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The Free eBook Store is where you can download eBooks in EPUB, MOBI or PDF formats that can be read with just about any reader. The motivation for starting a store was to make available classic Christian works as well as my own publications. Our goal is to continue to expand the store with additional titles. We are open to suggestions for new entries.
We are especially blessed in our days to have so many different ways to read God’s word. Bibles are printed in just about any language, and there is a variety of ways to read the words of Truth. However, we should not allow the ready availability of the Bible to cause us to lose sight of the importance of reading the Bible. Despite the many ways of becoming exposed to the Truth of the gospel, it is nonetheless an immense honor and privilege to be able to read God’s word. It is also a necessity for living a Spirit-led life. Paul wrote to the Corinthians:
12 For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.
13 For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end;
14 just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. (2 Corinthians 1:12-14)
The key words in this passage are ‘read and understand’ in verse thirteen. Paul didn’t think it was enough to merely read what he had written to them. He thought they should
also understand his writings. It is no different for us today. Regardless of the format you use to read the word, you should seek to understand.
King Solomon wrote about the importance of understanding God’s word in his book of Proverbs.
2 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding;
3 For if you cry for discernment, lift your voice for understanding;
4 If you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures;
5 Then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. (Proverbs 2:2-5)
13 How blessed is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding.
14 For her [understanding] profit is better than the profit of silver and her gain better than fine gold.
15 She is more precious than jewels; and nothing you desire compares with her. (Proverbs 3:13-15)
The word ‘understanding’ appears numerous times in Proverbs. And interesting exercise is to read Proverbs and highlight or underling the word ‘understanding’ each time it appears. You will probably be surprised.
Understanding of the word comes by way of revelations from the Holy Spirit. These revelations always confirm the written word and they become ‘the prophetic word made more sure’ recorded in 2 Peter.
Therefore, make it your earnest goal to understand as you read the word whether you are reading a printed book or an eBook format.
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One Heart is the result of a bold, unbiased effort to make a comparison of the Church and the body of Christ.
At first blush, there would seem to be no reason for such a comparison since the Church (often referred to as the Universal Church) claims to be the body of Christ. However, would their claim stand if the Church were compared to a measurable Biblical standard? Making such a comparison is the mission of One Heart.
About 2,000 years ago a religious organization permeated the nation of Israel. What had begun as a people chosen by God and formed by His laws, commandments and statutes had grown into a religious system made up of a mountain of rules, regulations, rituals and traditions. This was Judaism at the time Jesus ministered in Israel. And He repeatedly and openly rebuked the religious leaders of that day and the system they represented.
Now, 2,000 years later another religious institution has emerged. It, too, is founded on God’s laws, commandments and statutes with one striking difference … it was established on the shed blood of the Messiah, the Anointed One, Jesus Christ. Even with that significant distinction, it has grown to be much larger than the Jewish religious system of ancient Israel. This system has spread around the globe. Today’s religious system is called the Church, that is, the entire group of Christian organizations, often referred to as the Universal Church. This institution claims to be the body of Christ. But when you look at this body’s organizational structure, especially the myriad of self-made rules, regulations, rituals and traditions one cannot help but see an uncomfortable similarity with the religious system of the Jews 2,000 years after God cut His covenant was with Abraham.
The premise for One Heart can be expressed with this question:
Is the Church just as much off the mark 2,000 years after Pentecost as Judaism was by the time of Pentecost, which was 2,000 years after God made the covenant with Abraham?
The mission of One Heart is to make an unbiased comparison of the Church and the body it claims to be in the hope of answering this important question: Is the Church actually the body of Christ as it claims?
In my previous book, One Heart, I presented Biblical evidence in support of the concept that the Church is not the body of Christ as it claims. Born In Sin extends the theme that the Church is separate from the body of Christ by showing how and when the Church came into existence after the creation of the body of Christ. Careful examination of numerous Bible quotes unmasks the Church’s invalid claim of being the representation of Jesus Christ in the world, a claim that is made even though the nature of the organization looks more like a worldly institution than a godly one. The Church is an institution that unlike Jesus is riddled with sin from top to bottom and that functions almost entirely without Holy Spirit guidance. Shouldn’t we rightfully expect that a believer or an organization that is Christ’s representative in the world would possess Christ’s characteristics?
