Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
We are entering into what I believe are the final movements of Earth’s history. The coming few years are going to see changes that we have only read about, but have never experienced in this generation.
The United States of America may finally be ruled by martial law, as prophesied by Ellen White. She stated that we would need papers in order to travel from one state to the next. I see the beginnings of that now taking place.
As states become polarized between the “Christian” conservatives and the “woke” elites, neither state will allow the other to “invade” their territory. As a result, the national government will pronounce marshal law to bring about peace and safety.
And of course, the devil has been behind this “woke” polarization in order to bring chaos and mayhem. The citizens of the world are waking up and are taking back their governments. I believe that the “woke” agenda will backfire. As people rise up to abolish the godless “One-World-Government”, they will look around for a world-wide government to replace it. They will be looking for a “Christian” organization that will replace the godless left.
The organization they will be looking for will be the Catholic Church. It is “Christian”, it is world-wide and is powerful enough to combat the godless left. The Protestant churches will reach across the gulf that was created in the 1500’s and repair the gulf.
Since the “Christian” Protestant-Catholic religion keeps Sunday, it will unite with Russia and the pagan-Sunday keepers such as India and the Eastern countries who keep Sunday holy. China will also join this alliance. Why? Because the common threat to all Sunday keepers will be Islam. Islam is a Friday-keeping religion that wants to dominate the earth.
With the domination of Islam by the Sunday keeping “Christians”, their next point of interest will be those who keep Sabbath holy. Are you ready to “refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach”? Our window of opportunity is now open but closing fast. We must use it while it is still open. But soon that window will slam shut and those who whittled away their time with worldly nonsense will find themselves without the Oil they will need to join the wedding procession.
2 Timothy 4:1-22
In the presence of God and the Messiah Jesus, who is going to judge those who are living and those who are dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly appeal to you to proclaim the message.
What message? Since the worldly churches teach that the Old Testament has been done away with, we must loudly proclaim that the Ten Commandment Law of the Old Testament is still valid. Then it will be easy to show that the 7th day of the week is the Sabbath in the Law of God. As such, it will be made clear that we are not saved eternally by grace, but that we must “work out our salvation with fear and trembling”. Philippians 2:12. That, in essence, is the Three Angels’ Messages. That is how we show our “fear” to God, by keeping His truth in our hearts and living it. Are you “proclaiming the message”?
Be ready to do this whether or not the time is convenient. Refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach.
Few are able to “refute”, let alone warn and encourage when the time is convenient. Most will do anything to walk away from any time that is convenient since they are not able to refute, warn or encourage others to be obedience to Jesus and His truth. “Be ready”? Church members are hardly “ready” for church, let alone know their Bible thoroughly enough to answer basic questions about it. No, but they can fight and argue over their church. No where in the Bible are we commanded to fight over our church.
For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine, but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people’s own desires.
And there it is. “Healthy doctrine”! Otherwise known as “truth”. Few who call themselves “Christian” know truth. Most just “surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people’s own desires”. Their itching ears are sound asleep while sitting in church. The churches tell exciting stories and interesting nonsense to keep the people dull and giving their money.
They will refuse to listen to the truth and will turn to myths.
That myth part is growing by the hour. More and more myths are being slipped into church preaching. Even the Seventh-day Adventist church and its organizations are hiring LGBTQ+ individuals. The leaders have lots of itching ears since they don’t want to lose their jobs or stand up for truth. Sodom and Gomorrah have walked right into the church with open arms.
But you must be clear-headed about everything. Endure suffering. Do the work of an evangelist. Devote yourself completely to your ministry.
If we call ourselves Christian, then each of us has a ministry given to us from God. We cannot neglect this ministry except at the peril of our eternal life. We must be “clear-headed” and not let this world cloud our perceptions. This must be done even if we have to “endure suffering”. Jesus endured suffering for us. If we are not willing to endure suffering for Him, we will never make it to Heaven. It is imperative that we devote ourselves completely to the ministry God has given to each of us personally.
I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for my departure has come.
Every day we are to pour ourselves out as an offering to Jesus to be used as He sees fit. Whether our time of departure is when Jesus comes or when we die, time is short. We never know when our departure date will arrive. One moment I was fine, and within a few days they thought I would be dead. We never know. Therefore, hour by hour, we must be doing our duty for Jesus.
I have fought the good fight. I have completed the race. I have kept the faith.
