Karen Smith sent this good article that I want to copy and send to you.
This is such an important message, that I want all that read this to pray for
me, as I would like to put this in book form, if it be the Lord's Will.
Karen Smith is a friend of mine, and sent this to me, and I want to
enlarge on natural and Spiritual Riches.
I have added to it, and have received
much responce from this.
In Christ, Nathan Miller.
MONEY
IT CAN BUY A HOUSE
BUT NOT A HOME.
IT CAN BUY A BED
BUT NOT SLEEP.
IT CAN BUY A CLOCK
BUT NOT TIME.
IT CAN BUY A BOOK
BUT NOT KNOWLEDGE.
IT CAN BUY YOU A POSITION
BUT NOT RESPECT.
IT CAN BUY YOU MEDICINE
BUT NOT HEALTH.
IT CAN BUY BLOOD
BUT NOT LIFE.
IT CAN BUY YOU SEX
BUT NOT LOVE.
SO YOU SEE MONEY ISN’T EVERYTHING.
AND IT OFTEN CAUSES PAIN AND SUFFERING.
I TELL YOU THIS BECAUSE
I AM YOUR FRIEND,
AND AS YOUR FRIEND I WANT TO
TAKE AWAY YOUR PAIN AND
SUFFERING…
SO SEND ME ALL YOUR MONEY
AND I WILL SUFFER FOR YOU.
CASH ONLY PLEASE.
This is the end of the article sent to me. Now any church or preacher that pulls people for
money is wrong in my book, as if God has called you to do something, He will furnish all
that you ever need, or He has not called you.Be careful what you believe, and prove all
things by the Word of God.Now the church passes the offering plate, do not beg,
plead ,pull, but just give an opportunity to give as they are led themselves...Bro.Nathan Miller.
PS...Take a look and enjoy.
Thank God for His True Riches.
I want to say a few things for people who really want to know God in the New Birth.Consider Psalms 19 where God says the Heavens and the Earth speak a language, as their Voice is heard in every nation.As a witness to this is found in Romans 1;19,20.Because that which may be known of God is Manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisable things of Him from the Creation of the world are clearly seen, being UNDERSTOOD by the things that are made, even His Eternal Power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.
Example; Take a grain of Corn, and unless the FIRST LIFE has died, or becomes a DORMANT Life, when you plant it, bury it, and water it, or baptise it with water, will ROT, as it must be seperated from its first Life. Can't you see by this that unless you die out to sin, you CAIN'T know God?
Here then is a thing God has made, and cannot you see His Eternal Power and God-Head revealed in this natural thing?
Second witness; Take a Butterfly, as when he lays an egg, and ole ugly worm hatches out, and eats up the plants all his worm-life. Then one day he spins himself into a Cacoon, and DIES out to the world, DIES out to the worm-life, and when he comes out he is born again.He does NOT eat up the plants no more, but polinates them so they too can be born again. See the sinner NATURE dying before the HEAVENLY Nature is brought into the very Soul of man?
Can you now understand His Eternal Power and God-Head by the THINGS He has made?
Wesley Hacker a Forest Ranger told me something I always remembered.It was about a wild Cherry Tree. He said," if you
will notice on the fence around a piece of property, are lots of wild Cherry Trees, and why that is that way, is a bird eats the Cherry Fruit, and the acid in his stomach rots the Outer Shell, and when he sits on the fence, as he passes that through his stomach, it drops to the ground, and makes a wild Cherry Tree. The outer shell, the pulp has to die before the new Life comes into being." This tells us the same story all over again on on how to be born again.
When a woman gets pregnant, she has a morning sickness, and why that is is this; A new Life is forming in her, and so when you are born again, you have to be sick of worldy things, sick of the sin-nature born in you that has to be crucified.
Here is another thing just Like Romans 1;19,20 so states, that God has revealed His Great Power and God-Head in the things He has made, and like Psalms 19 backing that up as the Heavens and the Earth has a Voice and a language that the whole world can look at, and see God revealed in the natural things showing the way to Himself.
Third witness; In Matthew 16 is where Peter said when asked who he thought Jesus really was, as the Religious world at that time was confused. He said, "Thou Art The Christ, The Son of the Living God." Jesus said you never learned this of flesh and Blood, but My Father who is in Heaven shewed this to you, and Jesus said for this Revelation you have been given, I will give you the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Oh My ! Then Jesus goes on to say down in the chapter in essence, he that will take His Life in the flesh and live it till death, shall lose his life, even if he gains the whole world by that life in the flesh he has been born into. Then He says, give your Life over to Me, and let Me live in you My Life, and you will save it Eternally !! Notice in verse 24 He gives the Bottom Line; If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. He went to the Cross and Died so you can be saved, so unless you die out to yourself, and let Him live His Life in you by the Power of the Holy Ghost and His Word, you will lose your life as well !.
