The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ This Could Be Heaven, Or…

Posted on July 6, 2025 by Chip Murray

The Prodigal Daughter

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 not he render to every man according to his works? ~ Proverbs 24:12

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world. The Spirit of God apprehends me and I am obliged to get alone with God and fight the battle out before Him. Until this is done, I lose every time…That is the Great Divide in the life; from that point we either go toward a more and more dilatory and useless type of Christian life, or we become more and more ablaze for the glory of God—My Utmost for His Highest.   (Utmost) ~ Oswald Chambers, Where the Battle Is Won

I’ve just returned from a train adventure from Poughkeepsie to Sacramento and back. I’ve always wanted to do the old sleeper-car cross-country train. The “roomette” cost me $3,300 round-trip and included all meals with complimentary adult beverage at dinner. Four days and three nights each way on Amtrak. I totally recommend the experience EXCEPT if you have to be at your destination by a certain time. Now, please allow me to attempt to tie this into Proverbs 24:12, Chambers’ Where the Battle Is Won, and this Proverbs 28:4 gem: They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them (Jude’s 1:3 exhortation).

The beauty of the roomette train experience is that you are dining with a different group of people at every meal, where there is a wonderful opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation with folks from all walks of life and all parts of the world. My focus on this Tune-up are the two people I believe the Lord put me on this train to meet for His purpose in today’s message. The first is Aisha (pictured above) traveling to Philadelphia from San Jose, where she had just laid her daughter to rest. And the other, an Irishman whose name I did not care to learn for reasons I will share. Before I get to that I need to explain the purpose of this trip, the second annual Orange Strong Bible Study Road Trip, was to attend the Church of Glad Tidings Rev17 Conference in Yuba City, California, a fundraiser for Peace of Heaven, the FIRST “Safe Home” for the children rescued from child-sex-trafficking, AND who need protection from our own CPS!

Now before I address Aisha and the Irishman, I need you to visualize and understand the unbreakable power and authority of God’s Remnant Warriors who gathered in Yuba City from June 20th to the 22nd to support Pastor Dave’s “Peace of Heaven” mission. As I shared with friends this past week, it is very humbling to spend time in the company of those who make you feel as though you are standing still. And at the same time, it is very healthy and essential for spiritual growth. This spiritual war is real, and nobody knows this better than Dr. Frank, Texan Pastor Troy Brewer who has created 54 safe homes around the world for the 11,000 children his ministry has rescued from the evil of child-sex-trafficking, Chris Burgard, Mary Flynn O’Neill, Leigh Dundas, Dr. Christine Northrup, and survivors Cathy O’Brien, Hope Beryl Green, and llonka Deaton. Every single soul, more and more ablaze for the glory of God, refined in their crucible of circumstance, forged by God in the fiery furnace of faith for the battle ahead. Now I can tell you why God wanted me to meet Aisha and the Irishman…

First and foremost, there is nothing that weighs on God’s heart, absolutely nothing that grieves Him more than what is happening to his Luke 17:2 “little ones” on our watch! Every name I’ve mentioned above has been targeted, deplatformed, marginalized, ostracized, and far, far worse by a world gone mad, drunk on the blood of children. So, on the train ride home from Sacramento, God tees up Aisha, a remarkable, well-spoken woman who is a retired federal employee who has worked for both the IRS and the Social Security Administration. God introduced me to this grandmother headed to Philadelphia to help raise and oversee the education of her grandchildren. By the time we got to Chicago, I was able to share the work of Orange Strong and CLOTH with her and offered to assist her in her mission. Now for the Irishman. This is where Proverbs 24:12 comes in. I picked up his brogue in the first few words and experienced a premature delight…short-lived to be sure. When I asked him what he did, he replied, “I’m in healthcare,” which should have been the first red flag. After I shared my story of my first trip to Ireland in 1984 which was greatly enhanced by the hospitality of the Murphy’s and O’Driscolls, I recited my poem, A Land Called Ireland (at the end of today’s Tune-up) to he, his wife, and the young lady seated with us. His response to the poem was my first actual red flag. I saw in his eyes that he knew the Ireland I experienced in 1984 no longer exists, and that he knew why as well. Then I asked him what he thought about what was happening in the UK. He asked, “What do you mean?” To which I responded, “Do you know who Tommy Robinson is?” This elicited an eye-roll followed by, “You can’t believe everything you hear.” NOW, I knew I had your man dead to rights! And he knew it too when I looked him in the eye and said, “Not all ears are afraid to hear.” I could not wait for the meal to end and prayed this would be the last we would see of each other. For those of you who don’t know Tommy, listen to his recent interview with Patrick Bet-David, and you be the judge:

Tommy Robinson ~ “Most people have NO IDEA what’s coming!”