Few Christians have fought the good fight. Few Christians even know how to fight the good fight. Few have completed the race. Few Christians are even in the race. Not many have kept the faith. It is all about talk and show. But faith that produces obedience is just not happening in our lives. Many think going to church is obedience. It isn’t. Many think that if they eat the right foods they are being obedient. They aren’t. The level of obedience the Bible is talking about is so high, few even know it exists. They refuse to look deep into the Word of God to see what true obedience is.
The victor’s crown of righteousness is now waiting for me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on the day that he comes, and not only to me but also to all who eagerly wait for his appearing.
To “eagerly wait” is not yelling and screaming “Jesus is coming”. It isn’t running around talking about the name of Jesus. It isn’t going to church. To “eagerly wait” is to do your ministry duties every day. Hour by hour we are to live in obedience to Jesus, as He did to His Father.
Do your best to come to me soon, because Demas, having fallen in love with this present world, has abandoned me and has gone to Thessalonica.
Most who have once loved the truth, have fallen in love with the world. Since they never loved Jesus, but only a doctrine or a church, they grew tired of waiting, and left. Look at it like this. Let’s say the President of the United States is coming to town. You get all excited and go stand next to the tarmac to welcome him as he steps off the plane. But the plane is delayed and you get tired and finally, you go home to watch a good movie.
On the other hand, let’s say you have a son, one you love very much, coming home and will be landing at the airport. You go to meet him. But as you arrive, you find that the plane will be delayed a few hours. Do you wait? Of course you do. You wait in expectation for as long as it takes. So what made the difference? Love. Do you love Jesus?
Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful in my ministry.
True Christianity is forgiveness. About 25 years before this, Paul and Barnabas had such a dispute over Mark that they parted ways. Now, Paul has forgiven Mark for deserting them on their first missionary journey. Mark has proved himself over the years and Paul recognizes his mistake. Love covers over a multitude of sins. Do you have love and forgiveness towards those who have hurt you?
I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus. When you come, bring the coat I left with Carpus in Troas, as well as the scrolls and especially the parchments. Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he did. You, too, must watch out for him, for he violently opposed our message.
Love does not mean putting yourself out there to be taken advantage of. Paul loved Alexander. But Alexander did him a great deal of harm. God is our avenger. He will repay the wicked. But we are to make sure we do not place ourselves in a position to be taken advantage of by the wicked.
I understand this concept. I loved my adopted son, Jeff. But He only played his games with me and did everything he could to take this ministry away from me. Finally he left to ply his wickedness on the world. He was running drugs and guns into the USA from Mexico. When he was 41 years of age I received a call that he was found dead in a Mexican desert. Probably killed by the Mexican Cartel. There is nothing one can do. Even Jesus couldn’t save the Nation of Israel. Even Jesus could not save Judas. All we can do is live the perfect, righteous and sinless life so they know what is available to them. If they reject, then that is their choice. But we love them.
At my first trial no one came to my defense. Everyone abandoned me. May it not be held against them!
The Christian friends of Paul were human. They didn’t want to put their lives on the line by standing up with Paul. Paul forgave them. At times I feel the same since I have been abandoned by my family. I pray for them.
However, the Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles could hear it. I was rescued out of a lion’s mouth.
God will give us strength to go through whatever comes our way. All we have to do is stand firm in obedience. By so doing, the message will be fully proclaimed.
The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will take me safely to his heavenly kingdom. Glory belongs to him forever and ever! Amen.
In sickness and in health, in trials and in prosperity, glory belongs to Him. If we do our duty, the Lord will rescue us from every evil attack. We must believe. We must love. We must forgive.
Greet Prisca and Aquila and the family of Onesiphorus. Erastus stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus in Miletus because he was sick. Do your best to come to me before winter. Eubulus sends you greetings, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
May the Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with all of you! Amen.
Inmate Letters
I have been communicating with 22 year old Jackson in a Texas prison. I believe that if he will turn his life over to Jesus, he will make an awesome director of this ministry someday. This is an email I received from him.
Good evening Ron,
I hope you are well and hope you were able to get my last few messages, though I know they can be slow to come in and I know your ministry keeps you busy. You may have actually sent me messages back already and I just haven’t been able to get them yet. my mom was able to get me a few stamps to write and I wanted to just send you a message. I was just hoping that I didn’t say anything to offend you in those messages, I just thought it best for me to speak from the heart.
I continue to read and enjoy your book, though I have taken a slower pace because I am also currently going through a Christian based Addiction class that I’m really trying to absorb as much as I can from it to put into practice. I am almost finished with the lessons and should pick up my pace again soon.
