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Nobody wants absoluteness

By Lary R. HaleApril 11, 2014

Three modern believers leave broken shackles and blank arguments behind as steady divine light leads them toward holiness, with a distant fiery ravine recalling the article’s warning. — © By One Spirit Ministries

Nobody wants absoluteness. Now I have to tell you, that is a really BIG problem to have. God is utterly absolute, and his word is as absolute as absolute gets! More so in fact. I'm not talking about what men think the scriptures mean, I'm talking about GOD'S WORD that still comes from heaven to those who have ears to hear (Rev. 2:7). That is the only way you will ever know what the scriptures mean (Jn. 14:26; Jn. 16:13; I Jn. 2:27). Everyone is in love with their own religious opinion, while in reality all of the religious opinions on the face of the earth combined are not worth the dung that the possessors thereof drop into their toilets every day. Too graphic for you? Let me tell you that it is a provocation to God for his word to be shut out from the hearts and minds of men by the lofty and ridiculous opinions of religious people. There's a proverb that tells it perfectly: "A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself" (Prov. 18:2). You don't want absoluteness? How about this: When your breath and spirit leave your body you are ABSOLUTELY going wherever you have been truly heading while in this life, and you will have ABSOLUTELY nothing to say about it. If you have "feared God, and kept his commandments," that will be a wonderful day to arrive at (Eccl. 12:13,14). And I assure you that you must possess understanding of an absolute nature about what God's will is, in order to have kept it. If you have relied on your own opinion about what the commandments and will of God is, or on the religious opinions of others; you will be in for a very rude, very painful, and very long, awakening. Not only so, but their will be ABSOLUTELY nothing that you or anyone else can do to change one thing about it - EVER! No wonder the scripture says of the righteous; "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments" (Psm. 111:10). Let me give you just a little bit of the absoluteness of God for just a moment: God's will is for your heart and mine to be literally and completely purified from all sin, by active and aggressive faith in his Son Jesus Christ, who died to pay the price for your sins and mine, and rose again to take them away. Peter, speaking of the first Gentiles to believe the Gospel, to whom he was sent to preach, told it just like it goes: "Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith" (Acts 15:7-9). My friend, THAT IS ABSOLUTE!

To be certain, Peter and those who went with him to minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those first Gentiles, KNEW that these people had received the holy Ghost, "[because] they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God" (Acts 10:46). That sign was absolute then, and it is absolute now. That is the sign that God chose to mark evidence of the new covenant in the beginning, and that is the sign that has been present with every single soul who has ever entered into that covenant since then (Acts 2:4). Period. God is not confused or scatter-brained, and he has not changed since then, contrary to the religious opinions of many lofty minded fools who love only to "discover their own heart [opinion]." Peter said that those Gentiles hearts were purified from sin by their faith in Jesus, through the experience of being baptized BY JESUS with the holy Ghost. Nothing has changed, or at least not for those who are honest, humble, and believing on Jesus for the same. Being purified from sin and STAYING purified from sin IS the will of God for all men. God and his Son paid a heavy price to make that a reality, and I for one do not want to be on the wasting end of that price. The apostle John was crystal clear about who will be saved by the resurrection of the dead when the Lord returns from heaven to the earth: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure" (I Jn. 3:2,3). AMEN!! So being purified from sin is not a one time and done experience; IT IS EVERY DAY!! You cannot bear witness of the Lord Jesus Christ with sin in your life because he was not and is not a sinner! Period. If you claim to be a witness for Christ and you have sin, then you are a FALSE WITNESS! The only way to bear witness of Jesus Christ is to get sin out of your heart and soul, and have him IN YOUR HEART AND SOUL! And it comes right back to being baptized WITH HIS SPIRIT which purifies us from sin, and ABIDING IN THE SPIRIT: "Now the Lord IS that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (II Cor. 3:17). That "liberty" my friend, means liberty from committing sin. Nobody has Jesus in them unless they have been BAPTIZED BY THE SPIRIT INTO HIM! That is how he is in us and we are in him, just like he said it would be (Jn. 14:16,17,20; Jn. 17:22,23). The things that you have read here is exactly what the apostle Paul was saying very plainly to the Galatians: "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ" (Gal. 3:26,27).

