Jesus: Like Him I’ll Be!

Jesus: Like Him I’ll Be!                              9-25-22 Re: 12-1-24     Kelly Durant

 

1 Corinthians 2:16  For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

 

2. Back in the hippie times, if a man had long hair and a beard and was somewhat handsome, friends would usually gaze a moment and then comment, “Look, he looks like Jesus!” Some people with a beard and long hair may remind us of the paintings we have seen of Jesus, but exactly how this olive skinned Jewish man actually looked physically, we will never know, artists can only speculate. 

 

But we can know Him spiritually! Jesus left us with so many teachings that it takes a lifetime to discover all the depths implicated by Him. 1 Corinthians 2:16 

For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

 

You or I can ‘know’ Jesus, but how? Only by His teachings! Are there not in the world too many doctrines and churches, too many books and personal opinions, and too many immoral bad examples to the point that most of us just want to give up? Never give up! Each of us is special and loved by Him and He will show you what your mission is, what your calling in life is, and where you need to go.

 

3. Also, learn this: You learn best when you teach a subject! Jesus’ teachings should be spread and never be limited! Never did Jesus say only have my teachings confined to people going to church! It was the contrary, he sent His disciples out to preach the gospel to every creature! Mark 16:15 

 

Many people form the idea that Jesus is someone only the preacher should mention, and that is occasionally, that He was a good and holy man that we should ‘try’ to be like Him. Jesus told you and me to… Luke 14:23

Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. That implies everyone!

 

After Jesus did healings, He would say, go and show yourself in the temple so others could see the miracle; after Jesus would forgive people of their sins like the Samaritan woman at the well, He would inspire to the point that all that person could do was talk about Him to everyone! If Jesus has touched you, you will not be able to shut up about it! Acts 4:13 It will overflow, and people will know you experienced something very real and life changing! We must tell it! It is your story and mine that is authentic, and people see the love of God in us and want it.

 

4. And speaking of telling your story, there are so many people today that have experienced miracles! How many times have you heard, “The doctor gave me 3 months to live but Jesus healed me!”? The miracles have not stopped!

 

I have seen a person get healed from weak knees and get x-rays to prove they no longer needed an operation to stop the swelling after a prayer! I have seen the miracle of Jesus stopping a car from crashing into us! I have seen people stop using addictive drugs after a prayer and stay on the right path healed afterwards. Miracles do happen and we need to recognize it is Jesus doing them... today!

 

And they happen for all to glorify God! Luke 18:42 Then Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has made you well.” 43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed Him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God. When God does something for you, share the good news, please!

 

5. We can know Jesus’ love by observing the contrast of those who despise Him. Matthew 11:6 “And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.” It is a given, there is a vast majority of people out there that are evil and get offended by Jesus because they do not want to be reminded of their unrepentant ugly, destructive sins! 

 

The fact that Jesus exposed(s) hypocrites, the fact that His presence brings awareness, the fact that He and His teachings are absolute truth is too much for some people!  Liars, lazy ones, and deceivers hate Him for exposing their schemes and this is what makes Jesus so repulsive to them along with the average carnal corrupt individual that conforms to the perverted ways of the world. 

 

I have been attacked many times over telling others about Jesus and do you know why ‘those people’ never won me over to their side? Because I could feel, see, and hear the hate they had for me just because I talked about Jesus! My logical reasoning mind kicks in these situations and asks, why would I leave the teachings of Jesus who inspires me to do good for others, to love God and others, in exchange for the cognitive dissident non-reasoning and uninspiring rhetoric they defend? I prefer the beautiful spirit world over their ugly flesh world any day!

 

6. How do we know the name of Jesus is powerful? Because in society He is rarely mentioned except when used as a curse word in some Hollywood movies! The most loving amazing Son of God is still rejected by the evil ones in power. Before they accused that Jesus had a demon when it was themselves having the demons!

 

The subject of Jesus has been quarantined by our evil societies to not be discussed in the public arena. Jesus cannot be brought up in the classrooms, in the community city halls, and not in the bar-b-ques of our local civic clubs as it is a topic deemed ‘uncomfortable’ or ‘offensive’ by some. Matthew 18:7

Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!

 

Who, and I ask unrhetorically who, is defining our freedom of speech?! We have freedom of religion and speech, at least we do have by Constitutional law! I am offended by the politically correct demons trying to silence you and me when the spirit moves on us to talk about Jesus. If a few elites controlling our society, the education, the tech world and the media, who sooner or later are revealed to be extortioners, pedophiles, and filthy corrupters wanting to shut you up, why would you let them have the final say? Are we not offended by them!?

