5/9/16

This world’s self-anointed/self-appointed, “Chicken Little” global climate change alarmists (including President Obama) want to spend billions of tax dollars because the global temperature has risen one half of one degree in the past century.

These alarmists are completely silent about real global warming, so we will cut to the chase and reveal what God has promised to do to the earth in the next few years, possibly even the next seven years.

II Peter 3:10-14

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Why the approximate time line? The promised signs of the seven years of the Great Tribulation are literally “in our faces.” Some may be happening already. But, whether it is seven years, more or less, it is coming “as a thief in the night.”

Will all but a few of the approximately seven billion souls on earth be incinerated? The actual number will be less when the time comes because one third of the men on earth will have already been killed (Revelation 9:15).

Here is a few reasons why the Judge of all the earth is bringing His judgment on this remorseless, unrepentant, wicked world:

1. He utterly destroyed the first world, saving Noah’s family and the animals on the ark, because that world, like this world today, was filled with violence and evil.

2. Murder is the vilest “hate crime” and all murderers will be tormented in the fire and brimstone of hell for eternity. The blood of righteous Abel, shed by his guilty brother, Cain, was innocent. According to Hebrews 11:4, it is still crying out to God for vengeance, so imagine (if you can) the tumultuous cries of a billion innocent murder victims – especially unborn boys and girls - who unceasingly cry out to God for vengeance. That is, at least in my opinion, one reason this fiery judgment is coming.

3. There are multitudes of other egregious reasons why the judgment of God is coming soon.

One of these reasons is homosexuality. God created mankind in His own image. Then, He lovingly fashioned for him a beautiful wife so the earth could be filled with children. But Satan came, and to thwart God’s divine order, the father of lies introduced homosexuality. This is the sin that brought “fire and brimstone” in Genesis 19.

So now, our United States Supreme Court has perverted the definition of marriage, in direct opposition to Hebrews 13:4. So-called “main line denominations,” to escape persecution, are also changing their doctrines and embracing sexual perversion.

But which of the two largest man-made religions is the bloodiest? It is probably a tie between the Catholics and the Muslims, so if you are a member of a man-made religion, they will all be consumed in the great fire of II Peter 3.

You can overcome and escape the fire, enjoying the new heaven and the new earth, as described in Revelation 21:1-7.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

I Timothy 2:4 states that God would “have all men be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” In II Peter 3:9, we are told that He is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

There is only one way to escape the soon-coming fire. Jesus gave Peter the “keys to the Kingdom,” which he, and the rest of the apostles, used successfully on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2). The key to salvation was revealed by Peter in Acts 2:38 when he commanded, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” The new birth that Jesus had explained to Nicodemus in John 3:5-8 was demonstrated that day when 3,000 were converted (Acts 2:41). So, Jesus established his only church on the Day of Pentecost; I obeyed the same message 67 years ago!

The Apostle Paul warned us about following any other way, when he said in Galatians 1:8-9, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Jude underscored this point in Jude 1:4. “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

In conclusion, consider all of II Peter 3, and make sure you “grow in grace and in the knowledge of our (beloved) Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.” Amen!

You (and all the rest) will rejoice because you have escaped, the “final global warming.”

Pastors Maurice R. Gordon and Karla G. Trevino www.PentecostalsofAurora.com www.AHolyRoller.com

303-695-4444



Jan 10, 2016

A 2016 New Year’s Resolution for President Barak Hussein Obama:

· Speak UP while you still hold the authority of the President of the United States during this last year in office.

· Speak OUT against the innocent lives being lost because of Jihad against Muslims who practice differently than the Jihadists as well as against non-Muslims.

· Speak TO your Muslim “brothers” on the value of life from a place of understanding of the Koran (from your indoctrination in the Muslim religion during your years growing up in Indonesia) and the understanding of Judeo Christian principles you profess.

Why would this 85 year-old gospel preacher deem to suggest a new year’s resolution for you, the President of the United States?

· Because as representatives of the people, Presidents do respond to citizen concerns: In 1984 I sent a letter to President Regan, requesting his help to intervene on behalf of a young pre-teen that our congregation, the Lovingway United Pentecostal Church in Denver, was holding in protective custody. President Regan acknowledged our letter and with his help and that of The Concerned Women for America, this young boy received support.

· Because you have the power to enact global change by speaking up: As President, you have it in your power to advocate for those who have no voice. You have access to world leaders and you can make difference globally by taking a stand.

· Because the killing of innocents is wrong and someone needs to speak up about it: God, our creator, is the giver and taker of life. Every human being that has ever lived will appear before the “judgment seat of Christ” (II Cor. 5:10, 11) and bow before him (Isaiah 45:21-23 and Philippians 2:9-11) and give an account for their actions.

· Because God loves Muslim’s, even those who commit Jihad: In 2005, when I was 75, a businessman invited my wife and I to come to Indonesia to preach the gospel message of the book of Acts. In Jakarta, Java and Sumatra, to Muslims and people of other faiths alike, we shared the apostles’ doctrine of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, and baptized many, by immersion, in Jesus’ name for the remission of their sins, according to Acts 2:38.

So Mr. President, while I know from long life and experience that New Year’s Resolutions can be difficult to keep, I pray that you will have the courage to make these three your motto for 2016, and in doing so, make a difference for our world: SPEAK UP, SPEAK OUT, AND SPEAK TO–it really is that simple coming from you.

