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My name is Pastor Tony Catron I graduate from K.S.U. with a degree in electronic/electrical engineering. While doing that I became a Junior Deacon and also a musician in my dad's ministry in Cleveland, Ohio. Years later, my career took me to Michigan where I worked as a Electrical/Electronic Engineer. While in Michigan I became a Minister, then later went to Seminary training at Birmingham Bible Institute and became an Elder at a large Pentecostal church in Michigan called LLCC. I was called to the ministry by God. So I headed up an outreach ministry based on the End Times, dealing with restoration in people lives. Then my dad called me back to Ohio to help him Pastor his church. During that time, God changed my outreach ministry, turning it into a full-time restoration ministry. He gave me the name Ark of Covenant Ministries and the rest is history.
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Hello, Hello, Why Can’t You Hear Me?

In this time and season in most people lives, they are being bombarded with so many distractions, let alone with all types of doctrines and religious beliefs system, that the average person doesn’t know who or what to believe. One must always remember this: in a multitude of words, the truth is hidden. So it’s up to the individual to dig up and evaluate the validity of the multitude of words.

In this generation, it appears that men have taken a turn for the worse. It seems as though they have taken understanding for ignorance. There’s a phase that people use today and that is “ignorance is bliss.” This seems to be the going norm for some. In our world today its like telling somebody I can’t be held accountable for my actions. This way of addressing personal problems whether mental or emotional, can cause others to be mislead.

In our society today, individuals don’t want to be told what to do or even how to do it. They will say something like, “Who do you think you’re talking to?” They’ll also follow with these statements:

  1. Your not my mother or father
  2. Don’t talk to me
  3. You don’t tell me to do “@#$%&!%” thing
  4. Kiss my White, Asian, Black a”@#”
  5. Then they will try to walk up on you to fight

This is why today’s society has failed. Everybody knows it all. People are quick to give you opinions, attitudes, and arguments. They just don’t want to hear reason or get an understanding about anything. This leads you to the reason why people in this world don’t want hear the voice of Jesus Christ, the truth in the Bible nor those individuals that represent Jesus Christ. So when Christ begins to knock at your heart, nine times out of ten you won’t recognized His voice. That’s why when Jesus calls your name or tries to get your attention, take notice.

14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. 15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. 16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread. 17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? 18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? 19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

Mark 8:14-19

People of God, we miss out on a lot of blessings from God, from our lack of trusting Jesus, and that He has everything under His authority, even when we fall short. Remember, He never fails.

21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 22 Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

Jeremiah 5:21-25

As people of the most high, we’ve got to put our trust in Jesus authority and understanding.

5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6

Take this with you; feel a pull on your heart to come to Jesus. Don’t ignore that feeling and don’t push it aside. Hebrews 3:15 says, while it is said, to day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. It is so in Jesus name!

For extra reading read Matt. 13:1-30

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Matthew 20

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

The labourers who worked longer feel as though they are entitled to more based on what “they,” thought they deserved. Often times as believers, we have the same mentality. Its important for us to check our hearts and uncover the real motive behind our mentalities. Your reward is the same as any other Christian who may be new in the faith compared to you who may have worked in the vineyard of the Gospel for numerous years.

Were the labours justified to feel slighted? No. Because the landowner agreed to pay them for the work done, not the time it took to do the work. In the Church this mentality of entitlement is apparent in the sense of position because of the “work” they’ve done. They aren’t working with the intent to love God or His people but a hidden motive. You don’t come to Church for opportunities, but to be saved and grow in holiness.

The race to gain the Kingdom of Heaven is not to the swift or to the strong, but the one who endures to the end. The last are first and the first are last. Peoples intents are skewed over a period of time because they look at their accomplishments and the toil it took to attain said accomplishments. People lean on their own opinions of what’s fair. People compare themselves to others.

We are all in this race of to win Christ together. Some labour longer, others don’t. Each of us has a calling and job to do to fulfill Jesus’ desires. But what is most important to the landowner/Jesus is the heart of each worker to do the work cheerfully. Many are called to do the work, but because they seek comparison with others and depend on their own understanding and become embittered by jealously, they disqualify themselves from being chosen. Many who push themselves to be first will be last and those willing to be last will be made first.

The Ambition of James & John & Disciples Jealousy

In the faith we ask Jesus sometimes things we want of Him, but we’re not willing to make sacrifices to obtain it. John and James didn’t understand the suffering Jesus was about to endure through His death. Their mother saw the glamour and prestige of ruler ship. Suffering always comes before the glory. Don’t ask for something you’re not willing to pay the price for.

The other 10 disciples became jealous and Jesus explained to them a better way. He said we are not to rule over each other oppressively and as tyrants, but become each others servants so that the universal quality of equality will naturally work itself out among us. Jesus set an example when He came to serve and to give, giving his life to save many.

Two Blind Men Healed

The blind men defied other people’s rebuke of them because they wanted to be healed. If we persist and cry out to the Lord, Jesus will come to us. In the aspect of spreading the Gospel and making Jesus name famous, we as Christians need to be as the blind men and persist in showing people the heart of Jesus and not religion, rules or regulations.

