Archives September 2016

2016 Sep 25th Streaming

https://youtu.be/W6H531V1v30

Greetings Everyone,

We are quickly approaching the end of September and entering the month of October next weekend. WOW! October, November, December, and then January 2017! This year has come and is almost gone. Moving on. We had a great visit last week with our son, daughter and grandchildren in Arizona. We also stopped and saw the Grand Canyon and Sedona Falls (sadly we didn’t see any waterfalls) while we were out there. We’ll have to go back and see the waterfalls in Sedona. We will continue this week with the message from our last time of fellowship on “Homosexuality and the Power of Desensitization”. We discussed biological identity in our last fellowship. We reviewed the the XY and XX DNA identity God has provided and fixed with His creation of man. The scripture says “male and female created He them” and also “and God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply…” this was the beginning of gender and sexual identity. So, what happened? Fear? Disobedience? Sin? An in-road into the soul/mind? This week we will look at the psychological power of desensitization on “feelings and emotions.” These two drive beliefs, decisions, behavior and identity. Keep in mind the process of desensitization to the person of Christ is the out working of the process of sensitization to the personal we are in the flesh! Let’s talk about it again,

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine

2016 Sep 11th Streaming

https://youtu.be/XoQLn1mLSg4

Greetings Everyone!

We are only a few days from the first day of fall!  The weather here in Dallas is nice for this time of year.  We have had some rain and cool days that provided nice evening walks.  This has been great! Our message for fellowship this week is a very controversial one.  We are going to look at a topic which is both feared and misunderstood by far too many in the Church (the Body of Christ), religion, and most in the world.  Deep fear and anger surround the word “Homosexuality”.  If you listen to either side speaking on this issue you’ll soon see fear, anger and confusion.   This confusion concerning homosexuality will always lead to delusional thinking on either side.  This level of thinking is a by-product of the power of desensitization to the person of Christ.  Many believe and are told that homosexuality is a lifestyle, someone is born this way or it’s an outcome of an experience. It is also thought and accepted that once someone embraces who they are as “gay” or “homosexual,” they’ll become comfortable with themselves and their “true” self. Also, one of the most powerful beliefs is: once you embrace who you really are, you can never go back or escape from this lifestyle.

Although we are going to discuss homosexuality in this message, I will be including the terms transgender, same sex marriage, and sex-change surgery.  I know these words don’t all mean the same thing technically, but each of them are rooted and grounded in the same place.  They also come from the same mind with the same effect on each person who operates under its influence.  Lastly, my intent in today’s message is to confirm what the apostle Paul said in Ephesians chapter 3.

And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:  Eph 3:9

This does not mean to make all men believe what is being said.  That’s not my job here.  But it is my job or responsibility to share the revelation of the mystery as clearly as I have received it from my Father.  Now please listen very carefully.  It doesn’t matter what you believe about this issue of homosexuality; most are too desensitized to see through to Christ!  Desensitization to the person of Christ keeps fear and anger paralyzing everyone on either side of this issue.  Yes, I said everyone – those who believe it is wrong and those who believe there’s nothing wrong with this lifestyle or practice.  This message is for both those who consider themselves gay or straight; homosexual or heterosexual. The message is also for those who consider themselves Christian but are not actually born again, and for those who are born again believers – regardless of their maturity. There is something bigger than homosexual or heterosexual relations and relationships going on.  Let’s talk about it!

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine

2016 Sep 4th Streaming

https://youtu.be/EputZAlhjXM

Greetings Everyone!

Can you believe August is almost over and next Sunday is the 4th of September! And to top all that off the weather here in Dallas is much cooler than normal! Oh, the rain has been in good supply! Speaking of rain we had a thunder storm yesterday and my computer crashed. We also had a wonderful visit with our dear brother and sister Chris and Mylinda Serrioz. They stopped by for a visit while down from KC Missouri. It was great to fellowship with them and hug their necks again! Thanks guys for stopping by! Well, this week in fellowship we will be looking at the Apostle Paul’s unique and bold statements that no other writers in the Bible made. His first was the statement “My Gospel”. He went on to say “In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.” Rom 2:16. He would go on to use that statement a total of eight times in his epistles. And he didn’t just say “my gospel” but he included the words “according to”. That’s pretty specific and unique wouldn’t you say? But he also said something else which so many read right on by or just flat out ignore. His statement is this: “Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ” Eph 3:4. He said “My knowledge of the mystery of Christ”. That beloved, is a loaded statement. Far too many don’t like the word, “mystery”. It means that we don’t know something. And very few in the Church today will acknowledge that there is a mystery, much less the need for any revelation.  

Many advocate because we now have the Bible, there is no further revelation needed. Why? Simple – you can read can’t you? God gave you five (common) sense/s didn’t He? So, all that’s needed is for everyone to read the Bible and use their God given senses and they can know and understand everything God wants them to know. Sadly the apostle Paul would be the first to disagree with that faulty logic. He would say “no, that’s not what God has revealed to me concerning your sense knowledge”. He would continue ” But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” Then he would conclude by saying “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned”. I can hear Paul saying just those same words. For all those who would say Paul got his knowledge about the things of God from being a pharisee. I can hear him say loudly, “But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught [it], but by the revelation of Jesus Christ”. No wonder he said those bold and one of a kind statements; “my gospel” and my “knowledge of the mystery of Christ”! He couldn’t help it. But what does that have to do with you and me as new creation Sons and See-thru-ers? Everything! It started with Paul but it echos and continues today in everyone who has received that gospel and that mystery of Christ! Let’s talk about it! 

Love in Christ,

David & Katherine