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The Remnant

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There is no remnant of God’s people. There is just God’s people! And it makes no difference if those people are Jewish or not! All the other people are either pretending to be God’s people or they are not God’s people.

You are either in the Body of Christ, and are part of the Bride of Christ, or you are not! There is not a remnant of either one! From heaven’s perspective the Body is whole and the Bride is holy!

There is no remnant found in the New Testament post cross of Jesus Christ, other than a remnant of natural Jews who are saved, or will be saved! Here are the only 2 references [NASB] in the New Testament that have the word remnant in them.

Romans 9

“Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that will be saved.”

This is a quote from the prophet Isaiah in chapter 10 verse 22. This was proven true in the 1st century and it is true in every successive century.

It is interesting Paul makes reference to one portion of God’s promise to Abraham which relates to the Jewish people being compared to the “sand of the sea.”  Only a remnant of the Jewish people will receive the gift of eternal life found in Jesus Christ.

Being born Jewish does not give a Jewish person an advantage over a non-Jewish person as it pertains to being in right relationship with God. Jesus said,:

“NO ONE [emphsis mine]  can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him” [John 6:65].

And, “NO ONE [emphasis mine] can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him” [John 6:44].

And, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; NO ONE [emphasis mine] comes to the Father but through Me” [John 14:6].

God remains in charge of who who comes to Him through Jesus! And by the way, Jesus was speaking directly to natural Jews in those 3 statements!

Romans 11

“In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.”

Once again, Paul writes in context of the Jewish people naturally descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who are being saved, are a remnant out of the entire Jewish nation that is of natural descent.

The idea of a remnant comes from the Old Testament where the Jewish people were always  considered God’s people. But only those who had faith in God, who kept the Laws of God by virtue of bringing offerings for sin when expected and how commanded, were called a remnant.

That no longer applies. The reason is because of this one statement: “Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His” [2 Timothy 2:19].

This is a quote of the Septuagint version of Numbers 16:5. Moses said, “The Lord will show those who are His.” This statement was in reference to the rebellion of Korah and his followers. The Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scripture, changed it to, “the Lord knows those who are His” which is the translation Paul used because it was what was meant when it was originally said.

“Having this seal” is a reference to several New Testament Scriptural references that fully explains that the sealed are the saved.

“21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, 22 who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge” [2 Corinthians 1].

“1 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation —having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory” [Ephesians 1].

“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption” [Ephesians 4:30].

If you are not saved you are not sealed and if you are not sealed you are not God’s people!

In conclusion I go back to my opening statements – “There is no remnant of God’s people! There is just God’s people!”

For HIS Glory!

Dr. Kevin M. Drury, DMin

A Hisstorymaker

Creeping Corruption!

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Corruption corrupts and one devastating characteristic of it is that it can creep in unnoticed.

I find it interesting how our President hesitates to call, or never calls Islamic jihadi terrorism terrorism, but jumps to conclusions and asserts himself as knowing what happened and why they happened in non Islamic jihadi events.

Do you remember the beer summit where he jumped to the conclusion a police officer was out of line in arresting his professor friend?

There are many patterns that have emerged in the 7 years of his leadership that are extremely troubling.

He said “I am going to fundamentally transform America” and tons of people cheered thinking his changes were going to be positive. Others cheered because they hate America and its core values and they understood he was going to create chaos which he has done.

As a former athlete I understand the importance of developing good fundamentals and the continuing focus on maintaining good fundaments.

As a minister of the gospel of the kingdom of God I understand the importance of the fundamentals of the [our] faith.

Fundamentals are the basic or core beliefs and ways to do things the correct way. That is why you see things in the New Testament such as:

Jude 1

“3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. 4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”

Jude warns true believers in Christ Jesus about contending for THE FAITH and then describes the faith as the one that was “once and for all handed down to the saints.” Jude then warns how certain persons have crept in unnoticed to undermine God’s grace and turn it into something Jesus nor His apostles ever meant it to be.

In other words Jude was saying that “the faith” and “the grace of our Lord” is susceptible to be perverted by perverted people whose mission in life is to pervert that which is given to liberate people.

Jude describes them so we can recognize them!

 10 But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they  have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. 12 These are the men who are hidden  reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.”

