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Psalms 101:1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: Unto Thee, O Lord, will I sing."

This is telling you not to hold back on singing the praises to our Heavenly Father; all you have to do is talk to our Father. Let Him know that those praises are for His mercy and His righteous judgment. Sure the Lord blesses us, but he also corrects us when we drift away from His Way. Remember, you are a child to Him, His child, and as such expect His correction when you stray from His way. His judgments can also result in wonderful blessings and rewards in your life.

Psalms 101:2 "I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O When whilt Thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart."

This is how we are to react to our Heavenly Father, we are to behave ourselves wisely in a perfect way. Are we to be perfect? Hardly, for only Christ was perfect in His flesh body. We are to use common sense in matters that pertain to our life here on this earth. Every one can use common sense, for it is using the natural process of thinking something through to the end. The word "perfect" would be better translated "blameless", and it gets to the intent of why you do what you do. If your intention are to live and walk a life according to His Word, and you mess up, God sees and understand the intent of your heart. That leaves you blameless when you fall short of what you knew to be the right way within your heart. Your perfect intentions sometimes cause you to be blameless, and sometimes in the flesh it happens to much. However, there is mercy with our Heavenly Father. "I will walk within my house with the intentions of a perfect heart." A heart that is right with the Lord is what we are to strive for. The point here is that you try to follow the righteous way.

Psalms 101:3 "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave to me."

I will let nothing of Satan distract me from the course that I have set for my life. The point here is that focus and concentrate on those matters that are important, and within the perfect will of God. To have "eyes to see" the spiritual things that matter, include the current events that are going on around you, that God has placed within His Word. Those things help you prepare for the times we live in, as these end times draw to a close.

That "work" spoken of here, is the plan of those that would fall away, and become part of the apostasy of these end times. Those people will not prepare themselves spiritually by studying the Word of God, to be aware of the events of the days that they live in. They are not taking in enough oil, or truth, from God's Word to be able to make a stand until the sounding of the seventh and last trumpet. They just are not sharp in God's Word, and each of them will not cleave to Father and His Word to the end of this age of flesh man. There are millions of Christians living today that will be deceived and taken by Satan, the Antichrist, because they believe that Satan has come to rapture them away to safety. When in fact, that place of protection will be right in the center of Satan's camp.

The falling away, or apostacy of those that will follow Satan, is a plan and is very will developed in our day today. Our Heavenly Father absolutely will not allow those that become part of that plan to cleave to Him, but will freely give them over to Satan to do with them as Satan pleases.

Revelation 9:4 "And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads."

This is speaking of that time when Satan and his fallen angel army will be on the earth. They will not come to destroy any part of this earth, but to deceive the world into the worship of Satan as God. Will they suceed? Of course they will, because the whole world will follow and worship Satan, all that is except those that are sealed. So what is this sealing? Your brain or mind is in your forehead, and what you do is caused by what you think to be true. If you know the truth of God's Word, that Satan will come first and they he has a plan to deceive the entire world, you will prepare yourself spiritually through the Word of God, so that you will not be deceived. When those truths are locked away in your mind, you will not find Satan and all his bargains a temptation, for you know him as the liar that he is.

Revelation 9:5 "And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man."

No Satan and his angels are not out to kill your body, but take your soul. God has shortened that time of Satan's deception from seven years to five months. So the next point here is what happens when a scorpion "striketh a man". The venom that the scorpion injects into the man leaves the man paralyzed, and unable to defend them-selves, even to flick the little creature off their skin, and let the scorpion have its way with them. That is as it will be when Satan and his angels arrive here on earth, for they will have their way with those not sealed, and God will allow it. If you want to defend yourself, there is only one way to stop that plan of Satan, and that is to learn of Satan and his ways, as well as the events of our day, before they happen. And God has written those events that we are to expect within His Word. Study and learn to stand in that day.

Ephesians 6:10 "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might."

Ephesians 6:11 "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil."

Ephesians 6:12 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

Ephesians 6:13 "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."

Ephesians goes on to tell you what that armor is, and how it is used. There is a battle coming like this world has never seen before, and unless you prepare for that battle ahead of time, you will fall. The "seal of truth in the forehead" is putting the whole armor on, and being ready to stand against the wiles of the devil. Were we to title this Psalm, it would be, "The King is coming". Christ is coming, but there is another king that is coming first, had that first king is Satan. He is coming with a plan to deceive the entire world.

Psalms 101:4 "A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person."

"A forward" or "perverse" heart will depart from the Lord and chase after Satan the moment he arrives. What does God think of that wick and perverse person? He rejects them, Our Heavenly Father will turn them over to Satan, and turn His back on them. If you think that you can play silly games with the Scriptures, like the rapture theory, and some of the other traditions that are becoming popular that go against God's Word, God is telling you that He will not know you when you do those things. If you can become a sodomite, and practice wicked life styles God will turn you over to Satan and cut His ties with you. Those ways are the ways of Satan's fallen angels.

