From a Watchman on the Wall 2021

 I was thinking the other day… “I am so, SO proud of my daughter!”🙌🏼🎉🥇 “Praise God!”…you may say. “What did she do?” Do I need her to DO anything, to be proud of her… As His children, does God actually need us to DO anything, to make Him proud - or has it already been done through His Son? My daughter does most emphatically NOT need to accomplish anything to make me proud of her.  Don’t get me wrong: There are inevitably times when our kids will DO things to make us very proud…and other times where they will  exhibit behavior that we are far from proud of.  Give praise where praise is due…acknowledge hard work, effort and achievement…and discipline and correct immediately the need arises. This is biblical and exactly how the Lord does His parenting. But, in a society that is pushing harder and harder for perfection - humanity’s version of perfection - we need, in the Church, to do it God’s Way. Be proud of your kids NOW…before they achieve anything (TELL them you...

 Malachi 2:4–6 ESV 4 So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. 6 True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. (Referring to the whole tribe of Levi - the ministers and keepers of God’s House) Proverbs 9:10 Father, is this not also our commission?…Is this not also how we should appear to the world…how you desire us to be. That we would walk before you in holiness Lord…bringing the Gospel of Salvation in truth, love and the fear of the Lord…that the world would see and know that you are holy. For how will they know unless we are telling them…how will they see unless we are showing them. Romans 10:15-15 Image: Connie Elder

Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This myste...

Apologetics 101  Part 2 The Trinity- This word is not in the Bible but it is a word we use to describe God, based on the evidence of the Scripture itself. From Latin ‘Trinus’ meaning ‘threefold’. (Three entwined together as One) NOT three separate gods in one god! But… “Within the one being, there exists co-equally 3 persons.” (James White)  They are united and they are equal. If they were not equal, how could they be one? Look at the diagram: The Father is not the Spirit; The Spirit is not The Son; The Son is not The Father. ALL ARE GOD                                 ~~~~~~~~~~ To understand Him as three, we must first know Him as one So we go to the evidence of Scripture… Isaiah ch. 43:10; ch. 44:6; ch. 45:21 Deut 6:4 - Here God declares to Israel...(his own people...a special nation dedicated to Him) that He is not like the gods of other nations - He is One God!         ...

 #FastForFamily Psalm 127 A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon .   Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Jeremiah 22:13 Zechariah 4:1-7   Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. ~~~ “The Jew would ask, why is the house being built, if not for family?  …And why are the watchmen protecting the city, if not for the families in it?” (Boice) I believe this is also how the Body of Christ is meant to look.  ~~~ vs.2     It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. Matthew 6:19-34 ~~~ Because, to the Jew there was (and is) no greater heritage given by God, to a man, than his family. Everything else was supposed to take lower priority. ~~~ vs.3     Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. ~~~ A warning to Israel not to offer their children (a gift from The LORD) up to moloch…as ...

 Revelation 13:5 And the beast (the anti-christ) was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months (3 1/2years). 6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. 11 Then I saw another beast (the false prophet) rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb (It looked like a messiah) and it spoke like a dragon…(only those knowing the Word of God will perceive this)  12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.  13 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, 14 and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them ...

 Apologetics 101 This is to clarify…against some of the cultish and new age heresy that is trying to enter the Church:  This is what the Bible says.  Some of the issues posed here are common beliefs among cults. I have included some - but not all - relevant scriptures (there are so many). If anyone has any other appropriate scriptures please put them in the comments and I will add them to the post.  Is God - The Lord, the Only God? Yes:  Isaiah ch. 43:10; 44:6;  45:21 Did God have a beginning? No:  Genesis 1:1-4 tells us that God is outside of time and is the Creator of time. Also Psalm 90:2; Job 38:4-7; Isaiah 40:28; Hebrews 7:3 Was God a man before he was God? No: Psalm 90:2; Revelation 1:8  ***God created man (Genesis 1:26-27). He created all life (Acts17:26); No man can create life…nor can any man  progress to becoming God (See Revelation ch 21)*** Is man a god? No  Genesis 2:7 (Made in His image and His likeness…yet we are humanity…...