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The Last Report
- Nov 2
- 39 min read
Updated: Nov 22
Preacher DIES and God tells him this
What Howard Pittman is saying
is that most of the preachers at church aren't real with God, but you are.
The real Christians aren't the preachers because the false are fighting them for that position
The False Prophet Pharisees
The Holy Spirit Teaches from Matthew Chapters 6 and 7
Matthew 7:13-27
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The Narrow Gate
13 “Enter at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who are going through it,
14 because small is the gate and narrow is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
A Tree and Its Fruit
15 “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruit. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit. But a corrupt tree bears evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a corrupt tree bear good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 Therefore, by their fruit you will know them.
I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonderful works in Your name?’
23 But then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice evil.’
The Two Housebuilders
24 “Whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
25 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. And it did not fall, for it was founded a rock.
26 And every one who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
27 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. And it fell. And its fall was great.”
Howard Pittman's Near Death Experience
"If you want to make it, start using your faith. Use your faith starting now".
That is God's word for today, November 2nd, 2025. A message to me that I relay to you for the Lord because there are millions like this. They call Jesus Lord, but they're just going through the motions and putting on a show. They're not real, so they want to do things for men to see so that men have them in esteem.
With this message God wants you to understand that what the false prophet serves is "self", not God. Self is what Jesus is talking in Matthew 7:15,
15 “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Implying they present an outward appearance designed to gain trust and admiration, masking their true, self-serving intentions ...
That said, let's move on to the scriptures that the Holy Spirit wants to use to witness in this message ...
You Must be Born Again by the Holy Spirit for the Lord to Know You
There Are Believers and There Are Born-Again Believers
Acts 19:1-7
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Ephesians Receive the Holy Spirit
1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples
2 and said to them, “Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?”
They said to him, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 He said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”
They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
4 Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.”
5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in other tongues and prophesied.
7 There were about twelve men in all.
` What does Jesus in red above mean to use your faith to make it to heaven?
Faith means to believe. To believe in Jesus means to act on that belief. If you believe in Jesus, use your faith to show God by your works that you believe.
James 2:5-26
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5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?
6 But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you and drag you before the judgment seats?
7 Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which you are called?
8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as sinners.
10 For whoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point is guilty of breaking the whole law.
11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not kill.” Now if you do not commit adultery, yet you kill, you have become a lawbreaker.
12 So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
13 For he who has shown no mercy will have judgment without mercy, for mercy triumphs over judgment.
Faith and Works
14 What does it profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but has no works? Can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacking daily food,
16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” and yet you give them nothing that the body needs, what does it profit?
17 So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
18 But a man may 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. The demons also believe and tremble.
20 But do you want to be shown, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
22 Do you see how faith worked with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?
23 The Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
24 You see then how by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25 Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.
The false prophets in their self-serving agendas are putting on a show in Jesus' Name to get people to hold them in esteem,
Matthew 6:1-18
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Teaching About Charitable Giving
1 “Be sure that you not do your charitable deeds before men to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2 “Therefore, when you do your charitable deeds, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.
3 But when you do your charitable deeds, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deeds may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.
The Lord’s Prayer
5 “When you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.
6 But you, when you pray, enter your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
7 But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask Him.
9 “Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come; Your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
14 For if you forgive men for their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive men for their sins, neither will your Father forgive your sins.
Teaching About Fasting
16 “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces so they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.
17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
18 so that you will not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Don't do things in ministry to get men to hold you in esteem as God's ambassador. Do things to please God inside where no one but He sees. As long as you do things to please God inside; to satisfy that born-again need to please God, you can do a public ministry because inside you're doing things before people not to please them, or to get them to hold you in esteem, but to please God within you.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
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A Life Pleasing to God
1 Finally, brothers, we urge and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have learned from us how you ought to walk and to please God, you should excel more and more.
Hebrews 11:5-6
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5 By faith Enoch was taken to heaven so that he would not see death. He was not found, because God took him away. For before he was taken, he had this commendation, that he pleased God.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He exists and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Hebrews 13:16
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16 But do not forget to do good and to share. For with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Galatians 1:10
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10 For am I now seeking the approval of men or of God? Or am I trying to please men? For if I were still trying to please men, I would not be the servant of Christ.
To be this way with God is referring to getting born again. When you get born again, God gives you a new heart with new and holy desires, like the spiritual desires to keep Him first and to please Him above the pleasures of the flesh.