Respectfully,

Maurice R. Gordon

Pastor of 50+ years, ordained with the United Pentecostal Church International Author of The Happy Heretick (see ‘A Goodly and Godly Heritage’ chapter on “Batey case” for details on letter to President Regan.) Book available on Amazon.com & pentecostalpublishing.com



9/14/15

I called it “treasure” – but she called it “junk”.

Thanks to you, my beloved Lord Jesus, you have allowed me to live since 1930. I have witnessed many amazing inventions, but none so “mind-boggling as the telephone.

Around 1960, when Doris and our young-uns lived in a suburb or Kalamazoo, Michigan, I excitedly purchased an antique telephone at rummage sale I ran across. It was a heavy, wooden box about a foot tall and eight or so inches across. It still had all the works inside. The receiver hung from a hook on the side and it was designed to hang on the wall. I thought it was a great find.

Being a carpenter (like Jesus), I loved wood – like the quarter-sawn, tiger oak it was made of. To me, it was “love at first sight”, especially since I bought it for only three dollars.  I thought I would mount it on the wall and it would be quite a conversation piece, even though it did not work.

Doris, however, even when we had 8 kids at home, did not – then or now, tolerate a disorderly house. She did not welcome my junk. A few days later, I reluctantly sold it to my sister-in-law for five dollars. My handy brother-in-law refinished it and they found someone to repair it so that it became a working telephone. I probably spent the two dollars profit on a pizza for the kids.

I don’t believe in gambling at all, and especially when it comes to my soul. I want to be a recipient of the exceeding great and precious promises, which include eternal life, that Jesus promises. And I certainly want to escape the incompressible horrible damnation of the fiery hell, “where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched” (see Mark 9:44).  

So if you have never been born-again, by obeying Acts 2:38, Acts 8:12-16, Acts 10:43-48, Acts 19:1-8, I implore you to find a church where you can experience full salvation as practiced by New Testament believers.  Or if you are a former apostate Apostolic, I beg you to repent and return to your first love. Heaven is too wonderful and hell to horrible to take chances with your soul. Here ye the word to the Lord while there is hope.  Matthew 12:32: “but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come”. Jeremiah 14:11: “Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.”

So what’s up with this kissing your cell phone thing????

I have, for 75 years, been warned about the anti-christ and his, mark, number and the number of his name (See Revelation 13 and 14:9-11).  These scriptures emphatically state that any one who takes the mark has committed the unpardonable sin. Only recently, did the Holy Ghost quicken to me to especially notice the reference to the beast’s “image” in verse 14:9.

Jesus referred to the picture of Caesar on a coin as Caesar’s image. Kissing a picture of the anti-Christ is tantamount to worshipping his person!  

So here’s my reason for the focus on the cell phone. About 42 years ago, the Holy Ghost inspired me to prophesy on my Sunday radio broadcast in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Spirit spoke through me, that in the days before the second coming of the Lord, the anti-christ would be seen, simultaneously on television around the world. Technology was not advanced to the point where that was then possible. Now it is possible even on cell phones.

Here are some practical points to ponder:

• When Jesus was on earth in the flesh, the earth’s population was estimated to be a quarter of a billion. With no high-tech, man-made telecommunications, it was impossible for all of mankind to bow before and worship the anti-christ.

•  2 Thessalonians, chapters 2, says that the man of sin will require every person on earth to worship him, or be killed by beheading. Modern day communication technology is the only plausible way that can happen.

•  A tiny needle has already implanted an identifying chip in some people, and it is only a matter of time until it will be mandatory for everyone to have such a chip in their hand or forehead. And – surprise – your cell phone will easily be able to read and transmit your mark to the proper authorities.

 So what’s with this kissing business?

 Here’s a plausible scenario:

1. Your cell phone gives you a wake-up call at – let’s say five AM.

2.  You pick it up and kiss the face of the beast looking at you and recording your I.D. while you do so.

3.  A data base then gives you permission to buy or sell that day.

4.  If you do not respond to the call that day, you will be contacted by your local “snoop” just like they do in China today. And if your behavior continues to be unacceptable, you will bear the consequences and be beheaded

I, and others, are asking for a billion soul, endtime revival of the Acts 2:38 new birth message, (and are hearing testimonies of many receiving their personal Pentecostal experience on face book and other sources) I thank God for the testimonies that are shared on our cell phones.  Let’s continue to use all the technology at our disposal to spread the glad tidings of great joy while we still have the liberty to do so.

So why, why, why???

So why are so many shocking things happening here in the United States and around the world? Because satan – the father of lies, whose only business is to steal, kill and destroy, is in a rage. (See Revelation 12:12.) That is why 2 Timothy 3:1:10 is being fulfilled before our eyes. That is why only 3 percent of our population is gaining so much political power and acceptance of their aberrant and abhorrent sin of Sodom. Some major denominations, are changing their doctrine to accommodate the behavior that the Bible condemns. Such compromisers will certainly take the mark of the beast.

Jesus, the stone that the builder rejected, established only one church. (See Matthew 16:18.) About 120, including Peter who was given the Keys to the Kingdom were filled with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. Peter used the Keys given to him to open the door to the Samaritans in Acts 8:16. In Acts chapter 10, he opened the door of salvation to all of us Gentiles. The Apostle’s doctrine (See Acts 2:36-47) has never been modified or supplanted.

Any denomination or individual who refuses to stand up for what the Bible so clearly teaches will without a doubt, be led like sheep to the slaughter, and meekly receive the mark, name and number of the beast – and worship his image – until they end up – possibly within the next 7 years, with the beast in Revelation 20:10-15.

