The Jesus Message

Darkness Falls

19/06/05 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

June 9, 2019

It is the darkness of the world system; tolerance for transgression while exhibiting hatred for Biblical holiness; love of one another as long as it fits the secular or Satanic agenda, but present a verse from the Bible as a foundation for moral reasoning and you are labeled as the sinister forces of evil against the doctrines of their darkness. They can speak ill of Christian principles, but speak out against the philosophies and lifestyles of homosexuality and you are guilty of Hate speech. They must get rid of the Righteous to have their dimmed views made plausible, because anyone with a stronger wattage of light that exposes the flaws of their mindsets, well, that person is hated and ostracized. They need Biblical values to be dead so they can enjoy the darkness. They need every person of truth to disappear so they can feel better about their collective reasoning of perversion and alternate lifestyles.

We are a generation that wants to soar among the stars in rockets and space stations, and yet refuses the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings. This is an hour of millennial attractions to spiritual getaways through experimental drugs, yet they mock the Pentecostal who staggers under the power of the Holy Ghost. Take away moral boundaries and the revelations of true love and people wander in the shadows of lust perpetually dissatisfied, trying new things that only deepen the darkness, obscure the mind, and empty the soul of self-worth. They take drugs to cope with depression, yet only dig the hole of despair deeper. They lose their sanity with Crystal meth for temporary euphoria and give away their hearts to the demons of addiction. Foul mouthed celebrities gauntly pictured as icons of freedom and wealth blindly lead generations of the new “free thinkers” into pits of hell. Special interest puppet politicians claim ethics and humanistic morals (which is really tolerance for deviance and hatred for purists); but they are only visionless pundits verbally…Listen now

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One Blood One Battle One Bride

19/05/30 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

June 2, 2019

By this one leper cleansing Physician of heaven; by this one virtue sharing hemorrhage healing savior; by this one lover of lepers, friend of the flawed, hope of the hurting, light to the listless and staggering generations of despair; this one man brought fertile soil to the grieving lands of withered dreams, and the seed of His word grew miracles where death, doubt, and Roman dominion oppressed. He was a lone root out of the dry ground. Isaiah 53:2 He was the single lamb staining the foundations of the world with his blood. He was the lone survivor in temptation’s obstacle course of lust, pride, and selfish ambition. By himself he purged our sins and sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high.[1] He put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.[2] He was the only High Priest in all time and eternity that could be touched with the feeling of our infirmities and walk that road of compassion without compromise. Hebrews 4:16

He gave the world one cross to crossover the chasm of hell; a bridge of Divine origin roughly hewn by worth millions of diamonds; and we march on that rugged wood-bridge of sacrifice and hope over the fiery canyons of everlasting hell. One man did that; one mediator between God and man. I Timothy 2:5

Adam of the Garden of Eden brought death with one bite.

Adam of the Garden of Gethsemane brought deliverance with one cross.

Adam of Eden brought iniquity and sin to every generation to be born.

Adam of Gethsemane brought inspiration to live beyond the grave to every generation born again…

Can one man really make that kind of difference? Can the rock slung out of David’s posterity bring down the Goliathan rulership of rebellion and darkness? Can the Samson like power of His Words spoken from the jawbone of God manifested in flesh bring down more than a thousand Philistine powers of evil? With one cross he paved a blood stained trail from sin bound earth to grace endowed Heaven; and with one crown he will rule all the nations with a rod of iron…listen now.

[1] Hebrews 1:3

[2] Hebrews 9:26

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Growing Grace

19/05/22 at 11.43am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

May 26, 2019

Without grace we are at best gross. Gross with the garbage of sin. Gross with failures and filth. Gross with the stains of iniquity. Gross with the decomposing flesh of temptations and addictions.

The ugliness of pocked features, leftover markings of a sinful nature, reflects from horror’s waters. We are sinners, born of the dirt of depravity, bound by the instincts of betrayal. Our beauty is deceptive; for the same face that may glow with perfection in symmetry, amaze onlookers with passion, will soon rot with wrinkles, die with swift age, and become the gourmet meal of worms beneath the sod of broken dreams. Yes, we are at best gross without grace.

We gaze upon slimy creature that turn over the soil and crawl upon toxic bellies. They are full of the earth’s decay and bear resemblance to the dead flesh they feast on. We heave at the thought of maggots teeming the moldy remains of discarded trash; and the stench of putrefying carcasses laid among buzzing flies in the forest brings quick distaste, and often the ruining of our appetites. Yet in reality, without grace, we are the maggots, mere larva of lust, feeding on the dead flesh of greed and sensuality. We think ourselves a higher order, but without the graceful intervention of a loving God we are simply worms crawling about in the mud-infested domains of pride and lust.

