The LORD's Way

It is so awesome to know the same God who opened the Red Sea for His people to be able to escape,will do the same for His people today. Not only did the Lord make a way out right through what previously appeared to be their soon coming end (the Red Sea), but along with their deliverance through the sea, He destroyed the enemy utterly. Wow!!!

Exodus 14:22 says the waters they once viewed as their soon coming death were made walls for them so they could travel through on dry ground.

As everyone stood and watched Jesus on the cross and began to think this is the end, this is death, this is great loss, while the entire time the opposite was much True. It was NOT the end, BUT THE BEGINNING, not just death, but death that would bring LIFE, not loss, but the greatest gain one could ever know.

It is very refreshing to know the WORD of GOD proclaims that

"if God spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up (the cross) for us all,

how shall He not also

WITH HIM give us freely all things."

The key is WITH HIM. This is the knowing that we were crucified with Him and if we are planted together in the likeness of His death (identification with His cross) we will walk in newness of life. The reason so many Christians can't get past their problems is because they don't know they have been baptized into Christ's death, (Romans 6:3) NOT His glory, or anything else. His death is what justified and what brings newness of life that we all search for. Praise God.

God bless you and remember Revival is coming in a great way, but it will only be ushered in through One Way and that is the preaching of CHRIST and HIM crucified.

Pastor Curtis Hutchinson

Context

Although I have been in Christian ministry for over fourteen years, it has only been in the last five years The LORD has begun to Teach me The TRUTH. We cannot learn TRUTH if all we are being taught is law. I had been side tracked like almost the entirety of the church today, using Scripture out of context just like that old devil does. The enemy does not always just add or take away, be he also quotes Scripture like it is written, but has a wrong motive behind his use of it. He took Jesus to a high pinnacle and asked Him to jump quoting a part of Psalm 91 to Him.

How is Scripture being thrown at you today? In what context is Scripture being given to you today? If it is NOT in the context of what Jesus came to do at the cross, there is leaven mixed in with it, and the enemy is behind it. The devil does transform his minister's as the minister's of righteousness, but they can be detected if we are truly Bible Believers and not just mere puppets who sit in church week after week agreeing with everything the preacher says. These preachers may sound and look like they have your best interests at heart, but if they truly do, they will preach to you what Jesus did for you at Calvary to show that is was your best interests He had in mind. Christ and Him crucified is all Paul preached, and warned that today would come when many would be seduced by evil spirit's producing false doctrine, falling away from THE FAITH (Christ and Him crucified).
Time is running out. Please understand that the Pharisees knew that Jesus was the Messiah, but He wasn't the one THEY wanted, because he was taking all the attention off everything they exalted (themselves, their purpose, dreams, goals, etc…) YOU KNOW THE ANSWER IS THE CROSS, but is it The Answer from The LORD you are willing to put your total Trust in? If so, you will be found among those who are of the same spirit, like mind, striving together for THE FAITH (Christ and Him crucified). You will be empowered by the Holy Spirit to come out from among them for His Name sake, and for the sake of THE TRUTH.
Are you willing to give up what YOU have planted? Are you willing to give up what YOU have been the leader of for years? Is ALL that, that YOU have done, more important to you than TRUTH? For those who have ears to hear, I will see you in THE FAITH. ✝

Pastor

curtishutchinson@att.net

He Defines His WORD By His WORD

Ephesians 2:4 & 5

But God, Who is Rich in Mercy, for His Great Love wherewith He Loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by Grace ye are Saved)

Don't you just love how God ALWAYS interprets and defines everything by HIS WORD? In this one verse, The LORD reveals the definition of Grace. All the terminologies we use today for the word grace such as "God's ability in man's inability", or "God's favor toward undeserving man" are all good phrases, but I'm a bible fanatic. The LORD has defined everything IN HIS WORD BY HIS WORD. Praise God!
The definition of GRACE is CHRIST AND CHRIST CRUCIFIED. You just read it in Ephesians 2:5. It was at the cross that God quickened us (made us Alive) with Christ. The Apostle Paul writes, by the Power of The Spirit of God, putting the definition of what HE, The LORD, just Said in parenthesis. The definition of GRACE IS WHAT CHRIST DID AT CALVARY. There is no other definition.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with Grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

