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Video - SEXUAL EXHIBITING AND LUSTING Have Destroyed Our Nation

My title describes what I speak/teach on in this video - re: sexual sin, that is not necessarily physically perpetrated. My great concern, as should be that of all Christians, is that it is far too late for this area of sin (e.g., porn, seriously indecent attire, and adultery of the heart) to be even remotely reversed. These sex-sin areas have caused irreversible damage to our Nation, and we have become like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, whom God destroyed (Genesis chapters 18 & 19).

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Free Video: Online Pornography Possibly the Greatest Enemy of Christianity

Porn viewing is most often a frequent practice of people who are Christians, but it is also very frequent within the general population. Its affects are not just negative to people of Christian faith but also among those who take their lusts further and begin to become increasingly perverted (desiring to see increasingly deviant sexual activities). Those who are predisposed toward certain sexual deviances, may decide to sexually harm children (pedophilia). This is not true of most porn viewing people, who restrain from other deviances outside of watching videos.

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Free Vid: Holy Bible Says Our Lives Have MEANING AND PURPOSE

Even with the near mountain-moving love we have for our loved ones, being first of all our children and spouse, people can still question life's meaning and purpose. If we look at the Holy Bible, however, 1 John 4:8 says: - "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." (KJV). Even with the persecutions and tribulations we experience in life, we still love the people and things that are dear to us. Some day - in my belief, the very near future, we will experience love like we could have never imagined in this natural life (1 Corinthians 2:9).

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Free Videos: The Fall of REBELLIOUS ANGELS Before Adam

I heard a theologian say that we don't know if Satan's fall and the fall of his angels occurred in the past or will occur in the future. I found this to be a strange statement with the fact that Jesus said, "...I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." (Luke 10:18). This does not mean this fall occurred during Christ's ministry on Earth either. He stated other things that revealed his pre-existence in Heaven before being born as a man, through God's Spirit and not born by the seed of a man ("the only begotte Son of God" - John 1:18, 3:16 and Luke 1:35).

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Free Video: Some Christian Church Denominations Do Not Center on Jesus Christ

In this video (link below article), it was my intention to talk about three denominations I have held Youth Ministery positions in. Two of these (one Church of God & three Assemblies of God), I held various teaching positions in addition to teaching youth. The third denominatio I talk about (Baptist), is where I found true, sincere salvation in Jesus Christ, and rededication to the Lord as well, - after a period of backsliding in my youth.

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Free Vid: DISCE ING SPIRITS a Mighty Gift of the Holy Ghost

Disce ment of spirits, includes recognizing both those that are Holy and those that are evil, in God's timing and according to his will. This gift of the Holy Spirit goes beyond flesh and blood, as do all of them. Note that I am not quoting the full Holy Spirit gifts in this passage below, so please read the full chapter when you can. Here is a scripture verse that includes this gift of the Spirit: - - -r

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Free Video: ANXIETY DISORDERS a Good General Talk

I am a fellow patient advocate and know well about anxiety disorders, having experienced them myself. Do I still suffer from this emotional neurosis today? Yes, but to a much lesser degree than when I was younger (now age-59, this year of 2022). Anxiety, whether chronic (generalized but strong) or acute (panic attacks), can always be diminished in an individual, through counseling and or medications. In spite of what some individuals might say about these methods of treatment, they are absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about or to be ashamed of.

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Three Free Vids - Hyper Dispensation Jews Vs Gentiles Imbalanced Gospel

The first video link at the end of this article, is to a free YouTube video about Bible teachers who excessively press the issue regarding divisions/differences betwee Jews and Gentiles. Salvation in Jesus Christ of the New Testament we now live in, was in-fact to the Jews first (Jesus "king of the Jews"). However, God called all nations to salvation in His Son, who bled, died and was resurrected from the tomb. The "new birth" in him was offered to all people/nations and ethnicities.

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Free Vid: Differences Between Armageddon and Gog Magog Wars

Just as occurs with all Holy Bible doctrines, there are differences in how ministers and scholars interpret the timing and different aspects of 2 major prophetic wars. These are "The War of Armageddon and "The Gog-Magog War". Some Hebrew scholars state that in the Old Testament, the second war I have referenced is sometimes rendered "Gog" as a person and "Magog", as his land/base of power (Gog in Magog). The simplicity in knowing these are two wars occurring at different future times, is in The Book of Revelation.

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Health Education
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Free Vid: More Regarding FALSE MINISTRIES Please Beware of Them

This was one of my most difficult teaching messages in the nearly 40 years I have been teaching (this is year-2022). Why? Because I have great fear of reverence regarding the warning of others about other ministers/ministries that are based upon false foundations and false teaching. I'm small potatoes compared to the outreach of most of these other ministries but I'm happy in whatever capacity God wants my ministry to reach. My goal-only, is to bless as many people as I can and be pleasing to God.

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Free Video: BEWARE IT'S COMING FOR YOU!

