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THE LAW OF SOWING AND REAPING

February 2, 2013 by Ken Blue

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By Ken Blue

 

“Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.” Job 4:8. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7. “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:” Hosea 8:7.

This is the law of the universe. What you sow, you must reap. If fact, you will reap what you sow. You will reap after you sow, and you will reap more than you sow. “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”

Those of you, who are determined to have sex with every person you date, have no idea what you are doing. First, you are dishonoring God, and your own body. Then you are exposing yourself to all kinds of incurable diseases. Then, many infants come into this world with no father, and in many cases the mother doesn’t even know who the father is. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, you are destroying your ability to trust the opposite sex, and you are setting yourself up for a life of insecurity. You will reap more than you sow.

The next harvest you will reap will be the results of cigarettes, alcohol, and the drugs you put in your body. If you think you can smoke, drink, use drugs, and not reap the consequences, you are the biggest fool in the county. Once these vices get hold of you, they will not let go. They become your master, and you become their slave. “Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.” You may joke about it now, but you will not be laughing at harvest time.

Finally, you cannot be a companion of fools without becoming one yourself. You see, it is the books you read, and the people you associate with that mold, and make you. It is a slow process, but it is at work. By the time you realize what is happening, you will be there. Look around yourself. The people you follow are leading you to their lifestyle. There are too many warning about this in the Bible to list them. However, this one ought to wake you up, if anything will. “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. Proverbs 13:20. You should read, and commit that verse to memory. If you insist on running with fools, then rest assured, you are one, or soon will be.  “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” There’s no escape, keep sowing, but don’t wonder why you have the harvest you will reap when it comes, and come, it will.

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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YOUR EPITAPH?

January 31, 2013 by Ken Blue

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By Ken Blue

When life is over, and it will be soon,

What will be the epitaph on your tomb?

Was your life a waste, breathing in and out?

Was self-gratification what it’s about?

 

Were you like an animal, with only three drives?

Was it reproduction, comfort, and food to survive?

Will you die like an animal with no legacy?

When the curtain is pulled, then, where will your soul be?

 

Did you hide in darkness, with fear and doubt,

Afraid to discover what life’s all about?

Did you drown your conscience with music’s blare,

Trying to please friends; their approval share?

 

Friends won’t go with you when you enter death.

Your soul will depart at your final breath.

He who has Christ Jesus, has eternal life.

He who has Him not, shall never see life.

 

“He that hath the Son hath life;

 and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” 1 John 5:.

 

 

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF REFORMING THE FOOL

January 29, 2013 by Ken Blue

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“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.” Proverbs 27:22 .

The book of Proverbs has much to say about the impossibility of teaching or instructing the fool. The above text show just how difficult it is.

 

There are three words that are unfamiliar to those of us in the West. They are, bray, mortar, and pestle. These are illustrated in the picture.

 

The word, bray, means to pounds or pulverize grain until it was turned to powder. The powder was then mixed with water and made into bread.

 

The next word is mortar. It means a hollow place, as you see above. It was usually in a stone that was hollowed out for that purpose. The grain was placed in the mortar or hollow place, and then pounded to powder.

 

Finally, you have the word pestle. The pestle is the interment in the hands of the woman. With it she pounds the grain within the mortar into a power.

 

The only ingredient remaining was the fool. The writer is saying, if you put the fool in the mortar with the grain, and pound him to power with the pestle, he still would not cease being a fool. He is too stupid to depart from his foolishness. In fact, he may be so foolish; he doesn’t know he is a fool. So, some people are impossible to teach, rebuke, or instruct, and it is a waste of time and energy to correct them.

 

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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WHY ATHEIST HATE THE BIBLE-#3

January 27, 2013 by Ken Blue

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BY Ken Blue

 

“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Psalm 53:1-3.

 

The following is an exchange of emails between an atheist and myself.  As I said before, the atheist is indeed a fool when it comes to science or God. Jeff will never address my questions because he has no answer. Also, he reveals his ignorance of Scripture when trying to use is against me.

 

Ken,

You still haven’t provided the title of the article and the name of the author to which your feedback pertains. Do that, and, as I said before, I will be glad to forward your feedback to that author for his potential response.

In the meantime, something to keep in mind: I made no claims pertaining to the many unfounded assertions that you present regarding me, rather I asked you a question about your beliefs, a question that should be very easy for you to answer given that you claim to be a Bible-believing Christian for 55 years who is too dumb to care.

By the way, you sound a bit angry in your last email. Were you? According to Jesus, it is a sin to be angry, right?

 

Jeff,

That was not a sound of anger you detected, it was a rebuke to you for your dishonesty and ignorance. As I said, you aren’t able or qualified to play around with Scripture in an attempt to avoid answering my original questions. You should do a little more research before you try to discredit the Scriptures or me. Before you try to condemn me concerning anger, you should read the following.

 “And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.” Mark 3:5.

