When I watch the rugby games on the YouTube, they often just show the “highlights” of the games. This is what I am doing – I am “highlighting” certain verses from Paul’s letter to the Believers in the city of Corinth, in the land of Greece. I am using the American King James Version of the Bible because it is “Public Domain.” All the other versions of the Bible are copyrighted.
The Comforter is the Holy Spirit who is with us forever. Thank you Father God, and thank you Jesus Christ our Lord.
Apparently “idle words” mean “inactive words.” Words are powerful. The world and everything it was made by words. By words, Jesus raised the dead and healed the sick, etc. When I was a kid, there a saying that went something like this: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” I don’t think that is true. I have been in a couple of car accidents where I could have died, but the things that have hurt me the most, are words that people have said to me or have written to me. So beloved, be careful what you say. May God bless you all.
Here are some examples from the Gospel of Mark.
Jesus had power to cast out a demon. 
Jesus had power to heal a fever. 
Jesus had power to heal a leper. 
Jesus had power to forgive sins. 
Jesus had power to heal a withered hand. 
When sick people touched Jesus, power went out of him and healed them. 
Jesus had power to stop the demons from talking. 
Jesus gave his disciples power to heal sicknesses and to drive out demons. 
Jesus had power to stop the storm. 
Jesus had power to cast out lots of evil spirits. 
A woman touched the clothes of Jesus and got healed of an internal bleeding problem that she had for 12 years. 
Jesus had power to raise a young girl from her death bed. 
Jesus had power to lay his hands on sick people and heal them. 
Jesus had power to feed over 5,000 people with only 5 loaves and 2 fish. Mark 6:42. 
Jesus had power to walk on water. 
Lots of sick people touched the hem of the garment of Jesus and got healed. 
Jesus had power to cast out a demon by ‘remote control’ – just by speaking the word. 
Jesus had power to make the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. 
Jesus had power to feed about 4,000 people with only 7 loaves and a few small fish. 
Jesus had power to heal a blind man, and give him high definition vision. 
Jesus had power to cast a deaf and dumb spirit out of a young boy. 
Jesus had power to heal blind Bartimaeus. 
After his resurrection, Jesus told his disciples that if they believe in his name, then they too shall be able to drive out demons. 
Jesus also told his disciples that they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall get well. 
So the disciples went out proclaiming the message of Jesus about his death and resurrection, and the Lord confirmed his word with signs following. 
Beloved, it is our job to carry on the work that Jesus began.
Roman days of the week
Tuesday – a god of war.
Wednesday – the god of war, art, culture and the dead. He made the world and the first two people.
Thursday – the god of thunder.
Friday – the goddess of love and marriage. The wife of Wednesday and the mother of Tuesday.
Saturday – the god of agriculture. Planet Saturn.
Sunday – the sun god.
Monday – the moon god.
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Roman months of the year
January – an idol. Julius Caesar’s god of beginnings and endings with two faces pointing east and west. Julius Caesar brought January and February into the calendar which throws out the numbering of the last four months.
February – purification. The mother of Mars.
March – a god of war. Planet Mars.
April – the springtime when buds open (if you live in the northern hemisphere).
May – a goddess of fertility.
June – a goddess of youth (junior).
July – honouring Julius Caesar.
August – honouring Augustus Caesar.
September – means seven. Another root word is Septuagint which means seventy.
October – means eight. Like octopus and octagon.
November – means nine.
December – means ten. Like decimals.
Easter – a goddess of fertility and spring (if you live in the northern hemisphere). Her name is in the King James Version of the Bible, but in the Greek Interlinear Bible it is ‘Passover.’ (Acts 12:4). When Peter was in prison, it was during the days of unleavened bread. In the Bible, the first day is Passover, as part of the seven days of unleavened bread. (Exodus 12:1-20).
Christmas – Jesus never gave permission to put a ‘mas’ on the end of his name, (or an ‘ian’ at the end of his name. Matthew 24:5). In Pope Gregory’s calendar, the twenty fifth of December is the day of the rebirth of the sun god. When the days got shorter in the winter, the Romans thought that the sun god was dying, but then came back to life again.
