Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Cleaning the house and the ministry every Friday for the Sabbath is hard work. This medical condition makes cleaning very difficult. I have to rest every few minutes. Pushing, pulling, shoving and lifting is very exhausting. Preparing for the Sabbath rest can be a very hectic and challenging experience. However, the Sabbath rest makes it all worthwhile. I enjoy the Sabbath so much after Friday’s cleaning.
Cleaning up the life is not easy either. Preparing for our “Sabbath rest” when Jesus comes is hard work. We have much to do in preparing for Heaven. The saints of God must overcome every sin. We must be imitators of God, living His perfect, sinless and Commandment keeping life. But we don’t have to do it alone. Just as I have a vacuum cleaner to help me clean the floor and other cleaning material to help with windows, dishes and bathrooms, so too, we have help available to us from God. Yet, we must do the work. We must look into every crook and cranny of our lives, search back into our past, and repent from all of our sins, turning away from them and walking in the refreshing breeze of the Spirit of God. Friday evening, looking upon a clean house, brings joy and rest to the spirit.
Ephesians 5:1 to Ephesians 5:21
So be imitators of God, as his dear children.
Of our selves, not so easy. We can go to human sources to clean up our lives, yet, it doesn’t last. The demons will return with a vengeance without the Spirit of God filling our lives. To become “His dear children” we must be “imitators of God”. Always keep in mind the story Jesus told of the house that was cleaned up. The demon was cast out. But the owner got lazy and didn’t fill the house with good things. Soon the demon came back to take a look. The house was so clean and empty he decided to move back in. But this time, he invited his many friends to join him and the house was in worse shape than it was before. Cleaning up some bad habits may look good on the outside, but unless you fill the empty space on the inside with the Spirit of God and His good works, it won’t last.
Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.
I have been experiencing the “fragrant aroma” of love myself. Every time someone does a loving act for me, it is amazing how refreshing it is in my life. I want to do the same for others. “Just as”! Wow, that is not easy. Jesus never thought of Himself. He never thought, “What I will have for lunch?” Not once. He never thought, “What should I wear today?” Not once. He never planned, “Where should I go today?” Not once. How often throughout the day are we thinking of ourselves? To offer ourselves as living sacrifices for the good of others is truly a work.
Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.
“Or greed”! Most usually stop at the sexual and refuse to let the mind dwell on the “greed” part. Coveting! It ruins so many lives: Husband and wife, employees, students, children, all coveting what they want. Coveting leads to strife, contention and destruction.
Love and sex are not always the same. Sex can be used as a weapon. Self-sexual gratification without the responsibility is not love. So many lives are ruined today because of sex. Unable to control the lower passions brings such darkness to the soul. True love is responsibility for our acts.
Obscene, flippant, or vulgar talk is totally inappropriate. Instead, let there be thanksgiving.
I’m working hard on this one. Years of flippant and vulgar — off color suggestions from my father — have literally ruined my life. Yet, through the power of God and keeping my mind on thanksgiving is allowing me to win the battle. Obscenity through our words, actions or what we read and see only produces filthy lives. That “flippant” talk is also something we need to control. I wonder, would “comedy” fall under that category? In today’s world, broadcasting every insane thought has become universal. We need to make sure that what we text, post and share is for the glory of God. When you realize that we will be judged by every word we have ever spoken, that might bring terror to our lives. “Be still and know that I am God.” Wise words.
For you know very well that no immoral or impure person, or anyone who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.
Being “greedy” doesn’t just mean gathering up money or things, but can also be gathering up pride, ego, power, position and other non-tangible items. Gathering immoral or impure thoughts is also greed. In one sense, we have all be idolaters.
Do not let anyone deceive you with meaningless words, for it is because of these things that God becomes angry with those who disobey. So do not be partners with them.
‘Meaningless words”. How many of us throw around meaningless words all day long. Words that have no meaning except to make us sound or look “good”. Our churches put out meaningless words by the bucketful’s. Most of the meaningless words are from those who want to “deceive you”.
For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,
When we become “children of Light”, we begin putting away the darkness from our lives. At first we may only be a 10 watt lightbulb. But as we get closer to the Generating Power Plant our bulb will become more powerful. The more powerful the Light in the life, the less darkness. The less we talk, the brighter the bulb. “Be still and know that I am God”. Not much of that going on in our lives.
for the fruit that the light produces consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth.
“Every form”. We are way too limited in our thinking. Our churches have put a hood over our heads. We need to get closer to the Power Plant and learn of “every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth”. This little ministry started out sending the first volume of “Change Your Life Biblically” to inmates. Then there was the second volume. Then a third. Then the ministry discovered the internet. Eventually we built a “studio” where we are able to produce videos for YouTube and other sites. Now we have the possibility of reaching over five million people a day.
Determine what pleases the Lord, . . .
Keeping that concept in mind throughout the day is not an easy task. It is hard work. More often than not, we do what pleases “me” or those around us. We must change our lives!
. . . and have nothing to do with the unfruitful actions that darkness produces. Instead, expose them for what they are.
This newsletter was started back around October of 2022, just before the midterm elections. I was thankful to the Lord for raising up candidates who were standing up for God, family and country. I am thankful for the men and women, Jews, Catholics and Protestants, He is rising up to use the internet and other media sources to teach people what is right and wrong. This little ministry is doing its part, as God directs, to point people to Jesus. I thank all of you who support this little ministry in its appointed duty.
For it is shameful even to mention what is done by these disobedient people in secret.
