Flesh

The Great Unraveling!

Posted on June 27, 2012 by mcalmond

I have been sitting on this for some time now, dependently waiting upon the Lord Jesus Christ, for His release, correction and witness as to the timing of putting this out there, as it were. Today it seems like it is His time to share it. May He then, confirm His Word for His Glory, Honor and Praise and may we His people heed His Word.

As I was in prayer, in the Spirit, I began to see myself in a TV studio being interviewed. There was the interviewer directly in front of me and the studio audience to my left. They were all seated on what looked like bleachers. As the interviewer began to speak with me the Holy Spirit began to acutely draw my attention to someone at the right side of the bleachers and a little behind them. As I responded to the strong prompting of the Holy Spirit, I got up to see who it was that the Holy Spirit was drawing to my attention to. As I approached the end of the bleachers, I saw that someone move behind the bleachers further into the shadows. As I actually got to that end of the bleachers, I looked around to the back of them where I saw a young man standing there, hiding.

I called him out and as he came to me I brought him out and around to the front of the bleachers and the studio audience. He was without shoes and socks. His shirt was dirty and torn as were his pants. He, himself, was also unclean and unkempt.

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Will The Real Church Stand Up?

Posted on November 5, 2011 by mcalmond

There is truly only one universal church. This universal church is, in spirit and in truth, The True Church or The Body of Christ Jesus. It is made up of many and varied members. These members are those found throughout the world in various local church fellowships, missions, organizations and denominations, etc.; a scattering of salt throughout the world. They may not be fully aware of their place strategically within the Body of Christ Jesus, but as genuine believers in Christ Jesus they should be aware that they are indeed a part of the Body of Christ Jesus. It is in so many ways a church without boundaries, for it is a church of the Spirit. For me, this is the bottom line.

Not everyone who says they are a believer is a believer in spirit and in truth. This is also true of the church, not everyone or every church, mission, organization, etc. is actually a genuine part of the Body of Christ Jesus just because they claimed to be. Having said all of this I am aware of a very real danger. This danger is that one would leap into trying to discern that which is the true church and that which isn’t? I am saying that this is a danger in that we are not exactly called to this. We could say as scripture says, that we shall know them by their fruit and this would also be true for the church or churches as it is for individuals or even nations, etc.

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The Great Falling Away

Posted on October 29, 2011 by mcalmond

The Lord Jesus Christ one day while he was teaching asked a vitally important question. This question is almost too easily overlooked because of the way that it came forth. His question arose at the end of his teaching. He was telling a parable of the importance of persevering in faith, in earnest prayer, of how we need to be those who learn the power of and value of our praying through until we have what we are seeking the Lord.  For in Spirit and Truth, He is willing, just and ready to answer our prayers. As the Lord was finished sharing his brief parable, suddenly, almost as a passing thought Jesus says, “Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8 ESV)

Will we as believers persevere in faithful prayer, in genuine faith, while waiting for the Lord’s return? Or will we give up and walk away, throwing in the towel, turning around and no longer walking in the faith, hope and love of the Lord Jesus Christ?

We live in crucial times with rapidly accelerating darkness and sin all around us. We live in a time that all too quickly approaches, what the Word of God refers to as the time of The Rebellion, The Apostasy, The Great Falling Away.

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Let Us Arise, Yet Again!

Posted on October 8, 2011 by mcalmond

There is so very much more than we are experiencing in and of Christ Jesus. There is so very much more of the Kingdom of God than we know or understand. There is so very much more of life in the Spirit than we are living out on a daily basis. There simply is so very much more yet to do and that needs to be done; I for one, long to know, do and experience the more. I also am haunted by what I have known, have accomplished or think I know. I also understand how tempting, as I get older, it is to remain in what I have come to know and experience.

What I mean is, that what I have known, done or think I know of Christ Jesus and the Kingdom of God, seems at times to get in the way of the more. It gets in the way by having captured my attention, my heart and the battles that were for or needed to contend for it has passed. Yesterdays victories become all too easily today’s excuses. As I look forward to the more, this means more battles, contending, more stretching, more dying, more of that which we already and all too often resist in our growing in the Lord Jesus Christ. This looking forward seems to be less and less attractive when I honestly consider the cost of the past. While I know that nothing of what life and ministry has cost us compares to that sacrifice of Christ Jesus, it still, for us remains a very tangible, real and essential counting of the cost. We have given our all so many times, yet the call remains, to surrender our all yet once again.

