"Too Much Glory To Gripe!"

 

 

You're a Redneck if:

 

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You think that potted meat on a saltine is an hors d'ouvre.

There is a stuffed possum anywhere in your house.

You hammer bottle caps into the frame of your front door to make it look nice.

 

 

Your wife can climb a tree faster than your cat.

Your momma has "ammo" on her Christmas list.

Your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.

 

 

Your soap on a rope doubles as an air freshener.

Your wife's hairdo attracts bees.

 

The antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.

 

 

You pick your teeth from a catalog.

You prefer car keys to Q-tips.

Your richest relative buys a new house and you have to help take the wheels off it.

 

 

In an effort to watch your cholesterol, you eat Spam Lite.

 

Someone asks to see your ID and you show them your belt buckle.

 

You fish in your above-ground pool. . . and catch something.

 

 

 

On your first date you had to ask your Dad to borrow the keys to the tractor.

Your parakeet knows the phrase "Open up, Police!"

 

In tough situations you ask yourself, "What would Curly do?"

 

 

Taking your wife on a cruise means circling the Dairy Queen.

 

A full-grown ostrich has fewer feathers than your cowboy hat.

 

You think Old Yeller is a movie about your brother's tooth.

 

 

Your wife keeps a can of Vienna sausage in her purse.

 

Motel 6 turns off the lights when they see you coming.

 

Your wife has ever torn her hose on the boogers stuck under the front of the pickup seat.

 

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Hey, Smile, it's Friday!

 

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Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(He's spreading Joy all over the world)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Services Sunday 10:30 am and Wednesday 7:15 pm

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"Here I Am To Worship"

 

 

Here I am to worship, O Lord; Your love ever

beckons me to dance

To show forth my praise, my joy, my adoration,

to please You perchance

You are the lover of my soul, the lifter of my head,

and peace everlasting

To You I give my life, in consecration of holy

prayer, and fasting

No other holds my thoughts, and draws my song like

You, O Lord, and King

You're my light in the darkness, my lilt of soul;

You are my everything

O God, Your name is the flame upon my lips, and

the quiver of my spirit

When You speak through me in tongues of fire,

so strong that all can hear it

Lord Jesus, You are my love, my strength, and the

power that keeps me going

Through Your Word and Your whispers coming down,

like gentle rivers flowing

O, the desert gets so hot, and my thirst becomes

an arid intense desire

Then, You bathe me in Your presence, and I feel 

rejuvination and the fire

It's upon the altar of my soul, that visionary place of

destiny, and resplendence

It's the place in You that I crave, the stance in my 

beloved, of utter dependence

Come Lord Jesus, Maranatha I pray, with a heart

of ethereal desperation

I sit at Your feet, caress Your love, and look for the 

day of no more separation

Pour out Your Spirit, O Lord, upon all flesh, and 

fill Your "dust" with glory

Bring the fulfillment of all things, a thousand years

of peace, and the end of the story

Dear Lord, I feel Your coming, Your Rapture, and 

the supper after the courtship

That's the reason why I'll not let You go; I'll praise

You forever, and "Here I Am To Worship."

(Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.)

 

Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(He takes the Lily to the world)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Services Sunday 10:30 am and Wednesday 7:15 pm

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"By The Light Of The Moon"

 

 

"And God made two great lights; the greater

light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night:

 [he made] the stars also."

(Genesis 1:16)



The moon is a symbol of the Church; it's very fitting that a full moon walks hand in hand with Calvary.  The gospel of Jesus Christ is His birth, death, burial, and resurrection, and this is the message of the Church. 

 

 



"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world

 for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."

(Matthew 24:14) 

 

 

Ah, the light of the moon  ...  The Church shall shine bright as the noonday sun, but she shall glow with the light of the full moon in the night season, and all will know  ........  "Know what?" you ask.  All will know what Calvary, and the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ, was all about.  The Church brings the message so that You will glow, I will glow, we all will glow with the full knowledge of Christ and His suffering, Christ and His death, Christ and His resurrection, Christ and His catching away of His Church, Christ and His coming again  ...

"Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the

world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he

hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead."

(Acts 17:31)

 

The Lord Jesus Christ was raised from the dead to first redeem the world, take away the sins of the world by shedding His blood for the world, and second, to judge the world.  Are we in the end times?  Have we reached the "appointed day?"  Does Jesus Christ have the right to judge the world?  yes, Yes, YES!  Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, created the world, and He has a right to judge the world. 

 

 

"What does the light of the moon have to do with all of this?" you ask.  O, weary, war-torn, precious one  ...  a look at the headlines, a look at Israel, a study of the Holy Bible, an assessment of prophecies fulfilled, an unction of the Spirit, an urgency of the times, a rising of people proclaiming to be Messiah, an increase in earthquakes and sin, a move to squelch the freedoms of Christianity  ...  should we go on?  It's all around us, the time is now to get right before a Holy God; the time is now to receive the Holy Ghost and speak with tongues as His Spirit gives the utterance; the time is now to be baptized in the lovely name of Jesus Christ  ... the time is NOW!

 

 

"But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did:

"Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words

 to the ends of the world."