Yes it is. There is a political party out there that is under the control of Lucifer to bring about wickedness and destroy righteousness. Children are being sexualized and mutilated, criminals are being hailed as heroes while victims are being treated as criminals. Whole cities are being destroyed because wickedness has taken over a political party to destroy what God has created.
But everything that is exposed to the light becomes visible,
There are those in congress now, 2023, who are lighting up the dark and exposing the evil that has been pervading the world. In prophecy, God designated the United States of America to show the world what Christianity would do for people and countries if they would live by His principles. For 250 years this country was a blessing to the world. The devil is trying to destroy God’s plan.
. . . for the light is making everything visible. That is why it says, “Wake up, sleeper! Arise from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.”
How true that was just before the midterm elections of 2022. Hispanics, blacks, women and others began waking up and leaving the party of destruction and going to the party of sanity. God allowed the movement of events in the 2020 election to show people what happens when wickedness is allowed to rule. The “light” of truth is “making everything visible” and people and beginning to see the importance of law and order and Christian values.
So, then, be careful how you live. Do not be unwise but wise,
The people of the world are waking up and becoming “wise” to what wickedness is doing. The people are throwing out the wicked and returning to their roots: God, family and country.
. . . making the best use of your time because the times are evil.
Yes they are. The closing events of earth’s history are rapidly descending upon us. The pendulum is swinging to the right. For a few years we will have peace and safety in order to get out the truth. We must work harder now than we have ever worked before. This window of opportunity will close in a few years. I thank all of you for your sacrificial support so we can work together in presenting to the world God’s truth.
Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
The churches and denominations today have no understanding of “what the Lord’s will is”. They have all fallen. It is all the “goody-goody religion”. The Lord’s will is for us to teach the world how to live the perfect, sinless and Commandment keeping life. Every era has its message. Noah called the people to get on the Ark. Abraham and the Israelites called people to the coming Messiah. Jesus pointed people to the prophecies about Himself as the Messiah. Then, He pointed them back to the Old Testament and called them to repentance, self-control and to live the perfect, sinless and Commandment keeping life. Today, that message is most important. After the close of probation, only those who have developed the perfect, sinless and Commandment keeping life will be translated.
Stop getting drunk with wine, which leads to wild living, but keep on being filled with the Spirit.
Not just “wine”, but drunk on money, power, sex and church. Church members are participating in “wild living”. Dancing in the churches and other satanic practices are permeating all churches.
Then you will recite to one another psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; you will sing and make music to the Lord with your hearts;
Not much of making “music to the Lord with your hearts”. Most of it is making music for money. The songs that are sung in most churches reap huge profits for those who write them. The hearts are not led to humbly submit to God’s law. It is all show.
. . . you will consistently give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah; and you will submit to one another out of reverence for the Messiah.
Not much of that going on in our churches. Submitting “to one another out of reverence for the Messiah” just isn’t happening. Pride, ego, arrogance, money and power are what keep churches going. Few have reverence for the Messiah. It is all about “my pastor”, “my church” or “my denomination”. But little about reverence for the Messiah and what He commands of us.
INMATE LETTERS
Ronald,
I received a pamphlet in the mail the other day from you. At first I just tossed it on my desk and didn’t really think about it again. When I laid down to go to bed that night, for some reason, that pamphlet was on my mind. Since I couldn’t sleep, I thought I’d thumb through it. I ended up reading it and I couldn’t help but lay there and think about if this could be something that could help me. I’ve never been involved with any kind of church at all. I grew up in foster care until I was 10 and then I lived on the streets. I had ended up again in trouble when I was 13 and have lived my life in prison ever since then. Well, I had gotten out a couple times only to come right back to jail. I’m at the point in my life now where I truly want to be happy. I want to let God in and have a good life. I don’t know if it is possible, but I know I want it so bad. I am 39 years old and I want a good life. I am ready for something better than what I’ve been doing. I would love your book, “Change Your life Biblically”.
Naython, OR
Ronald,
I’m 30 years old. Out of the blue I got your pamphlet. I just threw it in my locker and paid no mind to it. One day, I just got this feeling to pick it up and read it. It was good that I did. I learned a lot reading the pamphlet. I hope that everything is well with you. I read about what happened to you and I’m glad that you beat the odds.
Luis, CA
JCPM,
I received this from my neighbor. I enjoyed reading your testimony. I would like to be added to your list. I have been through a little in life myself. God has truly had His hand on my life. You have an amazing testimony and it definitely shows the power and healing power of God.
Jared, TX
Hello,
The reason I’m writing this letter is to see how I can get enrolled in your Bible study. I’m very interested on doing your Bible studies. I have to say that I just barely became a believer of our Lord. He touched my heart in a very beautiful way. I was in a very dark place and he saved me from it. I have experienced something I never thought I would. Getting on my knees for the first time to talk to our Lord changed my life.
Harvey, CA
TESTIMONY FOR GOD’S CHILDREN
My Dear Family in Christ,
We have been learning from our study of Ephesians how sanctified we are to become. We are to live after the example of Jesus. He set the example for us to follow. But how few are walking with Jesus! The world has so many distractions. We love the world and what it has to offer.
I pray that as you read the following counsel from the Lord that you will become more committed to the work of God. From the moment we wake in the morning, every thought should be on how we can be of service to God. In my prayer, I ask, “Be my scheduler and provider”. I want God to lead me and provide so I can do what He leads me to do. I am ready and willing to lay down anything I am doing to accomplish any task He brings to my attention. Serving God isn’t going to church. Serving God isn’t belonging to a denomination. Serving God is giving our lives daily to the work of God.
