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120 years of Genesis 6:3 and 2034 C.E.
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2016 Circuit Assembly Imitate Their Faith
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2018.Don't Give Up in Fulfilling the Law of Christ! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7F2RZyeJ1GZdExPcWxlNE44dzQ/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-0905tyvG3bXxDrCW1PQvZw https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7F2RZyeJ1GZUWs1bUxnZ3JETEU/view?usp=share_link&resourcekey=0-SYSZssHJUyWwVhfYGXHC9Q1 point -
2016 Circuit Assembly Imitate Their Faith
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2017.Maintain love for Jehovah! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7F2RZyeJ1GZWi1VN2xsS1dLV3M/view?usp=share_link&resourcekey=0-9bJo1xDYXUYBCre7DDwbJg https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7F2RZyeJ1GZaW9xeVpWUjFIaXc/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-h-LIJanTdFhkUVI7hoA2Rw1 point -
2016 Circuit Assembly Imitate Their Faith
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2017.Maintain love for Jehovah! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7F2RZyeJ1GZWi1VN2xsS1dLV3M/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-9bJo1xDYXUYBCre7DDwbJg https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7F2RZyeJ1GZaW9xeVpWUjFIaXc/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-h-LIJanTdFhkUVI7hoA2Rw 2018.Don't Give Up in Fulfilling the Law of Christ! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7F2RZyeJ1GZUWs1bUxnZ3JETEU/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-SYSZssHJUyWwVhfYGXHC9Q, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7F2RZyeJ1GZdExPcWxlNE44dzQ/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-0905tyvG3bXxDrCW1PQvZw 2018.Don't Give Up in Doing What Is Fine! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7F2RZyeJ1GZVmo4WWtPSjVoRmM/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7F2RZyeJ1GZc0s1a3c3S2oxS3c/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ORBteK10JhEv3mIrPvzG_5qJAwTqNSNZ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-DDXhmWc25xtU97Ha5pBsb46HvLd0I1l/view?usp=sharing1 point -
2016 Circuit Assembly Imitate Their Faith
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Hi, @The Librarian, I am so sorry about the jw-archive 😢 thank you for all you have done to make truth accessible to people throughout the years. I know I have benefited a lot from many of the things I was able to read that you posted or made available. They cannot censor it from our hearts and minds. Thank you for helping build up the congregation of the Christ. I know Jehovah sees all you do for the sake of His Name. Thank you💖1 point -
2016 Circuit Assembly Imitate Their Faith
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Thank you so much @larryjohnson!!! Gives me hope that not everything is lost....1 point -
A Judgment Message Regarding the Memorial
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A request, please, for any who attend the Memorial while adhering to the disfellowshipping doctrine: "As often as you celebrate it, you keep proclaiming the death of the Lord, until he arrives." Jesus poured out his perfect blood. He poured out his perfect blood for each one of us. He gave his life for us before we were even alive. Before we knew him and loved him. While we were still enemies of him. It's okay for us to love others before they love us. It's okay to love our enemies. Jesus paid for them. "Keep proclaiming the death of the Lord, until he arrives." When the bread and the wine are passed, please remember they represent the freedom we have to love. Jesus died so that we may have that freedom. It's good to invite people to the Memorial and all, and it feels nice to dress up, and it's lovely to have a nice flower arrangement and all, but what is the Real Way to proclaim the death of the Lord? With Love. For all, even those "disfellowshipped" brothers. They're not disfellowshipped in Jesus' eyes. Jesus paid for them. He paid a high price for them. He hasn't judged them yet. Have you? Do you believe Jesus died for all? What do you think the ransom is for anyway? It's so you don't have to judge them, those ones you disfellowship. It's so you can talk to them and help them. Don't ignore them at the Memorial. They are your brothers. If you ignore your disfellowshipped brothers at the Memorial (or anytime) then in what way can you say you have faith in the ransom blood? If you don't have faith in the power of Jesus' blood, then why are you attending the Memorial anyway? For looks? His blood is enough for them. For real. It's not just a fraction. It's a whole sacrifice. It doesn't cover just a fraction of the congregation or a fraction of the world or a fraction of our sins. It covers all humans. We don't have to judge who will live or die, Jesus will do that later. We just have to love. Please, brothers, with the measure you are measuring out, you will have it measured out to you. You don't want Jesus to only cover a fraction of your sins, do you? Of course not. We want to be wholly covered. Please, his love is enough for us. Let it be enough for you. "God is Love."-1 points -
A Judgment Message Regarding the Memorial
