The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ “Have No Fellowship”

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Chip Murray

Happy Mother’s Day Mom! I’M BACK!!! 🙂

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. ~ Ephesians 5:11

There’s nothing like being stabbed in public to gain attention, especially when it takes place behind a church pulpit. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel’s blazing love for the truth of Jesus Christ could not possibly have come at a better time! Slightly paraphrasing, “Satan takes two forms; when he can’t sneak in as a snake, he pounces as a lion.” A Warning To All Christians

“The New Age is the old Satan playing on our deepest longings for peace, connection, abundance, and immortality. In contrast, the Christian path of obedience, sacrifice, and suffering can seem foolish, even masochistic. That’s why I praise the name of Jesus, who laid down his life not for spiritual masters but for the weak and wounded sinners he loved so dearly.” ~ Nicole Watt, “I WAS a new age healer.”  Why a Reiki master renounced her craft to follow Jesus.

CONFESSION: I was a New Age spiritualist…searching for love in ALL the wrong places. In fact, I experienced a profound healing back in the late 80’s by a woman who called herself Shams after she was Jodi, before she became Shemsi…who through the mystical tools of Sufism and Kabala turned my weakness into strengths, and satisfied my deepest longings for peace, connection, abundance, and immortality…until one day, God stepped in and literally showed me the demon in her. Shortly after that, her personal guru was revealed to the entire world. John of God

New Age Spiritualism is the snake that charms the charmer. BUT, first he had to be disarmed. The Patriarch had to die! “Satan is an ally in the struggle against a patriarchy supported by God the Father and his male priests.” Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture

The obvious evil was able to pounce as a lion in the United Methodist Church, only after it had softened the target by slithering in as the Amazon best-selling snake oil, Jesus Calling! Warren B. Smith, another recovering former New Ager, does a GREAT job of explaining the evil Jude devoted his entire epistle to, and Jesus and all the prophets so clearly warned us about HERE. Softened really is the perfect word to describe what the enemy has done to us. The once virile and powerfully potent masculine energy has all but been replaced, if not subordinated to the feminine. We are Ephesus under the rule of the goddess Diana…before Paul and the boys showed up.

The vital masculine patriarchal energy is abundantly clear in the Bible. In Numbers 25:8, we read of Phinehas who chased the man of Israel into the tent and impaled both he and Cozbi with a javelin. Why, for the love of killing? No, for the love of God, and His people.

And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Vex the Midianites, and smite them: For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake. ~ Numbers 25:15-18

(Num. 25:8) Another one of those startling references that makes the Author of the Bible “unfit” for 21st Century “modern man.” Modern man will not tolerate a God of love (“God is love”) who would reward a man for doing what Phinehas (slayer of Cozbi) did, by making an “everlasting” covenant with him (vs. 13 cf. Psa. 106:30-31). ~ The Ruckman Reference Bible

Capital punishment, rejected as inhumane by the Satanic feminine spirit, is the Father’s mercy in contrast to an unrepentant life in prison. In Joshua 6:21, every man, woman, child, and beast of Jericho was put to death. Why? For the love of the kill? No, for the love of God, and His people. In Joshua 7:25, Achan and his entire family were put to death for bringing sin onto the people. He did confess his sin, although repentance was not clear, I am willing to bet he was rewarded for his repentance in eternity.

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him: But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them. ~ Proverbs 24:24-25

Now, let’s take a look at a recent example of the devastating consequence of the near total suppression and submission of the masculine energy to the feminine in our society. In sharp contrast to the Numbers “plague for Peor’s sake,” Scott and Paul Joseph Watson do a pretty darn good job lampooning the Liberals in Colorado who are out-virtue-signaling each other, giddily opening their homes to the illegal invaders streaming across our southern border. ~ I Am Voting For Jesus!

And unfortunately for our nation, the spinelessness is rampant in the Body of Christ as represented by a staggering majority of our church pulpits.

And I found out a lot of things about our local pastors that just broke my heart. A lot of them had no theological training but they had a lot of training in psychology, a lot of training in mental health, degrees in these things, certificates in these things. Some guys are personal friends of mine through ministry. I already made that break with them last year because I got tired of having prayer meetings where I’m not too sure which god they are praying to. So, I decided to break fellowship with them. ~ Pastor Walt Mansfield

Pastor MANsfield is the courageous pastor from Ohio who followed God’s Ephesians 5:11 order to the T by exposing the 200,000 + pastors nationwide who have betrayed both God and country by signing oaths to FEMA giving the government MORAL authority over their congregations. I have broken fellowship with my former church and a men’s Bible study group for the very same reason Pastor Mansfield broke fellowship. When you’re in a church pastored by arrogance, pride, and nepotism…unrepentant after being called to task by another pastor in a letter with twenty-four signatories including three other pastors, you need to break fellowship! Too many of us put our worldly relationships before our heavenly one. It enables and perpetuates the status quo weakness in our pulpits and our lives, and it breaks God’s heart!

