Peter Exhorts the Persecuted Believers Volume 22

 We Believers are to Abstain from Fleshly Lust

1 Peter 2:11-12 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. KJV Note: NKJV=New King James Version

The Apostle Peter reminded those early Jewish converts to Christ back then as he (with these same words) reminds all of we converts to Christ today and of every era and generation that since we are now the people of God's own possession that we have a responsibility to show Him our love and gratitude so he exhorts us to mortify our flesh with these words, "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" (1 Peter 2:11) (KJV). The grace which we have been given comes to us without any merit or in other words without any of us deserving it at all, but this same grace also comes to us with the power or dunimus of our Father in Heaven equipping, energizing, and empowering us to excercise restraint and to refrain from those fleshly appetites that were common ways for us to behave before we were made the people of God (1 Peter 2:10). When the Apostle Peter here (in verse 11) calls us strangers and pilgrims, he is reminding us that we still live in our tent/house/body which is not our permanent home, for it is corruption now and will eventually go back to the dust of the earth from which it was made, but will become incorruption when we are resurrected by our God and Father as the Apostle Paul writes to the Corithian believers with these words, "So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body." (1 Corinthians 15:42-44) (NKJV). Since, we are still alive on the earth 🌎 as strangers and pilgrims we must be vigilant while still in our natural body to yield to God the Holy Spirit and the powerful grace that we receive from our Lord Jesus Christ sitting now on His Throne of Grace ready always to dispense as much as we need to do as the Apostle Paul declared with these words to the Roman believers and to the Colossian believers, "And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God." (Romans 6:13) (NKJV) and these words, "Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry." (Colossians 3:5) (NKJV). This is not and cannot ever be done by us in our strength or power (for we have none, if we did we never would have needed our Lord Jesus Christ), but by the power of grace from the Throne of Grace our lives can and will be free of these fleshly appetites that kept us from Christ and that continuously wage war against our souls, that is, our minds or mindset. We must contend against carnal inclinations by the grace of God and fight as a spiritual soldier in the supernatural power of grace just as a human soldier of war fights in the natural with human weapons. Here is what John Wesley said of 1 Peter 2:11, "Here begins the exhortation drawn from the second motive. Sojourners: pilgrims - The first word properly means, those who are in a strange house; the second, those who are in a strange country. You sojourn in the body; you are pilgrims in this world. Abstain from desires of anything in this house, or in this country."

Next the Apostle Peter tells us that his exhortation and imploring of us to abstain from these many fleshly lust that war against us is not only for our spiritual well being, but it is also that we may walk among all those who still are spiritually dead in this newness of life completely contrary to the way we lived before the day of our salvation, as he declares with these words, "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." (1 Peter 2:12) (KJV). Since, God having saved us, that is, snatching us out of the clutches of the evil one 1⃣ as the Apostle Paul declared He has done with these words to the Colossians we should walk or live worthy of our high calling 'in Christ', "For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins." (Colossians 1:9-14) (NKJV). When we live under control of our 'old man', by not putting him off and putting on the new man 👨 (Ephesians 4:22-24), we do this as Paul declared with these words written to the believers in Rome, "For 'the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles/unbelievers because of you,' as it is written." (Romans 2:24) (NKJV). As followers of our Lord Jesus Christ we must repent of our sins and design, desire, and determine to walk or live out our daily lives to please Christ because we love Him and not begrudgingly as if it is only our duty, remember what Paul the Apostle wrote to the Galatians, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage." (Galatians 5:1) (NKJV) and also these words, "I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law." (Galatians 5:16-18) (NKJV). Here is what John Wesley said of 1 Peter 2:12, "Honest - Not barely unblamable, but virtuous in every respect. But our language sinks under the force, beauty, and copiousness of the original expressions. That they by your good works which they shall behold - See with their own eyes. May glorify God - By owning His grace in you, and following your example. In the day of visitation - The time when He shall give them fresh offers of His mercy."

If you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ and His amazing healing power, pray this from your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ (you speaking directly to Him), Dear Lord Jesus, I confess to You that I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. I believe You shed Your Blood and died for my sins. I believe that You rose from the dead proving that You alone are God. I repent of my sins. I want to turn from my sins. I ask You Dear Lord Jesus to come into my heart and take control of my life. I want You to be my Lord, Savior, and my God. Amen...