They ~

Are revilers of things they don’t understand – Barack Obama has reviled Christianity and true Christians from the onset of his Presidency, even to the degree of bowing before foreign heads of state. The only head of State or king a true Christian bows to is Jesus Christ the King of kings and Lord of lords.

Are like unreasoning animals destroyed by the things they instinctively know – Barack Obama is a ravenous wolf hell bent on destroying the fabric of our society for his own personal, political and religious gain. But he will not be successful ultimately because he is contending against the true King.

Go the way of Cain – Cain killed his brother when he did not get his way with God. [I have a blog on Cain]

For financial gain rush headlong into the way of Balaam – Balaam was a  false prophet for hire.

Perish in the way of Korah – Attacking God’s true person of authority never ends well in the end.

Are selfish and fearless imposters who join in the love feasts [communion meal]. These imposters are “hidden reefs” that cause the shipwreck of other people’s faith who are not spiritual enough to recognize the danger they pose.

Are clouds without water – They have the appearance of refreshing and providing for the cultivation of people’s productivity but instead they are empty and void of any real help.

Are carried about by winds – They are not anchored to real truth. They are not moved by the Spirit of God. They are moved by “winds” which are unseen forces of destruction. They are not their own person. They have given them selves over to others who rule through them.

Are autumn trees without fruit – They have tons of colorful leaves but there is nothing in them that is of real benefit. They look good and that is all they have to offer.

Are doubly dead – They live but have no real life in them. They gave up the life God gave them and in the end will die an eternal death separated from the God who gave them life and promoted them to places of prominence.

Will be uprooted – Their root [core values] will be exposed when God topples them over.

Are wild waves of the sea – They are tumultuous in their representation of the sea of people they were called to lead and influence in a positive way for God.

Cast up their own shame like foam – They will have no one to blame when they are exposed as frauds because they made the decisions to be shameful in their behavior. Like foam they have no real substance!

Are wandering stars – They are rebellious and wander from the course God designed for them. They left the call of God on their lives to answer the call to self reliance and self indulgence.

Will end up in a very dark place – ‘Black’ means totally obscured and unable to see clearly, a cloud. The reference is that they chose to allow their judgment to be clouded and so their eternal state will be confusion and derision. The word ‘darkness’ literally means the absence of light. Jesus said that He was THE light of the world. When they chose to reject Jesus they chose to live without His light. Their end is complete misery!

These folks according to Jude have been “long beforehand marked out for this condemnation.” I believe our President is one of these people. He came to us as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, claiming to be a Christian yet his beliefs and policies are anti Christian to the core.

I am NOT saying Barack Obama is the anti Christ! I am saying I believe he was marked by God long ago, just as Pharaoh of old was marked and raised up by God so that God’s power could be manifested on behalf of His covenant people.

Barack Obama came to us as a wolf in sheep’s clothing! He discarded his sheep’s clothing rather quickly and for some time the emperor has been naked, revealing his ravenous ways.

The naked truth is President Obama is not a good sheep. And he certainly is not a good shepherd of the sheep.

I believe the people of God are on the precipice of major breakthroughs as God reveals His power, dominion and authority, in and through His real sheep [covenant people].

Psalm 110

A Psalm of David

“1 The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.’ 
2 The Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies! 
3 Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth. 
4 The Lord has sworn And will not relent, ‘You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.’ 
5 The Lord is at Your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath. 
6 He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill the places with dead bodies, He shall execute the heads of many countries. 
7 He shall drink of the brook by the wayside; Therefore He shall lift up the head.”

Jesus, as the good shepherd has begun the execution of kings as He judges among the nations. He is filling the places with dead bodies and He will execute the heads of many countries.

This Psalm is not talking about literally killing leaders or the people they are leading. It is talking about the release of God’s power and authority in the earth through His people which will result in the elimination of ungodly rule through ungodly rulers.

Verse 1

“The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.'”

  • For all of the rapture enthusiasts – Jesus is not coming to rapture [rescue] you off this planet so you will not have to execute your assignment.
  • Jesus is remaining in heaven ’till’ something significant happens and that significant happening is the surrender of God’s enemies to God and the submission of His enemies to God.

Verse 2

“The Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies!”

  • Zion, according to the writer of Hebrews tells us in chapter 12, is the blood bought Church of the living God.
  • The Lord is sending His authority out of His people, the Church, which is made up of people born again through the blood of Jesus. This began on the day of Pentecost in the first century.
  • These people will rule with Him “IN THE MIDST OF HIS ENEMIES.”
  • This means Jesus and His people are ruling right now as He sits in heaven at the right hand of Father God.