Ezekiel 36:25-27
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25 Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean. From all your filthiness and from all your idols, I will cleanse you.
26 Also, I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
Titus 3:4-7
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4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward mankind appeared,
5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of rebirth and the renewal of the Holy Spirit,
6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7 so that, being justified by His grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
John 3:1-8
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Jesus and Nicodemus
The New Birth
Born Again by the Holy Spirit
1 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
2 He came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
2 Corinthians 5:17
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{Paraphrased}
17 Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away {died}. Look, all things have become new.
If you do things to get people to hold you in esteem as God's messenger, you're a false prophet and no matter how many times a day you call Jesus Lord, your god is "self", according to Jesus in Matthew 7:15.
Once you're born again, and your god is Jesus and no longer self, God wants you to get this message ingrained inside you. That is, to use your faith in Jesus to save yourself. To believe in Jesus means to serve Him; to put your belief in Him into action. If you believe in Him and the Bible says to love your neighbor, you do it because you believe in Jesus.
In Christ Love is the Motive
Faith Works Through Love
Faith means to act on what you believe. Love means to do something to express it. Faith and love are not feelings but acts.
Galatians 5:6
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6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith which works through love.
Faith & Works
Are We Justified by Faith Alone Apart from Works
Or Is Faith Dead Without Works?
Justification is by faith, and this faith is a living faith that expresses itself through works
Scriptures on Justification by Faith Alone Apart from Works
Romans 3:28
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28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law.
Romans 4:2-5
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2 If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
3 What does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
4 Now to him who works, wages are not given as a gift, but as a debt.
5 But to him who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
Scriptures on Justification by Works Through Faith
James 2:18-24
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18 But a man may 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. The demons also believe and tremble.
20 But do you want to be shown, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
22 Do you see how faith worked with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?
23 The Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
24 You see then how by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
These scriptures are not contradictions. Those who understand the truth are wise. These seemingly contradictions in scripture compliment eachother. Paul is talking about receiving salvation and Christ as Savior. James is talking about after salvation living by faith for the rest of your life with Christ as Lord.
Upon getting saved, Paul declares in Romans 3:28 that apart from works we are justified by faith in Christ alone because before salvation, our works are as filthy rags (Isa. 64:6/ Rom. 3:9-20). After salvation, James says in James chapter two that we have to learn to get to know the Lord inside us throughout life daily expressing our faith by our works.
Thus, faith and works are one teaching called "justification". Justification by faith alone apart from works to get saved, and justification by works expressing saving faith after we get saved. Works have value after we get saved because they are God's commands and no longer the filthy rags of sin.
Jesus says doing God's commands; our faith and works, give us the right to enter heaven; the New Jerusalem, after the resurrection & rapture in the millennial reign. So, faith and works are one teaching in life.
Faith in Jesus to get born again,
and works of God expressing that faith after we get born again.
Revelation 22:14
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{Paraphrased}
14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of {eternal} life, and may enter through the gates into the city {the New Jerusalem}.
Jesus is Lord and Savior
A new Christian professes Christ as Savior when they get saved by faith in Him (Rom. 10:6-17). They "confess Christ" according to Romans 10:9, 10. To make Jesus Lord is a commitment after confessing Christ to live by that faith expressing itself in obedience to God. Jesus is Lord of those who obey Him. You make Jesus Savior and then Lord.
If you call Jesus Lord, then that means that you are living by faith; faith without works is dead being alone. That you are listening to and obeying God's commands. Works count after salvation. Works mean nothing before salvation. This is what justification with God is about.
What Does It Mean to Call Jesus Lord?
The Holy Spirit Teaches from the Book of Philippians
To Call Jesus Lord Means to Work Out Your Salvation
Because it is God in You Giving You the Desire to Please Him
Jesus is Savior
Philippians 1:6
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{Paraphrased}
6 I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus {Christ's return}.
And Lord
Philippians 2:12-13
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Shining as Lights in the World
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but so much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For God is the One working in you, both to will and to do His good pleasure.
Making Jesus Lord and Obeying God's Commands in the Bible Mean to "Know God"
Philippians 3:7-11
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7 But what things were gain to me, I have counted these things to be loss for the sake of Christ.
8 Yes, certainly, I count everything as loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have forfeited the loss of all things and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ,
9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God on the basis of faith,
10 to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
11 if somehow I might make it to the resurrection of the dead.