Moving to a This could be heaven, or…close with the revelation which occurred with Aisha as we were waiting for the 48 train together in Union Station on Tuesday. It turns out that this remarkable well-spoken grandmother with a heart for children God introduced me to the day before is on the polar opposite end of the political spectrum of yours truly! The very encouraging thing is that we were somehow able to weave our way through the mine field which included differences on Trump, waste and corruption uncovered by DOGE, the definition of bureaucracy, and how a country founded by slave-owners could have been great to begin with, and STILL remain friends until we parted in Poughkeepsie. She sent me a video on Thursday of Noam Chomsky condemning America as anti-black at its core which seems to have been an influence. I told her how I had experienced racism in my life, but preferred the MLK Jr character over color remedy, and that I would love to see an honest debate between Thomas Sowell and Noam Chomsky. Now the closing ties to Aisha believing there’s a God but rejecting the Bible because “it is written by men.” This sets the stage for Voddie Bachman’s warning to all who have ears to hear:

“Even the Elect are at risk of being led astray. Many have traded truth for convenience, conviction for comfort, and Christ for culture.” ~ The Mark of the Beast Is Here — And Most Christians Don’t Even Know It

As Tommy Robinson pointed out to Patrick Bet-David, the power of political correctness has essentially paralyzed our Western World. We need to start being painfully honest with one another. We do no one any favors by praising mediocrity. In fact, we cripple and retard true spiritual growth in so doing. We have become so pitifully enslaved to feelings over fact, and emotion over reason. Do you want to know the absolute most valuable form of love in this culture today? Help that person who has set themselves on the road to failure accelerate their pace! The next time someone seeks your validation for their missing the mark, simply pray quietly for their eventual success at properly identifying and answering God’s calling on their life. The difference between Aisha and the Irishman? God sees the heart (1 Sam. 16:7). Aisha is the Luke 15:11-32 Prodigal Daughter God longs to see returning home. On the other hand, God showed me the 2 Corinthians 11:14 angel of light in the Irishman…and it chilled me to the bone.

Please keep my friend Aisha and her grandchildren in your prayers…and the Irish too!  

A Land Called Ireland

If your soul is tired & weary,

then my friend give a listen to me.

Go to a land called Ireland,

not so far across the sea.

And if in fact you’re good of heart,

which reflects in all you do,

then the Angel of the Heather shall appear,

and she’ll sing her songs for you.

She’ll sing away your emptiness,

and smile away your fears…

and give you the gift of happiness,

which will last you through the years.

Now if you go, have a jar with the Murphy’s,

and some crack with the Driscoll’s too…

…and tell ‘em I love and miss ‘em,

and they’ll take good care of you.

And for every Irish smile you get,

be sure to give one back,

for that means more to them than gold,

and that’s a simple fact.

So when at last you leave her shores,

and her rolling hills embrace,

Just turn, tip your hat and pray….

and thank God for the Irish Race!

~ Chip Murray -‘84

And PLEASE pray for our brothers and sisters in Texas!!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Stay Tuned!

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Chip Murray

Standupnsing will be back in the Tune-up saddle July 6…with much to share! Praise God the Father for His hand of mercy and grace on ALL things. Meanwhile…

Happy Independence Day! In your neighborhood!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ A Father’s Day Message

Posted on June 15, 2025 by Chip Murray

FAITH!

The Canary in the Coal Mine

A canary had escaped from its cage and was flying over the roofs of the houses opposite mine. It was being chased by about twenty sparrows, along with other rough birds. Then I thought of this verse: “Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her” (Jer. 12:9). ~ Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

The greatest threats to man are those things he cannot see. To coal miners, death comes in the shapeless form of methane and carbon monoxide. That’s why coal miners would use canaries to warn them of the danger. They would die before the gas levels became dangerous to the men in the mine. To all men, and churchmen in particular, there is an even deadlier threat he has lost the ability to detect, posed by an enemy that seeks the eternal damnation and enslavement of all mankind.

“When a person becomes a Christian, he immediately becomes different from the people around him.” Hence Spurgeon’s canary/speckled bird analogy above. Faith is the Christian’s canary. Faith is that powerful force of His nature in us that protects us from all threats, natural and supernatural, seen and unseen.

“When the Church does not feel pain with those that are part of them, the Church’s nerves…become dead.” ~ Sabina Wurmbrand, Co-founder of The Voice of the Martyrs

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead (James 2:20)?

“Hey ChatGPT, if you were the devil, how would you destroy men in the 21st century?” I’d remove sense of purpose, distort masculinity itself, make strength seem toxic, and make them ashamed of being men. I’d make them comfortable with mediocrity and strip them of their natural role as protectors and providers. Listen to the entire response at the 47:30min mark. Are They Already Gone?

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” ~ Thomas Sowell

Up until this very moment we have allowed ourselves to become the men ChatGPT described above; canaries seeking the acceptance and approval of the sparrows…blinded to the snares of the enemy…in the deepest trouble of our 250 years as freest nation the world has ever known.

