I have a friend that is a self proclaimed agnostic and he wants to debate everything I say. However, I get confused when speaking with him about my faith in God.
I lost a 21 year old son 18 years ago yesterday from cancer and so did my friend when his son drowned in a nearby lake a few years ago.
After the loss of my son I tried to run from God because it felt like He let me down. Since then I have learned to just trust God no matter what. My friend is still running away. He knows the word more than I do and he is considerably much older than me.
Somehow God put us together to be friends and I believe he is watching my every move.
This teaching of free will is spot on and I will share it with him with hopes he will listen and God will move on him beyond his understanding and reasoning.
Thank you for your ministry and passion for Christ.
I am so sorry for your loss, Terry. God is so understanding about grief; I am thankful to Him that He has led you to know the truth (although it was your decision to believe in it, just as Jimmy showed in this message...so you are a walking testimony for your friend and others how the "light" can take you out of the darkest of places). I will pray for your friend. The Holy Spirit will help you in talking with your friend about the truth. Thank you, Jesus :-)
My heart sank when I read about you loosing your son at age 21 to cancer. Our youngest brother also died from cancer just before his 21st birthday, 36 years ago. We all struggled with our faith and blamed God for taking him from us. My parents especially did, but after time we all returned to our faith in God. My parents and other brother are now with him in heaven and with the Lord and I believe that with all my heart. I am glad that you have come back to your faith in God, I know there will always be very difficult times for you. That pain never completely goes away. I will be praying for you and your friend as well. Do you have other children?
Yes I have another son who has two children and a wonderful wife who works at my business. They all love God and I am so thankful for them.
I am also thankful to God for forgiveness and never giving up on me.
During the grieving process I looked up at God and gave Him the biggest cursing ever then realizing what I’d just done I felt like I had gone too far with my anger.
Then His Holy Spirit moved like I’d never seen or felt before.
I felt Gods grace, forgiveness, peace, long-suffering and more.
His love was overwhelming and I now say that’s the day I lost my religion and found a relationship. He is everything He says He is.
Terry, I'm so sorry for the loss of your son, as well as your friend's son. Following the Lord doesn't exempt us from sorry and hardships. These are the times we must lean on him even more so. This man is blessed to have you as a friend. I pray he will open his heart to the Lord and find the peace only Jesus can bring. For the loving peace in your life too. God bless you.
What a great message! Our loving God gives us a choice. And His blessings are more than anyone can imagine. His faithfulness to His promises to us... He never let's me down. He answers my every question. Thank you. I read this with my morning coffee and my heart is full. Thank you.
So true, Pastor Jimmie, so true. Someone who says a loving God would never allow anyone to go to hell is, just as you said, rejecting any higher moral authority than themselves and rejecting any consequences for their own choices. And, as you also noted, rejecting any ultimate justice. So why, if God knew we would sin and disobey, did He give us free will in the first place? Because he created us in His image and free will is one of the attributes of that image, and because God didn’t want to create preprogrammed robots. He wants creatures who freely choose to love and obey Him. We all know that we can’t force someone to love us, and even if we could force them, we wouldn’t want to, because we’d know that it wasn’t real.
I think the scariest passage in the Bible is one that Jesus himself said — wide is the gate and broad is the road that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat. But strait is the gate and narrow the path that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it. That is the most sobering thing one could ever hear.
The daily choices that we make can determine where we spend eternity! The devil is roaming around seeking who he can destroy. Focus on Jesus with every decision! AMEN!
Hi Meg, I'm aware of this deal... don't like it at all, but the five Americans do get to come home. They don't need this money to develop their first nuclear bomb... it's completion isn't a financial matter. Israel is about to end that program... tick tock.
Also just heard on the radio news that something is up between the US, Saudi's, Palestinians, and Israel. Could be more "land for peace" negotiations. And also may explain the weird fires in Maui. I've lived in Florida for 60 years and can not recall a single time fires were caused by a hurricane or passing hurricane....
Hi Michael, There's been some comments by me with articles about that news the past couple of weeks and Jimmy has talked/written about it. This is not a land for peace deal. Something entirely different. There was discussion about a 2 state solution early on being included, but no longer on the table. And that was a Saudi pushed item. At this time William Koenig hasn't attributed the fires in Maui to this and hasn't attributed any such disaster in 2023 to any discussions involving Israel and Palestinians.
Great Sunday morning “wake up” Grace so abundant and free, to all who will just take it!!! Thank you Father for your provision bought by your Son, so that, we can spend eternity with you.
