Chronicles of a Watchman by Dr. James P. Norman Jr.

We are all Equal in Christ Seen as all people are equal under the law. This makes us equal in all things to each other. Therefore racism does not exist. It makes us support one group, or race over all others. Since a Axiom is based on truth such as mathematics and numbers. There is no legal or spiritual leg for racism.   R acism comes out of a need to change the laws of nature that exist, without this inference. This is what stops our faith as black Christians. We as Blacks have allowed liberalism to totally destroy our church's message of family, education, employment, and respect for each other.   We have no national pride, we do violence any way and where we can. All of our leaders are afraid to change this sliding direction and put us back on an honorable path. The Black Church is under the greatest attack from within its walls. By liberal, socialist clergy and church leaders. They say the Bible shouldn’t be taken literally today. They’re teaching t...

The Power of Pastors Pastors have eminence power to represent God. Pastors stand in the gap between God and man.  Jesus is the truth about God, and Jesus is the power of God to man.  God has given to man the power to man war on the enemies of the church. There is always a band of evil warriors willing to divide the church on issues no matter small or large ( Eph. 16:1-24; 1 Tim. 5:17; Eph. 1:1-23; Ezk. 30). As churches we really only have one direction to take, that is to go back to the  standards which are holiness, righteousness, and sanctification. If we don’t go back to God’s plan we can’t go forward and develop the church to meet the attacks developed by Satan (while for this modern world).  As church leaders we have authority to see into the church and must believe that we are involved in Spiritual Warfare. The very morals of the church have been invaded by immoral satanic spirits. We need to change from material, and look to arming the saints for th...

Satan is the God of this world. Satan as that God has installed into every area of leadership (in the whole world) his form of leadership. A goat or ram’s head on a human body represent the sign of satanic dominance. The church in most places has some form of this from top to bottom. These leaders will make sure that the ministry never will get involved in the biblical purpose of that ministry.           They are not willing to hear the teaching on subjects like faith in the absolute ministry of Jesus. Topics like holiness, healing, deliverance from sin, sickness, and immoral activities they do not want to hear.           Jesus discussed the opposite characteristics of sheep and goats in  Matthew 25 , in the context of the final judgment a shepherd must divide his sheep from the goats. The goat head is the one who leads the sheep to the slaughter. The goat that walks and talks lik...

2 Timothy 3:1-9 The Message (MSG) Difficult Times Ahead 3 1-5 Don’t be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They’ll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they’re animals. Stay clear of these people. 6-9 These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself “truth.” They get exploited every time and never really learn. These men are like those old Egyptian frauds Jannes and Jambres, who challenged Moses. They were rejects from the faith, twisted in their thinking, defying truth itself. But nothing will come of...

  In a fact of God Holiness is moral purity, not only in the sense of absence of all moral stain, but of complacency in all moral good. God is holy in that he is the source and standard of the right. The only rule for the divine will is the divine reason: the divine reason prescribes everything that is befitting. God is not under law, nor above law. God is law.   Let’s talk for a moment what Satan has chosen to do in the face of this. He has chosen to kill and to steal anything that would allow the works of God to lead us. He will try to destroy the true church and undertake the development of true holiness the way God is.The Word of God is not paper and ink. It is God’s plan for man. God is righteous by nature and necessity…God is the source and author of law for all moral beings. Satan has been so clever in keeping our saints attention on things that look so easy and so humanly natural.   We may have a better definition of holiness by saying that holiness is that...

God will do good and surprising things! When Jesus is here he is in and Satan is out. Jesus is the only one that makes life worth living. When we are brought to a moment of despair we must stay in Jesus care. If you say “I can’t at the moment” God will reply “I never said you could without me giving direction”. You will be a bigger failure than expected without him. True repentance is not the past, but facing the facts of life that are going on right now. NOW FAITH IS. God is looking through us to redeem those that are lost in his flock. The lamp of light that shines continually upon this ministry will keep us safe from the darkness and shadows that evil hides in. Repentance is a continuing state of change. I need to keep in place the thing that I need to continue to perform and that what God has apprehended me to accomplish. True faith will always use what God has made by his word, and it will also use the leading of the Holy Spirit. If it wasn’t for true faith I would no...

THE SPIRIT FILLED LIFE (part one) You know when God comes in he doesn’t come in to abide. He comes in to take over! Where there is holy worship, he takes over. Let’s try some problem solving by the word of God! 1.       See that there is a problem 2.       Examine the problem 3.       See what the word says about the  problem 4.       Put yourself in the problem as a problem solver 5.       Solve the problem with strong ACTION 6.       Then move to the next problem CHURCH GOING CHRISTIANS   Jesus had a role to play in the Christian. Jesus is in our lives, as savior but Jesus Christ has been the object but not the origin. My moves must come from him as the origin. My moves must come from him as the origin not just going to heaven. He must be the object as well as the origin of all my activity. He must...