Sincerely in Christ,


Clifford D. Tate, Sr.


Author of “Silent Assassins of the Soul - Are you Broken by Pornography and Masturbation? You can be Restored by the Lord Jesus Christ and brought into Deliverance, Freedom, and Victory! A Guide for Men and Women in the Enemy’s Crosshairs” e-book available now @ Amazon Kindle, @ Apple I Bookstore for IPod, Barnes and Noble for Nook, Reader Store for Sony Reade, Kobo, Copia, Gardners, Baker and Taylor, and eBookPie…

Peter Exhorts the Persecuted Believers Volume 21

 We are a Peculiar People/New Creations of God by His Mercy

1 Peter 2:9-10 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. KJV Note: NKJV=New King James Version

The Apostle Peter just finished telling or reminding us of how many of those Jews of old rejected Christ as being their Messiah and instead believed that the true Messiah had not come yet. Like those Jews of old, many Jews and Gentiles today continue to reject, refuse, or resist Christ as the only way to Heaven/God. However, the Apostle Peter wants those of us today and of every era and generation who have come to Christ in genuine repentance and faith and been born again by Him of incorruptible seed to know who we are in Him at all times and in any place, so the Apostle Peter declares to us who we are 'in Christ' and how He sees us whom He has redeemed with these next words, "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." (1 Peter 2:9-10) (KJV). First, the Apostle Peter calls us a chosen generation and this English word 'chosen' is translated by the Greek word eklektos meaning select; by implication favorite: - chosen, elect. The English word 'generation' is translated by the Greek word meaning figuratively countryman, offspring, kindred, nation. This does not mean that we were and are the good sinners that Jesus Christ looked upon and said, 'They are worthy of My salvation', of course not God forbid, but it simply means we are the chosen of God because we came to Him the one and only way He says sinners must approach Him and that is by repenting and believing the Gospel of Grace which is that Jesus Christ died for our sins in our place and resurrected from death proving that He alone is God and He alone can forgive sin. Second, the Apostle Peter calls us a royal priesthood and the English word 'royal' is translated by the Greek word basileios (used this one time only in the New Testament) meaning kingly (in nature). The English word 'priesthood' is translated by the Greek word hierateuma meaning the priestly fraternity, that is, a sacerdotal order (figuratively): - priesthood. The design, desire, and determination of the Apostle Peter to us is that we would see ourselves the way God sees us now, for the Lord Jesus is King 👑 and He was crucified because it was declared that He was 'King of the Jews' (Matthew 27:37) & (Mark 15:2). We are in union with Christ, in fellowship with Christ, in relationship with Christ, therefore, we are Kings and Priest unto Him just as the Apostle John wrote here, "To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen." (Revelation 1:5-6) (NKJV). Third, the Apostle Peter calls us collectively a holy nation and the English word 'holy' is translated by the Greek word hagios meaning sacred (physically pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially consecrated): - saint. The English word 'nation' is translated by the Greek word ethnos meaning a race (as of the same habit), that is, a tribe; nation, people. The design for those of us who have been redeemed, regenerated, and resurrected by God the Holy Spirit is to conform us into the image of Christ (Romans 8:29) and Christ is Holy, therefore, we are always and at all times commanded to be holy as Peter has already reminded us of with these words earlier in this letter/epistle, "Because it is written, 'Be holy, for I am holy.'" (1 Peter 1:16) (NKJV) and it is from the words written by Moses in the Old Testament with which the Apostle Peter quotes, such as here, "For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy." (Leviticus 11:45) (NKJV). The professing Christians who make light of the holiness of God and walking and living in holiness as believers are a stench (a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant) in the Nostrils of God. Fourth, the Apostle Peter calls us a peculiar people and the English word 'peculiar' is translated by the Greek word peripoiēsis meaning a people of His own possession or a purchased people of His. In other words, we belong to God as His very own adopted sons and daughters having been born again by the incorruptible seed of His very own Word. In so becoming His very own purchased people (by way of the Blood of Jesus Christ) we now are enabled, energized, and empowered by Him to bring forth or shew forth, that is, to published or to put out to Him praises that are honoring to Him and bring Glory to Him alone for the change and transformation He has done and is continuing to do in us and through us to the Glory of God for all the world to see and behold. When a crack addict drops their rocks and are empowered by God to never defile their physical bodies with that substance again or when a heroine addict drops her needles and no longer desires to shoot that poison into her veins or when a pedophile is delivered from his desire to have sex with children 🧒 and is enabled by God to turn completely away from that demeaning, destructive, and damning lifestyle by the Power of the Holy Spirit all praise and honor and glory belongs to our Great God and Savior alone Jesus Christ. For all we sinners were once far off from God because of our sin, but now we are close to God because of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and we are now the people of God made by Him into new creatures, as it is written, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17) (NKJV). Mercy was shown to us, when we did not deserve it at all. Amen!!!

