The FLOT Line Show

Prosperity can be a greater test than adversity. Be careful it doesn’t turn you into being lukewarm to learning the Word of God and not advancing spiritually. If you think you are rich and need nothing and develop an unrealistic self-image, note what our Lord says about these kinds of Christians, “I will vomit you out of My mouth” (Rev 3:14-18). An unrealistic self-image comes from arrogance. An a...

“He who hardens his heart shall fall into mischief” (Prov 28:14). Scar tissue builds up in your soul from perpetual carnality and turning away from God. Your heart hardened, your emotions control your thoughts and actions and you’re done for. You will react to hearing the truth. You’ll become unresponsive to conviction by God and be consumed by human viewpoint thinking. Your mind becomes a vacuum...

Our Lord depended upon the Holy Spirit to guide and strengthen Him, give Him insight, and empower Him while he lived here on earth. This is the same thing we need to do! Our Lord used the 10 problem-solving devices when He operated in the devil’s world and these same resources are available to you to use. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). A Christian who gets into...

Spirituality is being filled with the Holy Spirit. At any moment, you are controlled by the Holy Spirit or by your sin nature. Your volition decides. Our foundation is Jesus Christ. “For another foundation can no man lay than that which is laid which is Christ Jesus” (1 Cor 3:11-16). Substitute spirituality is you trying to impress God with how good you are, by how you act, or by what you do. This...

One of the predominant lust patterns of the sin nature is power lust. Power politics is using human solutions to try and make society better. Human solutions are no solutions. Pivot politics adheres to the principles of freedom and advocates the function of the laws of divine establishment. You can be part of the solution to what our nation needs by being a part of the pivot—the group of mature be...

Truth is the Word of God. God’s Word provides our absolute standards for living the Christian way of life. “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). We operate by faith, and we verify everything with Scripture. What the Bible says should drive your decision-making. Spirituality is absolute. If you are filled with the Holy Spirit, you are spiritual. If you aren’t, you are carnal. At any...

“I am looking for those who know Me and understand Me” (Jer 9:23). God is looking for those who are serious about growing to spiritual maturity. Those who consistently study and apply God’s Word. As go the spiritual lives of Christians in a nation, so goes the nation. Knowledge of God is on a serious decline in this nation. We have turned our back on God. This will bring divine discipline. “There...

America is in trouble. God is giving us some wake-up calls because as a nation we are focused on the gifts and not the Giver. “Each person’s ways are clearly seen by the Lord and He surveys all of His actions” (Prov 5:21). Satan uses all possible means to discredit the Word of God, discourage us and defeat us from ever reaching spiritual maturity. We need a spiritual revival in our nation and it s...

Jesus Christ says all it takes to be saved is the faith of a mustard seed. The small mustard seed is the truth of the gospel. “God so loved the world that He gave His uniquely born Son so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). As a Christian, you are part of the Body of Christ. This is your family tree. Your family tree traces back to the Lord Jesus Ch...

At the moment of salvation, you became a member of the body of Christ. “For by means of the Holy Spirit are we all baptized into one body” (1 Cor 12:13). As a member of the body of Christ, you have unique assets our Lord Jesus Christ passed on to you to live your spiritual life. You must stay filled with the Holy Spirit to have the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to guide you using these assets. Th...

Prayer is instant communication with God. Prayer is thought. “Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved” (Rom 10:13). You will short-circuit your prayer and it won’t be heard if you have unconfessed sin in your life. “If I regard inquiry in my heart, the Lord will not hear me” (Ps 66:18). Part of the Holy Spirit’s ministry to you is to be the facilitator between you...

Our objective, running the race, is to lift up Jesus Christ our Savior and to proclaim God’s Word as truth and infallible to those who would hear it and listen. Authority orientation is critical if you want to grow up spiritually. “Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God” is the way to survive in the devil’s world (1 Pet 5:6). Respond, don’t react. “Be strong and of good courage” (Deut 31:7)....