We can bear witness of Jesus Christ only AFTER we have literally "put him on" through the baptism of the Spirit. There is no other way to be purified from sin and to have the Son of God dwelling in you, and there is most certainly no other way to continue to "purify [yourself] even as he is pure." In other words it has to be HIM in us bearing witness of himself, because he alone is "the faithful and true witness" (Rev. 3:14). And to think of the brashness of foolish religious man who claims that we can't get sin literally out of our lives, and that we will be saved anyway "because of what Jesus did." Jesus sure didn't think like that: "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved" (Mat. 24:12,13). Make no mistake my dear friend, the "love" that he spoke of as "waxing cold in many" is "the love of God [that] is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost" (Rom. 5:5). I'm afraid that a whole lot of religious fools think the Gospel is some kind of trivia game that they can set their own rules for. I think not. Would you like to know the flip side of Jesus' saying about "Enduring [without waxing cold] unto the end [and] being saved?" Here it is, and it was him who gave it: "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death" (Rev. 21:8). Do you really think that you can be in any of those conditions, or any other sinful state, and still be saved "because Jesus did it all?" The apostle Paul certainly didn't think so when he soberly warned an unstable Corinthian congregation: "Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God" (I Cor. 6:8-10). No my friend, the great apostle to the Gentiles spoke for God, and he was in absolute agreement with God's Son. I'll tell you here and now that there are A WHOLE LOT of religious folks today who had better get themselves into agreement with these witnesses, or else be ready to face an eternal judgment of ABSOLUTE damnation that will come to all who refuse to TRULY believe on the Lord Jesus Christ unto the purifying of their hearts from sin, and continuance therein. You want absoluteness? You got it! AMEN!

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In loving memory

Lary R. Hale

November 13, 1954April 21, 2024

Lary smiling with his beloved dog Champ — Lary with Champ

Obituary

A Hero Finally Rests.

Lary Redman Hale of Louisville, KY entered into his greatest joy, the presence of King Jesus himself, welcomed by the cheers of angels and the saints of God on Sunday night, April 21, 2024.

What the outside world would see as the untimely passing of a humble, local minister, heaven saw as the triumphant finale of a valiant warrior's life. He fought the good fight, having kept the faith, and received what Christ himself called "The Champion's Wreath of Victory".

Lary was born November 13, 1954 to Marvin and Norma Hale. Being the youngest of his siblings ensured he had lots of time with his loving mother, from whom he undoubtedly developed his profound sensitivity, heartfelt sentimentality and emotional comfortability - characteristics that were trademarks of his life. He grew up surrounded by cousins and classmates that became his best friends.

At his 50 year class reunion he was overjoyed and excited to catch up with so many of them, smiling and laughing more than he had in a long time. He would often tell stories of how he treasured those times as a young boy riding bikes, shooting B.B guns and playing with his childhood dog Peanuts; all while getting into assorted harmless mischief. He cherished the time he spent living on his parents houseboat and helping his dad, a united states marine veteran, take care of the boat and dock.

His relationship with his dad was only strengthened in their later years as they watched boxing matches almost every weekend for the remainder of his dad's life. He admired his brother Gary for his athleticism and industrious attitude, and thought his sisters Vicki and Mila had hearts of gold just like his mother. In his teen years Lary developed three of his lifelong loves: swimming, cool cars and lifting weights.

Some people said Lary was part fish because of how well he swam, but Lary would correct them, he was actually part dolphin. As a young man he managed a health club where he helped multiple people lose weight and counted that a huge joy. He loved nature and taking photos of it, honing his skills and knowledge in cameras. His vocabulary was second to none and he enjoyed learning new words and using them especially in his writings.

Before he passed he still exercised as much as his body would allow and he longed to return to the ocean and the white sands of Destin, Florida.