Here is what John Wesley had to say of 1 Peter 2:9-10, "But ye - Who believe in Christ Are - In a higher sense than ever the Jews were. A chosen or elect race, a royal priesthood - 'Kings and priests unto God, Rev. 1:6. As princes, ye have power with God, and victory over sin, the world, and the devil: as priests, ye are consecrated to God, for offering spiritual sacrifices. Ye Christians are as one holy nation, under Christ your King. A purchased people - Who are His peculiar property. That ye may show forth - By your whole behaviour, to all mankind. The virtues - The excellent glory, the mercy, wisdom, and power of Him, Christ, who hath called you out of the darkness of ignorance, error, sin, and misery. Who in time past were not a people - Much less the people of God; but scattered individuals of many nations. The former part of the verse particularly respects the Gentiles; the latter, the Jews." Here is what Matthew Henry had to say of 1 Peter 2:9-10, "Learn, [1.] All true Christians are a chosen generation; they all make one family, a sort and species of people distinct from the common world, of another spirit, principle, and practice, which they could never be if they were not chosen in Christ to be such, and sanctified by His Spirit. [2.] All the true servants of Christ are a royal priesthood. They are royal in their relation to God and Christ, in their power with God, and over themselves and all their spiritual enemies; they are princely in the improvements and the excellency of their own spirits, and in their hopes and expectations; they are a royal priesthood, separated from sin and sinners, consecrated to God, and offering to God spiritual services and oblations, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. [3.] All Christians, wheresoever they be, compose one holy nation. They are one nation, collected under one head, agreeing in the same manners and customs, and governed by the same laws; and they are a holy nation, because consecrated and devoted to God, renewed and sanctified by His Holy Spirit. [4.] It is the honour of the servants of Christ that they are God's peculiar people. They are the people of His acquisition, choice, care, and delight. These four dignities of all genuine Christians are not natural to them; for their first state is a state of horrid darkness, but they are effectually called out of darkness into a state of marvellous light, joy, pleasure, and prosperity, with this intent and view, that they should show forth, by words and actions, the virtues and praises of Him who hath called them. (2.) To make this people content, and thankful for the great mercies and dignities brought unto them by the Gospel, the Apostle advises them to compare their former and their present state. Time was when they were not a people, nor had they obtained mercy, but they were solemnly disclaimed and divorced (Jeremiah 3:8; Hosea 1:6, Hosea 1:9); but now they are taken in again to be the people of God, and have obtained mercy. Learn, [1.] The best people ought frequently to look back upon what they were in time past. [2.] The people of God are the most valuable people in the world; all the rest are not a people, good for little. [3.] To be brought into the number of the people of God is a very great mercy, and it may be obtained."

If you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ and His amazing healing power, pray this from your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ (you speaking directly to Him), Dear Lord Jesus, I confess to You that I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. I believe You shed Your Blood and died for my sins. I believe that You rose from the dead proving that You alone are God. I repent of my sins. I want to turn from my sins. I ask You Dear Lord Jesus to come into my heart and take control of my life. I want You to be my Lord, Savior, and my God. Amen...


Sincerely in Christ,


Clifford D. Tate, Sr.


