MANIA!

 Fear of loosing Power?

The Christmas story has so much blessing and hope in it, yet it also has horror in relation to the wise men from the east visiting the Kings palace in Jerusalem to meet the Messiah and the Savior of the Gentiles!

King Herod, who was only a proxy King in name and a vessel of the Roman occupation was in fear that another line of the David family was going to take his throne and he was infuriated when the three kings did not return to the palace!

Jesus and His earthly mother and father had to flee to Egypt as Herod ordered the massacre of all male children from baby to two years old in Israel.

Today we are experiencing a transition of power in the U.S. that is not nice and the President Biden is proving to be no better than Trump, each clinging on to power and maybe with Trump in four years time the situation now in S-Korea will be playing out in the U.S.?

Luke 1:68-72, 2:1-15, Acts 13:23, 32-33, 38, Hebrews 9:25-28, Revelation 7:17.

Lack of Trust!

 No confidence in Kamala Harris?

The United States is one of several nations now in crises, where leaders are no longer trusted and parties lack confidence in them, because they are seen as weak and that they are the only choice available to run for the next round!

Joe Biden is very much a lame duck in office and is making himself a laughing stock, but his party do not want Harris to replace him, until after who wins the elections on the 5th November?

America is making serious mistakes with home policy and the Middle-East and even now the Donald is pulling into line with Biden and wanting to make peace or appease Iran instead of acting tough, instead of just speaking tough?

Isaiah 14:10, Matthew 26:41, Acts 20:35, Romans 14:1, 1 Corinthians 8:9, Galatians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 5:4.

Same Wages!

 'A warning to Us?

For the many of us who have been believers in Jesus for a long time, do strain under the weight of following, but that does not change anything in the way that God sees us!

For in the last day and hours before Jesus return, more will be added to the Kingdom and at the end of the day we will all get the same wages, since that is what we agreed to with the one who hired us?

In Matthew 20:9-11, we hear that those who worked a long time grumbled, we see also in the salvation of the Prodigal son in Luke 15:31-32, jealousy break out from his brother!

We need to know that we are loved by God and that we should be glad that more souls are being added to Eternity and not like Peter look at the waves and loose faith?

Buffalo and Texas!

 It's happening again and again and it will continue?

That might be hard to swallow, but it is a truth that we human beings never seem to learn, despite hundreds of years of slavery, the scientific age that down graded people by their races and then Pogrom's and the Holocaust and much since, we are the same caught in inherited sin!

Laws would help, but we have seen in the united States a great weakness today more so that the 1960's to deal with rights, lies is now acceptable and their is no bar to any morality or Biblical truth that many profess to be, when they are not?

God sees and desires us who have faith in Jesus to share Him daily, because He is the only way to get out of this mess and be free! This not the freedom of secular humanism that has shipwrecked the Church and the Christian community, it is one of our hearts and minds!

 Acts 22:28, John 8:36, Romans 5:16, 6:18, 8:2, 1 Corinthians 7:21-22, Galatians 3:28, 4:21, Ephesians 6:8, 1 Peter 2:16, Revelation 13:16.

THE FOOL!

The unbeliever, the humanist, the homosexual, the Sinners?

We meet people everyday who reject God and they let us know what they mean, 'Where is he, why this or that, 'I don't believe in fairy tales, myth, Jewish teachings a cover for touching up kids that what the Church is all about?

Many of these people have worse sins hiding in the hearts and they hope that they will never be found out, while others claim a faith but refuse to believe what God has to say about certain sins they are puffed up by false teachings!

Others just don't want to believe, because they cannot face the truth of their own hearts wanting to justify their good deeds is enough to be right with God?

Psalm 14:1,  49:10,  53:1,  Proverbs 7:22,  12:15,  17:21,  18:7,  Isaiah 53:1,  Matthew 5:22,  John 12:38,  2 Timothy 4:1-4.

Preparations for EASTER?

The pivotal key of history to Salvation by FAITH.

One has to wonder how many Churches today still emphasise the cross and the death and resurrection of Jesus as the final atonement for our sins and our Salvation? 

Or have they adopted new tact in playing on eggs and bunny rabbits to water down the truth, because of fear of upsetting others in the world who have no concern for Christianity?

Every nation and tradition will mark this time on differing dates, due to their respective calendars, but the message will still focus on Jesus!

Meanwhile what are we doing, many will have to work through it, while others can take the opportunity to share their faith and see other lives changed for the better!

Mark 8:34,   Luke 23:26,   John 19:17-31,   1 Corinthians 1:18,    Galatians 6:14,   Colossians 1:20,  Hebrews 12:2.

PEACE?

Human ideal and our Constant!

We always hear the world talking about the ideal of peace and yet it seems to be a continued elusive process, yet for us who are born of the Holy Spirit back to God through the blood of Jesus we have peace as our constant companion?

God is kind to us who have come to believe and to strengthen us daily to be able to live in this world we have the peace of Jesus in our hearts, that the world cannot have unless it too repents!

We can offer real this peace of Jesus to others by our words, in sickness, in fear, in trouble, in strife and they can respond to us, if they hear in thanks and maybe to God in confession!

Genesis 26:29,  Job 21:9,  Psalm 4:8,  34:14,  Matthew/Levi 10:13,  Luke 8:48,  John 3:15-18,  14:27,   Acts 10:36,   Romans 3:22-23,   5:1,   Galatians 5:22,   James 3:18.

Terror-ism. Part-One.

Fear, Anxiety, Causing.

What does terrorism do? It sets out to cause fear, worry, anxiety and the unknown, when is the next attack. Terrorism is the most effective way of war, because it can be carried out by one rather than one hundred or one thousand.

Joshua was a great military commander and yet he was afraid of the numbers of his enemies. He was afraid of their threats perhaps more than their actions.

This week perhaps forty people from Europe have been murdered in two terrorist attacks and the unknown factor is already at work in Britain and France.

Joshua 10:8,  Job 28;28,  Proverbs 29:25,  2 Corinthians 5;11,  7:1.

Pentecost. Part-Two.

The beginning of the End.

It was that former fisherman Peter, now and Apostle that reveals to us that the fulfilment of the Prophecy concerning the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, was also warning of the approaching end.

For us who believe in Jesus by faith, after repenting of our sins, will have no fear of knowing that Jesus is coming back for us and to take us up to heaven.

But for the dead world full of its empty sparkle and things will see a different events of changes in the skies that will strike fear and terror!

Acts 2:17-21,  19-20,  Joel 2:28-32,  Matthew 24:29,  Romans 4:5-8, Revelation 6:12-17.

Ascension.

Going Home.

For some Christians Easter is the end of the bible story, Jesus rose from the dead and the victory was achieved.

But the resurrection, was only the beginning for believers in Jesus by faith.

Jesus spent forty days on the earth and was seen by over 500 people, then He ascended back to Heaven with the promise that he would return for His own.

Many nations today who claim that they do not believe in God fear this statement.

DO YOU?   

Acts 1:1-11.

I Fear No Evil. Part-Two.

Zombies.

The African man and the Europeans both believe in the walking dead, but for different reasons.

In Jamaica they call the walking dead 'Duppies.'  This means white people. In Haiti the risen dead are called 'Zombies. 

Black Africans saw the return of the dead for revenge on the living.

Europeans see it as a time to again meet with dead relatives. 31st October. 'Halloween.

Jesus said to his disciples 'don't be troubled.'  

Matthew 14:26-27, Mark 6:49-50.

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.'