Come, poor soul, you who are in the deepest of trouble—God means to glorify Himself by you! The day will come when you will comfort other mourners by telling your happy experience. The day will come when you who were outcasts will preach the Gospel to outcasts. The day will yet come, poor fallen woman, when you will lead other sinners to the Savior’s feet where you now stand weeping! You who have been abandoned by the Devil, whom even Satan is tired of, whom the world rejects because you are worn-out and stale—the day will yet come when, renewed in heart and washed in the blood of the Lamb, you will shine like a star in the sky, to the praise of the glory of the grace of God, who has made you to be accepted in the Beloved (Eph. 1:6)! ~ Poem and following passage from Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (Real Prayer)

It’s never too late to Come To Jesus (Danny Burns & Sam Bush)

Happy Father’s Day…and please men…SNAP OUT OF IT!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Disasters of Fellowship

Posted on June 8, 2025 by Chip Murray

Our ONLY Way Out…

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. ~ Isaiah 64:8

Yesterday, I was blessed to spend a Holy Spirit-filled day in the company of artists, healers, and wellness professionals at an “Open House” event hosted by Tony Gines of Breath of Life, a true believer in our Potter. In Friday’s devotional, Choose Achievement Over Affirmation, Maxwell likened those who choose the reverse to crabs in numbers greater than one that will pull one another down so none can escape the basket. In today’s In the Hands of the Artist, “People under the influence of an empowering person are like paper in the hands of a great artist. No matter what they’re are made of, they can become treasures.”

In this morning’s Chamber’s devotional, Disasters of Fellowship, he writes, “If you are experiencing disasters in fellowship, don’t get into despair, remain unswervingly and unhesitatingly faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ and refuse to compromise for one second. Don’t say ‘it can’t be done’ because you see a thing is going to crush your physical life. Calculate on the disaster of fellowship, because through it God is going to bring you into fellowship with His Son.”

Paul, the Pharisee of the Pharisees, experienced both the crushing and the disaster, and went on to achieve more in his life for the kingdom of God than all the others combined. That’s the kind of achievement that should interest every American, given the Potter’s hand in our founding. BUT, as I look around, brothers and sisters, I see political parties, sadly including my own, turning away from Christ AND Constitutions (state & federal) to focus their guns on one another. And the church, sadder still, the new age Pharisee of the Pharisees, in their self-imposed silos of irrelevance sealed off from the living water (John 7:39). All I see are those more clever than the Potter who made them…lining up to take the mark (Rev. 13:15-18)…save the Remnant I fellowshipped with in Newburgh yesterday. The Breath of Life…Truly a breath of fresh air!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The “Non-Supernatural Church”

Posted on June 1, 2025 by Chip Murray

The Pollyannic Pretenders

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. ~ 1 Corinthians 12:1

I had a powerful dream last night, a dream in which I was with a group of men preparing for war. One of the men in our group with a very dark and menacing countenance was attempting to provoke me into a fight when the call came to move into battle. Just as we were on the verge of engaging the enemy, another man whose countenance was pure and saintly stood up and called off the attack. When I saw the group in full war-mode resisting his call, I bellowed at the top of my lungs, “I support you 100%!” Just then the dark spirited man came up from behind me with a knife and sliced me to death. That’s when I rose to my feet, grabbed him with supernatural strength and threw him to the ground so hard his head cracked open…and I awoke…into a 1 Cor. 13 world of peace and love.

Today’s Tune-up was originally to be entitled The Pollyanna Christian, until I watched Mario Murillo’s powerful message last night.

 “A Pollyanna is a blindly or foolishly optimistic person. The term derives from Eleanor H. Porter’s 1913 novel, Pollyanna, about an orphan with an unjustifiably optimistic attitude. The word is primarily an Americanism. It is rare in British and Canadian English, but it appears relatively often in Australian and New Zealand English.”

But that all changed when I watched Mario see a move of the Holy Spirit this year that will be so profound it will claim its first two victims; First to fall will be the Atheists with no place left to hang their hats, and second to fall will be the non-supernatural churches, felled by their own 1 Cor. 12:1 ignorance. “The non-supernatural church will go out of business.” ~ Mario Murillo

AND, this coming on the heels of yesterday’s Psalm & Proverb a Day which just happened to have included the 1 Cor. 12:1 spiritual gifts the Cessationists would have us believe ended with the Apostles. AND right before my supernatural death and rebirth the following morning!

