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The Strong Hand of The Lord

All His Works Are Done In Truth

As I look back in the year 2011, I would say the most important lesson the Lord taught me was that ALL His works are done IN Truth, not just because of Truth, but IN Truth. Psalms 33:4 states
“For the word of the LORD is right; and ALL His works are done IN truth”.Jesus claimed to be the Truth and the only thing that makes Him Truth to anyone is the work He accomplished at Calvary, therefore rightly dividing the scriptures would be as follows. Jesus said, “You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free” (John 8:32) and He was referring to freedom from sin. Also Paul wrote to the church in Rome, “He that is dead, is free from sin” (Romans 6:7). When we bring these two scriptures together RIGHTLY dividing them we find the common ground to be the cross of Christ, for there we die with Him (Rom 6:6) and there we were delivered from the one who had the power of death (Hebrews 2:14). My bible still tells me to walk today in the same manner as I received Him (Colossians 2:6), faith in His cross. That is how all born again Christians received Him.
This is the reason Paul preached nothing other than the cross of Christ (The Gospel) as it is the power of God (Romans 1:16). Many stumble over it today and have been deceived into believing they control God, but as I read and believe His Word, I see He is still the One upholding ALL things by the Word of His power. That Word of His power is Jesus and what He did on the old rugged cross. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14) so He could die for our sins, our faith could remain in Him, and His finished work cause the Holy Spirit to work on our behalf.
Understand, the Holy Spirit ONLY works according to a law, The law of the Spirit of Life IN Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2). There it is again IN Christ Jesus, IN the Truth. The Truth is IN Jesus (Ephesians 4:21). This is going to be the best year for our region as the Lord is delivering many from the distractions brought about by the enemy’s distractors (Enemies of the Cross).
We are praying for you, that this will be the year God brings you out from among those who have replaced the message of the cross by which we will all be judged according to (Romans 2:16), with men’s psychology, men’s traditions & anything that distracts from what our Lord Jesus did for us on Calvary’s hill. He told you to depart quite some time ago, but you have chosen relationships and a false unity over the Truth. The ONLY unity God honors is “the unity of the faith” (Ephesians 4:13). That is, “The faith of The Son of God who loved us and GAVE (His cross) Himself for us” (Galatians 2:20).
God bless you and may all who read have “ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church today”.
Pastor Curtis Hutchinson
CrossWay Church Atlanta, TX

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The Context of The Word Is Calvary

Those today who reject the cross, having become enemies of the cross are those who have placed their faith in ANYTHING other than the cross (what Christ accomplished there for us). Most do not understand, but that will not be a legitimate excuse before the Lord.
The Word of God tells us in Numbers 14:20 that the Lord pardoned His people and refrained from destroying them according to the Word of Moses. Notice, it was not the voice of Moses, nor just anything Moses would say, but that which God had already spoken which pointed to what Christ would accomplish at Calvary.
Numbers 14:17-19 reveal Moses being brought to a place of faith by the Lord so the Lord could save the people instead of destroying them. Note verse 17 as Moses pleas with the Lord saying, “Let the power of my Lord be great, according as you have spoken saying”. Verse 18 tells what God had spoken and could only do through what Jesus would do at Calvary.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR, know that it’s not our voice, our words, or even God’s Word that He honors, but only His Word in the context of what His Son would accomplish at Calvary. This is why the Apostle Paul would write,

“For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but unto us who are saved it is the power of God”.

The end is drawing near and God is moving and pouring out of His Spirit in this hour. I encourage all of you who truly belong to the Lord to come out from among the golden calf builders (those who preach anything other than the message of the cross). Who is on the Lord’s side? Remember the Truth, when you know it will make you free. Free from the golden calf builders – those who preach law and works – enemies of the cross.
We are praying for you and your house that the Lord will give you the eyes to see, courage, boldness and strength to come back to the Truth, the gospel, the faith which is the Christ and Him crucified – the power of God.

