August 11, 2026
Relational Specialness Identifies The Genuinely Born Again
Dear Friends in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Please click on the title to download our latest Nugget, Relational Specialness Means Intentionally Dying To Yourself. In this Nugget we’re reminding you of the heartfelt grateful devotion that is essential to you experiencing the specialness which our Father and our Lord Jesus offer you in the New Covenant.
The value you place on your relationship with your Father and your Lord Jesus, as well as the value you place on the people in your home and in your fellowship family of homes, are at the crux of the relational priorities which our Father is restoring. It’s the specialness of your relationship with our Father and with our Lord Jesus which far surpasses all other relationships. In this Nugget we emphasize your willingness as a brother or sister in Christ to die to yourself (Luke 9:23) and to live to please your heavenly Father. The intentionality that’s required for you to experience the specialness of your relationship with our Father and Lord Jesus begins the moment you were genuinely born again and indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
Ask yourself this. When you were still an unbeliever but then became convicted by the Spirit of your own sinful depravity:
•How deep was the sorrow in your heart when you realized your own willful sinfulness, and that by your sinful state you were condemned to hell?
•Did you put your trust in the shed blood of our Lord Jesus solely to have ‘fire insurance’? Or, were you also committed to the relational specialness that was being offered you in the New Covenant through being united with Christ through His Spirit?
•Since your conversion, how has your spiritual life become more intimate and relationally special with our Father and our Lord Jesus? If this hasn’t taken place within you, are you willing to cry out in fully yielded loving trust for this to happen?
Becoming genuinely born again is the most consequential decision to accept God’s grace that you will ever make in your life. We bring up this point because many today who are filling pews in Christianity have never experienced the depth of relational preciousness of our Father and Lord Jesus that’s offered by embracing the New Covenant. After we came back from Israel in 1994 with the Hebraic foundations, it became clearer to both of us that the identifier of “being Christian” was all too often just a label for the nominal.
Nominal Christians accept each other as “Christian” even when their lives show no signs of the Holy Spirit’s presence or of the lordship of Jesus. Very few religious leaders draw the line of what God’s Word says is required to belong to our Lord Jesus the way HE identifies His own: “If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and keep following Me” (Luke 9:23). The whole biblical command to die to one’s self has been eradicated from most pulpit instruction. In its place are soothing, self-idolizing smooth words bolstered by the man-pleasing deception that “God wants you to be happy and prosperous.” This is what Humanism has infused into nominal Christianity.
As moral darkness increases its stranglehold on this nation, hearts are hardening and turning cold. Our Lord’s words certainly apply to what we are seeing in the US: “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 24:12,13). If you're genuine, then you need to intentionally flee compromise with the world’s values and goals, and tighten up the specialness of your relationship with our heavenly Father and Lord Jesus.
One other matter to attend to if you are to be fully available for our Father to use you for His purposes. If you have demonic strongholds you haven’t demolished, and/or unconfessed sin that you're not repenting of, then you’re falling far short in the intentionality — the wholehearted determination — that’s required for you to experience the relational specialness the New Covenant offers you. The genuine can’t allow themselves to retain any vestige of spiritual darkness. To that end, we hope this Nugget will help you live free of spiritual darkness so you can fully press on in Father’s glorious will for your life.
Your servants for the glory of our heavenly Father,
Mike & Sue
July 30, 2026
“Christianity has been despising our Lord’s holy Name!” (see Malachi 1:6-12).
Dear Friends in Christ Jesus our Lord,
To download our latest Nugget, Abraham’s Obedience To God’s Rhema Was Righteousness, please click on the title. In this Nugget we put forth some truths to help you understand why Jesus isn’t Lord of all who say they’re Christian. The Lordship of Jesus is clearly evident in your life when you obey the rhema that His Spirit reveals as a specific word for you. But having “ears to hear” what the Spirit tells you requires that your heart is attuned to Him, and that out of loving trust in our Lord Jesus, you want to hear and to obey. We who love and serve Jesus as our Lord and Savior are blessed that the life of our spiritual ancestor Abraham was so clearly recorded and preserved for us to learn from as an example of righteousness from God’s perspective. Hearing and obeying the One Who has made Himself known to us was the way of life followed by our father Abraham. When you purpose to hear and obey the Spirit Who dwells within you if you’re genuine, that’s a clear indicator of Who rules your life. And in order to authentically be your beloved Lord, Jesus must rule!