This scripture tells us that our hearts are established by Grace, nothing else. If Grace is what Christ did at Calvary, then what Christ did at Calvary is all and everything that will establish us. When The Apostle Paul requested three times that God remove the thorn from his flesh, God's comment to him was, "My Grace is sufficient". What Christ did for you at Calvary is enough. God's Grace is all that avails, it is all that empowers, it is all that Saves, it is all that delivers, and it is all that brings provision.
Unfortunately, today many are working theselves to death trying to get God to move in their lives all to NO avail. The Spirit of God is The Spirit of Grace (Hebrews 10:29). The Spirit of Grace operates exclusively within the perimeters of the Finished Work of Calvary. All the other things we are involved in other than just believing that Calvary was enough, we will just continue to frustrate the Grace of GOD.
I don't know about you, but it's time to get serious about the things of God. I need God's Grace more than anything in my life. When God sends the two witnesses, they will proclaim the message of the cross and the world will hate them to the point that when GOD does allow their death, the people will give gifts to one another. Which side of this line are you on today? Are you sitting under a preacher of the cross being taught The Word of God in context or are you involved with a group of people with all kinds of things going on that can't even be found in The Word of God? Return to your FIRST LOVE.

NOW, Faith IS

How scary it actually would be if The LORD were to stop speaking to us, for we would utterly perish, seeing that we live by faith, and faith comes by hearing and hearing The WORD of GOD (Romans 10:17). Jesus said Himself that man does NOT live by bread alone (physical), but by EVERY WORD that proceeds out of the Mouth of the Father (spiritual).

It sounds so spiritual to say there are times The LORD just doesn’t seem to be Speaking to us and that we must go on what we have heard instead of what we ARE hearing, but The WORD of GOD reveals to us in Hebrews 11:1 that, NOW FAITH IS, therefore NOW we must always be hearing The LORD.

Those who don’t know Truth "themselves" have taught us so many erroneous things that we have remained in the same bondage's we have been in for years. Romans 7:5 teaches us that it is the law that stirs the sin nature. If someone is telling you anything other than placing your faith in the cross of Christ will Save, Deliver, Mature, Conform, or Sanctify you, be it known, The LORD did NOT send them with THAT message and The LORD did NOT send you there to keep PAYING THEM TO LIE TO YOU. The Holy Spirit works solely within the perimeter of THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST (His cross). If we think otherwise, we have fallen from grace and have joined the ranks with Cain and the likes of Copeland, Hagin and all the rest of the folks who have their faith in their confession, their giving, their praying, their church attendance, etc… This is all make believe and fairy tale. (LAW)

The Law of The Spirit of Life IN CHRIST JESUS (The cross) has made me FREE from the law of sin and death (Romans 8). Most do not know this TRUTH, that The Holy Spirit is confined by law, HIS LAW, to working within our hearts based on our faith in the cross exclusively. He works based on what Christ did not on what we do. Thank God!!! Where were you made FREE FROM SIN AND DEATH? For those who have ears to hear, it was at the cross of Christ.

God Bless you and know that we are praying The LORD will reveal this Great Mystery (TRUTH) to you. Always remember, it is ONLY TRUTH that can set you FREE.
Pastor Curtis Hutchinson

If God Be FOR Us

Romans 8:31

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

If God be FOR us, who can be against us! In this scripture is hidden treasure for those who are willing to search it out, as Proverbs 25:2 reveals, it is the honor of kings to be able to do so.

If God be FOR us, doesn’t describe Him being for everything we’re doing, or even that He’s on our side, although He is. The word “FOR” in this scripture in its fullest Greek meaning describes substitution (instead of; in place of).

