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Written By: The Watchman on January 24, 2010 No Comment

The Abundant LIFE of Christ Jesus
“What does it mean to have an ‘abundant life’?
Here are pertinent truths on this saying that many misuse and misdirect Christians in their walk for Him!
By the Watchman Dana G Smith


I am writing this week about the ‘abundant life’, one that many in America seem to know so well. Or do they? When speaking to this issue will I take rank and file against those who promote the doctrine that many top Evangelical leaders teach? No, I shall not! They have their reward, I do quote here something for your first thought regarding this issue!

Written By: The Watchman on March 12, 2009 No Comment

“FOR MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN”
(Matthew 22:14)

the destroyer

Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4)

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. (Romans 1:24-32)

These verses, and what they say, are not easy to swallow – as Jesus’ followers already remarked back then. They go against what is often and generally preached today, even by so-called Christian preachers and revivalists.

Everyone wants to bring a positive, faith-building message and leave out the more negative passages with their serious warnings. This, at least, is what most preachers would rather do. How different, then, are these words from our Lord and the Apostle Paul, to the generally-accepted mode of preaching of today’s preachers.

Written By: The Watchman on August 28, 2008 No Comment

Where does the LORD teach it is okay for Christians to curse one another? Where does it teach that Christians are to curse anyone? On the contrary, we are to bless them which persecute us, we are to bless and curse not! We are not to recompense evil for evil!

Matthew 7:16  Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew 7:20  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

It was years ago and my family and I was in the audience that very night. Afterwards those in the church were alarmed at what had happened. It was a large city in the Midwestern state of Colorado, Denver to be exact. We had waited outside in line for hours while some protesters lined upon along the street against the famed evangelist. The time arrived for the meeting to start and we were all inside, in our seats, waiting with faith and hope that the Lord would move.

It was in that meeting, however, that this very famous and world renowned person decided the Lord told him to curse his enemies. His enemies in fact were the church, or to say, those in the church in certain leadership that saw his ministry and practices as somewhat misleading and false. To be precise, they were fervently opposed to this man. The results had been the cursing of the enemies he had come to understand that was trying to cut and undermine his ministry.

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