I also want to again say thank you for reaching out to me, it truly means more than you can imagine. I hope to grow my faith as strong as yours in believing I could leave here in as little time as you have said, but it does give me hope that I didn’t have before. I had thought that I would have to start alone and stay alone the rest of my life when getting out, it gives me hope and renewed faith that you gave time to talk with, teach, and care about me as a person.
My mom told me that when she talked about your ministry on social media that it blew up in a good way. I’m excited to hear your ministry has grown a bit, but can only imagine the work load and demand now. I’m glad God put my family in your path.
My cellmate who is Muslim sees me reading all the time in your book and finally asked me “why don’t you explain to me what you’re reading, I want to know and maybe it will help you learn it better?”. So I started talking and explaining your book in a way that he could understand just a bit and before I realized it, an hour and a half passed by and the only things he said were questions pertaining to details, never interrupting the flow. When finally we stopped our talk and he was real quite, I thought maybe I didn’t make sense to him or he just didn’t take it to heart. but he just looked at me and said, “that actually makes the most sense out of anything I’ve read”. That’s the most I’ve ever talked with someone about my spirituality and the most attentiveness I’ve ever gotten while speaking about it, so I’m hoping he reaches out to learn from your book as well.
I again hope you are doing well and that this message finds you in good spirits. have a good rest of your night.
Sincerely your spiritual son,
Jackson
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Micah is 19 years old and I have been in communication with him also about making this ministry his life. He emailed me stating:
Hey Ron,
I’m sorry I haven’t wrote back I was just waiting to get the book and a lot has been going on. We are fixing to go on lockdown and yes I would love to parole there and learn how to be a minister. I’m going to start reading the book. We have been doing this prayer circle in the dorm and I love it. I got a Random nice study Bible but I already have one so I gave it to this kid named Hitt and he loves it. We started a prayer circle bag that we all put hygiene in for the people that don’t make store. I told my mom all about it. I’m surprised she didn’t tell you about it. I’m sorry I didn’t write back sooner but please write me back. Thank you very much for the book.
Love, MicahShane
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Via Facebook:
I was incarcerated and you kept sending me pen pals that really helped me. Will you please add my brother in law to your mailing list and add him to your pen pal list at your earliest convenience.
(Lives are being touched. We may never know the hearts God is working on until we get to heaven. Sometimes I feel as if I am wasting God’s time and money that could be better spent in a ministry doing more work. But then I get letters and emails that refresh my spirit.)
Hello Ron,
I recently received your CYLB study and haven’t been able to put it down. Thank you. I’m taking my time with it.
Charles, CA
Dear JCPM,
I am writing because your “Change Your Life Biblically” Bible study was suggested to me. May you please send it to me? Thank you for considering my request.
Larnell, IL
Hello,
I would like to receive your workbook and Bible study. I’ve been getting locked up since I was 13 years old. I’m 49 now. I’ve done over 20 years in this system. I’m tired of living this life. I want help to quit all of this.
Robert, WA
Dear Sir,
I would like a free book entitled, “Change Your Life Biblically”. Also, a subscription to your newsletter and any other Christian literature from you.
Kevin, NJ
Dear Ron,
I’m from the island of Guam, a little island in the Pacific part of the world. I am 56 years old and currently incarcerated. I’m serving a life sentence of 250 years. Ron, I really need help in finding God.
Edward, Guam
Dear Brother Ron,
I have 2 other friends here that received your workbook. I have read your testimony and would love to receive that special workbook because I’d like to study with them.
Armando, IN
Hi,
Thank you for reaching out with the postcard. Yes, I would be interested in any book you would like to send.
Zachary, NV
JCPM,
Thank you for your postcard and the testimony from brother Ron. I would like to learn more about your ministry and receive your book, “Change Your Life Biblically”.
Ezekiel, TX
Hello,
I received a card from your ministry and would love to participate in the opportunity you provide for me to get closer to God.
Amonte, CA
Hey There,
I am a Christian and I love our Lord, Jesus Christ. I am devoted to Him and do my best to follow His way and further His Word by the strength He gives me. I am hungry for His Word and love to learn. I study my Bible diligently and pray without ceasing. I would love to do your Bible study.
William, OR
Dear Sir,
I got your address from a friend of mine when I asked him if he knew of any place I could write concerning Bible courses. I’m 61 years old and only have about 3 1/2 years left on a 30 year sentence. Could you please send me the Bible courses you offer.