Let’s connect the supernatural dots, shall we? First, Catherine Austin Fitts who relied on the fruits of the Holy Spirit and the People’s Bank to survive and thrive after an 11-year attempt by the evil that has hijacked our government to destroy her. Her company motto: If We Can Face it, God Can Fix It…dovetailed into Church of Glad Tidings Pastor Dave Bryan’s, “People don’t want to know because knowing would morally bind them to act.” Pollyanna is the name Jamie Walden used for the church that doesn’t want to know…

“It ALL traces back to DC. It comes full circle to Mystery Babylon. It says, ‘And they trafficked in the souls of men (Rev. 18:13).’ It’s not the Vatican, which is wicked beyond imagination, it’s the United States of America. You just don’t want to know what’s going on (EXACTLY as Pastor Dave Bryan called it!). You don’t want to know why they call it District of Columbia. You don’t want to know why most of the presidents graduated from Columbia University. You don’t want to know what’s going on in the Freemasonic stuff, or with the Illuminati. You don’t want to know what’s going on with the raising of Osirus, and all the ceremonies. You don’t want to know about Bohemian Grove. You don’t want to know why it’s called the City Of Angels, or which angels, nobody asks that. And you don’t want to know in what God they trust that’s written on the back of your talisman dollar bills in your pocket. You don’t want to know…and it’s founded on the souls of men…more importantly, on the souls of children.” ~ SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW

“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 

…while the Pollyannic Pretenders march to their own graves, taking those foolish enough to follow with them.

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Honor in the Valley

Posted on May 25, 2025 by Chip Murray

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. ~ Psalm 23:4

While I highly value every word in the Leadership acronym, none of them are as important to my mind as Loyalty, Accountability, and Honor. Sadly, these happen to be the three qualities in short supply across most all of our cultural institutions. Leaders of generations past who were raised on Psalms and Proverbs, have been replaced by creeping shadows of men weaned on Das Kapital and Rules For Radicals. Choosing the fountain of death over the living waters, they settle for the darker powers, over the Proverbs 24:5-6 gifts of God, 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.

In yesterday’s Psalm & Proverb a Day, I included John Maxwell’s PREPARE YOUR PEOPLE FOR THE FUTURE ~ Ephesians 6:1-11. Interestingly, this same morning I wake up to an old high school buddy’s post about a NJ bar owner who canceled a Springsteen cover-band’s upcoming gig because of Springsteen trashing our President in front of European audiences this past week. In the comments, our other high school friend took exception. “Why punish these guys who had nothing to do with Springsteen’s recent actions.” I shared with him my exchange with an old Tea Party friend who posted a picture of himself and “the Boss” back in the day. I asked him to imagine my 4th great grandfather Andrew Murray, dishonorably discharged after being wounded at Lake George, proudly displaying a picture of himself smiling and chumming it up with Benedict Arnold. We are at war, and the tragic fact is that the vast majority of those around us expend their time and energy mired in the (horizontal) world of the flesh, are missing those Eph. 6:12 principalities and powers coming for their children! They are literally missing the war!

I have another friend who posted an invite to an upcoming event. “Connected Leaders Tour: Hudson Valley”. So, I asked her for more info, and this was her response, “Fresh insights from the church, actionable strategies, a focused discussion on integrated faith, and networking opportunities.”  Anita is both friend and prayer warrior, in fact she has recently published a book, Armed for Prayer, but why in the world would I go to leaders who were proven disloyal to their King, who displayed zero accountability and honor when put to the test, for insights or strategies other than to possibly learn how to avoid the very Valley He has called us to?  

Fortunately for all of us, Anita and others like her have turned out to fill the ranks men have failed to fill. This clip is extraordinary in its revelation of the energy gone missing in our culture, which Charlie Kirk explains brilliantly to a young man who has NO idea what it means to be a man. My favorite line, tailored perfectly for today’s Tune-up: “God will call you out of a place of comfort and into duty.”

And thank God for the old lions among us! Thomas Sowell on the Sean “P Diddy” Combs trial, “The first lesson of economics is scarcity. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. The true measure of society is not how it treats its celebrities, but how it treats its most vulnerable.”  Our 94-year-old “National Treasure”!

This week I learned that Scott Kesterson and I share a very similar dream. In his dream he stood in the Valley all by himself against an entire army. I know that exact feeling…it’s unconditional commitment. Remember last week, God equips our subconscious in our dreams based on the truth we either accept or reject in the light of day. In Scott’s dream Jesus appeared at his side. In mine, His army of angels appeared behind me.  Honor! “Somethin’ about the way he talked, make a bully run away.”

So, on this Memorial Day weekend, as we Honor those men and women who willingly entered into the Psalm 23:4 Valley to give their ALL, this from the Apostle Paul on Christian discipline, followed by Dr. Peter Ruckman’s note:

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. ~ 1 Corinthians 9:27

(9:27) This is the Roman Catholic proof text that an apostle can lose his salvation (see note on John 13:13), because the Popes interpret “castaway” as “going to Hell.” The admonition has to do with God “putting a man on the shelf” as far as service is concerned because he is useless and not bearing fruit (see 1Cor. 10:12; John 15:6). ~ Dr. Peter Ruckman, Ruckman Reference Bible

Can we say, “OUCH”? The Solaris mantra: IF WE CAN FACE IT, WE CAN FIX IT begs the question, “How can those who refuse to face the present, prepare us for the future?”

