The cost of Faith?

 STEPHEN, Not the first and not the Last!

Everyday around this ball we live on Christians are being murdered for their speech of truth, that wicked and blind people do not want to hear?

We believers represent Christ on Earth, when we are attacked, abused and beaten, it is not us but Jesus and our reward is in Heaven safe and secure from filth drenched humanity and all their ideals and concepts that are complete foolishness to our Father God!

Acts 6:5-7:59,  8:2, 22:20, Revelation 6:9-11.

We would like to hope that all who read this blog will have a happier New Year 2021!

Please be aware that these vaccines are not a cure, but more of a guard to the current Coronavirus and unfortunately other things are coming our way in the next ten years or so that may be far worse?

Isaiah 28:8,  1 Peter 3:17,  2 Peter 2:10, 22. 

The Magnificat! One.

 It does not have to mean the Veneration of Mary?

Evangelical and Protestant Christians get up set about this part of the Christmas story that they exclude, because of the Roman Church veneration Mary!

But this is one of those most important passages that many are missing out in relation to the virgin birth of Jesus from his Incarnate existence to  that of being human or having a human body which is maintained in Heaven for eternity with the wounds of the cross/stake/tree!

Mary is exalting God, for choosing her to be the earthly mother of the Messiah, and that she would be remembered for that role?

Luke 1:46-55,  Psalm 34:2-3,  Isaiah 12:2-3,  61:10,  Zephaniah 3:14-17.

Immorality! Two.

 We are not of this World?

It is doubtful that many who claim to follow Jesus, actually believe that they are not part of the world, they have got their wires crossed!

We may have to live through this depraved society, but we do not have to be a part of it?

Being a believer is about being a good person, so that the lost will be attracted to the light of Jesus shining through us! We are living in dire times of a pandemic that is mutating, because us humans have been dirty going to the public toilets and not washing our hands germs spread?

God wants us to be focused in Jesus, to do what is right, to be honest, show integrity and love the unloved!

1 Corinthians 5;10,   6:9,  18,  7:2,  Colossians 3:5,  Hebrews 13:4,  Proverbs 10:23,  Acts 10:38,  Philippians 1:11,  1 Peter 2:20,   Revelation 22:15.

Immorality! One.

 The ways of the World?

Humans are good at conceiving ideas that always run opposite to the will of God and what is the right way to live and to be?

They are in a constant battle of rebellion and avoid the truth with trying all the time to discount Christianity and that of faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus, with that of having a personal relationship over ritualism and idolatry?

The world love immorality and sin and today it is termed in their ideology as equality, something that was stolen from people that were non-white to gain their equal rights! Many have followed in this deception believing that they can live in their own way in opposing God?

Ezekiel 16:43,  Isaiah 5:16, Romans 13:13,  1 Corinthians 6:18,  1 Thessalonians 4:7,  Hebrews 12:10, Revelation 9:21.

America must Decide!!!!

 Biden or Trump?

This election is going to be a tough call, because at last the United States has changed from being the land of the free to the land of the white, rich elite with a few wealthy negroes for a while!

Trump is no friend really of anyone, except his own Chinese secret bank account and making money out of medical supplies, as Americans die with breathing tubes down their throats and many denials of the facts?

Meanwhile Biden is another old man, who is a politician, child cages or not on the Mexican border! He has promise, but may only be a front for Kamala Harris and the Clintons and here we go again Russia-gate over the backburner of #blm?

Titus 1:6.  1 Peter 4:4,  2 Peter 2:13.

The long-arm of Islamic Fundamentalism?

 French Beheading!

The murder of a school teacher over some silly cartoons is quite something and yet many western nations face problems with the Muslim religion and they with our culture?

This terrible act in France last week is nothing compared to what goes on daily in Muslim and other religious based nations around the world!

France does not get it, that their freedoms are insulting to Muslims and they will not compromise on this one area to save lives and stop provoking in some cases unstable people?

On the other hand most Muslims do want to kill us and they do hope to convert Europe from Christianity to Islam and we know this because of the many Muslims who have converted to the Christian faith!  