Summary

  • Count the cost for your soul will be lost (20-23)
  • Persist and you won’t miss your healing miracle (29-34)
  • Work in the vineyard with
  • Don’t judge kingdom matters with worldly standards (1-16)
  • The Baptism in Christ comes with sacrifice (23)
  • Entitlements can corrupt the heart (1-16)
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What is Your Story & How Will it End?

The Story.

Every body has a story, whether good or bad. Nevertheless, it’s what a person has been through. Nobody know’s your story, nor will they be able to understand you or why you are the way you are. In every narrative of your life, there is a structure of the sequence of all the events or plots of your life. The Narrative structure of who you are or where you’ve come from is almost an enigma to others but also even to you as well. So as you try to figure out who you are in this life and world, there is always someone that is trying to change the narrative of you story. If that isn’t enough, if your own understand of the plots or the structure has been guided by the wrong events in your narrative, your whole story will be compromised even to you. In layman’s terms, your epilogue will be read through the eyes and heart of someone else’s narrative.

The older generation leaves us with these word: “May the life I live speak for me.” It’s really ironic, that the life I lived may have been determined by the influence of others. Wouldn’t that be a sad epithet on your grave stone? It would read something like this: “Here lies so-and-so, who lived their life according to the thoughts and opinions of others.” That’s not a good epithet is it? Your life is too short lived, likened unto grass; to be bothered by the lies an foolishness of others.

Even in the Bible reads in the book of: 1 Peter 1:24 “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:”

Now seeing that we are allowing the influence of this world to change our narrative and to determine our end, where do you stand? Who has changed your story?

15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

1 John 2:15-18

In my conclusion, take this with you: Time is short and the days are not long.

27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Hebrews 9:27-28


15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

Hebrews 3:15

1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Hebrews 4:1-11

(Selah)

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Matthew 19

This chapter begins with Jesus healing multitudes who were sick. The Pharisees were hoping to trap him by asking difficult questions, namely about divorce.

Questions about Divorce

Jesus was intent on outlining the fact that God made us male and female from the beginning of creation and a man is to leave his parents and be with his wife, becoming one and should not be divided. In marriage, if you’ve joined yourself to another person of your own will, you’ve walked out of God’s will & will enter into His judgement and the marriage is not blessed, and nothing good will come of it. Its important to note that if we want to do the deeds of marriage we must be willing to sign a contract of marriage and be joined to only one person, male with female.

Jesus and Little Children

Jesus said that the Kingdom is comprised of little children like the ones whom people were bringing to Him. He scolded his disciples when they tried to deny the children from coming. Further, the statement in Matthew 18:3 that no one can enter the kingdom unless they adopt the mentality of a teachable child is a sobering reminder of how Jesus wants us to be as Children of our Heavenly Father.

The Rich Young Man

The young man wanted assurance of eternal life, so he asked Jesus what he had to do to obtain it. Jesus told him to keep the commandments which the young man was proud to proclaim he done since a little boy. However, we find that the young man lacked one thing: selflessness. He wasn’t willing to give up his life and comforts. He didn’t want to get rid of everything for the sake of following Jesus, and so he lost everything. His response to what Jesus said is a reflection of what was in his heart: selfishness.

Giving up your all for Jesus in this life yields a great reward in the afterlife to come. This world is very temporary and the life that we live now determines what reward we’ll have for our eternity. Those in this life who posture themselves to be great in the eyes of the world will be last in the Kingdom. Those in this life who’ve postured themselves to be humble and least in this world will be first in the Kingdom.

Summary

  • Stay away from that lust; there won’t be any fuss. (2 Cor 7:9)
  • If you’re not willing to give up anything, you’ll loose everything. (21-22)
  • Marry don’t act contrary (4)
  • The impossible is possible with God (26)
  • God gives grace to be chaste (12)
  • God’s mate will be your perfect date (6)
  • Forsake all in Jesus name, it won’t be in vain (29-30)
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Are You a Surface Person, Living Selfishly

In this world today, people are pampering the weakness in their life instead of pursuing Christ. In these last days the men, women, and children will become selfish and disobedient, heady, lovers of unnatural affections for the opposite sex and warmongers.

The narrative of this planet reads like a sci-fi novel with a horrible end where everybody dies. The heart of man has waxed worse and is full of self-indulgence of the flesh.

1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:1-7

The seventh verse of this chapter sums up this day and age. Man is always in search of new things, be it of the human body or technologically in the field of electronics or exploring deep space. Man is forever trying to find out how our Creator made things, but never what man’s purpose is or how to live according to God’s will and with their fellow man. The people of this age seem to have but one thing on their mind, and that is a life of self-indulgence. What’s even worse is that this way of thinking has found a home in the House of God where the lust of the mind has become common place among the so called Saints of the Lord. They’re backstabbing each other, down playing the significance of each other’s ministries, lording over God’s people, doing and saying all types of evil in their presence, and jockeying for positions of authority among the people of God. In this generation, we call that kissing up to the head; sometimes doing whatever it takes to get a leader to validate that they are somebody; somebody to listen to in Christendom so they can gain fame and a bank full of dead hypocrites, at the cost of destroying their brothers and sisters in Christ.

1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

James 4:1-17

So as you can see this world and the Church has slipped into a mind of selfishness and flesh with no regard for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his crucifixion an resurrection. In my conclusion, remember this: if you didn’t get anything else we talked about, in this life, its not about you, its about Jesus Christ and His will for your life. In Jesus name, it is so!