Author of “Silent Assassins of the Soul - Are you Broken by Pornography and Masturbation? You can be Restored by the Lord Jesus Christ and brought into Deliverance, Freedom, and Victory! A Guide for Men and Women in the Enemy’s Crosshairs” e-book available now @ Amazon Kindle, @ Apple I Bookstore for IPod, Barnes and Noble for Nook, Reader Store for Sony Reade, Kobo, Copia, Gardners, Baker and Taylor, and eBookPie…

Peter Exhorts the Persecuted Believers Volume 20

 Christ is Precious to True Believers but He is an Offence to Unbelievers

1 Peter 2:7-8 Unto you therefore which believe He is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. KJV Note: NKJV=New King James Version

Imagine if I were to go around and go about declaring myself to be perfect and the only man 👨 that knew the truth about everything and that all other men who lived in the past, who are alive in the present, or who will live in the future are all sinful and wrong. Of course people who have known me would laugh 😂 at that bold statement of mine knowing many of my sinful ways as well as my utter ineptitude or unskillfulness in many things. However, there is a man 👨 (the God Man) our Lord Jesus Christ who declares this of Himself when He said and says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)(NKJV). In other words, Jesus Christ declares Himself equal with God and the only way to God and the only truth anywhere and that outside of Him all have no life (no physical life, no spiritual life, and no eternal life). Well, unlike the scenario of me or any other man 👨 or woman 👩 claiming such things above, our Lord Jesus Christ lived a completely sinless perfect life on the earth 🌎 and then went willingly to be executed taking on every human beings rotten sin and filth, but then He destroyed, decimated, and defeated death by rising or resurrecting from death three (3) days later and showing Himself alive from the dead to many people proving that He is the way, the truth, and the life because He is God. When we sinners come into union with Jesus Christ, He takes upon Himself all of our sins (our past sins, our present sins, and our future sins) immediately and He gives to us what we don't have nor could we ever have without Him and that being righteousness which means that we now have right standing with God, but it means even more than that while we remain alive in our bodies on the earth 🌎, for it is a new principle placed in our inner man 👨 and inner woman 👩 giving us a desire to walk or live in newness of life (Romans 6:4) by virtue of God the Holy Spirit being with us but also in us, as it is written by these words spoken directly from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, "If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you." (John 14:15-18) (NKJV). These are some of the reasons why Christ Jesus is so precious to we true born again/begotten again sons and daughters of His. Here is what the Expositor's Bible Commentary had to say of the preciousness of Christ to true believers, "For the name of Christ was in many ways made a reproach; and only men of faith, like Moses and the heroes celebrated with him in Hebrews 11:1-40, could count that reproach greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. Other and weaker hearts needed encouragement, needed to be pointed to the privileges and glories which are the inheritance of the followers of Jesus. And in this spirit he applies the prophetic words, 'For you therefore which believe is the preciousness.' Faith makes real all the offers of the Gospel. It opens heaven, as to the vision of St. Stephen, so that while they are still here believers behold the glory of God to which Christ has been exalted, are assured of the victory which has been won for them, and that in His strength they may conquer also. Thus they receive continually the earnest of those precious and exceeding great promises (2 Peter 1:4) whereby they become partakers of the Divine Nature."

So, we now have the Apostle Peter marking out for us the stark contrast between those early Jewish converts back then who came to Christ as the living stone, the chief cornerstone (just as we true believers today and of every era and generation after them) vs those Jews back then and all unbelieving people since them who remained or remain  unreformable, unrepentant, and unregenerate not wanting to yield themselves to Christ alone for salvation because they see many other ways to be spiritual or religious or simply not believing in God at all. The Apostle Peter makes known the contrast with these words, "Unto you therefore which believe He is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed." (1 Peter 2:7-8) (KJV). To the remaining unbelieving men and women the Name Jesus Christ is nothing more than words or a name to be used in blasphemous 😤 frustration or 🤦‍♂️ exasperation and even more blasphemous as a word or name used in profanity. The unbelieving heart sees no beauty in Christ nor can he or she, for as it is written, "But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Corinthians 2:14) (NKJV). The devil 😈 is going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8) that he may keep sinners from hearing and obeying the Gospel of Christ, as it is written by the Apostle Paul in his second letter to the Corinthian Church ⛪, "Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. But even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age (the devil 👿) has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the Gospel of the Glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." (2 Corinthians 4:1-6) (NKJV). When the Apostle Peter uses the phrase 'a stone of stumbling', that little English word 'stumbling' is translated by the Greek word proskomma meaning a stub, that is, (figuratively) occasion of apostasy: - offence, stumbling block. Peter also uses this little phrase 'a rock of offence' and the little English word 'offence' is translated by the Greek word skandalon meaning a 'scandal'; a trap stick (bent sapling), that is, snare (figuratively cause of displeasure or sin): - occasion to fall, thing that offends, stumbling-block. The Lord Jesus Christ is a barrier or a brick wall or a building between the unbelieving sinner and their sin and the love 😍 of their sin, which makes Him an offence to them a displeasure to them because everything they still love 😍, Jesus hates and therefore, He is a stumbling block and a cause for the false, fraudulent, and fake believers apostasy, that is, the state of having rejected your affiliation, religious or political beliefs, or principles (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes).