Pastor Curtis Hutchinson

The Full Armor of God

For years now the church has not worn the full armor of God, having been stripped by the enemy (devil) through false preachers and their false doctrines such as he uses to distract from the only thing that crushes his head and stops ALL his fiery darts and that is The Message Of The Cross, which in the only thing that produces the full armor of God in our lives.
The complete armor of God speaks exclusively of what Christ has provided for us at Calvary. Ephesians 6:11-17 reveals that wearing this armor is what causes us to stand against the wiles (schemes) of the enemy who roars as a lion to move out faith FROM the cross of Christ and FROM wearing the full armor of God. Satan doesn’t care what he MOVES our faith TO as long as it is NOT IN what crushed his head! Faith in anything other than what Christ accomplished, prospered in, and Finished at the cross will always allow him to steal from us, kill and destroy us.
Notice all the pieces of armor listed are defensive except the Sword of The Spirit… THE WORD OF GOD. The Word of God, our sword of The Spirit, is what makes our shield of faith what it is.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by The Word of God. Romans 10:17

If we use The Word of God, our sword, out of context, it causes our shield not to be able to quench any fiery darts of the enemy. Faith (our shield) comes by hearing (understanding) and hearing by The Word of God (our sword). The object and strength of our faith is determined by out understanding of the scriptures.
The only Way our understanding can be opened to the scriptures (our sword) is the same Way Jesus opened His disciples understanding by Saying,

Thus is it Written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day. And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in HIS NAME among all Nations… (see Luke 24:44-46)

Our shield cannot block one fiery dart of the enemy if our sword is not the sword The Lord has provided. Of course we know, the only thing that can defeat the enemy is what Christ has already done to crush his head (Colossians 2:14-16). He has already made an open show of him triumphing over him IN HIS CROSS.
Faith in the cross of Christ is still the only thing that crushes the enemy’s head, therefore, the FULL armor of God cannot be worn except by those who have ears to hear The Message of The Cross and understand that all else is irrelevant!!
We are still NOT ASHAMED of The Gospel of Christ… as IT IS THE POWER OF GOD TO US WHICH ARE SAVED.

Pastor Curtis Hutchinson

CrossWay Church / Atlanta, Texas

The Lord Is A Man Of War

The LORD is a Man of war: The LORD is His Name.

Exodus 15:3

Jesus IS The Man of war. The LORD is His Name. He super abounds in His qualification and ability to teach our hands to war, and our fingers to fight. By The Blood and The Power of His cross, He teaches our fingers to lay hold, grip, and not let go of the Sword of The Spirit (The Word of God) and the Shield of faith. It is by His Grace that He teaches and leads us.

He teaches us to cry out when our arms become feeble because it is The LORD, the King of Glory Who is Strong and Mighty in Battle. The Word of God Says that He learned obedience through the things He suffered. He suffered in obedience not for Himself, but for us. As He was coming to the greatest show of obedience being in an agony, a struggle, (which was the death of the cross – which is the place of death for our flesh) the Word of God Says of this Strong and Mighty Man of War that He fell on His Face in tears with a powerful outcry and prayed to The God above Knowing He (God) was able to Save. God did not reject nor despise His prayers, but rather sent an angel from The Throne Room of God to Strengthen Him. Jesus knew He could not bypass the cross just as we cannot bypass the death of our flesh (our cross which is faith in His cross), but He poured His heart out before God to the fullest in such an agony that The Word says, “His sweat was as great drops of blood falling to the ground.”

As our flesh is being crucified, if we will just cry out to God to the fullest pouring our heart out before Him, HE will strengthen us. The battle is The Lord’s. He is The God and Rock of our Salvation. He is The Refuge that Forever Stands. It is His Work. The Sword of The Spirit changes and conforms ‘us’ even as it Comforts us. The shield of faith, knowing God IS transforming us into the image of His Son Jesus Christ, will protect us from the accusing and deception of the enemy. It is Not over and The Victory is already won! There is a beautiful Work to be done and a beautiful Work being done. Although weeping may endure for a night, Praise be to God, there is an Everlasting Joy that is coming in the morning!

Stand strong IN The Lord and be of good courage. The Commandment of God Was, Is, and Ever Will Be to and for our Salvation; our initial Salvation and our daily Salvation. There is no rest in yesterday’s surrender. Surrender is something that must be done every day, because we need rest everyday. Sometimes that surrender of obedience comes with great agony, but if we will fall on our face before God and cry out to Him knowing we are not able of ourselves, He Who is Greater than the angels, will be there to Help and Strengthen us with all Compassion. Have Faith in The One Who Loved you and Gave Himself for you. He is your Salvation and He is your Strength. Our God and our King is a Mighty Man of war and The Victory has already been won.