Verse 3

“Your people shall be volunteers in the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth.”

  •  God’s people will be so excited about the release of God’s power they will line up to volunteer to be a part of what He is doing in the earth. Right now you can’t depend on God’s people to even show up for a prayer service, or a worship service. BUT a day is coming when there will be so many volunteers leaders won’t know what to do with all of them.

Verse 4

“The Lord has sworn and will not relent, ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.'”

  • God is committed to a new type and level of priesthood that is eternal in nature and rewards victory over God’s enemies.

Verse 5

“The Lord is at Your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.”

  • Jesus is currently at the right hand of the Father and He is presently executing kings in the day [not days] of His wrath.
  • The day of His wrath was in 70A.D. when He came in vengeance to destroy Judaism and Judaism’s leaders. He continues His execution of His plan of world dominance as He set it forth in the Garden of Eden and it will end with the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdom of our God and Christ.

Verse 6

“He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill the places with dead bodies, He shall execute the heads of many countries.”

  • Jesus’ judgment extends out from Jerusalem and Judaism to all of the nations [ethnic groups] and [the] countries [they live in] on the planet.
  • This judgment is judicial in nature and not militaristic. The dead bodies are not literal. They are the bodies of governments that are no longer viable in the affairs of the citizens they were leading.
  • The execution of the head of many countries speaks of the removal of the leaders who do not lead under His leadership [Lordship].

Verse 7

“He shall drink of the brook by the wayside; Therefore He shall lift up the head.”

  • Jesus shall drink by the brook [stream, torrent].
    • This word is related to the word used in the Old Testament where God told His covenant people in the OT to go in and “possess” their inheritance. This possession was the dispossession of everyone and everything that stood on and in the way of them obtaining the inheritance God promised them.
    • In the Old Testament the connotation was physical warfare and the killing or enslaving everyone that stood in the way.
    • In the New Testament our warfare is NOT against human beings, even though our enemy the devil uses human beings as tools through wish he plies his trade [craft and craftiness].
  • To drink means to drink and to give a drink.
    • It also means to irrigate which means to provide life giving nourishment to what you have planted.
    • Irrigate medicinally means to apply a continuous flow of water and or medicine to a wound or organ.
  • Jesus, the Head of the Church, His covenant people, and the Head of the brook, stream, river, torrent of anointing and power will lift up the head [authority of His kings and priests] so that He and they together will complete the mission of transformation of the earth back to God’s original design.
    • The world and worldly people are sick with sin and the only cure is the Cross of Christ Jesus, and the message of forgiveness of iniquity and sin and the healing of physical infirmities that flow out from it.
    • This message under the anointing of the Holy Spirit will bring redemption, reconciliation to God, reconstruction and the revitalization of the people and planet God so loves.

Romans 15

 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, to make the Gentiles obedient — 19 in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

The “fully preaching” of Gods’ gospel is in the POWER of the Holy Spirit with MIGHTY signs and wonders so that the Gentiles [every person not related to God the Father through faith in His Son Jesus Christ]. The end result is obedience to God!!!!!!

By the way, the word for signs and wonders in Hebrew [the language of the Old Testament] is môphêth [pronounced mo-faith].

Come on everybody! Mo-faith produces signs and wonders and signs and wonders produce mo-faith.

Where are God’s volunteers?

Do God’s people not realize we ARE IN THE DAY OF GOD’S POWER?

“You shall receive POWER after the Holy Spirit comes upon [up and on] you.” This is speaking of the believer being immersed [baptized] in the [Person] of the Holy Spirit.

Christian, have you been immersed in the Holy Spirit since you believed in [and received] Jesus Christ as you Lord?

If not, why not?

What are you waiting on?

Volunteer yourself to receive POWER from on high!

Barack Hussein Obama, as the anti shepherd, does not believe in our core, basic values so he works to undermine and weaken them in order to create disorder so his value system can be implemented.

His value system is “divide and conquer” so that more un-godly governmental control can be exerted on the citizenry he is supposed to lead to, and in, their personal freedoms.