Like most disenfranchised teens in the early 70s, Lary indulged in countless vices that left him empty and searching for more. Although his long black curly hair, loud clothes, muscles and muscle cars made him the envy of the boys and the heartthrob of the girls, none of these things satisfied his heart. He pursued a college education briefly, desiring to be a marine biologist or philosopher but found that this was not what he was missing either - he longed for true fulfillment.

Depressed, empty, and feeling hopeless, Lary heard about a particular beautiful girl he had a crush on that was attending a small church where the "Spirit of God" was changing people's lives. After wondering why someone like her would attend a church like that, he began to attend also.

After a few months, he made a simple prayer on his hands and knees, saying "God I can't stop smoking, drinking, raging or any of the other countless vices I have - but if you can set me free from these things, I'll know you're real and that you want me to serve you". The next morning Lary woke up and described the next few hours as "walking on air" realizing he was, in his words "delivered" and never going back to those vices.

This began his life long commitment to glorifying Jesus, the king of glory, for how he transformed Lary's life from darkness to light. Lary would marry that same beautiful girl, the love of his life, Fay Kustes, and they would have two sons together, Benjamin Isaac and Elisha Daniel. Lary's greatest joy in life was being a husband and father.

He was happiest when he was sharing what he was learning in the bible with his family, and teaching them that knowing God was simplistic and yet powerful - that God was not merely a religious concept, but a powerful savior on a day to day basis. As Lary made it his life's goal to find "the lost sheep", he would tap into his multifaceted creativity that went largely underappreciated.

Lary produced well over a thousand episodes of gospel presentations: self-producing, mixing, editing and encoding both a radio and television show. Between the two, he broadcast for over 30 years. All of this in the analog age, where self produced radio and TV shows were nearly unheard of, especially without any budget whatsoever.

Lary was an evangelist in Louisville and southern Indiana, being asked to preach and teach in multicultural and multi-generational churches across the city. The churches he was most loved and welcomed by were the African-American Baptist and Pentecostal churches that loved and welcomed his passionate, excitable and action packed style of preaching.

Once the dawn of the internet came, he immediately worked to have a website published, making his literature and gospel teachings available. Eventually he'd use social media to teach, preach and encourage believers all across the world. He would spend every night praying with and encouraging christians from every nation until the end of his life. Many of which saw him like a second father and all of whom greatly mourn his passing.

Even though he produced over a thousand episodes of media, taught in multiple churches, mentored in multiple countries, and had multiple printed works of literature, he considered his greatest life's work to be his two sons. One of their earliest memories is Lary saying "the most important job in the world is not preaching the gospel, it's raising kids in the gospel". This threaded through his entire life.

In his final week on earth, he reminisced on his life saying "I see my life as the highest success, because my life's work are my two sons, who I am so incredibly proud of - not for their natural achievements but for their love, humility and personal faith in Jesus that is not only evident in their lives but also in their love. Because of them, I know my life is a true success - and I credit Jesus for all of it".

His sons today see him as the most successful man they will ever know. He succeeded in loving them and never hurting them. Leading them and never controlling them. Being there for them and never leaving them. He was a man that would apologize quickly, forgive quickly, and always encouraged his sons to "get up and go from here". He succeeded in teaching them faith, hope and love in a world starving so badly for all three. His ministry lives on in them.

The lives of everyone touched by their lives are forever indebted to this humble, prayerful man of faith.

He is preceded in death by his father Marvin, mother Norma, sister Mila, sister-in-law Marlene, nephew Adam, aunts, uncles, treasured cousins, and his beloved dog of 18 years, Champ.

Until they are reunited in the glory of heaven, he is survived and will be missed by his sons, Benjamin and Elisha (Katrine), his wife of 30 years, Fay, his brother Gary, His sister Vicki (Dan), his cousins, nieces, nephews, his friends, and those that called him their pastor and teacher.

"The righteous perish, and no man lays it to heart: merciful men are taken away and no one considers that the righteous person is being spared from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace: he shall rest in his bed, having walked in uprightness." Isaiah 57:1&2

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