WE WERE MADE FOR ETERNITY!!!!! That’s why we long for it with all of creation. Praying for us all Tipsters🙏⛅️🎺✝️✡️
The garden also revealed the tactics of our enemy. Satan. His tactics never change. Imitate God and infiltrate all things of God. He’s the father of lies and comes to Kill, Steal and Destroy! The Lord put this on my heart when I asked what?
He comes to steal my faith.
He comes to kill my hope
He comes to destroy my joy.
You can move the faith, hope and joy around in that sinister plan. In other words, he comes to steal my faith, hope and joy. He comes to kill my faith, hope and joy. He comes to destroy my faith, hope and joy.
Satan’s tactics never change, yet he does evolve with the times and culture. He can be very subtle and very bold. Today it seems like evil has stepped out of the darkness and bodily walks in the light. Pride in my opinion. They have announced their plan and to heck with anyone who doesn’t like it.
Spencer Smith has posted his 4th edition of 3rd Adam (Satan). He exposes our enemy in our music and churches. Mystery Babylon and Divine Feminism.
In any war, a critical strategy is to know your enemy and be able to identify him on the battle field. This documentary is one way to see your enemy at work since the garden, moving throughout history. Highly recommend it. I will share the link to part 1 in case you want to watch.
Art, I really appreciate you letting me know about Spencer Smith's ministry. This guy is all about truth. I have spent the last couple of hours watching his channel and believe he truly wants to serve God by speaking against just about every evil out there. Wow...I knew it was bad out there...but I didn't know it was THIS BAD. I can't even believe what is going on in the church (he exposed so many HORRIBLE things happening in the church and even Christian music). It makes me so sad that the world is in the state it's in now. How did we let it get this bad?! I'm so disappointed in mankind. My heart breaks for God. Oh, Lord...please forgive us! I hope we really are in the last days. I really look forward to being with Jesus where it is all good.
Good word, Pastor Jimmy. God doesn’t send anybody to hell, they send themselves to hell. You hit the nail on the head that’s for sure. And you explained it so well. It’s pretty simple, John 3:16. Choose Jesus, and have eternal life, reject Jesus, and perish.
Here is a beautiful scripture that I share with others: "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you by His poverty might become rich" - 2 Cor 8:9. Why would anyone want to reject the Son of God when He willingly sacrificed himself for all sinners, though He was perfect and blameless? It was a heavy price to pay (the heaviest of all time). He most definitely did not do this so that everyone would be allowed into heaven. He gives us free choice to believe that He did this for us all who believe in Him (the only way).
Happy Sunday y’all! We’re still burning up in TX🥵 My mom said yesterday, we are having a cold front this week. It will only be 99° lol That made me laugh. Pastor Jimmy, this was an excellent word on Salvation, sin & the reality of hell for the lost. I always appreciate when posts like this are shareable and easy to understand. We are all called to be fishers of men…. keep sharing the good news and love big!!💛🎣🙏🔜
It’s not too late to buy a ticket to the conference in September. If God is moving your heart to come…. Come on!!!
Kari, as I read the first paragraph, people came to mind I wanted to share this with, wondering if it was shareable. Then, that beautiful red block “Share” came up!
I do have a question: for the privacy of those who comment, I assume that the Comments page is not viewable to non-subscribers? Thanks! We, in the Metroplex (and far beyond) are in this heat-thing together :)
Blondie, you can always share anything I post :) Unless you are a paid subscriber, you can't view or leave a comment on TP. Hope that helps. Love you sister 💛
In these most difficult times of life, in our anger and extreme pain, our faith is what ultimately gets us through it. I remember the pain and anger my parents had and what they went through, but ultimately that is what brought us all through it. I had 2 other siblings as well and we all struggled with our faith, but we all returned to our faith in God. Something that I remember to this day is at my brother’s funeral, my mother’s first cousin who preached the funeral said, we all know that in the summer of 88, we could all be watching our television when Damon wins the gold in the Olympics. But he would tell me now, I have won the gold and I don’t need that one. Damon was a swimmer and very very good. He graduated high school in 1984, qualified for Olympic trials where he swam very well,even though he didn’t make the team that year. He was also awarded a full swimming scholarship to university of Texas. He was only able to go his freshman year. It was at the end he was diagnosed with bone cancer and passed away 2 years later. He still owns a few swimming records for the state of Louisiana, some over 40 years old. He was destined for great things, but now we all realize God had him destined for something much greater!
I would appreciate any feedback, positive or negative (or constructive 😂🤪) on a thread I wrote this mornin thru Substack. Still trying to figure out how to publish content on it.
Reading about Satan in the garden of Eden was very interesting.
