"The Evangelist Poem" by Clinton Hester - Commentary by James Fire

It is my greatest pleasure and joy to present to our readers a remarkable young man, a saint of GOD, a child of the Father, a disciple of Christ who also happens to be a spiritual son in the faith to me; something akin to apostle Paul with his beloved son Timothy.

This is Clinton Hester, a man of many GOD given talents and abilities. What I admire and respect about him most is what I observed about him upon our first meeting:

He takes his faith quite seriously! He loves the LORD intensely and for good reason: the LORD has forgiven him of much!

This hip-hop tune is something he wrote a while back and while I'm not particularly fond of hip-hop or rap music in general, I can't help but love this, because of the truth that overflows from these lyrics, so artfully expressed!

The lyrics to The Evangelist Poem will be in larger font, my commentary is smaller font and indented.

Included at the end is the video where you can listen to his song for yourself. So, without further delay, here it is!

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A TTUF EXAMINATION OF HEAVEN – PART FOUR & Conclusion: The Third Heaven

Having completed the Introduction and Part One of this series, along with Part Two and Part Three, we have examined some preliminary points of GOD’s creation, then looked at the First Heaven – our atmospheric domain, and the Second Heaven – the celestial realm. We know a great deal about the First and some things about the Second.

However, we have no way of examining the Third Heaven – the dwelling place of the Most High GOD – apart from divine revelation such as the apostles Paul and John were given (as well as Isaiah in the Old Testament) or by studying what Scripture says about it (the latter being far more likely in this day and age).

In looking at some websites, and some of what Scripture has to say, it seems that in one perspective the Third Heaven is an extension of the celestial realm, one step removed to a higher plane where GOD sometimes manifests. Others see the Third Heaven as completely non-physical in the sense that its independent of the creation of our physical universe and where GOD in all of His glory dwells perpetually.

I subscribe to the latter perspective.

So, we will look at what Scripture has to say about the Third Heaven according to Paul, John, Isaiah, and elsewhere in Scripture where this dwelling place of the Almighty is mentioned.

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SAFETY and STRENGTH AMONG the WISE – PROVERBS 24:5-6

INTRODUCTION: Look at what you see on the monitors here: the title for these Wednesday Night Teachings from the book of PROVERBS that we refer to as “WISDOM WEDNESDAYS”. Take that word WISDOM and chop it in half and add an ‘E’ to the ‘WIS’. Now take what’s left – the ‘DOM’ and add an ‘AIN’ and you get DOMAIN.

You can listen to this teaching presented at SHINE BRIGHT Church here!

WISDOM: The DOMAIN, or the KINGDOM, or the NATION of the WISE.

And any nation or kingdom (the king’s domain) has a culture to it – but what exactly is a culture? And I’m not talking yogurt here!

“Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities and habits of the individuals that live in these domains.”

Our (social) behavior is to conform to the truth of Scripture; our institutions – such as marriage, family, church are all to follow the instruction we find in the holy revelation of GOD’s Word. The norm for the Christian’s culture is holiness and truth, grace and peace. Our beliefs, our knowledge, our laws are founded on the bedrock of the Bible. Our customs are inspired by the very heart of GOD as our own souls are conformed to His will and represent the artwork of GOD’s redemptive creativity.

Our habits and capabilities are empowered by the very Spirit of GOD.
So, in fact, this DOMAIN that we live in is a culture of WISDOM, and if we are indeed wise, we will conform to this CULTURE of JESUS and His Kingdom!

So let us turn in the holy revelation of GOD to:

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YHWH - THE GOD WHO HEALS

"Let them praise the name of the LORD: for His Name alone is excellent; his glory [is] above the earth and heaven." PSALM 148:13

In the Old Testament a name would describe a person’s character, their nature) as much to identify them.

Nabal name means "fool," and his wife Abigail's explained to David: "…as his name is, so is he… folly is with him:" (1 SAM 25:25).

Isaac means “laughter” for when the LORD announced that Abram and Sarai would have a child when Abram was 100 years of age, Sarai laughed. I’m sure once the boy was born, they did a lot of laughing out of joy!

Jesus is from YHWH’shua – “Our GOD is salvation”

To hear this message, delivered at SHINE BRIGHT Church in Tucson, AZ check it out here!

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The G.E.P.C Study – GALATIANS 5 – PT. 3 of 3

Going Through Paul’s epistles to Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, and Colossi

Introduction: We are all gardens of human souls, planting in the soils of our life different seeds, cultivating different kinds of crop. Some are sowing to their flesh and reaping corruption. Others are sowing to the Spirit and reaping everlasting life.

We ought always to take care of what sort of seed we are allowing into our lives. Every spoken word heard, every paragraph read – even song lyrics and film quotes will plant words into our minds, words that lead to ideas, ideas that lead to beliefs, beliefs that lead to action, action that leads to consequences.

We now complete the fifth chapter of GALATIANS and examine the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit:

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A PLOT OF THE NEFARIOUS KIND – Examining Satan’s Strategic Psychological Warfare Program – Part Two

INTRODUCTION: Satan as the master deceiver will play the part of any role, parading around on the stage of the mind of the one he intends to deceive.

So if one believes in ghosts and spiritual planes of higher existence, Satan will accommodate this and appear as their dearly departed at the foot of their bed, or at the table of a séance and speak comforting lies of a world without judgment and hell; only blissful planes of higher, heavenly realities.

If one holds the belief of aliens from another world, he will certainly appear as an otherworldly, hi-tech saucer type of craft, complete with aliens in order to draw a person into deeper deceptions and New Age dogmas. He will convey the appearance of benevolent alien races so advanced that they appear as gods, who will (and have, supposedly) guide our own human evolution into godhood.

If one has the conviction that the human spirit is powerful with all sorts of psychic abilities, then Satan will furnish such things through demonic agencies. The victim will believe that they possess these powers but will eventually find out that it’s the powers (and “spiritual wickedness in high places”; see EPH 6:12) that possesses them!

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