MONGRELS IN THE KINGDOM

His strength is sufficient

He has saved you.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"What breed is that" enquired a curious hill walker "she's very pretty"

"She actually has three breeds" replied the proud owner.   Her father was a Pug crossed with a Boston Terrier and her mother was a pure Lhaso Apso.

"Really" the woman exclaimed "I would never have guessed"

"I had no idea what I was taking on" said the woman on the end of the dog lead.   She's just a mongrel but full of character,  sturdy and strong.    I am told nature takes the best of the gene pool and they are very resistant to the woes of the pedigree breeds.  She can leap like a kangaroo,  with longer back legs she can out run any large dog teasing, twisting, turning to avoid any unwelcome attention.  She happily sits on her bottom like a Meerkat her eyes observing every morsel of food that passes my lips.   The downside, if she has one, is her long fur which gathers tiny twigs of bracken hiding them away under her armpits.   She is rather like the brush on the street cleaner's machine  - gathering the mud and muck from the gutters.  

Somehow the conversation turned to dog ownership and how a large Alsatian would be a considerable deterrent in hot spots around the globe.    

"Gosh" replied the owner of a beautiful young pedigree labrador.    I didn't get Lucy as a deterrent she is a family pet and very loving but her bark might just deter an intruder.   They say German Shepherds are the best dogs for that job.    I would certainly have one if I lived in the Middle East.  This Isis stuff is horrendous and it's all religion once again.   War after war, so where is the christian God in all this? she questioned.   "Can't He stop the slaughter."

"You need to understand the concept of free will" said the owner of the eccentric terrier.  "God is not a dictator.   We have the choice between good and evil.   If you don't understand the entity that is behind this killing machine you are obviously oblivious to the power of evil and its source.  Beware the hordes of hell.!!!!

"Oh this is getting too deep for me" muttered the hill walker calling her dog.   "Bye I'm off, busy, lots to do, take care" considering the little dog's owner probably had mental health issues, poor old thing.   Might be prudent to take avoidance tactics if their paths crossed again.

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Many years ago I talked with a man who considered heaven would be a trifle overcrowded with all the people who had walked on the earth since records began.   After all most consider they are sorry for their transgressions on a death bed.   Although some would happily suggest "I did it my way"   A very popular song at funerals.   "Well" he replied "what happens to everyone else" his expression implied 'now get out of that one'.   "I have no idea" I replied "but no doubt eventually I will find out.  Hell is obviously the destination for murderers etc. etc.   Oh for heavens sake read Revelation"  He laughed at my irritation.   I had yet to realise that many are victims and captives, someone else clearly pulling their strings.       

Matthew 7 - 14

Jesus warned "Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way that leads to life, and there are few who find it."

Matthew 5 - 8
Jesus taught "Blessed are in pure in heart, for they shall see God.
That narrows the field considerably.
Thankfully even though sin pollutes and defiles, the blood of Jesus washes the stains away.
John 14 - 6
I am the way, the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me.   

Sadly the teaching is twisted and perverse by men like Stephen Sizer and his followers.  Yeshua is coming back to His people, the Jews, but thankfully Gentile believers are grafted into the vine.

There's a tongue in cheek joke about Jesus leading a group of christians past a doorway announcing "sssssh the Catholics think they are the only ones here.   I remember well asking my mother "if only Catholics go to heaven, where does everyone else go"    She didn't know what to say to her inquisitive daughter who was always asking 'WHY" and expecting an answer.

Jesus said "In My Father's house there are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you. 

If you were raised Catholic or Muslim you probably didn't have access to a bible.    It is difficult to understand without taking into consideration the Jewish mindset and the fact that Yeshua spoke in hyperboles to get his message across to his followers.   When you can't even pronounce most of the names it is understandable folks get bogged down in Numbers.   

Then there's the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.      Christ returns to claim his bride (the church).  (Ouch   pray he doesn't head for the Church of England or Rome) His real sheep are underground.

The invitations go out.    R.S.V.P  Back come the replies - sorry I can't get the time off work.   It's a busy time of the year for us we are all doing overtime.    Got to get those Easter Eggs off the production line or  every excuse we have used to get out of the family occasions we dread.     

Matthew 22 - 3 - 14
God tells his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
9 - Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find invite to the wedding.   The great unwashed are now going to the banquet.   But one man is still in his ordinary clothes so he is thrown out.

