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

  The Reason and Importance for Being Spirit-Filled Being Spirit-filled opens the saints to the plan and purpose of each believer, the fruits and gifts of every area in the Word of God, and the understanding of the word mystery. Christ in you, the Hope of glorifying Godhead by using everything in Him. Jesus is not the author of division or strife. You have a renewed spirit—a word trained for your soul and body as a container. A new temple to start with the nine gifts and the fruits to develop your character and walk. But there is a warning to you all: You do not have the right to give homo-genders a seat at the table with the righteous. With homosexuals—your abuses, at least 50+ other sexual activities. They know how to use the authority given to them in churches to kill, steal, and destroy, the power and authority to kill your anointing. You are letting in the king of evil, Satan. Giving reasons and by saying you don't hate the person, you tackle their lifestyle. How can you separ...

There are two kinds of wisdom the first being from The Holy Spirit. It has distinctive marks. It is pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated and full of mercy. It produces good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. The second is not from the Holy Spirit. It is ungodly and has envy strife, boastfulness, lying and confusion as its distinctive marks. (1 Corinthians 14:33) True Revelation and Direction comes from a Believer’s Spirit and is from the Holy Spirit. If revelation comes from the soul it is worldly, if it comes from the body it is lustful False revelation and false direction comes from demonic control. The “spiritual” man receives the “hidden wisdom”, the “soulish” man cannot receive it. For further study, see break down and related scriptures (nkjv and comp) of 1 Corinthians 2:7-15 below. 1 Corinthians 2:1-3 Not with human oratory of wisdom. 1 Corinthians 2:.4-5 - Human weakness supernaturally attested and empowered by the Holy Spirit (comp. Rom. 15:18-19; Co...

Amplified Bible: Psalms 14:1-2 Verse 1 - The [empty-headed] fool has said in his heart [deep down in], there is no God. They’re corrupt, they have done abominable deeds; there is none that does good or right. [Romans 3:10]. Verse 2 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any who understood, dealt wisely, and sought after God. Inquiring for and of Him requiring Him. [of vital necessity.] Truth: Gk. Alethia The reality lying at the basis of an appearance; the manifested, veritable, essence of a matter; gives the correct rendering, the meaning is not merely ethical truth but truth in all its fullness and scope, as embodied in Him He is the perfect expression of the truth. There is only one way to do this and that's God’s Way. The atheism is natural to man in his depraved state, and very frequent in the hearts and lives of men. They come into churches in sheep's clothing to get a seat at the table. Their desire is to pro...

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...

  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...

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...

THE BIBLE, YOUR DAILY NEWSPAPER As a bible teacher, I read the bible like it was a daily newspaper of current events. Mark 13:14 Holy Scripture- Great Inspired Tribulation 14: Jesus picked up the inspired apocalyptic language of Daniel’s prophecy. Apparently Jesus pointed to the Roman destruction of the Jewish temple in A.D 10 and beyond that to the second coming, showing scripture is opened to renewed understanding and fulfillment for different generations. God has new things to reveal from his word. Last things, great tribulation-the phrase abomination that causes desolation comes verbatim from Dan. 9:27; 11:31;12:11. Abomination is a term that describes sacrilege such as the profaning of a holy place. Many believe Daniel’s prophecy had immediate reference to the unclean sacrifices in the Jerusalem temple by the Romans in A.D 10 Romans 1:28-32 28-Intellectual Nature- Turning to Abominations Abomination (depraved) normally descr...