There is a monstrous thing lurking within spiritual darkness and it is coming with increasing power for you, me and everyone! We must keep watch and not allow it to devour us! Is it flight-of-fancy or sensationalism to give warning about this satanic spirit? If we believe what the Holy Scriptures say, then we cannot see this extremely important issue as one of insignificance.

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Free vid: DO NOT BLAME GOD for Temptations or Tragedies

Often, people have a disposition toward blaming God for any bad things that happen in their lives. The fact is that good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. The reverse is true as well, but we need to learn from the Holy Bible, the fact that we live in a fallen world. It became as it now is, due to Adam and Eve's sin, not long after God gave them (mankind) dominion over the world, as seen in Genesis-3-17. Man allowed evil into the world first, so God had to also allow it because of the covenant he made with Adam (Genesis 1:26).

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Free Vid: The CORRECTORS Calling WORD OF GOD MINISTERS "Unqualified"

False "Christian" movements cannot in any way dictate to others, as to how they should minister or determine whether or not they are "qualified" to present Word of God Sermons or to witness for their Christian Faith (1 Peter 3:15). However, I do believe those who teach/preach, should have experience in ministering to groups of people in-person and IF POSSIBLE, they should do so under a true Gospel Church's leadership.

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Free Video: Will the Biblical GREAT TRIBULATION be SEVEN YEARS Long?

Where do we see 7 years regarding the "Great Tribulation" and do scriptures show there being 3 1/2 years for certain events within the 7 years to occur (at halfway)? Ponder those questions but also note as this video plays that the Prophet Daniel doesn't use the same term for the Great Tribulation period - the final week of years (70th week of Daniel - several descriptive terms). But Jeremiah 30:7 specifically calls it "...the time of Jacob's trouble...". Jacob was re-named "Israel" and his descendants are the Israelites - Jewish Nation.

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Free Vid: Satan is Turning Up Warfare Against Us

Because these are the literal "end times", also sometimes called "the last days" (also a Biblical term), my belief which agrees with that of many others, is that Satan has TURNED UP THE HEAT of warfare on people (so-to-speak). He and his very large grid of cohorts - called devils, demons and fallen angels, are attacking the spiritual lives of men and women, at a greater level than ever before. He desires to hinder the witness for Jesus Christ by Christians and to discourage potential converts to Christ from coming to him to receive ete al life.

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Free Vid: Knowing Death and Evil Exist Turns Some Unbelievers to God

Interestingly, some people who claim to hold atheistic views or those of agnosticism, will begin to pay attention to spiritual things, once they experience something in the unseen evil category. They may also hear about an evil event happening to others they know or from an otherwise reliable source. Afterward, some will turn to a spiritually comforting source, such as the Holy Bible.

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Free Vid: Ministries Saying THEY ARE PERFECT and All Others are Errored

This video is on very serious things. In short, ministries who are exposing others as being false, are now making it clear that they are "perfect" in their expositions, teachings and preached sermons. They have gone too far, and their "reproof" of other ministries has become a nitpicking of minor points, minister's mannerisms, etcetera. Reproof and refute IS NEEDED but just how far should it go?! I read from 7 Holy Scripture passages, within this video teaching-message. Following are two of significance. - - -r

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Free Video - A PRIDEFUL LOOK Has Become the Norm for Many Ministers

In the Teaching I present from the Word of God (Holy Bible), I talk about a look of sinful pride (condescension). It is important to understand that a look of intensity or one of assuredness regarding what a minister is saying, is not the same thing. A "prideful look"; one of seven things God calls "an abomination" - Proverbs 6:16-19, is not the same as a look of confidence in the Holy Scriptures. A look of extreme self-pridefulness is one that says, "look at me" and is in contrast with a look that says, "look at what God has done"!

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Free Vid: With CHRONIC UNFORGIVENESS HELL is Not Far Away

In this video, I talk about Satan's trick, through his many cohorts (devils, demons, evil spirits), to cause us to become bitter in this life due to evil things OTHERS do to us. On the obverse side, I also talk about unforgiveness people may have against us for something WE HAVE DONE to offend them, and about forgiveness we must always ask from God, when IT IS HIM whom we sin against.

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Free Videos: A Detailed Look at FALSE BIBLE TEACHING

The most negatively impacting, attempted change a minister of God's Word can do, is to add-to the Gospel message of Jesus Christ, is to change a major principle(s) in The Gospel of Jesus Christ - Galatians 1:8-9 and Revelation 22:19). Ministers who tout excessively, the idea of material blessings that are returned to those who give into their ministries, returned to them many times greater than the amount they gift or tithe to them, are false preachers of "the gospel of riches). A spiritual blessing may actually be the greater need for a giver into a ministry!

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Free Vid: Can Christians Pray Away THE COMING WRATH OF GOD?

The short answer to the questio I pose in my video title is NO! We CANNOT pray away God's coming wrath, which has been fully prophesied in His Word. It would be very dangerous to accuse God of specifically stating coming events, that we, as Christians - His created people, can somehow put a stop to. That doesn't mean we don't stay in prayer, doing so properly, decently and in order, according to the Holy Scriptures.

