Author: Lowell

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When we get hungry, we eat. Our body needs food and water as fuel to feed our body to live. Without food and water, we would die. This process is repeated over and over because this fuel is used and then discarded the next day. We all understand this.

The analogy of needing and requiring food and water to live is similar to needing Spiritual food for our soul. We know where our body will go in the end, after death, but we don’t know where our soul will go, even though we have our opinion of where it will go.

My point is this, we have to sup with Jesus Christ to feed our souls daily. The Bible is a smorgasbord of Spiritual food that we need. In addition, the Holy Spirit is our Helper, Counselor, Tutor, Guide, and Comforter as we read and meditate while reading the Scriptures. Attending a church service for one hour once a week, is like eating one meal once a week and the result is that we would become weak and eventually starve to death.

In addition to the one hour per week in church, we have heard maybe hundreds of sermons over time and believe that we have taken in enough Spiritual food to keep us “filled up,” Spiritually speaking. We are wrong.

This thinking would be like thinking that we could eat one meal only once a week and live. That’s stupid. Just like we need food for our body, we eat three meals a day and also snack every day. Not only might we become obese, but our health could be in jeopardy.

Another key point is this. We expel the used food at least every day, but we do not expel Spiritual food. In fact, we get hungry for food every day and need to eat to keep our bodies going. What’s my point? The way we eat, we are not going to starve to death. And, if they did an autopsy on our body after death, they would most likely determine what we died from.

However, if they did an autopsy on our soul after we died, to find out what our soul died from, it would be because of starvation. Ouch! To add insult to injury, not only are we starving our souls Spiritually, but no matter how much Spiritual food we take in, we are never full, we become even more hungry.

But eating food, we become so full, we push away from the table because we can’t eat more. But the next day, we are hungry again. So, if you think our snacking on Spiritual food is going to get our soul to heaven, we are deceived.

Let me say this for you to think about:

1. The man that did not ask for wealth, but told God he wanted wisdom, was King Solomon. He said every time he evaluated 1,000 men, he only found one, to be “upright”.

2. When God covered the earth with water, there must have been millions of people on earth. God saved eight people.

3. Jesus Christ said The road to His Gate, is narrow, and only a “few” find it. He also said the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are “few”. And, He said all have been invited to the wedding, but only a “few” are coming.

Conclusion: God’s Word did not change, we did.

The “Word” talks about the broad road to destruction. One does not have to be a scholar in looking at the data and facts to realize “few” are going to make it to heaven. How many times did Jesus Christ use this word to inform us? Cold Christians and lukewarm Christians are not going to make it to heaven. Jesus Christ said that He spews lukewarm Christians out of His mouth.

What group is left? Hot or on-fire Christians. What is the difference? They are “born again.” John the Baptist explained the difference between being baptized by water or by Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit and fire. Read God’s Word and obey, if you want your soul to spend eternity in heaven

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4-8-2019

11-4-2022

Lowell Mahler Sr.