📌The Hebrew word for righteousness is tzedekah (zeh-deh-KAH’). From a Hebraic framework this means being in a right relationship with God based upon His standard of what’s right and just. The outworking of living righteously before God is basing your every thought, word and deed upon what God would have you do — an impossible task if you’re not indwelled by the Holy Spirit who entered you when you were born again in Christ! However, very often Gentile Christians connote righteousness and holiness and godliness in a pietistic sense as sort of a fuzzy ideal that can never be attained, rather than as a lifestyle of intentional obedient trust. Many consider themselves righteous in comparison to worldly behaviors or attitudes, feeling “holy” because they don’t “sin” like unbelievers do. In essence, they feel righteous by what they don’t do, thinking that abstinence in and of itself pleases God. But whether their self-evaluations come from looking around at others or by hoping that their “righteousness scale” has more good than evil on it, their view is dependent on their own efforts.
In sharp contrast, however, is the active obedient trust of Abraham who was counted as righteous in God’s sight. We who belong to Christ are called to that same pattern of righteous response: a trust which obeys because of Who is being obeyed. Our righteousness as Christ’s own is demonstrated by hearing and obeying the will of our Father as our Lord’s Spirit reveals it. Hearing and obeying authenticate your love for God and testify that you are walking in the footsteps of Abraham, Moses, David, the prophets and the earliest followers of Jesus who knew Him as Lord.
Scripture records that our Hebraic ancestors in Christ were the first of the earliest genuinely born again. Abraham was their prime human example of righteousness because the patriarch obeyed the rhema that God revealed to him. Hearing the Holy Spirit and obeying what He says is a way of life that’s not only scriptural but is also an integral part of the Hebraic foundations which our heavenly Father is restoring.
You may be thinking that “nothing needs to be restored; my religious life is just the way I like it.” But you’d be deluded in thinking that God is pleased by the way He and His Son are being sorely misrepresented in this needy world. There is indeed a desperate hunger and thirst for Truth which comes only through Jesus in His Lordship. Around the world millions have left organized nominal Christianity, fleeing the delusion which our Father is sending on those who want to believe the lies which demons have infused into these religious systems (see 2Thessalonians 2:10-12). And there’s no shortage of religious gatherings of those who have made God into who they want Him to be and created a “Christian” belief system to suit their compromised worldly way of life.
“In what ways has our Lord’s Name been despised?” (Malachi 1:6).
Ask yourself this. At your conversion, did you have a real encounter with our Lord Jesus which fanned love for Him in you and a desire to live pleasing to God? Did you establish a meaningful and interactive relationship with Jesus as Lord of your life? Have you discovered you are being transformed from the inside out by the Holy Spirit? What have you done since your conversion to share Jesus with unbelievers? Does their lost state before our Father even matter to you?
Even among so-called Evangelicals, a total misnomer these days since making Christ known in Spirit and in Truth is rare, few carry the burden of Jesus for the souls of people He died to redeem. And the few that do care focus on just getting people “saved”. But they fail to help the new believer embrace an interactive life of fulfilling Father's purposes for His glory. If most evangelicals would be honest with themselves, what used to be admired as love-compelled Evangelicalism ceased decades ago. Their downfall was a product of their deceived obsession that politics will save this nation apart from repentance and turning to our Lord. Co-mingling politics with a veneer of religiosity has resulted in many evangelicals forsaking our Lord and living with the “cold love” that’s being so widely practiced in this nation at large.