From studying the Scriptures, I am of the opinion that Jesus was born on the first day of God’s New Year. (Exodus 12). God told Moses to erect the Tabernacle on the first day of the next New Year at Mount Sinai in Arabia. (Exodus 40). That is when the glory of God came down from heaven into the Tabernacle! When Jesus got born, the angels sang: “Glory to God in the highest!” (Luke 2:14). Many years ago, we met a preacher that went to heaven and back, and he said that Jesus was born at Passover, and died at Passover! A Jewish Rabbi on the internet said that the sheep only have babies in the springtime in Israel, so that would be when the shepherds are in the fields with the sheep.
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Beloved, the Roman calendar is totally opposite to what is written in the Bible. Jesus didn’t follow the Roman calendar, neither did his disciples. In their day, Julius Caesar’s calendar had the same names of the days and the months as we have today. For over 40 years I have been trying to share with church people the things that the Holy Spirit has ministered to me, but the church people don’t believe the words of the Father, or the Son, or the Holy Spirit. So I am giving up. This is the last time I am sharing these truths. What happens on day of judgment, is up to you. I have done my part in sharing the truth.
If you don’t believe the things I have written, just check out all these things on the internet. There is a whole lot more to everything, but I have tried to be brief. The fact is that the whole Roman calendar is paganism, which is completely different to the teaching in the Bible. Yet every church I have ever been with, claim to believe the Bible, but they don’t really believe the same as is written in the Bible! Some pastors and church people get very, very angry with me!
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In the Book of Revelation there are connections between the ‘Word of God’ and ‘The testimony of Jesus Christ.’
Revelation 1:2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Revelation 1:9 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.
Revelation 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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These are the words of Jesus:
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. (Matthew 12:36).
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: (John 5:22).
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I have written the title, as if Paul is writing to an individual, but he is actually writing personally to a group of people who had received Jesus Christ as their Saviour. When you read the Bible you can actually put your name in there, as if everything is addressed to you personally. That is one way that God can speak to us. Paul stayed and preached in city of Corinth (Greece) for a year and a half (Acts 18). Later on, he wrote three love letters to them, to encourage them in their faith, and to instruct them in the things of God. In the Bible there is first and second Corinthians, but he actually wrote an earlier letter to them that is not available. (1 Corinthians 5:9). Here are a few selected verses from the book of First Corinthians.
I am using the words of The American King James Version of the Bible because it is not copyrighted. It is Public Domain.
God bless you all.
Today I decided to go to the Gateway Bible program and see what the Bible teaches about singing. Here are some verses that were of interest to me:
Sing
Exodus 15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Exodus 15:21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Numbers 21:17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
Judges 5:3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
1 Samuel 18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
2 Samuel 22:50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
1 Chronicles 13:8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1 Chronicles 15:16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
1 Chronicles 16:9 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.
1 Chronicles 16:23 Sing unto the Lord, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.
1 Chronicles 16:33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord, because he cometh to judge the earth.
2 Chronicles 5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;
2 Chronicles 20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Chronicles 20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
2 Chronicles 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
2 Chronicles 30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord.
Nehemiah 11:23 For it was the king’s commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.
Psalm 7:17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.
Psalm 9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
Psalm 13:6 I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
Psalm 18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
Psalm 27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.
Psalm 30:4 Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
Psalm 30:12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
Psalm 33:2 Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
Psalm 33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
Psalm 47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
Psalm 59:16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
Psalm 61:8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
Psalm 66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Psalm 71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Psalm 89:1 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Psalm 92:1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High:
Psalm 95:1 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
Psalm 96:1 O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Psalm 96:2 Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.
Psalm 98:1 O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
Psalm 100:2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Psalm 104:12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
Psalm 104:33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Psalm 105:2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
Psalm 126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.
Psalm 135:3 Praise the Lord; for the Lord is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.
Psalm 137:3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psalm 137:4 How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
Psalm 138:1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
Psalm 144:9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
Psalm 146:2 While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Psalm 147:1 Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
Psalm 147:7 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Psalm 149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
Psalm 149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
Proverbs 25:20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
Isaiah 12:5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Isaiah 35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.
Isaiah 35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 38:20 The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
Isaiah 42:10 Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah 42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Isaiah 44:23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel
Isaiah 48:20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
Isaiah 49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
Isaiah 51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
Isaiah 55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Jeremiah 20:13 Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
Habakkuk 3:19 The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
Zephaniah 2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Zephaniah 3:17 The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
1 Corinthians 14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Hebrews 2:12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
Revelation 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
When I was a little boy growing up in Salisbury, Rhodesia, I remember my mother telling me how she got filled with the Holy Spirit. Apparently my brother and I had been naughty, and she had spanked us, and was in a very bad mood. At the same time, the preacher was coming to pray for her to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Apparently when Pastor Price prayed for her she went into some kind of dream where she was in the sea, and the waves were coming over her. Then she felt she had drowned. (When she was young her daddy drowned in Illovo Beach, South Africa, while saving a girl from drowning).