Fourth witness; Notice the world as One person, the land as the flesh and the Ocean as the Spirit, as remember Psalms 19 said the Heavens and the Earth has a language and a Voice, so let us look at that Voice, as Romans 1 also says. The earth was baptised with water in the days of Noah, and all that had the breath of life in them, died, all but the ones that had heard and obeyed the Voice of God for their day....Then 2000 years later, the Blood of the Lamb fell on this earth to claim it, and now we are at 2000 years again, and soon the Fire of the Holy Ghost will fall on this earth, and burn all the sin off of it, burn all the man-made stuff off of it, and make a New Earth. Then Jesus Christ Himself in flesh and Bone will live on this earth with His Blood-Bought Family. See the New Birth in this?
Here is the Earth as a natural thing to reveal His Great Eternal Power and God-Head to show you how to Repent, be baptised, justified, Sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost, so people are without excuse.
Sin is your enemy, and it is born by nature in all humanity, and unless the flesh is Crucified, you can't know God in the New Birth. Unless the Grace of God, the Holy Ghost moves upon your heart, a sinful heart cannot experience the New Birth, so if you are really sincere in your heart, as you can't hide your in-most thoughts, God will soften your heart where you can Love God and experience the New Birth. Not a patched-up Nature, but a New Nature, and a New Heart.
Now what I want to do is ask some questions? Romans 8;9 says if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.
You must be born again to be a child of God, as Faith in Jesus Christ is the only way you can be a Child of God.So if you
do not have Faith in Jesus Christ, whose child are you? Except you are born of the Spirit and the Word, you cannot enter
the Kingdom of God, so what Kingdom then are you in if you are not born of the Spirit and Water?
God said through Paul, in Col.1;13 That God has delivered us from the Power of Darkness, and hath Translated us into the Kingdom of His Dear Son. So when Humanity is born, he is born into the Kingdom of Satan, and with a sinful nature that he comes to this world shaped into iniquity and speaking lies, and was transgesssors from our mother's womb.
The Bible says when the evil spirit is gone out of a man, that spirit walks in dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, so he comes back to that person, and if he finds it empty of the Holy Ghost, the Strong man that keeps him out, as his house is swept and garnished, but if empty of God, takes 7 other evil spirits, and the last state of that man is more evil. If people do not experience the New Birth, they wind up in hell, so you can see then people are born in sin, and are sinners without Hope, having No Living God to give them eternal Life. Don't ask others, ask your own heart and Life.
According to 1 Cor.6, the Bible says what you yield your members to, is your Master, whether of sin unto Death, or obedience in Righteousness of God for Life Eternal. Resist the devil and he will flee from you, Draw nigh to God by Love to Him,
and resisting satan and all his fiery-thoughts he gives you, as your battleground is in the mind, as the Victory is won or lost by thoughts, so hate the evil and love the good, and advance toward your Heavenly Father who Loves you dearly.
Picture in your mind Jesus on the Cross enduring great Pain and death to die in your place, so no charge can be laid
to the Elect of Jesus Christ..When your heart can understand the Great Love of God first to you as a sinner, will in turn
create a great Love to Jesus Christ, as LOVE begets Love, or HATE begets hate. Oh God !
What I am trying to say, is we are born servants of Satan with His Spirit and Nature living in us, but if we are the Elect of God, living in enemy territory, the Holy Ghost will move on your sinful heart, and you will believe in Jesus Christ, and be filled with the Holy Ghost, as no sinful heart can do this in its own power. So if you have a sincere desire to Love God, to serve God, to hate sin, and love Righteousness, there is hope for you to be one of His Elect to live forever with Him Eternally.
In the beginning, before the children were born, sin entered, so that made the children come as sinners, but God has made a way, as He said He came seeking to save His Family members that was scattered everywhere in this sinful world, and God will seek that Elect Seed where ever he is and save Him, as his name is on His Family Album. God chose us, as we don't choose Him. The GREATEST Evidence of the Holy Ghost is like Noah's day, you recognized what Prophet had your message for your day, but don't write off anyone, as who knows what minute God can turn them around.What a Great Heavenly Father we have, so let us Praise Him day by day.
The Holy Ghost does not make you a Son of God, as Gal.4;6 says BECAUSE YE ARE SONS (Already), for before the world ever was, God chose you and put your name on His Family Album, or the Lamb's book of Life, and that is the only reason why you could receive the Holy Ghost in the first place. Take a garden plot, and plough it up, and it rains, and all kinds of seeds come up, and the rain did not change any seed, but just gave Life to what Seed was already there. See that?
There are people with the Holy Ghost and still be lost Hear the Word in Matthew 7;21-Jesus said every one that says Lord, Lord, shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven, as many Will say unto Me on that day, Lord we cast out devils in your Name, and done many wonderful works, and He will say depart from Me ye that work Iniquity, for I never knew you. He knew them as who they were, but not His True Child. You cannot cast out a devil without the Holy Ghost, but you can override that still small Voice, and Grieve the Holy Ghost .Jesus said it was because they did not take heed to My sayings. Some of the Bible they did not like, and did not obey, and I could name a few Scriptures that many do that way.