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Life is a battle between good and evil. We know from reading God’s Word, who wins this battle, and since man cannot serve two masters, because he will love one and hate the other, which master do we serve? One of them loves you and the other one hates you. One wants you to live and the other one wants to kill you. This choice as to which one to serve, is easy, once we know His truth. We also know that our battle between good and evil begins in our minds. The one master uses our weakness of the flesh, our lust, to serve him. The other master gives us His grace and love, as we serve Him. Yes, the flesh is weak and the evil one knows our weakness and uses it to his advantage. Since the battle begins in the mind, we are not what we think we are; we are what we think. God has provided us with His instruction book, the Bible, so that we can know His truth. God came to earth in the flesh, in the form of His Son, Jesus Christ, to show us His ways. He even died so that we may live, as we repent of our sins and ask Him to forgive us. He is our example to follow and those who choose to follow Him are called Christians because we follow Christ. Not only did God provide us with His instruction book, and His Son, as our Savior, He gave us the Holy Spirit to lead us, guide us, and tutor us, as to the way we should go. It is the evil one, Satan, who uses our weakness to get our attention. He uses situations, our sexual drive, and our me, myself, and I attitude to lead us away from God’s truth. His goal is to divide, conquer, and kill us. Why? Because God threw his butt out of heaven with one third of his angels, who chose to follow him, and he knows that he will spend eternity in the lake of fire (hell) and he wants to take as many of us as he can deceive, with him. For sure, he won’t be lonely, as he burns in hell for eternity because many souls will join him. This makes our “hope and change” here on earth, politically speaking, pale, in comparison to our hope and change of spending eternity in heaven with God. For those of you who think it is easy to live the Christian life, let me be bold enough to say this: You can’t live the Christian life! Say what?!!!! The power to live the Christian life comes from the Holy Spirit. It is the Trinity, God as Father, Jesus Christ as the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that shows us the truth. We are to look forward in our Christian walk, not backward. It is Satan that wants us to look back at our sins. Some people may think that God is millions of miles away, just waiting to hit us in the head with a baseball bat, the moment we don’t obey. Wrong! He is a loving God that loves us and does not want anyone to perish and spend eternity in the lake of fire. Here is the truth: If you are a born-again Christian, Jesus Christ lives in you, and you live in Him. If you live in Christ, then God lives in you too, and the Holy Spirit indwells you. You are not a cold and lukewarm Christian but you are on fire for Jesus Christ, not literally, but Spiritually. You are producing good fruit and are growing Spiritually every day. You have died of “self” and live for Christ. The Christian walk is not a “walk”, but a lifelong “journey” and when we breathe our last breath, our soul’s destination has been determined. It is a straight and narrow road, not the broad road to destruction. You are a member of the body of Christ and Jesus is the head of this body. May each of us read and meditate on His Word and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. To know Him is to love Him. Amen

3-27-20121

1-14-2022

Lowell Mahler Sr.

It was the Disciple Paul that wrote about legalism in the Scriptures. Legalism is a strict, literal, or excessive conformity to the law or to a religious or moral code. Therefore, Paul wrote that Christ freed the believer from bondage to the law (legalism), and he went on to say “you have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace, for we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness. If we live by the Spirit, not the law, we have freedom from the law.”

I can see why there seems to be a conflict of interest between faith and the law. Paul was speaking about being circumcised or not being circumcised, and he was speaking to the Jews as well as the Gentiles. Paul’s point was this: The Jews failed to follow the law and it did not matter if they were circumcised or not, that didn’t make them right with God, having faith and living in Christ and following the Holy Spirit, was the right and only way to be upright. Essentially, Christ replaced the law and then sent us the Holy Spirit to indwell within us. However, Jesus Himself said that He didn’t come to replace the law, but to fulfill it.
The law is still on the books, i.e. God’s book, the Bible. The purpose is to show us that we are sinners and God’s laws do that. Without His laws, we don’t really understand how sinful we are. Therefore, the law brings us under conviction. Without understanding and without conviction, there is no true repentance. Answering an “altar call,” is not the first step, knowledge of God’s laws, is the first step; conviction is the second step, and repentance is the third step.
Too many people believe that making a public showing by going to the altar is the only “step” that’s required. Seems to me that there are four steps.
1. Knowledge of God’s laws.
2. Conviction that we are a sinner.
3. Repentance of sins and asking Jesus Christ to forgive us.
4. Accepting Jesus Christ as our personal Savior.
Now,we are ready for our first step of many, many steps in our Christian Journey through life. We understand Lowell, so what’s the deal?
Too many of the so called “Christians” missed steps 1 thru 3.
They are given “laws” from their religious leader of his/her Denomination, as to what’s required of them as a member of their Denomination. Too many of these religious leaders are just “hired hands” (John 10:12-13). This is a good example of he blind leading the blind and both are lost. They have added leaven like yeast, to lighten the law. Many of our religious leaders are like Pharisee’s of the Bible. What they have done and continue to do to Christianity, is similar to what the U.S. Congress is doing to America. We have been deceived, lied to, and mislead by too many of our religious leaders and our Congress. The proof ? Read the Bible and the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
God provided His standard to follow. Our Forefather’s provided the Constitution and the bill of rights, and these documents are being ignored,
revised, shredded, by our intelligent, know it all,”Leaders.”
Now, for “the rest of the story.” Read the book of Revelation, in the Bible.
It will tell you what will happen. Not what might happen, or could happen, but what will happen. This is God’s opinion, and each one of us needs to deal with it and do things His way. If you can handle the truth, only a few will find His gate to heaven. If it is your religious leader who implies that you are “good,” you need to compare your preacher’s idea of good, to what Christ would consider “good.” After all, in the end, it is Christ who will judge you, not your preacher. And, as Christ has said, “many have been judged already.”

