Reign, Most High Almighty reign, Most High Almighty I, Most High Almighty I, Most High
What good is for a man to gain the whole world Yet lose of forfeit his very self? He must deny himself and Take up his cross daily and follow Me, follow Me
If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words Then I will be ashamed of him When the time comes in His glory, we will rise
Reign, Most High Almighty reign, Most High Almighty I, Most High Almighty I, Most High
I tell you the truth Some of you who are standing here Will not taste death before they see Jah Creation come with His power, power
What can a man give in exchange For his own soul he cannot save? When the time comes in His glory, we will rise
Reign, Most High Almighty reign, Most High Almighty I, Most High Almighty I, Most High
This is the best film version of the Book of Acts that I’ve seen. Lots of open air preaching. Great acting with Anthony Hopkins as the apostle Paul. It was a miniseries that won two Emmy Awards. It picks up from where Jesus of Nazareth (1977) leaves off. Click on the poster to go to the video. –J.B.
I am about to bring war upon you I will kill your people in front of your idols The place will be littered with corpses And you will know that I alone I am the Lord
I am (I am) The brethren (the brethren) Marked by the banishment My tribe (my tribe) Wage war (wage war) Until God decimates
Sodomites Sodomites Sodomites Sodomites
There shall be no whores of the daughters of Israel Nor a Sodomite of the sons of Israel No!
Ways of Sodom Sin of Gomorrah Dissolved by flame In Leviathan’s den Hail hosanna Slaying their prophets Rape their covenant None shall escape
Sodomites Sodomites Sodomites Sodomites
(Hail) Sin of flesh (Hail) Manifest (Hail) Tempest rasp (Hail) Serpent lion (Hail) Jebel usdum (Hail) I am possessed
–Soulfly, “Sodomites”–
John Martin’s The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (1852)
Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. –Jude 1:7 (ESV)–
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Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About the Homosexuals (Sword of the Lord, 2000).
A Bible-based version of the 1990 film Flatliners (never watch that without the Clearplay DVD), where agnostic medical professionals discuss near-death experiences and the reality of the afterlife. Finally, one distressed doctor puts himself to sleep with a shot and has visions of Heaven and Hell. –J.B.
Yesterday I was just a boy In days of youthful hero worship My kind have been molded by images on the screen Brought up to emulate the big guns
Just another guest on death’s best show The influence cuts deeper than mom’s Those electric waves The demons fly
Now could we just be Bred to kill or die
There must be somethin’ else For the blame I place on myself Behind the tired eyes The tears go uncried
In the box Doin’ time In the box Just like doin’ time In the box Doin’ time In the box
Now that I’m grown Abandoned childhood toys But still what danger Have I retained To grab the brass ring To go in for the kill And covet the good you know ‘dem got for murder
It’s just another guest on death’s best show The influence cuts deeper than mom’s Those electric waves The demons fly
Now could we just be Bred to kill or die
There’s got to be somethin’ else For the blame I place on myself Behind tired eyes The demons stir The tears go uncried
In the box Doin’ time In the box Just like doin’ time In the box Doin’ time In the box
Minds are locked down
–Snot, “The Box”–
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The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. –Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV)–
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together. –Jeremiah 6:10-11 (KJV)–
Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins…Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? –Isaiah 58:1, 6 (NIV)–
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Watchman Nee, The Spiritual Man. (Teaches Quietism; all emotions are called “soulish”).
Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer, pp. 491-492, 495. “This is the principle that stands out from the writings of this sect. Given that some practical resolution is to be made, action will be taken solely when we are urged thereto by God. As long as the Holy Spirit has not set the soul in motion, she will wait without doing anything whatever…abandonment, exaggerated to the point of reducing oneself to a passive state of expectation…in this way desires and abandonment were falsely considered as two dispositions incompatible with one another…Let us not think of God as a jealous, intractable, sullen king who will not tolerate any initiative and who wishes to reduce us to a slave’s mute obedience.”
Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water, ch. 5. (On Social Justice).
Miguel de Molinos, author of The Spiritual Guide, and father of Quietism. He taught mental passivity, emotional stoicism, and self-annihilation. To mortify the flesh and allow the spirit to find its place in perfect contemplation on God. His anti-emotional teaching was condemned by the Catholic Church in 1687. The Spock-like expression in the painting is clear. You can almost hear him calmly say, “Don’t be angry, just look at the candle.”
He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. –Genesis 28:12 (NIV)–
In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. –Acts 2:17 (NIV)–
You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit! –Acts 7:51 (NIV)–
Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us? –Luke 24:32 (NIV)–
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. –Romans 8:16 (NIV)–
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. –2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)–
That your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power. –1 Corinthians 2:5 (NIV)–
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Lee Strobel, Seeing the Supernatural (Zondervan, 2025). This is a really unique book. Written by a hard nosed skeptic, former atheist, and leading Christian apologist. Supports an evidence-based supernatural worldview.
19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’29 “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’30 “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’31 “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’” –Luke 16:19-31
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. –2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 (KJV)
9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, 10 they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” 12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus. –Revelation 14:9-12
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hell gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hell were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. –Revelation 20:7-15
And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind. –Isaiah 66:24
The cowardly (those ashamed of the Gospel), the unbelieving (those who refuse to trust the Bible), the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. –Revelation 21:8
14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. –James 2:14-26 (NKJV)–
I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. –Revelation 20:12 (NKJV)–
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