Jesus in red above and Paul in Philippians 3:11 both say that to make the rapture & the first resurrection when Jesus returns, that we need to know and listen to Jesus as Lord after we meet Him in salvation as Savior. By meeting Him in salvation I'm talking about the baptism into the Holy Spirit when you have an encounter with, or meet, God the Holy Spirit, and are born again (Jn. 3:1-8).
You Call Jesus Lord, but Does He Know you?
Matthew 7:21-27
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I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonderful works in Your name?’
23 But then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice evil.’
The Two Housebuilders
24 “Whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
25 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. And it did not fall, for it was founded a rock.
26 And every one who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
27 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. And it fell. And its fall was great.”
Galatians 4:8-9
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Paul’s Concern for the Galatians
8 Previously, when you did not know God, you served those who by nature are not gods.
9 But now, after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elemental forces to which you desire again to be in bondage?
A Closing word,
Before we get saved by faith in Jesus our works are sin and meaningless like useless, dirty old rags. We throw them away or burn them. After we get saved by faith in Jesus, that faith in Jesus has to be expressed and lived out daily by obeying God's commands found in the Bible.
The Pharisee wasn't like this. They were unregenerate (not born-again) sinners who served self. They were not born again by the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus, so they did things to please themselves and not God. They did things to be seen of men to get esteem from them, instead of did things to please God within and get esteem from Him within , because they were not born again with the Holy Spirit living in them, as we true believers are.
If you're concerned that you're like Howard Pittman was before he was corrected by the Lord; that you're stuck in bondage to sin and can't be real with God or obey Him and make Him Lord, know that Mr. Pittman was condemned with the Pharisee as false prophets before he was corrected by the Lord because he like them, was not saved. His conversion was not real. He had not been born again and filled with the Holy Spirit until this correction because once you are, you have a born-again desire to please God first in life over serving self in the flesh. God will make sure of that so that we are not condemned as false prophets with the Pharisees.
As a born again and Spirit filled; or anointed, Christian, you do not face the condemnation of the Pharisee because you're real (Rom. 8:1). You're under grace (see Romans chapters 6 thru 8). Grace is there to help you learn how to obey God instead of sin; to learn how not to sin anymore when you fall into it.
When you make a mistake, you can't help it. It's in your nature to destroy yourselves. So, when you stumble over sin and fall, and you will (Pr. 24:16), grace is there to help you get up and learn how to stop falling into sin. Practice makes perfect. Your goal is to make fallacize mistakes and make use of them. Your born-again desire to make it to heaven is to please God by obeying Him.
Note that to fallacize mistakes means to make as many as possible to learn from them, instead of avoid them. What you learn when you do this is that mistakes teach you what to do to not make them anymore, and to stop making mistakes because you learned how to stop them, instead of avoid them.
The word "fallacize" is not in the dictionary. It is a word that college professors made at a college I attended years ago to describe attacking something harmful to learn to make it serve you. Whatever is your fallacy, you fallacize it to learn from it and become stronger than it.
So, as you live out this born-again desire to please God, you will stumble over sin like you're in the dark and not able to see the road that you walk on. This is because you've been born into sin and been living in it since day one out of the womb (Gen. 8:21/ Ps. 51:5/ Rom. 5:12/ Eph. 2:3). It's inevitable that you will fall over sin as you live out this born-again need to please God. Grace is there to help you get back up not feeling condemned for sin. You've got to reverse the sinful nature inside you with your new nature in the Holy Spirit inside you.
Bear Fruit
You Bear Fruit When You Die
You Die & Bear Fruit When You Obey God
Matthew 7:15-20
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A Tree and Its Fruit
15 “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruit. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit. But a corrupt tree bears evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a corrupt tree bear good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 Therefore, by their fruit you will know them.
James 3:1-12
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The Tongue
1 My brothers, not many of you should become teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.
2 We all err in many ways. But if any man does not err in word, he is a perfect man and able also to control the whole body.
3 See how we put bits in the mouths of horses that they may obey us, and we control their whole bodies. 4 And observe ships. Though they are so great and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are directed with a very small rudder wherever the captain pleases.
5Even so, the tongue is a little part of the body and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles.
6 The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. The tongue is among the parts of the body, defiling the whole body, and setting the course of nature on fire, and it is set on fire by hell.