A Divided Interest
Dear Brethren (church member),
In the vision given me last January I was shown some things in reference to you both. I was shown that you are not growing in spirituality as it is your duty and privilege to grow. The greatness of the work and the opening providences of God should stir your hearts. Christ designed that His believing children should be the light of the world, the salt of the earth. The holy life, the Christian example, of one good man in a community sheds a light that is reflected upon others. How great, then, would be the influence of a company of believers all walking in the commandments of God.
The preaching of the word is ordained of God to arouse and convict sinners. And when the living preacher exemplifies in his own life the self-denial and sacrifices of Christ, when his conversation and acts are in harmony with the divine Pattern, then his influence will be a powerful one upon those who listen to his voice. But all cannot be teachers of the word in the pulpit. The duties of different persons vary, and there is work for all to do. All can aid the cause by giving unselfishly of their means to help the various branches of the work, by furnishing means for the publication of tracts and periodicals to scatter among the people and disseminate the truth. Those who give money to promote the cause are bearing a part of the burden of the work; they are colaborers with Christ; for God has furnished men with means on trust, to be used for holy and wise purposes. They are the instrumentalities which Heaven has ordained for doing good, and men are to put these talents out to the exchangers.
Dear brethren, ever bear in mind that you are the stewards of God, and that He holds you accountable for the temporal talents He has lent you to use wisely for His glory. Will you not closely search your hearts and investigate the motives which prompt you to action? I was shown that your danger is in loving your possessions. Your ears are not quick to hear the Master’s call in the person of His saints and in the wants of His cause. You do not invest your treasure gladly in the enterprise of Christianity. If you desire a treasure in heaven you should be securing it while you have the opportunity. If you feel safer to apply your means toward the greater accumulation of earthly riches, and to invest sparingly in the cause of God, then you should feel satisfied to receive heavenly treasure according to your investment in heavenly stock.
You desire to see the cause of God progress, but you make little personal effort toward that end. If you, and others who profess our holy faith, could see your true position and realize your accountability to God you would become more earnest colaborers with Jesus. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.” There can be no divided interest in this, for the whole heart and mind and strength comprise the entire man.
Says the apostle: “Ye are not your own; for ye are bought with a price.” When the poor, condemned sinner was lying under the curse of the Father’s law, Jesus so loved him that He gave Himself for the transgressor. He redeemed him by the virtue of His blood. We cannot estimate the precious ransom paid to redeem fallen man. The heart’s best and holiest affections should be given in return for such wondrous love. The temporal gifts you enjoy are merely lent you to aid in the advancement of the kingdom of God.
I speak of the tithing system, yet how meager it looks to my mind! How small the estimate! How vain the endeavor to measure with mathematical rules, time, money, and love against a love and sacrifice that is measureless and incomputable! Tithes for Christ! Oh, meager pittance, shameful recompense for that which cost so much! From the cross of Calvary, Christ calls for an unconditional surrender. He promised the young ruler that if he sold all that he had and gave it to the poor, and lifted His cross and followed Him, he should have treasure in heaven. All we have should be consecrated to God. The Majesty of heaven came to the world to die a sacrifice for the sins of man. And how cold and selfish is the human heart that can turn away from such incomparable love and set itself upon the vain things of this world.
When selfishness is striving for the victory over you, bear in mind One who left the glorious courts of heaven and laid aside the robes of royalty for your sakes, becoming poor that through His poverty you might be made rich. Will you, then, disregard this great love and boundless mercy by refusing to be inconvenienced and to deny yourselves for His dear sake? Will you cling to the treasures of this life and neglect to aid in carrying forward the great work of truth?
The children of Israel were anciently commanded to make an offering for the entire congregation to purify them from ceremonial defilement. This sacrifice was a red heifer and represented the more perfect offering that should redeem from the pollution of sin. This was an occasional sacrifice for the purification of all those who had necessarily or accidentally touched the dead. All who came in contact with death in any way were considered ceremonially unclean. This was to forcibly impress the minds of the Hebrews with the fact that death came in consequence of sin and therefore is a representative of sin. The one heifer, the one ark, the one brazen serpent, impressively point to the one great offering, the sacrifice of Christ.
This heifer was to be red, which was a symbol of blood. It must be without spot or blemish, and one that had never borne a yoke. Here, again, Christ was typified. The Son of God came voluntarily to accomplish the work of atonement. There was no obligatory yoke upon Him, for He was independent and above all law. The angels, as God’s intelligent messengers, were under the yoke of obligation; no personal sacrifice of theirs could atone for the guilt of fallen man. Christ alone was free from the claims of the law to undertake the redemption of the sinful race. He had power to lay down His life and to take it up again. “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”
Yet this glorious Being loved the poor sinner and took upon Himself the form of a servant, that He might suffer and die in man’s behalf. Jesus might have remained at His Father’s right hand, wearing His kingly crown and royal robes. But He chose to exchange all the riches, honor, and glory of heaven for the poverty of humanity, and His station of high command for the horrors of Gethsemane and the humiliation and agony of Calvary. He became a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, that by His baptism of suffering and blood He might purify and redeem a guilty world. “Lo, I come,” was the joyful assent, “to do Thy will, O My God.”