His Word Did Not Return Void

So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My Mouth: It shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isaiah 55:11

The Word became flesh and went forth with Commandment. With a body prepared by God for Sacrifice, He came to give His life a ransom for all. Without spot or blemish, He was as a lamb led to the slaughter. He was and Is the Only Sacrifice accepted by God once, for all, and forever. He is the Propitiation and Atonement for ALL sin. He accomplished ALL surrender and ALL obedience on our behalf. His obedience included His death by means of the cross. As Christ was God’s Chosen and Perfect Sacrifice so was the cross His Chosen and Perfect alter.

He did not just accomplish The Will of God, but He Prospered in it. By The Power of The Blood and His cross, He does not just give us life, but gives us abundant life. He is for us in every aspect, in everything, and every day. It is His Finished Work at Calvary that gives us the Power to become the children of God. It was through His Finished Work at the cross that He was able to send The Comforter to abide upon and IN us. It is by His Blood that He lives in us and we live in Him. It is by His Blood that all sin is Washed and Cleansed away, removing every spot and blemish from the Believer to be remembered no more. It is The Power of the cross that removes the curse of sin from us. His Death sanctifies us and His Resurrection shows us Justified.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.  Isaiah 53:10

What the blood of bulls and goats could not do, The Blood of Jesus exceedingly DOES. The blood of bulls and goats could not perfect the saints in that it could not cleanse the conscience, but we ARE Perfected IN Him, all guilt of sin washed away (Hebrews 9:13-14 & 10:1-4). He was touched with the feelings of our infirmities and in all our times of Need we can enter in, by HIS Blood, to the Holy of Holies through the veil of His Body, to obtain Mercy and Grace at anytime and all the time (Hebrews 4:15-16). He does not leave us Comfortless, but desires with Passion to lift us above our infirmities. He does not tear down, but causes the crooked to become strait Healing the brokenhearted and blessing the poor in spirit. He gives strength to the feeble and gives beauty for ashes anointing the head of the mourning with the Oil of Gladness.

Love that covers a multitude of sin, not looking back on the outward, but rejoicing IN TRUTH as The Gospel of The Lord Jesus Christ does its abundantly merciful and exceedingly gracious work. God Loves all, but only those who find the narrow road in which Gods Love is revealed can experience it. Christ and Him crucified. (1 John 4:10-11) The Cross of Christ is all that stands between humanity and an Eternal Hell, between all Christians and victory every day afforded them there.

There is Only One Mediator between God and Men

For there is ONE God and ONE mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who Gave HIMSELF a Ransom for ALL, to be testified in due time.(1 Timothy 2:5-6)

Do you believe the bible is the Word of God? If so, then you understand that your pastor is not your Mediator, there's only One, and His Name is Christ Jesus, not pastor so and so. 

Your pastor is to preach The Gospel of The Lord Jesus Christ (Christ and Him crucified) so that you can be equipped for the work of the ministry. If he is telling you that you're not able to minister to others, what is he basing that on? He has issues in his life just as you do, for he has not obtained perfection as of today either. If you don't believe it, talk to his wife, or just hang around him for about a week. Are you being controlled by the Holy Spirit or your preacher? This is a subtle spirit working in most pastors today that will try to make you look like the one whose in control of everything, but the whole time, it's your pastor. I know because the Lord delivered me from that terrible place of depending on another man. Are you living for the Lord or for your pastor? You will know when you're listening to the right messenger because he will be the one God sends to place before you knowledge and understanding (Jeremiah 3:15). Jesus Gave the Only Avenue in which understanding of the scriptures can come to anyone. Luke 24:45-47 reveals Jesus opening the understanding of the scriptures to his disciples. What He did at Calvary is the Only Avenue one can understand the scriptures and enjoy more than just quoting them, for then and Only then, will The Word begin to prosper in the heart of the believer. The Son of Man must come and suffer and be raised the third day. What a revelation!! Sadly so, most today only want a feeling, a quiver, shiver, quake and a shake to go.

There is absolutely no understanding of the scriptures outside of what Christ did at Calvary. This is why the Apostle Paul, and as well, all the other messengers that the Lord sends will refuse to preach anything other than The Gospel, for it is the power of God to all who are Saved, but to those who are perishing, (whether they know it or not) it is foolishness. The day I stop preaching THE Gospel will be the day I've become ashamed of it.