His value system is “America and God loving people” are the problem and we need to be put in our place. That is why he has constantly attacks Christianity and our deeply Christian roots as well as blamed America and apologized for America everywhere he goes, especially on foreign soil, and specifically in the Muslim world.

Remember the memo that went out early in his “reign” that the people “we the people” had to be wary of were “Bible thumping Christians, ex military and other people he is afraid of.

Barack Obama crept in under the pretense of “hope and change” flashing his big smile and a lot of people took the bait. Those who did not were viciously maligned as racist and ignorant.

Wake up America!

“If the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do?” [Psalm 11:3]

The first thing they can do is repent for being duped and for allowing the foundations to be destroyed. Many Christians voted Obama into office – two times!

They can humble themselves and pray!

They can seek God’s face [pleasure] and turn from THEIR wicked [twisted] ways!

They can quit blaming others and take personal responsibility for their personal irresponsibilities.

They can view the world from a Biblical perspective and judge what political leaders say and do, and how they vote on critical issues. Then they must vote out all of the liars who make promises they never keep as well as all of those who never intended to defend the Constitution.

Christians should base their vote on the plumb line of Scripture, not their felt needs. They must vote according to Biblical principles such as individual freedom and responsibility as well as life is valuable and children are a gift from the Lord. Therefore a Christian must never vote for a politician that allows for the murder of the unborn.

They can vote for the people who are the closest to those values!

Oath of Office for President of the United States

US Constitution, Article II, Section 1

Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Somehow and somewhere in our nation’s past this oath to defend our Constitution has been reduced to “Defend the Homeland.” I know this did not start with Barack Obama. It may have started with George W. Bush after 9/11’s attacks on our “homeland”.

Look, I am all for defending our Homeland but not at the expense of our Constitution. Our Constitution continues to be cast aside so that the Government can “keep us safe”. The Government is diverting our attention away from their abuse of our liberties as they work feverishly to remove them all in the name of “security”.

Until God’s covenant people wake up, rise up to their rightful place of responsibility and begin exercising the authority they have been given our country will continue to go down the wrong path because we will be led by people who think we ARE the problem.

We are not THE problem! We are THEIR problem!

Wake up America!

Wake up Christian!

Wake up American Christian!

Rid yourself of all creeping corruption. Return to the principles of THE FAITH which Jesus authored, handed off to His hand picked successors, who then found faithful people to carry His torch on down to our generation.

Will you be one of His torch bearers? If so, let’s go!

There is a dark world that needs your light [life]!

Dr. Kevin M. Drury

One of HIS Hisstorymakers!

Mistreatment From Misdiagnosis

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This is a follow up blog to my last one titled, The Shemitah, Blood Moons, The Pope And The Real People Of God. Since I wrote and published that blog “the windows of heaven were opened” and the State and people of South Carolina were introduced to challenges to their well-being that have not been seen in their State since the 1800’s. It has been reported that they [the citizens in the 1800’s] were inundated with large amounts of rain in a very short period of time. So, instead of a 1000 year event, as Governor Nikki Haley pronounced, it is really more like a 100 – 200 year event.

Back then there was not the amount of people, structures or infrastructure to be confronted with the severity of the situation!

I titled this blog Mistreatment From Misdiagnosis because there are those who want to believe that God Himself is responsible for this horrendous “heavenly” release of devastation. When doctors misdiagnose one of their patient’s problems they can prescribe a “cure” that produces the wrong prognosis.

Prognosis comes from two words that means, “to know before.” When what we “know before” is not what really is then the results can be disastrous. That is what is happening when people who say they know what God is up to, attribute what is happening in the world to Him, when He is not the source of the current events.

Their error is in what they believe they already know. These false prognosticators read into the Scripture current events instead of allowing Scripture to interpret Scripture. When Scripture is allowed to interpret Scripture we will discover that a lot of what is “supposed to happen” has already happened.

Let’s take a look at some very important truths that are hidden in plain sight. Those who have not already made up their mind as to the real culprit in this catastrophic circumstance will be presented with an very different picture of who is to blame for the plight of the people.

Psalm 24:1

“The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it. The world and all who dwell in it.”

The earth has always been, and will always be the Lords. One of the first mistreatments of Scripture is the belief that when Adam and Eve sinned against God they gave the serpent [devil] the title deed to the planet. They did not give him the title to the planet. They gave him their right to rule as ambassadors for God.

