area, 

Whose Kingdom do you build?

Today in America we have so many that do not go to churches, and we have many who go to churches, who believe that they will be in heaven when they die.

They believe that because they are born an American it is their birthright to be a christian, or because someone in their family was a christian they are automatically in.

Some believe that they are by nature good people , after all they have not killed anyone, but that is not the only sin there is, and even some believe that because they attend church weekly, or monthly or even once and awhile that God will allow them in.

In John 8 below, Jesus exchanges with the religious leaders of His day, who were also political leaders, and He held them to the standard of salvation that God the Father set, for He is Holy and He is the one who sent Jesus to bring the truth and pay the price for our sins. People have the same self righteous attitude they did, and by doing so they will receive the same end they did.

As you read these verses as the Holy Spirit to reveal in you what you need to surrender to Him to walk about building the kingdom of God and not your own.

I did.

John 8:12-16, 24-58 ESV

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”  So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.  You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.  Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.  I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”  So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.  I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”  They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father. So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.  And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”  As he was saying these things, many believed in him.  So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,  and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”  Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.  The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.  So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.  I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.  I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”  They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,  but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.  You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.” Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.  Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.  You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.  But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.  Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?  Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”  The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?” Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.  Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.  Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”  The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’  Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?” Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’  But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.  Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”  So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Are you one of them??

Today billions of people will attend worship services across this world, most of them seeking God.

  Everyone one of them inperfect and struggling somewhere or somehow in their lives. What they know and have peace with is this ;God is with them, God is for them and God will help them through their struggles.
  It is not that we have perfected life, we have learned to submit to and trust our Creator, God almighty in all things.

Jeremiah 17:5-10 ESV

Thus says the Lord : “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord .   He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.   “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord , whose trust is the Lord .   He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?   “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Stop competing with Christ,

We need to learn to do all things for the cause of Christ, our job is to Love Jesus and those around us, and then make disciples of those God has surrounded us with, whether your a Pastor, teacher or layman , (we all are at least one of these.) This is your mission.

  And God in His infinite mercy and timing has put you where you are . Whether you're speaking to 1 or 1000 be satisfied in Christ. Do not fret over what others do, but do what God has called you to do and do it where He put you.

John the baptist had the right heart, see how he responded when others came to him and said Jesus is baptizing more than you.

John 3:25-30 ESV

Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification. And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.” John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’ The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. He must increase, but I must decrease.”

We are not in a competition with Jesus or others, we are simply to serve Jesus out of love. If we want to live a life of abundance and satisfaction,it can only be found in Christ alone.

Will you stand?

More and more we see religious institutions cave to the call of the liberals agenda, giving way to mockery of Jesus Christ.

The liberals cry out what those who crucified Christ did in "Mark 15:30 save yourself, and come down from the cross!” and the false teachers cave and come down to be embraced by society and turn their back on Christ.

But those who follow Christ understand that we willingly take up His cross and stand firm in our faith, we will not, we can not buckle under social pressure and renounce the cause of Christ.

The issues are not social issues that plague our world, the issue is the cross of Christ is offensive, because it calls out man for what he is a sinner who is damned if he refuses to believe in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

1 Corinthians 1:17-18 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.  For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Oh if man would simply repent, believe and follow Christ the world would live in harmony, but there are to many agendas going on in the wicked hearts of man to focus on the only who can save us all.

Colossians 2:6-15 ESV

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.  See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

I urge you to stand with me and billions of others as stand firm in our faith.

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

The poison of knowledge's power

America we have a problem,a God problem we have fallen for the same lie the devil used upon Eve that surely we would not die once we ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

If we as believers have an accurate picture of God then that will lead to a life of holiness : as a matter of fact that  is vital to everything. AW Tozer said this all the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: that He is: what He is like: and what we as moral beings must do about Him".

We pursue knowledge believing that knowledge is power believing we will be like God because we know all things, we have been deceived ,need I remind you of the most knowledgeable and wisest of all cultures have been destroyed by their pursuit of knowledge and power, Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome ,Europe, Germany, all have fallen to the wayside.

Each had more knowledge than the other, yet today they are but shadows of their former greatness.

We have knowledge today at our fingertips a click away you can know just about anything, but yet we are far from the truth we are far from God our creator we believe our selves to be gods.

Genesis 3:1-7 ESV

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

Romans 1:21-30, 32 ESV

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.  Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.  For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.  And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.