 “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:” Ephesians 4:26

If you want a real nugget to show contradiction in the Scripture, you might try this one. “Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.  Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.” Proverbs 26:4-5.

I take it from your response; you were unable and unwilling to address any of the questions in my email. That is strange coming from someone who claims to rely on logic. You could not address one question.

 For example, show the logic of the answer to the questions I ask you “Is it reasonable that matter has always existed? Is it reasonable that matter came from nothing? Is it reasonable that life came from  Non-life? Is it reasonable that man progresses and animals never do?”

You not only reveal your ignorance of true science, you have no idea what you are talking about when it comes of Scripture. The first rule is right division is, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a

workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15. I am sure you have no concept of what that means. You reveal that in your email.

Your attempt to escape answering my questions will not work. You are the one who relies on superior knowledge and reasoning. Until you learn the meaning of the above verse, and how to apply its rules

of interpretation, you should not attempt to quote any Scripture. I don’t expect you to answer the questions in my previous email, for you cannot

 

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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LET’S STUDY REVELATION #33

January 22, 2013 by Ken Blue

REVELON BOOK
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Mighty Angel and The Two Witnesses

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revelation 10:1 through 11:14 is another parenthetical section and is inserted between the sixth and seventh trumpet, just as the first parenthetical section of chapter 7 is inserted between the sixth and seventh seal. This section also loops back to the three and one-half year mid-point of the tribulation.

 

 “And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:  And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,  And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.  And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.”  (Revelation 10:1-4).

 

Some hold that this mighty angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ, but some other angel sent to serve and represent Him. They argue He comes down from heaven, and that Christ does not return until the end of the Tribulation. Furthermore, thunders spoke for him and they say Christ would speak for Himself. He also swore by heaven and Him who sat on the throne, whereas, Christ would have sworn by Himself.

 

We believe these arguments to be weak and unconvincing. Dake gives the following for his proof that the angel is Jesus Christ.

 

1.   The description of Him in Rev. 10:1 proves He is Christ (cp. Rev. 1:12-16; Daniel 10:5-6).

2.   The book open in His hand proves it.  In Rev. 5:5-7 Christ takes the sealed book out of the right hand of God.  In Rev. 6:1-8:1 He breaks the seals that bind it.  Here the same little book is open so that the contents of the things written within might be revealed

(Rev. 10:2,8-11).

3.   Christ is the one giving John the Revelation

(Rev. 1:1; Rev. 10:4,8-11).

4.   His voice as a lion roaring (Rev. 10:3) identifies Him with the lion of Judah (Rev. 5:5; cp. Isaiah 31:4-5; Jeremiah 25:29-36; Hosea 11:10-11; Joel 3:16; Amos 3:8).  In these passages the Lord is spoken of as a lion roaring in the Day of the Lord.

5.   The swearing of the angel (Rev. 10:6) proves Him to be a divine person, for not one time in Scripture does an ordinary angel make an oath to God or man.  In 50 scriptures it is stated that God swore or made oaths.  In 31 other passages man swears to God and man (cp. Daniel 12:7).

6.   Christ directs John concerning what to write and what not to write (cp. Rev. 1:11,19; Rev. 2:1,8,12,18; Rev. 3:1,7,12,14; Rev. 10:4; Rev. 14:13-14; Rev. 19:9; Rev. 21:5).

7.   In Rev. 11:3 we have definite proof that the angel is Christ, for He says, “I will give power unto my two witnesses.”  This proves Him to be a divine person.

No doubt this angel is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is called the angel of the Lord in the Old Testament. His clothing, the rainbow, and the face that shown as the sun certainly imply this is deity. Feet, as pillars of fire, are similar to those of the Son of Man walking amid the candlesticks. He stands with one foot on the sea and the other on earth, showing ownership and dominion.

Jesus also took the book in His right hand from Him who sat on the throne, in chapter 5, and that book concerns God’s judgment on Satan’s kingdom in order for Christ to reclaim His created and purchased position. There is no reason to doubt that this book is not the same one. Here, a small portion of it remains to be fulfilled. It is logical that Christ, the Creator and Redeemer, would be the One standing with one foot on land and one on the sea with the remaining judgments and the title deed in His hand.

 

The fact that He set his right foot upon the sea, and His left foot on the earth, shows determination and dominion. “The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land” (Psalm 95:5). It is His by creation and redemption, and now He is reclaiming it by proclamation.

 

The loud voice, as that of a lions roar, also speaks of conquest and dominion. That is exactly what the Lion of the tribe of Judah is doing here. It is a roar of triumph over the prey!

 

Seven thunders uttered their voices when the lion roared. To some it sounded like thunder, perhaps to those on earth, but in heaven their voices were clear. This is illustrated in John 12:29, “The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.”John heard clearly what the thunders said and was about to write it when he was told not to, but to seal up the book. What John heard, we are not told.

 

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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