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Free Vid: Calling the Biblical GENESIS GAP False is Itself FALLACIOUS - Why?

As a born-again, Gentile man in Jesus Christ, I have always read English Translations of the Holy Bible, my favorite being the KJV. I do however (rarely) look at 'direct-from-original-texts' versions, regarding some Biblical Doctrines. One such doctrine, is "The Genesis Gap", aka "The Gap Theory", aka "The Ruin-Reconstruction Theory". Some would say "see there, it's already called THEORY!" The thing is, however, that Jewish/Hebrew translation sources show a somewhat expanded translation of, for example - Genesis 1:1-2.

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Free Vid: God Will Judge Unfair Stigmas Toward People

A stigma means to place an unfair judgement on a person and is a practice strongly akin to gossip. There are innumerable ways to stigmatize people. For example, one might say of a male hairdresser, that he is a sissy for being employed at a lady's beauty shop, when he may be as full of vitality as most other men, among his peers. He can in fact be a strong man who simply saw barbering and hairdressing as his trade in life. We also must realize that someone has to do this, and we want such people to be highly adequate in taking care of our haircut and style needs!

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Free Video: The Wrath of God is Coming but Christians are Safe with Jesus

End-time Bible Prophecy events are currently happening before our very eyes, however, Jesus said of these things we see happening in the world now (this article year-2022); "All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew 24:8). Things will be getting much worse in the world, but I believe, as do many Christians, that the "Rapture”, which is the sudden resurrection of Christians, will take place before the horror of “The Great Tribulation” begins occurring (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 and 1-Corinthians 15:52).

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Free Video - Ancient Bible Targum Shows EARLY EARTH DESOLATION

I'm following up on my Genesis Gap teaching of only a few days ago https://youtu.be/6jEdIs-xN58 and I add in this one, a reading from an ancient Aramaic translation. This "Targum" was a translation by Ezra and other scribes, after the Babylonian conquest over Judea. This verse 2 of Genesis chapter 1, that I read on this video (plus other scriptures), show the world as "a desolation". I then show the definition for this wording, from the Merriam-Dexter dictionary. I also go over other things of importance regarding the Genesis Gap teaching.

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Free Video: Jesus Will Rapture Away His People in a Resurrection Event

Jesus Christ Our Messiah will soon be coming for his present saints (the born again - saved), in an event we call "The Rapture" - the “catching away” resurrection, appearing in the clouds/sky, not on earth yet. He will also be coming back to earth from Heaven later, with his saints, setting his feet on the ground with them to execute judgment on the ungodly (Jude 1:15). This will be to usher-in a 1,000-year time of peace, with no satanic influence.

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Free Vid: OUTRAGEOUSLY BEHAVING CHRISTIANS When We Should Turn Away!

We will be persecuted by "the world", as Christians, meaning those who are not for Jesus Christ but who are against him. This is where the term "anti-Christ comes from. There are, however, fellow Christians who will also persecute us, which is a definition of them being "false converts to Christ", or at the least they are what the Holy Bible calls "carnally minded" people who profess Christianity but who do not actually possess the new birth in him ("...Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" - John 3:3).

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Free Video: Biblical References to Angels being Called Sons of God

There is a passage in the Holy Bible (Genesis 6:1-4 - "sons of God") that is argued as being incorrectly interpreted by some Bible believers, as being angels, because in the case of this scripture they are described as having interbred with human women, which brought to the earth an angel-man hybrid species called “the Nephilim”, meaning “fallen ones” (very large beings/giants).

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Free Vid: DID JESUS BECOME A SINNER on the Cross Needing Salvation?

Please note, I do not monetize my YouTube videos. They are offered free to the public on my part, and always will be! I include similar content in my book titled -rn"Seven Fascinating Biblical Facts about Jesus Christ" (pub year-2011) A quick answer to the title of this video, is NO! Nine scriptures from the Holy Bible are delved into, in this video to show Jesus did not have to be born-again in himself to become righteous before the Godhead (Father, Son and Holy Ghost).

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Free Vid: MARK OF THE BEAST 666 Described in the Book of Revelation

Many things have been called "the mark of the beast", such as barcodes, various ID cards and even the covid vaccines. The book of Revelation, however, reveals something more specific and it is something people will know is confronting them. Many Bible passages also reveal that born again believers in Jesus Christ (those having salvation), will not be here for this mark, which is part of the anti-Christ system (1 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:9 and 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8).

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Free Vid: Fascinating Biblical Facts about ANGELS

This Bible Teaching is kind of a summation of the history regarding God's created beings called "Angles". Those that are Holy (at least 2/3), are ministering spirits God sends to perform righteous deeds for Him, while those who rebelled in the distant past, have become unholy, wicked and destructive. These evil angels are referred to in the scriptures as "devils" and Jesus cast them out of many people during His earthly ministry.

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