 

7. To know Jesus we must be born again and become as a child! John 3:3-8, 3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” When you or I were a child going to Sunday School classes we ‘got it’, we saw with a fresh mind that Jesus is real, you could hear his loving words and feel in your spirit that He was (is) the powerful Son of God. 

 

Jesus told us to have the faith of a little child! Matthew 18:3 And said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. To know Him means to become simple, simple in just believing because logic and science cannot explain everything!

 

We can reason and understand a lot but always at some point we will hit a wall of doubt. It is then when we must just simply trust that God knows best that He, like a good Father will protect and guide us through obstacles that are bigger than what we are able to handle. Patience, faith, & trust, will we ever learn them? 

 

8. Your average Christian without the Holy Spirit is unprepared to battle with demonic people who hate Jesus. Jesus must be in you, in your mind, in your deepest convictions, to be real to you in order to give you power. You only can be strong in Him if you are daily reading His word, praying, and seeking to put into practice the example He left us.  1 Corinthians 2:16  For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

 

The people of the world have no excuse, God can be seen in all the details of His creation. (see Romans 1) Around 300 Old Testament prophecies describe the events in the life of Jesus! There is no doubt that factual evidence abounds to prove Jesus lived, died, and started a revolution to the point that the underground church became above ground 300 years after his resurrection.

 

Despite having 1,700 years of the Catholic Church, and 500 years of the Protestant Church, atheism, materialism, and Satanic religions thrive because the average Christian is not shining their light and fighting for good as they were commanded to by Jesus! Darkness cannot stand the light! Just bring Jesus into the conversation and see what happens! There will be praise and inspiration, or there will be attacks! 

 

 9. All of us can know Jesus in a profound way and there is no excuse. Let’s review:

We can know how to be like Jesus by knowing His teachings.

We can know Jesus by how he has touched and changed our own life.

We know that Jesus’ name is powerful, or He would not be prohibited publicly.

We can know Jesus’ love by contrasting how others that hate Him treat us.

We can know Jesus having the mind and faith of a child.

 

And finally, I will end with the verse we started with, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” The ultimate followers of Jesus have done what He says here. It requires giving your all to Him, materially and spiritually for all your life! I did that to be a missionary, I did that to serve Jesus as a Salvation Army Officer, and millions have done it to serve Jesus throughout history! Millions have even been martyrs! What have you really given to Jesus? To gain the full joy He offers, He must be in control of your life! Those that give Him all never regret it!

 

God supplies our needs and gives us the desires of our hearts! But too few are willing to just give it all up for Him! I cannot imagine living life without Jesus being everything! The question is how much of Him do you want? All the way, or just a little bit? Jesus wanted all of you, mind, body & soul, service, worship & love!

Be 'Awake’, Not ‘Woke’ & Be Aware, Not Asleep!

wake’, Not ‘Woke’ & Be Aware, Not Asleep!                 Kelly Durant 9-24-23

 

Joel 1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

 

2. How awake are you right now? Pinch the person beside you and see if they react? Oh, they did, so there is proof we all can feel through our physical bodies! But what about our spiritual bodies? Do you feel things in your spirit? When hearing music or looking at art can you get a vibe of what spirit it is from, a good one or a bad one? How much of a new person in Christ are you?

 

I am addressing this issue as I find that many people today are going to asleep spiritually, (and they often label themselves as “woke”) and their insensitivity to God’s laws causes them to be in a dulled stupor, and they do not discern what is good or bad anymore. This is due to ‘inversion’, as ‘woke’ today does not mean ‘awake’ to the truth, but the opposite! Unless a person has repented completely and truly given their entire lives to Jesus, their hearts souls and minds, then they are incapable of knowing Christ and having the mind of Christ, and His mind is very consciously awake!  1 Corinthians 2:16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

 

People today have become dull, asleep, and indifferent and many claim it is chemicals in the water, the air, or the drugs (prescription or illegal). Also, in the pop entertainment messages, there is something terribly mind-controlling and we must wake up to see is that there is a number of things warping people’s perceptions, consciousness, and ability to have common sense and judgement. Our whole system is designed to make people be asleep in the spirit! How is it a majority of the people have lost common sense discernment and they can’t even define if a woman is a woman or not?! How is it that many do not see that being ignorant, or asleep, to the things of God has confusing repercussions and consequences?