And why do I believe that the “abomination that maketh desolate” is the sin of Sodom, and the beast, who is the “man of sin” – is himself a sodomite? Please call me and I will share my reasons for making that statement.

Read Genesis 13:13 and all of Genesis 19. Also read Leviticus 18. The word “Sodom,” throughout scripture, is a metaphor for the depravity of fallen man.

So, if what I have written make you upset or angry there is hope for you. ‘Cuz I am your friend. We see our worst enemy when we look in the mirror. No one, including the devil and his demons can force any of us to do anything we don’t want to do. Stand strong for righteousness. 

As the midnight hour draws nigh in this war-torn, sin-cursed world, I pray daily for lost souls.

Meanwhile, over here in the awesome world of the Apostolic Pentecostals – the SON - is shining brightly. The old Testament prophets declared that the latter rain would guarantee an abundant harvest of born again souls in the last days. They assured us that “in the evening time, there shall be light”. Around this globe, in every nation, the Holy Ghost fire is igniting awesome revival of the Book of Acts church. People of every religious persuasion, and those with no religion at all, are experiencing miracles, signs, and wonders by word of mouth and lightning fast media. In fact one of our precious sisters in Kentucky, Kim Davis, a county official, has caught the world’s attention because she has refused – on legal and spiritual grounds, to grant a marriage license to persons of the same sex. She spent six days in jail for her scriptural stand for righteousness. We each need to “Let our light so shine that before men that they may see our good works and glorify father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16) The media made it possible for her stand to be spread far and wide. I am thanking God for those who have head the message of the Acts 2:38 because of her stand.

Jesus can and will force us to bow before Him if we do not do so willingly. (See Isaiah 45:21-23 and Philippians 2:9-11.)

Please use your high-tech phone to call me with questions or comments. I cannot read written comments because I am legally blind but love to talk about the things of the Lord.

JESUS’ BLOOD PURCHASED A WORLD FULL OF SOULS, SO PASS THIS MESSAGE ON TO AT LEAST A THOUSAND OF THEM.

Pastor Maurice R. Gordon

5/10/2015

“HERE COMES THE BRIDE”

(An evocative Mother’s day tribute)

Without equivocation, I proudly admit that I was a “mama’s boy”. (Read my lips – or my archives at aholyroller.com.)

Sister Linnie C. (Dahmer) Gordon was a saint of the Most High God. Because of her sanctified life, many repented of their sins, were baptized in Jesus’ name and received the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, (Acts 2:38, John 3:5-8) because of her Godly example. Among those whose lives she impacted were my five brothers, three sisters, and after many years of praying, my father Joseph, when he was 50 years old. Thankfully, I finally received the Holy Ghost on March 28^th, 1949, the last member of our big family to give my life to the Lord.

All my life, she practiced, preached and sang the word of the old song: “I’ve been saved all day and I’m glad”.

I was more than blessed to have a Ma who loved everyone, especially children. She was never a gossip, or a backbiter. She did not smoke or drink. I don’t ever remember seeing her in a rage or using profanity. Although she was very outspoken, you can be sure she would never lie. She said what she meant, and meant what she said. At no time, (like the Apostle Paul in Romans 1:16) was she ever ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. She didn’t wait for Sundays to sing, and shout praise to the Lord. My co-pastor, Karla Gordon Trevino, is a reasonable facsimile of her grandmother.

When she died, she didn’t want a big to-do, so we had a simple graveside ceremony as she had requested.

When my heart sang, “Here comes the Bride," the Lord gave me a wife.

Doris Manning Gordon and I were married on January 16, 1954. My wife has added her own goodly, and Godly example of a Christian woman to my life, and the lives of our 62+ member extended family. She was blessed to be born of parents who had found the Lord in 1929 before her birth. She was filled with the Holy Ghost as a seven year old child in the livingroom of the family home and has walked faithful with the Lord for almost 74 years.

Both of our mother’s were speaking in tongues moments before they took their last breaths.

Since the focus of this writing is on a bride and her groom, their intimate Holy communication is uniquely sweet and precious. Speaking in tongues is our personal “love language” with our Savior, and will not cease until the rapture of the church when we will be caught up to meet Him in the air. According to I Corinthians 14:4, and Jude 1:20, speaking in tongues edifies. The Apostle Paul said, “I thank my God that I speak in tongues more than ye all” (1 Corinthians 14:18). Without doubt it is the first love that Jesus ordered the church of Ephesus to return to. (See Revelation 2:1-8.)

A Tale of Two Marriages.

Marriage was ordained of the Lord in Genesis. Satan is doing his best to destroy it, but in Revelation 19 1-8 it is established eternally when Jesus takes a bride for Himself.

The other “marriage”, which is actually “the abomination of desolation”, is shamefully and shamelessly being spotlighted on our nation’s center stage. .It is being celebrated – and solemnized by satan’s apostate church. God will soon be bringing the wrath of His indignation upon it. (See Revelation 17, and 18.)

In Genesis chapter two, God gave Adam Eve for a wife and ordained the blessing of marriage between a man and a woman (See Hebrews 13:4). But satan, the father of lies, (See John 8:44) damaged the first marriage, and cause sin and death to be brought upon all mankind.

Just as sure as “the judge of all the earth” replaced his first law concerning marriage,, administered by Moses, That law ended with the death of a man or his wife. God has replacing it  with an endlessly, loving marriage of the “Bride of Christ,.

An “Abomination Marriage” that will soon end in desolation.