The sacrificial heifer was conducted without the camp and slain in the most imposing manner. Thus Christ suffered without the gates of Jerusalem, for Calvary was outside the city walls. This was to show that Christ did not die for the Hebrews alone, but for all mankind. He proclaims to a fallen world that He has come to be their Redeemer and urges them to accept the salvation He offers them. The heifer having been slain in a most solemn manner, the priest, clothed in pure white garments, took the blood in his hands as it issued from the body of the victim and cast it toward the temple seven times. “And having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”
The body of the heifer was burned to ashes, which signified a whole and ample sacrifice. The ashes were then gathered up by a person uncontaminated by contact with the dead and placed in a vessel containing water from a running stream. This clean and pure person then took a cedar stick with scarlet cloth and a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled the contents of the vessel upon the tent and the people assembled. This ceremony was repeated several times in order to be thorough and was done as a purification from sin.
Thus Christ, in His own spotless righteousness, after shedding His precious blood, enters into the holy place to cleanse the sanctuary. And there the crimson current is brought into the service of reconciling God to man. Some may look upon this slaying of the heifer as a meaningless ceremony, but it was done by the command of God and bears a deep significance that has not lost its application to the present time.
The priest used cedar and hyssop, dipping them into the cleansing water and sprinkling the unclean. This symbolized the blood of Christ spilled to cleanse us from moral impurities. The repeated sprinklings illustrate the thoroughness of the work that must be accomplished for the repenting sinner. All that he has must be consecrated. Not only should his own soul be washed clean and pure, but he should strive to have his family, his domestic arrangements, his property, and his entire belongings consecrated to God.
After the tent had been sprinkled with hyssop, over the door of those cleansed was written: I am not my own; Lord, I am Thine. Thus should it be with those who profess to be cleansed by the blood of Christ. God is no less exacting now than He was in olden times. The psalmist, in his prayer, refers to this symbolic ceremony when he says: “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” “Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation; and uphold me with Thy free spirit.”
The blood of Christ is efficacious, but it needs to be applied continually. God not only wants His servants to use the means He has entrusted to them for His glory, but He desires them to make a consecration of themselves to His cause. If you, my brethren, have become selfish and are withholding from the Lord that which you should cheerfully give to His service, then you need the blood of sprinkling thoroughly applied, consecrating you and all your possessions to God.
My much-respected brethren, you have not that earnest and unselfish devotion to the work of God that He requires of you. You have given your attention to temporal matters. You have trained your minds for business in order to thereby benefit yourselves. But God calls for you to come into closer union with Him, that He may mold and train you for His work. A solemn statement was made to ancient Israel that the man who should remain unclean and refuse to purify himself should be cut off from among the congregation. This has a special meaning for us. If it was necessary in ancient times for the unclean to be purified by the blood of sprinkling, how essential for those living in the perils of the last days, and exposed to the temptations of Satan, to have the blood of Christ applied to their hearts daily. “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
You should both do much more than you have done toward bearing the burdens of the work of the Lord. I adjure you to arouse from your lethargy, leave the vain idolatry of worldly things, and be in earnest to secure a title to your immortal inheritance. Work while it is day. Do not imperil your souls by forfeiting present opportunities. Do not make your eternal interests of secondary importance. Do not put the world before religion, and toil day after day to acquire its riches, while the peril of eternal bankruptcy threatens you. Every day is bringing you nearer to the final reckoning. Be ready to yield up the talents lent you, with the increase gained by their wise use.
You cannot afford to sacrifice heaven or to jeopardize your safety. Do not let the deceitfulness of riches lead you to neglect the immortal treasure. Satan is a wily foe, and he is ever on your track, striving to ensnare you and compass your ruin. We are in the waiting time; let your loins be girded about and your lights shining, that you may wait for the Lord when He returns from the wedding, that when He comes and knocks you may open unto Him immediately.
Watch, brethren, the first dimming of your light, the first neglect of prayer, the first symptom of spiritual slumber. “He that endureth to the end shall be saved.” It is by the constant exercise of faith and love that believers are made to shine as lights in the world. You are making but poor preparation for the Master’s coming if you are serving mammon while professedly serving God. When He appears, you must then present to Him the talents that you have buried in the earth, talents neglected, abused, misused—a divided love.
Both of you have professed to be servants of Christ. How necessary that you should obey your Master’s directions and be faithful to your duties. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” This love is without a parallel, giving to men the relationship of sons to God. Therefore the Father expects obedience from His children; therefore He requires a right disposition of the property He has placed in their hands. It is not their own to use for their personal gratification; but it is the capital of the Lord, for which they are responsible to Him.
Children of the Lord, how precious is the promise! How full the atonement of the Saviour for our guilt! The Redeemer, with a heart of unalterable love, still pleads His sacred blood in the sinner’s behalf. The wounded hands, the pierced side, the marred feet, plead eloquently for fallen man, whose redemption is purchased at such an infinite cost. Oh, matchless condescension! Neither time nor events can lessen the efficacy of the atoning sacrifice. As the fragrant cloud of incense rose acceptably to heaven, and Aaron sprinkled the blood upon the mercy seat of ancient Israel and cleansed the people from guilt, so the merits of the slain Lamb are accepted by God today as a purifier from the defilement of sin.
“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.” There are stern battles for you to fight. You should put on the whole armor of righteousness and prove yourselves strong and true in your Redeemer’s service. God wants no idlers in His field, but colaborers with Christ, vigilant sentinels at their posts, valiant soldiers of the cross, ready to do and dare all things for the cause in which they are enlisted.
It is not wealth or intellect that gives happiness; it is true moral worth and a sense of duty performed. You may have the overcomer’s reward and stand before the throne of Christ to sing His praises in the day when He assembles His saints; but your robes must be cleansed in the blood of the Lamb, and charity must cover you as a garment, and you be found spotless and without blemish.