With all love and respect, without Loyalty, Accountability, and Honor there is ZERO credibility. On the other hand, “if Jesus is credible,” then, my friends, you will surely find Him HERE! And, if God puts on your heart to help those who save children by donating to Peace of Heaven, you can donate directly, or mail your donation payable to Orange Strong (POH in memo) PO Box 843 Warwick, NY 10090 and I’ll be happy to hand deliver it to Pastor Dave at the conference next month! Remember our true heroes tomorrow! God Bless America!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The Higher Authority

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Chip Murray

The Tempestuous Sea of Liberty

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, ~ Job 33:15-16

Back in May of 2020 my brother in Christ Pastor Bill Banuchi delivered his Fork in the Road message to a group of us gathered to home church in Bloomingburg, NY. The enemy had declared the church to be unessential, and the church fell for it. I have been openly critical, and yes, condemning of the present state of this church ever since. A pastor friend who recently shared with me his resentment over my expression of disapproval, said these words, “The church is the Body of Christ. It’s not the church, it’s the people in it.” So, if the players on a football team are performing so poorly their team loses every game, am I doing the players or the team any favors by withholding my expression of disapproval? It reminds me of the great argument a Christian made by asking his friend whether he was showing love or compassion by not informing his homosexual friends they are on the path to eternity in Hell.

Here’s what I think is happening. I believe every man, woman, and child at some point in their lives hears the call of God. We may not recognize it (1 Sam.3) at first, but most every Christian has heard God’s call to awaken (Ephesians 5:14), and unfortunately, as Solomon can attest, many fall back asleep…

(33:16) A remarkable statement, A man can be “loaded” while he is asleep (vs.15), where his subconscious instructions come as a result of his rejection or acceptation of the truth during the day (Ezek. 14:1-11; Thess. 2:9-12). You will never know how much God has done to people while they were asleep until you get to 1 Corinthians 4:5, or how much he allowed the Devil to do in their subconscious while they were asleep (Eph. 2:2). ~ Dr. Peter Ruckman

So, if we reject truth in the light of day, we invite the enemy into our dreams in the dark of night. Chambers warns of the infiltration from a slightly different angle:

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.” It is happening…the enemy is seen and knows it. The same enemy that has us deal by not dealing, the same enemy that has rendered us ineffectual through our own choices of avoidance over confrontation, safety over risk… Our Deliverance

My friend Colleen shared this article yesterday, “Our nation’s history and tradition are clear: faith leaders, congregations and ministries were never meant to be sidelined or silenced on political matters. The First Amendment protects the rights of all Americans to speak on matters of public concern, including elections and political candidates. Houses of worship were always meant to be able to express support or opposition for the people who seek to lead.” First Liberty: The Government Cannot Keep Churches Silent…

There are only two reasons for a church to remain silent in this or any season; Fear…and Fear. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson. The Proverbs 27:17 men who founded the greatest nation the world has ever known have sadly been replaced by churchmen playing hide-and-seek with one another while paving the way to despotism in their Job 33 slumber. Ruckman nails it! They who have rejected the truth of God’s calling during the day have literally lost their minds to the enemy in their sleep…dancing in the dark in Bullville with the very enemy that hijacked their revival. What would Eleanor say?

“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna and Simeon were the only two of the descendants of Abraham who recognized who Jesus was, hence the condemnation of the crowd. If two who had lived a life of communion with God could detect Jehovah [Yahweh] as the Babe of Bethlehem within the symbolism, the others who did not recognize Him are to be condemned. They did not see Him because they had become blinded on the line of absolute authority, the line of symbolism or creed, and when that which was symbolized appeared, they could not see Him. Oswald Chambers, The Condemnation of Sanity…the more things change,…

It’s going to cost you something to be a man of truth in these days. ~ Pastor Chuck Baldwin

So, do we submit to government that has gone rogue? No, it is fighting God, it is fighting truth, it is fighting the Word of God. It’s clearly doing the opposite of what the Constitution said. In that moment the law of God trumps the law of man. And that’s why hiding behind Romans 13 is unscriptural, and it is a violation of the righteousness of God. ~ Pastor Mario Murillo

The enemy knows he can gaslight the timid and has nothing to fear from those who prefer dancing in the dark to braving the treacherous waters of the tempestuous sea! IF WE CAN FACE IT, WE CAN FIX IT! I myself prefer exhilaration in the face of an enemy already defeated. You?  Sticks & Stones!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ “Withdraw Yourselves”

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Chip Murray

…while you are able.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.  ~ 2 Thessalonians 3:6

It’s nearly impossible to overstate the remarkable nature of the times we are living in. I am in the book of Job via Chambers’ My Utmost Devotional Bible. As Peter Ruckman states, “No Christian could find a more profitable book in the Bible to study than Job.” Why? My favorite verse 13:15, Though he slay me, yet will I trust him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. I love this verse because it reminds me of Pastor Artur Pawlowski’s visit to our church last May when he preached, You need to be willing to walk into the (Daniel 3:24-25) fire if you want to see Jesus. So instead of lying to accommodate the sanctimonious needs of his friends, Job stuck to the facts as he knew them to be, and just as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, he was rewarded by God in the end.  God is so almighty simple that it is impossible to complicate Him.   (Conformed) ~ From Oswald Chambers, The Sense of Perverseness (Job 21:1–22:30)…it is the enemy who makes the simple appear complicated.