Meanwhile the secular media always plays down the reasons behind knifings in London and the U.K. as if they will go away instead of addressing truth?

Revelation 20:4,  Mark 6:16, Luke 9:9,  Romans 8:17,  11:15, Revelation 1:9, 12:11. 

America prays for Donald Trump!

 Looking for Sympathy?

Love me, they love me! Really 210,000 dead, No its fake news! I now understand what this is all about and I'm going to tell you soon!

How much more of this do we have to go through as the U.S. President tells more lies and could be even using this hospitalization to cover up those tax returns he refuses to reveal as he has no time for people but rather is leaning on the name of America?

Faith in God is very important for everyone who has some knowledge of Christianity and to see what we are reveals the truth that positive thinking and self achievement covers up=SIN!

We need to seek God to ask his forgiveness for our failures, to know that we have been forgiven and to have the assurance of Salvation in a through the good works of Jesus going to the cross and rising from the dead!

Psalm 19:12,  Matthew 6:12,  John 8:24,  Isaiah 48:1-2,  Romans 4:7,  Ephesians 1:7, 1 Timothy 6:17,  1 John 1:9.

Tax Dodging!

 Cannot be justified by Believers?

There are many it is sad to say will do dishonesty in many ways, after they have been saved and claim that it is acceptable?

But no sin is acceptable and wither it is a personal failing or net it is something that has to be dealt with by giving it to God!

The leader of the free world is now accused to be a swindler, and so are all rich people? That is why they are rich, because they refuse to pay taxes, hide their money in shell companies and hide abroad!

Matthew/Levi 19:23-24,  Luke 16:10,  1 Timothy 6:9,  James 1:11,  5:1.

#blm Wrong Emphasis!

 #blm, Antifa playing into Trumps Court?

The wearing of Palestinian face masks, rioting and shooting policemen is not an election winner, with white pro-Israel America and the burning and shooting of building and police enforcement will drive the Trump campaign to his second term and some strange new policies that he may employ?

One problem in America is the class system more so than race, poor people really have to get off their backsides to climb the ladder! While the rich lap it up and can take the knee and do more, but they still have no legs in the political arena, since they can easily be scandalized by the media!

The answer is the Christian faith without the anti-Semitism and that Jesus can change Trump to show us is he really what he says he is or another fake claiming much that he does not understand or believe?

2 Kings 19:28,  Psalm 62:4,  Ezekiel 35:11,  2 Corinthians 11:13,  Ephesians 4:14,  2 Peter 2:1.

Uncertain Times?

 COVID-19.

Many of us cannot get a test and many of us may be carrying this virus and causing mayhem?

Governments are ineffective or don't care as long as this will not come to their door, its the old old story of sin in humanity and it will always be with us!

Round two, three, four are all coming and it may last another ten years as the so called 1918 Spanish flu did, but this is five time worse and the more science learns the more things get complicated!

COVID-19 is related to several previous diseases such as AIDS and the problems are people refuse to be defiant in changing their ways, wither they call it pride or something else?

Joshua 24:19,  Job 24:13,  Psalm 106:43,  John 8:12,  2 Thessalonians 2:3,  Hebrews 3:8.

Slap in the Face by London Met!

Closing down Stephen Lawrence Case?

One can not really expect much from the continued racism of the Met Police in London U.K. when it comes to the failed to seriously investigate Stephen Lawrence case!

More money has been spent on the McCanns in to their missing child in comparison to any other case, despite hundreds of missing children in the Capital?

Dame Dick appears to continue her racist attitudes despite her promotion of Equality issues, but not racial ones and this has been the case with the whole gay movement since the 1980's to undermine black people wither they see or comprehend or not!

Believers cannot go with the thinking of the world, since we are not longer part of that mind set, but have been set free from our failures by the final blood atonement of Jesus. 

We are daily up against the enemy and his wicked ways, but our weapons must be Spiritual to take down those strongholds of logic, common sense and self-opinions that are rebellious and excuse sin to God.

Job 22:23, Psalm 64:6,  Romans 1:27,  2 Corinthians 10:5, Jude 1:11.

Uncertain Information?

About the truth of COVID-19!