If you are going to call upon God, then call upon Him. But when Satan arrives with his army of fallen angels, there will be more Christians calling upon Satan and thinking he is God, than will be calling on the Lord for protection from him. Friend, we are living in the generation that this shall happen to. However to most Christ, they just don't care. The have discounted the Old Testament, as well as the book of Revelation, saying that it doesn't pertain to them, when in fact that is where much of the armor of God comes from, for our generation. To those with spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear will take the entire Word of God, gird themselves for the battle to come, and they will stand to the very end, the sound of the seventh trump at the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalms 101:5 "Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: Him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer."

This is talking about those secret clicks that sets up boundries and puts out slanders against their neighbor. So what is the basis of those secret clicks? At the base of it all is pride, and that was Satan's downfall in the beginning. Ezekiel 28 tells us that Satan was the most beautiful of all souls, and he even walked the very alter of God. He looked at himself and pride took over his heart, and he thought he did not need God any more. He set out to become God, and take over the things of God, yet in the end, God is going to turn Satan to ashes from within.

Sure God wants your love, but He doesn't need you. If you don't have the love for Him, God will cut you off. When you approach the throne of God, it is with thanks and humility, and not with a high look or a proud heart. God will not put up with you high-mindedness. Learn to study His word and listen to that small voice of the Father to direct you. Today there are many other voices, both by men, and by false spirits that will try to lead you into the wrong direction. Those false spirits will lead your soul into damnation before Satan.

Psalms 101:6 "Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: He that walketh in a perfect way, He shall serve me."

God's eyes are on those men and women that are faithful to His Word. When you know the Word of God and follow that Word, you are walking in the perfect way. If you are serving the Lord, then all the promises of His Word are yours to claim. Ezekiel 44 talked about the firstfruits, those that stood on the Lord's side all the way to the end of this earth age, and were not deceived. They are the ones that allowed the Holy Spirit to use them when they were called up before the councils of the synagogues of men. And they were willing to make a stand and be faithful to the Lord. It is a choice that we all must make in this generation, to make a stand, or become part of Satan's kingdom.

Psalms 101:7 "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight."

Satan is the chief of all liars, and under his deceit, many other liars are standing up and preaching or teaching within the houses of God. This will not be for long though. There is a day of accountable coming, and that day is the "day of the Lord". That day is at the seventh trumpet when our Lord shall return. Those that stand in the house of God, and preach doctrine and traditions against the Word of God are going to be accountable for every soul that they led astray, and they shall not stand for one moment in the sight of our Lord Jesus Christ. If you are spouting out the wickedness that is going out from many of the pulpits today, God is going to hold you accountable, and you can count on that.

How do you know it something is from God or a man's mind? Check it out in the word of God, for if God teaches against what they are saying, they are teaching the doctrines of devils. The Lord told you what He thinks of your rapture doctrine in Ezekiel 13:18-23, He hates it.

Ezekiel 13:20 "Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; "Behold, I am against you pillows [doctrines], whereby ye hunt souls to make them fly, and I will tear them [those souls] from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly."

Before you stake you life on that rapture doctrine, or fly away doctrine, I would think twice. That doctrine was born in by a mentally ill woman back in the 1830, and developed by mixing false teaching to where it would be accepted in most churches today. The doctrine has become more important than the Word of God, to those relying on it, for by redifining words they have made it acceptible in many churches. Satan loves nothing better than to lie to someone, and after they have fallen in the trap, he lets them wallow in their faults. The rapture doctrine leaves you defenseless, for when you rely on it, you cease preparing yourself for the great spiritual battle that we will face in our generation. "He that worketh deceit" is Satan. You better stop and look around you, before you set your course to follow him. Satan has his ways and bargains to make you feel that you are extra special, for he will give you what you want to buy your soul.

God keeps us humble before him, for when our eyes are focused on Him, we know that it is only in Our Father that we have our strength. That is why when He is in us, we are at our strongest. You are just one part of the body of Christ, and it is the whole body that will get the job done; but He requires that you do your part within that body of Christ. Paul addressed this in Romans 12:3-5.

Romans 12:3 "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to evey man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man to measure of faith."

The more that measure of faith has been dealt to you, the more humble it make a person become. For we realize that it is not us that does the work and convicts, but the Holy Spirit that is within us.

Romans 12:4-5 "For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:" "So we, being many, are one body in christ, and every one members one of another."

When a man runs and wins a race, does he praise his feet for running the race, his nose for touching the tape first, or any other part of his body? No, his entire body won the race and is declared the winner. Each of us have a place within the body of Christ, and it is our duty to fulfil the mission that God has given you, "according as God hath dealt to" you or every other man or woman in the body of Christ, your measure of faith.

Psalms 101:8 "I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; That I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord.