For Christians Only!

“Come Reason”
Newsletter of Denise Smith
Volume no. 605-01
June 28, 2005

FOR CHRISTIANS ONLY!!

HARD CORE!! HARD CORE!! HARD CORE!! HARD CORE!! HARD CORE!!
WARNING!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!!!

Now that I have your attention, I am going to share with you what God has directed me to say, and remind you to ASK GOD! HEAR HIM!

It is time to put up or SHUT UP! I am speaking to everyone that says they are a “Christian”. Who wants to tell everyone about a personal relationship with Jesus, how much of a sinner in need of a Savior everyone is, and yet have no more regard for the words of Jesus and the word of God than a hill of beans! It is time to either know what you say is from God, and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, or stop telling anyone that you’re a “christian” or that you believe in Christ!

In fact, everyone is put on notice right now! God is going to use the resources He has to see that each of you are confronted with your hypocrisy and will make public you’re taking of His Son’s Name in Vain!! God said as He sent Nathan to point the finger at King David, saying “you are the one”, Moses to tear down the idols in the desert, as well as Jesus to stand in the face of the religious of His day and say “ye hypocrites, ye brood of vipers”.. likewise He has sent me!

What do I mean by this?? Am I making a threat? NO, it’s a promise and one that God has spoken that I am to do. I will no longer sit idly by while people saying the bible is the word of God, asks me to give them “book, chapter, & verse”! Especially when quoting the very words of their Christ, the son of the Living God, and the one that covered you with HIS BLOOD! If you’re willing to believe, accept, and mandate that others know Jesus, then surely you should know what He said and be willing to do it no matter what anyone says or thinks! Jesus said, “if you are ashamed of me before men, I will be ashamed of you before my Father”! Listen up!!

“Christians” confront me and tell me that I’ve lost my mind because I refuse to pray in public. Why? Jesus said specifically to HIS DISCIPLES, “when thou prayest..”that they were to go to their closets and pray to the Father in secret! Yes, I know that He referred to the hypocrites and many of you have said that you can pray in public as long as you don’t do it to get the credit for it… but listen to me closely.. take a good hard look… if the bible is the word of God.. Jesus is the SON OF GOD.. and you say you believe it, then why are you praying ANY PLACE other than where the VERY SON OF GOD told the disciples to? Are you not disciples of CHRIST? Are you not followers of Christ and HIS TEACHINGS?? If you love Him, you would do as He said..wouldn’t you??? Then in case you haven’t read the verse totally, look at where Jesus said the hypocrites were…. “for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.”! They are standing in the churches, and in the corners of the streets, being seen of men! Jesus’ instructions were clear! Read Them! Mat 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Then some of you say we’ve lost our minds because we’ve sold all that we have, given to the poor, and spent these past years doing all that we could to help make life better for others… going where ever God directs us and doing whatever God tells us. Why? Isn’t that what Jesus said to do? Did Jesus instruct the disciples to join a church, gather up possessions, and think about only what benefits them?? No.. His instruction was to “go ye into all nations”..”teaching them to observe whatsoever I have commanded ye”.

Jesus’ words to those disciples were not options.. they were direct commandments..and He went further to say that those that love Him will obey His commandments!!! Yes, Jesus did tell the rich young ruler, to “sell all that you have, give to the poor, and come follow me” but He also taught the disciples and others in parables about the “kingdom of God being likened unto”… and that those that found it “sold all they had” and bought or went about to use all they had to “get it”! So, why is it that when people professing to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, our ensample, encounter those that have done just what Jesus said… you tell them they are nuts…. or that what they are doing is not “of God”!!

Then we find Jesus saying to the disciples… “if ye have the faith of a mustard seed”… and “these are the signs that SHALL FOLLOW THOSE THAT BELIEVE”.. and the list goes on! So why is it that it’s not happening? Why are those with the smallest of faith not out there healing the sick, raising the dead, make the lame to walk, the blind to see? Why aren’t you moving those mountains that you’re always talking about being in your way or in the way of getting the “will of God” done on earth as it is in heaven? Whose responsible for the condition of the world?? Didn’t Jesus said to His disciples… “whatever you ask in my Name shall be done of you by my Father in heaven”.. where are the believers in Jesus on that point?? What is wrong.. are you too afraid to ask God for something in Jesus’ name because you’re afraid it won’t happen and people will laugh at you or make fun of you because it didn’t work? Was that the criteria that Jesus gave His disciples?? Does it matter what men think of you! Are you here as the pleasers of men, or to honor God and the Christ He sent, by following the instructions given by HIM???