Then it seemed like, far away someone was speaking in tongues. That person just kept on and on speaking in tongues for a long time. Then she got curious as to who was doing that. When she woke up, she found it was herself speaking in tongues, and she was lying on the floor! The pastor said she had a mighty baptism in the Holy Ghost.
Many years later when we were having house meetings in Bulawayo, every now and then she would speak in tongues, and expect someone to do the interpretation. But there was no interpretation. When I was a teenager I remember going with my mother to a ‘Keswick’ meeting somewhere outside of Bulawayo. There were about a hundred people there from all different churches. Then during prayer time, mother started speaking in tongues! I thought: “No mother, don’t do that here! These people don’t believe in that sort of thing!”
After the meeting, when we were outside, I remember seeing Pastor Bob Beatty speaking to my mother. He was a missionary from America. She told me later that he was asking her what languages she spoke, etc. Apparently she was speaking in some African language that he had learnt, to minister to a particular tribe in Rhodesia. Some years later, in the early 70’s, I remember Bob Beatty inviting me to sing at a mission station somewhere near Gwelo.
In the late 70’s I remember Pastor Marks inviting me to sing at his church outside of Que Que. I remember the church building being next to the main road between Bulawayo and Salisbury. There were banana palms behind the church, and the pastor’s house behind the banana palms. Before going to that church, the Holy Spirit impressed upon me the words of the Apostle Paul in the Bible. “Let him that speaketh in tongues, pray that he might interpret.” (1 Corinthians 14:13). Then I realized that my mother should have asked the Lord for the interpretations when she spoke in tongues. She had the anointing on her, so it was her responsibility to do the interpretations as well, and not expect someone else to do it.
In one of the meetings, I invited people to come forward for healing. I seem to recall there were six people. The last person I prayed for was a woman. I laid my hands on her shoulders and prayed for her. Then she started speaking in tongues. So I said to her: “Now, give the interpretation.” There was a bit of a silence. Then she said: “The Lord has forgiven your sins.”
Straight after that I gave an invitation for people to received Jesus Christ as their Saviour, and about twelve people came forward.
The next morning, my wife and I were sitting in their living room talking to Pastor Marks, when the phone rang. We heard half the conversation. Apparently some woman who was in the service the night before, was asking Pastor Marks what languages the other woman spoke when I prayed for her. He explained that she spoke English and a bit of the local African language, then he asked her why she was inquiring. She said that last night the woman spoke in Hellenic, and with her being Greek, she understood what she was saying. So he asked her what she had said, and she replied that she spoke in Hellenic, then she said the same thing over again in English!
So Pastor Marks explained to her what happened on the day of Pentecost, how the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke in various languages the people knew, who had come to Jerusalem from all different parts of the world. (Acts chapter 2, in the Bible).
Many times since then, the devil has attacked me, telling me that my sins are not forgiven. Beloved, the devil is a liar. Keep serving God, as best as you know how, and we’ll meet again on the streets of gold, in a land where we’ll never grow old!
Paul wrote a letter to the believers in Rome, hoping to visit them later on, when he was on his way to Spain. Unfortunately, things didn’t quite work out the way he had planned. Anyway, here are a few verses from his letter, on how to get saved. To get saved is the most important thing in the whole world. All over the world people are dying every day, and I always wonder: “Where will they spend eternity?” Please read these verses and receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour today, before it is too late!
I am using the American King James Version of the Bible because it is “Public Domain.” All the other versions of the Bible are copyrighted.
Build up your faith (Jude verse 20).
Many times in my life, people have come against me, to try and destroy my faith in God and the Bible. To destroy someone’s faith is a very bad thing. Jesus warned that if you cause one of his little ones to stumble, it is better for you to have a millstone tied around your neck and to be thrown into the sea. (Mark 9:42).
When I share things about the Bible, my intention is to try and direct people to believe the proper way. I say that, because what most people believe, is what they have been taught, and by traditions that are completely different to what is recorded in the scriptures. The Holy Spirit has taken a lot of the ‘blinders’ off my eyes, and I see things differently from the way other people see them. Jesus said: “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32).