Matthew 5:5

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”

Jesus unequivocally states in the Beatitudes that God has reserved the earth as part of His children’s inheritance.

Matthew 5:43-48

The Shemitah, Blood Moons, The Pope And The Real People Of God! – UPDATED

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The Shemitah came and went. The last Blood Moon faded back to its normal color. The Pope came to America, left, and the antichrist and his false prophet are still unknown. The world is still spinning on its axis! America is still the greatest natural nation on the earth [the Church is the greatest Nation – a Holy Nation with citizens whose citizenship is in heaven]. Our economy, though not great, has not collapsed.

By the way, there will be those who will take great offense to this blog post. Some will label me with names such at antisemitic or anti catholic Church. I am not antisemitic nor anti catholic Church, but I am proudly anti Shemitah nonsense [I am pro Savior of the world], and I am anti blood moon [I am pro blood of Christ], and I am anti Pope as the Holy Father [My Holy Father is my heavenly Father, who is the God and Father of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Father of glory].

I believe the Church Jesus is building is catholic, as in universal and eternal. The real Church is made up of the members who have surrendered their lives to the Lordship of Jesus the Christ, the only begotten of the Father. The real Church is local, regional, global and eternal. The leader of the real Church is the Lord Jesus Christ!

Some entrepreneur should make and market shirts and other memorabilia that says:
“I survived The Shemitah!”
“I was not blinded by the Blood Moon!”
And, “The Pope Is Not My Poppa!”

The Pope, God bless him, I mean that literally and sincerely because I have to wonder if the man is born again or has just been able to ascend to a position of power in a pseudo religious organization.

I mean, isn’t he supposed to be THE representative of Christianity on the planet?

With all of the tremendous opportunities while in America to preach the gospel of the kingdom to the whole world – the gospel with the Cross of Christ at the center – repentance from a sinful life and faith toward God – and he repeatedly swung and missed. As expected, he gave more credence to Mary than to Jesus and to the temporary social ideals of a social gospel instead of dealing with the real issues plaguing mankind – separation from the Creator by sinning against Him, and refusing to repent and receive His only Son.

You would think Mary is the Savior of all mankind and the only Mediator between God and man. Maybe she is to the Pope, and to all of the people who place their eternal well-being in the hands of the wrong Father.

I have been sitting on this post for months now. I thought about posting it when I first started writing it because I was convinced nothing was going to happen. I am so grateful I quit listening to these nuts after the 88 Reasons Why Jesus Will Return in 1988 diabolical debacle, and after the hysteria of Y2K, and became like the Bereans, who were more noble than the Thessalonians. Their nobility was in searching the Scriptures themselves to make sure what they were being taught was true, was really true.

The reason people can continue to promote and profit from such propaganda is because of the nonsensical people who buy into it. There are way too many intellectually lazy “believers”.

I am encouraging people to ask for refunds for any and everything they bought. It was a waste of hard earned money!

I decided I would post this after the “dust [flesh]” settled so we can get back into the Spirit.

The false prognosticators have already started their “explanation” of how they never said for sure if anything devastating would happen. I mean, any one of the “special signs” should have released the fury of God on a disobedient and disappointing world. But when you combine the Shemitah, four blood moons AND the Pope, now that is a recipe for disaster for sure.

Isn’t it?

Was It?

I have one question for them then – Why write the books, preach the sermons, go on TV shows, and all of the other things you did to promote your “belief” that “something bad” “could happen” because God works according to specific ways that have to do with Jewish “prophetic” indicators like cycles of years, Feasts and other false claims?

Colossians 2:16-23 – “So let no one judge you in food or in drink [Jewish dietary laws], or regarding a festival [Jewish feasts] or a new moon or sabbaths [Jewish holy days], which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God. Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations — ‘Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,’ which all concern things which perish with the using — according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.”

Is your position – “If I keep throwing crap against a wall eventually something will stick.” Meaning, “If I keep spewing nonsense eventually something I say might actually happen.” You cannot have it both ways by stating now that you never said for sure something bad would happen, then wait hoping something happens so you can say, I told you all that it “could” happen.

And please do not insult our intelligence by claiming as the Y2K false prophets did, that the prayers of the saints averted the disaster. I mean, do we really believe prayer changed the computer codes that they said would cause mayhem. And do we now believe our prayers stopped God from using “His method of dealing with man”.