There is no way that Doris and I could have imagined when we were married over 61 years ago, that our nation, founded on the basic precepts and dictated of the Holy Bible – would endorse the union of same sex people, and demand that they should be given the same legal status as our solemnized marriage.

We, as saints of God hate no one. We know that our loving Lord Jesus doesn’t want anyone to perish, but wants every one to come to a knowledge of His saving power and grace. (See 2 Peter 3:9, 1Timothy 2:4.)

On the other hand - the approximately 4% of our population who do not believe what the Bible says about sodomy – and other abhorrent deviancies – hates anybody who dares to preach, teach, or write anything, from the Bible, that condemns their disgusting behaviors.

How on earth can anyone, who calls themselves “Christian” accept, and even embrace - what the prophet Daniel, and also Matthew and Luke, called “the abomination that maketh desolate” standing in the temple?

Why is Christianity accepting satan’s diabolical faux-marriage?

Because, sadly, the word “Christian” has come to mean, “Anyone, who more or less, is a follower of Jesus Christ”. It no longer indicates that they live by the words of the Bible in its entirety, but rather pick and choose what they will believe and practice. To be “politically correct”,  many accept and support ungodly behaviors, including same-sex marriage.

But it is only the Holy Ghost filled Saints of God, who Jesus will come back for in the rapture. The bridegroom is coming for a sanctified bride, and in the book of Revelation, only the saints are identified as being His bride.

For an in-depth study of the book of Revelation and the endtimes, I would suggest that you listen to Rev Irvin Baxter of Endtime Ministries. He and I are both longtime ministers of the Untied Pentecostal Church International He has devoted his ministry to a lifetime of study the book of Revelations and has great incite into the future.

My primary focus has always been to encourage people to obey the plan of salvation and live a life free from sin, so that whenever the Lord chooses to call us home, whether in the rapture or through death, we will be ready. Luke 12:40 says it all: “Be ye therefore ready, for the son of man cometh in an hour when ye think not”.

LET US CONCLUDE THIS ESSAY WITH A POINT-COUNTERPOINT OF THE ONLY TWO MARRIAGE OPTIONS AVAILABLE.

SINCE JESUS STATED EMPHATICALLY, IN MATTHEW 16:18, THAT HE WAS ESTABLISHING ONLY ONE CHURCH, BUILT ON HIMSELF, THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE (AND NOT DENOMINTIONS) I’LL CALL IT JESUS’ ONLY BRIDE, OR JOB.

THOSE LEFT BEHIND AFTER JESUS RAPTURES HIS BRIDE, I WILL IDENTFY AS THE FL-NCS, OR “FIGLEAF, NEW CARTERS.” THAT IS BECAUSE THESE CARNAL ECLECTICS DO THEIR OWN THING WITHOUT REGARD TO GOD’S WORD.

1. Description of the bridegroom: JOB, Our beloved bridegroom is the only one called the “God of Gods and King of Kings” (Deuteronomy 10:17). He is never referred to in scripture as a triune. Isaiah 45:21-23, John 1:1-14,1 Timothy 1:17, 1 Timothy 3:16, 1 Timothy 6:15-17, Colossians 2:8-12, Revelation 4:1-2 Revelation 4:8-11. You can find the words, “the Lord” a definite article, about 5,000 times in scripture.

2. Most FL-NCS believe God is three, separate persons, co-equal-co-existent, and co-eternal. The Roman Catholic Church created this tri-theistic, three-headed monstrosity. Tertullian coined the term in 170.A.D. but thankfully, this is not mentioned in the Bible.

3. How does the FL-NCS believe they become a part of the “marriage? We all agree that all have sinned, but there is a much disagreement on how we become part of the bride. It is easy to anger the Lord by either ignoring scripture, like the new birth scriptures in John 3:1-8, and the apostle’s practice of it in the book of Acts, or one can take scriptures out of context. And example is Acts 16:31: “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house”, and ignore the next verses that focus on the New birth experience. One can pick a few scriptures in the book of Roman, and ignore chapter six which puts the spotlight on the new birth. So called, “easy believism”, teachings affirm that one is saved and eternally secure, and heaven bound regardless of their life style. Many believe that all one must do is to pray the sinners prayer, believe on Jesus and confess Him, but James 2:19 says that even the devil believe on Jesus and tremble. And Acts 19 proves that confession alone does not save anyone.

Now here comes JOB and her groom.

Revelation 19:1-8 describes the bridegrooms wife, for she (the holy and pure body of Chirst) “hath made herself ready”. For any who are FL_NCS adherents, who take Ephesians 2:9 (which refers to the boasting of self-righteous hypocrites) and say the good works that we do as a result of our salvation are not necessary, are disregarding the fact that the bride must make herself ready.

May I suggest that we all should again read and study all the scriptures on faith, grace, and good works – like I did recently. Don’t ignore the good works of Ephesians 2:10-11, and then memorize Ephesians 5:25-28.

If you haven’t already done so, I urge you to repent of your sins, be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins and let the Lord fill you with his Holy Spirit. You will speak in tongues and be filled with great joy and have additional power to live a holy and sanctified life full of good works.

Let’s go up with a shout in the rapture. Rendezvous with all the redeemed saints and join the hallelujah chorus in Revelation 19:1-8, when the grand announcement is made: “HERE COMES THE BRIDE”.

In Love,

Pastor Maurice R. Gordon

Pentecostals of Aurora
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11/20/14

BUT WHEN IT COMES TO JESUS – I’M A “FAN-ADDICT”

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Before I plunge headfirst into this deep psychological whirlpool, I unabashedly admit that at birth “I crashed the party” with a bona-fide addictive personality.

