Faithful to What?

Proverbs 28:20 (KJV)

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Proverbs 28:20 (NLTSE)

The trustworthy person will get a rich reward,

but a person who wants quick riches will get into trouble.

You can only be Faithful to One-

You cannot be Faithful to Both God and Money…

And a rich reward is different than riches…

The term (A faithful man shall abound with blessings)

Means, Blessings Abide Over His Head…

Seeking Riches bring their own reward…

But a rich reward is much different!

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Thanksgiving

According to the Dictionary definition

1. A public acknowledgement of  (Divine) goodness and mercy

“A National Holiday”

The Feast is Us Celebrating God’s Goodness and Mercy!

Psalms 100:4 (KJV)

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

Politically Correct or Not-

We As A Country and

As A People-

Remember Our Country’s Beginnings

With Humble Thankfulness…

We As A Church of The Redeemed-

Remember Our Beginnings

Becoming Citizens of The Kingdom of God…

Church Family-

Today, of All Days, Remember to Be Thankful!

As a Pastor, I’m Thankful for Our Church Family…

God Bless You All!

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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A Generation Beyond

2 Peter 2:10-11 (KJV)

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

11 Whereas *angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

Beyond-

To be passed a designated boundary or line…

The Old Saying:

There’s a governor on it-

*Means that there's a built-in restriction to prevent it from going too far or too fast…

Ladies and Gentlemen

The Governor Has Been Successfully Removed!

Man has accomplished What Angels Will Not Do…

*Though They are Greater in Power and Might!

Beware-

Being In This World is Much Different

Than Being “Of” This World…

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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The Dooming of the Condemned

1 Kings 22:22-23 (KJV)

22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

Beware that your desires do not weary God…

To finally get your way may mean your Doom!

-Doom comes to the Condemned!

To Be Condemned by God-

Is a Tragedy without Remedy…

When God Sends Lying Prophets to You-

To Encourage and Bless

The Road You’re Walking

*Means You’re Already Condemned!

*Notice though that he never uses the true prophet-(Micaiah)

Or your Pastor or your Man of God for this…

Because He Condemns Your Ideas While the Others Will Encourage them!

*Sending Others to Confirm Your Error!

The Dooming of the Condemned…

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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No Deception Like Self-Deception

Luke 18:11 (KJV)

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or *even as this publican.

The Greatest of All Deceptions is Deceiving Your Own Self…

Believing Your Own Lie!

Allow me please to re-submit  a poem I wrote a few years ago. (Please see text 2 of 2 following.)

Who's That Man in the Mirror?

His look on his face seems different from what I had imagined

The lines and the creases,

Oh what terror!

The Stranger that stares back from this mirror of life

Somehow seems familiar in this dimming light

The man I thought I was whose price was paid so dearly

Was it nothing more than a dream a mirage of empty toil that I now no longer see clearly?

I looked and I looked

I can't believe what I see

The Man in the Mirror

is not the man I thought I was

Somebody Please Tell Me Who could this be?

The person I see is not the man I wanted to be...

I looked and I looked

He looks like a description of someone I'd disdain

Could it be! Could it be!

He who stares at me?

Oh what unbearable Pain...

I twist and contort touch and feel

This man... this man... in the mirror he seems So Real

Alas I concluded with Defeat and refrain...

That this stranger is actually me on this runaway train

This man... this man... in the Mirror

The man I thought I was and who I really am,

I now Disdain!

I can’t stand to look at him and bear the pain...

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Helpless or Needing Help

Psalms 145:14 (KJV)

14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

Jesus loosed a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had so bound that she was “bowed down” and could by no means lift up herself.

Helpless and Needing Help are Two Completely

Different Situations…

*The One (helpless) Means All Hope is Gone…

While the Other Means~

“I could use a helping hand”

Miracles if you need one today are based on this premise!

Miracles happen to the Helpless Who Are Actually Hopeless Too!

The Government Offers a Helping Hand-

But God Offers Miracles…

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Religion in Action

James 1:27 (KJV)

(Pure religion) and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Religion in Action is Much Different

Than in Pronouncement of Religion…

Pure-Religion…

Is Action not words!

Not What You Say But Rather What You Do!

What a Great Revelation- And Check List

⁃ Visit the Fatherless

⁃ Visit the Widow

Remember Now, In Their Affliction…

(the inference is to bring them help)

Actions not Words…

Then….

Keep Yourself (Unspotted) from the World…

A Tall Order Yet as the Scriptures declare-

“Wisdom is known of her children….”

(now go learn what that means)

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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