Derek Prince tells us that the only power Satan has is what people give him through ignorance, fear, and sin. But we know through His Word that God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7). We seem to be approaching the middle of the hourglass which raises the Matthew 7:13-14 “narrow gate” vision to my mind. What is the most important job, if not only job He gave us hours before the ascension? So important, in fact, He commanded Peter three times (John 21:15-17): Feed my sheep.

If you haven’t taken the time yet to view the Catherine Austine Fitts OMNIWAR: THE BRAIN and her interview with Tucker Carlson which are both linked in last Sunday’s The Helmet of Salvation, I am urging you to please do so. NOWHERE in the Bible are we told to bury our heads in the sand, but that is exactly what the church has done. As Pastor Dave put it so well in the panel discussion on Child-Sex-Trafficking last week, “People don’t want to know because knowing, we are morally bound to act.” Knowledge is exactly the first course of the 2 Tim. 1:7 three-course meal! Why? Because it defeats the first course of the three-course meal Satan feeds us to enslave us! As the Fitts mantra so perfectly states, “IF WE CAN FACE IT WE CAN FIX IT!” And as Dr. Lissa Johnson adds, we need to know to understand what we are facing.

The two main theaters of war are Church and State. Here are two remarkable first-course dishes that will empower you to face what is coming. This first is a remarkable discussion between Walter Veith and Martin Smith from the Church perspective. ~ PROJECT 2025

The second I received from my cousin Steve who is very much in-the-fight in Utah only yesterday. There could not be a more accurate and inspiring message on where we are right now in this most crucial moment in history from the State perspective: From my cousin Steve yesterday, “Until last week, we thought Steve Bannon was just another pundit. After Sandy and I watched his April 2025 address at Hillsdale College, we realized that he has compelling insights into what has happened to our nation, as well as what to expect going forward. For that reason, we want to share this with you.” ~ Steve Bannon at Hillsdale College

Here is the bottom line as I see it to help bring this all together. As Steve Bannon so passionately and eloquently points out, Larry Arn is right; America is on the brink of an 1860 Civil War moment. Because the church has buried its head, the Jezebel spirit has risen to power on all seven of our cultural mountains. We have a Jehu in the White House, but as Bannon warns, that is not enough. Men, and churchmen in particular, need to find their inner Jehu…which brings us to this final message on Authority vs Influence: Pastor Landon Schott

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. ~ Psalm 71:4

It is happening…the enemy is seen and knows it. The same enemy that has us deal by not dealing, the same enemy that has rendered us ineffectual through our own choices of avoidance over confrontation, safety over risk… Our Deliverance

Jezebel does not want to give up her power, but she has no power over the Luke 10:19 Christian. She has no power over the James 4:7 Christian, or the Colossians 2:15 Christian, or the 2 Timothy 1:7, or the churchman who is washed in the Blood of Revelation 12:11 Lamb. So who are the disorderly Paul is calling us to withdraw ourselves from in 2 Thessalonians 3:6? They are the horizontal grains in The REAL ID Hourglass…the Matthew 13:24-30 tares. You will know them by their fruits (Matthew 7:15-20)

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The Helmet of Salvation

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Chip Murray

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ~ Romans 8:6

…that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter (Romans 7:6).      I have shared with more than a few friends these past few days that I remember not so long ago thinking that the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Eph. 6:17) was the most important piece of armor. And then, I was sure it was Above all, taking the shield of faith (Eph. 6:16). And just in the past week, thanks to Pastor Jeff Bayard of the Virginia Christian Alliance, I was made aware of the Catherine Austin Fitts Symposium on April 26, OMNIWAR: THE BRAIN featuring Patrick M. Wood, David A. Hughes, Dr. Lissa Johnson, and Dr. Daniel Broudy, and I registered! As a result, the helmet of salvation (Eph. 6:17) took on a whole new meaning as an absolute necessity to protect us from an enemy that sees our brain as the “final frontier and battlespace for their social-engineering” us into total enslavement. The girl holding the MS-13 sign shows how close they are to achieving their objective. But you know what? God is so good, He gave us the PERFECT full armor where each and every piece is of exact and equal importance! But what good is any of it to us if we don’t see the battle or know the enemy?