Why - did you get that one?    I didn't for a long time until - Jacob Prasch arrived on the internet. 

Even at that late hour unbelievers will see heaven and repent.    The man who was thrown out refused to change his clothes (accept Christ as his Saviour)  he didn't belong at the wedding feast - too late he realises what he has lost.   Like every other child raised in religion I knew the potted parable but I didn't understand the context.   It's easy to mislead by false doctrine or misinterpretation - or may even get lost in translation.

In the diaspora the Jews were scattered throughout Europe and many abandoned not only their faith but their roots.   Marriage claimed its victims.   You couldn't marry a Catholic without turning (you know that thing milk does when it goes beyond it's sell by date!!!!)  Jewish families apparently had a funeral for their particular deserter.   Others got the silent treatment and eventually wandered off into the wilderness.

My own ancestors jumped across the denominational divide a few times but thankfully the Lord snatched me back via the Baptist Church.   Regardless the Jewish gene will surface when I hear  Jonathan and Aviva Settel singing Shehechianu.   Other genes include Celtic, Irish, Scottish and there's the odd Viking gene somewhere in the mix on my father's side.   My children have inherited a Welsh gene from their paternal grandmother.   We are mongrels without a doubt. 

Eventually broken and bleeding we turn around and limp home that's if we manage to avoid the Sloth of Despair and all the other traps that lie waiting around the corner determined to pounce on a lone sheep.

Just an ordinary sheep

close to her shepherd curled up at His feet.

SAFE

Sometimes distracted I watch others stray

hurting themselves as they go their own way.

Unseen dangers lurk over the hill

yet they take a chance and follow their will.

I stay close to the Shepherd, curled up at His feet

REMEMBERING.

My Master is loving, gentle and meek,

He came searching for me, just one lost sheep

and carried me home.

FORGIVEN

Now I stay close to the Shepherd curled up at His feet

SAFE.

T. HILLS

2003

    

        

WASTELAND SHEEP

MARY NOT MARTHA

When the church of God addresses herself 

to conflict she will tear evil to pieces.

 William Wilberforce 

According to bible expositor Jacob Prasch* families of believers are under increasing attack and that something is happening between parents and children in the last days.    This is to be expected when there are hirelings in the church and sincere men of God are few on the ground, when doctrinal truth is exchanged for lies.   Discerning children of God vote with their feet and walk,  but in their freedom some have become judge and jury and are sometimes far from the correct interpretation of scripture.     

Out of this unholy mess comes the lone wolf, the critical spirit and those suffering from an extreme bout of spiritual pride.   'I' don't believe this, or that.   Self appointed prophets abound on the internet. 

Some christians pronounce judgement on one another when healing fails.  They don't have enough faith, they are not praying hard enough.  Tell that to the parents of a three year old child dying of cancer the innocent babies murdered in the Middle East or to the cripple in the wheelchair.   It's cruel and its tantamount to bullying.

They forget that the greater part of disease in this world is caused by mankind.   The fact that people die from pollution because they live close to motorways does not seem to bother authorities until air quality in London fails the safety standards.  Man has contaminated the seas affecting the fish we eat and the wildlife.   All part of a food chain that is slowly poisoning mankind.

Years ago I watched a man in a t.v. programme deny the existence of God.   Why, because his son was killed in a car crash.  Should he blame God?  NO.    The blame game is another sign of the increasing evidence that the Father of Lies (Satan) is busy directing his followers.   Truth is dead where news reports are concerned.   Both the U.K. and America seem hell bent on pointing the finger at Russia, their so called elite determined to start wars and fill their coffers with lucrative arms sales regardless of the consequences.     

We are now advised not to eat farmed salmon because of the artificial food they are fed and conditions in which they are kept.   In the name of greed man will literally poison the planet and its residents will have no choice in the matter.

"Thou shalt not kill" yet war after war shows man has no problem ignoring that commandment.   A footnote in my study bible says "this doesn't apply to war"    'Thou shalt not kill' was the commandment handed to Moses and there was no 'codicil'    If you accidentally killed someone scripture teaches God had provided cities to which you could flee.   Man has to learn to talk peace otherwise he will incinerate the planet with his latest toys.