God was instead of you at Calvary. He took our place. It was Him at the cross bearing the price for our sin. Not only at Calvary was He FOR you, but from the foundation of the world, He has been FOR you, because the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8 & 1 Peter 1:20). Not just eternity past, but also in the eternal future, He is FOR you. He’s making intercession FOR you now. Have you ever wondered what Jesus is actually DOING to make intercession FOR you as He is seated at the right hand of the Father?

The answer is in the very scripture that tells us He’s interceding for us. “He ever LIVETH”. His intercession is simply His life. He lives FOR you because He atoned FOR all sin FOR you FORever. (Hebrews 7:25)

The Lord is for you. Don’t you know the devil trembled when He heard God would become a man? “The Seed of the woman” (Genesis 3:15).
He got kicked out of heaven trying to dethrone God, and when He found out he would have to come up against God as a man, he immediately began trying to kill everyone he thought might be THE SEED of the woman. (The Redeemer) He knew if God became a man, he would lose on earth as he lost in heaven. Hallelujah!!!

Praise God. As we keep our faith in only what Jesus did at Calvary, we will walk in the Spirit and the flesh will not have its desires met, and sin will not have dominion over you.

Herein Is Love

1 John 4:9-10

In this was manifested the Love of God toward us, because that God sent His Only Begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Aren't you so thrilled today that The God of all creation LOVES you and gave His ONLY begotten Son for you? He has revealed the Greatest of all Gifts to you: HIS LOVE.

Christ is the source while the cross of Christ is the means through which all provision comes from The LORD. Faith in Christ, the source, without faith in Christ's cross, the means, is to have faith in a wrong Christ which will bring with it a wrong spirit.

1 John 4:9-10 tells us where the Lord revealed His love to us and for us, at the cross. If we keep our faith properly placed IN CHRIST, which simply means in (identifying ourselves with) what He did for us at the cross, we will walk by faith, because faith works by love. (Gal. 5:6) Faith only works by love. The only faith the Lord will recognize and move upon is the faith of the son of God, who loved us and GAVE Himself for us. Can you see the faith God sees? (Gal 2:20)

One may be saying, the bible says, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Rom 10:17), which is true, but for those who have ears to hear, the Word of God out of the context of what Christ did at the cross (loved us and gave Himself) for us, perverts the Word and produces a false faith the Lord will not recognize. This faith that works by love truly is the faith that crushed the head of Satan, overcomes the entire world, and brings continual victory!! This is what Paul meant when he wrote in 2 Corinthians 2:14,

“Thanks be to God who ALWAYS causes us to triumph IN CHRIST JESUS. (Faith in the cross)

Cain could not see this, can you?

God bless you and remember to always RIGHTLY divide THE WORD of TRUTH.

As a Man Thinketh

There has always been a remnant of believers and it will never change. The amazing thing is that all believers believe they are that remnant. Regardless of what they believe, they believe they are the ones with God’s favor. Most of the folks today, who would consider themselves spiritual, THINK that just as long as they believe something, the Lord will honor it. It’s been this way since Adam, Eve, and Cain, all of which THOUGHT they would by pass God’s ONLY prescribed order for blessing, victory, and for all things through which the Lord gives to His people.

For years I was not honest with myself as I ran from the Salvation of God, then receiving His Gift of Grace and becoming a saved child of God, years later I found myself not being honest with myself once again. The Word of God teaches that the good ground that enables The seed (Word of God) to be able to prosper and bring forth a harvest is that of the good and honest heart (Luke 8:15).
Proverbs 16:3 reveals to us that if we will "commit our ways to the Lord, He will establish our thinking”. This is a grand promise because His Word also tells us that as a man THINKS in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7). The Lord has always attempted to establish man, but we as men have always tried to establish ourselves. Once again, this is what Adam, Eve, and Cain began trying to do as the first folks on the earth and it hasn’t changed today even with almost all the church. The reason we have denominations today is the same reason Adam, Eve, Cain, and all the rest of the folks went their own way, which simply put, IS A DENIAL of faith in the Cross. No, it’s not a disagreement of other topics in the Word of God, for TRUE FAITH in the FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST will cause the Holy Spirit to bring us into all understanding, and a unity that’s in THE FAITH of The Lord Jesus Christ.

