PonchoWest's Blog

The fact is, no matter how much we stand up for our faith, history shows that the majority of mankind has rejected the truth and followed a lie and it's not because no one was out there telling them the truth. God is not sitting on the side lines letting satan run the whole show other wise we serve a week God and I know I don't. The fact is God can and has used unconventional means to bring the truth of what He has done for mankind. And from what I read from the Bible it's always been the Holy Spirit that's the one, who suppresses the evil in the world, grant you that it's at times through Born Again believers but He is not limited to using us to keep things under control. Remember there are cases in the Bible where we see man fighting God or in opposition to God and those people thought they were doing God's will. The fact is you can find yourself fighting what God is doing just because you followed the trend of the day of century. PLEASE look at the history of the church, how many time did she take on things that historically we know were wrong? And it was all done in the name of God. I never said or instructed people to not live their faith but that how you made it sound, I have to wonder why? Are you knowingly pushing teaching that is in opposition to what God said was truth? Such as angels having sex with mankind? When in fact this teaching is exactly what satan is using to fulfill part of his goal to set himself up as a god. Sadly I can't show you a video tape of the future that will show how mankind was fooled into believing a lie which brought about the fulfillment of what God said would happen in the last 7 years of this age.

So by all means fight the good fight just make sure your fighting on the right side with God. Remember Saul; he thought he was on the side of truth? And Judas, who thought he would help God out by turning Jesus over to law of that day, thinking he would force the hand of God or what ever was going through his mind, the fact is he was wrong. And the list is long of people who thought they would just help God out, only to find out they had been both fooled by the enemy and ended up fighting the thing they said they loved, God.
This historical reality has been one of the main things God has placed before me, to keep me seeking who it is I'm claiming I serve and at the same time God has made it abundantly clear to me, that nothing I do or say can take me out of His covering. The first thing legalists do with that statement is to say, Oh so you think you can do anything you like? And to that God said, No, because your not your own, you have been bought with a price. It's when you really, really get what that statement means and the power it caries, it's then that you know that every sinful act that you allow your self to take part in had a penalty and even though that penalty has been paid for, the ramifications of your action here and now still carries a penalty even though Christ removed the eternal penalty, which is death. We can still feel the sting of that sin in many forms but salvation or redemption is no longer an issue for me because that was settled in Christ and because I'm in Christ I have no part in the judgment of sin or the sin of Adam.
I said that to say this, since I am free in Christ, that's no longer an issue with me so now I can give more attention to making sure what it is He has called me to do is in fact what is His will in my life. And one of those things is to learn as much as I can about where we are in reference to the last days. So for the past 25 years that's what the Lord has been showing me, both through His word and by the evidence around me. So that's 25 years of passive action. Now if I listened to the theology of the day I would have been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off, trying to find out what it is God has called me to do and for the first 5 years or so of my walk with the Lord I did just that and yes God used me and I saw a number of people come to Christ but not a one of them did it because of me. They did it because God honors His word. In 1983 when I literally died from an over does of all things, Nitrous Oxide, I stepped into eternity without salvation or without the Blood of Christ. I saw death, what we call Hell and it's real. The last thing the angel of the Lord said to me was, NO, For I Have Plans For You. God does not call someone like that every day, and why me? I'm a high school drop out an X Satanist (part time) a nobody with nothing to his name. No money, no real family ties, No strong state education, I'm not even from America, I was born in Frankfort Germany on a military base, My mother is German my father a US Army Master Sargent. I had seen a lot of the world by the age of 12 because this was the 1960s and a time of war so they moved my father around. But God literally set His eyes on me and for what? He never told me, He never said Clyde this is what I wont you to do for me, all He said was, No, for I have plans for you. And when I understood what had happened to me that night I knelt down at a friends house where I was living only weeks after the knight I Over Dosed and I said with a clear mind and heart, Here am I Lord, Use Me.
I tried to fit into the mold that the church puts on new believers but something was always pecking at the back of my mind, this is not what God has called me to be or do. I would ask questions, the kind that gets you kicked out of church groups. Why Do We Do This or That? Then I would point out what the Word of God said and that landed me in even more hot water. I bounced from one church to another and these were the big name church groups, like Lakewood in Houston and me like Pastor Halam and RW Shambock (spelling) I even sat under the number 2 man of Pastor Osteen back before that movement was nothing but a one room church building. I was literally kicked out of a Big Methodist Church in Plainview Texas, Which is where my wife got her BA at Wayland Baptist University but did her internship at the Methodist Church since she started her collage education at Asbury Collage in Kentucky, which is primarily Methodist.

Anyway, from the end of 1983 to 1989 I tried to fit the mold but God would work things out so that I would not take on the mindset of the religion of the day. And now 25 years latter I can see clearly why He did what He did. That whole movement is so corrupted by the world and the things of the world and I would have just ended up another victim of the Name it and Claim it Movement. So here I sit with computers and books that help me to get a better picture of what's going on in our slice of history. And things don't look good.