Matthew 5 - 9 - Yeshua (Jesus)  said "blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God"   Peacemakers for the most part appear to be ignored and the agenda moves forward.     They forget that when Messiah returns He will rule with a rod of iron.   Where are those listed as the world's richest pastors going to hide? especially when their fellow countrymen live in squalid poverty.   Just what will they say to Amighty God when called to give account of exactly how they acquired their earthly riches, by selling salvation and bleeding the poor at every opportunity.

Matthew 10 - 8 - 10 

Jesus said:

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast our demons.  "Freely you have received, freely give."

"Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts,"

"nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs, for a worker is worthy of his food."

Where will the so called elite hide in the Day of the Wrath of the Lord.

REVELATION 6 - 15

And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,

and said to the mountains and rocks "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 

From the book of Enoch to the prophets and scribes of ancient history the warning signs of the end of the world are clear, but until Jesus comes many will not even acknowledge their creator or the witness of those blessed with divine revelation.      

  

Spiritual pride is a very real problem.   There are people who consider they are preferred above the average grain of sand and seem to be able to ignore their every failing as a normal caring human being.   They readily condemn any one who contradicts their opinion as "going to hell"    Ghandi is quoted as saying "only God says who goes to hell"   What is incredibly annoying is they are in fact saying "I know the mind of God"   No one knows the mind of God.

Jesus warned his followers he did not know God's plan and when he would return.     

Matthew 24 - 36

"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.

Not surprisingly these individuals usually give themselves away in many instances.    Just a casual remark puts the spotlight on their failure to follow Yeshua's teaching.  Some have a "brownie points" mentality to catch as many souls as possible before they give up the ghost.    Their lives should certainly reflect the delights of knowing and serving God - but it is actually God that runs after His sheep with the offer of salvation.

Some have to be seen as in a position of authority where the study of scripture is concerned.  Others know that they belong at the feet of the Shepherd King.    God will deal with the world that is His business they are called to follow the Lord, to be a beacon of hope in a dark world.   

Luke 10 - 41- 42

Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.

But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.

Martha was busy bustling about and complaining about a serious lack of help, running herself into the ground trying to be all things to all men.   Mary just sat at Yeshua's feet and she won his approval.   

Charles Haddon Spurgeon said "We shall soon have to handle Truth not with kid gloves (well the  right man for our time is Jacob Prasch who tackles his opponents head on) but with gauntlets of holy courage and integrity.

"Go on ye warriors of the cross for the King is at the head of you."

We are all equal, but some are more equal than others and that still applies in todays world.   God looks down on the pauper and the prince and knows who He chooses for His Kingdom.

The Armenians believed perseverance was conditional upon continued faith in Christ with the possibility of final apostasy.  Many will fall under that sword as the battle to eliminate the christian faith continues apace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

Assuredly the new theology can do no good towards God or man; it has no adaption for it.   If it were preached for over a thousand years by all the most earnest men of the school, it would never renew a soul, nor overcome pride in a single human heart.

This great man of God was chosen at the tender age of 15.   The illumination of Isaiah 45 - 22 moved him from an Anglican background to Baptist Minister.

Look unto Me,
and be yea saved,

all the ends of the earth!

For I am God, and there is none else. 

He is acknowledged as the Prince of Preachers defending the church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith opposing liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies.   At 19 he was minister of the largest baptist congregation in London.   In 1857 he preached to the highest congregation ever.   23,654 at Crystal Palace, London.    

How far the United Kingdom has descended under the "hirling" shepherds and it will surely reap the reward.    Bunyan, Wycliffe, Spurgeon, Tozer, Wilkerson, the list goes on, all men chosen by God and used in their particular expertise.   His Elect set apart and gifted to influence the sheep and lead them in a right direction.   Hence the unholy chaos in this once christian country a direct result of the new order and an enforced politically correct agenda.    

The sheep are all over the place.   They need a shepherd.   They need to know there is strength in numbers and that they must STAND regardless of persecution.   One can only observe the continuing decline with but one consolation the works of the foundation fathers are readily available for everyone and their foresight has been proved correct.   Their lives clearly demonstrated that God chooses an individual for a particular mission/ministry and reveals future events.   

Whatever is wrong we must meet with a firm, strong, uncompromising NO;

but whatever is right we would welcome into our life with a hearty, cheerful 'YES'*

*J.R. Miller - In Green Pastures.




* Chanukah, Christmas and the return of Christ.  Parts 1 - 3 - Available on U-Tube - Moriel - Jacob Prasch.