 

3. What confusion the world is in today!... But we knew it was coming, but the answer is always found in the Sacred Scriptures. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 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. We are living in dangerous times, and we have never seen corruption, perversion, and idiocy legitimized and promoted in our face as we have in recent years. Perdition has exponentially augmented this century and when the anti-Christ arrives, most everyone, because they are asleep spiritually, will blindly worship him.

 

Most Christians understand that the ‘falling away’ implies that many ‘so called’ Christians will leave the church and be overcome by the doctrines of devils. This is clearly happening. We see people leaving the faith and it breaks our hearts! It hurts to see people not care about you, and our brothers and sisters, the Bible, or the mission of helping those suffering anymore! What made them fall asleep?  

 

I get upset at the sight that people let their lights go out and their love and hearts grow cold! I have to fight this temptation as well, to not care, to just give up, but I refuse to give up on saving souls because how could I fail Jesus?! Jesus convicts me to stay faithful! Satan tempts everyone with discouragement all the time to try to get you or me to say, ‘the hell with it all!’ We all keep on for the love of God and for the salvation of the lost! If in our lives you and I only win a dozen souls to Jesus, it will be worth it all!

 

4. Reflecting on this matter, on people who get blinded by their desires over God’s will, overcome by the world’s trends, I am reminded of this verse, 1 John 2: 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

 

This verse is key as it mentions the lust of the eyes, you may see a person’s eyes open, but they are often quite shut on the inside, asleep to knowing God’s will and light. Think about it, most people in the entire world today are getting 2 to 8 hours of screen time and their eyes are seeing anything they please, either good things, or seductive, perverse, & immoral things. And just from looking at the wrong things people get addicted and in chains spiritually because they go to sleep not perceiving what has happened to their spirit.

 

Habits are like strings that become ropes and then heavy chains! We all have grown up on entertainment, too much of it, and I see the world like one scene from ‘The Wizard of Oz’. Alice and the travelers were warned to not sleep where the flowers were, which is like our parents and church leaders who warn us and others to not linger in the zones of temptations. But what often happens? The young ones, the weak ones, and the spiritually lazy ones do not take the wise advice and they don’t fight against the toxic environment, and they end up lying down and going to sleep! And then it is when all evil attacks and takes over them! 

 

5. We have often heard about the analogy of the caterpillar that transforms into a butterfly and often we might compare it to a person when they receive Jesus, and they transform totally. This is a good example of what it means to be a new creature! The old ground is left behind, and the new is something that is on a whole different plane of existence. You and I were once a common worm but now we have become something majestic, empowered by the Holy Spirit to live in the dimension of God’s beautiful Spirit world seeing things as Jesus saw them. This is a true awakening, a rebirth!

 

Now I will postulate this, those that turn their back on God and go along with the world’s delusional drunken influences never do the step of going into the cocoon. They just slept instead, and until now have never woken up! To grow in God, you must work at it, you must ask God to reveal to you everything about yourself so you can change all things and die to yourself and start a new life praying and obeying His Word. It is a time-out with God growth phase that is missing in the lives of many! The pastor can’t do it for you either even though each one guides with the Word of God, but each person is responsible for their own awakening change, to want to be remade in God’s image as clay in the hands of the potter. God will do it, but he needs our commitment, obedience, and rebirth.

 

I can tell you my testimony on how I transformed, I moved far away from friends who were prisoners of their own destructive lusts so I would not be tempted to continue with their addictions and habits which the world praises as ‘cool’ or ‘woke’. I started memorizing Bible verses, one a day, and did that for almost 3 years. I also read the Word of God one hour or more daily, and I prayed usually for 15 minutes or more. And then I agreed to do a long service mission work, deciding to leave behind my possessions (idols such as guitars, LP records, & guru spiritual books etc.) And when one arrives in a foreign land as I did (Brazil), and you do not know the language, and your mission is to evangelize and pray with the folks on the street, it will drive you to desperately seek God for help! I literally cried to learn Portuguese so I could be effective for Jesus! 14 years of battles in South America toughened me up and I saw miracles and lives changed by sharing the Word of God! 

 

6. So what is causing people to sleep, spiritually? It is all of man’s creations and Satan’s as well! Some people claim the fluoride in the water hardens the pineal gland in the brain so that your internal spiritual receptor can no longer receive discernments and premonitions as our parents use to be able to. I cannot be an export on that but obviously many physical things ingested are severely hampering our bodies and minds and this affects our reasoning abilities.