James, FL
Testimony For God’s Children
My Dear Family in Christ,
It is a joy when people appreciate what this ministry is putting out. When I see kind and gentle remarks online encouraging me in the work, it builds me up and lightens my soul. I thank all of you who love this ministry and lighten my burdens with your kind words and loving support.
The last four years have been extremely difficult. It is hard for me to even comprehend how God has kept this ministry going while I was under such pain and difficulty. But all of you allowed the Spirit of God to keep you focused. I never heard one negative comment. Thank you. I have made mistakes, but you overlooked them while I was healing and fumbling with my medical condition. God bless all of you.
Let us listen now the wonderful advice from the servant of God.
Obstinacy Not Independence
Brother G, it will be uphill work for you to cultivate pure, unselfish love and disinterested benevolence. You have not much experience in yielding your opinions and ideas, and in sometimes giving up your own judgment and being guided by the counsel of others. Brother and Sister G, you both need to have less of self and more of the grace of God. You both need to acquire a habit of self-government, that your thoughts may be brought into subjection to the Spirit of Christ. It is the grace of God that you need in order that your thoughts may be disciplined to flow in the right channel, that the words you utter may be right words, and that your passions and appetites may be subject to the control of reason, and the tongue be bridled against levity and unhallowed censure and faultfinding. “If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.” The greatest triumph given us by the religion of Christ is control over ourselves. Our natural propensities must be controlled, or we can never overcome as Christ overcame.
There are some among the professed followers of Christ who are spiritual dyspeptics. They are self-made invalids, and their spiritual debility is the direct result of their own shortcomings. They do not obey the laws of God nor carry out the principles of His commandments. They are indolent in His cause and work, accomplishing nothing themselves; but when they think they see something with which they can find fault, then they are active and zealous. A Christian who does not work cannot be healthy. Spiritual disease is the result of neglected duty. In order for a man’s faith to be strong, he must be much with God in secret prayer. How can a man’s benevolence be a blessing to him if he never exercises it? How can we ask God to help in the conversion of souls unless we are doing all in our power to bring them to the knowledge of the truth? You have brought upon yourself a debility which has made you useless to yourself and to the church, and the remedy is repentance, confession, and reform. You need moral power and the real nourishment of the grace of God. Nothing will give bone and sinew to your piety like working to advance the cause you profess to love, instead of binding it. There is but one genuine cure for spiritual laziness, and that is work—working for souls who need your help. Instead of strengthening souls, you have been discouraging and weakening the hearts and hands of those who would see the cause of God advance.
God has given you abilities which you can use to good account, or abuse to your own injury and to the injury of others. You have not realized the claims that God has upon you. It should be ever borne in mind that we are living in this world to form characters for the next. And all our associations with our fellow mortals should be with reference to their eternal interest and to our own; but if our interviews with them are devoted only to pleasure and to our own selfish gratification, if we are light and trifling, if we indulge in wrong acts, we are not co-workers with God, but are decidedly working against Him. The precious lives God has given us are not to be molded by unbelieving relatives in a way to please the carnal mind, but to be spent in a manner which God can approve.
If Brother J enjoyed the love of God, he would be a channel of light. He has too little moral power, with strong tendencies to unbelief. He is pitied by the heavenly angels, for he is surrounded with darkness. His ears hear words of unbelief and darkness almost continually. He has doubts and questionings constantly thrown before him. The tongue is a world of iniquity. “The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.” If Brother J would cling to God more firmly and feel that he should preserve his integrity before God even at the cost of his natural life, he would receive strength from above. If he allows his faith to be affected by the darkness and unbelief that surrounds him—the doubts and questioning and much talk—he will soon be all darkness and doubt and unbelief, and will have no light or strength in the truth.
He need not think that by seeking to compromise with his friends, who are embittered against our faith, he will make it easier for himself. If he stands with the single purpose to obey God at any cost he will have help and strength. God loves and pities Brother J. He knows every perplexity, every discouragement, every bitter speech. He is acquainted with it all. If he will lay aside his unbelief and stand in God unmoved, his faith will be strengthened by exercise. “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.”