We call ourselves graceful when we accomplish some human feat, break a historical record, or invent some technological wonder that reshapes daily life. But in reality, without the grace of God, our creative prowess is nothing more than secondary Divine nature at work in the sandboxes of finite skill. We build our sandcastles. We construct our religious notions. And when all is said and done, all is done. For everything we build is destined for ashen remnants in the fires of renovation. So what good are we without the grace of God? If He no longer favored us as His prized creation, would we truly become self-existent; could we bridge the gap between death and eternal life; could we hope in something more than the temporal comforts of a material world?

Without the grace of God we are the walking dead, a human race mindlessly walking in a trance, rendered powerless as wanderers in a land of iniquity. Zombies of rebellion. Grave dwellers of debauchery. Ghastly haunts of hellish deeds. And everything we touch decays in time; in takes on our sinful likeness, our destructive tendencies.

If I entered your house smeared in horse manure would you think me gross? If I walked around town with stolen grave clothes on, bearing the stench of corpses, would you think me gross? We need the Grace of God to deliver us from the things, thoughts, trials, and traps that makes us gross.

Rom 7:24-8:1

24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. KJV Listen now…

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Pure Gold Pure God

19/05/16 at 6.05am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

March 19, 2019

Remember for all the scriptures that mention the wrath of God, as mentioned in II Chronicles 36:16 where His wrath is connected to the Chaldean invasion that humbled backslid Israel; or Ezra 5:12 where it is surmised that God was provoked to wrath by unbelieving wayward fathers; or Ephesians 5:6 where the wrath of God was upon the children of disobedience; or the most infamous text Revelation 14:19 where workers of iniquity are seen as futuristically being trampled in the winepress of the wrath of God; so, we see there is wrath to be reckoned with; but again, for all that we see of the wrath of God, of the soon needed Justice of the Almighty, he did not choose to build a seat, as proposed to Moses, 2 and a half cubits long and 1 and a half cubits wide to be called the Wrath or Justice seat. It was the mercy seat. Yes, there are times he rises as a warrior with wrath, and in swift movement he un-sheaths the sword of His smiting power to rule the nations (Revelation 19:15); to tread the winepress; to thrust in the sickle; to blow in like a whirlwind; or as aptly described in the already referenced II Chronicles 36:16, “the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

But when he sits down. Mercy! That’s pure Gold. That’s Pure God.

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There is more Where that came From

19/05/09 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

May 12, 2019

The amazed disciples repeatedly received the miracle bread from Jesus’ hand. It kept coming. How could he get that much from five loaves and two fish? Jesus was reaching into a supernatural inventory. Be blessed it. He broke it. And he gave it to the disciples who gave to the crowd. Piece by piece it multiplied. And when they thought it might run out, there was more where that came from. Grace provisions far exceed earthly supplies. Human resources usually come to an end, spent and exhausted. We see this when fuel costs go up because of oil and gas shortages. We see this in the supermarket when certain items are marked up because the supply is diminished by storms or freezes or failed crops. We see this in the stock market because company performances wane or product development is slowed by regulations or terrorism in certain parts of the world enhance market fears. But on that sunlit afternoon with thousands huddled for dinner, an assembly line of bread and fish made it down to the last hungry mouth. My friend, if you think the God of that bread multiplying moment is retired, well, there is more where that came from…listen now.

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The Bartimaeus Way

19/05/01 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

May 5, 2019

And many charged him that he should hold his peace; but he cried out the more. Above the crowded conversation, the muffled tones of a dozen different deep discussions. Above the soft winds fervently blowing over rugged hills and busy streets. Above the crunching sandals pressing along as many stumbled along trying to keep up with the Messiah. Above the distant voices of vendors in the market place trying to persuade potential buyers to stop by; above the silent Pharisees with loud stares of protest; above the timid tongues of some too ashamed to ask for help. He cried. And when told to be quiet. He turned up the volume. He intensified his desire for a breakthrough miracle.