Tongues as of fire Acts 2:1-4

On the day of Pentecost, seven weeks after Jesus’ resurrection the believers were meeting together in one place. Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm in the skies above them, and it filled the house where they were meeting. Then, what looked like flames of tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.

Eyes like fire Rev 1:14
His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And his eyes were bright like flames of fire.

Destroy the world 2 Pet 3:10-11
But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and everything in them will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be exposed to judgement. Since everything around us is going to melt away, what holy, godly lives you should be living!

Punish the wicked Matt 25:41
Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, ‘Away with you, cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his demons!


Figurative uses of fire:

Affliction Isa 43:2
When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown! When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.

Angels Heb 1:7
God calls his angels “messengers swift as the wind, and servants made of flaming fire.

Christ Mal 3:2
But who will be able to endure it when He comes? Who will be able to stand and face him when he appears? For he will be like a blazing fire that refines metal or like a strong soap that whitens clothes.

Holy Spirit Acts 2:3
Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them.

God’s protection Zech 2:5
For I, myself, will be a wall of fire around Jerusalem, says the Lord and I will be the glory inside the city.!

God’s Vengeance Heb 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.

God’s Word Jer 5:14
Therefore, this is what the lord God Almighty says: “Because the people are talking like this, I will give you messages that will burn them up as if they were kindling wood”.

Love Song 8:6
Place me like a seal over your heart, or like a seal over your on your arm. For love is as strong as death, and its jealousy is as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame.

Lust Prov 6:27-28
Can a man scoop fire into his lap and not be burned? Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet?

Persecution Luke 12:49-53
“I have come to bring fire to the earth, and I wish that my tast were already completed! There is a terrible baptism ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished. Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to bring strife and division ! From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against—or the other way around. There will be a division between father and son, mother and daughter, mother -in-law and daughter -in law”.

Purification Isa 6:5-7
Then I said, “My destruction is sealed, for I am a sinful man and a member of a sinful race. Yet I have seen the King , the Lord Almighty! Then one of the seraphim flew over to the altar, and he picked up a burning coal with a pair of tongs. He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.”

The tongue Jas 3:6
And the tongue is a flame of fire. It is full of wickedness that can ruin your whole life It can turn the entire course of your life into a blazing flame of destruction, for it is set on fire by hell itself.

10-16-2022

Lowell Mahler Sr.

Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus, has a place of honor among the women of the New Testament. As the first member of the human race to accept Christ, she stands as the first of the redeemed throughout Christian history. She is an enduring example of faith, humility, and service (Luke 1:26-56). Other notable women of the New Testament include the following:

Name Description Biblical Reference

Anna Recognized Jesus as the long awaited Messiah Luke 2:36-38
Bernice Sister of Agrippa before whom Paul made his defense. Acts 25:13
Chloe Woman who knew of divisions in the church at Corinth. 1 Cor 1:11
Claudia Christian of Rome 2 Tim 4:21
Damaris Woman of Athens converted under Paul’s ministry. Acts 17:34
Drusilla Wife of Felix, governor of Judea Acts 24:24
Elizabeth Mother of John the Baptist Like 1:5, 13
Eunice Mother of Timothy 2 Tim 1:5
Herodias Queen who demanded the execution of John Matt 14:3-10
the Baptist.
Joanna Provided for the material needs of Jesus Luke 8:3
Lois Grandmother of Timothy 2 Tim 1:5
Lydia Convert under Paul’s ministry in Philippi Acts 16:14
Martha and Mary Sisters of Lazarus; friends of Jesus Luke 10:38-42
Mary Magdalene Woman from whom Jesus cast out demons
Matt 27:56-61; Mark 16:9
Phoeba A servant, perhaps a deaconess,
in the church at Cenchrea. Rom 16:1-2
Priscilla Wife of Aquila; laborer with Paul at Corinth and Ephesus
Acts 18:2, 18-19
Sapphira Held back goods from the early Christian community Acts 5:1
Susanna Provided for the material needs of Jesus Luke 8:3
Tabitha (Dorcas) Christian in Joppa who was raised from
the dead by Peter. Acts 9:36-41