Please ask Him to verify this: Our heavenly Father Who has foreseen the time we are living in is restoring the foundations of love-grounded obedient trust which were dearly embraced by our Lord Jesus’s first followers. Throughout the materials we’ve sent out over the past 32 years, we’ve repeatedly emphasized these truths of grace manifested by God’s love: •the Lordship of Jesus, •our Father’s will being done for His glory, •love for our Lord resulting in repentant living, •the guidance and empowerment of the Holy Spirit, and •the requisite importance of the Older Testament as foundational to the Newer Testament. This is what our Father is emphasizing as key aspects of what He wants restored. If these biblical truths aren’t an integral part of your faith walk, please use this Nugget to get started. And, read and discuss this with others who are close to you in your faith journey. You’ll be mutually edified and spurred on to walk as the Light of Jesus in the growing darkness!
Mike & Sue
July 8, 2026
Our Father Has Specific Purposes For Genuine
Dear Friends in Christ Jesus our Lord,
To download our latest Nugget, please click on Is Our Heavenly Father’s Business Your Business? This is essential reading for you to put into practice. What if you had been instructed in the Older Testament prior to becoming genuinely born again as were our earliest forefathers who first placed their trust in our Lord Jesus? If that had happened for you, it would have registered in you that our God chooses specific people to do His ‘business’ on earth (Luke 2:49). Our heavenly Father chose you as His child in Christ not only so that you’ll experience eternal salvation at the end of your life’s journey. He has also purposed for you to carry out His will with no less loving commitment than that of His Son, Jesus. As scriptural as this purpose is, however, few Christians have been taught this essential core truth.
Anti-semitic theologians over the centuries have not only minimized and even eliminated the personal rule of Jesus as Lord of the genuinely born again and the indispensable role the Holy Spirit has in their lives. These “theological influencers” also eradicated the Scripture’s explicit mandate for followers of Jesus to live to fulfill our Father’s will. According to God’s unalterable Word, the genuine are to exercise absolute reliance on the Holy Spirit’s guidance and make Father’s purposes the primary goal of their lives out of love for Him and His Son Jesus. How tragic that sophisticated ‘learned’ theologians replaced the Bible’s mandate with devotion to their particular creedal positions and certain religious observances. These replacement elements are the sorry crux of what now divides Christianity and made it “a form of godliness but denying its power” (2Timothy 3:5).
We’ve often emphasized over the years that to live genuinely born again is to live obedience-based out of loving trust in our Lord. That’s in sharp contrast to living outcome-based as the world does to achieve goals you think are right and want to see happen. Life for the genuine is seen in the stepping stones of the Spirit’s guidance as He reveals Father’s specific will for you. The genuine, in grateful appreciation for WHOSE will they are fulfilling and the depth of sin of which they’ve been forgiven, don’t fret about the outcome. In our Kingdom Living Today Addenda we share personal anecdotes of the obedience-based life which Father graced us to live in absolute reliance on Holy Spirit’s guidance. Along the way we’ve been blessed to know that this way of life is clearly laid out in God’s Word.
📌It’s utterly essential to your faith walk that you internalize a major truth of the Hebraic foundations that Father is restoring: the real meaning of “church.” The genuine are the “church” (Greek ekklesia) meaning the “called out ones”. Ekklesia are the collective genuinely born again, not a building used for services. If you’re genuine, you are called out of the world’s goals and values to do Father’s specific ‘business’ through the Spirit within you. It’s living with divine grace with purpose as our Lord Jesus did. If this isn’t your way of life, then you’re deceived!
“One who puts on his armor should not boast like one who takes it off” (1Kings 20:11).
This verse certainly speaks of this nation in its self-absorbed disregard for others, especially the poor and struggling. (Isaiah 32:6 stresses this blatant deception even more concisely.) But boastful arrogance isn’t just the realm of this current administration with its repeated fruitless assertions of which a paltry few become reality. Social media and the egocentric influence of Humanism have induced so many to concoct narcissistic impressions of themselves that defy truth and reality. And like our federal government, these swaggering self-promoters believe their own publicized view of themselves.