Here’s the greatest Mother’s Day gift EVER: Give her the gift that keeps on giving…give her back her father, give her back her husband, give her back her son, and then just step back and let her smile soak in to fill your heart with the greatest joy it’s felt in a long, long time.

Bishop Emmanuel calls for worldwide prayer for God’s mercy every day 6:30pm Sydney time (8:30am EST), and three-day prayer and fast starting next Weds. Please spread the word! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izBe8u2astc

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ They Are Coming For YOU!

Posted on May 5, 2024 by Chip Murray

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations…”

Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them (while you rushed to stand with BLM): behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. ~ Jeremiah 23:1-2

Imagine investing the time and money to go to medical school only to come out on the other side refusing to see and treat patients. Or, making it into and through the rigorous training at West Point, Annapolis, or Coronado to come to the very moment you planned for, trained for, and were called to…only to walk away just at the very time you were needed most…you left the patient to die, or the battle to be lost, or doomed countless souls to damnation in the case of the Jeremiah 23 pastors, many of whom signed NDA’s with FEMA and DHS to lead their flocks to slaughter.

“They’re not coming for me. They’re coming for you, and I’m just standing in their way.” ~ President Donald J. Trump, June 10, 2023

Are you listening?

“Someone once asked Joan of Arc why God spoke only to her. She responded, ‘Sir, you are wrong. God speaks to everyone. I just listen.’” ~ John C. Maxwell, Listening like Samuel

Well, the United Methodist Church just officially changed their position on homosexuality. Please pray for me, my wife, my church, as well as another member of the brr, Rev. Matt W. who is in the same situation. Neither of us will compromise and stay in the UMC. So, we will both lose our houses and probably our job. We appreciate your prayers. ~ Pastor Stephen

They are locking up innocent patriots, sex-trafficking children in our schools, and turning our churches into gay pride houses ALL because the solid majority of American pastors have taken a knee to the enemy.

“The reason (Jeremiah) is so appropriate to the 21st Century is that, as far as America is concerned, God will use a heathen nation to punish this country and ‘His people,’ if American is a “Christian “ nation and professing Christians are “His people.” The thing that produces ‘Laodicea’ is found in Jeremiah 23. It is summed up with a negative, critical, vicious, ‘unloving’ remark about Bible teachers and preachers (in this case scribes) messing with the words of God Almighty. By destroying belief in the words of God, the populace is disarmed and walks right into the trap (Isa. 30:8-10).” ~  The Ruckman Reference Bible, Copyright © 2009

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. ~ Martin Niemöller

And then they came for the Christians!

But the Christians who turned off and tuned out of politics have become slaves of their own ignorance and easy prey for the evil that hunts those it knows have replaced their faith with fear.

Oh…you think you have faith?

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of my knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) ~ Philippians 3:8, 18-19

A Final Warning To The Belief-Destroyers In Our Pulpits:

In my humble opinion Mel Gibson captured the agonizing sting of YOUR betrayal in the moments after ripping the helmet from the head of Robert the Bruce who sold him out to the King.  Portrait of Betrayal

“Where are They? Says the Lord.” Amanda Grace, Prophet

Jezebel thought she could silence the Word of God too preacher! Precious few grains left to fall in the hourglass preacher! Time to choose preacher: Will you choose the path of the 1 Kings 18:40 four hundred and fifty? Or, will you choose the path of Robert the Bruce who realized the dung, found the excellency of the knowledge of his true King, and picked up his sword to lead his people to their independence at the Battle Bannockburn? Asking for a Friend!  

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ , to stand {Eph. 6:13}.

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Chip Murray

The “stone of stumbling” stand of the Doc & Joes! Portrait of the Remnant! Amen?

Why, He was a “stone of stumbling” to thousands, actually to His own neighbors, to His own nation, because through Him they blasphemed the Holy Spirit, and in His own country “He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief” (Matt. 13:58). ~ Oswald Chambers, The New Testament Passion

My last Ephesians epiphany was the Eph. 6:16 “Above all” rank of faith over every other precious piece of the whole armour of God…even above the {Eph. 6:17} word itself! Well, as God would have it, I’ve always found the comma placed before to stand in Eph. 6:13 out of place…until I realized in the context of rapidly unfolding of events in this past week, there is no out of place in the Word of God! If there were no comma, there would only be one command to stand versus the two commands the comma creates. The ending two words of verse 13, and the first two words of verse 14. Furthermore, having done all {Eph. 6:13}; God is issuing the double command only AFTER giving us absolutely everything we need to stand! Amen?

