About MotesElectronics.com

Our Story

Our website was launched on March 27th, 2008 by The Motes Brothers - Jonathan, Joshua, Aaron, and Cameron. MotesElectronics.com was created ten years after we first begun with just electronics repair, with a vision to provide high-quality Electronics Consulting, Repair, and services including Networking Tools and Utilities for IT professionals. What started as a dream to start an electronics business with brothers has evolved into a comprehensive platform for network engineers worldwide.

Our tools are designed with the needs of networking professionals in mind. From subnet calculations to network diagnostics, we provide accurate, reliable, and easy-to-use utilities that help you get the job done.

But tools and technology, as useful as they are, will one day pass away. There's something far more important we want to share with you.

The Most Important Message

Every network has a source. Every connection has a destination. And every soul has a Creator.

The Bible tells us in Romans 3:23 (ESV): "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." We've all made mistakes. We've all done things wrong. The Bible calls this sin.

Romans 6:23 (ESV) continues: "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Sin has a cost, but God offers a free gift - eternal life through Jesus.

Romans 5:8 (ESV) shows us God's heart: "But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Jesus didn't wait for us to get our lives together. He died for us right where we were.

And Romans 10:9 (ESV) tells us how to receive this gift: "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

A Prayer from Our Mom:

That's it. That's the prayer that changes everything. If you've never prayed that before, you can pray it right now. God hears you. He loves you. He's not waiting to condemn you - He's waiting to welcome you home.

Why We Do What We Do

Yes, we provide networking tools. Yes, we help IT professionals do their jobs. But the real reason this website exists is to point you to Jesus.

One day, every network will go offline. Every server will shut down. Every tool we've built will be obsolete. But those who know Jesus will have eternal life that never ends.

John 3:16 (ESV) says it best: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

Whether you're here for subnet calculators or just browsing, we're glad you came. And we pray that you find not just networking tools, but the greatest connection of all - a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Testing the Spirits: A Call to Biblical Discernment

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world (1 John 4:1, ESV). In these last days, we are seeing the fulfillment of Scripture: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:3-4, KJV).

Be especially wary of those who call themselves pastors yet affirm sin - including those who celebrate gay pride and bless same-sex unions. They are described in 2 Peter 2:1-3 (KJV): "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them... And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." Such men are blind leaders of the blind (Matthew 15:14), and we are commanded to mark them and avoid them (Romans 16:17).

The Apostle Paul warned the elders at Ephesus: "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock" (Acts 20:29, KJV). These wolves now prowl in many places - including churches that once stood firm but have now compromised with the world. They have exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worship the creature more than the Creator (Romans 1:25).

After years of searching the Scriptures, I am convinced that Pentecostal doctrine - rooted in the infallible Word of God - most faithfully represents the truth of the Gospel. This includes salvation through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the operation of spiritual gifts, divine healing provided in the atonement, and the imminent return of our Lord.

As Acts 2:38-39 (KJV) declares: "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." The gift of the Holy Spirit is promised to all who believe.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant (1 Corinthians 12:1). The apostle Paul teaches that there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all (1 Corinthians 12:4-6).

It is important to understand that the Holy Spirit distributes gifts "to every man severally as he will" (1 Corinthians 12:11, KJV). Not all receive the same gifts. Paul asks plainly: "Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?" (1 Corinthians 12:29-30, KJV). The obvious answer is no - not all speak with tongues.

The true evidence of the Spirit's indwelling is not any particular gift, but the fruit of the Spirit: "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance" (Galatians 5:22-23, KJV). Against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:24-25).

Our Lord Jesus Himself said: "Ye shall know them by their fruits" (Matthew 7:16, KJV). Not by their gifts, but by their fruits. A tree is known by its fruit.

Therefore, if you have peace that passes understanding, joy unspeakable and full of glory, love for the brethren, and a life being transformed into the image of Christ - these are the sure evidences that the Spirit of God dwells in you. As Paul writes: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace..." If these are present, the Spirit is present.

Let every believer earnestly desire the best gifts (1 Corinthians 12:31), and yet remember the more excellent way - the way of love (1 Corinthians 12:31b). For though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal (1 Corinthians 13:1).

Beware of those who preach another Jesus - such as the Mormons (Latter-day Saints), who deny the Trinity and teach that God was once a man and that men can become gods. This is a different gospel, which is really no gospel at all (Galatians 1:6-7). As Isaiah 43:10 (ESV) declares: "Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me." God alone is eternal and uncreated.

There is also a matter that requires careful understanding: the question of eternal security. Some teach "once saved, always saved" as if a person can live in willful sin and still be assured of heaven. But we must take seriously the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell" (Matthew 5:29-30, KJV).

These are sobering words. If Jesus warns us to cut off a hand or pluck out an eye rather than allow sin to send us to hell, how can we believe that continuing in sin is without consequence? The apostle Paul asks: "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" (Romans 6:1-2, KJV).

At the same time, we hold fast to the promise that no one can snatch us from the Father's hand. Jesus said: "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand" (John 10:27-28, KJV). There is great comfort in this - no external force can take our salvation.

But we must also understand that we can choose to walk away. The writer of Hebrews warns: "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame" (Hebrews 6:4-6, KJV).

The danger of willful sin is that it sears the conscience. Paul speaks of those "speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron" (1 Timothy 4:2, KJV). When we persist in sin, we harden our hearts against the Holy Spirit's conviction, and we risk shipwrecking our faith (1 Timothy 1:19).

Therefore, beloved, "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" (Philippians 2:12, KJV), not in your own strength, but relying on God who works in you. And let us "lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Hebrews 12:1, KJV).

The prophet Ezekiel pronounced judgment on unfaithful shepherds: "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel... Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick... but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them" (Ezekiel 34:2-4, KJV). These shepherds are leading souls to destruction, and God will require His flock at their hand.

As 2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV) promises: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." This new creation is not merely a reformation of behavior but a supernatural transformation by the power of the Holy Spirit - one that turns us from sin, including sexual immorality, and unto holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).

Hold fast to the pattern of sound words (2 Timothy 1:13). Test everything by Scripture. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works (2 John 1:10-11, ESV).