Teddie Cochran Music

02/20/2022

Psalm 62 verses 1-5 speaks to the thirsting soul. this worship song is about walking in the deserts of life and finding the the glory, Grace and peace of Jesus Christ is that solitude

09/09/2020

latest evacuation map

03/26/2020

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.

08/01/2019

Butte County ARES & the Oroville Amateur Radio Society will have a booth at the Oroville Exchange Club

“SCAM Festival”: Sidewalk Chalk & Music 2019 - August 3rd
WHERE: Bedrock Park
TIMES: 9 a.m. To 4 p.m.

The Exchange Club invites you and your families to join us on August 3rd, at Bedrock Park for a SIDEWALK CHALK & MUSIC FESTIVAL to celebrate the organizations through out
Oroville and South Butte County that provide services to the public and private citizens alike.

Hosted By
EXCHANGE CLUB OF OROVILLE
P O BOX 1046
Oroville CA 95965

Participating members please be at the park for set up by 0800.

10/29/2015

I pray that I have conveyed this message in a manner that bring clarity and not confusion.

Love and Hate in Christianity
by
Theodore B Cochran

The devil has an absolute detestation of God, an immortal hatred of God. Satan’s sin is the high of all sin and our sin is the base of all sin. If the sin has not reached its appalling height in us it may reach that point unless we let God alter our hearts. Scripture tells us “but the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned” - 1 Timothy 1:5.

In a discussion regarding God’s will the statement was made God is love. Although this is true He is also of hate. The debate that ensued got heated and those opposed to this statement, even when presented with evidence in scripture, refused to see the truth. So at risk I present this by urging of the Holy Spirit to enlighten the mind and open the heart.

So I asked and ask the question what is God’s love?

Love is the sovereign preference of my person towards another; and it is a voluntary choice. Love of God does not naturally spring from the human heart; but it does open us up to choose. To choose whether to allow the love of God communicated to us by the Holy Spirit, Romans 5:5; Luke 11:13. The love of God is the great driving or motivating force behind that love poured out over a wide area in our hearts, unless hindered by dis-obedience, it will go on to develop into perfect love as described in 1 Corinthians 13. When we have this wonderful love in our hearts, the sovereign preference for Jesus Christ, our love for others will be relative to this central love. The passage that comes to mind here in demonstration of that love is John 3:16 ”For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Think about that for a while.

Now the misconceptions of God’s love sparked by the debate are these: God is love, true enough but that is not all He is. Some could not understand that this is only one attribute to the character of God or Jesus. Nor could they explain what God’s love truly is. Their explanation was based upon their experiences and understanding of love. Other tried to do what God can only do, i.e. save themselves by justification for allowing sin to continue in their lives. Others described it as having tolerance for sin in others and by their definition turning a blind eye to the manifestation of sin in others. These totally ignored the fact God cannot abide in sin. In fact scripture tells us He hates sin to the point that he will do whatever it takes to free the earth and man of sin. That love and hatred is the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We have then, to make a voluntary choice to receive the Holy Spirit Who will impart to us the love of God. If we look at love as our reverence of Jesus and our Father alone, the Holy Spirit will spread the love throughout our heart and the reflection of it is outwardly expressed towards the same love in others. What does it look like?

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (KJV)

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

I have said all this to set the ground for these points:

1) ”For if we are planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection.” Romans 6:5

The exact opposite of love is hate. We do not hear much about hatred today in our connection of Christianity. What is hatred? Hatred is the supreme detestation of one personality for another, and the other person should be the devil. Leviticus 19:17 “Though shalt not hate our brother in thine heart.” We are to hate the spiritual wickedness behind the personalities (principalities and powers). Bad men are simply the manifestation of the power of Satan.

2) The Word clearly shows us the wrong in hating our brother, “we wrestle not with flesh and blood” i.e. bad men. We wrestle with the spiritual manifestation of Satan’s power, the spiritual wickedness behind the principle and power of the personality. This all stems from the choices we make in the heart to which spirit is imparted to us.

I do not believe bad men are born that way but chose to embrace the manifestation of Satan over the love of God. Why is this? If the love of God were presented as having no hatred of wrong, sin and the devil, it would simply mean God’s love is not so strong as our love. The stronger more emphatic and higher the love, the more intense is the hate. That love and hate is not of the person but of the manifestation of the love of God or the power of Satan reflected in the choices behind the personality of the flesh and blood, our heart. God’s love is such that He hates with perfect hate anything that twists men away from Him. What is it that hates God? Nothing and no one hates God so much as the wrong disposition in you does. The love of God awakens in us an unmeasurable hatred of the power of the carnal mind (enmity against God) to such a point we are sick to death of it. We hate it so much we put it to death. This is the meaning of the first half of Romans 6:6. The love of God teaches us to hate with perfect hate the principles and powers that lust against the Spirit of God. Knowing this and putting this to death also the love of God in our hearts concentrates in our souls against wrong doing in horror; making no excuse for it.

