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.

EASTER. Two.

Cross and Tomb!

Jesus died on the cross/stake/tree between two criminals, murderers who deserved this death!

Many events took place around that Roman torture peg, darkness for three hours, Jesus promising the repentant sinner paradise!

When Jesus died he was laid in the tomb of a rich man Joseph of Arimathae, one of the many secret believers in that time!

Today this same message is as powerful as the events on that day, we see many movie depictions of these events! There have been thousands upon thousands of books written over the last nineteen-hundred years, taking a standpoint from every possible position?

But today is another opportunity for you to choose wither you will repent, confess, seek forgiveness and walk with Jesus?

Luke 22:20,  23:43,  Matthew 27:45,  John 8:12,  Isaiah 1:18-19,  53:12,  2 Corinthians 3:4-6,  5:18-19.

Life and Death?

Medicine does not have all the Cures?

It big news at this time about a little baby, who is being kept alive by a machine at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). But others believe there is the possibility of a cure in the U.S. that is worth following through?

We so much need hope today in this world, hope that life will be lived over that of death and murder! The youth are killing themselves over crap rivalry and listening to music that is neither cultural or inspiring!

We all need to have our faith in God, to believe in the impossible to know that we are cared for and loved by God who gave us His one and only Son! So that we would be set free from the darkness of this life into the hope of the New Life!

John 3:3,  15-16,  31-36,  Proverbs 8:30,  Philippians 2:9-11.

In times of Trouble? Two.

Believers have it Tough!

The world always thinks to be a Christian, to be born-again is for the losers, the weak? But we know that the truth. it is the world who are the weak, cowardly losers!

This is proved by their refusal to believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, the forgiveness of their sins by a merciful God, who they need to repent too, as once we too did!

It is hard to be a believer, because we will get troubles from the darkness of this world and Satan! But we have the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, who strengthens us daily to rebuke the devil in Jesus name to pray for others, to forgive them and to love without hate!

It is a tall order, but its rewards far outstretch anything this world could ever give us!

Ephesians 3:16,   Matthew/Levi 6:13,   Philippians 4:13.

Easter. Part-Three.

Risen from the Dead!

Jesus said that he would die and rise from the dead on the third day, and he did! He was seen by well over five-hundred people between His resurrection and His Ascension back to Heaven, over a forty-day period.

Doubting Thomas is one proof, the broiled fish is another that he returned to us in the same body and was neither a ghost of some lofty Spirit! Jesus was the same flesh and blood as He always was, both fully the perfect, sinless man and God!

Now we come to the facts of faith-trust in relation to the resurrection of Jesus, because some cannot believe this to be a truth? Without understanding this key area of our salvation, we will not be delivered from the darkness of sin! In it we died with Him and rose with Him into the Eternal New Life!

John 11:25, 1 Corinthians 15:4, 12-13, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 1 Peter 1:3, 8.

LOVE. Two.

Loving the Truth?

There is a difference between us and the lost, but it is a very little one of choice, when God reveals to us His chink of light? There are many people today who go to Church and have the name tag Christian by tradition and birth, but faith-trust in God does not come by the will of man nut God.

There are many at the same time who believe without the cross and self-denial that they know the Lord Jesus, they are always on the take? But when asked to do something, even a small thing the selfishness of their hearts are revealed and they run away.

When they saw the chink of light, they refused it to continue in their darkness, but we accepted because we love the truth of Gods word the bible and try to live by it everyday! Not living as the world, but living in the New Life!

2 Thessalonians 2:10, Proverbs 8:18, 2 Corinthians 2:17.

Not to be Forgotten. Part-One.

Bataclan, Brussels and Nice.

Three major terrorist attacks two hundred and fifty two people killed, by a handful of religious fanatics on people going about their daily business.

This is the work of the soldier of Islam who don't fight armies, they are cowards who shoot in the back.

Political policy has brought this about and the problems with the world is its utter confusion in the inherited sin of lies upon lies.

But there is no darkness with God, no lies, no dishonesty, because He is pure light that is unapproachable and he is Holy without Sin.

Today if you are without hope, have no peace, troubled? Then turn to Him and be made complete in His righteousness. In Jesus His One and Only Son who died for You and me.

Isaiah 53:7-8,  John 3:15-18,  Acts 4:12,  8:32,  Romans 15:13,  1 Peter 1:19,  3 John 11.

No tit for Tat!

We are not called to do Evil!

The world is full of anger about the loss of what it wants over that of letting go and sharing?

Believers in Jesus by faith in His death and resurrection have been set free from the powers of darkness!

We are no longer what we were and in this New Life, that begins the moment we believed we are not a people of doing tit for tat.

Psalm 38:20,  1 Thessalonians 5:15,  1 Peter 3:9.

Sees Everthing. Part-Two.

Our hearts and Minds.

We as a race are really very limited even in our vast creativeness, despite organisation, infrastructure and our ability to wipe ourselves off Earth we are still limited to the vastness of God!

God is always watching us, being indifferent to each other, hiding in the darkness and pretending to be good by deeds and religion.

You see God made us, He made the world, the Solar system, the Universe, time, and all life. it may have began billions of years ago. 