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1

, and having done all, to stand…we comply, compromise, appease, and capitulate. Why? How? Evil used shedding. In the very same way the spike proteins are shed from the jabbed to the un-jabbed, much of my generation was infected by the ideological shedding from their children via the indoctrination in our public education system. We allowed the devil to turn Proverbs 22:6 upside down with kids training up their parents in the ways of the world…out of fear…the fear of losing their love. It happened in my own home. In the final days before our separation in 2016, my wife was lecturing me on my white privilege.

Our churches, the moral immune system of society, were thusly compromised…

It is no longer a church. It’s a den of thieves! The church needs to be the light, not darkness. The church needs to speak the truth, not the lie. The church needs to reflect and represent Jesus Christ of Nazareth, not Satan. I’ll step on Satan in Jesus’ mighty name. To hell with the world! Well, we want to bring the world back to the Lord. But for the world to come and impose and dictate things that are worldly to the church? Over my dead body! You only live once…I will never die a coward…when are you going to stand? ~ Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at the 30:19min mark https://www.bards.fm/e/ep2908_bardsfm-passover-not-eggs-and-bunnies/

Adding to Bishop Emmanuel’s courageous point, watching the church’s silence and appalling indifference to the imprisonment of Christian patriots for trespassing while a literal flood of violent criminals are caught and released into our communities, as juxtaposed to the prayerfully loving and compassionate Christian community in support of Peter’s Acts 4 and 12 imprisonments, needs to be called for what it is; a blatant and cowardly dereliction of the faith that will deservedly bring the true justice of a loving God. Pre-Pentecostal cowardice was forgiven at the Cross. Post-Pentecostal cowardice will suffer the wrath of the Lamb {Rev. 6:16}.  

Now, brothers and sisters, add to this developing polaroid of pastoral paralysis the story of 250,000 American pastors who signed NDA’s with FEMA and DHS to effectively lull their flocks into a stupor of compliant submission to the state, as reported by Jamie Walden of Omega Dynamics…and it suddenly becomes a diabolical stew of cowardice and treason.

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. ~ Ephesians 4:8

Paul uses the figure of Jesus as the goal to which the whole human race is to attain—“till we all come…to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ {Eph. 4:13}.” ~ Oswald Chambers, Spiritual Evolution…That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ {Eph. 4:14-15}:

I had to leave a men’s Bible study group after three years because of the weakness, self-deception, and ultimately their refusal to, to stand.

Don’t need religion to find the best of me, I give it all away religiously. And when its gone, and I’m alone…just God and me in solidarity. ~ Chip Murray, Déjà vu Blues 2004

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ~ G K Chesterton

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ “Yea, Seven” Men & The Two Lessons

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Chip Murray

The Towering Derek!

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. ~ Proverbs 6:16-19

My #1 lesson learned in 2023 was: Leadership Defaults To Those Who Stick Their Heads Up When Nobody Else Will.  And I’m willing to bet this lesson will take the crown for 2024: The only people with more excuses than alcoholics and drug addicts are AWOL pastors and churchmen! Isaiah 42:22 is the picture-perfect description of the dead stone church {But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.}, blindly following the Galatians 3:25 schoolmaster we are no longer under {But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.}!! They choose instead to reject Holy Spirit Galatians 6:8 teaching {For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.} for loving their dead stone church friends more. NEWSFLASH: Closing your churches while Walmart, CVS, and liquor stores remained open was sowing to the flesh! Submitting to the Un-Constitutional medical tyranny of masking your children and the illegal “coercion” of experimental mRNA DNA-modifying injections was sowing to the flesh! Leaving the sick to die alone in Nursing Homes in 2021 to rush to the BLM rally was sowing to the flesh! Remaining a “this is not my fight” spectator in April of 2024 is sowing to the flesh!

So, in love, I say to the dead stone church brother who sends me the video of his pastor’s sermon last Sunday, Why do you send a man yearning to be fed by the Holy Spirit a video of the schoolmaster snared in holes feeding other men hid in the same prison house? WHILE, on the very same day, not so many miles away, we were nourished by a healthy Holy Spirit “poking” us to find our inner David’s & Elija’s!