If we choose to hate and put to death in our heart principles and powers that lust against the Spirit of God, then as is Christ resurrection the love of God will manifest itself in us. God will use us to manifest His Grace until all wrong and the evil are removed from this world and in us. We must teach to hate, by God’s design of love. To hate in any other way is to empower the principalities and powers of Satan.

2 Corinthians 4:5 say “We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake.”

1 Timothy 1:5
Romans 6:5
Romans 5:5
John 3:16
Luke 11:13
Philippians 2:12-13
1 Corinthians 13
Leviticus 19:17
Psalm 105:25
Romans 6:6
Romans 5:5
2 Corinthians 4:5

12/04/2014

performing this Friday @ Country Crest Senior Center 6:30 PM

10/01/2014

Question of the day is this, “How am I going to do this?” For several years now I have made Christian bookmarks and given away far more than I have ever sold. This morning on the way work the idea of getting started on a new run come to mind. I was listening to KLOVE and a young man named Andy call in and told the crew how two songs that morning had saved his life from su***de and how love had come rushing over him. When I heard this, the thought came over me of dropping thousands of my bookmarks over Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. At this point it’s just a thought and I had the question, how am I going to pull this off?

I get to work and shared this with my coworker and immediately he said you’re not thinking outside the box. Well he’s right, I’m not. He asked me who is the greatest power and I answered God. He said you are right. This is coming from a man I helped lead to our Lord Jesus Christ, and he told me I should be thinking how God is going to achieve this goal. I have no clue how God is going to make this happen using me as a tool to achieve it. Honestly I have relatively no resources to make it happen. Building these bookmarks by hand take a great deal of time and money I do not have. My friend suggested tagging them on every Islamic website I can find and I felt the discomfort of having a Government I do not trust watching and nosing around in my private life and my service to the Lord. This lead to a disagreement and I felt it best to close my mouth and let this just sit and go by the wayside.

Still the idea of this is bouncing around in my head. Now I have done in my life many stupid, arrogant, foolish things, many I wish I did not have to own and take account for on judgment day. They have cost me a great deal of money, disappointment, grief, wasted effort, energy and heartache of which I expressed to my friend. Also I cannot understand how such ungodly, carnal mindedness these things in my life have severed the Lord, his purpose and will.

2 Corinthians 3-4 says “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war in the flesh:* (For the weapons of our warfare are not canal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;)” – KJV. Now this means though we live in a body we do not fight according to human standards. Bingo, hitting home here and right where I have been standing for several months now; fighting a war in the flesh or according to human standards. On several fronts I have been fighting this battle and losing in a number of areas.

So here I am asking for your help. I need prayer, contacts and distribution routes (physical and virtual) for these bookmarks along with legal counsel, donations (if so inclined), production and packaging contacts and resources; also assistance in non-profit organization setup. Feel free to contact me by phone 530-282-2298, or by email [email protected]
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12/02/2013

We will be performing Friday night at the Country Crest Senior center in Oroville, Ca. Performance starts at 6:30 PM. Come bring in the Christmas season with us.

05/30/2013

Will be perfroming at Patrich Ranch June 8th 2013 1-4 PM. Come join the fun!

01/30/2013

My Thoughts for January 30, 2013
By Theodore Cochran
Where is your focus today? Is it on the problems in your life, on the problems in this world or is your concentration were it should be, on the Lord? No matter how miserable you may feel, turn to God through Jesus and pray He will wash it all away, see how it will all seem trivial. Experience the miracle of God’s love. Let it fill you up to over flowing; you might just surprise yourself as to how something so simple can change someone’s life.

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

01/18/2013

MY THOUGHTS FOR TODAY
18 JANUARY 2013

Wisdom truly desires the knowledge of God’s Word and the proper application to our life. This will enable us to make good judgments and decisions. (1 Kings 3:9; Psalm 119:97-98)

Compassion will feel the pain and plight of others. It will enable us to convey a deep feeling of love and concern that moves us to meet their distresses, struggles, and needs. (Job 29:13; Isa. 40:11; Mark 1:41; Luke 19:4; 1 Peter 3:8)

Courage realizes that God has given us the strength to face any situation, trial, or peril. It is the ability to react, knowing that God is in control, that He who is in me is greater than he who is against me. (Deuteronomy 31:6; 1 John 4:4)

Thoughtfulness considers and gives attention and care to others and their feelings first. (Philippians 2:4)

Discipline is upholding and continuing a consistent and well-ordered life through godly obedience, regardless of how we feel. (1Timothy 4:7)

Integrity is the obedience to a moral code of values that have honor, truth, and reliability. It will allow one to keep his word and do his best even when no one else is looking. (Psalm 78:72)

Just is doing what is fair, moral, impartial, and right, according to God's will and word. (Genesis 6:9)

Meekness is not about being weak! It is strength under control, which yields personal rights and expectations to God. (Psalms 62:5)

These are a few of the virtues we need to teach our children, family and friends. These few principles will go a long way in developing a good moral, just character in us all. These are some of the building blocks this Country was built. They are needed more than ever yesterday, today and tomorrow. –Theodore Cochran * BAR T Publishing

09/10/2012

We had a great showing Saturday and wish to thank all the entertainers, venders and voluteers!