John says: “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.” “These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple: and He that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” 4T 118—125.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Cleaning the house and the ministry every Friday for the Sabbath is hard work. This medical condition makes cleaning very difficult. I have to rest every few minutes. Pushing, pulling, shoving and lifting is very exhausting. Preparing for the Sabbath rest can be a very hectic and challenging experience. However, the Sabbath rest makes it all worthwhile. I enjoy the Sabbath so much after Friday’s cleaning.
Cleaning up the life is not easy either. Preparing for our “Sabbath rest” when Jesus comes is hard work. We have much to do in preparing for Heaven. The saints of God must overcome every sin. We must be imitators of God, living His perfect, sinless and Commandment keeping life. But we don’t have to do it alone. Just as I have a vacuum cleaner to help me clean the floor and other cleaning material to help with windows, dishes and bathrooms, so too, we have help available to us from God. Yet, we must do the work. We must look into every crook and cranny of our lives, search back into our past, and repent from all of our sins, turning away from them and walking in the refreshing breeze of the Spirit of God. Friday evening, looking upon a clean house, brings joy and rest to the spirit.
Ephesians 5:1 to Ephesians 5:21
So be imitators of God, as his dear children.
Of our selves, not so easy. We can go to human sources to clean up our lives, yet, it doesn’t last. The demons will return with a vengeance without the Spirit of God filling our lives. To become “His dear children” we must be “imitators of God”. Always keep in mind the story Jesus told of the house that was cleaned up. The demon was cast out. But the owner got lazy and didn’t fill the house with good things. Soon the demon came back to take a look. The house was so clean and empty he decided to move back in. But this time, he invited his many friends to join him and the house was in worse shape than it was before. Cleaning up some bad habits may look good on the outside, but unless you fill the empty space on the inside with the Spirit of God and His good works, it won’t last.
Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.
I have been experiencing the “fragrant aroma” of love myself. Every time someone does a loving act for me, it is amazing how refreshing it is in my life. I want to do the same for others. “Just as”! Wow, that is not easy. Jesus never thought of Himself. He never thought, “What I will have for lunch?” Not once. He never thought, “What should I wear today?” Not once. He never planned, “Where should I go today?” Not once. How often throughout the day are we thinking of ourselves? To offer ourselves as living sacrifices for the good of others is truly a work.
Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.
“Or greed”! Most usually stop at the sexual and refuse to let the mind dwell on the “greed” part. Coveting! It ruins so many lives: Husband and wife, employees, students, children, all coveting what they want. Coveting leads to strife, contention and destruction.
Love and sex are not always the same. Sex can be used as a weapon. Self-sexual gratification without the responsibility is not love. So many lives are ruined today because of sex. Unable to control the lower passions brings such darkness to the soul. True love is responsibility for our acts.
Obscene, flippant, or vulgar talk is totally inappropriate. Instead, let there be thanksgiving.
I’m working hard on this one. Years of flippant and vulgar — off color suggestions from my father — have literally ruined my life. Yet, through the power of God and keeping my mind on thanksgiving is allowing me to win the battle. Obscenity through our words, actions or what we read and see only produces filthy lives. That “flippant” talk is also something we need to control. I wonder, would “comedy” fall under that category? In today’s world, broadcasting every insane thought has become universal. We need to make sure that what we text, post and share is for the glory of God. When you realize that we will be judged by every word we have ever spoken, that might bring terror to our lives. “Be still and know that I am God.” Wise words.
For you know very well that no immoral or impure person, or anyone who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.
Being “greedy” doesn’t just mean gathering up money or things, but can also be gathering up pride, ego, power, position and other non-tangible items. Gathering immoral or impure thoughts is also greed. In one sense, we have all be idolaters.
Do not let anyone deceive you with meaningless words, for it is because of these things that God becomes angry with those who disobey. So do not be partners with them.
‘Meaningless words”. How many of us throw around meaningless words all day long. Words that have no meaning except to make us sound or look “good”. Our churches put out meaningless words by the bucketful’s. Most of the meaningless words are from those who want to “deceive you”.
For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,
When we become “children of Light”, we begin putting away the darkness from our lives. At first we may only be a 10 watt lightbulb. But as we get closer to the Generating Power Plant our bulb will become more powerful. The more powerful the Light in the life, the less darkness. The less we talk, the brighter the bulb. “Be still and know that I am God”. Not much of that going on in our lives.
for the fruit that the light produces consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth.
“Every form”. We are way too limited in our thinking. Our churches have put a hood over our heads. We need to get closer to the Power Plant and learn of “every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth”. This little ministry started out sending the first volume of “Change Your Life Biblically” to inmates. Then there was the second volume. Then a third. Then the ministry discovered the internet. Eventually we built a “studio” where we are able to produce videos for YouTube and other sites. Now we have the possibility of reaching over five million people a day.
Determine what pleases the Lord, . . .
Keeping that concept in mind throughout the day is not an easy task. It is hard work. More often than not, we do what pleases “me” or those around us. We must change our lives!
. . . and have nothing to do with the unfruitful actions that darkness produces. Instead, expose them for what they are.
This newsletter was started back around October of 2022, just before the midterm elections. I was thankful to the Lord for raising up candidates who were standing up for God, family and country. I am thankful for the men and women, Jews, Catholics and Protestants, He is rising up to use the internet and other media sources to teach people what is right and wrong. This little ministry is doing its part, as God directs, to point people to Jesus. I thank all of you who support this little ministry in its appointed duty.
For it is shameful even to mention what is done by these disobedient people in secret.