Then I have to ask, because some of you will surely be saying at this point that I’ve taken these verses out of context, or they aren’t for today…so let me ask you this! If that is the case, then tell me how it is that you can put any faith and trust in the verses which speak of salvation, resurrection, a second coming, or eternal life if none of the other things that Jesus taught and instructed are for today? Either Jesus said those words, and they are Truth, or they aren’t… and if you can’t believe some of them, or they are not for today, then surely none of them are for today… Right??

I’ve stood along the bedside of people who believed in God, believed what Jesus said and rejected all medical intervention to save their lives knowing that if it was God’s will for them to live that no one.. nothing would have the power over their God!! Some died.. yes.. and some didn’t.. but the ones that died knew what they believed and didn’t care what anyone else thought. That’s the same faith that Jesus was the ensample of!! Willing that His own life be given rather than turn from what He knew God said!! Where is that example today??

Some of you are so wrapped up in your own life that you forget that your ensample..the one that you’re here to worship and try to introduce others to gave HIS LIFE.. not just the words of His mouth to benefit all mankind!! He died a horrible death on a cross.. that all of you want to embrace as the tool of your salvation, and then what… not do the same? Do you need to go out and buy a cross and get some governmental official to nail you to it.. NO!! But you do need to realize that there is more to being a “christian” than church membership, and making some statements of faith to ease your guilt ridden conscious in front of other people who have told you that you’re a sinner in the first place!! There is a life that must be lived, and it must be for the benefit of all mankind!! It is time to, as they say.. “to put up or SHUT UP!”

Is this hard-core.. yes it is! Do I make any apologies for it… No I do not!! I am delivering to you the word of God! If you are not sure, and you don’t recognize what I’m saying here as being found in your bible.. then you should be asking GOD about that now… because your bible is where the Living God documented by the hands of those years ago that HE speaks to His creation, and He hasn’t changed!!

In closing, let me make another clarification for any of you that up until this point might have been mistaken about why I’m here, and why this ministry was founded! I am here as a minister of the word of God for the purpose to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ!! If you make claims about believing in God, Jesus, or the Gospel and are not willing to live it, then don’t claim it!! Harsh you might say, but read your bible…God isn’t known as a “speak easy” and He’s not directed me to be one either! It is time to either live what you say the bible declares about Jesus, and God, or get out-of-the-way of those that do, and will continue to!

It’s time for you to take your butts out of the pews of your churches, and find out what the wilderness is all about and why it was that your GOD.. sent His only begotten into the wilderness before sending Him unto the people! It’s time to realize the great commission given by Jesus to HIS DISCIPLES did not include warming the pews found in some building, nor did it include having a lot of material possessions to interfere with doing what God directed them!! Either you believe Jesus was the Son of God, your ENSAMPLE.. or you don’t! If you do.. then do what HE said.. and if you don’t.. then realize that you are the unbeliever!

Step up to the plate… stop being concerned about what others will say or think about you… get in your secret place with God and hear HIM… Hear what He is saying TODAY!!! Hear Him reminding you that JESUS did what HE said HE did… that He is the ENSAMPLE…and that living as He did is the only way possible to come to know God as He is!!! Lay down your life, sell all that you have… know yourself whether this Gospel is real or not! Raise the dead, heal the sick, feed the poor, move those mountains! As God sent Jesus into the world… you were also sent here by the same Almighty God !! You are here for a purpose and by the divine will of God!! Take your place in the Kingdom!! Stand in the midst of the storms and command them “peace be still”! Feed multitudes with your two piece fish dinner! Walk on water when you need to!! If you don’t believe it … and live it… then don’t try to share it with anyone else!!! You cannot give to anyone else what you yourself do not have!!!

This is not a matter for private interpretation … God has spoken!!!

ASK GOD, HEAR GOD, KNOW GOD!