I saw Brethren J and G in special danger of losing eternal life. They did not see that they were standing directly in the way of the advancement of the work of God.( . . .) When the tent meeting was held there the first time we were upon this coast, hundreds were convicted of the truth; but God knew the material of which that church was composed. If souls came out into the truth, there were none to nourish and cherish them, and to lead them along to an elevated life. Brother (K) was of an envious, faultfinding, jealous spirit. Unless he could be first, he would not do anything. He esteemed himself far more highly than God esteemed him. A man of his temperament will not, long at a time, be in agreement with anyone; for it is his element to contend, and to array himself in opposition to anything that does not suit his ideas. The Lord left him to take his own course and to manifest what manner of spirit he was of. He brought into the church, and sought to carry out there, the very same spirit that he carried out in his family. His bitterness and his cruel speeches against the servants of God are written in the book. He will meet them again. He went out from us because he was not of us. And in no case should the church encourage him to unite with them again; for, with the spirit he now has, he would quarrel even with the angels of God. He would wish to rule and dictate the work of the angels. No such spirit can enter heaven. (K) and J, whom God frowns upon, have dared to withstand the servants of God, to malign them, and to impute to them evil motives. They have tried to destroy the confidence of the brethren in these workers as well as in the Testimonies. But if the work is of God, they cannot overthrow it. Their efforts will be in vain. Brother G, you were in such darkness that you thought these men were right. You have repeated their words and talked of the “one-man power.” Oh, how little you knew what you were talking about!
Some have been ready to say anything, to prefer any charge, against the servants of God, and to be jealous and faultfinding. And if they can find any instance where, in their zeal for the cause of God, they think ministers have spoken decidedly, and perhaps severely, they have been willing to make the most of their words, and have felt at liberty to cherish the most bitter, wicked spirit, and to charge the Lord’s servants with wrong motives. Let these faultfinders ask what they would have done under similar circumstances, bearing similar burdens. Let them look and search and condemn their own wrong, overbearing course and their own impatience and fretfulness; and when without sin themselves, let them cast the first stone of censure at the brethren who are trying to get them into working order. A holy God will not bring out souls to the truth to come under such an influence as has existed in the church. Our heavenly Father is too wise to bring souls into the truth to be molded by the influence of these men who are unconsecrated in heart and life. These men are not in harmony with the truth. They are not in union with the body, but are drawing off from the (people of God). They are working at cross purposes with those whom God is using to bring souls into the truth.
Who would nourish those who should take their stand to obey all of God’s commandments? Who would be nursing fathers and nursing mothers to those who need help and strength? Do these brethren know what they are doing? They are standing directly in the way of sinners. They are blocking up the way by their own wrong course. The blood of souls will be on their garments unless they repent and entirely change their course. Do these disaffected ones think that they are right and the body of Sabbathkeepers deluded? By their fruits ye shall know them.” Whom is God blessing? Whom is He leading? Who are at work for Him? Who are doing good in laboring to get the truth before other minds? Do these men think that the body will come to them and give up their experience and views to follow the judgment of these unconsecrated ones? or will they come into harmony with the body?
Brother G boasts of his independence of mind and judgment, while he is blocking up the way of sinners by his unconsecrated life and his opposition to the work in blindly warring against Christ in the persons of His servants; but he is deceived in the quality of true independence. Independence is not obstinacy, although obstinacy is often confounded with independence. When Brother G has formed an opinion, and expressed it in his family or in the church with considerable confidence and with some publicity, he is then inclined to make it appear that he is right by every argument he can produce. He is in danger, great danger, of closing his eyes and violating his conscience by his persistency; for the temptation of the enemy is strong upon him. His pride of opinion is hard to yield, even in the face of light and evidence sufficient to convince him if he would be convinced. He thinks that if he should admit that he was wrong, it would be a reflection on his judgment and discernment.
Brother G, you are in great danger of losing your soul. You want to have the pre-eminence. At times you feel deeply if you think you are slighted. You are not a happy man. You will not be happy if you leave the people of God, taking offense at plain words and facts, as did many of the followers of Christ, because the truth spoken was too close. You will not be a happy man, for you will take yourself with you. You are not right; you make trouble for yourself. Your temperament is your enemy, and go where you will you will take yourself with your burden of unhappiness. It is an honor to confess a wrong as soon as it is discerned.
There are many matters in connection with the work of God with which you find fault, because it is natural for you to do so. And since you have turned your face against the light God revealed to you in regard to yourself, you are fast losing your discernment and are more than ever ready to find fault with everything. You give your opinion with dictatorial confidence and treat the queries of others in regard to your opinion as personal abuse. True, refined independence never disdains to seek counsel of the experienced and of the wise, and it treats the counsel of others with respect. 4T 235-239.