It may of taken epochs before life began, but we cannot disprove Him and we cannot escape the Judgement Day that is coming ever closer.

1 Kings 8:39, Psalm 14:2,  33:13-15,  Hebrews 4:12.

NEW LIFE. One.

Resurrection Victory.

Believers mark the end of Easter with the resurrection of Jesus, the light of the world.

The world that we live in is a place of darkness, controled by Satan the attractive fallen Angel!

Darkness, delusion, trickery, desception, death can be deliverd from by faith in Jesus.

Admit you failure, seek God and change your attitudes.

Acts 2:23-25,  Psalm 116:3-4,  John 12:31,  Acts 26;18,  2 Corinthians 11:14,  Ephesians 6:12.

Saints and Sinners. Part-Two.

What and who are the Saints?

Roman Catholicism has venerated those they believe have performed miracles, but the bible says that all purchased failures are the saints. Those who went before us in each fellowship are the saints, they look over us as the body of believers. Hebrews 12:1, 1 Peter 5:12.

God so loved the world, that he gave us His one and only son. God does not want people to perish, but for all to turn to Him. We are lost now in the darkness of failure, but we can come out of it into His Eternal light. John 3:19-21, 9:5, 2 Peter 3:9.

The choice is always with us?

Will you choose today to surrender to His will and be set free from the emptiness of filth, riches and the muck of this life to the promises of New things in His?  Joshua 24:15-18,

New Enemies. Part-Two.

Urban Terrorism.

Paris Friday 13th November will remain in the memory of 500 people who have lost loved ones or who have relatives and friends injured. Child soldiers and Urban terrorism was deployed on the streets of France for the second time this year.

It has been 45 years since we last saw homegrown urban terrorists operating on European streets and these new ones will take full advantage of the media, Internet to spread their message.

Fifty years ago one could draw any cartoon strip one liked in the western world, without fear of it being seen and offended by the masses. it was only wealthy people who had access to foreign newspapers. But today the world will see it quicker through the cameras on our mobile cell phones, than even the Net.

Evil may hide in the darkness, plan and work at its hurts, but the light of God will always reveal the truth of actions and the condition of the mind and soul!

Isaiah 40:27-31,  Romans 1:20-21,  Philippians 4:13,  James 4:17.

STAMINA. Part-Three.

Forgiven and Re-assured.

You have to be mentally tough to be a Christian, the world is for the wimps who hide behind anything they can find as an excuse.

You know what we were before Jesus changed us and made us His people. We were selfish, proud, arrogant, greedy, abusive, braggers, boaster of self.

Now we see the ugliness of that failure, knowing God has bought us back and so we strive against the hostility and hatred of this dark world.

God Bless you my brothers and sisters.

Matthew 6:14,  10:16-23,  John 3:16,  1 John 2:12.

'I Am the Light. Part-Three.

Walking in the Light.

Being a believer in Jesus death and resurrection is not easy, it is not for the faint hearted!  John 1:4, 8:12.

We who have faith to believe must walk in the light, we cannot be closet 'Christians or as some have become 'Sunday suits and Monday rags.'

If we have entered into Eternity, into the New Life after repenting and changing our mental attitudes we must not allow ourselves to fall back. Matthew 5:14-16.

The light we have now is temporal, the days of darkness and anti-Christ are coming and we need to be on Jesus side!
John 12:35-36.

Zyclone-B. Part-Two.

Chemical Weapons.

The news is full of Syria and how the government there is using these chemicals on his own people. But how do we know the truth?

Many people say, 'even the pictures on our TVs and the net are not real.'

It is hard sometimes to know who is telling the truth. 

This was seen recently in the U.K with the Mark Duggan inquest. What people fail to see is, it was not the fault of the jury. They could only make a Judgement of the facts that the police presented to the enquiry.

At the end we will all have to face the Judgement seat of God and then we will be tried by Jesus. It is upon this evidence that we will be sentenced to Eternal Life in Heaven or to outer darkness in Hell.

Psalm 85:10-11,  89:14,  Proverbs 8:7,  John 8:44-46.

Stephen...

The first Christian Martyr.

Stephen was not killed by religious men, he was killed by Liberals. Today we might call them ''do gooders, the ones who fight for our rights.'

Stephen was not killed because he had faith in God, he was killed because he spoke the truth.

Even good people do not like to hear the truth, because the truth is they are doing things in their own strength and for their reputation.

We all have something to hide, maybe we are really timid and weak. We pretend to be tough, to stay in the pack.

But you cannot go on as you are, that is why Jesus came to set us free from the darkness that we are comfortable and ignorant in!

Acts 6:5-8:3,  John 3:20-21,  8;12,  2 Timothy 1:7,  Revelation 21:8.

I Fear No Evil. Part-One.

As I Walk Through....

What make you fear, the dark, your members, your enemies, the Police? 

We are all afraid of something from things that go bump in the night to facing up to our responsibilities and last of all the reality that we will all have to die some day.

But 'I will walk through the valley of the shadows and I will not fear! That is not for you, who do not believe.

But it is for you who do believe, that Jesus died in your place taking your failure on his body on the tree, stake, Cross and that He has arisen from the grave. Psalm 23:4.

I will not fear death, as I walk through the valley of Shadows.'