You may be discerning enough to realize that overwhelming self-obsession and self-delusion are strong indicators of the coming demise of this nation. Christians once believed in the gospel as the foremost means of bringing peace into the world through the loving power of our Lord Jesus. But that perspective has profoundly changed. Too many who say they’re Christian and many who know they aren’t support bombing other lands and killing unsuspecting souls. Their goal is so the US can impose its will even through a government that’s devoid of righteous morals and of the upright ways which the Constitution established for the nation (as imperfect as that document is).
Think about it. So many Christians are duped in supporting this administration’s efforts that “peace through strength” (a direct quote) is the best way to dominate the world — and that we in the US should fully exercise this arrogant posture. But let’s be clear about this unrighteous and unscriptural perspective. Peace through our Lord Jesus, whether for Israel or for this nation or for the world, is the only lasting means for peace as the Bible emphasizes. An honest appraisal by our populace would reveal that this land is far from being a “Christian nation”. “God” for too many has become whoever anyone wants him to be, preferably in their image. And through biblical illiteracy even many “churched” have lost or never understood the centrality of our Lord’s purpose for becoming man. Does it grieve you at all that within the US so many self-identified Christians serve their own desired outcomes and goals rather than loving the Lord they say they trust by obeying His Word and living as His ambassadors?
It’s increasingly more difficult for us to extend the right-hand of fellowship with people who claim to be Christian but demonstrate none of Christ’s compassionate love and holiness in their own lives. This has been especially true in our encounters and conversations with people who view the current president as God’s answer for this nation’s woes and have rejected any need for repentance. The deluded are indeed getting what they voted for, even as they are ushering in the downfall of the US.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana
History offers clear insight into the destructive elements which preceded the downfall. of specific societies. In his classic work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon attributes five major elements to causing the demise of the 1000-year Roman supremacy:
1. The breakdown of the family and the increase of divorce.
2. The spiraling rise in taxes and extravagant spending.
3. The mounting desire for pleasure and the brutalization of sports.
4. The continual production of armaments to face ever-increasing threats of enemy attacks.
5. The decay of religion into many confusing forms, leaving the people without a uniform faith.
Do these sound familiar? It’s significant to note that these same elements of societal disintegration also preceded the downfall of Greece. And from a sociologist viewpoint, they identify the societal downfall of the US. Please read through the list again to see if this appraisal is accurate.
And consider this sad reality. Few Christian parents today shoulder their biblical responsibility to train their children to apply the wisdom of God’s Word to their lives, to grow by grace in Christ’s character, and to serve our heavenly Father’s purposes for their lives. Instead, children from “Christian” homes are tossed into a Humanism-saturated school system taught by Humanist-trained teachers. Over numerous decades, Christians in the US have received far more Humanist-based instruction than they’ve internalized and applied sound Bible instruction. We cited in previous materials that the biblical literacy rate in the US has dropped from 65% to 4% in three generations’ time. Since Humanist-oriented, man-pleasing Bible preaching is rampant throughout Christianity in this nation, all too many churchgoers have a deluded understanding of God’s Word—which makes them susceptible to deception in all areas of their lives.
Here’s something for you to prayerfully reflect on and discuss with people close to you in your faith. With widespread support of Evangelicals and other “Christian” persuasions, the current President and many of his subordinates are seeking to impose Dominion Theology on this nation. In its simplest form, Dominion Theology calls for a government and society to keep God’s commands without the need for the Lordship of Jesus or His indwelling Spirit. This is “legalism” in disguise. Under this misuse of power, God’s laws could be imposed as the rule of the land to be followed even by unbelievers who have neither the desire nor the power to obey. This policy demands a compliance which even followers of Jesus who are indwelled by His Spirit don’t perfectly keep! Don’t be deceived. You know from history that dictators enforce what they want you to submit to — and this has nothing to do with lifting up the authentic Gospel of the Kingdom of our Lord!
If you’re genuinely born again, it’s imperative to remember that your righteousness is by grace and is founded solely on our Lord Jesus and His all-sufficient atonement for your sins. If you’re genuine you’ll find as you read this Nugget your Father’s purpose for your life. Please take it to heart and scrutinize your life to see if you live the way He requires of those who love and serve Him in Christ.
Mike & Sue