Yes it is. There is a political party out there that is under the control of Lucifer to bring about wickedness and destroy righteousness. Children are being sexualized and mutilated, criminals are being hailed as heroes while victims are being treated as criminals. Whole cities are being destroyed because wickedness has taken over a political party to destroy what God has created.
But everything that is exposed to the light becomes visible,
There are those in congress now, 2023, who are lighting up the dark and exposing the evil that has been pervading the world. In prophecy, God designated the United States of America to show the world what Christianity would do for people and countries if they would live by His principles. For 250 years this country was a blessing to the world. The devil is trying to destroy God’s plan.
. . . for the light is making everything visible. That is why it says, “Wake up, sleeper! Arise from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.”
How true that was just before the midterm elections of 2022. Hispanics, blacks, women and others began waking up and leaving the party of destruction and going to the party of sanity. God allowed the movement of events in the 2020 election to show people what happens when wickedness is allowed to rule. The “light” of truth is “making everything visible” and people and beginning to see the importance of law and order and Christian values.
So, then, be careful how you live. Do not be unwise but wise,
The people of the world are waking up and becoming “wise” to what wickedness is doing. The people are throwing out the wicked and returning to their roots: God, family and country.
. . . making the best use of your time because the times are evil.
Yes they are. The closing events of earth’s history are rapidly descending upon us. The pendulum is swinging to the right. For a few years we will have peace and safety in order to get out the truth. We must work harder now than we have ever worked before. This window of opportunity will close in a few years. I thank all of you for your sacrificial support so we can work together in presenting to the world God’s truth.
Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
The churches and denominations today have no understanding of “what the Lord’s will is”. They have all fallen. It is all the “goody-goody religion”. The Lord’s will is for us to teach the world how to live the perfect, sinless and Commandment keeping life. Every era has its message. Noah called the people to get on the Ark. Abraham and the Israelites called people to the coming Messiah. Jesus pointed people to the prophecies about Himself as the Messiah. Then, He pointed them back to the Old Testament and called them to repentance, self-control and to live the perfect, sinless and Commandment keeping life. Today, that message is most important. After the close of probation, only those who have developed the perfect, sinless and Commandment keeping life will be translated.
Stop getting drunk with wine, which leads to wild living, but keep on being filled with the Spirit.
Not just “wine”, but drunk on money, power, sex and church. Church members are participating in “wild living”. Dancing in the churches and other satanic practices are permeating all churches.
Then you will recite to one another psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; you will sing and make music to the Lord with your hearts;
Not much of making “music to the Lord with your hearts”. Most of it is making music for money. The songs that are sung in most churches reap huge profits for those who write them. The hearts are not led to humbly submit to God’s law. It is all show.
. . . you will consistently give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah; and you will submit to one another out of reverence for the Messiah.
Not much of that going on in our churches. Submitting “to one another out of reverence for the Messiah” just isn’t happening. Pride, ego, arrogance, money and power are what keep churches going. Few have reverence for the Messiah. It is all about “my pastor”, “my church” or “my denomination”. But little about reverence for the Messiah and what He commands of us.
INMATE LETTERS
Ronald,
I received a pamphlet in the mail the other day from you. At first I just tossed it on my desk and didn’t really think about it again. When I laid down to go to bed that night, for some reason, that pamphlet was on my mind. Since I couldn’t sleep, I thought I’d thumb through it. I ended up reading it and I couldn’t help but lay there and think about if this could be something that could help me. I’ve never been involved with any kind of church at all. I grew up in foster care until I was 10 and then I lived on the streets. I had ended up again in trouble when I was 13 and have lived my life in prison ever since then. Well, I had gotten out a couple times only to come right back to jail. I’m at the point in my life now where I truly want to be happy. I want to let God in and have a good life. I don’t know if it is possible, but I know I want it so bad. I am 39 years old and I want a good life. I am ready for something better than what I’ve been doing. I would love your book, “Change Your life Biblically”.
Naython, OR
Ronald,
I’m 30 years old. Out of the blue I got your pamphlet. I just threw it in my locker and paid no mind to it. One day, I just got this feeling to pick it up and read it. It was good that I did. I learned a lot reading the pamphlet. I hope that everything is well with you. I read about what happened to you and I’m glad that you beat the odds.
Luis, CA
JCPM,
I received this from my neighbor. I enjoyed reading your testimony. I would like to be added to your list. I have been through a little in life myself. God has truly had His hand on my life. You have an amazing testimony and it definitely shows the power and healing power of God.
Jared, TX
Hello,
The reason I’m writing this letter is to see how I can get enrolled in your Bible study. I’m very interested on doing your Bible studies. I have to say that I just barely became a believer of our Lord. He touched my heart in a very beautiful way. I was in a very dark place and he saved me from it. I have experienced something I never thought I would. Getting on my knees for the first time to talk to our Lord changed my life.
Harvey, CA
TESTIMONY FOR GOD’S CHILDREN
My Dear Family in Christ,
We have been learning from our study of Ephesians how sanctified we are to become. We are to live after the example of Jesus. He set the example for us to follow. But how few are walking with Jesus! The world has so many distractions. We love the world and what it has to offer.
I pray that as you read the following counsel from the Lord that you will become more committed to the work of God. From the moment we wake in the morning, every thought should be on how we can be of service to God. In my prayer, I ask, “Be my scheduler and provider”. I want God to lead me and provide so I can do what He leads me to do. I am ready and willing to lay down anything I am doing to accomplish any task He brings to my attention. Serving God isn’t going to church. Serving God isn’t belonging to a denomination. Serving God is giving our lives daily to the work of God.
