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Lord of Heaven & Earth - Art Katz by hymn Revival Via Flickr: LORD OF HEAVEN & EARTH Art Katz (1929-2007) “No fact of the universe is independent of God and His plan. He is both Creator and Lord of the earth, and to the degree that the evolutionists have been able to dismiss God as Creator, to that same degree has modem thought been able to dismiss God as Lord. We see the same thing in Acts 17, Paul's sermon on Mars Hill; he says to these philosophical and secular Greeks who embodied the same spirit that prevails today in the world that the God who made the world (v.24) and all things in it, since He is Lord of Heaven and Earth, He does not dwell in temples made with human hands. In the same breath and in the same statement, Paul sets forth before secular Greeks that the God who made the world is both the Lord of Heaven and Earth. There is a connection that cannot be broken: if God is the creator of the universe, then He is also its Lord. There is a purpose to this creation, because He is not a mindless or an aimless Creator. Therefore, our life has to be related to that purpose, or else we are falling short of His glory, and we invite His judgment.” Hymn Revival

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Pokemon Controller Holders made by ArtKatz

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Kanto Starter Pokemon Pokeballs made by Artkatz

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Measure of All Things - Art Katz by hymn Revival Via Flickr: MEASURE OF ALL THINGS Art Katz (1929-2007) “When the random purposeless universe of the secularists ejects God from His own creation, autonomous man becomes his own god. Man becomes the source of cosmic purpose and the measure of all things. The famous statement, the axiom out of the enlightenment from which the whole genius of secular thinking has come, is that man is the measure of all things. However, the truth of the matter is that God is the measure of all things. As long as we have forfeited the field and have not made that God clear, and have not demonstrated Him in the awesome reality that we should, man has prevailed as the measure of all things and asserts his sovereignty and control over nature. That is why we have genetic experiments today such as abortion, economic planning, social elites, superstars, sodomy as an alternate lifestyle, world wars, and all of the phenomena of modern times that has threatened the very life of man and the planet itself. …If God is absent and men themselves have to fill the vacuum, they will define their own criteria and make their own rules. The whole system that has come to prevail is senseless, time-consuming, wasteful, and self-perpetuating, because God is absent from the counsel of men.” Hymn Revival

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PALPITATING EXPECTATION Art Katz (1929-2007) by hymn Revival Via Flickr: PALPITATING EXPECTATION Art Katz (1929-2007) “…the Church is devoid of any sense of the past. It does not have in its consciousness a sense of the history of the Church in the vital way that it should. It does not have a living sense of continuum, nor of those antecedent conditions that go all the way back to the apostolic Church. Consequently, because we are cut off from the vital knowledge of the past, it is not surprising to find that we have no real regard for the future either. We are lacking a sense of the things that are imminent and are about to take place. We are without a past, and we are without a future, and therefore, our present is emasculated. We have no sense of real eternal expectations. …there is no real conviction, passion, or palpitating expectation of the soon coming of the Lord. This is as much lost from our living consciousness as any regards to the past, and as a result, we do not see ourselves as the successors, the inheritors, of those who constitute around us even tonight, the cloud of invisible witnesses. We are cut off from both the past and the future, because both these things are elements in a true Kingdom view.” Hymn Revival

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CHURCH…BE THE CHURCH Art Katz (1929-2007) by hymn Revival Via Flickr: CHURCH…BE THE CHURCH Art Katz (1929-2007) “If the Church would be the Church and stand with conviction to point the world to a very present God, I do not think that our presence would be casually acknowledged. I think once again we are going to find the same kind of radical response to us as was the response to the apostolic Church at the first, and the response even to Jesus Himself. Men either said, Throw Him off over the brow of the hill (Luke 4:29) or fell at his feet and cried out, My Lord and my God (John 20:28). Men either wanted to destroy the apostolic generation, or they came with trembling to cry, Men and brethren, what must we do to be saved? (Acts 16:30). I think we are moving toward a radicalization of all of the conditions of life in which men are going to be moved toward one extreme or the other. As a matter of fact, if we would take God seriously in these very days and begin to walk out, and do, and to be the kind of Church He intends, then we ourselves would be a factor in precipitating a radical response to God, either favorable for Him or against Him. The Church has got to be a living example. It has got to be the apostolic model, or the world is without any example to which to bend its views.” Hymn Revival