The Lord is speaking to His sheep today and intends to see a great exodus once again, but this time, from that old spirit of religion that we have been seduced by for years (even though we've prayed against it). We can be seduced by the very thing we are praying for others to be delivered from. Wow!! Now, that is deception! I know what I'm talking about because you don't know just how bad Egypt is until your out of it!!

Praise the Lord. We're praying for all those who are kicking against the pricks today. The Lord desires to feed His flock, but the only thing on HIS table is TRUTH (Christ and Him crucifed).

Pastor Curtis Hutchinson

CrossWay Church/Atlanta Texas

Change

There are many changes taking place in our nation and world today in which we do not like. Everyone thinks change is needed and rightly so. We as Christians are to be about the Fathers business (not govt. business), and if we are, it will bring about the change in our lives The Lord has Purposed to take place. God’s Purpose for us is to be being conformed into the very image of Jesus Christ. (Romans 8:29) All things work together for good with that purpose and that purpose is CHANGE. The scripture in Romans 8:28-29 says God foreknew those who would surrender to being conformed to the image of His Son (accept Jesus as Lord and Savior).

How much CHANGE (salvation/sanctification) is taking place in your life in which the Lord is responsible for? Are you falling more in love with Jesus every day? Are you speaking of Him on your job, in the classroom, in the market place, and wherever you go? And no, I did not ask if you were inviting people to church so your pastor could tell them about Jesus. That’s not our mission. OUR mission is to tell them about Jesus and let the Lord Lead them to church. We need to get back to The mission and come out from among those who refuse to be about more than systematic programs and activities in the churchy, church world today.

The mission is to preach/share Jesus. He will do the rest. Can you trust the Lord to do what needs to be done in our community and to make the changes in us and our churches that will allow the Lord to pour His Spirit out like never before? We need change and the Lord calls it revival. No, not something we schedule in the Spring and Fall, but rather our complete surrender to His Will, His conforming us into the image of His Son, Jesus. It can only come to and through those who fear the Lord, for it is them that He’s given a banner to be displayed because of the Truth. (Psalms 60:4) Truth is Christ and Him crucified.

We are praying for you, and the Lord is trying to desperately reach this region, nation, and world we live in. Who will have ears to hear?


Pastor Curtis Hutchinson
CrossWay Church

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Understanding

In Acts chapter 8, we have a man from Ethiopia who had traveled to Jerusalem to worship. As he is returning home from his worship we find him reading the Word of God along the way. The problem is that he doesn’t even know Who he is reading about until Philip shows up to tell him. He is found reading Isaiah 53:7-8, the prophetic story given to Isaiah concerning a coming Savior to suffer and die for the sins of the world. Philip asked him if he understood what he was reading. His answer was basically, "no, how can I unless a man tell me?" Right there you have the reason God sent Philip to the eunuch, just as God has sent Son Life Radio and CrossWay Church to this region, that the people might UNDERSTAND what it is they are reading.
Gods Word says understanding will keep you (Proverbs 2:11), but it also says that we are kept by the Power of God through Faith (1 Peter 1:5). Of course the common ground here and the ability to rightly divide Scripture comes only with our knowledge and faith in what Jesus did at Calvary. Understanding is the knowledge of the Holy (Proverbs 9:10) (knowing God) and the only way one can Know God is by Knowing Christ and the only way one can Know Christ is to accept His Finished Work on the cross by faith. That is the understanding that will keep you, because that is The Power of God (1 Corinthians 1:18).

The Word of God tells us we are to learn and be comforted by the scriptures (Romans 15:4), and that can take place only if we UNDERSTAND what we are reading. Jesus opened the UNDERSTANDING of His disciples by Revealing to them that the Law of Moses, the prophets, and Psalms were all about Him and what He came to do. (Luke 24:45-46) This is the only Light we can come to Know Truth as it is written. Satan also is busy teaching Christians the Word of God, but always AWAY from the context in which it was written, which crushed his head. The context of the Word of God is Christ and Him crucified. Believe that or keep pretending and playing church and allowing the enemy to teach you doctrines of devils with the power of seducing spirits. You have a choice. Come out from among them.