Catherine Austin Fitts’ team mantra is, IF WE CAN FACE IT, WE CAN FIX IT, followed by Dr. Johnson’s RESISTANCE DEPENDS ON UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE ARE FACING. So, again I say, how can we face what we refuse to see, or hope to understand what we refuse to know. Pastor Dave gives a great answer in this 40k View podcast on the dark evil reality that is child-sex-trafficking, “People don’t want to know because then they are morally bound to take action.”

MAX ~ THE WILL TO DO WHAT’S RIGHT ~ Luke 22:44 

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of his blood falling down to the ground.                                                

Disciplined Thinking, Disciplined Emotions, Disciplined Actions

I hate to say this because it will sound cruel, but not only do I not want to know people who don’t want to know, we can’t afford to know people who don’t want to know. People who don’t want to know are cowards. Cowards will do anything to save themselves…the very opposite of what our Luke 22:44 Savior did for us! The helmet of salvation provides the disciplined thinking, and secures our disciplined emotions, leading to the disciplined action of choosing our friends wisely.

Chambers writes in reading 221—Concepts for Rejection, “No man ever puts a stumbling block in the way of others by telling the truth…Job sticks to facts, that is what confuses his friends; but in the end Job is brought face-to-face with God.” Faith in the Bible is faith in God against everything that contradicts Him.   (Utmost)

In this wonderful interview with Tucker Carlson, Catherine Austin Fitts made herself an enemy of the state for telling the truth and sticking to the facts. In fact, she made it her business to do so. The full power and might of the US Government tried for eleven years to destroy her and failed because God is faithful to those who are faithful to Him. Her story is absolutely empowering in revealing what each and every one of us willing to do the right thing, while looking out for one another are capable of!

We are our brothers’ keepers, but in order for us to do so we must be the diligent guardians of our own minds. God gave us the helmet of salvation for this exact purpose…and season. Remember that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience, so keep the faith, serve in newness of spirit, and stay spiritually minded for life and peace. 

Pastor Dave through Church of Glad Tidings is half way to their goal of raising $4 million to convert a prison into a “Peace of Heaven” place of healing for children rescued from the horrors of sex-trafficking. If you are moved after watching this compelling testimony please donate at PeaceOfHeaven.Life

God Bless!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The REAL ID

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Chip Murray

they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; ~ Ezekiel 14:20

For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. ~ Ephesians 6:20

“Conscience is the most sacred property of all.” ~ James Madison

Every man has a conscience, although every man does not know God.    (Bib. Ethics)

Our entire lives have we each of us lived as grains of sand in the hourglass, widely dispersed with little to no awareness of, or care for, the Maker of our container. As the time passed the grains separated into two groups; the horizontal grains, and the vertical grains. The horizontal grains loved and trusted the container and the horizontal majority. They separated themselves from the vertical minority out of their fear of the unknown on the vertical plane beneath them. The vertical minority, who put their faith and trust in the Maker of the container grew closer together over time, while the horizontal majority were the first to fall to their deaths.

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? ~ Esther 4:14

Here’s the kicker folks! The horizontal grains who, with little to no REAL trust or faith in the Maker, lined up like sheep to the slaughter for what is now being outlawed in a growing number of states as a bioweapon, are now the first in line for their REAL ID drivers license! Why? Because these were the shepherds they were foolish enough to follow:

Check this brother out at the 1:20:35 mark, “They taught you to ignore your gut, silence your questions, mistrust your own soul, your own voice in your head, and they called it faith. But what if that wasn’t faith? What if that was fear dressed up in a Bible verse.” The entire clip is about seven minutes and worth every second!  All That Is Not Of God Is Being Shaken!

Who does not listen to the voice of the prophets? The MOST dangerous address on planet earth, for such a time as this: Those who live on “Set In Their Ways” Boulevard!

This was a very pivotal week for me. God lifted me above what has become a massive shipwreck and impending collapse of our culture for the forty days which ended on April Fools Day. He rewarded me with clarity and perspective. He showed me the enemy, and how to proceed. As fully expected, I came under a relentless attack that had me near my bottom this past Tuesday…and then out of nowhere came a word of encouragement from one of the local pastors. It was the much-needed wind in my sails. Within moments an old video I had made of my song, Just When You Think, appeared on my screen. I watched and listened myself into an instant REVELATION: Written and recorded in 2015, I had believed until this moment that the object/muse of the song was my wife at the time. But as I watched and listened now I slowly realized that my wife, who suspected she was not my First Love after discovering me for the first time on my knees in prayer in our bedroom, now knew she was not my First Love after hearing the song…containing this lyric: No flag I would die for could deliver a pain more eternally woundin’ than losin’ Your love. So take heart in knowin’ that a good man keeps goin’ like a river keeps flowin’ to her home in the sea. (Complete lyrics below)

In last Sunday’s Of Equanimity & Bifurcation, I asked the question, “Are we who they tell us we are, or, are we who God made us to be?” Thinking about those who govern us who are now herding us into their REAL ID in the context of where we are on the Liberty Scale:

“The white terminus represents full liberty or an absence of external influence or control, and the black terminus represents enslavement or a complete lack of liberty. In the similitude of light and an absence of light, there is an appropriate correlation as one considers the origins of liberty and the Constitution of the United States;”

The Liberty Scale, found on page 11 of GR Mobley’s book, Whose Constitution Is It Anyway, was brought to his mind, which he then brought to my attention after watching Just When You Think for the very first time.  