Last Thursday God had me gaze deeply into my own reflection while meditating on the 2 Cor. 11:23-29 “stripes” of the greatest of the Apostles, read the following: Never yield to a power unless you know its character. (Love of God), and then dare to call myself a man of God before God Almighty…before sending me, along with Mark and Christine, into the DC belly of the beast to support our dear friend and brother-in-Christ Derek at his J6 sentencing on Friday. I was totally ill-prepared for what we walked into. On one side of the courtroom sat the four defendants and their families, which included Derek, his mom, his wife, and his daughter along with supporters which included the mother of Ashley Babbit who was murdered by a Capital Police officer on that day. In them I saw and felt the spirit of Psalm 3 David fleeing the murderous wrath of Absolom. On the other side seated at the prosecution table sat the three sodomite slaves of Satan who could barely conceal their lustful zeal for the innocent blood of God’s REAL men. Pure evil on its own turf; smug, gloating, slithering vipers, dead to love, dead to the light of truth, and dead to life itself…sensing the joy to come from the feast of pain and despair written on the faces of the families of their mortal enemy, the sons of liberty. NOTHING could have prepared me for the lead prosecutor’s closing argument. The Proverbs 6:16-19 son of the father of lies painted the four Christian patriots with the wicked imaginations and abominations seething from the hatred of his own black heart for anything and everyone close to God. My heart broke as all three of Derek’s brothers stood before the judge to make their pre-sentencing statements. Already mortally wounded from three years of being tarred and feathered by a complicit media, fired from their jobs, and ostracized by their friends and neighbors…I watched them in their remorse, apologize for fabricated crimes none of them committed. But then, just as things appeared as dark and hopeless as they could possibly get, I watched as all six feet and nine inches of Derek Kinnison stood up to tower over the judge and his courtroom. I watched a man bathed in Holy Spirit turn the tables on evil in the flash of an instant, showering the entire courtroom with love, humility, and truth as he forgave the judge and prosecutors and prayed for each of their souls, rejected their lies, and spoke truth to the darkest power that our world has ever faced! The power and force of God’s love actually made the prosecutors cringe.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the forward mouth, do I hate. ~ Proverbs 8:13

Now, if it pleases the court, allow me to wrap all of this up in my “Yea Seven” closing argument. While my brother Derek courageously reflected the true spirit of the imprisoned Acts 4 and 12 Peter, the dead stone church and churchmen are 100% blind, deaf, dumb, and indifferent to the entire ordeal! Which, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer so eloquently stated a century ago, “is in itself evil.”

As for me and my remnant kinfolk…

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. ~ Joshua 24:15

And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. ~ 1 Kings 18:21

Time to man-up church leaders and sign the Gideon’s 300 Pledge!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ “Get Right…or Get Left!”

Posted on April 14, 2024 by Chip Murray

Paddle!

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. ~ Acts 2:6

A VERY interesting week indeed, my dear brothers and sisters! What began as my pondering the absence of “gifts” in the body of our churches, ended with a national “Don’t Mess With Our Kids” call to action in every state capital with breaking news of Iran’s attack on Israel in the very same hour! In fact, today’s Tune-up was, “God Got Your Tongue?” until I woke up to the answer to our missing gifts delivered in a powerful one-two punch by Naomi Wolf and Pastor Niel Peterson on Thursday morning. Naomi was a staunch feminist darling of the Left, consultant to both the Clintons personally and Hilary’s campaign, as well as Al Gore’s campaign…UNTIL the Covid charade and the medical tyranny that followed it. One tweet questioning the lie in 2020 or 2021, I forget, but you can hear her tell the amazing “Facing the Beast” story HERE, and overnight she became a globally demonized and deplatformed persona non grata! So immediately following the Leftist turned Right Naomi came the BardsFM interview words from Pastor Niel Peterson, “Get Right…or Get Left!” OK God, I’m listening…Conversation with Niel Peterson.

This is the toughest Tune-up I’ve ever had to unpack, but here goes! Absence of gifts, our children under attack, Israel under attack, Left to Right.  

“Why Speak in Tongues?” ~  Derek Prince

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; ~ Acts 2:16

The same tongues that “magnify God” in Acts 10:46 are the least of His gifts in 1 Cor. 12:28…so? The point is that this gift, along with every gift listed in 1 Cor. 12:28 has gone missing from the vast majority of American churches, which begs a very important question reminiscent of President Reagan’s famous lament of the Democrat Party. Did the Holy Spirit leave the American Church, or did the American Church leave the Holy Spirit?