7 All kinds of beasts, and birds, and serpents, and things in the sea are tamed or have been tamed by mankind.
8 But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
11 Does a spring yield at the same opening sweet and bitter water?
12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a vine, figs? So no spring can yield both salt water and fresh water.
John 12:24-25
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24 Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
25 He who loves his life will lose it. And he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
1 Corinthians 15:36
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36 You fool! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.
When a seed is planted, it dies in the earth before it grows into another form of life as a plant. This is also how Christians obey God. To obey is a form of death to your flesh like a seed dies and turns into a plant. It's called mortification, which means to put to death. We kill or put to death; deaden, our fleshly desires to please self and make self our god, to obey God instead.
A self-pleasing man is not a Christian. If he is claiming to be, then he is a false prophet as Jesus says he is, because a Christian lives to please God, not himself. The Holy Spirit makes you want God first over self when He makes you born again. Howard Pittman was not a born-again Christian before he met the Lord in that out of body experience. I thank God for his testimony, and the Lord made me understand it. It is a message to false prophets not to born again Christians struggling to mortify their flesh.
Colossians 3:5-10
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Mortify the Flesh
5 Therefore put to death the parts of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
6 Because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
7 You also once walked in these, when you lived in them.
8 But now you must also put away all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, and filthy language out of your mouth.
9 Do not lie one to another, since you have put off the old nature with its deeds,
10 and have embraced the new nature, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him who created it,
Romans 8:1-13
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Life in the Spirit
1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6 To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace,
7 for the carnal mind is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be,
8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
10 And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.
12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if through the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Galatians 5:13-26
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13 You, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only do not use liberty to give an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14 For the entire law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
15 But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.
Spiritual Fruit and Fleshly Works
16 I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are revealed, which are these: adultery, sexual immorality, impurity, lewdness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, rage, selfishness, dissensions, heresies,
21 envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I previously warned you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 meekness, and self-control; against such there is no law.
24 Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not be conceited, provoking one another and envying one another.
How to Believe in Jesus for Salvation
God in this post is describing the religious and dead church. They believe in Jesus, but they have no life in them because they have not been born again. Jesus said in John 3:3-7 that we must be born again to see and enter heaven. Jesus said in John 3:8 that it is the Holy Spirit that makes people born again.
I remember serving God in Los Angeles back in the 90's that I came across a lot of churches who believed in Jesus but were not born again. They are called "dead" churches. They don't have the Lord in them. These believers have not been baptized into the Holy Spirit. They're religious people who go through the motions and ceremonies but have not been born again.
This kind of church is what Harold Pittman & Jesus are talking about in this post. Millions of the dead are trying to serve God. They believe but they have not been born again and thus, they will not make it to heaven.
These are the people Jesus is condemning in Matthew 7:21-23 as false prophets who call Him Lord, done things in His name in service for Him their whole lives, but never made it. Never got born again. This is what Howard Pittman's video is about.
Faith in Jesus Comes from Hearing What the Bible Says About Him
Romans 10:14-17
Modern English Version
14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring good news of good things!”
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
The Bible creates your faith in Jesus to save you. You can't get saved apart from hearing about Jesus. One sentence can get you saved. It's not so much reading the Bible that saves you, but hearing through word of mouth. You must read what the Bible says about Jesus to tell others about Him through word of mouth, and through your words about Jesus, they can get born again.
Thus, I'm going to do this for you now. Please read below and pray that anointed prayer at the end ... God bless.
A Chance from the Holy Spirit to Get Ready to Meet Jesus on His Time
Jesus Will Not Leave You Behind if You Follow the Instructions Below
2 Corinthians 6:1-2
Contemporary English Version
1 We work together with God, and we beg you to make good use of God's gift of undeserved grace.
2 In the Scriptures God says,
“When the time came, I listened to you, and when you needed help, I came to save you.”
That time has come. This is the day for you to be saved.
Hello,
There are people out there reading this post that want to repent and be ready to meet Jesus when He comes back. Not everyone who reads this will be left by Jesus just because they're looking at their watches, instead of at Jesus in the word. Jesus has not returned yet, and there is still time to repent to be ready for Jesus on His time.
Do You Believe in Jesus?
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Modern English Version
{Paraphrased}
The Resurrection of Christ
1 Now, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which you have received, and in which you stand.
2 Through it you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 was buried, rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
5 and was seen by Cephas {the apostle Peter}, and then by the twelve {all 12 apostles}.