Perhaps what was written was a outline of the evil with in that horrible Satan.
We know satan wants all the souls he can have or lie to just enough people enough that they actually do bodily harm to themselves.
However, as Believers in the Holy Scriptures that GOD provided, and the coming of Jesus from the virgin, we know is truth. If something is in Holy Scriptures, it is true
So many things have already happened that we're written in the Bible.
Jesus Christ himself said .... He would be back for us
Let us not worry about timing, let us keep ourselves in FAITH and reading scriptures. The BLOOD of CHRIST JESUS is upon us. Let us rejoice when each prediction of Jesus comes to be.
There will be hard times. But Jesus will not forsake us or forget us.
As time will pass, everything GOD has putin the Bible will happen.
This was great! I recently heard John Bevere say he’d asked a pastor that had fallen into an extra marital affair - the man was trying to make things right so John curiously asks him “when did you fall out of love with God?” The pastor replied, “ OH, I never stopped loving God and praying! I just didn’t fear God!” That said it all. It explains so much! It’s also very concerning that there are many living that life and thinking they’re going to be just fine. I’m praying that God restore those that are in this same situation. That He will restore their first love. That He will show up in such a way that they can’t ever turn their backs again! 💜
Thank you Pastor Jimmy.
I have a friend that is a self proclaimed agnostic and he wants to debate everything I say. However, I get confused when speaking with him about my faith in God.
I lost a 21 year old son 18 years ago yesterday from cancer and so did my friend when his son drowned in a nearby lake a few years ago.
After the loss of my son I tried to run from God because it felt like He let me down. Since then I have learned to just trust God no matter what. My friend is still running away. He knows the word more than I do and he is considerably much older than me.
Somehow God put us together to be friends and I believe he is watching my every move.
This teaching of free will is spot on and I will share it with him with hopes he will listen and God will move on him beyond his understanding and reasoning.
Thank you for your ministry and passion for Christ.
I am so sorry for your loss, Terry. God is so understanding about grief; I am thankful to Him that He has led you to know the truth (although it was your decision to believe in it, just as Jimmy showed in this message...so you are a walking testimony for your friend and others how the "light" can take you out of the darkest of places). I will pray for your friend. The Holy Spirit will help you in talking with your friend about the truth. Thank you, Jesus :-)
Amen MEG!!!!
Dear Kris how are you feeling today
My heart sank when I read about you loosing your son at age 21 to cancer. Our youngest brother also died from cancer just before his 21st birthday, 36 years ago. We all struggled with our faith and blamed God for taking him from us. My parents especially did, but after time we all returned to our faith in God. My parents and other brother are now with him in heaven and with the Lord and I believe that with all my heart. I am glad that you have come back to your faith in God, I know there will always be very difficult times for you. That pain never completely goes away. I will be praying for you and your friend as well. Do you have other children?
Thank you Kim.
Yes I have another son who has two children and a wonderful wife who works at my business. They all love God and I am so thankful for them.
I am also thankful to God for forgiveness and never giving up on me.
During the grieving process I looked up at God and gave Him the biggest cursing ever then realizing what I’d just done I felt like I had gone too far with my anger.
Then His Holy Spirit moved like I’d never seen or felt before.
I felt Gods grace, forgiveness, peace, long-suffering and more.
His love was overwhelming and I now say that’s the day I lost my religion and found a relationship. He is everything He says He is.
I wrote a reply, but I must not have hit reply before typing. I am not technical savvy, lol
Terry, I'm so sorry for the loss of your son, as well as your friend's son. Following the Lord doesn't exempt us from sorry and hardships. These are the times we must lean on him even more so. This man is blessed to have you as a friend. I pray he will open his heart to the Lord and find the peace only Jesus can bring. For the loving peace in your life too. God bless you.
Praying with you, Terry for your friend.
What a great message! Our loving God gives us a choice. And His blessings are more than anyone can imagine. His faithfulness to His promises to us... He never let's me down. He answers my every question. Thank you. I read this with my morning coffee and my heart is full. Thank you.
So true, Pastor Jimmie, so true. Someone who says a loving God would never allow anyone to go to hell is, just as you said, rejecting any higher moral authority than themselves and rejecting any consequences for their own choices. And, as you also noted, rejecting any ultimate justice. So why, if God knew we would sin and disobey, did He give us free will in the first place? Because he created us in His image and free will is one of the attributes of that image, and because God didn’t want to create preprogrammed robots. He wants creatures who freely choose to love and obey Him. We all know that we can’t force someone to love us, and even if we could force them, we wouldn’t want to, because we’d know that it wasn’t real.