By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He [Jesus Christ] is, so also are we in this world. (1 John 4:17)
The apostle John, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says that the disciples of Jesus Christ ARE just like Jesus. Not a little or even mostly like Jesus, but just as He is. Earlier in the same epistle he wrote:
By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.
The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:
the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. (1 John 2:3-6)
Jesus did not walk, talk and act like the world, and neither does His body, a body made up of disciples who keep His commandments from a pure heart. The idea that two divergent entities could be completely different yet identical is truly bewildering. We read from the Old Covenant, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3 KJV) In the language of covenant, this means that those who are in covenant will be in agreement. Those who are in blood covenant are totally united, therefore they will be in total agreement at all times. Since the relationship that binds those in the body of Christ with Jesus and with each other is a blood covenant, there must of necessity be complete agreement at all times. Since the Church is not a blood covenant community, it cannot be the body of Christ.
Several themes are developed in Born In Sin in support of the central theme of the manner in which the Church came into existence as an entity separate and distinct from the the body of Christ. This proposition is substantiated with careful, in-depth analysis of Scripture passages.
Born In Sin is a must read for everyone who is interested in unraveling the confusion surrounding the origin of the Church and its claim of being the body of Christ.
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The overriding objective of The Locker is to demonstrate the necessity for obtaining Biblical understanding rather than being content with mere mental knowledge. Therefore, it is my hope that by reading the examples of the understanding I have received, you will be motivated to actually seek understanding of your own.It is understanding, and not knowledge alone, that Solomon said was greater than fine gold, and that nothing you desire compares with understanding the word of God.
Make no mistake about it, you can understand the hidden truth of the Bible on your own, without the aid of someone with a theology degree. But you must seek it. I cannot give you understanding, because it cannot be taught. And you can’t learn to understand the Bible, at least not in the traditional sense of what it means to learn something. Understanding of the Bible can only be discovered, and discorery comes only by means of revelations from the Holy Spirit.
If you receive my teaching or someone else’s, you have only added to your encyclopedia of knowledge. You have the knowledge, but the teacher hopefully has the understanding. There is no freedom, no life, for you in learning of either my or another teacher’s understanding. When all a believer has is knowledge of a teacher’s understanding, that believer is bound to the teacher for direction. In my mind, that is not freedom. Paul wrote in Galatians, “It was for freedom that Christ set us free.” (Galatians 5:1) He finished this verse with a warning, “Therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.” In other words, don’t allow yourself to become bound to someone else’s understanding for spiritual development. My hope is that by showing you what I have come to understand, and by providing useful techniques to guide you to your own understanding, you will be moved to lift your Bible study to a whole new level from knowledge alone to your own understanding.
The Locker is divided into four parts.
• Part 1 is drawn from my personal experience. In it I describe how sin can accumulate in a believer’s mind and become roadblocks that can prevent the truth from reaching the heart. I have likened this phenomenon as a condition I’ve named Cluttered Mind Disorder or CMD. Also included are sections on the critical role of parables as well as the role of the Holy Spirit in Biblical understanding and Bible study.
• Part 2 contains a study on a much debated subject, the timing of the day of the Lord. The purpose of this study is not merely to inform. Instead, my intention is to present an example (not an exhaustive dissertation) of how Biblical understanding is gained. Rather than try to show you how much I might know (compared to the knowledge of God none of us knows very much so there is no reason for exalting oneself), I am most interested in showing you that you can indeed come to rightly understand the Bible on your own.
• Part 3 discusses the very real crisis of false prophets that exists in the Church today.
• Part 4 presents important conclusions concerning CMD and the pathway to wholeness as a true believer and follower of Jesus Christ.
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Escape From Christendom is a prophetic allegory, first published in 1980. Stories told in the form of an allegory are capable of providing readers many lessons which might otherwise be overlooked. Escape From Christendom is finding a place among the classics of modern Christian literature.