 

Others claim that our air is the problem; being sprayed from above with the chemicals of lithium and aluminum for cloud formations, and our brains store up these things, dulling our human brains on a mass scale. And read up on 5G; many observe that this will cook our brains like in a microwave oven! Since Satan is the ‘prince of the air’, we are sure he manipulates these things. Ephesians 2:2

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Many things pollute the body and damage our normal abilities to discern as we should.

 

Since about half of the population takes pills for all kinds of ills, many people think this is a principal factor clouding people’s minds, provoking our societal mental dysfunctionalities; and drunkenness, or getting ‘high’, as well enslaves mega millions! Many are working too many hours, so they are gaining money for the body’s desires, but they are starving their souls. In the end the conclusion is our population in mass is being downgraded so that you or I can be easily manipulated by evil spirits who program the people of the world to reject Jesus, and all things healthy. 

 

7. Comparing God’s “awoken-ness” to the “wokeness’ of the world we observe the educational systems are now indoctrination factories. Also, over and over glamourized by musicians and entertainers with their illuminati hand signs and messages, the deception that immorality, perversions, and excessive materialism is exciting and a requirement for being fulfilled in life.  But wide is the gate that leads to destruction! And those not warned, these of this new generation of folks who often appear as zombies glued to flashing screens, are unaware of how they are enslaved by darkness. Only Jesus can cause a person to see through the programing of these enslaving destructive hooks for what they are and break free. 

 

As fuel to the fire, the majority of the movies, books, and songs created are repeatedly utilized to offend and assault us, the Christians! Wake up and ask, yourself, why do they attack Jesus followers (and no other faiths) so much? Because knowing Jesus is the only way one can become totally free from their deceptive addictive tricks designed to keep you and me enslaved to their illuminati systems so you consume and consume from their evil plate until you destroy your body, mind, and soul. And then Satan gains his total grip! 

 

Forgive this analogy, but a person without Jesus is comparable to a zombie, a lifeless creature that has no purpose and all it does is destroy everything in it’s path! And Satanists actually consume human blood and flesh! How sick the world really is! The line in ‘Amazing Grace’ rings so true, ‘I once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind, but now I see.’ Those in sin never see it as sin, the blind are leading the blind today as never before! Blindness and a deep sleep overtaking so many because Jesus is not getting into their hearts, minds, and souls!

 

8. The Lord commands us to wake up! See the evil everywhere, the hardened hearts and the dull minds! Judges 5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah (women leaders): awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak (men leaders), and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. The leaders of old were told to go and awake their people with songs of the Lord, with the message that the ones captive in the spirit can now become the captors to dominate their enslavers! This is what we need to understand today! 

 

This is our mission, to wake up, and then to wake up others with the knowledge of Jesus! We can see it clearly, Satan has taken over the world in all aspects, in the physical realm with toxic substances, in the mental realm captivating minds to be hooked on the fake worlds of entertainment, false religions, news and politics, and in the Spirit his demons manipulate others to do crimes and evil abominable perverse works of destruction! 

 

The only hope for anyone is Jesus! No “woke” political or philosophical movement will ever be victorious in dominating the evils in the world, only Jesus’ return can do that. Jesus warned us of this: John 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. Not just from the synagogues, from all other religious movements as well! Note that atheistic communists have murdered a hundred million people within the last century!

 

9. So how can you or I wake others up to how they are captive and asleep by means of illusions by the devil’s design? How can we help people see the devil is using them to be a part of the problem, a part of the controlled systems, and not a part of the solution? I think the only hope, is the same hope that saved us, and that is Jesus! Like water on the fire! Jesus is the new wine as in Joel 1:5 that wakes us up, and it does not put us to sleep!

 

You and I can only pray that others will receive Jesus for real and become a new creation in God! Salvation in the end is a personal matter, we can share Jesus’ message with others, but it is up to them to act upon it, obey, and do their part. Asking for the Holy Spirit to guide them to grow in faith is also a must! 

 

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Our part is to share the message of Jesus, pray for the lost souls, and then be there when they need us when they are in the middle of the battle against the demons trying to hold onto them. Millions escape, but some go back. Do your part, wake up someone with God’s Word today! Awaken the woke that all the systems are evil, yet God’s kingdom is beautiful, just, enlightening, and liberating!