WE ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY!!! 

"Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?"

Galatians 4:16

WE LOVE YOU!!!

Stephen and Bonita Ann (Logsdon) Richie

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Our Commission and mandate by The Almighty God and LORD Jesus Christ is to preach and teach repentance and the remission of sins in The LORD Jesus' Name as set forth by The LORD Jesus Christ in His Word.  We are here to lead you to Jesus if you are lost and undone without eternal salvation in The LORD Jesus.  We are here to exhort, comfort, rebuke, and edify all true Christians just as The LORD Jesus exhorts, comforts, rebukes, and edifies us by His Holy Spirit and by His Word.  We are here to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified.  We are here to preach Jesus Christ and His victorious resurrection from the dead.  We are here to preach The Messiah and LORD Jesus Christ.  We are here to preach God's sacrifice of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, as the sacrifice for the sins of the world and God's gift of eternal salvation to all who shall believe upon Jesus.  We are here to teach true repentance, water baptism, and the baptism of The Holy Ghost. We are here to warn you of God's coming judgement upon this evil, hell-bound, ungodly world.  We are here to warn you of the false teachers and false preachers that slither about to deceive you in these last days.  We are here to warn you of the false religions and cults that abound in these last days. We are here to proclaim God's love for you through His Son Jesus Christ. This is our task assigned to us by The LORD God Almighty Jesus Christ Himself.  This is what "Living Hope In Jesus" is all about.  We are filled with great desire to proclaim The Gospel of The LORD Jesus Christ to the entire world.  "Living Hope In Jesus" is our labor of love to and for The LORD God Almighty Jesus Christ ALONE.  Countless hours have gone into "Living Hope In Jesus" and each moment has been spent loving you and desiring to lead you into Jesus' arms of eternal salvation while pulling you from the grasp of satan and hell's eternally-burning flames through presenting to you the eternally-saving Gospel of The LORD Jesus Christ.

We truly do love each one of you.  We spend much time in prayer for you.  To receive news of one being eternally saved after being spiritually fed Jesus' truth at "Living Hope In Jesus" brings us joy unspeakable!!!  Truly, it is The LORD Jesus' work ALONE!!!  The Word states plainly that God's servants plant The Word in the hearts of people and water The Word planted in the hearts of people......BUT IT IS GOD ALONE THAT GIVES THE INCREASE!!!  The Holy Spirit ALONE, by God's plan, draws men, women, boys, and girls to The LORD Jesus Christ and The LORD God Almighty Jesus Christ ALONE forgives and eternally saves them.  It is ALL The LORD Jesus' work, Beloved!!!  Only GOD can save a soul!!!

We also truly have a fervent love for the true Church.  The Church is the Bride of Christ and we love her greatly.  We spend much time in prayer for the Church.  We spend much time at "Living Hope In Jesus" addressing the Church.  Our hearts grieve over the luke-warm and compromising condition of so many in this last-days Church and pray fervently for their safe return to their first love......The LORD Jesus Christ.  Whereas NO ONE (not even a devil!!!) can pluck a true child of God out of His hand, a true child of God can opt to walk out of His hand back into the evil and ungodly world and face an eternity in hell's eternally-burning flames.  Many do not desire to believe this but it is truth according to The Bible.  God's truth does not change according to our personal agendas and person opinions. God's truth shall stand FOREVER, Beloved.  Our heart's desire, and The LORD Jesus' desire, is for every child of God in the true Church to grieve deeply over our sins, truly repent and return to Jesus and rejoice eternally together in Heaven one day as we celebrate our God and Savior and LORD Jesus Christ forever and ever and ever.  The Rapture of the Church is imminent.  The LORD Jesus is returning for a Bride without spot or wrinkle....just as we are told in God's inerrant and infallible Word. We MUST make ourselves ready NOW lest we be left behind!!!

God's inerrant and infallible truth is always met with different reactions just as it was in the days when The LORD Jesus Christ walked upon this earth.  Whereas the unsaved and back-slidden seem to hate us, God has a remnant in The Church that are doing their best to live for and serve The LORD Jesus Christ in spirit and truth.......and they bless us by loving us.  They pray for us.  They encourage us.  We are so very thankful for each one of them.