Have you never read this? “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God.” [1 Corinthians 4:5]

Or, “And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment.” [Hebrews 9:27]

Or, “But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner–not even to eat with such a person. For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside God judges.” [1 Corinthians 5:11-13a]

The context in this text is a “believer” in the Corinthian church was sinning sexually and the leadership was not “judging” the situation or the saint. Paul, as the apostolic father and founder of the church, stepped in to deal with the devilish dilemma.

Paul, as genuine fathers must do at times, intervened with God’s wisdom. He expands the internal handling [judging] of the situation and saint from just those who sin sexually to include those “believers” who are covetous [desiring what belongs to someone else], and idolater [someone whose affection is on something or someone other than God], a reviler [someone with a critical spirit], a drunkard [a person who is habitually drunk – by the way – it can include drunk on worldly things not just alcohol], or an extortioner [swindler].

Paul says we are not to keep company with, nor even eat a meal with, such people. He is talking about people who attend our churches who present themselves as Christians but are there for ulterior motives. He goes on to say not to judge those outside of the church for God will do that.

There are more texts that could be used but let’s see if the Berean believers will come out of the shadows of being shallow sheep who are led about in ignorance and do some searching of Scripture themselves.

Please stop with all of the “God is going to get cha” messages. “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of.”

I know, I know! You feel you are called by God to warn the world of how mad God is and that He is not going to take it anymore.

I am waiting for a real, valid explanation! I do know this for sure – there is a lot of money in peddling “potential” problems. To be fair, there is also tons of money to be made by peddling a gospel of grace where neither God nor godly leaders or godly people ever confront the messes the members make.

You know what I mean, “The can’t we all just get along and have fun crowd of Christians.” Read the entire New Testament again without a personal agenda and without preconceived ideas of what was happening and how the leaders handled what was happening. You will see how Christ, personally and through godly delegated authorities managed the membership and the messes they made.

I wonder how many of the present prognosticators of God’s punishment on America will publicly repent and refund immediately all of the money they made off of their putrid predictions of “potential” major problems that are supposed to be God’s wake up calls to us.

The chance of that happening is the same as hell freezing over. Or better yet, that Jesus will return before you finish reading this blog. If you finish this blog before He comes then the “imminent return” is not so imminent, is it! Oops, that is another theological train wreck that has wrecked havoc on the integrity of Christ and His people.

This reminds me of the global warming preachers who just keep changing their vocabulary and predictions. There is never repentance! “Well, it is warming now.” So when the warming stops and the cooling starts it is now called, “Climate change.” The climate has always been changing. Could it be that God is confused there too?

Or the “predictors” of fires and earthquakes in California and hurricanes on the Gulf and East Coasts of America!

For the sake of integrity I hope every one of them will man up and admit they really do not know what God is doing because they keep tying God’s activity in the earth to the bankrupt religious system [Judaism] and people group [unsaved Jewish people] who have yet to repent for their “hand” in the death of the Savior of the world.

  • Matthew 20:17-19 NASB – “As Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them, ‘Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death, and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.'”
  • Acts 2:36-39 NKJV – “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, ‘Men and brethren, what shall we do?’ Then Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ [the One you are responsible for killing] for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you [who are personally responsible] and to your children [on whom you said, “May His blood be upon us and our children”], and to all who are afar off [Jew and Gentile alike all over the world from that day forward], as many as the Lord our God will call.'”

But the Christians who point out the obvious are constantly called on to repent for being antisemitic. This keeps the ones who are really responsible from ever taking personal responsibility which means they never really or fully repent and can never really and fully be reconciled to the God they offended.

John 19:11 – “Jesus answered [Pilate], ‘You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one [house of Israel per Peter in Acts 2:36] who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.'”

Who are the real Jews and who are the real Gentiles [heathens]?

“For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.” [Romans 2:28,29]

and

“But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, ‘In Isaac your seed shall be called.’ That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.” [Romans 9:6-8]

or

“He came to His own [the Jewish people], and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him [Jewish and non Jewish people], to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” [John 1:11-13]

and

“‘Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you [the Jewish nation] and given to a nation [born again saints] bearing the fruits of it. And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.’  Now when the chief priests and Pharisees [Jewish religious leaders] heard His parables, they perceived that He was speaking of them. But when they sought to lay hands on [kill] Him, they feared the multitudes, because they took Him for a prophet.” [Matthew 21:43-46]

and finally

“As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.” [Galatians 6:12-16]

People – Israel according to the flesh is NOT God’s prophetic time clock! They cannot be because they are NOT God’s people!