Proverbs 16:3

Commit thy works unto The LORD,

and thy thoughts shall be established.

Paul stated in Philippians 2:20-21, that he had no one else that was like minded with him (the remnant) in The faith, because everyone else sought after their own (religion-denominational) way, and not what was Christ’s.
The Word of God asks a question that is very startling in Luke 18:8-9. Will the Lord find faith on the earth when He comes? He then, in verse 9, begins to describe those that are going their own way, trusting in themselves and what they want to believe. We are living in the hour right now in which the Lord could return at any moment. Are you in THE faith? This doesn’t mean are you in church, are reading your bible daily, are you in prayer daily, but ARE YOU IN THE FAITH? Are you being told you must be water baptized, or speak in tongues to be saved? Are you being told you’re healed, yet you see the infirmity still there? Are you being told if you’ll just give $100, the Lord will give you $1000?
How long will you continue to be dishonest with yourself? For those who have ears to hear, the Lord is calling you back to your first love: The True and Only place of honesty and reality, THE CROSS. This is the place we first loved Him, this is the ONLY place we CAN love Him (The True Christ of The Word of God), and the place where we first began to see and the only place that provides us eye sight today. This is the only place you will find the remnant of God’s people. Please quit pretending and commit your way unto the Lord (faith in HIS cross) and allow Him to establish you as He longs to do.

Pastor Curtis HutchinsonCrossWay Church curtishutchinson@att.net

Flourishing

The bible declares that those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of their God. (Psalm 92:13) We all want the flourishing, but two things must be noticed. The first being, those that are planted, and second, where they are planted: the house of the Lord. We must be planted together with other believers, who Paul said of the Church at Philippi,

“Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for THE faith of the Gospel.”

Praise God!!!

Paul had to say “whether I be present or absent”, because he knew what happened most of the time he wasn’t there. They probably would not stay planted in the Truth (faith-message of the cross). If we are striving together for THE faith of the Gospel, we are planted in THE Truth (faith-message of the cross) which states, “if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death (His cross) we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection. (Romans 6:5)

The Word of God also declares Christ is a Son over His house whose we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of THE hope firm unto the end. (Hebrews 3:6)

Are you planted in a church the Lord recognizes today where the people are single minded and still excited about what our Jesus did for us, or is your excitement in everything your doing (all the churches programs)?

Many have wandered out of THE Way of understanding (the faith-message of His cross) and remain in a congregation, yet it is the congregation of the dead. (Prov. 21:16)

For those who have ears to hear the Spirit of the Lord, come out from among the dead and join those who are in THE FAITH (faith in His cross). They will be found in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for THE Faith of THE Gospel, which means simple faith in what Jesus did for you at Calvary. Glory to God, the Truth has come to our region. There is only one place of flourishing and that is in the courts of our God, and that only takes place as we are planted in the house of the Lord which is to be planted in THE Faith. We are praying for all those who are hearing the Spirit of the Lord speak to them, but are kicking against the pricks, trapped in the fear of man. It is hard to see the mud in the glass while you are in it. Be set free as you learn Truth and That Truth IS Christ and Him crucified. If you don’t understand this, please feel free to e-mail or write CrossWay Ministries.

Pastor Curtis Hutchinson
CrossWay Church/Atlanta, TX 75551
1116 E. Main

Storehouse

The Lords desire is to bless us and He goes as far as to tell us one of the avenues through which blessings are obtained. Through the prophet Malachi, the Lord encourages His people once again by redirecting their attention back to His storehouse. He does the same thing through the prophet Habakkuk. He will always point us to the temple, and Christ is our temple. (John 2:19-21) The Lord requires the tithe (a tenth) of our increase be brought into the storehouse that there may be meat in His house. Not only is Jesus our temple, but He is also the meat (flesh) that is to be eaten in the storehouse. In John 6, while the multitudes followed Jesus for the show (His prophetic words), He said

"unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you.”