Thus if, as GR writes, reasonable people equally informed seldom disagree, is it not only incumbent on us, but it’s our God-given duty to inform our brothers, sisters, friends, and neighbors of the facts they need in order to move in the right direction on this scale?

It was this lyric…Love takes a bad and makes him a good man and opens the heart so a blind man can see. But sight is our payment for a service unrendered for the heart to make known what the eyes only see. What are these eyes for if we can’t hope to see more than love’s own betrayal in a friendly disguise…that compelled him to tell me that we need to teach others how to see.

Who labored more fervently and consistently to inform us of our REAL ID than the apostle Paul? For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16)…or reveal our greatest struggle…and The Great Solution: In Paul’s epistle to the Romans on the two natures 7:13-25, in verse 24 he writes, “O wretched man that I am,” (not O wretched man that I was)! But he continues, “who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” And answers his own question in 25, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Oswald Chambers writes in Reading 214—The Great Solution, “God hitched Abraham’s wagon to the stars He had created, by His word. In our personal lives the great solution is always found in the words of our Lord when we have His Spirit. Our little human wagons are hitched to the star of God’s sacramental purpose by the words of Jesus and in no other way. The justification of every sinner is by faith, and by faith alone. But it is our just walk that proves Him just in saving us. If we do not walk in the life of faith, we are a slander to God.”

To my beloved Catholic friends. The Bible is the ultimate authority and final word of God. Peter was NEVER in Rome. In fact, Paul said (2 Tim. 4:11 KJV), “Only Luke is with me.” I don’t care what is written on some stone in a basement in Rome. Peter was crucified upside down. Why do you suppose Satanists wear the upside down cross? COME OUT OF HER (Rev. 17:18KJV)! LOOK TO PAUL! We have stood side by side on many social and cultural issues for years. You know my heart. You know my love for you is true. This may be the best message I have ever heard from Jonathan Cahn, recorded one year before the passing of Pope Francis. THIS is why most of our children have walked away from the faith. “Are we concerned about being on the right side of history, or the right side of God?” The Pope Francis End-Time Apostasy

At the end of our days, only THE TRUTH, and nothing but THE TRUTH, will set us free!

In closing, I spent half my day yesterday in an online symposium hosted by Catherine Austin Fitts entitled, OMNIWAR: THE BRAIN. OMNIWAR, the weaponization of everything, was a very dark journey revealing the evil behind the REAL ID. An evil that seeks the elevation of science as god, and sees our God-given brain as “the final frontier of social-engineering,” involving nefarious players like the WEF, the European Commission, and DARPA, all pursuing their ultimate goal of Transhumanism. Surprisingly, I was encouraged by the fact that they have been at this since 1937 and they still have no clue how our mind/brain works…what it is that makes us fall in love with who we fall in love with, and so on. As Lissa Johnson said in her closing, “we have no more mapped the brain than we have the surfaces of every planet in the universe. The human brain’s solo mission is to meet our EVERY need. When an AI robot was asked if it liked humans, it responded, “Not particularly.” They have been grooming us into submission our entire lives. Catherine opened the symposium with their team mantra, IF WE CAN FACE IT WECAN FIX IT. Lissa Johnson followed that up with, Resistance depends on understanding what we are facing, and the need to….

                                                 THINK FOR YOURSELF!

Just When You Think ~ Chip Murray, 2015

I was a bad man with the eyes of a blind man and the heart of a dead man ‘til she rescued me. Found love in a village at the foot of a mountain by the head of a river and the wide open sea. When the legions of angels came down from the sky to chase all the darks clouds away. Just when you think it’s over, the end of the line, they’ll sing you a better day.

Love takes a bad and makes him a good man and opens the heart so a blind man can see. But sight is our payment for a service un-rendered for the heart to make known what the eyes only see. Then the legions of angels came down from the sky to take all your heartaches away. Just when you think it’s over, the end of the line, they’ll sing you a better day.

What are these eyes for if we can’t hope to see more than love’s own betrayal in a friendly disguise. Where is the sister who can’t find the brother who’s forgotten his mother from a long time ago…

No flag I would die for could deliver a pain more eternally woundin’ than losin’ your love. So take heart in knowin’ that a good man keeps goin’ like a river keeps flowin’ to her home in the sea. Then the legions of angels came down from on high to chase all the dark clouds away. Just when you think it’s over, the end of the line, they’ll show you a better way. Just when you think it’s over, the end of the line, they sing all your troubles away.

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