Human viewpoint thinking is prevalent in America today. Divine viewpoint has been shoved aside. America has been going downhill ever since the Word of God started getting rejected in the public. We have discarded the rules found in the Bible. This is why it is critical you finish the race. This is your personal sense of destiny, your goal. To achieve it you must have a personal love for God becaus...

As the core group of mature believers shrinks, client nation America is in peril. America has an authority orientation problem. Unthankful, unforgiving, slanders and no self-control are terms used in the Bible to describe the people of a nation in decline. “Having a form of godliness but denying the power” (2 Tim 3:5). Paul warns us, “Turn away from these, they are ever learning and never able to...

When the pivot shrinks, the client nation is in trouble. The trouble comes from the spin-off of believers who get distracted and get into self-absorption substituting ritual for reality. The justice of God will meet out judgment on this nation if the next generation doesn’t take the baton and carry on the torch of truth. “He who has My Word let him speak it faithfully because My Word is like a fir...

The pivot is the core group of mature believers. As goes the pivot, so goes the nation. America is God’s designated client nation now. If America is going to survive as a free nation it depends on two things: the older generation of mature believers finishing the race and the next generation picking up the baton. Study, learn and grow. This is how you advance in the Christian life and become the p...

Learn to handle sin and evil and have the discernment to identify both. Grace is the genius of God. Evil is Satan’s counterfeit of God’s grace. Evil sounds good, looks good, but is the opposite of grace. Evil is very deceptive. Arrogance will destroy you. “If a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself” (Gal 6:3). Be aware of your arrogance tendencies and counter t...

The sin nature is a problem. Whatever trend or lust pattern your sin nature has, if your volition feeds it then you’re going to go there. This is why the filling of the Holy Spirit is so critical along with taking in the Word of God on a consistent basis. A problem Christians face is attempting to execute God’s plan through human power rather than through divine power. It won’t work because it’s a...

Placing relationships with people over our relationship with God is a significant problem for many. Our number one objective is to grow to spiritual maturity so we can glorify God to the maximum. “Daily they searched the Scripture” (Acts 17:11). Another problem is how you learn. You can’t teach yourself to spiritual maturity. You must grow from the ministry of a well-qualified pastor. Hearing and...

Distractions stop you from growing in the Christian life. Wasted time is a serious problem. “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual words of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.” (Heb 5:12) You face four dangers: Placing our relationships with people over our relationship with God. At...

We all have frustrations and flaws. Some flaws are inherited, and some are acquired. Flaws affect our lives and the decisions we make because they affect our thinking. “For that which I want to do, I don’t do, but the things that I hate to do, those are the things I do” (Rom 7:15). Nothing you can do in life will negate your salvation. Once saved, always saved. That’s eternal security. The problem...

Use the faith-rest drill to calm yourself in the storms of life. Fear causes you to focus on yourself, but faith puts the focus on God and His Word. If the Lord Jesus Christ can calm the storm in the middle of the Sea of Galilee, can He not calm your storms and deliver you as well? He will—if you trust Him, stay filled with the Holy Spirit, keep your eyes on the facts and off of yourself, and don’...

God is looking for pivot potential. Those of you who will stand in the gap. “I looked for somebody to stand in the hedge between Me and the people and to make up the gap in the land but I could not find even one” (Ezek 22:30). A pivot is a core group of mature believers that God uses to sustain a nation. You manifest the light to a nation in darkness. You are the salt that preserves the nation. Th...

God has given you many operational assets to live your spiritual life. the Bible, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ, and pastor-teachers are all grace resources you have. If you don’t use these resources and can’t concentrate on the teaching of God’s Word your spiritual life will be a waste. “Those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (He...

A Christian who yields to the temptations of their sinful nature and stays out of fellowship with God goes into reversionism. If you’re in reversionism you can’t grow spiritually. You’ll become hypersensitive and prolonged involvement in the cosmic system will lead to a frantic search for happiness. “They are lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” (2 Pet 3:4). It is never too late to recove...