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We must all seek to grow up into the Head. If we are truly clinging to him as the head of the congregation, then we must have the faith that his blood is enough for each member. Jesus did not cut any of them off. He said he isn't doing the judging until he gets here. Pick your associates wisely, yes, judge for yourself who is good association to pal around with, yes, but don't treat anyone living as if they are dead! "Clothe yourselves with love." Do not celebrate the Memorial lightly clad. It is not becoming in the Lord. Dress yourselves with the victorious robes of righteousness which includes faith and love and truth and kindness. He is the perfect cover. Remain in union with him. You are in union with him if you have love. Widen out in your affections. It is not those disfellowshipped ones you are cutting off when you practice the manmade parts of the disfellowshipping doctrine. It is yourself. When you practice that kind of disfellowshipping you are cutting off yourself from God's holy spirit and removing your garments of love and faith. Please, my brothers, it is time to wake up and see the power of the ransom blood of the Christ. It's not complicated. When you don't talk to those disfellowshipped ones at the Memorial, you are unkind and rude and disgustingly saying quite clearly that you don't have enough faith that the ransom is enough for them. The governing body doesn't have enough faith that the ransom is enough for them. Why would you want to follow them in such a horrible sin? It is for this reason the Son of God is coming to remove those lawless and hypocritical ones at headquarters from God's organization. If they refuse to repent, they will be removed. The Memorial is a time to meditate on the ransom blood and recognize its redeeming power. It's not time to ignore anyone who comes to the Memorial. Why do you think Jesus died anyway? For Pharisees without faith only? Or also for the lepers and tax collectors and prostitutes? He died for us before we deserved it. It is called undeserved kindness. If we are in union with him, we will have undeserved kindness for others too. His undeserved kindness is enough for us. Jesus is coming to clarify things. You will see these things clearly in time, and many people will have to repent because of the horrid way they treated their "disfellowshipped" brothers. If you turn around now, you won't have to repent as much then. Please, consider these things when you pass the wine and bread at the Memorial this year. "For the love the Christ has compels us, because this is what we have concluded, that one man died for all; so, then, all had died. And he died for all so that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised up." "Therefore, become imitators of God, as beloved children, and go on walking in love, just as the Christ also loved us..." "God is Love."-1 points -
A Judgment Message Regarding the Memorial
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"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts fear out, because fear restrains us. Indeed, the one who is fearful has not been made perfect in love." Please, dear ones: Why do you not talk to your so-called disfellowshipped brother? Is it not because of your fear of man? Your fear of the elders and what they will do to you? Your fear of the disapproval of others in the congregation? Your fear of the governing body? They are not Jehovah. "Pick up your torture stake and keep following me," said the Lord. Jehovah did not command you to ignore your so-called disfellowshipped brother. He commanded you to love him. "If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And we have this commandment from him, that whoever loves God must also love his brother." It is a commandment for you to love your so-called disfellowshipped brother. When you ignore him at the Memorial, in what way will Jehovah look on your so-called sacrifice of praise? "Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is God’s Son, God remains in union with such one and he in union with God. And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in union with God and God remains in union with him." If your so-called disfellowshipped brother is there at the Memorial, he is acknowledging that Jesus is God's Son, and God is with him. When you cut him off from your affections, you are cutting off Jehovah too. "We have opened our mouth to speak to you, Corinthians, and we have opened wide our heart. We are not restricted in our affections for you, but you are restricted in your own tender affections for us. So in response—I speak as to my children—you too open your hearts wide." Stop becoming yoked with unbelievers. By your following the governing body in their apostate teaching of the current disfellowshipping doctrine, in their lack of faith in the ransom, in their hypocritical traditions that disregard the ransom, you become yoked with unbelievers. They do not believe the ransom is enough. They are antichrist. Please, stop becoming yoked with such unbelievers. Jesus is coming to remove those lawless ones from the organization. They disregard the Kingly Law of Love, the Law of the Christ. Jehovah will sanctify His Holy Name. Jehovah's witnesses must have love for all the brothers, because the blood of the Christ is enough for us and for them. It was a whole offering, the Christ. "None of his bones broken." We must be whole in our love for his body, which is the congregation. Throw the fear outside, because fear restrains love. We must be perfect in love. God is Love. Praise Jehovah.-1 points -
You’re Invited to a Sacred Event!