An apostate was always a fake believer or better put make believer, he or she was never born again by our Lord, Master, and Savior Jesus Christ, for they never heard His voice they heard the voice of seducing spirits, that is, doctrines of demons as written for us with these words by the Apostle Paul to brother Timothy, "Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth." (1 Timothy 4:1-3) (NKJV). Here is what the Expositors Bible Commentary has to say of the disbelieving or unbelieving, "But all men have not faith. The Bible tells us this on every page. God knows what is in man, and in His revelation He has set forth not only invitations and blessings, but warnings and penalties. Life and good, death and evil-these have been continually proclaimed as linked together by God’s law, but ever with the exhortation, 'Choose life.' Of such warning messages St. Peter gives examples from prophecy and psalm: 'But for such as disbelieve, the stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner,' (Psalm 118:22) 'and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense'; (Isaiah 8:14) 'for they stumble at the word, being disobedient.' Here the Apostle touches the root of the evil. The test of faith is obedience. It was so in Eden; it must be ever so. But now, as then, the tempter comes with his insidious questionings, 'Hath God said?' and sowing doubts, he goes his way, leaving them to work; and work they do. Now it is the truth, now the wisdom, of the command, that men stumble at. But in each case they disobey. Those leave it unobserved; these despise and set it at naught. And the penalty is sure. For mark the twofold aspect of God’s dealing which is set forth in the passages chosen by St. Peter to enforce his lesson. Spite of man’s disobedience, God’s purpose is not thwarted. The stone which He laid in Zion has been made the head of the corner. Though rejected by some builders it has lost none of its preciousness, none of its strength. Those who draw near unto it find life thereby; are made fit for their places in the Divine building, in the kingdom of the Lord’s house which He will most surely establish as the latter days draw on. But they who disobey are overthrown. The despised stone, which is the sure word of God, rises up in men’s self-chosen path, and makes them fall, and at the last, if they persist in despising it, will appear for their condemnation. 'Whereunto also they were appointed.' The Apostle has in mind the words of Isaiah, how the Prophet, in that place from which he has just quoted, declares that many shall stumble and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. This is the lot of the disobedient. These penalties dog that sin. It is the unvarying law of God. The Bible teaches this from first to last, by precepts as well as by examples. The disobedient must stumble. But the Bible does not teach that any were appointed unto disobedience. Such fatalist lessons are alien to God’s infinite love. The two ways are set before all men. God tries us thus because He has gifted us above the rest of creation, that we may render Him a willing service. But neither prophet nor Apostle teaches that to stumble is to be finally cast away. Both picture God’s mercy in as large terms as those in which St. Paul speaks of the Jews: 'Did God cast off His people? God forbid…They, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.' (Romans 11:1-36)"

If you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ and His amazing healing power, pray this from your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ (you speaking directly to Him), Dear Lord Jesus, I confess to You that I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. I believe You shed Your Blood and died for my sins. I believe that You rose from the dead proving that You alone are God. I repent of my sins. I want to turn from my sins. I ask You Dear Lord Jesus to come into my heart and take control of my life. I want You to be my Lord, Savior, and my God. Amen...


Sincerely in Christ,


Clifford D. Tate, Sr.


Author of “Silent Assassins of the Soul - Are you Broken by Pornography and Masturbation? You can be Restored by the Lord Jesus Christ and brought into Deliverance, Freedom, and Victory! A Guide for Men and Women in the Enemy’s Crosshairs” e-book available now @ Amazon Kindle, @ Apple I Bookstore for IPod, Barnes and Noble for Nook, Reader Store for Sony Reade, Kobo, Copia, Gardners, Baker and Taylor, and eBookPie…