A person is not spiritually mature just because they know Scripture! (SO DOES THE ENEMY!) Knowing Scripture without obedience changes NOTHING! REAL maturity show up in how you live when no one is watching! God isn't looking for the one who is just an "informed believer," He is looking for the "TRANSFORMED" believer!

Whether you are a child, teen or an adult, there is a very serious possibility that at some point in time; someone may attempt to follow you with intent of doing harm! I'm not trying to scare you, I'm trying to EDUCATE you on how you and /or your loved ones can remain safe! DADS! IT IS VERY MUCH YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE YOUR WIVES AND CHILDREN KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE NOT THERE TO PROTECT THEM! TEACH THIS RELIGIOUSLY! First off, this isn’t hypothetical for me. I am a retired NYPD Motorcycle Patrol Sergeant and I learned early on that while I was out there trying to protect you and your family, I couldn't always be there to protect my family either. The reality of that hit home for me hard! Several years ago, my wife was out shopping with our kids and noticed a man following them. My wife’s first instinct? RUN! This would have been a very bad choice because while she may have been able to evade the person following them, the kids WOULD NOT! Instead, she walked into the nearest store and asked the staff to call store security very loudly. He was gone in seconds. That experience sent me down a rabbit hole. I started going through everything I could find from personal safety and criminology specialists and what I learned completely changed what I taught my family. Because running? That’s the one thing most experts agree you should NOT do. The second you take off, you show fear. And fear is exactly what pushes someone with bad intent to move faster, not back off. Here’s what I taught mine instead: 👉 Confirm it first. Shift direction slightly and keep your normal pace. An innocent person won’t follow. Someone with intent will. Three turns in a row tells you everything. 👉 Walk toward people and cameras. Step into any store. Get close to the register. Being visible in a monitored space is often enough to make someone disappear. 👉DO NOT GO HOME! If you lead them to where you live, you’ve given them something they didn’t have before. Go public instead. 👉 Say your location out loud. Take out your phone and say clearly where you are even with no one on the line. People who follow others tend to back off the moment someone’s whereabouts are spoken.

@Ryan Gamble and @Aj Storck (HOOAH). Ryan, AJ, It is my hope hope that you find this community to be a warm and welcoming environment. A place where you can press in and draw up close in your relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I also extend to you the opportunity to be strong witnesses to all who find their way here. Let God use your voice so that His message reaches whoever "Has eyes to see and ears to hear" that which the Holy Spirit prompts us to share! AJ, it is always a pleasure to have another pastor and a brother-in-arms in the fold. Iron sharpens iron and oversight is always welcome. USAR MAJ. (Ret) C. HALL 2BCT 82AB 2-325 AIR (WHITE FALCONS) "ATW" 74-94

When you start reading your Bible like THIS, you will see the entire Old Testament in a completely different light. Just be prepared to have your mind completely blown! What we are about to talk about, will long-term , probably be among the most important lessons we could ever learn! If you read the rest of the New Testament, one of the things that is striking is, after a certain point (and I will tell you where) the ENTIRE rest of the New Testament is showing how everything in the Old Testament was about Jesus and you didn't know it! Basicaslly, the entire New Testament is the extrapolation of whatever Jesus told them in Luke 24 on the Emmaus Road. What a lot of Christians do is they think, "I just need to read the Bible chronologically! And I love chronological study! But then you interpret the Bible in chronological fashion! You know, Genesis . . . on through the rest of the Old Testament and THEN Jesus . . . finally ending in Revelation. And yeah, that's great i get it. But no, no, no, That is NOT how we should read the Bible. It's not just some novel and if we skip around we will get lost and not fully understand the story! Remember, Jesus said in Luke 24, "Everything that happened before, was about Him." Have you ever watched the movie, "The Sixth Sense?" It's the only movie I have ever watched twice . . . back to back . . . immediately! Because you see the whole thing and then there's that moment; "OH! HE WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME!" Then, you go back and this time when you watch it, you're interpreting the entire movie through the lens of what was revealed at the end the first time! The whole movie takes on a completely different outlook as you see things you missed before! That is how we are supposed to read the Bible! The Old Testament happens, then jesus shows up and He does the life, death, resurection, and then Jesus goes, "yeah, by the way, all that stuff that's been written for like the last 4000 years . . . ALL THAT WAS ABOUT ME!" And then, what a Christian Bible reader does, is he or she goes, "OH WOW! I NEED TO GO BACK" and you start realizing that every single thing that happened, was pointing to Jesus and was ABOUT Jesus!

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