A Divided Interest
Dear Brethren (church member),
In the vision given me last January I was shown some things in reference to you both. I was shown that you are not growing in spirituality as it is your duty and privilege to grow. The greatness of the work and the opening providences of God should stir your hearts. Christ designed that His believing children should be the light of the world, the salt of the earth. The holy life, the Christian example, of one good man in a community sheds a light that is reflected upon others. How great, then, would be the influence of a company of believers all walking in the commandments of God.
The preaching of the word is ordained of God to arouse and convict sinners. And when the living preacher exemplifies in his own life the self-denial and sacrifices of Christ, when his conversation and acts are in harmony with the divine Pattern, then his influence will be a powerful one upon those who listen to his voice. But all cannot be teachers of the word in the pulpit. The duties of different persons vary, and there is work for all to do. All can aid the cause by giving unselfishly of their means to help the various branches of the work, by furnishing means for the publication of tracts and periodicals to scatter among the people and disseminate the truth. Those who give money to promote the cause are bearing a part of the burden of the work; they are colaborers with Christ; for God has furnished men with means on trust, to be used for holy and wise purposes. They are the instrumentalities which Heaven has ordained for doing good, and men are to put these talents out to the exchangers.
Dear brethren, ever bear in mind that you are the stewards of God, and that He holds you accountable for the temporal talents He has lent you to use wisely for His glory. Will you not closely search your hearts and investigate the motives which prompt you to action? I was shown that your danger is in loving your possessions. Your ears are not quick to hear the Master’s call in the person of His saints and in the wants of His cause. You do not invest your treasure gladly in the enterprise of Christianity. If you desire a treasure in heaven you should be securing it while you have the opportunity. If you feel safer to apply your means toward the greater accumulation of earthly riches, and to invest sparingly in the cause of God, then you should feel satisfied to receive heavenly treasure according to your investment in heavenly stock.
You desire to see the cause of God progress, but you make little personal effort toward that end. If you, and others who profess our holy faith, could see your true position and realize your accountability to God you would become more earnest colaborers with Jesus. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.” There can be no divided interest in this, for the whole heart and mind and strength comprise the entire man.
Says the apostle: “Ye are not your own; for ye are bought with a price.” When the poor, condemned sinner was lying under the curse of the Father’s law, Jesus so loved him that He gave Himself for the transgressor. He redeemed him by the virtue of His blood. We cannot estimate the precious ransom paid to redeem fallen man. The heart’s best and holiest affections should be given in return for such wondrous love. The temporal gifts you enjoy are merely lent you to aid in the advancement of the kingdom of God.
I speak of the tithing system, yet how meager it looks to my mind! How small the estimate! How vain the endeavor to measure with mathematical rules, time, money, and love against a love and sacrifice that is measureless and incomputable! Tithes for Christ! Oh, meager pittance, shameful recompense for that which cost so much! From the cross of Calvary, Christ calls for an unconditional surrender. He promised the young ruler that if he sold all that he had and gave it to the poor, and lifted His cross and followed Him, he should have treasure in heaven. All we have should be consecrated to God. The Majesty of heaven came to the world to die a sacrifice for the sins of man. And how cold and selfish is the human heart that can turn away from such incomparable love and set itself upon the vain things of this world.
When selfishness is striving for the victory over you, bear in mind One who left the glorious courts of heaven and laid aside the robes of royalty for your sakes, becoming poor that through His poverty you might be made rich. Will you, then, disregard this great love and boundless mercy by refusing to be inconvenienced and to deny yourselves for His dear sake? Will you cling to the treasures of this life and neglect to aid in carrying forward the great work of truth?
The children of Israel were anciently commanded to make an offering for the entire congregation to purify them from ceremonial defilement. This sacrifice was a red heifer and represented the more perfect offering that should redeem from the pollution of sin. This was an occasional sacrifice for the purification of all those who had necessarily or accidentally touched the dead. All who came in contact with death in any way were considered ceremonially unclean. This was to forcibly impress the minds of the Hebrews with the fact that death came in consequence of sin and therefore is a representative of sin. The one heifer, the one ark, the one brazen serpent, impressively point to the one great offering, the sacrifice of Christ.
This heifer was to be red, which was a symbol of blood. It must be without spot or blemish, and one that had never borne a yoke. Here, again, Christ was typified. The Son of God came voluntarily to accomplish the work of atonement. There was no obligatory yoke upon Him, for He was independent and above all law. The angels, as God’s intelligent messengers, were under the yoke of obligation; no personal sacrifice of theirs could atone for the guilt of fallen man. Christ alone was free from the claims of the law to undertake the redemption of the sinful race. He had power to lay down His life and to take it up again. “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”
Yet this glorious Being loved the poor sinner and took upon Himself the form of a servant, that He might suffer and die in man’s behalf. Jesus might have remained at His Father’s right hand, wearing His kingly crown and royal robes. But He chose to exchange all the riches, honor, and glory of heaven for the poverty of humanity, and His station of high command for the horrors of Gethsemane and the humiliation and agony of Calvary. He became a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, that by His baptism of suffering and blood He might purify and redeem a guilty world. “Lo, I come,” was the joyful assent, “to do Thy will, O My God.”