6 Then He was seen by over five hundred {Christian} brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain to this present time, though some have passed away.
7 Then He was seen by James and then by all the apostles.
8 Last of all, He was seen by me also {the 13th apostle of Christ, the apostle Paul}, as by one born at the wrong time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. And His grace toward me was not in vain. I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
Do you believe in Jesus? According to 1 Cor. 15:1-11, do you believe that Jesus died for your sins according to the scriptures - v. 3? ... do you believe that Jesus was buried and rose from the dead the third day according to the scriptures - v. 4? ... do you believe that Jesus was seen alive by the first church and all of its apostles - vv. 5-8? ... that's the gospel ... now that you've heard the gospel, I'm taking you to a page from my website for prayers for salvation and baptism into the Holy Spirit ... read and may the Holy Spirit come upon you today and give you Christ's victory over the flesh to obey God and go to heaven for it ...
John 11:25-26
Authorized (King James) Version
{Pegram Evangelistic Paraphrase}
25 Jesus {says to you},
"I Am
the resurrection,
and the life:
he that {believes} in Me,
though he were dead,
yet shall he live:
26 and whosoever {is alive} and {believes} in Me shall never die.
{Do you believe} this"?
...
"Lord, I believe ...
You Do the Loving
I Do the Dying ...
(Romans 6)
The Sinner's Prayer
The Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ
Romans 10:6-17
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
God's Saving & Healing Power in the Bible
The Word of Faith & Salvation
6 But the {right standing with God} which {comes from biblically created faith}
speaks {in this way in the Bible about how to get saved through faith in Jesus from sin & death},
"Say not in {your} heart, 'Who shall ascend into heaven'"? {Dt. 30:12}
(that is, to bring Jesus down from above).
7 or, "Who shall descend into the deep?" {Dt. 30:13} (that is, to bring up Jesus again from the dead).
8 But what {does} it {say}?
"The word is {near you}. {It is in your} mouth, and in {your} heart
{from hearing the scriptures - Pr. 4:20-27}.
That is, the word of faith {in Jesus}, which we preach.
9 That if you shall confess with {your} mouth the Lord Jesus
{to confess the Lord Jesus means to say that you believe that Jesus died for your sins}
and shall believe in {your} heart that God has raised Him from the dead,
you shall be saved {from sin & death}.
10 For with the heart man believes {the scriptures about Jesus giving him right standing before God}
and with the mouth confession {of these scriptures about Jesus}
is made giving him God's salvation from sin & death through faith in Jesus}.
11 For the scripture {says},
"Whoever believes on {Jesus the Son of God} shall not be ashamed" {Isa. 28:16}.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek {or any other Gentile nation}.
For the same Lord {Jesus} over all is rich {in faith & salvation} to all that call upon Him
{for salvation through the scriptures}.
13 "For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord {Jesus}
shall be saved {from sin & death - Joel 2:32}.
14 How then shall they call on {Jesus for salvation from sin & death} if {they do not believe in Him}?
And how shall they believe in {Jesus if} they have not {first} heard about Him?
And how shall they hear without a preacher {telling them what the scriptures say about Jesus}?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent {by God to do this}?
As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace
{with God through faith in His Son Jesus}
and bring glad tidings of good things"! {Isa. 52:7}
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel.
For {Isaiah says in Isaiah 53:1}, "Lord, who has believed our report
{in the Old Testament prophecies that Your Son Jesus is the Messiah
and the long-awaited Savior from sin & death"?
17 So then faith {in Christ as the Lord & Savior from sin & death}
comes by hearing, and hearing by {what} the word of God {the Bible prophecies say about Him
{To get faith to call upon the Lord Jesus for salvation from sin & death,
listen to what God's preachers tell you about Jesus & read what the Bible says about Him}.
What the Holy Spirit is saying in this passage is that to get saved, you need to do verses 9 and 10 highlighted in bold case above. That is, confess with your mouth the scriptures about Jesus being the Lord of sin and death because you believe them, and you will be saved from sin and death by that faith in Jesus that came from your mouth from what the Bible says about Him dying and rising from the dead for our sins.
