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BOB JONES: In April of this year 2005, Bob saw the Lord hand out rods of correction to the fathers and shepherds over flocks. He said that it was the rod of discipline and that it was to provide safety and security with love and to confirm that those who are chastised are true sons.

Heb 12:5-9 NLT

And have you entirely forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you, his children? He said, "My child, don't ignore it when the Lord disciplines you, and don't be discouraged when he corrects you. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes those he accepts as his children." As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Whoever heard of a child who was never disciplined? If God doesn't discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children after all. Since we respect our earthly fathers who disciplined us, should we not all the more cheerfully submit to the discipline of our heavenly Father and live forever?

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QUICKENED SIGN [6/25/05]: On the way to church tonight I asked the Lord if He had anything He had on His heart. He brought back the memory of a vision I had this week. At the moment He brought it back, my eye was drawn to a fence on the side of the road and on the fence was a sign that said, "Keep Out."

THE VISION: The vision was of a fence and people were outside the boundaries of safety and some repented and stepped back over the fence into the safe zone. When I saw it, He downloaded a couple things. One, those outside the fence were not safe and outside the hedge of protection.

Two, I was remembering that He had spoken to me about pornography last week and pornography is sin. He was going to uncover it and deal with it, for it is rampant in the body of Christ. At the time I saw this, the clock said 5:55 and I felt it was a sign that triple grace was now available for those who no longer tried to cover up their sin but publicly confessed and repented.

NEXT VISION: In the prayer room at church, I saw a dry river bed. In the bed were many rocks. I knew they were stumbling stones. The Lord imparted to me that those who are suddenly going through a drying out, is because the Lord desires to reveal and make manifest the rocks of offense and stumbling stones in their lives. When His river changes course, if we are still holding onto our pet rocks we will be left high and dry.

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SURPRISE SERMON: Right after prayer, our pastor preached on the following passage of scripture where it talks about church discipline and dealing with someone who is living in sin.

1 Cor 5:13 NKJV

I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner not even to eat with such a person. For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."

At the end of the sermon, he very lovingly and very seriously shared how leaders carry the greater accountability and are thus openly exposed before the church.

1 Tim 5:19-20 NKJV

Do not receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses. Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.

James 3:1 NKJV

My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.

Luke 12:48 NKJV

For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

Then he very lovingly and soberly called one of the home group leaders up front and that man read his open confession and statement of repentance. He had been struggling with drugs and alcohol since he was a teen, and covering it up and lying to his wife and church. He was submitting to church discipline and asking for us to forgive him and pray for him over these matters.

The fear of God came upon me as I suddenly knew the Lord had changed course and this was a forerunner application to the miracles we have been praying for. I had such a compassionate heart for the man and his coming to grips with his sin. However through the public exposure of this issue, as according to scripture, I felt this was a sign that we can not come into the power, miracles, signs and wonders, healings and deliverances we have cried out for until we get serious about heeding the scripture and dealing with sin. I am a mercy driven intercessor, with the heart of a mother to nurture and I cried in the fear of God for those who are addictively sinning. I knew that I knew that I knew, that we can not dabble in sin and expect Him to bring us our Book of Acts church we are contending for.

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WORD STUDY

As I pondered pornography, I realized it is breaking three of the ten commandments: Worshipping graven images, adultery, and coveting.

Idolatry was worshipping graven images. Graven images was their cultural way of pictorially portraying something to which the viewer could actively respond. Porn is images engraved with printer's ink, or other media. Jesus said that if a man even looks upon a women with lust, it is adultery. Porn is adultery. And when a person covets what they view, that means porn is coveting.

As I was studying the following scripture in the King James, I was curious and looked up the word fornicator. My eyes bugged out. Look at the Greek word. Obviously our word porn comes from that word.

1 Cor 5:9-13 KJV

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators {4205}: Yet not altogether with the fornicators {4205} of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator {4205}, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

NT:4205

NT:4205 pornos (por'-nos); from pernemi (to sell; akin to the base of NT:4097); a (male) prostitute (as venal), i.e. (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine):

KJV - fornicator, whoremonger.

I Cor 6:9-10 AMP

Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality, Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.

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CONCLUSION

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{Words to Ponder are summaries of His quickened Words}

PORNOGRAPHY IS SIN 6/20/05

The earth is coming of age and the harvest of all things is in order. Beloved ones, it is time for the weeds and tares to be uprooted in your life. You can not sup at the table of demons and My holy place. You must choose one or the other. Being intimate with the works of darkness is unauthorized and puts you outside of My safe boundaries.

Pornography is sin. Pornography is worshipping and coveting graven images of sexual acts. In the Old Testament where I gave, the most basic commandments to My people, I said, thou shall not commit adultery and thou shall not covet. Desiring, longing for and lusting after another is a breach in My commandments. In the New Testament did I not say that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart? The strength of jezebel grows stronger every day as she fornicates the eyes and bodies of those who would join her bed. Only tribulation awaits those who feast with jezebel's graven images.

I have heard the cries of My people, and I AM delivering them through My Presence as I descend upon earth. I AM your loving Father, and because of My great love, I chastise those I love and I also judge sin. The more that I invade earth, the greater My judgment is upon sin. Separate yourselves and flee from the table of demons.

Repent and cry out for deliverance. Yes jezebel's lure is very strong, and I did not say fight temptation, I said flee it. Turn your back on sin. Do not dabble, do not open the door. Keep your eyes averted. Keep them as precious gates to the windows of your soul, and your vision will not be deceived and blinded.

Revelation 2:20 KJV

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

1 Corinthians 10:21 NLT

You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord's Table and at the table of demons, too.

Rev 21:6-8 NKJV

And He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."