I think the scariest passage in the Bible is one that Jesus himself said — wide is the gate and broad is the road that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat. But strait is the gate and narrow the path that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it. That is the most sobering thing one could ever hear.
The daily choices that we make can determine where we spend eternity! The devil is roaming around seeking who he can destroy. Focus on Jesus with every decision! AMEN!
So looking forward to eternity in heaven... some current news... tick tock.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/explosions-rock-syrian-capital-with-no-immediate-word-on-source-or-targets/
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-754467 Iran close to testing nuclear weapons for first time - European intel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-delays-vacation-to-meet-with-halevi-amid-concerns-over-idf-readiness/
Looks like Damascus got plummeted last night!!!
They are glutton for punishment. :)
I agree, David! Here is another important piece of the puzzle (more $ now available for Iran to develop their nuclear weapons):
https://en.irna.ir/news/85197311/Zionists-furious-Iran-won-release-of-funds-under-deal-with-US
Hi Meg, I'm aware of this deal... don't like it at all, but the five Americans do get to come home. They don't need this money to develop their first nuclear bomb... it's completion isn't a financial matter. Israel is about to end that program... tick tock.
Also just heard on the radio news that something is up between the US, Saudi's, Palestinians, and Israel. Could be more "land for peace" negotiations. And also may explain the weird fires in Maui. I've lived in Florida for 60 years and can not recall a single time fires were caused by a hurricane or passing hurricane....
Hi Michael, There's been some comments by me with articles about that news the past couple of weeks and Jimmy has talked/written about it. This is not a land for peace deal. Something entirely different. There was discussion about a 2 state solution early on being included, but no longer on the table. And that was a Saudi pushed item. At this time William Koenig hasn't attributed the fires in Maui to this and hasn't attributed any such disaster in 2023 to any discussions involving Israel and Palestinians.
Great Sunday morning “wake up” Grace so abundant and free, to all who will just take it!!! Thank you Father for your provision bought by your Son, so that, we can spend eternity with you.
WE WERE MADE FOR ETERNITY!!!!! That’s why we long for it with all of creation. Praying for us all Tipsters🙏⛅️🎺✝️✡️
The garden also revealed the tactics of our enemy. Satan. His tactics never change. Imitate God and infiltrate all things of God. He’s the father of lies and comes to Kill, Steal and Destroy! The Lord put this on my heart when I asked what?
He comes to steal my faith.
He comes to kill my hope
He comes to destroy my joy.
You can move the faith, hope and joy around in that sinister plan. In other words, he comes to steal my faith, hope and joy. He comes to kill my faith, hope and joy. He comes to destroy my faith, hope and joy.
Satan’s tactics never change, yet he does evolve with the times and culture. He can be very subtle and very bold. Today it seems like evil has stepped out of the darkness and bodily walks in the light. Pride in my opinion. They have announced their plan and to heck with anyone who doesn’t like it.
Spencer Smith has posted his 4th edition of 3rd Adam (Satan). He exposes our enemy in our music and churches. Mystery Babylon and Divine Feminism.
In any war, a critical strategy is to know your enemy and be able to identify him on the battle field. This documentary is one way to see your enemy at work since the garden, moving throughout history. Highly recommend it. I will share the link to part 1 in case you want to watch.
https://youtu.be/lnMpfoxYSFY
Art, I really appreciate you letting me know about Spencer Smith's ministry. This guy is all about truth. I have spent the last couple of hours watching his channel and believe he truly wants to serve God by speaking against just about every evil out there. Wow...I knew it was bad out there...but I didn't know it was THIS BAD. I can't even believe what is going on in the church (he exposed so many HORRIBLE things happening in the church and even Christian music). It makes me so sad that the world is in the state it's in now. How did we let it get this bad?! I'm so disappointed in mankind. My heart breaks for God. Oh, Lord...please forgive us! I hope we really are in the last days. I really look forward to being with Jesus where it is all good.
I will watch it! Thank you for sharing, Art!
Thank you, Art
Thanh’s Art
Good word, Pastor Jimmy. God doesn’t send anybody to hell, they send themselves to hell. You hit the nail on the head that’s for sure. And you explained it so well. It’s pretty simple, John 3:16. Choose Jesus, and have eternal life, reject Jesus, and perish.
Amen
Here is a beautiful scripture that I share with others: "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you by His poverty might become rich" - 2 Cor 8:9. Why would anyone want to reject the Son of God when He willingly sacrificed himself for all sinners, though He was perfect and blameless? It was a heavy price to pay (the heaviest of all time). He most definitely did not do this so that everyone would be allowed into heaven. He gives us free choice to believe that He did this for us all who believe in Him (the only way).