Now therefore since everyone’s “cop-out of choice” seems to be the “blame game,” here’s mine:

 Since I have a pointing finger on each of my hands I will “finger” my dad who was an alcoholic when I was born in 1930. Thanks to God, “that old saw” “like father like son” never made me take my first drink. And I rejoice to let the record reflect that in 1949, when he was 50 years old my father repented of his sins, was buried in Jesus’ name for the remission of his sins, and was gloriously filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues. He spent the last 27 years of his life as a victorious saint of God. Shortly after his conversion, I followed suit and obeyed the same scriptures he did. (See John 3:1-8, and Acts 2:37-47)

My only alcohol consumption has been the thimbles full of wine that I have taken in commemoration of the Lord’s Supper that Jesus instituted along with the washing of the saints feet when he an his disciples celebrated the Passover.

My right accusatory finger (thankfully) indicts my Ma, Sister Linne C. Dahmer Gordon.

I was number seven of her nine children. She was converted from a denominational church, physically healed and filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost in about 1924 and lived the rest of her 78 years as a living example of a saint of God.

She raised us in the Apostolic church where the preachers preached about Jesus, the one and only God, who could save anyone from hell and where unrepentant sin-addicts are headed. And they preached about a glorious heaven, where those who lives are redeemed by the blood of Jesus, will have their everlasting abode.

 I slept under the pew, like a lot of Pentecostal children did in the days when the saints went to church often and stayed late in worship and praise to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. (Unfortunately, many in this Laodicean age cannot relate.)

Where was Ma when all this fanaticism was going on? Since she loved to fulfill Psalms 150, she was probably shouting and dancing in the aisles, singing in tongues, or ‘holy-rollin’ with her long hair and long dresses. All night praying in the Holy Ghost was common, so were Bible fasts, where nothing was eaten or drunk, for the word “fast” in the Hebrew and Greek, means “to cover the mouth.”

Night after night revival services, for a month or so, were not uncommon. And we kids loved it. It didn’t frighten us at all. Since, Ma and the other saints were so full of the joy of the Lord, it made us want to be like them. Services like that did make hypocrites and other reprobates, act like, “a worm in hot ashes,” (to borrow one of Ma’s down-south expressions.)

*Now fast-forward to 2014 and my “newness of life”

Since Jesus said, “…Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3).

That scripture, among others, is the reason I, and many other “Jesus Freaks,” sing songs like “I really enjoy livin’ for him, and I wouldn’t trade for anything, cause I really enjoy livin’ for Jesus.”

*The true meaning of being “full of the Holy Ghost.”

When I fill a cup with water, I consider it full when the water reaches the top. But when God fills us with his immeasurable “living waters” we become conduits like a continually flowing artesian well.

John 7:37-39 is and awesome promise that I obeyed. “ In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”Yes, I thirsted, drank deeply, and now I am “hooked on Jesus”.

I now have a better understanding of why Jesus said rivers (plural). David said in Psalms 23, “my cup runneth over.” But Jesus did not refer to a spring, or a fountain, or a creek which is the source of most rivers. Most natural rivers began with pure water but become polluted as they head downward toward the sea. The “rivers” that Jesus promised actually run up hill – to heaven.  

I believe that one of the biggest lies that the devil has concocted and ever told is recorded in Genesis chapter three when he told Eve, “you shall not surely die.” An equally egregious lie is presently sending billions of sincerely scripturally ignorant souls, for whom Christ died, to eternal damnation. Because, like bewitched Eve, they are being assured that they will be instantly saved from their sins – and have the equivalent of a “get out of hell free,” card – without obeying the first and only plan of salvation in the Bible. See Acts 2:37-38, Acts 8:12-16, Acts 10:43-48, Acts 19:1-6, etc. All these listed scriptures are a fulfillment of John 3:5-8.

The false prophets are telling folks that when Jesus said in John 7:38, “He that believeth on me as the scriptures hath said…” really means that all one needs to do to be saved from sin is to repeat what is called the sinner’s prayer, and accept the Lord as your personal Savior, and you are saved from your sins. They disregard what Paul and Peter preached, “One Lord, one faith, and one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5).

We still preach what the Apostles did, and we baptize repentant believers by immersion in the name Jesus for the remission of their sins where his saving blood is applied. The Lord Jesus Christ, the only God of Gods, and King of Kings, still fills them with his Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues as his Spirit gives the utterance. And how can I emphatically affirm this? Because I personally was truly born again just like the Apostles received, preached and lived.

Furthermore, if you can prove, using the authorized King James Version of the Bible – that God has altered, modified, or superseded the message preached in Acts chapter two, and specifically in Acts 2:37:42 – I will reward you with one hundred thousand dollars worth of gold coins.

*So now as a “living-water addict,” I understand John 7:37-39

I now understand that Jesus makes the river of sin where we once lived run backwards when we are born again, for we were born completely polluted and can only be regenerated through the blood of Jesus. Now being empowered by the new birth, we fight the good fight of faith, (See 2 Timothy 2:7 and James 2:14-26.) As we grow in grace, we will one day finish our course and arrive at the source of the springing well of pure water that Christ wants us to achieve. A wonderful place where he sanctifies us with the living water of the Holy Ghost.

But why did Jesus say we would be filled with rivers instead of only one river? The answer is found in Ezekiel 47 where a huge life-giving river started out from the altar in the temple of God. It is a pure river that still flows and grows.