One is not saying it does not exist, but rather that is may be far worse than what our governments are telling us at this time?

In fact it would seem that many are in denial that their situation is worse than their neighboring country and so the misinformation is not really helping anyone to get a grip on this terrible disease!

Many in the U.S. and other countries have refused to wear a face mask, because it infringes their civil liberties, but if it was to save the peoples lives in your family it would be worth wearing one?

God wants us believers to be sensible in that we do what is right and not rebel to authority, there is a time and a place when that could be justified as it was in the second world war under Adolf Hitler and the Axis alliances or even in many closed Islamic and communist lands today!

Galatians 6:9,  1 Timothy 5:13,  1 Peter 2:20.

Understanding African History? One.

Islam and Arabic Slavery!

Very few black people outside of North-Africa know that before white European slavery began, there was nearly one thousand years of Islamic slavery in the Sahel region and some of it continues to this day through the Tuareg desert tribes and the newly established Islamic State militants in Mali, southern-Algeria and Libya, apart from N-Nigeria, Chad and Burkina Faso.

The Prophet Mohammed said that before he was enlightened and afterwards he kept a few slaves to serve him and that Muslim could continue in the will of Allah (God) doing so!

From the 65th Century to the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th Century, the Berber tribes of Morocco were the main players in slavery and many African tribal leaders got rid of enemies and problematic people in this way! But by the time of the Europeans arriving and that of the English, the Berbers were being overwhelmed by the numbers being provides so another new outlet became available?

This is not to undermine the horrors of European slavery, but just to let people know that black people are not innocent of these customs and crimes and the wealth of the Islamic world too was built on forced labor!

1 Corinthians 7:21-22,  9:19,  12:13. 

The underming of #Blm?

Diversity and criminal Behaviour!

One is unseen and the other is well known, and that is perhaps how the U.K. will lead the world in undermining 'Black Lives Matter, thus proving their point of causing division, which they have been very good at for a long time?

Christian will be divided over homosexuality and all the issues of Pride, sex education and much more, while the state will use the laws to play on the illegality and criminality of black people to undermine!

The other front is the leadership of white equality, which now has another opportunity to abuse black and dark skinned people by hijacking their liberty and it worked first time holding these issues back from the 1980's riots to now?

Job 12:16,  Jeremiah 49:16,  Lamentations 2:14,  2 Corinthians 11:3,  2 Timothy 3:13,  James 1:16,  Revelation 13:14.

Slavery!

Not limited to white Europeans?

Many dark skinned people believe this traditional view of European slavery and they either do not know or have forgotten that Islam and the Arab world exploited Northern-Africa from the Islamic conquest in AD600 to the present day, Northern Nigeria and Libya!

The fact that is during Biblical times it was common amongst all peoples and races to have slaves or sometimes referred to as servants, that being more our role in our relationship with Jesus, if we are born-again of the Holy Spirit?

White slavery between 1618 and 1890 was encourage initially by fellow tribes wanting rid of enemies, many ship captains did resist the idea, but under pressure and as always with the human psyche were a quick profit can be made it will be made!

It was the plantations of sugar in the Caribbean and of Cotton in the southern-states of the U.S that drove the market and helped many Christian mill owners to be kind to their European workers in limited cases of guilt?

Deuteronomy 24:7,   Psalm 105:17,   Proverbs 29:19,   Mark 7:20-22,   1 Corinthians 9:19, Revelation 18:13,   19:18.

George Floyd!

God does not discriminate on Colour! John 3:16.

America and the world is exploding with protest and riots, people have had enough of white supremacy in the land of half the free?

After four hundred years of European and Confederate slavery, emancipation lead to one hundred and fifty years of being held back and even 1968 with the changes has still not brought any form of equality for Black American!

God sees all of this and those in power will face His wrath, as America is crumbling in the hands of that mad man? He claims he has helped Israel, but that too is coming at a cost and that of accusing them of disloyalty, which is not really nice for some one who claims to be a Christian!

White America has to face its own racists truths and stop using Russia, reds under the bed and many others things to excuse these essential truths?