Happy Sunday y’all! We’re still burning up in TX🥵 My mom said yesterday, we are having a cold front this week. It will only be 99° lol That made me laugh. Pastor Jimmy, this was an excellent word on Salvation, sin & the reality of hell for the lost. I always appreciate when posts like this are shareable and easy to understand. We are all called to be fishers of men…. keep sharing the good news and love big!!💛🎣🙏🔜
It’s not too late to buy a ticket to the conference in September. If God is moving your heart to come…. Come on!!!
Kari, as I read the first paragraph, people came to mind I wanted to share this with, wondering if it was shareable. Then, that beautiful red block “Share” came up!
I do have a question: for the privacy of those who comment, I assume that the Comments page is not viewable to non-subscribers? Thanks! We, in the Metroplex (and far beyond) are in this heat-thing together :)
Blondie, you can always share anything I post :) Unless you are a paid subscriber, you can't view or leave a comment on TP. Hope that helps. Love you sister 💛
In these most difficult times of life, in our anger and extreme pain, our faith is what ultimately gets us through it. I remember the pain and anger my parents had and what they went through, but ultimately that is what brought us all through it. I had 2 other siblings as well and we all struggled with our faith, but we all returned to our faith in God. Something that I remember to this day is at my brother’s funeral, my mother’s first cousin who preached the funeral said, we all know that in the summer of 88, we could all be watching our television when Damon wins the gold in the Olympics. But he would tell me now, I have won the gold and I don’t need that one. Damon was a swimmer and very very good. He graduated high school in 1984, qualified for Olympic trials where he swam very well,even though he didn’t make the team that year. He was also awarded a full swimming scholarship to university of Texas. He was only able to go his freshman year. It was at the end he was diagnosed with bone cancer and passed away 2 years later. He still owns a few swimming records for the state of Louisiana, some over 40 years old. He was destined for great things, but now we all realize God had him destined for something much greater!
This was supposed to be a reply to Terry Tyndall, I thought I hit reply before I typed it. I am not technical savvy!
Sorry Kim! Looks like you already replied to Terry!
I would appreciate any feedback, positive or negative (or constructive 😂🤪) on a thread I wrote this mornin thru Substack. Still trying to figure out how to publish content on it.
https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/111baddb-10b0-4dec-99f4-3349fb8fda09?r=qy3co&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=share
Reading about Satan in the garden of Eden was very interesting.
Perhaps what was written was a outline of the evil with in that horrible Satan.
We know satan wants all the souls he can have or lie to just enough people enough that they actually do bodily harm to themselves.
However, as Believers in the Holy Scriptures that GOD provided, and the coming of Jesus from the virgin, we know is truth. If something is in Holy Scriptures, it is true
So many things have already happened that we're written in the Bible.
Jesus Christ himself said .... He would be back for us
Let us not worry about timing, let us keep ourselves in FAITH and reading scriptures. The BLOOD of CHRIST JESUS is upon us. Let us rejoice when each prediction of Jesus comes to be.
There will be hard times. But Jesus will not forsake us or forget us.
As time will pass, everything GOD has putin the Bible will happen.
Have no fear. Pray and love Jesus.
Pastor Jimmy, this is the best explanation I have ever heard, and a big 'thank you' for allowing us to freely share. I have posted to Facebook.
This was great! I recently heard John Bevere say he’d asked a pastor that had fallen into an extra marital affair - the man was trying to make things right so John curiously asks him “when did you fall out of love with God?” The pastor replied, “ OH, I never stopped loving God and praying! I just didn’t fear God!” That said it all. It explains so much! It’s also very concerning that there are many living that life and thinking they’re going to be just fine. I’m praying that God restore those that are in this same situation. That He will restore their first love. That He will show up in such a way that they can’t ever turn their backs again! 💜
Awesome post Pastor Jimmy! Thank you.
VIDEOS SORTH VIEWING:
NOAH'S BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW
Carter Conlon Times Square Church NYC 8/12/23
https://youtu.be/TbXduqjvA00
DECEPTION
Michael Youssef
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/2023/august/deception-pastor-michael-youssefs-warning-about-biblical-illiteracy-the-antichrist-should-have-christians-on-notice
LIVING IN THE DAZE OF DECEPTION
Jack Hibbs
https://www.youtube.com/live/rIFQLFojGA8?feature=share
AMEN AND AMEN, Pastor Jimmy. Praying for doors to open. ✝️🙏