While you are pondering that question, consider yet another sign of the Holy Spiritually malnourished body of Christ stuck in her feelings…Feelings…it’s impossible to hurt the feelings of a son or daughter of the King who, by God’s grace and manifestation of the Holy Spirit are alive in Christ and dead to self! And yet, how many of us are still licking those wounds and setting our own sons and daughters for the exact same fall? The American church, suffering a near total lack of masculine energy, is languishing in the emotional mire of the feminine only…tripping over itself to love what God loves, diabolically disarmed, ill-equipped, and unable to hate what God hates. It will surely turn in the days ahead to hate what the enemy hates!

God has prepared me…God has prepared and equipped each one of us for exactly the times in which we live. In my case, as it pertains to His message Thursday morning, it was canoeing some of the most treacherous whitewater rapids in our country with the Explorers in my youth. On one trip to the Allagash River in Maine, we went up with 12 canoes and came back with 8, 4 were destroyed beyond repair. Here’s the message: In tranquil still waters we can paddle left, we can paddle right, or we can choose not to paddle at all…with zero consequence. Not so in treacherous whitewater rapids…which is exactly where we find ourselves today.

If we truly trust in God, which I believe most if not all of us Tune-up followers do, then we know He is not done with America (as founded), and that after the whitewater…which we have yet to see the worst of, comes the still waters. THAT is why we can’t afford to stop paddling…as so many around us (especially our churches) have done. The fruits of our efforts will be blessed by God to ripen on the other side. I will ask each of you to pray into this, lean into God and ask Him to speak into your life and the lives of those around you…to strengthen and encourage one another, to keep you paddling Right ahead and through the worst of it. #Don’tMessWithOurKids!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ “Are You Not A Man?”

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Chip Murray

“Conquer we must. And Conquer we shall!”

And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord. ~ 1 Samuel 26:15

Those who receive my P&FW Invites know that I came under a spiritual attack on Good Friday by the spirits of cowardice, comfort, fear, and deception which rule the Laodicean church. It was in direct response to my speaking the truth to this church and the churchmen in it, “SO…in love, God compels me to be truthful. You men are the most lost men I have ever met in my life. I know each of you well enough to know that collectively you have fashioned a bubble for yourselves to the point that while the devil is devouring your own children…you further delight him by joining the world in censoring Christian men…My old pastor looked me square in the eyes in 2020 and said, ‘This is not my fight.’ All I can say to each of you when your day comes is good luck with that defense. Here’s a prediction…given the current trajectory of things. I will die sooner than most of you, but I will live longer than all of you.” So dear friends, this was the predictable Laodicean response: “The doctrine of Jesus Christ is clear about love and unity, not hate and discord.” Half-truth motivated by the spirits of cowardice, comfort, fear, and deception…the fuel of the lukewarm Laodicean. In hindsight, it is no wonder that I was taken out of play which caused me to miss posting my Tune-up on Resurrection Sunday…the only time that has happened since its 2012 inception. Last Sunday’s intended focus? The masculinity of Christ!

God is speaking to every man through David in the 1 Samuel passage above TODAY! “Who is like thee in Israel? We, the sons of the King most high are! The enemy is moving to destroy the king our LORD. Wherefore then are we? These are the words of a man, the ruling spirits of the Laodicean fear for the ears of churchmen to hear:

“2020 marked the end of the church age, and the beginning of the kingdom age…I am the church. I will engage the church. I will become the church. I serve the God of adventure. The (Laodicean) audience wants sweet infant-baby-Ricky-Bobby-Jesus. They don’t want strong Jesus. They want soft Jesus. They want the faith that doesn’t challenge you, doesn’t push you, doesn’t compel you…doesn’t speak up. You just be a nice, good Christian…when Jesus doesn’t need you to be nice…How could it cost God everything to love us, and cost us nothing to love Him back? …He needs you to be men of God, men of faith…with dangerous faith. So, why are men being attacked so much, especially now? Because, if the man is taken out, you can’t defend your own house, your family, your children. You can’t defend the house of God or the faith. He is love. He is LORD. He is commander. ‘God is love’ is found 4 times in the Bible. ‘God is LORD’ is found 400 times! The church is teaching you a version of Jesus that is not the full complete version. You need to come out of her! This soft tepid timid Jesus doesn’t exist. Deuteronomy 23:1, if you have no balls as a man, there is no place for you in the house of God. Cowardice is the #1 thing God hates {Rev. 21:8}. Today’s Laodicean church and churchmen are working for the other team.” ~ Stephen Prouse,  Are You Not A Man?