Psalm 82:2,  109:5,  Proverbs 26:26,  John 7:24,  8:15,  Romans 8:37,   Hebrews 12:3,   James 4:11.

COVID-19 'A time to Love?

It is hard to love people who float Quarantine!

Is this the right time of the year to be talking about love, and why would it not be?

Arrogance and ignorance are terrible conditions to be in, when many of us have relatives that work in hospitals or clean up after old folks! 

We may be disgusted or critical of their habits and failings, but we too will be there one day shitty and messy not able to control mental functions apart from anything else?

Love is the key to being a believer in Jesus, since He had compassion we who follow Him must too have the same or try to do our best! He was sinless, we are not but we can try with difficult people to win them over and not fall victim to this truly awful virus?

Psalm 145:9,   Isaiah 63:9,   Matthew/Levi 15:32,   Luke 10:33,   Philippians  2:1,  Colossians 3:12,  Hebrews 10:34,  James 3:17,   5:11.

God is still the Same?

He will get us Through!

Many like to ask the Christian, where is God in all these troubles?

My answer is why do you refuse to believe and be saved from your sins and know that God is with us always to the end!

Despite the great loss of life around the world, God is still with the believer! Death is going home for us, surviving is so that we can continue to serve Him in what ever way that He may be using us to do His will!

This bug will eventually come to an end, but it is us humans who will have to do a few things to break its power? Like stay home and not go out, to not think that our freedoms are being lost to some political ideals of false concepts!

What if this was nuclear fall-out, would one go outside and sit in the park knowing that the invisible enemy would give us cancers and other grave illnesses? 

Matthew/Levi 9:12,   Psalm 6:2,  147:3,   Romans 7:9-24,   Revelation 3:17-18.

Don't Panic?

An opportunity to Reflect!

This is not a great or good situation to be in at this time, with many dying around us but it is a time when we can reflect on what God is doing for us?

Not all is lost and much can be gained, being with family may rebuild lost bonds or show us the worth of our relationships that may have been hidden by the busyness of our hectic lives?

In our reflection we get to be parents of our children helping them to faith through games and others from the Bible, if not ourselves improving our prayer time and study and praising God with the music that we have gathered over the time of our conversion!

1 Chronicles 16:10,   Psalm 5:11,   31:7,   63:11,   89:16,   149:5,   Proverbs 24:17,   Isaiah 12:3,  Luke 15:10,   Romans 5:11,  Philippians 3:3,  1 Peter 1:8,   Revelation 19:7.

EASTER is not Off?

A blessed Easter to all of You!

The world may think that much has to be cancelled, while others make false promises claiming they are trying to bring hope to the masses?

The Gospel message of Easter is still the same Jesus died on the cross/stake/tree for our sins and rose on the third day from the grave to promise us entry into Eternal life with Him and our Father!

Matthew/Levi 16:21,  Luke 18:33,  1 Corinthians 15:4.

Unfortunately we must heed the warning that all now people going to Church who claim they are not what they seem! We cannot be saved by Attendance, Baptism, owning a Bible, being brought up in Christian home or missing out repentance by saying we have nothing to repent of?

Amos 5:4,  Matthew/Levi 7:7-8,  John 3:3, 14-18,  31-36,  Acts 4:12,  Romans 3:21-31,  Revelation 3:19-20.

Faith in God is a personal relationship based on being Born-Again, not of the flesh but by the Holy Spirit! Faith is not a private matter, but an open matter since Jesus never did anything in secret and so we must be open to who we are you! There are exceptions, atheistic lands, Islamic and closed religious idol based systems?

COVID-19!

Possibly a U.S. Bio-Weapon?

Would the U.S. administration secretly deploy a bio-virus to collapse the economic communities of both the European Union and the Peoples republic of China to make America great again?

One should realise by now that Trump may be off his rocker, that he would try anything to show the world he has the cure and claim a type of Messiah role?

Our Holy Bibles warn us that this is the Anti-Christ and in many ways this U.S. administration may appear to be pro-evangelical yet it is very racist and hypocritical in almost every aspect of its existence!