So a soul winner who is addicted to the living water can be a source of innumerable rivers, that spawn new rivers, even after you and I sleep in the dust.

Pastor Maurice R. Gordon

12/19/13

Is it Really True…

 [See footnote: “Closet Hollyrollers,” at the end of this Bible expose.]

 1…That the man of sin – the antichrist – will set himself up as the dictator-god of the whole world?

 Answer: Yes, it is really true. Read it for yourselves. “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).

2…That this antichrist beast, empowered by satan will demand that all those on earth worship him and his image – or be killed. That includes those whose names are recorded in the Lamb’s book of Life?

Answer: Yes, it is true. Read it for yourselves. “And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six” (Revelation 13:12-19).  Also read Revelation 13:1-18, Revelation 14:9-11, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:10.

3…That the false prophet will deceive all those who have rejected the truth of the gospel, or are backsliders, with his miracles?

Answer: Yes, sadly, it is all too true. This false prophet represents every lying spirit – since satan told Eve in the Garden of Eden, that she would not surely die. Of course she died – and brought death upon all mankind. The “father of lies,” mentioned in John 8:44, is the one who, steals, kill and destroys. (See John 10:10).

4…That there are probably more false prophets living today than those mentioned in the Old Testament?

Answer: Yes it is true. Since the population of the world today is about twenty seven times greater than when the apostles lived, and since the scriptures in 2 Timothy 2:13 says: “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived”.

5 …That a born again saint of God, meaning someone who has repented of their sins, been baptized in Jesus’ name for the remission of their sins, and been baptized with the Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues, and are living a sanctified life, according to the Apostles doctrine – can easily discern and identify false prophets?

Answer: Yes, it is true. Since false prophets disagree with my testimony of having been transformed by obeying the Apostles’ doctrine, and that doing so is absolutely necessary for salvation, as is prophesied in the scriptures in Joel 2:28-29 and other scriptures. Anyone denying that receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost is not for us today is easy to identify as a false prophet. They deny that it is possible or necessary - and at the very least - outdated and fanatically irrelevant.

6…That anyone – and everyone- can actually know with full and complete assurance, the answer to the question that bewildered Pontius Pilate, and that he ask Jesus during his trial: “What is truth”?

Answer: Yes, thankfully, you and I can know the truth. Jesus Christ – the living word made flesh – “is the way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6).

7…That satan actually has false prophets, apostles and ministers doing his bidding and preaching his deceptions?

Answer: God – the judge of all the earth – would agree that it is not only true, but it is one of the greatest deceptions of all times. We should all be aware of, and heed, Paul’s warning in 2 Corinthians 11:3-4: “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him”. And in 2 Corinthians 11:3-4: “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their work.”

8…That possibly, billions are being brainwashed and deceived into believing and disseminating doctrines about a false gospel, a false Christ, and a false spirit?

Answer: Yes, it is incredible, but true. And here is the truth: 1Timothy 4:1:-2: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.”

9 …That we are now on the slippery slope to Armageddon, and things are quickly going to get worse and worse?

Answer: Yes, Yes, and Yes. Pay close attention to 2 Timothy 3:12-13: “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived,” Peter the Apostle, just before his death, reminded us where true prophecy comes from, and then sounds a dire warning. ^“Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 2:20-21).“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction” (2 Peter 2:1).

10…That this whole wicked, doomed world can actually know and experience absolute truth?

Answer: Absolutely! God so loved the world – that he provided Himself a Lamb. (See John 3:16 and Genesis 22:8.) They crucified Jesus, who said he was the “way, the truth and the life.” (See John 14:1-9.) But truth is immortal and indestructible, and so is the body of Christ, the only church God established on the Day of Pentecost. Unfortunately men have planted tares among the wheat that are now called denominations.

Jesus said, without equivocation, in Matthew 16:18: “upon this rock I will build my church…” Jesus, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace, (See Isaiah 9:6.) is the only true foundation of the only true church. Unfortunately, the builders rejected the chief corner stone then, as do many today.

“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory”(1 Timothy 3:16). And in Ephesians 5:25-27 Paul describes the church that Jesus will soon rapture. “…Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

Since Hebrews 13:8 states: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever,” So His church is to be the same as was when it was established. Paul said in Ephesians 4:5, “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.” You must be born again to enter into His church (See John 3:5-8.)

Sadly, satan’s false prophets, apostles and ministers, carefully and consistently – and intentionally - omit the following plan of salvation from their teachings:

On the first day of the New Testament church, [read Acts 2] the 120 faithful disciples of Jesus were waiting for the promise of the father as they had been commanded to do. This number included the Apostles, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and her other sons and daughters. While they were praying, they were all baptized with the Holy Spirit of God as prophesied in Joel 2:28-29.Like everyone who receives the Holy Ghost today, they spoke with heavenly tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance. (See Acts 2:4, Acts 10:44-48, Acts 19:1-6, 1 Corinthians 14:18.) I received my own Holy Ghost baptism on March 28^th 1949. I spoke in tongues as the Spirit gave utterance, just like on the day of Pentecost, and still speak in tongues daily.

On the same day, Peter preached the anointed and inspired keynote message of the New Testament church. His message concludes with the plan of salvation that Jesus still confirms today, with signs following. (See Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:16-20, Luke 24:45-49.) “Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers” (Acts 2:37-42).

The Apostles doctrine was believed and preached, without alteration or adulteration, in every one of the New Testament churches, beginning at Jerusalem.