“Working for the other team,” whether they realize it or not. Their own cowardice, fear, and in this case, self-deception, has confined them in low altitude echo-chamber bubbles where they actually see themselves as men of valor who offer up their empty sacrifices to a God who sees through their charade…while the true men of valor…the Joshua’s, the Caleb’s, the David’s earnestly contend for the faith {Jude 1:3} to take the higher ground… “We may think it a gloomy fact that we cannot settle the questions that beckon us to the highest places. Churchill does not. Rather it is ‘more wonderful than any[thing] that Science can reveal,’ and it ‘gives the best hope that all will be well.’ Even when we deal with forces that are ‘terrific’ and ‘devastating,’ our ‘hearts will ache’ and our ‘lives will be barren’ without ‘a vision above material things.’ No powerful Science, and no Nazi, can erase that fact or satisfy that need. Resistance to despotism is therefore written in the nature of man…For Churchill, practice makes no sense apart from the principles of right, and they have no protection except in the rule of law. The statesman is the guardian of all things that supply the end of all action. Those principles cannot protect themselves against the likes of Hitler, unless someone as strong and fierce as he fights on their behalf.” ~ Churchill’s Trial, Larry P. Arnn

No words can describe my contempt and utter disdain for cowardice, and PLEASE, let me be crystal clear. Cowardice, which is to say the spirit of cowardice, NOT the coward himself. In fact, I love them as a grieving parent who loves a child who is missing a limb or organ…or more accurately if you consider God’s word in Deut. 23:1, leprosy. Why? Because man in such a condition poses a direct threat to the kingdom of God. God delivered His pre-eclipse message of Hope, Revelation, Warning, and Instruction last week. Hope for His faithfully engaged, Revelation of true colors under fire, Warning to the cowards and false shepherds, and Instruction for His Remnant: “We are the Church. We will engage the Church. We will become the Church.” ~ Stephen Prouse…wherefore then, are we?

“Where have all the good men gone, long time passing? Where have all the good men gone, long time ago? Where have all the good men gone, waiting on their ‘Hall Pass’ every one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” My tandem hat tip to Pete Seeger and Stephen Prouse. Hall Pass is the clever term Prouse applies to those men of the church, so called, who’ve taken the Premillennial Dispensation (Pre-Tribulation Rapture) bait. You just might want to know a little bit more about the man behind so convenient a lure. Father of the Favorite Lie!

Winston Churchill’s 1st speech as Prime Minister, May 19, 1940 ~ “Be Ye Men Of Valour”

Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill

I am closing today’s Tune-up with a remarkable appeal made by a man who is as hated by the establishment today as Churchill was in his time, in this our darkest hour. What is amazing to me is the fact that while the men of Britian in 1940 had no personal computers, or iPhones, or internet, every man knew the hour. Sadly, and tragically, that is not the case with men today. We have come to rely on the world to tell us the hour…through the corporate media, the internet, our hand-held devices, the nefarious likes of John Darby and false shepherds playing for the other team. Is President Trump our Churchill? I don’t know. What I see and hear, and you will too if you watch and listen closely, is God speaking to His churchmen through the voice of 1 Samuel 26:15 David speaking to Abner…

“We must defend God in the public square…Make America Pray Again!” ~ President Donald J. Trump

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Resurrection Sunday

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Chip Murray

Standupnsing is out sick for the first Sunday since start…but so alive and well in our risen King! Back soon!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Modeling Leadership

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Chip Murray

For I think God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. ~ 1 Corinthians 4:9

In 2020 when the churches were declared unessential by the “powers-that-be” here in New York, a small group of us formed CLOTH (Christian Leaders Of The Hudson). Here is what that experience has taught me…

“The greatest missing ingredient in Christian leaders today is credibility. Paul tests his level of credibility with his Corinthian followers by reminding them of how he had modeled what was right.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Modeling; Leadership Is Caught More Than Taught

While I would agree that credibility is a missing ingredient in Christian leaders, I would argue that the #1 missing ingredient in Christian leaders today is courage. How could any leader who lacks courage possibly encourage others? In fact, if you look at the qualities of leadership in the above “customized” print which was presented to me by the chairwoman of our CLOTH Revival Committee this past January, I believe you will agree that most, if not all of these qualities, require courage. And the #2 missing ingredient, before credibility, arguably tied with courage in the # 1 spot is faith. These two ingredients were inexorably intertwined in 1 Samuel 17 David which I believe made him the greatest leader who ever lived…behind Jesus of course.

