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

Hebrews 5:11-14 says, “Of Christ, we have many things to say and difficult to make clear to you, not because they are mysteries, but because you are slow to grasp the doctrines delivered you.   You are dull and slothful not willing to self-judge.   It is not true that it is so complicated.   The trouble is with men who take the wrong attitude due to their religious background.   One factor is that preachers and teachers today do not emphasize the gifts of the Spirit nor do they stir up the gifts.   People are not hungry for Holiness and Righteousness.   Many today are not keeping the principles and standards to continue to build on.   You have been professed Christians long enough to be examples, but because of your laziness and dullness in grasping truth, your desire to be liked has made it a must to be taught a second time the first simple doctrines of Christ.   You have not grown at all.   You have become of those who drawback, and have...

Faith in God makes you an asset not a liability.  You are not here to please the world or the flesh.  You are here to show the world an image of God.  You are showing God that his purpose for you and your faith in the Word is working for the benefit of all. His plan and purpose were ordained and established when he created Man.  Anything that has to do with God's creation, I repeat God's creation, the devil and his cohorts have tried to corrupt and alter God's plan for how it is to operate.  All alterations from God's plan for male, female functions, he (Satan) has altered.  At the fall of Adam, Satan went about attacking everything God created, and God's purpose for that creation.  Satan's big trick was to blame God for the evil creatures, sickness, famine, wars, climate change...etc. Years ago, I did a study  on Solomon and his writings on the Book of Proverbs. I found he could not keep the Proverbs, so he wrote them. The Book of Prover...

John 3:30 states "He must increase, but I must decrease." This means that inward Christian growth must increase while there is a lessening in terms of influence, popularity, and authority.  These seven words are so important for us in understanding our internal spiritual development and maturity. It is so sad that too many honest well meaning believers are directed to think that salvation and staying saved is our most important plan. These seven words relate to 2 Corinthians 3:18, which says, "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." This is metamorphoo which is Greek meaning change, transfiguration, or transformation. It is being changed from a sense or mental leadership, to a Word of God hunger for the mysteries hidden in the Spirit to spirit transformation.  The deeper the darkness the brighter we should w...

The source of all Christian opposition, demons, constantly wage war on saints to instill false concepts about God, to make them weak, nervous, discouraged, ruined spiritually, physically, and materially.  Demons do their utmost to keep men in poverty, and in failure to bring reproach upon God, and His Gospel. They must be restricted and rejected if complete victory is to be gained (James 4:7; Ephesians 4:10-18; 1 Peter 5:8-9, and 2 Corinthians 10:4-7).  To counter this opposition, you must constantly affirm your faith in God and vigorously deny all fallacies, and everything contrary to the plain written Word of God.  You play a great part in making yourself free. You are to know the truth and to cooperate with it in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit that lives and abides in you by faith.  You must give no place to the devil. If opposition comes, when you try to attain the blessings of the Word of God, do not be conf...

The words in Ephesians 5:18 are “Be filled with the Spirit.” There are four grammatical rules in the Greek language which lead us to four truths relative to this great subject.   First, the verb is the imperative mode.   That is, it is imperative that we be filled with the Spirit.   God commands it, and gives access both ways--By Him and by us.   The fullness is the divine enablement in the life of a Christian which results in a Christ-like life.   The fullness of the Spirit, if we are looking to please God in this life, can only happen in the beauty of holiness.   Failure to be filled with the Spirit is sin and results in failure to live a life honoring to God.   Access only makes everything you ask to do by Jesus who is head of the Church clearer.   Second, the tense of the verb is present, and this tense in the imperative mode always represents action going on.   We learn from this that the mechanics of a spirit-filled life does not pr...

Hebrews 11:1-6 states that, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2  For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. 3  By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. 4  By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks. 5  By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6  But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”   Terms used as coming to Christ, looking to Christ, and receiving Christ are all descriptions of faith, a...

I never thought integrity would become a powerful evangelistic tool, but here we are.  On the three points of spirit, soul, and body, the Church must work to be blameless.  Christian laymen (Pastors, Bishops and Deacons) must be representative examples of biblical integrity, which means being complete, wholesome, and biblically moral. Church attendance should produce knowing the difference between right and wrong, and the development of the fruits of the human spirit.  If anyone wants to provide leadership in the Church, then preconditions exist which include that: a leader must be well-thought-of, committed to his wife, cool and collected, accessible, hospitable, not given to his lower unsaved nature, and not holding to the old drug, and sexual habits, before Christ.  This is not a person whose speech is like a parrot repeating old messages warmed over. This is not a person overly fond of wine or hard beverages and allowing the s...

God is against the rebel Leviathan churches and is shaking everything that can be shaken (Haggai 2:6-7).  It is well known that the Earth is waiting in earnest expectation for the manifestation of the sons of God.  Since the sons of God are called into the restoration of all things they must avoid the chains of deception that so easily distract them from advancing the kingdom of God (Acts 3:21).  The solution is looking unto Jesus as author and finisher of their faith.  It is also the measuring of state propaganda, and church misleading. What is the solution for breaking the apathy and deception with our generation? The solution is real, true repentance from sin, a turning toward the lordship of Christ and faithful allegiance to His kingdom.  There are real consequences to the person or saint who fails to make these choices.  A person who chooses to stay in sin forsakes the opportunity to walk in forgiveness and repentance.  These areas o...

The Apostle Paul speaks of believers having the “treasure of God’s power” in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us (2 Cor 4:7). He also states that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, by Mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. (Eph 6:10-18) Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ( 2Chr 29:11-12; 2Chron 20:6; Ps 62:11; Zec 4:6; Ro 13:1-3) God has all power, and there is no power that is not ordained of God (Acts 1:8) The Work of Satan Satan’s dominion is forcing its rule upon men by sheer force of power.His works are a varied nature. He is a religious leader (Rev 2:9; 3:9; 2 Cor 11:14) He has been worshipped as god through the ages, and worship of him will be revived in the future under the Antichrist in a...