Are you aware that God never said, “I will bless those who bless Israel, and I will curse those who curse Israel?” What God said He said to Abram before he was converted to Abraham. “I will bless those who bless you [Abram], and I will curse those who curse you [Abram].” [Genesis 12:3]

Look at exactly what God said to Abram in verses 1-3:

“Now the Lord had said to Abram: ‘Get out of your country [heathen culture], from your [heathen] family and from your father’s house [the place of heathen authority], to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'”

Where in any of that do you find a natural people called Israel? And do you find that Abraham’s blessing was only for the Jewish people?

Abraham is the father of the faith [in Christ] and the faithful [those who are born again and are faithful to and in Christ].

Jesus cleared this up in John chapter 8 when He differentiated between those who were according to the flesh descendants of Abraham and those who were the spiritual descendants of Abraham. Go back and read that confrontation and see where the truth will take you!

I am including this again at the end of this post even though I placed it near the beginning, for emphasis. There will be those who will take great offense to this blog post. Some will label me with names such at antisemitic or anti catholic Church. I am not antisemitic nor anti catholic Church but I am proudly anti Shemitah [I am pro Savior of the world], and I am anti blood moon [I am pro blood of Christ], and I am anti Pope as the Holy Father [My Holy Father is my heavenly Father, who is the God and Father of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Father of glory].

I believe the Church Jesus is building is catholic, as in universal and eternal. The real Church is made up of the members who have surrendered their lives to the Lordship of Jesus the Christ, the only begotten of the Father. The real Church is local, regional, global and eternal. The leader of the real Church is the Lord Jesus Christ! The real Church is made up of believers who are now in heaven and those who presently are on earth.

By the way, Jesus is also the Lord of the kingdom [nation] of God! And only those who belong to Him through their faith in Him are citizens of that kingdom.”There is one God and one Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus.” [1 Timothy 2:5] This means Mary is not the person you should be looking to, to get right and stay right with God.

Are you really good with God?

Have you met God’s Mediator?

Have you surrendered your life to God’s Son?

If not, why not? It isn’t too late!

I have included enough Scripture in this blog to help you find God and place your faith in God. Now it is your move!

Next, become like the Bereans in Acts 17, and start searching the Scripture yourself to make sure what someone tells you is true is really true. That way you will not be blind people being led into a ditch by blind leaders.

In conclusion, Jesus is not the Savior of the Jewish people. He is the Savior of all mankind, especially of those who believe [in Him] [1 Timothy 4:10].

Jesus did come as a Jewish Man but look at what Paul the apostle [a Jewish believer] says concerning Jesus’ Jewishness. “Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.” [2 Corinthians 5:16]

When He comes again He will not come as a Jewish Man. He will come as the glorified Son of Man!

By the way, I hope you noticed that the 1st century’s most influential Jewish believers [Jesus, Peter, and Paul] placed the onus on the Jewish people. Are they antisemitic too? I pray often for the Jewish people to repent like they did in Acts 2. I pray first though that they will be confronted with God’s truth and have their hearts pierced so that they can repent, believe and be baptized in the name of the One they had crucified.

It is time we stopped the flesh and got into and remained in the Spirit!

For HIS Glory!
Dr. Kevin M. Drury
His Hisstorymaker

False Ministers

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False ministers ~

Jesus said to be aware of them not to be afraid of them!

~ Matthew 7 ~

15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 “You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17 “So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 “A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 “So then, you will know them by their fruits.

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles ?’ 23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

In this text Jesus, the Head of THE church said, “It is possible for illegitimate ministers to get legitimate results from their illegitimate ministry.”

You need to know that God can honor work done in His Son’s name without honoring the one who does that work!

There IS power in the name of Jesus!