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Worship Plagiarism Part 2

Posted on May 15, 2011 by mcalmond

The Presence vs. Performance  (By Chris Summers)

One thing that truly amazes me about God is that He desires to use us to fulfill His purposes.  He doesn’t need us.  He could do anything He wants without us.  Yet, He loves us so much that He gives us the opportunity to work with Him, to be used by Him, and to be a conduit through which He can flow.  He does this for OUR benefit, out of His infinite love, so that we may mature and grow in our relationship with Him, and in the reality of Christ IN us, the hope of glory!!

He doesn’t need our worship either.  He has angels that do that all day long.  Worship is for us!  It is a way for us to keep God in His rightful place in our lives, to remember that HE is God, and we are NOT.  And, guess what?!  Worship is also an opportunity to be a conduit through which the Holy Spirit can flow.

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Natural Vs. Spiritual Living

Posted on April 9, 2011 by mcalmond

Why we do what we do, is so very much more important than simply what we do. This is especially true in the service of our Lord Jesus Christ! It isn’t enough, that what we do is simply scriptural, traditional, denominational, or even the product of our personal opinion of how things should be said or done, etc. Why did you do that? Why did you say that? Why are you doing that, saying that, being that, etc? These questions are important and need to be genuinely more about our hearts and motivations than our feeling compelled to justify our actions or simply a calling to explain ourselves.

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The Benefits of Speaking in Tongues, Pt 2

Posted on February 7, 2011 by mcalmond

Getting back to our discussion, in the larger context of the passage, we see that the appropriate use of Tongues corporately is to be with the corresponding gift of Interpretation. If there is no corresponding gift of interpretation then there should be no corporate expression of tongues before the Body. With interpretation you then have that which is equal to prophecy (1 Cor 14:5). Regardless of how you would interpret prophecy, tongues with the corresponding gift of interpretation is equal to prophecy in importance for the edification of the assembly of believers. If you see Prophecy as Preaching God’s Word, then tongues spoken out loud and then followed by interpretation is as Preaching God’s Word. If you see Prophecy as something else, then what you see it as, is equal to Tongues with Interpretation. This all seems very clear to me and yet it is also problematic.

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Holy Spirit Baptism & Godly Character

Posted on February 7, 2011 by mcalmond

In light of my having shared with you our three part series on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and with another series on the Benefits of Speaking in Tongues (Pt One and Two) soon to follow this post, I just felt that I should share with you this post on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the issue of Godly Character right in the middle of them. It has been the severe lack of a Godly Character that has done more harm to the church and its witness of the Lord Jesus Christ in and before the world, than any other weakness we as the people of God have.

I, for one, believe that we need not have to choose between our needing and thus becoming a people of Godly Character and the Holy Spirit anointed power of God. I believe the Lord God Almighty has intended for us both. However, a Godly Character comes more slowly, through the fires of refinement and discipline, healing and deliverance, and a righteous inculcation of the Holy Word of God. It is this reality, this all too often painful process over time and growth in the Lord Jesus Christ, that most seem not to desire nor embrace, let alone seek after. We all too often seek the power without the heart and character of God, to our shame and error. While this is a lengthy post, I pray it is of value to all who take the time to read it with an open heart to the Lord Jesus Christ and what He is saying through us, each and every one.

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Simple, Essential, But Not Always Easy

Posted on February 6, 2011 by mcalmond

From the very beginning, the old paths have always been the same: Listen to the voice of God, Obey the voice of God, walking in all that He commands and there, He will bless us His people. It is so very straight forward and simple. We’re to Listen, Obey, doing the Will, Word and Ways of God and He will be our God and we will be His people, prospering under His righteousness.

Jeremiah 6:16 (NKJV) Thus says the Lord: “Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Exodus 15:26 (NKJV) and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”

Jeremiah 7:23 (NKJV) But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ (cf Jer 11:4.7)

Luke 6:46 (NKJV) “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do the things which I say?

1 John 2:3-6 (NKJV) Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

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“Until Christ is Formed in You!”

Posted on January 7, 2011 by mcalmond

Gal 4:19 my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you! ESV

Most of the Apostle Paul’s letters were written to correct or clarify issues as they arose within the church he had planted and oversaw. We see that the Epistle of Galatians is no exception to this.

When this epistle was written, Paul had not too much earlier left behind in Galatia a young body of believers, young in their understanding and experience of what it meant to be “in Christ Jesus”. A concerted effort from those in Jerusalem, Judaizers, most probably Christ professing Pharisees, was being made to undo the work that Paul had seen accomplished through Christ Jesus in Galatia. They wanted to bind the Galatians to living out their faith according to the Torah/Law. Their hope was to affirm their faith in Christ Jesus but also to call them into obedience unto the Torah, the Law. It was to be a faith in Christ Jesus plus an adherence to the Torah/Law that sealed their salvation in and before God Almighty.

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