The Holy Spirit is telling us in this passage that if you want to believe in Jesus and be saved from sin and death, then read what the Bible says about Him, because faith in Jesus comes, or is created in your heart and mouth, when you read the Bible. Read what the Bible says about the Lord Jesus in the New Testament, and you will be saved when you tell God and this world that you believe what the Bible says about Jesus. To do this is called the Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ, and the Sinner's Prayer. Let me lead you in the Sinner's Prayer.
The Sinner's Prayer
The Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ the Lord
"Lord Jesus. I believe in You. I believe that you died for my sins and rose from the dead
and that you are alive today right here with me now as I tell you that I believe in You.
Please forgive me of my sins through my faith in your shed Blood on the Cross,
and please raise me from the dead by my faith in Your resurrection.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for saving me from sin and death.
In Your Name, Jesus, I pray.
Amen".
Get your dusty Bible out and read John, Acts and Romans in the New Testament while you listen to the Playlist below...and know that the tears that flood your eyes when you pray the Sinner's Prayer are coming from the Presence of God. That's God the Holy Spirit you're sensing and that's why you're crying as you pray this prayer ... God is love (1 Jn. 4:7, 8) and when you meet Him, you can't but cry around Him. It's called "godly sorrow" (2 Cor. 7:9-11).
Now, I want to use my anointing & authority in Christ to baptize you into the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is Heaven's guarantee. There are believers, and there are born again believers (Acts 19:1-6). Please pray this prayer below and you will meet God the Holy Spirit instantly, and get born-again ...
The Holy Spirit Is Heaven's Guarantee
Ephesians 1:13, 14
Living Bible
13 And because of what Christ did, all you others too, who heard the Good News about how to be saved, and trusted Christ, were marked as belonging to Christ by the Holy Spirit, who long ago had been promised to all of us Christians.
14 His presence within us is God’s guarantee that he really will give us all that he promised; and the Spirit’s seal upon us means that God has already purchased us and that he guarantees to bring us to himself. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God.
My Prophetic Intercession for Your Baptism into the Holy Spirit
Since you are reading my Page and hearing Jesus call you to the Rapture here,
I will use my Prophetic Anointing and ask the Holy Spirit to give me a prayer for you
to be baptized into the Holy Spirit NOW.
Read the prayer and receive the Holy Spirit ...
"I am using my anointing and authority with Christ to pronounce you dead in Christ
And renewed to life by the Ever-Living Presence of God."
said the Holy Ghost ...
"NOW RETURN TO ME AND BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST!"
said the Lord Jesus ...
From Weeping to Sleeping
The Church
The Great Sleeping Prophet
(Rom. 13:11/ Eph. 5:14)
1 Corinthians 15:34
Modern English Version
34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin, for some do not have the knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
If You're Born Again and Will Pass from Death to Judgement Instead of Death to Life (John 5:24)
You Will Not Stand Condemned Before God's Son Like the Dead in Matthew 7:21-23
You Will be Chopped Up and Thrown into Eternal Fire with the Devil
Matthew 25
Modern English Version
The Parable of the Ten Virgins
1 “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be like ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
2 Five of them were wise and five were foolish.
3 Those who were foolish took their lamps, but took no oil with them.
4 But the wise took jars of oil with their lamps.
5 While the bridegroom delayed, they all rested and slept.
6 “But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Look, the bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’
7 “Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.
8 But the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps have gone out.’
9 “The wise answered, ‘No, lest there not be enough for us and you. Go rather to those who sell it, and buy some for yourselves.’
10 “But while they went to buy some, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
11 “Afterward, the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open the door for us.’
12 “But he answered, ‘Truly I say to you, I do not know you.’
13 “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
The Parable of the Talents
14 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them.
15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to every man according to his ability. And immediately he took his journey.
16 He who had received the five talents went and traded with them and made another five talents.
17 So also, he who had received two gained another two.
18 But he who had received one went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.
19 “After a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
20 He who had received five talents came and brought the other five talents, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted to me five talents. Look, I have gained five talents more.’
21 “His master said to him, ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter the joy of your master.’
22 “He who had received two talents also came and said, ‘Master, you entrusted me with two talents. See, I have gained two more talents besides them.’
23 “His master said to him, ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter the joy of your master.’
24 “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow.
25 So I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’
26 “His master answered, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not winnowed.
27 Then you ought to have given my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
28 “ ‘So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.
29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away.
30 And throw the unprofitable servant into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
The Judgment of the Nations
31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.