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No thanks, I refuse to participate in the satanic like black mass that is a jw memorial.-1 points -
Neutrality
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Regarding his disciples, Jesus said to Jehovah in prayer: "I have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. I do not request that you take them out of the world, but that you watch over them because of the wicked one. They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world." Later, Jesus was talking to Pilate. Pilate asked if Jesus was a king. "Jesus answered: “My Kingdom is no part of this world. If my Kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not be handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not from this source." The men who handed Jesus over were members of his own religion. Why did they hate Jesus so much? For one thing, those men had their own little "kingdom" or government setup within the religion. Jesus told the truth about the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees and their little kingdom setup, fleecing the flock, adding their own laws and traditions to God's Law. Today, there are some who are like the scribes and Pharisees in God's organization. They add their own laws to God's Law. They don't like it when Jesus' friends expose the hypocrisy in the organization, even though Jesus is the one who is directing this exposure. Jesus said: "Let your light shine" and "preach it from the housetops" and "we must worship with spirit and truth" and "if the light in you is darkness, how great that darkness is" and "they strain out the gnat and gulp down the camel" and "beware the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy". Jesus said he would come and expose the hypocrisy of the lawless ones with the sword of his mouth. He also said he would give us the words to say when bearing witness. In this way, Jesus gets the glory, and his glory is glory for Jehovah. "These things I command you, that you love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you." Being "neutral" as to the affairs of the world doesn't just mean being neutral to the political governments of the state and the local municipalities. It also means being neutral in the affairs of the governing authorities in the congregation who have also set up their own little kingdoms in opposition to God and Christ. The current governing body has been permitted to operate. We must respect the fact that they have authority to buy and sell properties and make rules regarding the properties they own and the videos and music and publications they produce. They have the right to organize meetings the way they want to. They will be held accountable for what they do. As far as respect goes, we do not interfere with their manmade traditions, just like we don't interfere with people doing a flag salute. But we also don't take part in practices that God hates. We won't believe or teach others doctrines that aren't true. We must obey God as ruler rather than men when those men teach doctrines that are in opposition to God. The Kingly Law of the Christ is to Love. The first century governing body said "Abstain from blood." Jesus said no one would be able to calculate the hour when the kingdom comes (it wasn't in 1914). Anyone who disobeys the clear words of the Bible on these and other matters and instead favors the decrees of the governing body is guilty of not being neutral, of being part of the kingdoms of this world, of choosing to curry favor with earthly "kings" ahead of loyalty to Jehovah. The nations often say "in God we trust". The governing body says the same thing. But their actions disprove their words. The governing body has shown hatred for Jehovah's Kingdom by disfellowshipping faithful anointed heirs of the Kingdom Government. Repeatedly. They have filled up the measure of their forefathers. They are aware of what they are doing. Please, brothers, take care not to hold their hand and work along with them in their wicked deeds, that you may not also be held accountable when Jesus comes and makes the hidden things manifest. Obey the governing body when they ask you to do things in harmony with what is written in the Bible, just as you obey the local governments and the national governments in paying back Caesar's things to Caesar. But do not listen to the governing body when they ask you to disobey Jehovah - that's what neutrality means: "We must obey God as ruler rather than man." "Everyone remaining in union with him does not practice sin; no one who practices sin has either seen him or come to know him. Little children, let no one mislead you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous. The one who practices sin originates with the Devil, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was made manifest, to break up the works of the Devil. Everyone who has been born from God does not practice sin, for His seed remains in such one, and he cannot practice sin, for he has been born from God. The children of God and the children of the Devil are evident by this fact: Whoever does not practice righteousness does not originate with God, nor does the one who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; not like Cain, who originated with the wicked one and slaughtered his brother. And for what reason did he slaughter him? Because his own works were wicked, but those of his brother were righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. We know that we have passed over from death to life, because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has everlasting life remaining in him." When the governing body approves of the disfellowshipping of faithful anointed ones, then the governing body is acting like children of the Devil. When the governing body is teaching doctrines in opposition to what the helper, the holy spirit, teaches, then the governing body is acting like children of the Devil. Please, loyal ones, do not follow them in their wicked deeds. Stay clean from their worldly teachings. Keep yourself spiritually chaste by obeying what the Christ said, so that your sacrifice of praise at the Memorial celebration may be pleasing in God's eyes. Please, don't share in the bloodguilt of the governing body by approving of their actions when they condemn ambassadors of the Kingdom. Their wicked actions toward faithful anointed ones mirror what those men would have done to Jesus had they lived in the first century. They would be just like the scribes and Pharisees of old, clamoring to have Jesus executed. Maybe they will repent later, but right now, they are not behaving as faithful ones. Please do not follow them in their wicked deeds. They are not representing Jesus or Jehovah. "From that time forward, Jesus began explaining to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed, and on the third day be raised up. At this Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying: “Be kind to yourself, Lord; you will not have this happen to you at all.” "But turning his back, he said to Peter: “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you think, not God’s thoughts, but those of men.” "Then Jesus said to his disciples: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake and keep following me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Really, what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? For the Son of man is to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will repay each one according to his behavior. Truly I say to you that there are some of those standing here who will not taste death at all until first they see the Son of man coming in his Kingdom.”" We must worship with spirit and truth. The governing body have made themselves into idols. "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."-2 points