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A KINGDOM VIEW Art Katz (1929-2007) by hymn Revival Via Flickr: A KINGDOM VIEW Art Katz (1929-2007) “We are going to see that same drama enacted again at the conclusion of the age. Men will kill us, claiming that they are doing God a service (John 16:2). It is not the world who will do this, but religious men, because something so offensive will arise that cannot be tolerated, namely a people who have an apostolic faith and a Kingdom view, believing the Kingdom come on the basis of the power of Christ's life that broke all fetters of death when He rose from the dead. The Church will also believe that this Christ life can be fulfilled and enacted and expressed through the body of saints Who are in the earth now.” Hymn Revival

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THE RESURRECTION LIFE Art Katz (1929-2007)

“I am hard-pressed as I stand here tonight to remember the last time I heard a message on the cross preached. The cross is no longer in vogue. I do not know that it ever was in vogue, and yet when you read the apostolic literature, when you read about the Anabaptists or any revival restoration of true Kingdom Church reality, you receive the centrality of the cross, the expectancy of suffering, and the jealousy for the glory of God as being central to the consciousness of the saints of that generation. They need to be restored to our own.

The glory is absent, the suffering is absent, and the hope is absent. Dynamic faith is absent. Faith has become somehow a formula, a genie lamp that we rub to obtain Cadillacs or other things that pertain to our personal benefit. Our faith is lost in the sense of being apostolically understood as a mode of life, a radical clinging to God, an utter trust, a dynamic. In that sense, hope is lost, and love is lost, or perhaps it has never been known in the sense of being self-sacrificing, utterly giving, and unconditional. The knowledge of the resurrection life is lost as well. The doctrine remains, but the experiential knowledge of the resurrection life has been lost, or it has never been known.”

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Understand The Great Conflict Art Katz (1929-2007)

“There is no practical knowledge of the wiles of the enemy who manipulates his victims at will. The prevalence of Halloween, or jokes about the devil, or pictures of him in magazines with a tail and a three-prong trident, and all of these kinds of cultural things show the complete dismissal of one of the most awesome facts that constitutes the reality of the universe, namely the existence of a whole spirit world of principalities, powers, and rulers of darkness that affect the conduct of nations and men. Because the Church has not sufficiently reckoned on that, does not sufficiently believe it, and does not walk and live as if it believes it, the world has not been required to take it seriously into its consideration. Therefore, Satan is having an unparalleled opportunity to jerk, to intimidate, to threaten, and to affect the conduct of nations without the slightest awareness that he is the source behind the evil that prevails in the world, since. The Church is too anemic to even indicate the source of the evil in the world, let alone to bring the remedy. We have not understood the great conflict between light and darkness that underlines all reality, both in the things of the past and of the future. This is a Kingdom consciousness that needs to be restored.”

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HE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD Art Katz (1929-2007) by hymn Revival Via Flickr: HE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD Art Katz (1929-2007) “Because the Church has not communicated the sense of God as Judge, this world is on a reckless course of such abandon, of such apostasy, of such total self-indulgence and gratification so as to make the things that God looks upon as abomination the standards of behavior in our own generation, or at least alternate lifestyles. Sodomy has become an alternate lifestyle, because there is no fixed standard, because the world does not believe in a Holy Judge, because it does not believe God has given a law that is common to every generation; it thinks the law has been abolished because grace has come. The world is in this very condition because we, as the Church, have not lived in a priestly fashion before it, to teach the world the difference between the common and the profane. We have not communicated the sense of the fear of God, because we ourselves do not have it. Paul says, knowing the terror of God, we persuade men (2 Corinthians 5:11), but we have been notorious in our failure to persuade men. We may have enticed a few by telling them that God has a plan for their life or by telling them about the benefits they will receive if they make a decision to accept Jesus,but we have persuaded very few, because we ourselves do not know the terror of God. We do not understand Him as Judge. We are not living as if we believe that God has appointed a day in which He will judge the world. We do not believe that there is a standard that God requires, not only of the Church, but also of nations and of men.” Hymn Revival