Jesus said if you forgive not men when they sin against you, I will not forgive you when you sin against Me...See that? Jesus said also if you are not merciful to others around you, I will not be merciful to you either.I will give every man the fruit of his own life, or doings, or works.To work iniquity is to know what the Word says do, but for some reason fail to obey that certain Scripture, and Jesus said MY Sheep Hear My Voice, and follow Me, but will not follow strangers..You reap what you sow, or harvest what you plant.To hear His Voice, is not the sound, but to Obey His Word in your Life.
If you pledge something to someone, and do not give what you promised, God will not give His Answer to what He has pledged to you in His Word. Born again is more than joining some church.Being born again is more than saying the sinners prayer, shaking the preacher's hand and sitting on the seat the rest of your church-life.
Jesus said if you abide in me, and My Words abide in you, ask what you will, and I will do it. How about that!!!!!.
In 1 Cor. 12 God speaks of people who have an office in the church, have a Gift of the Spirit, but said, yet I show you a more excellent way, and said you can understand all Mysteries, have all Faith, speak the language of Angels, and you have to have the Holy Ghost to do that, but if you fail to show Charity to your fellow man, all your offices in the church, and gifts of the Holy Ghost profit you nothing...I am just a Voice crying in this sinful world.May God bless there few words to believing hearts.
Notice this point; Jesus said through Paul, if your fellowship is not right with your fellow man, My fellowship with you is no good either. Jesus said the greatest two Commandments is to Love God and your fellow man, as all the Law hangs like that. The golden rule is what you want others to do to you, you do to them. But have you read that next verse? It says for this is the Law and the Prophets, or this is the Motto of all the Bible..Matthew 7;12..Mark 4;24 speaks of the measure you measure out to others will be the rule of MY Measure I measure to you.If it is in the Bible, let us Love it and obey it with the heart.
Romans 8 Says there is NOW no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit, then goes on to say if you have not the Spirit of Christ, or of God, ye are none of His, then says if Christ be in you, the Body is dead because of sin, but alive through the Spirit, then in Verse 13 says if ye through the Spirit do Mortify the deeds of the Body, ye shall Live. This agrees with you are dead, and your Life is hid with Christ in God, and Abraham's Seed.
When the Body of Jesus died as our Sin was put on Him, God accepted that, and He ascended up to the Throne of God, and sits there as Our Great High Preist to Minister for His Family. In the Old Testament, when a Lamb was offered, that life could not come back on the Believer and indwell him, but when the blood-Cell of God Almighty was broken and released, that Spirit could come upon the Believer and indwell Him with the life of Jesus Christ.
When you plant a seed, the shell rots to release the Life so it can be born again. The leaves fall off each year of the plants, and rots to make Fertilizer for the plants to reproduce and keep growing. Dead Leaves. I have a Rose bush that I put fish trimmings around it, and it is astounding to the Large groweth it is producing, as Romans 1 says the thing that God has made reveals His Eternal Power and GodHead, so unless your old man is crucified, you can't be born of the New Man, Christ Jesus.
Many will fail in their Salvation, because they Loved some kind of sin, more than they loved Jesus Christ. It will not be the drunkerd, whoremonger,and the thief who will be disappointed at Judgement day, but Christian people who did not search out all the doctrines by the Scriptures to see if they were true or not, but just accepted their church or preacher.
When Israel was delivered from Egypt, it was by the blood of the Lamb, and them eating that Lamb, so if you ever get delivered from the worldy nature you were born with, it takes the Blood of the Lamb to do that, and you have to eat the Living Word, or God will not accept you. He will not accept your first birth, as that is your firstborn life that must die, and is called Repentence. Jesus said in Matthew 16;24 to deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me. He went to Calvary and died. He goes on to say that He that takes His Life will lose it, but who loseses his life for My sake shall find it. Now always remember this; To take your life is not to Kill yourself, but if you take the Life in the flesh and live it out till you die, you will lose your life. Now if you crucify yourself, and die out to your first Nature, first life, and let Jesus come into you and live His Life again through you, then you will live on even in the next life. Amen.
A Dead Seed planted in the earth and watered, will grow into its own Image by and by, so if you plant the Seed of God, His Word into your heart, you will day by day grow into His Image and bear fruit of the Seed planted. Not denominational Seed now mind you, but the Seed of His Pure Word not contiminated by the doctrines of men.
The Image of God was put in Adam before he received his house of clay, as the seventh day God rested from His Creating, and on the eighth day, God put His Image in that house of clay, and man lost it, and Jesus Christ came in the Image of God, and will build that Image in you day by day By His Truth received day by day.
I want to put my Web-page Title and address, as I want to send this one that is on my web-page.My page is called,
"The Carpenter Of The Earth." The URL is
http://www.svic.net/carpenter/
May the Great Holy Ghost bless this to believing hearts is my prayer.
Copied and sent as a blessing.
Nathan Miller.