They “appear” to be in the Kingdom, to represent the King of the Kingdom, and even to be advancing the Kingdom. In reality, they are not, nor ever will be in the Kingdom. Nor do they represent the King of the Kingdom!

~~~ They are advancing their own kingdom ~~~

He goes on to say, “You will know them by their fruits.”

THIS IS IMPORTANT!

Fruit here is not the supernatural results of their ministry!

It is the fruit of their character. Do they submit to real authority? Do they remain in healthy environments and relate to healthy [not perfect] leaders? Do they find fault easily?

This fruit Jesus said to inspect is not the supernatural activity in His name. It is the fruit of the Holy Spirit, or actually, the absence of the fruit of the Spirit.

These false ministers masquerade as sheep but are actually ravenous wolves.

A ravenous wolf is interested only in themselves. They “appear” to be beneficial to the sheep but their motives are impure and their agenda is self-centered.

They are devouring in their divisiveness. Outwardly they have the lingo of the Kingdom. Even to the point of being authentic! Inwardly, their reality is virtual, not real. Imagined, not substantive.

These ravenous wolves syphon off resources from legitimate ministries.

They are after resources, not the heart of God! The relationships they develop with Kingdom people and leaders are for the purpose of gaining access to the resources of the Kingdom!

They are greedy and cowardly!

These resources can be finances and or people. They are hungry for acceptance and support, both with money and people’s adulation. And they will do whatever they need to do to get both. They are not interested in what is best for the community of believers.

They are interested in what is best for themselves! “Buyer BEWARE!”

They have the “look at me” syndrome. They are typically self promoters or they align themselves with people who will promote them because of their gifts and charisma, not their character.

They migrate to weak people and weak leaders. They do not handle loving confrontation well. They “hear the Lord say”, ‘It’s time for you to move on because these people do not really love you, nor are they truly for you.’

“I’m led of the Lord” is their mantra but in their wake is usually many casualties of their self-centered lifestyle. They cannot stay in one place very long and they typically leave multiple places in controversy or conflict.

It does not matter what environment they are in. It is always the environment’s fault. They never realize they are the only common denominator in all of those environments, until they are confronted with that truth. Then they move on to another unsuspecting place with unsuspecting people.

These wolves can keep on operating because in our modern, post-modern, contemporary and relevant Christianity the leaders and people in the “next stop” never investigate why they left the previous stops.

Where are the true shepherds who will protect the sheep?

Unfortunately, it is not just the Catholic Church who allows predators to roam freely within their ranks. It is denominational and non-denominational Christianity as well.

Listen to the words of the Lord, the Good Shepherd, as He shuts the door in their face saying, “I never knew you; Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.”

“Practice lawlessness?” I thought they practiced righteousness. They prophesied in Jesus’ name! They performed miracles in Jesus’ name! They even cast out demons in Jesus’ name! What on earth does Jesus mean?

Their lifestyle is lawless. In other words, they are law breakers. I do not believe Jesus is talking only about the 10 Commandments. I believe He is also talking about violating the established culture set up by legitimate God-ordained authorities. “The law” does NOT apply to them! They do what they want!

If you listen closely these false ministers, these ravenous wolves, will give themselves away with their own words. At some point you will hear them say something to the effect of, “Part of my call is to ‘push the envelope’ or ‘stretch the limits’ of the culture.

If they “feel” safe in their deception they may even say things like, “I know those in authority want us to do it this way but I . . . . .” They then go on to tell you how they are going to do it, or how it ought to be done, how it could be done better, and how they would do it IF they were “IN CHARGE.”

Finally, Jesus says to these wolves, “Depart from Me!”

Holiness is being separated unto the Lord. Here the Lord is saying, “Separate yourself away from Me!” Or, “I do NOT want you around Me.”

This is proof positive they and their work is UNholy!

This is important because He will NEVER separate Himself from legitimate ministers and ministry. To those who use Him for selfish gain He says, “Remove yourself from Me.”

And He says, “I NEVER knew you!”

These wolves constantly promoted themselves as knowing the Lord. They had no qualms in using His name for self-centered purposes. But the Day will come when their gig will be up and they will be exposed for the frauds they truly are.

I NEVER! Not once! Not at all!

KNEW! You and I were never intimate! We were never connected in the Spirit.

YOU! I don’t recognize you, the real you. You are not the same person I created or called!

You are the person you created and called. You are the person who used Me, used My name, used My people, used My resources and used My legitimate authorities.

Now, who are you?

Keep THE Faith! Keep THE Passion!

Our hunger and thirst for God escorts us into deep satisfaction in God!

Dr. Kevin M. Drury, DMin
A Hisstorymaker!