The sacrificial heifer was conducted without the camp and slain in the most imposing manner. Thus Christ suffered without the gates of Jerusalem, for Calvary was outside the city walls. This was to show that Christ did not die for the Hebrews alone, but for all mankind. He proclaims to a fallen world that He has come to be their Redeemer and urges them to accept the salvation He offers them. The heifer having been slain in a most solemn manner, the priest, clothed in pure white garments, took the blood in his hands as it issued from the body of the victim and cast it toward the temple seven times. “And having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”
The body of the heifer was burned to ashes, which signified a whole and ample sacrifice. The ashes were then gathered up by a person uncontaminated by contact with the dead and placed in a vessel containing water from a running stream. This clean and pure person then took a cedar stick with scarlet cloth and a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled the contents of the vessel upon the tent and the people assembled. This ceremony was repeated several times in order to be thorough and was done as a purification from sin.
Thus Christ, in His own spotless righteousness, after shedding His precious blood, enters into the holy place to cleanse the sanctuary. And there the crimson current is brought into the service of reconciling God to man. Some may look upon this slaying of the heifer as a meaningless ceremony, but it was done by the command of God and bears a deep significance that has not lost its application to the present time.
The priest used cedar and hyssop, dipping them into the cleansing water and sprinkling the unclean. This symbolized the blood of Christ spilled to cleanse us from moral impurities. The repeated sprinklings illustrate the thoroughness of the work that must be accomplished for the repenting sinner. All that he has must be consecrated. Not only should his own soul be washed clean and pure, but he should strive to have his family, his domestic arrangements, his property, and his entire belongings consecrated to God.
After the tent had been sprinkled with hyssop, over the door of those cleansed was written: I am not my own; Lord, I am Thine. Thus should it be with those who profess to be cleansed by the blood of Christ. God is no less exacting now than He was in olden times. The psalmist, in his prayer, refers to this symbolic ceremony when he says: “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” “Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation; and uphold me with Thy free spirit.”
The blood of Christ is efficacious, but it needs to be applied continually. God not only wants His servants to use the means He has entrusted to them for His glory, but He desires them to make a consecration of themselves to His cause. If you, my brethren, have become selfish and are withholding from the Lord that which you should cheerfully give to His service, then you need the blood of sprinkling thoroughly applied, consecrating you and all your possessions to God.
My much-respected brethren, you have not that earnest and unselfish devotion to the work of God that He requires of you. You have given your attention to temporal matters. You have trained your minds for business in order to thereby benefit yourselves. But God calls for you to come into closer union with Him, that He may mold and train you for His work. A solemn statement was made to ancient Israel that the man who should remain unclean and refuse to purify himself should be cut off from among the congregation. This has a special meaning for us. If it was necessary in ancient times for the unclean to be purified by the blood of sprinkling, how essential for those living in the perils of the last days, and exposed to the temptations of Satan, to have the blood of Christ applied to their hearts daily. “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
You should both do much more than you have done toward bearing the burdens of the work of the Lord. I adjure you to arouse from your lethargy, leave the vain idolatry of worldly things, and be in earnest to secure a title to your immortal inheritance. Work while it is day. Do not imperil your souls by forfeiting present opportunities. Do not make your eternal interests of secondary importance. Do not put the world before religion, and toil day after day to acquire its riches, while the peril of eternal bankruptcy threatens you. Every day is bringing you nearer to the final reckoning. Be ready to yield up the talents lent you, with the increase gained by their wise use.
You cannot afford to sacrifice heaven or to jeopardize your safety. Do not let the deceitfulness of riches lead you to neglect the immortal treasure. Satan is a wily foe, and he is ever on your track, striving to ensnare you and compass your ruin. We are in the waiting time; let your loins be girded about and your lights shining, that you may wait for the Lord when He returns from the wedding, that when He comes and knocks you may open unto Him immediately.
Watch, brethren, the first dimming of your light, the first neglect of prayer, the first symptom of spiritual slumber. “He that endureth to the end shall be saved.” It is by the constant exercise of faith and love that believers are made to shine as lights in the world. You are making but poor preparation for the Master’s coming if you are serving mammon while professedly serving God. When He appears, you must then present to Him the talents that you have buried in the earth, talents neglected, abused, misused—a divided love.
Both of you have professed to be servants of Christ. How necessary that you should obey your Master’s directions and be faithful to your duties. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” This love is without a parallel, giving to men the relationship of sons to God. Therefore the Father expects obedience from His children; therefore He requires a right disposition of the property He has placed in their hands. It is not their own to use for their personal gratification; but it is the capital of the Lord, for which they are responsible to Him.
Children of the Lord, how precious is the promise! How full the atonement of the Saviour for our guilt! The Redeemer, with a heart of unalterable love, still pleads His sacred blood in the sinner’s behalf. The wounded hands, the pierced side, the marred feet, plead eloquently for fallen man, whose redemption is purchased at such an infinite cost. Oh, matchless condescension! Neither time nor events can lessen the efficacy of the atoning sacrifice. As the fragrant cloud of incense rose acceptably to heaven, and Aaron sprinkled the blood upon the mercy seat of ancient Israel and cleansed the people from guilt, so the merits of the slain Lamb are accepted by God today as a purifier from the defilement of sin.
“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.” There are stern battles for you to fight. You should put on the whole armor of righteousness and prove yourselves strong and true in your Redeemer’s service. God wants no idlers in His field, but colaborers with Christ, vigilant sentinels at their posts, valiant soldiers of the cross, ready to do and dare all things for the cause in which they are enlisted.
It is not wealth or intellect that gives happiness; it is true moral worth and a sense of duty performed. You may have the overcomer’s reward and stand before the throne of Christ to sing His praises in the day when He assembles His saints; but your robes must be cleansed in the blood of the Lamb, and charity must cover you as a garment, and you be found spotless and without blemish.
John says: “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.” “These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple: and He that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” 4T 118—125.