Every one of the New Testament Churches was confronted with false prophets and false doctrines. Paul said in Galatians 1:8-9^:“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Jude admonished everyone willing to listen to: “earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.” (See Jude 1:1-4.)

Some of Peter’s final words in 2 Peter 2:1-22 should cause anyone that really wants to be saved from sin, and escape from an  eternity in the Lake of Fire – to repent and be baptized in Jesus’ name for the remission of their sins and receive their personal new birth. In fact, if you really want to know truth, you will obey John 14:15: “If ye love me, keep my commandments”.

Paul and Silas thought that obeying the commands of the Lord was so important that they baptized the Philippian jailer and his household in the middle of the night. (See Acts 16:32-34.) Contact us day or night, if you desire to be obedient to scriptures, and live in the Denver area. If you live elsewhere, we can direct you to someone who will be happy to baptize you in the wonderful name of Jesus.

Footnote:

This is a personal footnote to all “Closet Holyrollers”, especially TV and Radio leaders.

Back in the 70’s when the “Charismatic Renewal” was newsworthy, Hollywood’s Pat Boone wrote a book about his Holy Ghost infilling. The book is entitled, “A New song.” I remember reading in Time Magazine about how he was thrown out of the Church of Christ because of speaking in tongues. John Sherrill, of Guidepost Magazine, also wrote his own testimony in his book, “They speak with other Tongues.”

I also heard that Doctor Billy Graham, and many other religious leaders, have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues. Unfortunately many of them fulfilled John 12:42: “Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue.”

Now Jesus established His church with 12 Apostles, none of whom were members of the clergy, but all were Spirit filled believers who unashamedly preached the Apostles’ Doctrine, even until their deaths.

My hearts, desire – before it is too late – is that every intellectually dishonest soul that has been ashamed of the truth will renounce the hidden things of dishonesty and remember 1 Corinthians 4:5: “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.” So join me and let us spread the truth of the Apostles’ Doctrine around the whole wide world!

Here’s my final F.Y.I.: Every saint of God knows that when they repented, [repent and repentance is mentioned about 100 times in the New Testament] it was a work of faith and obedience that Jesus honored when He saved them from their sins. But, for obvious reasons, satan does not permit his ministers to teach or preach repentance from sin. We all need to take a cue from Jonah who learned things the hard way. Jonah 2:8: “They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”

Pastor Maurice R. Gordon

1/21/13
Why, after 31 years, should the “95 Theses” be copied?  Because God hates idolatry.

Jesus Christ, our Creator, (John 1:10-12), the mighty God, the everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace, (Isaiah 9:6), hates idolatry. But he does love idolaters - and all sinners - enough that He who is Spirit, (John 4:24), became incarnate and shed His blood on the cross, bleeding and dying that all of us might be saved. (See Acts 20:28, 1John 3:16.)

The original poster, (copies of it are now available), is  22 by 34 inches and contains 95 statements, based on scripture, proving that Jesus Christ is the onlywise God. If and honest person reads it they will be convinced that there is only one God, revealed in the person of Jesus Christ.  

The popular pagan Roman Catholic doctrine that God is three separate persons – co-equal, co-existent, and co-eternal is actually, unabashed, tri-theism. The saints of the Old and New Testaments never hear of such a concept, even though idolatry was commonplace.

If you carefully read the first statement in the Ten Commandments, (Deuteronomy 5:6), it begins with two revelatory words: “I AM.” (Jesus is the Great “I AM”). Those words are followed by a dire warning: “Thou shalt have no other God’s before me.” Verse 9 adds: “for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God.”

This may shock you, but Exodus 23:13 tells us just how jealous He really is. “Make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.” (Also see Psalms 16:4.)

Since the modern three-God teaching –embraced ignorantly by many – is really an idol, called “blessed and holy”,  I intend to refer it in the future in the lower case, l.c.t.

Certainly Satan, who we all know is the father of lies, (John 8:44), concocted the l.c.t., and God who chooses “delusions,” and allows those who reject truth to believe a lie, (l.c.t.) and be damned – tolerates this idolatry - for now. (See 2 Thessalonians 2: 10-11.)

In my opinion, the irony of ironies is the fact that Satan and all the demons believe in one God – not the l.c.t. - and tremble. (James 2:19). They tremble because they know that Jesus has “all power in heaven and earth,” (Matthew 28:18), and is getting ready to judge and throw all who reject baptism in Jesus’ name into the fires of hell.

BECAUSE GOD HATES IDOLATRY.

Pastor Maurice R. Gordon

August 29, 2012

Warning: Get ready – and stay ready – for the trump of God is about to sound! (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) You will agree that it’s true, when you see the obvious connection between, “the abomination which maketh desolate” and our current world.

“And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits” (Daniel 11:31-32)

What’s next? The anti-Christ (the man of sin, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, Revelation 13) will force everyone that takes his “mark,” to bow and submit to his vulgar blasphemies.

Who’s Talking?

“Therefore rejoice ye heavens… (but) woe to the inhabiters of the earth.. for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath  but a short time” (Revelation 12:12). So, since God’s elect have “power over all the powers of the enemy,” (Luke 10:19), where are the bold, anointed prophets that, “cry aloud, spare not, and lift up their voice like a trumpet” (Isaiah 58:1)? Where are the vaunted “watchmen on the wall?” Why aren’t they sounding the warning? Are they sound asleep? Why are the “men of the cloth” silent? Is there cloth filling their mouths?