While it appears to being pro-Israel Trump has hinted Jewish disloyalty would not bode well for them in the years to come? This is no friend of Jews or Christians, this is a self obsessed man who is both greedy and jealous of others, since he wants all the credit even when it is not deserved!

Leviticus 26:16,  25,  Job 5:2,  Luke  21:11,  1 Timothy 4:1-5,  6:4,  Hebrews 10:28-30,  James 3:14.

COMMONWEALTH DAY!

Who for and at what Cost?

The British royal family mark Commonwealth Day for the diversity of the nation and the future, but the many issues of slavery and exploitation that was involved in building that former Empire are of course not addressed since that would make them convicted of their guilt to pay some compensation!

It is a tough area for many European countries that were involved in slavery and the money that was made to build their nations on the backs of black people who still are not considered fully equal in the nations of France, Spain, Britain, The Netherlands, Portugal and Belgium today!

We even see out blown racism in the public domain and some members of the British Royal family towards Megan and their driving away into public life by a hostile racist media!

We can really only account to God for our own failings as individuals, but like Nazi-Germany people families need to be held accountable for their part in past atrocities?

Exodus 21:19,  Leviticus 25:40,  Jeremiah 32:7,  Matthew/Levi 12:36,  Romans 14:12,   Ephesians 6:9.

SALVATION!

Longed for many Generations?

And now it is revealed to us who are being saved by the mercy of God through the blood of Jesus and we are being sustained by His grace daily to serve Him in many different kinds of ways!

What we have in these last times was something that was not fully understood by the Prophets of long ago, who preached the word of God and yet they wondered what was the fullness of what they were saying?

But we today live in the times of grace, since we believe in Jesus death and resurrection by faith and not on works, but they have since followed our conversion?

Psalm 22:1-21,  Isaiah 49:6,   Zechariah 6:12,  Luke 24:44,   John 3:3,  14-18,   Acts 4:12,  Romans 3:21-31,  Hebrews 4;12-13,  11:13,  40,  1 Peter 1:10-11.

LOVE?

Unconditional!

The love of God can forgive us of our sins and we will be set free, because what is forgiven by God will not be brought back to accountability! But we still as believers have to give to Him and accountability of how we have lived in this time of salvation?

The love of God like Him in fathomless, there is no way for us to fully comprehend His ways they are far beyond the cleverest people one this planet and through human history, even King Solomon!

Our world, nations, societies, around us today lack love, concern, care, all is done by organisations, and very little by individuals? This is the challenge for us as believers to put what we claim we are to the test and show Gods, Agape!

John 3:16,  15:9,   2 Corinthians 5:19-21,  1 John 4:9-10,  19.

Jewish Hatred? Part-Two.

Misunderstanding the Bible!

This continues to be a big problem in the Church today, that the Jews were blinded so that the Gentiles could be saved?

If this is not the problem, the other is jealousy based on racism and others misconstrued ideas that are part of peoples culture and religious beliefs?

God has a plan and many Christians need to be warned that He is the one in ultimate control! 

He will remove those who hate His people from the promises to Israel and Jews will replace them in His salvation plan, it is tough but its also just!

John 3:3,  5-9,   12:40,   Romans 3:21-31,   11:11-12,   15-23,   30-31,   Hebrews 4:12-13,  1 John 1:6-10.

Emancipation 1863!

One-hundred and fifty-six Years?

The black people have only been free in the U.S.A. and Europe less than two-hundred years and in the U.S. real freedom was not gained until the 1970's from the civil-rights movement of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther-King and many of the Kennedy Family and friends!

Former U.S. President Barak Obama made many headway's for black Afro-American people, and much of what he did in those eight years is today being undermined by this white Supremacist Jealous President who does not like Muslims and underneath hates many races?

Liberation always comes at a cost and the United States is not so much of a free country, despite its slogans and motto's? In fact it has always been a white racist nation, based loosely on reformed protestant ethics and over the last two-hundred years many Christians have been murdered by its various guises!

Numbers 5:14,  30,  Job 5:2,  Acts 7:9,  Romans 8:23, 1 Corinthians 10:22,  Galatians 5:1,  James 3:14-16.