Speaking of King David, it occurred to me last year that leadership defaults to those willing to stick their heads up while most everyone else has gone into hiding. That was certainly the setting of the 1 Sam. 17:11 stage that David, the least of his brothers, walked onto…which now brings a third ingredient to light ahead of credibility. Heart. Of course! God looks at the heart. Which leads us to the following…

“(1 Cor. 13:1) This chapter is known as the ‘love chapter.’  It is set as a great stumbling block in the Scriptures to destroy any Christian who will not tolerate the negative truths of the Bible (nearly three-quarters of its content). A ‘god’ who is all love is a perverted god. God loves good and hates evil. Love without hate is not real love.” ~ Ruckman Reference Bible

As Ruckman observes, this is the great virus that has infected the modern church and churchmen today, rendering both it and them impotent in the face of an enemy that is taking full advantage. Hating what God hates requires the #1 quality in the Leadership acronym above, Loyalty. And loyalty would require God’s men to come from behind the church walls, Bible studies and civics classrooms to defend God’s honor where it matters…in the political arena! That is the exact place where the ten qualities of leadership are not only tested, but they are also proven. Amen? To Maxwell’s point on lost credibility as the direct result of the lack of courage, faith, and heart in church leadership today, it is no wonder that 97% of millennials do not have a Biblical worldview. This makes them and the rest of us easy prey for the enemy we have lost the power to discern…

“America does not have a free press, or free speech. And none of this would be the way it is if this man (JFK) had lived…The murder of President Kennedy brought to an end the massive pressure by the US Administration on the government of Israel.” ~ Who Are They?

Hating what God hates means we as men are called to “fight”…fight for what God loves, which first and foremost has to be our children. A Texas man recently killed the man who raped his little girl…and was acquitted. I asked an elder in my church who works as a security guard at a local hospital if he was armed and he reacted as if I asked a crazy question. We have got to snap out of this conditioning brothers and get back in the game where God made us to be. It’s time to lead, follow, or get out of the way!

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”–G K Chesterton 

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Christian Authority & Angels From Devils

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Chip Murray

Who can tell?

The Lord told me to tell His people that He is able to back up His word if Christians would use their authority. I asked Jesus why the Church seems, at times, to be so defeated? He showed me that if His people will return to the basics of His Word use it coupled together with their authority, demons must obey! They don’t have a choice. In other words, demons tremble and run when we walk, talk and agree with Word of God. However, many people are not using their authority to overcome the powers of darkness. ~ Bishop Samuel Vagalas Kanco, Christian Authority, The Witch Doctor & The Man, City Under The Sea

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counselors there is safety. ~ Proverbs 24:5-6

My old boss and a sister in distress brought it all home to me with God waking me up around 2am on Friday morning to connect the dots. I retired after 26 years with AXA-Equitable in 2020. Very early on in my career…mid-nineties, I remember the advice of the top leader in our region; “Fake it until you make it.” As it turns out I was good enough make it without faking it…by my standards. What I mean by that is I never really measured up to the corporate standards of success because I never really fully joined the club. My old boss Tony, for whom I had tremendous admiration and respect, appeared to me in a dream early Friday morning. The sister in distress reached out to a group of us on Thursday asking for prayer for “God to comfort her to sleep.” The correlation? That’s exactly the dots God woke me up to connect (I’m typing these words at 3:24am). We all, every single one of us, have angelic and demonic spirits inside of us. Believers and unbelievers alike. Both demonic and angelic vary by degree in terms of light and darkness, good and evil. Suffice for now to think of demonic spirit to be that which is not of God, and the angelic, that which is. I can tell you that, while I would never have admitted this at the time, the demonic held sway in my life up until the moment I was saved in 2015…the moment I realized (thank you Pastor Kirby) that the nearer I drew to God, the nearer He would draw to me {James 4:8} And the truth of the preceding verse {James4:7} just dawned on me this (Friday) morning; the moment I started to draw near was the same moment I began my resistance…forcing the devil to flee. In other words, demons tremble and run when we walk, talk, and agree with the Word of God.

A wise person who has built his life in confidence in God will appear a fool when he is among people who are sleek and cunning…The wisdom of God is arrant stupidity to the wisdom of the world, until all of a sudden God makes the wisdom of the world foolish (see 1 Cor. 1:23-25). ~ Oswald Chambers, Shame of the Gospel

So even now, He is showing me that nine years later, while the spirit balance has shifted tremendously, there is still something(s) in my life holding me back from the finished man we all know as Christians God has made us to be…just as sure as there is something in the sister’s life keeping her from sleep.

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men…ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. ~ 1 Corinthians 7:23; 10:21

I know now that in 1995 when the demonic spirit enjoyed the amount of influence it had in my life, it was the angelic that kept me from joining the club. It may have been smaller and quieter, but I know now it was God Himself doing what He does so amazingly well. Our perfect Abba Father.

