THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS.....

 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗛 𝗜𝗡 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦.......

..... and the darkness comprehended it not.

John 1:5

Persecution of Christians is increasing around the world. While we rejoice to see videos online of revival and Christians praising God in places where they only recently were persecuted, there are other nations where Christians are dying and being persecuted by mobs and by Communist governments.

When President Trump leaves office, and if Republicans lose the House and Senate in the mid-term elections, radical and Communist Liberals will rule America. You who serve in churches need to start NOW preparing your members for days of persecution in America. This is especially true if you were duped into openly supporting Donald Trump and Christian Nationalism. These are days when the Church of Jesus Christ must stop playing with politics and stick to being the embassy of Heaven on earth.

Here is an article online that tells you more about this:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/john-cleese-blasts-worlds-silence-easter-massacre-nigerian-christians-islamist-terrorists  

STANDARDS AS CHURCH LAW

 STANDARDS

At a preacher's conference, I stood in the foyer before the meeting, and I listened. One preacher was holding court in a group who were bragging on how many decisions for salvation, baptism, and bus riders they had. What a waste of lung power.

But, the group that made me sick was the pastors who were trading stories about enforcing "Baptist Standards". One preacher was very proud that he had excommunicated a violator of his standards.

Any denomination or local church that majors on "Standards" is driven by conformity. They want all those who attend to be like sausages coming off the assembly line..... they must all look exactly alike.

So, let us do a bit of reminiscing based on our years of Bible reading.

Visualize please the disciple Peter next to Matthew. A rugged fisherman next to a tax collector who was a civil servant of the Roman Government.

Visualize the crafty Jacob next to Samuel who was said to never say a word that was vain.

Visualize the hot rodder Jehu next to Barnabas the son of consolation.

You see, God has chosen to do his work in this world by using people who are NOT alike.

It is time for you pastors and church leaders to STOP trying to make all the saints look alike and march in lock step. Jesus purposely selected twelve men to teach who were NOT alike.

I was preaching the first sermon in a series to the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church which I recorded and later sent to the Vatican. In the door walked five young adults who were startling. A man and wife in field jackets..... only the beard told me which was which. Another man had a long pony tail. They all were very unlike us folks in the church.

I asked the Lord to help me respond in love to them instead of freak out. I was prepared for the possibility that they had read my ad in the newspaper on the sermon series and were sent by a Catholic priest to disrupt.

What a shock later. After the service, I went to greet them, and two of them were carrying a pamphlet called the Bible Believer's Bulletin, possibly the most fiery defender of the King James Bible in America. I found out that all five of these people were totally committed to Christ. In the end, they asked me to travel to their city and do a Bible study with them.

In the years I grew up in a pastors home, a missionary's home, and as a pastor myself, I have had nothing but people who were very much NOT alike. By taking them as God sent them, and by letting them be who the Holy Spirit wanted them to be, I now have the most amazing list of war stories to tell. Look alike people are boring, my friend.

So, how do you make sure the people God sends you are not a lot of clones of YOU?

Answer:

Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

If the saints are led by YOU, preacher, they will not mind the things of the Holy Spirit. You do NOT know the mind of the Holy Spirit for every saint in front of you. This is why so many of the people in your church are carnal. They are minding you and some man made "Standards". Neither they nor you will ever be what the Holy Spirit wants them to be as long as you keep trying to command conformity.

And..... I have been putting the hammer to Baptist preachers here. But, you of other denominations have the very same problem. You too demand conformity and get clones of you or your confessions and standards. It is time to hand your friends in Christ over to the Holy Spirit to make them what he wants them to be.

Philippians 2:13

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”

Let us all rejoice in the people God sends our way and encourage them to be like Jesus instead of like our preconceived notion of what an ideal saint looks like.

ILLEGAL ALIENS DEPORTED TO UGANDA

The US has deported 12 people to Uganda who were in the USA illegally. The Left and Right see this from the extremes. Let us see if we can go right down the middle and see it for what it really is.

1. These 12 people are adults and they are criminals because they entered the USA illegally, so they do not have any right to ask for mercy. All the nations of the world, except some dim bulb European nations, ship such illegal intruders right back where they came from.

2. These illegal aliens are not being sent to Uganda to torture them by sending them away from their nation or origin. Quite the opposite. The US officials are showing mercy on these illegals because they all ASKED to go somewhere else other than their home nation. This is because they might be killed of tortured by their home nation if sent back there to punish them for leaving in the first place.

3. Uganda is VERY likely being paid well by the US to handle these illegals and send them on to another nation of let them enter a refugee camp in Uganda. The US is not getting a cheap deal. Again, showing mercy is the motive of our US officials whom we so often mock and attack as they handle illegal criminals.

4. Uganda is refusing to take known criminals and children. Uganda is clearly guarding itself against the folly of filling its streets with starving children from Haiti, Venezuela, and Sudan. The US needs to find ways to find homes for these kids. I five year old is not a criminal. He is a pawn caught in the middle, and he should be given a lenient treatment. America is big enough to treat kids with compassion.

So, THERE! I said it, and I am not ashamed of it. If this take on the story gives you a knot in your undies, as they say in Chihuahua, "¡Aguántate!" I.E. Tough beans.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/uganda-receives-first-us-deportation-flight-under-third-country-agreement