Cry here is the Greek word Kradzo. It means to shriek like a crow. How ironic in a world where the Pharisees were always crowing about their good deeds and incomparable performance of the law of Moses, this blind man crowed above them all with desperation for a miracle. They cried out for attention; he cried out for a transformation. They were ignored; he was empowered. Listen now…

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Sing O Barren

19/04/24 at 2.22pm   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

April 28, 2019

Don’t be fooled by the salesmanship of Satan. Don’t lose your birthright of God’s promises for Esau’s bowl of beans. Refuse to barter with darkness for shortcut methods of pain relief in the form of illegal drugs, alcohol, or illicit behavior. Throw the thirty pieces of silver back at the enemy and let your mind be filled with truth rather than betraying doctrines of devils. You are bought with the precious blood of Jesus. Nothing hell has to offer can compare to that; everything else is a cheap substitute for the invaluable grace of God. You have the best. Stay blessed. Find Holy Ghost rest. Don’t take Lucifer’s quest. Don’t buy the fool’s gold of iniquity but trust the God of infinity and stay with the riches of His grace. Don’t lose your place for the cheap chase of things that disgrace. Anger. Adultery. Fornication. Envy. Strife. Rebellion. Hatred. Vindictiveness. Pride. Lust. For all these debase and erase what God has given by His grace. So when the tempter shows up on your doorstep, decide that you will reside in the House of God; that you will remain now matter how good the salesman can explain the delights of his domain; you will not buy his brand; you will not sell out the truth; you will not exchange something priceless for that which is worth nothing; you can’t be bought out because you have already been brought out and even though you are sought out by the sweet tasting inventions of hell well thought out; you won’t settle for what you’ve been sold in the past. You have the pearl of great price. You have the golden streets of the New Jerusalem you are eternally invested in; you have the walls of Jasper that fare better than any flashy fences of Satan’s world.

1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

1Pe 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you…Listen Now

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The Scourge and the Sword

19/04/16 at 7.22pm   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

April 21, 2019

The blood is dripping. Redemptive raindrops. A crimson storm. Dusty soils splotchy and darker, patches of grace here and there. Ribbons of flesh hang. Wheezing moans resound on bitter winds. Those who hear will be haunted on a thousand nights by the ghastly figure of this beaten man. It is ugly. Who can bear it? It is nauseating. Who can leave the scene and have an appetite? Yet, in contrast, it is morbidly beautiful, contradictorily amazing. For in the shredded muscle and flesh one finds a miracle; in the torn and ripped, gashed and gaping, one finds something greater than medicine; a Divine prescription for the diseased and gruesomely sick. “By his stripes ye were healed.” I Peter 2:24

Slap. The scourge has found its aim. Slap. Guttural moans escape the Healer’s lips. Slap. Gasps and sickened oohs and aahs fill the air. Slap. The ragged cords like razor sharp teeth of leviathan dig in, catch and tear. Slap. Blood spatters the ground, the guards, and the splintery column to which he is bound. Slap. And the flesh tearing bite takes another hunk of his mortal body, while something otherworldly is being sewn into the fabric of eternity. If this man had been a criminal even then it might seem too gratuitous, this macabre form of punishment, torturous and borderline sadistic. Maybe a mass murderer deserved this, but not a Messiah. Maybe a pirate captured from high seas of plundering and thievery might deserve this, but not a Giver of love. But he wasn’t going through this because he deserved it; he was going through this because he desired it. Listen now…

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Not for Applause but for a Cause

19/04/12 at 9.04am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

April 14, 2019

Jesus walked onto the world stage. There was a curtain drawn before the foundation of the world. Those curtains unfurled across grueling ages of laws and prophets, of judges and kings, of good and evil. And when the Son of God was finally born, his lines too had been well scripted. For Jesus stated on several occasions, “What I do I do not of myself, but they are from my Father in Heaven.”

When he healed a sore riddled leper and solved the puzzled expression of the blind by giving them sight, he did it not for applause, but for a cause…listen now.

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Beware of Dogs

19/04/03 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

April 7, 2019

The dogs of this generation are barking. They drool from deadly mouths. Blood stained fangs threaten. Growls from the pits of hell can be heard in every dark alley of sin. Angry. Ferocious. Uncontrollable. Rabid in their self righteousness. Biting mad in their hatred of holiness. Unchained. They are Roaming violent predators without conscious or moral restraint. No one can tell them different. No one can command these vicious Gospel mutilators to heel or stay. They will devour in an instant. They will kill any vestige of authority in a moment. Truth will never tame them. Love will never lead them. Conviction will never corral them. They bark and bite and blaspheme and bitterly moan at any kind of fence or restriction or Biblical standard.

Lawlessness is…1. The Desire to do it your own way. Stubborn steps. Rebellious routes. Roads that lead to destruction but all signs are ignored because of pride and self conceit. It is Cain bringing the fruit of flesh to a God that demanded blood and sacrifice. It is a generation that wants to save itself without a cross. They have altars with staircases into hell. They are stiff-necked and resistant to the commands of their fathers. a. You can’t get them to see it God’s way. They are the blind leading the blind as Jesus stated in Luke 6:39. Their perspective is so tainted that they can’t tell when they are doing wrong as Jeremiah bemoaned in Jeremiah 6:15, “ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.” They have no shame. They see no…listen now.

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