The other side is talking. Satan just put his own words into the mouth of the leader of the “free world” as he shamelessly, on his prestigious “bully pulpit,” thumbing his nose at the true God, and to please the 2.8% of our nation who practice sodomy, said he approves of their so-called marriages.

And I’m talking, whether others do or not. Even knowing the threat of the dire consequences of the new jury-rigged “hate speech” laws – I will not ever cease to tell, write, and give the glorious truth of God – in love.

God has things to say, too

Since we must all stand before the Judge of all the earth, we should consider what will we say when He reads (and judges us by) these scriptures:

• “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him” (Genesis 2:18).

• “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:27-28).  Note: Sodomites cannot possibly fulfill God’s command, since they cannot reproduce “after their kind.”

• Read Genesis 6 and learn that only 4 men and their wives and the “male and his female” of every creature, escaped death.

• Genesis 13:13 reveals God’s hatred of perverse sodomy: “But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.”

• Then go read Genesis chapters 13 and 19, and you will discover, amazingly, that the “vale of Siddim” was once a “well-watered plain.” But an earth-shaking blast of fire and brimstone left it the lowest spot on earth, (theDead Sea, 1300 feet below sea level). The men ofSodom, were so blinded by their deviant, demonic lusts, that they never realized that their intended rape victims were the very angels of God, sent to destroy them for their abhorrent depravity.

• In Leviticus 18, God condemns lewdness, nudeness, and sexual immorality in general. In verse 22, he proscribes sodomy. “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).

• What could God have said in Deuteronomy 23:17 to more empathetically reveal his hatred of sexual immorality? “There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel” (brought into the house of the Lord).

A few more final points to ponder:

I have shared some of the scriptures condemning sexual perversions, and the word “Sodom” is used throughout the Old and New Testaments as a metaphor for God’s fiery judgment against those who hate God, His word and His people.

At this point, God’s Holy Spirit is leading me to mention something personal admission. I am an 82 year-old kid who loves all the kids – boys and girls – on this doomed earth. I want to do my very best to help them learn about Acts 2:38-47, and be saved from the soon-coming conflagration of 2 Peter 3:11-14: “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?  Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.”

The Story of Luis

Young Luis is a microcosm of a global conundrum. I met him recently when he came to our hotel room inPueblo,COto fix a sluggish drain in our bathroom. He was courteous and polite, handsome, and in his mid-20s. I was working on this study and explained to him why I was writing it and gave him my card. Then I asked him if he was married. Without hesitating, he said he wasn’t but he and his girlfriend had been living together for five or six years. Obviously, I asked him why they didn’t get married. He said, “Because it’s too expensive.”

Welcome to Satan’s beguiled, blinded, desensitized-by-Hollywood’s spell. Apostate (not Apostolic) religion’s deceptions have alienated Luis and the majority of those who don’t follow the scriptures. Revelation 3:20 refers to blind people who don’t know they’re blind and naked people who are unaware of their nakedness. What is truly amazing is they are rich members of thechurchofLaodicea. They are neither hot nor cold, so God is sick of them.

Isaiah prophesied in 5:20-21 about what we are witnessing in 2012: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”

Paul explains why much of the obscenely disgusting aspects of deviant behavior was and is known by so few, but the death toll of this filth is a well-kept secret. Homosexuals are made – not born. Satan, not God, is responsible for their behavior. Someone either forced them into that sin – or, of their own volition, they chose it. The New Testament, in many places, when listing sins, puts fornication at the top. It’s obviously the most common and worse sin of all.

Things have sure changed since the 1970s

Satan’s war of attrition is presently succeeding. The year was 1973 and the case was called Roe vs. Wade. The Supreme Court of our nation opened the blood-gates of abortion and today, over 150 million boys and girls have been butchered. That decision was the work of Satan, who hates God’s unique blessed holy matrimony, and it opened wide the doors of the sexual revolution. We should never forget that God will judge everyone responsible for that innocent blood. It too cries out like Abel’s blood.  (See Hebrews 11:4.)

During that same era, the American Psychiatric Association was pressured by the pro-homosexual  lobby, to change their professional, clinical categorization on homosexuality, where they stated that homosexual behavior was caused by a mental illness.

And at that same time, as pastor of the Church of the Full Gospel inGrand Rapids,Michigan, I ran into a theoretical “brick wall.” The Lord had blessed our daily 3-line ad in the personal column of the Grand Rapids Press. I tried to draw attention to my ad by using the word SEX as an attention-getter, then mentioning the Gospel. But the paper would not tolerate it! (I’m not making this up!)

Are we actually living in the same world I lived in 40 years ago? The answer is obvious.

With a population 30 times greater than when Jesus walked on the earth, and the explosion in communication capability, the President’s recent endorsement of same-sex marriage should be a wakeup call to both the saints of God and those sinners who have not yet been totally brainwashed by today’s decadent society.

There is hope

Before I conclude this writing, I must call your attention to the Apostle Paul’s graphic description of what could happen to anyone who turns away from the truth of God and is turned over to Satan’s reprobate mind. Study Romans chapter one, especially verses 21-32. You’ll learn that, although no one is born this way – anyone could die this way!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 is one of the many scriptures that debunk Satan’s bald-faced lie that tries to prove that there is no healing (deliverance) from homosexuality. God can forgive any sin except   suicide, (because one cannot repent)  and “blasphemy against the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 12:31). God our Creator, an invisible spirit, was manifest in the flesh for one reason: “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live” (Ezekiel 18:23)?

“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory” (1 Timothy 3:16).

“He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8).

Pastor Maurice R. Gordon