One Righteous Man

“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; See now and know; And seek in her open places If you can find a man, If there is anyone who executes judgment, Who seeks the truth, And I will pardon her.(Jeremiah 5:1)

Really!!? For the sake of ONE man God will pardon the sins of a whole city? Abraham dickered with God (Genesis 18:22-33) over Sodom and Gomorrah and got Him to agree to pardon the city if He could find fifty, forty, thirty, twenty--TEN righteous men. That is where he stopped dickering, but according to this verse in Jeremiah, Abraham could have continued appealing to God's mercy all the way down to ONE righteous man (2 Peter 2:7-8) and God would have pardoned the city!  A well-known preacher is quoted as saying that if God spares America he will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. May I suggest that the goodness of God and the depth of his love and mercy is far deeper than even this great preacher knew!
Of course, the perfect fulfillment of this verse occurred when ONE beautiful man, enduring the scorn of the entire city, bore a heavy wooden beam the in the Via Dolorosa to Calvary. That one Man bought pardon for all of us and it is in His righteousness that we must trust when we appeal for mercy for our own sins and the sins of our nation.

BELIEVE In Ghosts?

Someone said, "Do you believe in ghosts?" I said, "Yes I'm speaking to a ghost right now. Another word for ghost is Spirit. You are a spirit and I am a spirit who lives in a body and has a soul. When the body dies the spirit leaves."

Sometimes a recent expiration will maintain a presence for a short time and then depart to another place. Normally, a "haunting ghost" is not a human spirit but rather a demon who has the capability of impersonation. Like all of us, they are territorial and want to inhabit a particular "house" or place that they can claim for a domain. Through fear and the power of deception they can gain entrance to human faculties.

I said that I believe in ghosts, but I am not afraid of ghosts. I have been in the presence of ghosts and experienced a fright or two, but quickly regained my composure and told the ghost that he has no authority or dominion over me or anything that is mine.

I am quite confident to speak in Jesus name and cast out any demon presence the way that Jesus did. Not only did Jesus cast out demons but he told his followers to do the same thing wherever they encountered satanic opposition.

There is no territory that we can relinquish when we understand the power of the shed blood of Jesus to redeem everything that was lost in the Fall. Every person born of a woman belongs to Him. Every square inch of real estate ultimately has been deeded to Him. The (true) Church been sent as ambassadors to reclaim it all for Him.

When the body of Christ begins to walk and talk and act like Jesus then we will know his return is near. Everything in heaven and on Earth will be joined in Him and those alien spirits who are restless until they can deceive the children of men through Ouija boards and seances, levitation, or flipping light switches and bumping things in the night, will be thrown into the Abyss, never again to haunt!

See Luke 10:17‭-‬20; 11:14‭-‬15‭, ‬17‭-‬26 wMs

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