TO BE IN CHRIST – THE SALT THAT YOU NEED (PART FIVE)   The resurrection life of the Lord Jesus is imparted to the true believer by the presence of the Holy Spirit! The Lord Jesus said "he that believeth on me out of his inner most being shall flow rivers of living (not stagnant) water". But this spoke he of the spirit, which they that believe on him should receive for the Holy Spirit, was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified John 7:38-39. That is to say, salt at the source! Salt at the spring of the waters II Kings 2:21.   This Ezra went up from Babylon and he was a ready scribe in the Law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given. The King granted him all of his requests according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him Ezra 7:6. It is a wonderful thing to be in such a relationship to God that everything you need for any circumstance is always yours by the good hand of your God upon you!   For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek ...

TO BE IN CHRIST – SALT (PART FOUR) Salt speaks of the risen life of Jesus Christ, imparted by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to the redeemed sinner. It is the salt for barrenness! As you have been reconciled to God by his death, you are constantly to be saved by his life. It is only the life of the Lord Jesus, his activity, clothed with you and displayed through you that ultimately will find the approval of God. As a forgiven sinner, you are a member of a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ (I Peter 2:5). It is that Lord Jesus Christ alone who makes your sacrifices acceptable to God. Only what he does in you and through you merits his approval and God can and will accept nothing less! Every oblation of the meat offering shall though season with salt; neither shall you suffer the salt of the covenant of the God to be lacking from the meat offering, with all your offerings you shall offer salt. (Lev 2:13) Under no circ...

TO BE IN CHRIST – THE CARNAL CHRISTIAN (PART THREE)   You say, I thought a carnal Christian was a backslider somebody for instance who used to go to church but has run off with somebody else’s wife! Oh no! That is only one kind of carnal Christian, and I would not suggest that you were that kind of carnal Christian.   No, No! I am talking about some Sunday school teachers. I am talking about some Sunday school superintendents. I am talking about some Pastor in his pulpit. I am talking about some missionary on the field. I am talking about many ordinary average earnest Christians. They are wonderful people. You would love to meet them. They talk all the language of salvation and they mean every work. They say they are not hypocrites.   They are overwhelmed inwardly with a sense of defeat, frustration, futility and bareness. When you meet them they will smile sweetly and they will mean the smile they give you. They will grip you by the hand and they will say ...

TO BE IN CHRIST – THE TREE (PART TWO)   He showed them a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. He bore our sins “in” his own body on the tree (1 Peter 2:24).   This was the second tree, the place of the second choice.  Adam had repudiated his relationship to God at that first tree, and said “no” to God. He then stepped out of life into death. He stepped out of dependence into independence, so that you and I (at that second tree the place of second choice) can say our “yes” where he said “no”.  We can step back out of death into life!  We will be raised from the dead, out of our self-will and independence, into a childlike dependence which is the obedience of faith.   “I am the Lord that healeth thee”. This is the beginning of our salvation! This is to be reconciled to God by the death of his son.   It is the tree for bitterness, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus that cleanses us from all sin and...

TO BE IN CHRIST (PART ONE) To be in Christ is redemption; but for Christ to be in you – that is sanctification! To be in Christ - that makes you fit for heaven; but for Christ to be in you - that makes you fit for Earth! To be in Christ – that changes your destination; but for Christ to be in you - that changes your destiny! The one makes heaven your home and the other makes this world his workshop. I have been bound to this earth by a law that I have never been able to break. That is the law of gravity. By Faith I step into the new law of God. I sit back in the rest of faith and new mighty anointing roars into my life. I discover that the new law of the spirit, of life in Christ Jesus, has me free from the law of sin and death. As long as I maintain (by faith) that position of total dependence I do not have to try to be free from the law of sin and death. I am being set free by the operation of a new law, the operation of the Holy Spirit. III John 2 2  Beloved...

Let’s talk about how all things fit into the benevolence of God, as concerned for general good of the universe. The benevolence of God requires the execution of the full penalty of the law upon all who reject Christ’s salvation and God’s plan for man. The scriptures imitate that Gods treatment of human sin is a matter of instruction to all moral beings. The self-chosen ruin of the few may be the salvation of the many. At this time we may be the only group that is in limbo with standing on the principles of moral conduct and biblical standards. Continued sin might have so striking a proof we might actually see the punishment of the rebellious, loss of their moral suicide and ruin.  This leading them to believe God’s holiness is it’s irreconcilable antagonist. With regard to the extent and scope of hell, we can say hell is only a spot in the universe of God. Compared to heaven, hell is narrow and limited. The kingdom of Satan is so insignificant in contrast with the kingdom...