(Romans 10:18)

 

 

Why the Church?  ~To give the world a Savior ~ To give the world the Bible ~ To keep the world from moral decay.  That's why she must be a light to the world, and the "moonlight" when it is 'night.'  Are we in a nighttime of our existence?  For some, it is very dark in their lives, no job, bad health, marriage on the rocks, teens out of control, investments lost because of the economy, gas prices through the roof, terrorist threats, nuclear war looming, nations against nations, civil wars popping up, and when these things affect some of us, they affect all of us.  Huh?  The dominoe effect is in place, because it's really a small world after all  ...

 

 

"...All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing,

just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it

 and understood God's grace in all its truth."

(Colossians 1:6)

 

The gospel spread like wildfire when the first Church began in the Book of Acts and it is still moving and spreading like a consuming fire all over the world.  Why?  Because the Lord Jesus Christ is the only hope for a world on a fast track to Armageddon.  What?  The world WILL be judged; every man, woman, and child, will stand before the Creator one day  ...   "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" (Hebrews 9:27)  We must make our calling and election sure; we must know that we know that we are right in the face of God, and that we have applied the blood Jesus Christ shed for us by obeying the Word and heeding the gospel.  (See Acts 2, Acts 8, Acts 10, Acts 19)

"Since you have kept my command to endure patiently,

I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to

come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth."

(Revelation 3:10)

 

The Lord God is a jealous God.  He, alone, is God, and He, alone, must be revered and worshipped.  There is only One gospel; there is only One Lord, One faith, One baptism (Ephesians 4:5); When we obey Him and give Him our all, our hearts, souls, minds, bodies and spirits through the gospel and salvation message; we can expect to "escape" the judgment that will come upon the earth in the Tribulation period.  "Escape?"  you ask.  

The Rapture of the Church

(I Thessalonians 4:16-17)

The Church will be taken out; we will rise to meet the Lord in the air, before judgment falls on the earth.  That's why we must "move to the light;" that's why the Moon and Calvary have a connection; that's why when we sit in darkness, the Lord has provided the "moon," the Church to guide our way.  

The Lord Jesus Christ rose to give us newness of life, salvation, a hope and a future.  This is the mandate for the Church, the moon, the reflection of the Son, to GO into all the world and preach the gospel to all creatures.  It's time for us to arise:

 

"Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise;

when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me."

(Micah 7:8)



 

(Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.)

 

Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(He's taking the "Moon" to the world)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Services Sunday 10:30 am and Wednesday 7:15 pm

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"Patmos Package"

“I John, who also am your brother, and companion

in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ,

was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God

and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit

on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a

trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and

the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send

 it unto the seven churches which are in Asia ." 

(Revelation 1:9-11) 

John on the Isle of Patmos

The "Latin Gate" in Rome is said to be the exact place where the Apostle John was plunged into a cauldron of boiling oil.  There arose a Roman Emperor named Domitian, who witnessed the rapid spread of Christianity and the message of the coming King; this enraged him because he set himself up as God; therefore he initiated the second persecution of Christians by slaughtering church leaders, relatives of Christ, nephews of Jude, and others.  Learning about John living in Ephesus, he apprehended him and attempted to execute him.  After being boiled in oil, John was banished to the Isle of Patmos.  Why? It was for preaching, teaching and giving testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ.  It was, for this writing, a "Patmos Package."

The Isle of Patmos was a sterile island 30 miles in circumference, in the Aegean Sea, South West of Samos and 45 miles West of Miletus.  Patmos means "my killing."  The Emperor thought this would be the end of John.  But, it was really the "beginning" of John!  "Why do you say that?" you ask.  It was the appointed time and place for God and man to come together for destiny, for revelation, for vision, for the purpose of prophetic insight for generations to come.  It was a "package deal," God and man  ...  man can't do anything without God, and God won't do anything without man  ...

John was sent to Patmos to get him out of the way, but God loves "out of the way" places  ...  like deserts, brooks, wildernesses, caves, mountains  ...  He loves to get us alone in these places, so that the "package" will be complete.  Huh?  God and man, together, as one, no interruptions, no outside influence, no other words coming through, but the Words of Almighty God!  John yielded to this opportunity, because he said, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day."  Ah, John  ...  boiling you in oil didn't kill you, banishing you to a lonely island didn't get you down, trying to eliminate you didn't quench you  ...  you were "in the Spirit" and that's just where God wanted you!

Without "the package;" the package of God and man, we would not know the coming events; we would not know the requirements of the Church; we would not know from what we must escape by being redeemed and saved  ...  repentance, infilling of the Holy Ghost, and baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  God needed John, just as He needs you and me.  We are his hands, feet, voice, and ambassadors in the earth today.  Almighty God longs to "illuminate" His Word, and to reveal to us His secrets.  Why?  To prepare us, inform us, move us, enlighten us, so that "we," His own, can be in on His plans, and prepare as many as we can, of His plans.  He takes a lot of us to "Patmos," to desert places, through wilderness experiences, to places by a brook  ... to the mountain top  ...  Why?  To receive  ... 

It's all about God getting His creation alone with Him, so He can talk to us, birth in us, give us vision, reveal destiny, pour from the Creator into the created, get our minds solely on Him, to give us the greatest song ever written, to pen through us the most profound book ever read (other than the Holy Bible), to produce through us the most moving of films, and to create in us a base for His omnipotent Glory  ... that happens to God and man, alone together; it's called a "Patmos Package." 

(Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.)

 

Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(He is "in the Spirit" every day)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Services Sunday 10:30 am and Wednesday 7:15 pm

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