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in. ~ Ecc. 3:10

All of this…

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. ~ Ecc. 7:10

Is to say…

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~ Mark Twain

God is forming us…

“The most patriotic paper in the United States, the Epoch Times, is run by the most patriotic citizens, yet they weren’t born in America.” ~ Victor Davis Hanson, What Happened To Us?

Into the sons and daughters…

God blesses His people so they can bless those who have yet to be blessed. Godly leaders feel driven by this vision. Maintenance is not the goal. World conquest motivates God’s heart, and He accomplishes this mission through leaders who cast vision for participating in bottom-line living. ~ John C. Maxwell, A Bigger Vision Drives God’s Leaders, March 14

He made us to be!

“We have to heed the warning that is coming right NOW!” ~ Pastor Rod Parker and the Eclipse Revival

Solar Eclipse On 4/8…Exodus 4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

Who can tell rainbows from hell, or angels from devils anyway? The sons and daughters of the King, that’s who! Demons Beware! Amen? I have a very strong feeling this coming sign may be His last attempt to reach those of us who have yet to accept Him.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall he not render to every man according to his works? ~ Proverbs 24:12

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Truth & Fatalism

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Chip Murray

It is dangerous to be conscious of submission to a spiritual power. The difference between fatalism and faith lies just here. Fatalism means, “My number’s up; I have to bow to the power whether I like it or not; I do not know the character of the power, but it is greater than I am, and I must submit.” ~ Oswald Chambers, The Worthiness of God

This week’s Psalm & Proverb a Day brought me to one of my favorite verses from my favorite Psalm 23:5, Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over…which prompted a friend to provide the last verse of Psalm 91 with his own commentary, “Christian warriors never fight alone.” While his words ring true and rhyme rather nicely with the old saying, “one man with courage is a majority,” it can be a bit discouraging watching friends who turn out to be pretenders and cowards peeling away as the boot comes down…

The devil doesn’t like to lose even one of his captives. He fights to keep every soul. He uses demons, unsaved people, and some Christians to do things to discourage them. ~ Bishop Samuel Vagalas Kanco, Chapter 3 The Truth Shall Make You Free

God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. ~ Elbert Hubbard

The ultimate legacy of cowards will be the scars and stripes worn by those who stood in their place. Bishop Kanco, who knows the enemy better than any pastor, priest, or rabbi I know (quite simply because he was personally groomed and trained by him), knows that Satan is the grand master of discouragement. But experience has taught me this; for every twelve who fade away from the heat, God appoints a David to stand in their place. Two years ago, FDNY Battalion Chief Tommy Lapolla stood up for his men and called on the head of the NY Catholic church to do the same. FDNY Battalion Chief Appeals to Cardinal Dolan to Stand With Un-vaxxed! I am honored to call this man my friend, and to whole-heartedly support his run for the 99th District Assembly Seat in November. https://lapollaforassembly.com/

TRUTH

God is calling His “un-corruptibles”! If the church were a business, it would be out of business. ONLY the corruptible remain unaccountable…and will pay the ultimate price for the 97% of millennials who no longer hold a Biblical worldview. “Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.” ~ Romans 11:3-4

TRUTH

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.~ Jeremiah 8:7

I had a very profound thought this morning which I now pray will wake up the church. I have made very good friends within the Chinese Falun Gong community. I truly love, respect, and admire them. They are among the most beautiful and loving people I have ever come to know. They have been very persistently trying to recruit me into their spiritual practice. I read their book, and learned their exercises, personally trained by their association leader. But yesterday I had to draw the line, Jesus Christ alone is my Lord and Savior. The profound thought was the similarity to our church community…nice, loving, good…and equally blind to the TRUTH.

The enemy is hoping that you will continue to remain blind, and the best part is, the longer that you remain blind, and you establish your blindness and your household with blindness, well, guess what? Your kids are blind, your household is blind, your husband is blind. Look for the God in things – Not just the good in things. Stephen Prouse HERE

Limping into powerless gatherings with broken down altars acting as though everything is fine, while Baal steals our children and rules our nation is tolerating evil Jezebel. ~ Give Him 15,  Rebuild the Altar – Ask for the Fire!

TRUTH

God lifted me out of the blindness in 2020 into one of the few remaining sanctuaries of His Truth:

For every true follower of Christ, the hour of testing is upon us!  By God’s grace and strength, will we truly “Stand Up, Stand Up, For Jesus”?  Will we stand up for Him, regardless of the cost?  Always in His unfailing love, Pastor Steve Offringa, Howells Church (Isaiah 41:10)!

Persistence is the ultimate gauge of our leadership; the secret is to outlast our critics. ~ John C. Maxwell

Got TRUTH?

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