Note what happened when He referred to His main purpose (His cross). All turned away except the twelve. The only storehouse the Lord establishes is one that preaches Christ and Him crucified. Where the cross is not the message in every sermon, there is no meat in the House of the Lord, therefore, no power and it is not a store house the Lord has established.
Yes, that’s correct. The Lord will not honor your giving just because you give to a church, but as you bring your tithe and offerings into the storehouse He has established, He then can and will rebuke the devourer on your behalf and pour out on you a blessing that you cannot contain. That is a promise from the Lord. If your blessed financially, but your not sowing into the preaching of the gospel, which is the preaching of what Paul preached (the cross), then your just blessed because you live in a blessed nation and there are many lost folks who have money and some more than you. The Lord causes it to rain on the just and the unjust.
You can only know without a shadow of a doubt that what you have materially is directly from the Lord if you’re faith is in the cross of Christ and you’re sowing into a ministry that preaches just that. Remember, if you’ve got all you’ve got because you’re a getter and not a giver then all you’ve got will one day get you.
God’s storehouse has meat on the table and that meat is Christ and Him crucified. God chose the preaching of the cross, so when will you surrender to Gods way? Have you got too much invested into what you think is right today? So did the Pharisees of Jesus’ day. It’s our prayer that you could see what the Lord is doing and be a part of it. Ask the Lord for that fresh touch of boldness to declare Truth to a lost World.

We love you and are praying for you, Jesus is coming soon!!

Naaman

Although Naaman was a great man (Captain of the King of Syria’s army), yet still, he was a leper. Leprosy in the old covenant was symbolic of sin and Naaman desired to be free of this disease just as any Christian should desire to be free of the dominating power of sin. After being told of a prophet of God, Naaman set out, but the prophet just sent a messenger with a message for Naaman. The message was, “Go dip in the river Jordan seven times”. Naaman wasn’t pleased saying, “are not all the rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel?

The Jordan River, Jordan meaning descender, descended from Galilee into the Dead Sea. The Jordon is representative of Calvary. Just as the Jordan runs into the Dead Sea, so does Christ’s baptism by John identify Himself with man and the purpose on His life. The Jordon points to His death and ours as well, because we were crucified with Him being baptized into His death (Romans 6:3)
All other waters (messages) look and sound good, but for those who have ears to hear and desire to walk in a place where leprosy (sin) doesn’t have dominion over you (Rom. 7:14), take note; It is only your faith in what Christ did at Calvary that allows the Holy Spirit to bring the victory you need. All else is just water that will not satisfy or sanctify. Remember: Your faith is not in the cross of Christ if your preacher isn’t preaching the cross of Christ.

The Lord will be coming any moment, in a twinkling of an eye, and the difference between the one’s that are gone with Him and the one’s remaining behind will be what the object of their faith has been. Months ago, the Lord revealed to me that for years I learned about ministry, but never learned what to minister. If we’ve been called by the Lord ministers of reconciliation, and have had the Word of reconciliation committed unto us, and have been reconciled by the blood, what is the ministry of those whom the Lord sends? Over the last few years, I’ve found my faith in many things that are good things, but none of them were things that allowed the Holy Spirit to work in my life. He only works in me based on my faith in His finished work at Calvary. (Romans 8:2)

Ears To Hear

• 2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from The Truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Even understanding that most do not have ears to hear today, it is evident, that there are still some few who do. For the few who do have ears to hear, and have not been blinded by religion, your path is about to shine this year brighter than ever before simply because you have placed your faith in The Finished Work of Christ without adding anything else to it. The LORD has Promised to surround those, who hear The WORD and keep THE Faith, with His Goodness (which is what leads us to repentance, Romans 2:4) and to drop fatness (plenty of Blessing) in His Path for us. (Psalms 65:1)