Sometimes there is much that happens against servants of God who are faithfully proclaiming Jesus' truth.  Rejection by family members and others because of The Word is one of the tools in satan's toolbox that he uses to try to silence those faithfully proclaiming Jesus and His truth.  It is as though God's servants have become an enemy for telling and living Jesus' truth.  Because Jesus has been through the very same situations, He is able to take the pain of rejection and evil deeds inflicted upon His servants away and use it to strengthen His servants even more steadfastly in His Word and Commission.  He is even able to give His servants true love for even the enemies.

Because, as God's children, we are not to strive nor seek vengeance, etc., God's children are often on the receiving end of whatever the devil tries to throw their way........knowing that God's children will not strike back.  We are very familiar with this situation.  We are constantly being sought out by liars and scammers who approach us via the email address at "Living Hope In Jesus".  We have been lied on, stolen from, cheated, rejected, etc., as a result of our stand in The LORD Jesus Christ while those doing so "rest" in knowing that we will not reciprocate evil for evil.  These events have even come from many very close family members!!!  These people realize not that it is God Who avenges us and He will continue to do so just as He has promised to do in His Word for all of His true children. Yet we love them and we love them and we love them.  How can this be?  Jesus has placed His love deep within us.  Nothing quenches the love.  Nothing dims the love.  Nothing can destroy the love.  There is also nothing that can quench, dim, or destroy our Jesus joy.  Though we be considered dead by the world and even by many close family members, nothing takes away from us our life of glory, blessing, joy, laughter, dance, giggles, splendor, and delight in The LORD Jesus.  Oh, how we do celebrate when God so graciously and mercifully answers our prayers!!!  We have a great time of rejoicing!!!  It is the best life there is.........a life lived with The LORD Jesus!!!  We would not trade one single moment of this life with The LORD Jesus for anything the world would think they have to offer us.  Oh, how we do love Jesus and oh, how He does love us.  He has never left us and He has never, ever forsaken us.......and He never will!!!  We are so very thankful for His love.  He is awesome, Beloved.  There is NO ONE like JESUS!!!  Hallelujah!!!  Thank You, LORD Jesus!!!  Thank You, Father!!!

Oh, how He loves His true children!!!  How very merciful He is to them!!!  What He gives to us, He also gives to ALL of His faithful servants.  The world cannot understand how God's true children can have such Jesus joy and Jesus life because the world wrongfully believes that joy and life comes from the world and from the things of the world.  How very wrong and how very deceived the world is!!!  Always remember, Beloved, that the world is hell-bound.  There is no true life and no true joy to be found in this world.  At God's appointed time, God is going to burn up the world and every thing in it just as He has said in His inerrant and infallible Word!!!  Every thing the world clings to now for false life and false joy will be burned up!!!  The world simply cannot understand why the world cannot take away the true joy and true life of Jesus' true children.  It is quite simple, really.  The world has not given us this true joy and true life and they cannot take it away. It's just like that.  TRUE joy and TRUE life, Beloved, comes ONLY from The LORD Jesus!!! How He loves His true children!!!  How faithful He is to His true children!!!  How glorious He is!!!  He is surely worth it all!!!  Thank You ALONE, LORD Jesus!!! 

As you explore "Living Hope In Jesus", please know that we are but two servants of The Most High God and LORD Jesus Christ who are doing all we can to point you to eternal salvation in The LORD Jesus.  We are doing this out of our love for you.  We are doing this out of Jesus' love for you.  While we don't ask you to love us nor even remember our names, we do ask for you to open your heart to loving The LORD Jesus Christ.  His is The Name above ALL Names in Heaven and in earth.  He made you.  Your very breath is held in His hands. Jesus lived, died, and rose again so that you might have His eternal life and eternal salvation.  An eternity screaming in hell's eternally-burning flames is a very, very, very long time to regret having rejected Jesus' offer of eternal salvation through repentance and belief in His Name followed by baptism.  Please do not turn Him away, Beloved.  Please turn from satan, the enemy of your soul, to The LORD Jesus Christ today.

The LORD God Almighty and eternal Savior Jesus Christ LOVES you.

We love you, too.

Stephen and Bonita Ann (Logsdon) Richie