We are praying for you,
Pastor Curtis

The Purchase of Desolation

Acts 1:17-20

For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry. Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood. For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: And his bishoprick let another take. (Psalms 69:25)
Judas did not directly purchase anything, but by what he did with Jesus (Matthew 27:3-7). He actually “purchased” his place of habitation which was, and is… desolation. Judas did not realize what he was buying for himself, but what you do with Jesus is EVERYTHING. You are purchasing something RIGHT NOW. What you do with Jesus determines what you are purchasing, and be assured, you are purchasing something.
You can start out with Jesus, walk with Him, learn of Him, witness of Him, and glorify Him, but unless you STAY WITH Jesus, The Jesus, The Christ of The Holy Scriptures, you are purchasing something for yourself you’re NOT going to want. Judas “had obtained”, he had “received part” of “THIS MINISTRY”. This ministry was The Ministry of The Lord Jesus Christ. (Luke 9:1-6; Matthew 10:1-15; Mark 6:7-9) Judas did not continue IN Believing. Judas allowed his selfish purposes to be taken over by Satan instead of continuing to Believe that Jesus came to die for sins. Yes, he did know that. John The Baptist prophesied of Who Jesus was, and all Israel knew of Whom He claimed to be. Jesus told them over and over that He would go to Jerusalem to suffer and die. If we are in this thing called Christianity with our Faith anywhere other than In Who Jesus IS, and that means faith in what He did (bear His cross), we will not make it.
The only unforgivable sin, the Bible teaches, is that of the blasphemy of The Holy Spirit, but not contradictory, Jesus also teaches that we must repent. Before True repentance can even take place there must be faith. The “repentance” of Judas in the Greek is only that of regret, not the True repentance that he once preached (Mark 6:12).
When the father of the demon possessed boy spoke the words to Jesus, "if you can do anything", and when he cried out "Help my unbelief", Judas was there (Mark 9:14-29). If Judas would have asked The Lord to Help him to Believe again, The Lord would have answered him in the same way he answered the father… and a True Repentance could have taken place.
Examine yourself (2 Corinthians 13:5) right now to see if you are IN THE Faith. Not whether or not your IN church, IN your Bible, IN the choir, or IN the pulpit... but rather, IN The Faith.

Ye Shall Go Out With Joy And Be Led Forth With Peace

We have all too often memorized scripture without scripture ever becoming more than something we quote in a time of need. One illustration of what I mean is when we quote what the prophet Isaiah spoke in chapter 55 verses ten and eleven:

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

We memorize, quote, and hear these verses preached, yet never fully realize the meaning as we could if our faith were exclusively in the cross of Christ so the Holy Spirit could teach us and cause us to truly grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.Verse 12 should be added to your memory verse selection, because it gives the result of the prosperity that God’s Word brings.

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

For those who have ears to hear we know the joy of the Lord is our strength and that Jesus endured the cross for the joy (our strength) that was set before Him (Heb. 12:2). We also know that He made our peace through the blood of His cross (Coloss. 1:20). Therefore for God’s people to go out with joy (strength) and to be led forth with peace, it will not come about by quoting the written Word, but by keeping your faith exclusively in the Living Word that became flesh and died for the sins of the world, so the written Word can have its true flourishing purpose in you. Hallelujah!! You can continue to pretend if you’d like, but the Lord doesn’t grant peace & strength just because you ask for it. The Holy Spirit will strengthen and bring the peace you need when you fight the good fight of faith, which is to keep your faith exclusively in what Jesus did for you at Calvary.

The apostate church is prevalent in every community in America today. They are easily identified. They do not preach what the Apostle Paul preached, therefore though they remain in the congregation, it’s the congregation of the dead, and the Lord calls them accursed (Prov. 21:16 – Gal. 1:8-9). We’ve been desensitized through the traditions and philosophies of men in whom Satan is behind, to beguile, deceive, and to steal our crown. We’re praying for you that you will exalt Truth (Jesus) once again over your husbands, wives, children, self, and return to your first love which is faith in Christ and His cross.

None Effect

There is no light outside faith in the cross of Christ for salvation, deliverance, blessing, or anything else the Lord has for us. The Lord is found ONLY in the light of the cross. 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

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach The Gospel; not with the wisdoms of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

Our every Need was taken care of at Calvary. 1 John 1:7 proclaims, if we're walking in the light as the Lord is in the Light we're in fellowship with Him AND THE BLOOD (which speaks of the cross) cleanses us from all sin.