Satan has the church running around doing a bunch of things, some seem good and some are extremely self-gratifying. And all thanks to people telling people we need to be doing this or doing that. When is the last time I heard someone say we need to be seeking the face of God or that we need to wait on the Lord? Jesus said as you go, or as you live your life, the one He has given you, to take the Good News to others, to offer your life and all it's parts as an example of what God has to offer. But satan has managed to make that job look more like a greed fest. Yeah, look at what god can do for you, cars, homes, jobs, friends, money and on and on and on.
WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS, it's time to stop playing the religious head games. If you seek God and He tells you to run around butt naked telling people about the works of Christ then do it but seek God first. That goes for the same on telling people that they have to be fighting to change the world for God. God told me that I need to HATE the things of this world. Yeah God so loved the world, But His feelings toward the things of this world are not the same and we have people fighting for the things of this world and that's just not the heart of God so why are Christians being told that it is?

I hear over and over by the Mega Church movement that we are in the last days and then they turn right around and contradict them selves by saying that God has told them there is a great revival on it's way. When in fact God said there would be a Great Falling Away and what will they fall away from? The Truth, and what is the truth?
Salvation in and through Christ alone and which Christ would that be? The one who was God in the flesh who died and was raised on the third day and it's in faith in Him and His Works that a person can be Born Again and faith alone. The simple act of believing that what God said He would do. For almost 2000 years satan has done his best to amend that truth by adding an amendment to salvation by faith alone. But satan tried that with adding to the Law of Moses and how did he carry that out? Yeah, by the will of man. And for what reason did the religious leaders of that time add to the Law of Moses? For the very same that he's doing it now, pride, arrogance, self justification, an attempt to cover his own sin and a long list of other reasons, non of which are inspired by God.

What, did you expect satan to expose himself openly? To make it so blatantly clear as to what it was he was doing and how he was doing it? God said that this was a war but we in America are so comfortable in our life style that we in fact serenaded the battle just so we don't have to suffer in any way. What ever it takes to keep the flesh happy and the whole time the spirit man gets weaker and weaker and that's even if the person is Born Again and not just religious.

So yeah, lets all pray and lets all fight the law makers but what ever you do, DON'T Seek the Face of God in your own personal life because you might just find out who you are in Christ and then you would have to see yourself as He sees you. I can do ALL things through Christ when the battle call of the day is, we can do all things for Christ and that's exactly how satan likes it. Because he knows that as long as he can keep mankind fighting the fight FOR Christ or some other god then he need not worry about having to deal with a body of people who know who they are in Christ and because they know who they are in Christ they know it's not them whose doing the work but Christ through them by the Holy Spirit in each one of them. But this idea is not truly acceptable in most religious people because, again, it takes away their need to feed the flesh with self, look at what I did for Christ. And God said depart from Me, I never knew you. They never became Born Again because that's what it is to know God, He comes into you and that action brings about a new living spirit, a new thing, which is the thing that Adam had with God. A spirit that's forever alive in Christ and He in them.

Here in the Last Days the number one thing to keep an eye on is what gospel or good message did you hear and which one did you follow.

2 Cor 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

People this has got to be one of the most central passages for our time, if we are in the last days then knowing your in the right boat is key to where you are going while in that boat. (you are in Christ and Christ in you)

It's not just the audible name Jesus it's who the person of Jesus is because many people have the name jesus so it's more then a name. It's who He is and what He did and is still doing on our behalf or on the behalf of those who have turned to that name (person) where by you and I are saved or bought back.

Gal 1:6-9 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

Any Other Man, I don't care who he is or how much money he has or the number of people that follow him, it's his message of redemption, is it Christ and Christ alone or is it Christ and a tiny bit of self work. That's another Gospel, Ether you are restored to fellowship with God by the works of Christ, alone or you have another gospel. Ether your position in Christ is kept by the works of Christ alone or it's another gospel. Sorry but there is no other truth but this...

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

And Again...

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

My heart breaks when I think of the number of people who have died in there sin thinking they had the right jesus when in fact they had a counterfeit and it's not because I said so, just read your Bible, God said it not me.

You can not mix Law with Grace...

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Rom 5:20-21 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom 6:14-15 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Gal 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Gal 5:3-4 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Go back and read these passages in there context and you will see, you can't mix Grace and Low...any Law. And as in Rom 6:15 I'm not telling you to go out and sin and if you see this truth as an excuse to do so then your ether not Born-Again or your walk with Christ is very week.

But know this, as long as your in this flesh body, even Born-Again and blood bought you will fight temptation because for one the flesh loves the things of the flesh and second the tempter is still running loose until he is locked up by and angel for 1000 years, after which time sin or the temptation to fulfill the lust of the flesh starts up all over again. Because as God said, where there is no temptation there is NO sin and where there is not sin there is no need for redemption. (Book of Hebrews)