Proverbs 4:18 declares the path of the just is like the shining light that shines more and more unto the perfect day. The path of the just is a PATH OF FAITH because we have been JUSTIFIED BY FAITH (Romans 5:1). Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17). The Word of God is our instruction IN RIGHTEOUSNESS (2 Timothy 3:16) and the Righteousness of God is revealed in the Gospel from faith to faith. Romans 1:16-17 reveals the gospel is CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED as it says the gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation (salvation of any kind in the Word of God ALWAYS speaks of the cross of Christ). If the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel of Christ (cross of Christ) and our instruction from God is the Word of God, the only way we can receive true saving, sanctifying, instruction from the Lord is to have our faith anchored exclusively in the cross.
1 John 1:7 proclaims that if we are walking in the light as the Lord is in the Light we are in fellowship with Him AND THE BLOOD cleanses us from all sin. “And The Blood”, speaks of the cross and lets us know there is no light outside of faith in the cross of Christ for salvation, deliverance, blessing, or anything else the Lord has for us.
This is why Paul preached Christ and Him crucified and wrote that adding anything else for victory causes Christ to become of none effect. (1 Corinthians 1:17) The Lord is found ONLY in the light of the cross. If we can do anything other than believe, to obtain victory, Christ did not need to come and die. All principalities and powers were defeated as Christ triumphed over them making an open show of them in His cross (Colossians 2-14-15) This is still the only way you can triumph over anything hindering you from being conformed into the image of Jesus Christ, which should be your focus. (Colossians 2-14-15) The devil transforms his angels as ministers of light and they are the one’s leading every one to a place they call beyond the cross which is darkness in all reality. We are told to GO BACK to our first love, (the cross) not beyond it. The Lord is waiting on you to take a stand and come out of the fear of man, which has you trapped. (Proverbs 29:25) He is speaking to many of you today. Please do not continue to push him aside worried about what everyone else will think.

2 Corinthians 2:14 proclaims there is never ending victory for the children of God even today and every today. This scripture not only convicts me due to the lack of victory I experience at times, but also encourages me, revealing to me there can be uninterrupted victory in my life. If I do not understand from where my victory comes, I will be found trying TO DO many things to find it. Let us look at what the scripture says.

2 Corinthians 2:14

Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.

Notice where the triumph is found. In Christ. This exclusively speaks of faith in what Christ did at the cross, and not just in “a” jesus. The Apostle Paul tells us there is “another gospel”, “another jesus”, “ushered in by another spirit”. If our faith in Christ is separated from His finished work, we have a faith the Lord does not and will not recognize. The Apostle Paul writes, “As you have RECEIVED the Lord Jesus Christ, WALK YE ALSO IN HIM.” The Word of God reveals we can be in Christ, yet fail to walk in Him. Walking in Him SIMPLY means to keep our faith in what it was in when we were initially saved. The same finished work of Christ that saved you from hell will also save you from a gossiping tongue, lusting spirit, envy, strife, alcohol, drugs, terrible marriage etc… My bible says all principalities & powers were defeated by Christ as He triumphed over them, making an open show of them IN HIS CROSS. (Colossians 2:14-16) Only a religious spirit would try to bring works in as part of deliverance. The only legitimate deliverance ministry is the ministry like that of the Apostle Paul, the preaching of Christ and Him crucified. There is no other way to be delivered from sin. So many, with their lips, say they know this, but listen to what is being ministered. Remember, many are called, but few are chosen. (Matthew 22:14)You can walk away from whatever it is holding you down, choking the life out of you simply by placing your faith back in the cross of Christ. If your faith is in what He did, you will be identified with His cross, and experiencing the victory that was provided you there. God bless.

Greetings

Greetings in The Name of The LORD Jesus Christ!

As part of the body of Christ, it is our prayer and deep desire to reach the ends of the Earth with The True and Living Gospel of The LORD Jesus Christ. We pray that, by HIS Grace, we will wisely redeem this time we have been given, knowing this, "that the end draweth nigh". We hope that you will join us as we proclaim The Blood and The Power of HIS cross.

May God Richly Bless you, by His Mercy and Grace, in the understanding and knowledge of The LORD Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.