32 Before Him will be gathered all nations, and He will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats.
33 He will set the sheep at His right hand, but the goats at the left.
34 “Then the King will say to those at His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world.
35 For I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in.
36 I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?
38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?
39 And when did we see You sick or in prison and come to You?’
40 “The King will answer, ‘Truly I say to you, as you have done it for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you have done it for Me.’
41 “Then He will say to those at the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
42 For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink,
43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
44 “Then they also will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not serve You?’
45 “He will answer, ‘Truly I say to you, as you did it not for one of the least of these, you did it not for Me.’
46 “And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
If you have been born again and are filled with the Holy Spirit, you may not stand before Jesus to be condemned as false, but you will stand for judgement to the lake of fire if you do not witness to the nations. You've got to do something with your anointing, even if it's as small as multiplying it with the help of others.
Matthew 25 is Jesus' message to born-again, anointed and Spirit filled Christians like us. It's about judgement day for Christians with everyone else. Verses 1 thru 13 are about Christians making and missing the rapture. Verses 14 thru 30 are about Christians making and missing the rapture. Verses 31 thru 46 are about Christians making and missing the rapture.
The people here being condemned to hell by God's Son are not condemned for the same reason as the people sent to hell in Matthew 7:21-23. The people in Matthew 7 were not saved. They believed and did things in Jesus' Name in church but were false conversions. They were never saved. They were condemned as false prophets. The people in Matthew 25 are real Christians. They are saved, Spirit filled and anointed and yet went to hell.
This is what God is trying to warn you readers about. Just because you have the Holy Spirit in you doesn't mean you'll make it, because Matthew 25:24-30 says that this Christian was given one talent. He was anointed by God to do something with that anointing, but he hid it instead of used it to bear fruit and multiply. This Christian had his anointing taken from him in verse 28. This means that he died with the Holy Spirit and lost his salvation in verse 28.
This Christian here, like you, had the Holy Spirit. He was anointed to preach like you but instead he was a "closet Christian". This means that he hid his anointing instead of used it to witness and bring at least one soul to Jesus. He did nothing!
God isn't asking for much. Even gaining interest on it is something. With interest on money in your bank, you do nothing to gain the interest but put it in the bank and the interest goes to work for you. If you don't want to do nothing for Jesus, you can put your anointing to work with other people and you will get the credit for it on judgement day, and this decision will save you from eternal fire.
It is other people at the bank that give you interest on your investment. You will get the interest on the money in your bank even though you do nothing but let it sit there and gain interest. The money in your bank isn't yours. It belongs to the Lord who gave it to you. Even investing the money is doing something with it though you're not putting in the leg work. You'll get the credit from the Lord for investing it though others did the work making it be fruitful and multiply.
God gives you an anointing to be fruitful and multiply and instead you hide it. This Christian died anointed with the Holy Spirit and was raised back to life by the Holy Spirit to stand in judgement instead of to pass from death to life. His anointing, and salvation were taken back from him
Don't be lazy. Don't be a closet-Christian. Don't be the sleeping prophet. Go to church and start bearing fruit. Or you will suffer the vengeance of eternal fire with the devil for having done nothing while anointed ... be warned. The people in Matthew 7:21-23 went to hell for being false. Matthew 25 is Christ's warning to real Christians about going to hell with the false because you did nothing with your anointing. OK. You're real and you're out of the judgement of the false. But now you got to do something or still face judgement with the false.
A Personal testimony About Meeting God in the Baptism into the Holy Spirit
Get God's Attention
It's pretty easy to meet God. I had a boost. I was dedicated to the Lord by my great grandmother (RIP) when I was born. So, God was always there with me. But I got baptized into the Spirit one day because I kept going to church and reading the Bible.
God will take notice of you and baptize you if you're always in church and reading the Bible. If you get people to pray for you in church, the Lord will notice of you because His people will be talking to Him about you. Meet God's ministers in church. Go to church and keep reading your Bible, and the Holy Spirit will meet you one day in the baptism into the Holy Spirit with a plan for your life.
"The Old Man is Dead - 2 Corinthians 5:17" (Del Way - 2009)
"All I Once Held Dear (Knowing You, Jesus)" (Robin Mark - 2003)
"The True Believer" (Phil Keaggy - 1995)
Praise The Lord & Jesus Is Alive..Live..Steve Brock, Alvin Slaughter & Benny Hinn
"The curse of sin is broken!"
World without end. Amen.