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). By the way, 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 himself transforms his angels to be as ministers of light and they are the one's leading everyone to a place they call "beyond the cross" which in all reality is nothing but darkness.
We're 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. Don't continue to push Him aside worried about what anyone else will think. There will come a Day of realization that all the thoughts of man, OUTSIDE OF THE LIGHT OF THE CROSS, were vanity and pride.
I pray the Lord will Bless you with eyes to see, and ears to hear.
Pastor Curtis Hutchinson

Foolishness Of Preaching

Have you ever been a part of a group of believers who believe they need to set the atmosphere right for the Spirit of the Lord to show up?

Some dim the lights, some light candles, some paint light colors and hang certain decorations on the wall, as do psychologists, to altar the mind. The list goes on and on in today's church to "try" to get the Lord to show up. Some youth groups have black lights, posters, games, and all sorts of attractions to try and get TODAY's teens in the right "mind set". This is unfortunate because THE ONLY WAY THE LORD DRAWS anyone whether it be a teen or the elderly, IS BY HIS TRUTH.

I know the excuse is that we need to do whatever it takes to get folks in church, but that again is not bible my friends. We are called to take THE GOSPEL to the ends of the earth, not try and get everyone in "our" church (building). When they do show up, if the TRUTH won't keep them, they must return from where they came. The Lord chose the foolishness of preaching to Save those that are Lost AND IT IS the preaching of the cross that is the power of God (1 Cor. 1:18) not anything else we may think.

Note in Luke 24:44-47 how that Jesus opened the eyes (understanding) of His followers. He revealed the scriptures that they are about His coming to suffer, die, and be raised from the dead. Wow!! You see, this is the full counsel of God. Only for those who have ears to hear, don't you know that you were baptized into His death (Romans 6:3). You as a believer were baptized into His Victory. Through His death you were justified and through His death He crushed the head (authority) of Satan. Satan only had a grip on man because of sin, BUT WHEN THE BLOOD POURED OUT!!! He (Satan) was defeated and sin was atoned for. HALLELUJAH!!! PRAISE THE LORD!
We are praying for you and your house. Don't let another day go by that you value what everyone else thinks. Find TRUTH and FOLLOW IT.
Pastor Curtis

Matthew 15:8-9
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
The interesting point in this portion of Scripture is that there were people speaking seemingly the right things in spiritual matters and gathering to worship Jesus. Yes that’s right, they worshipped Jesus, yet Jesus said they worshipped Him in vain. It was no more than something they did to only make "themselves" feel better about "themselves". At another place, Jesus tells others (John 5:39-40) who loved searching the scriptures (those who have a verse to quote for every situation) that they thought they had found eternal life in them, but they did not even know the scriptures were about JESUS.

We remain in bible days today with exactly the same scenario as was in the days of Jesus walking the earth. I would hate to know that I could be in the Word daily and be worshipping Jesus daily and with much sincerity, yet be sincerely doing it all in vain according to Him. What would cause all we do to be in vain? Matthew 15:8 reveals the answer. “Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” Don’t be deceived, men and the devil use the Word of God to make their own religious rules. Jesus calls them commandments of men. They are such as “you have to do…” This includes all doctrines that men teach can help him outside of what Christ did at Calvary. Please never forget that what Jesus did at Calvary IS WHO HE IS. Whenever we teach or sit under teaching that requires us to do anything other than to believe that what Christ did at the cross was sufficient for all of our needs, and I mean ALL, we worship in vain.

The Lord is pleading with His people to return to their first love. It is the place you first loved Him... At the cross!!!

Good respectable people in this community tried to speak on God’s behalf giving me council against starting CrossWay Church, but the Lord continued to lay on my heart that though there are eighty to ninety churches in this community, “almost none are preaching my gospel”. God’s gospel is Christ and Him crucified. We are seeing many come out of places of VAIN WORSHIP and brought back to a true relationship with the Lord. But know this, it will take for you what it took for me and all the others. It will take you being willing to put Jesus back on the throne of your heart which will result in you coming out from among them who refuse to.

Victory

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’ll be found trying TO DO many things to find it. Let’s 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. Not just Christ. If our faith in Christ is separated from His FINISHED WORK, we have a faith the Lord will not recognize. We can either believe this or continue to pretend. The Apostle Paul writes, “As you have received the LORD Jesus Christ, SO WALK YE ALSO IN HIM.” The Word of God reveals we can be in Christ, yet fail WALK IN HIM. (Rom. 8:1) 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. (Coloss. 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. For there is NO other way to be delivered from sin. So many with their lips say they know this, but their lives show they do not.

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.

Pastor Curtis Hutchinson

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.